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
A playthrough of RE3 Remake in Nightmare difficulty. I am not taking any damage and I am not using any coins or infinite weapons. I do use a few other shop items, specifically: the Samurai Edge handgun and the Hot Dogger knife, the bonus pouches, the extra Lockpick and Bolt Cutters and the Crafting Companion.
In Nightmare, the game generously gives you the Magnum from the beginning, as well as one extra inventory pouch The Samurai Edge handgun is stronger and more stable, so I do prefer it over the default one. The Hot Dogger is of course stronger than the standard knife, but most of all it has this impressive burning effect. I use the bonus pouches so as to have more space, since I take the bonus Lockpick and Bolt Cutters from the item box at the station, so as to not have to backtrack to every locked place with zombies and the Nemesis breathing down my neck (grenades are unable to stun the Nemesis in this mode, so I prefer to run and dodge while it's chasing me). The Crafting Companion may not be that necessary, but it is helpful when it comes to crafting Magnum and Grenade ammo.
Nightmare difficulty is many scales higher than Hardcore, and features several instances that are quite intense. You are called to find new strategies to come around certain sequences, as things are quite different in this mode. The final boss fight is unforgettable once you are done with it; it is pure brutality and far more difficult than the rest of the game. This alone is not an issue per se, but it becomes a serious one when it does not allow you any kind of improvisation. I don't mind a tough challenge, as long as there is a logic behind it; and a boss battle doesn't have to be inhumanly difficult in order to be challenging. Just think of Saddler, the boss in Resident Evil 4, or Laura, one of the bosses in The Evil Within. You can fight Saddler using a great variety of weapons and means, even take advantage of the environment or simply use your humble knife. Laura is extremely strong, aggressive and lethal, but again you can face her in several ways; and during one specific battle, you can trick her, trap her and freeze her, and keep doing this while evading her attacks until you are able to run away from her without even killing her. This is what I call inventive gameplay. Inventive from the part of the
designers, but which also allows the players to be inventive and
creative themselves. The fact that you can face Saddler and Laura in many
different ways doesn't make the respective fights any easier. It just gives you time
to think and challenge you to plan out your own strategy. But when a battle requires from you to just press one button in just the right time so as to not end up mush on the floor and demands from you to do this constantly, like the final Nemesis sequence does with the required Perfect Dodge, does not make that battle more challenging, it makes it tedious and from a point and on, it prevents you from enjoying the grand finale.
My playthrough is split in five parts; the list below describes the sections that I cover in each one:
Part 1: Uptown (Jill's apartment), Downtown (Underground and Market), Power Substation
Part 2: Back to the Underground, Sewers, Demolition Site & Boss Fight, Downtown Revisited via Kendo's Shop
Part 3: RPD (Carlos), Clocktower Plaza & Boss Fight
Part 4: Hospital (Carlos and Jill)
Part 5: Underground Storage, Nest Labs & Boss fights from Hell
As much as I love replaying Odyssey, in my opinion nothing beats that first time exploration and discovering everything from the beginning. For this reason, I decided to record a playthrough in New Game, where I start from Level 1 and get everything from the start. There is a lot of grinding of course, which for some people may be tiresome or boring, but personally I enjoy it in this kind of games, and Odyssey especially which, moreover, is among the games that I love the most. My intention was to reach Level 99+, but after covering everything (and more), the highest that I managed to achieve was Level 82. What I cover: Basically all the stories and everything that is on the map, namely: -The main Odyssey story -The modern day story -The Gates of Atlantis (the four artifacts) -From The Shadows (the Cultists questlines) -Legacy of the First Blade -The Lost Tales of Greece and the two special blue-colored bounties -The Heir of Memories including the three Underworld episodes (Elysium, Un
Next up in my Tomb Raider Nostalgia Playthrough Series is Tomb Raider 3, the third installment of the classics. There were quite a few innovations in this game compared the to the first and the second, the most memorable being the fact that, after the first section was completed, you could play the subsequent three adventures in any order you wanted. Like in Tomb Raider 2, a brief but fabulous bonus level would unlock if you completed the game with all secrets found. Since these playthroughs are going to be a one-time thing - that is, I will probably won't be replaying the classic Tomb Raiders in full, any time soon at least - I am trying to cover as much stuff as possible. Random kills or pickups that have no interest or are simply in the regular path, may be left behind, but I do find all the secrets and if there is exploration involved (including pickups) in areas that are optional, I go for them as well. In this game in particular, I am referring to the legendary River Ganges l
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 last playthrough in my Tomb Raider Nostalgia Series is that of the very first game, both of the classics and the series as a whole. The original Tomb Raider game is a pure vintage gem with so much sentimental value that it makes up for the fuss that you have to go through in order to decently run and record it on a modern computer system. The resolution is a bit low in the main game, but everything is smooth and running well in Unfinished Business, the Gold expansion, which, by the way, is one of the two classic Tomb Raiders that I have played less (along with The Lost Artifact, as I mentioned in my Tomb Raider III report). Now playing UB again, I remembered why: although it is beautiful visually and very elaborate as far as gameplay and puzzles are concerned, I soon got fed up with those mutant mummies with their annoying (insert non-decent characterization here) screeching noises. Regardless, the Gold expansion, like the main game, is a lovely game, and very interesting too fr
This is my playthrough of Resident Evil 4 Remake in Professional difficulty, New Game, and No Damage mode. The "no damage" part was the real challenge, of course, because of certain traits that the game has that make such a mode quite frustrating. The remake is nothing like the classic Resident Evil4 when it comes to attempting a run without getting scratched. Technically, the original was more difficult but it was set up in such a way as to allow you room for planning out an effective strategy. The Knights room, for instance, the room where, in the original game, you find the King's Grail, has very limited space compared to its counterpart in the remake, which is the room where you find the Lion's Head; but the way the enemies move and attack, you can organize your strategy a lot better than in the remake, where the knights wiggle their heads so much and so fast that landing a successful headshot on them feels like some kind of impossible feat. In the remake, alth
A playthrough of Resident Evil 3 Remake in Hardcore difficulty. I am using the default inventory (no shop items) and I am not taking any damage. There are a lot of things that I like about the remake of Resident Evil 3, and a few that I'd rather do without. I love its atmosphere and overall design, which give out this compelling claustrophobic feel, and the fact that it is action-based, although I admit that I was looking forward to a revamped version of the Clock Tower, the Park or the Cemetery and the Clock Tower puzzles. And I do not like certain aspects of its gameplay that could have been great additions if they were implemented in a more player-friendly way. More specifically, the game has a set of mechanics which, although in reality are more elaborate than those of Resident Evil 2 Remake, in practice they don't offer you more flexibility. I am talking about the Dodge and Perfect Dodge moves, two evasion techniques that are supposed to save your life when you are in a de
This playthrough is a new and improved "No Merchant" gameplay of Resident Evil 4 in Professional difficulty, New Game, this time with the addition of the "No Damage" rule. A "No Merchant" playthrough of Resident Evil 4 means that you completely ignore the merchant throughout the whole game, which means that not only you cannot upgrade your weapons and your attache case at his "store", but moreover - and most importantly - you cannot buy any other guns from him. Plainly put, you are limited to your default inventory as is, plus the very few extra weapons that you come across in the game itself, namely the Shotgun (chapter 1-1), the Broken Butterfly (chapter 4-1) and the two Rocket Launchers (chapter 3-3 and Final chapter). The "No Damage" part of course consists in sustaining no injury at all. I saved a lot in this playthrough, and I also had to reload a lot. Sometimes because Leon would get hit, but most of the times because I thought I
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