Decided to finish playing Deus Machina Demonbane.
So yeah, I figured I should finish Demonbane, because it is after all quite fun in a train wreck kind of way.
And then suddenly it does a 180 360 720 Tindalos angle and becomes horrible, miserable and fatalistic.
I love it!
I mean, what is probably the beginning of the final battle is suddenly interrupted by an explanation of why the world is a horrible horrible place, and everyone who lives there are either completely miserable or in total denial. :D
I mean, seriously.
Right before the protagonists are hit by the "final boss" opening blast, the game suddenly cuts to this:
"People believe that birth is a blessing.
They believe that life comes into the World filled with love and joy.
They are wrong.
They are only deluding themselves.
Birth is a curse, and the World is filled with evil and corruption.
The infant understands this, for it is utterly pure.
In its mother's womb, the infant is complete. Surrounded by its mother's warmth, soothed by its mother's heartbeat, it exists at the center of the world.
This is the cradle of infinite love. What more, then, could one wish for?
The infant accepts the world with all its heart.
That is why, when it is expelled from Paradise and dropped into the outside world----that is why the infant cries and grieves.
Its skin is slashed by the razor-sharp air.
Its nose is filled with foul smells.
Its ears are smote upon by the hideous din.
Its eyes are burned by the blinding light.
The entire world seeks to do harm to the infant. It laughs at the weak, fragile lump of flesh. The infant knows that the world is a loathsome place.
People do not know this.
No, they have only forced it out of their memory. By forgetting, by deceiving themselves, they are able to live in this accursed world.
What pitiful, loathsome creatures."
And on it goes about how Evil drives the wheel of Fate out of control, towards an apocalyptic end.
And this is the same game that turned the Necronomicon into a loli who wore a shoggoth called Dunsany as a bathing ring when going to the Innsmouth five star hotel and beach resort. :D
Edit:
Holeee shite!
Yeah. When in the middle of a giant battle with two sorcerers who have taken the power of a frickin' GOD and are busy double- and triple- (and anti-) crossing each other, suddenly the music turns into a choir backed up by organ music and the game suddenly starts quoting the Book of Revelations (17:3 and onwards) and (important plot)images flash by with each line, and the only female member of the group of bad guys suddenly appears, and she's also called "Nero", which apparently is the basis for the whole "666 number of the beast thing" btw, and... THIS GAME. How the hell can something that starts out so silly suddenly turn into "MOTHER OF GOD" levels of dramatic?
And then suddenly it does a 180 360 720 Tindalos angle and becomes horrible, miserable and fatalistic.
I love it!
I mean, what is probably the beginning of the final battle is suddenly interrupted by an explanation of why the world is a horrible horrible place, and everyone who lives there are either completely miserable or in total denial. :D
I mean, seriously.
Right before the protagonists are hit by the "final boss" opening blast, the game suddenly cuts to this:
"People believe that birth is a blessing.
They believe that life comes into the World filled with love and joy.
They are wrong.
They are only deluding themselves.
Birth is a curse, and the World is filled with evil and corruption.
The infant understands this, for it is utterly pure.
In its mother's womb, the infant is complete. Surrounded by its mother's warmth, soothed by its mother's heartbeat, it exists at the center of the world.
This is the cradle of infinite love. What more, then, could one wish for?
The infant accepts the world with all its heart.
That is why, when it is expelled from Paradise and dropped into the outside world----that is why the infant cries and grieves.
Its skin is slashed by the razor-sharp air.
Its nose is filled with foul smells.
Its ears are smote upon by the hideous din.
Its eyes are burned by the blinding light.
The entire world seeks to do harm to the infant. It laughs at the weak, fragile lump of flesh. The infant knows that the world is a loathsome place.
People do not know this.
No, they have only forced it out of their memory. By forgetting, by deceiving themselves, they are able to live in this accursed world.
What pitiful, loathsome creatures."
And on it goes about how Evil drives the wheel of Fate out of control, towards an apocalyptic end.
And this is the same game that turned the Necronomicon into a loli who wore a shoggoth called Dunsany as a bathing ring when going to the Innsmouth five star hotel and beach resort. :D
Edit:
Holeee shite!
Yeah. When in the middle of a giant battle with two sorcerers who have taken the power of a frickin' GOD and are busy double- and triple- (and anti-) crossing each other, suddenly the music turns into a choir backed up by organ music and the game suddenly starts quoting the Book of Revelations (17:3 and onwards) and (important plot)images flash by with each line, and the only female member of the group of bad guys suddenly appears, and she's also called "Nero", which apparently is the basis for the whole "666 number of the beast thing" btw, and... THIS GAME. How the hell can something that starts out so silly suddenly turn into "MOTHER OF GOD" levels of dramatic?