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#129039 18/11/03 07:52 AM
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...finally. Put the game away for a while (had to reinstall my OS) but decided I was going to finish it..if it was the last thing I did. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I do confess that I did use scorpions and a nice axe that froze my enemies at the end; so it was not TOO difficult. But hey, if this was real life; I'd use whatever was at my disposal to win. If I found a BFG hidden in some vase; I use that too <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

My only complaint was that the ending was too abrupt. All of a sudden in that last battle my screen went black and I really thought the game had crashed; until the end movie come on. I was hoping there would have been a little conversation with the wizard and the white cat about what had just happen; but it wasn't to be.

Looks like my character is walking out of the skull castle with the baby in his arms; or was he carrying a turkey for Thanksgiving? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Also where the heck in the games was I suppose to use those statues that turn you into the corresponding animals? Didn't need to use those at all.

Overall a very good game. Looking forward to next one.

#129040 18/11/03 08:06 AM
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Congrats <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

It's an open end by purpose, Marian said it could have been a baby or a bundle the hero was carrying out.

You can use the statues anywhere. I used them in the elite orc area (spider).
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*sigh*
I would have never thought that the language of pure image is so hard to understand. We have to think about that in the future...

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!

Ascension "Blessing" cutscene
After you got sacrificed by the council of seven your spirit awakes in a divine realms on an altar. Around you the ideas of the seven gods are manifesting. You can roughly separate impish, human, elven or orcish gods...
Everyone of them grabs into their chest and puts a small part of the heart into your weightless shape. After you received all blessing the in you is fully developed and so her wings grow and she flies up to the mortal plane where she descends as the reborn hero into the wastelands.

Extro scene
You see the demon of lies dying. In fact you see the mutiliated body of janus ripped into pieces and the leftover, the sword of lies, remains. It comes closer and tries to seduce the hero. The hero is tempted to take it but refuses and sends it back to hell away from the mortal plane.
Then the hero hears the cries of the baby. Knowing that it is the lord of chaos inside the child he/she draws the dagger to kill it. In the hero's moral struggle to kill a neborn innocent child the scene fades out.
Much later you see the hero walk out victorious into the swamp area. He carries something. Loot? The child? You don't know for sure...
Somewhere on a distant hill Arhu and Zandalor watch you coming when suddenly the statue you lifted up in the sky while entering the katacombs of aleroth comes down finally...(side joke, nothing more)


Last edited by kiya; 18/11/03 08:10 AM.
#129041 18/11/03 08:26 AM
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It sounds like you missed the first ending movie.
The frog statuette lets you run fairly fast, even when encumbered.


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