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Vampyr - Pandora's Box Quest & Secret Vault Puzzle Walkthrough

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This is a walkthrough post for "Pandora's Box", a fascinating and complicated quest in Vampyr . It spans through several main missions and is connected with a subsequent brilliant puzzle that opens a secret vault which, in turn, rewards you with a cool weapon, a special collectible and an achievement. Main mission "Unnatural Selection" : after you find your way via the sewers to reach the Temple Church area but before you go to meet Aloysius Dawson, run around the perimeter of the church to locate an underground passage. At the end of this passage, an Indian fortune teller, Usher Talltree, will be sitting surrounded by curios, doing his magic. Talk to him to get one important hint for Aloysius Dawson, and also have him offer you his quest, Pandora's Box, to find his stolen notebook. If you have enough money, you can ask him to "read the cards" and every time you do this, he will give you hints on several residents. I skipped this part, since it is

The Evil Within 2: Classic Mode + No Keys Playthrough (with Anima, Sykes Missions & Slides)

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A playthrough of The Evil Within 2 on Classic mode, using no keys either. The playthrough includes all Anima events, the missions of Julian Sykes and finding all the slides. Classic mode is a hardcore "old-school" challenge which follows the tradition of older games that had neither automatic checkpoints nor weapon / character upgrade system. The Evil Within on Classic is basically Nightmare difficulty on steroids, as apart from the lack of perks, it is significantly harder on its own as well: the enemies can spot you more easily, they can chase you for longer distances, they attack harder, and you can lose more health even with seemingly insignificant hits. Although Classic mode allows you to use locker keys, I decided to not make use of them in this playthrough, so as to make the challenge even more demanding. On a very positive note, the game offers a cleverly designed stealth system which practically allows you to cover whole areas by sneaking in and out and