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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

Resident Evil 2 Remake: Hardcore + No Damage Playthrough

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A playthrough of Resident Evil 2 Remake on Hardcore difficulty, with no health loss and using only the basic inventory (no bonus weapons).  This is easily one of the best remakes, from every aspect. A good way to check how well-made a game is, is to see how it works on higher difficulties. If it is difficult for difficulty's sake, then in most cases there is something wrong with it. RE2 Remake works excellently on its higher difficulty, mainly because you are able to practice everything before going for it, with replaying the game on its Standard (Normal) difficulty. There are no dramatic differences overall, apart from the expected more aggressive and lethal enemies, finding less ammo, losing more health with every attack, and the significantly tougher boss fights. But all this is practical stuff, that you get to learn by replaying the game or specific parts of it. In this playthrough, I first play Scenario A with Leon and Scenario B with Claire, and then the opposit