Pokemon SoulSilver Special Aside 8: A lonely heart in an endless line

PokePosts without making the obligatory metal lyric title just be Avantasia again: 3 0

(I would be very interested in seeing the "which bands got quoted how many times" stats after this entire run is done but they have to be the eventual winners. Hell, they have the honor of being the only band so far from whom I drew the titles for two different entries from the same song--at 3:35 and 1:47, respectively.)

When we recruited Gmork, I said that that should be the last special aside new recruit bio/intro entry for now. I was wrong. Like, the plan really was just to get those four newcomers--Badgertwo, Rock Biter, Priscilla, Gmork--and those four plus the people who were already there were going to be our Kanto team. That really was the plan. I left the door cracked ajar by using weasel words like "should" only because, you know, who knows? Maybe something unforeseen will happen, maybe I'll end up with an "oops I totally forgot I was going to pick up one of these mons too" realization, maybe I'll just happen across a mon that... actually you know what, I like this mon, let's use them.

So it is with our unexpected fifth Kanto newcomer out of four. Perhaps fittingly for an unexpected arrival whom we were not exactly planning to welcome, meet a lonely outcast, another example of a dark heart not necessarily being an evil one, yet one who struggles to find acceptance due to that perception. Someone whose quest to find someone who loves and accepts them started with none other than us.

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The Dagger of Amon Ra DREAMWIDTH EDITION: Index

Years and years ago, I made a Let's Play of The Dagger of Amon Ra.

Given how long ago this was, I would say a lot of it hasn't aged well at all, especially in the earlier entries. However, I like to refer back to it as an example of something that took so long to finish that you could actually see me growing up as the entries progressed. At first, I just wanted to dunk on it and rip it to shreds for laughs. Over time (mostly thanks to xyzzysqrl showing me the way,) I mellowed out and came to appreciate this game for what it was. Sure, I was making wisecracks all the way through the last entry, but they weren't coming from a place of hatred and "mock the bad thing, funny" the way they had been.

Warm Fuzzy Game Room is largely about appreciating and celebrating the more unique or esoteric titles out there, or at the very least, giving them a chance in a space that won't go full AVGN on their asses for anything that isn't the safest, blandest, most mainstream stay-on-the-trail thing.

The Dagger of Amon Ra Let's Play is where, if you look carefully and read between the constant quipping, I think you can actually see that idea first being born inside me. The before and the... if not after, the at least slightly-less-before.

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All that said, the biggest problem with the old LP is that it's so old that all the image links died years ago, making the whole thing completely unreadable now. I could go back and fix the links, but, you know, LiveJournal.

And so, Operation: Port Amon Ra LP To Dreamwidth is upon us!

Consider this the "Index" entry; we're going to go back and edit it to add links to the individual entries as they're fixed and re-polished and posted. I'm not going to port the whole thing all in one go--maybe an entry per day or so? We'll see. It shouldn't take as long as the original did, though, given all I have to do is copy/paste and fix the links.

INDEX:

Part 1: Murder and mugging! Oh, New York :)
Part 2: Offensive stereotypes
Part 3: 45 seconds
Part 4a: The night that never ends (Part 1)
Part 4b: The night that never ends (Part 2)
Part 5: Gore and glitches
Part 6: Museum burglaries
Part 7: Beaks beaks beaks beaks beaks
Part 8: SCREAM!
Part 9: In which the game broke
Part 10: Giving the Countess a break
Part 11: Again and again (Act 3 finale)
Intermission: Post-act 3/Pre-act 4 recap and speculation
Part 12: ...

NOTE: This play-through was written and completed when the game was essentially abandonware. It includes several references to that (specifically to the apparently broken copy protection.) This game has since become available on GOG, but I assure you that 1) this was written before that happened, and 2) I immediately went back and purchased the game once it was out. Please support the official release.

Dagger of Amon Ra, Part 1: Murder and mugging! Oh, New York :)

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davidn did a highly entertaining screenshots-with-commentary play-through of Hugo 2 sometime ago. I decided I should follow it up with a game from my childhood. I find my selection fitting, for several reasons. First, it's by the same company, which should tell you that we're in for a treat.


I will probably be using this as a reaction image a lot.

Furthermore, it is another point-and-click adventure game, and it also has a murder mystery plot (except this one involves murders that actually happen.) And with that segue, I give to you: the rather confusingly-titled Roberta Williams' Laura Bow in in: The Dagger of Amon Ra: A Laura Bow Mystery (I am not kidding) which even the game itself shortens to....


Laura Bow in: The Dagger of Amon Ra.
(I personally tend to shorten it even further by omitting the "Laura Bow in:" part.)
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