Was Fable as good as I remember?

Fable is one of those lost franchises, a trilogy of games that most of its fans consider a masterpiece, somehow the franchise's legacy stalled on a bit of a sour note in 2012, when Peter Molyneux left Lionhead Studios and Microsoft. decided that the best way to honor the

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s 3-game legacy was to sink it face first into the ground with a series of decisions that can only be described as how much money can we make off of people's love for a franchise, so now the main series has been dormant since 2010 left in its wake a lot of people who fund lis and

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that the franchise was something that used to be great, so I thought I'd take a look at the first game in the series and see if it really holds up as something of value worth playing.

Today, in a surprise twist, I'm actually not going to cover the entire franchise in a four-hour long video so we can all breathe a sigh of relief. What I will do is play the anniversary edition of Fable that was released on PC. Back in 2014, ten years after the original release of the first game. Well let's get to it, right off the bat we have the difficulty setting that makes me feel bad about my life if I choose the option to have the game set to the original difficulty I think I'll stick with the original difficulty here just because it's probably more accurate to the original experience, so this all starts with this storybook introduction about a boy who dreamed of being a powerful warrior or wizard or just an evil guy, the foreshadowing is a little on the nose, but I think they were just trying to that players enter directly into the game.

This is just more evidence of your dad saying, hey, you gotta get your sister a birthday present. I know you're like 10 years old, but I'm not going to rescue you. He then proceeds to rescue you by offering you a gold piece for every

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deed you do in the area. I'm not sure how much this is in this universe, but it's a lot. gold for a child according to DND standards. I figure if this is as much as I think, I'll have enough left over to reconstruct my real horror movie face so you can start talking to the townspeople about their various problems and figure out how to solve them.

Help them, the first thing I ended up doing was taking a bribe from this guy who's cheating on his wife behind a house, kind of a strange place for that, but hey, he offers me a gold coin to keep my mouth shut about seeing him. together. with a girl who wasn't his wife, so I accept this guy's bribe and then the game tells me I've done a bad deed and basically my Karma has gone down. I don't care about that because, realistically, who's going to find out? I have heard reports that you have been doing evil deeds as an accessory to the inappropriate behavior of men and women.

Well, I guess someone saw me accepting the bribe and decided to report me. This is a pretty weak way to introduce the player to the concept of "Hey, if you do." Bad things, the guards are going to punish you for that, well, it's a bit cheeky. I guess I would have preferred something more obvious like saying that some thief guy made me steal a pendant for three pieces of gold and told me I would take the blame. If someone found out I think something like this would have been a little less ridiculous but anyway go through this tutorial area while performing various actions for whoever needs them and earning enough money to buy a box of chocolates for your sister, this includes telling a woman about her cheating husband, beating up this town bully and then returning a teddy bear to a little girl, although it bothers me that this woman had no idea that her husband and the side girl were having a

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time, but the guards of the city in some way they did. the tutorial area is short and sweet and finds just enough for a game from 2004 to get its point across, so you go back to your cross-eyed redhead sister and give her the chocolates and you both prepare to leave as the bandits storm into town and it begins. to slaughter the villagers, your sister tells your character to hide and he does so behind the best cover of all, a wooden fence with a lot of space between each board, so apparently all of this happened because the bandits came looking for you for some reason.

They massacred the entire city and tortured and killed both your mother and your horribly disfigured papa sister, apparently she didn't follow her own advice to hide behind something obvious and look like Kevin only from home, as brutal as it was. I mean, I almost feel like I'm being shoehorned into being the good character at this point. I mean, this is pretty much the basic setup for the tragic hero archetype, of course, that may change, but the game rewards you three times over for being a good Samaritan. and lectures you for doing something even slightly evil and then goes on to tell you that your entire family was murdered by evil bandits.

I guess it seems like it takes that whole concept of "hey, you can be good or bad" and then just pushes you hard to be heroic, the game further compounds this feeling with the introduction of the labyrinth. He saves you from a bandit with two charges while you continue to attack Culkin from your great dead father. He then tells you that he is the leader of something called the Heroes Guild. takes you to the guild and basically kidnaps you into the lifestyle of a hero, everything is extraordinarily fast, hey kid, I know your entire family and everyone you knew died before your eyes in a brutal and unrelenting slaughter, but hey, you got to get up Too early for your hero classes, okay, bye, so you'll meet your roommate, who's two inches taller and 30 years older judging by her face.

She says: Yes, I have this room to myself, but I guess I don't understand it anymore. Oh well, come on. go to class, yeah, my family just died, but yeah, sure, let's make me feel bad for taking up space in your room, brief this guy for your big training, which is getting into this gladiator ring in the ring and then the guard alarm sounds. It goes off and this guy says hey, that's the alarm, there's trouble in the woods, go take care of it new guy, then we can get to your training, well if that's not the most backwards thing I've ever heard in a game .

I'm not sure what's best, to be fair it's not a big task since they set off alarm bells if the Beatles approach the guild, apparently moving into the future makes your character advance in age, wisdom and strength, but apparently not in height, so after stealing everything. library of his books and performing a traditional Russian dance for the merchant, he was very impressed. I start heading towards the objective before my controller tells me that he's thirsty for some dura cells by making my character really interested in this fence here. then we get back to a lot of training with these three different types of melee combat skills it seems pretty basic and I like the development, it's easy to see how inspired Dark Souls was with this game, the ranged combat is a little more sketchy, Of course, you have your patented console game auto-lock, but you also have free aim, which makes me feel bad about my life, then you have the final form of lightning hands combat.

I don't know how to feel about lightning hands because I can break them from one doll to another. others in less than half a second but I guess I'll have to see how it plays out in real combat from here I can advance to adulthood or go play with whisper in the woods I opted for the latter of the two and we ran into some bandits who apparently only met They complain to themselves and look like bandits whisper that I murdered them with a bow or mice if it were lightning, so I fire a few shots at them while they struggle to shoot my three-foot-six-inch body after me.

I'm done brutally taking their lives, they whisper applause and say, we did it, you and I, we both did it at the same time, we did it. Did you see the way your arrow went through that one's eye? I'm going to go tell that to our teacher. You slaughtered those three humans just now, okay, bye, so you've advanced to adulthood, which concludes with you practicing your corn skills once more before receiving the title of hero. They will guide you through the relatively basic skills that allow you to exchange your experience points. For more strength, speed, stealth magic, pretty much everything you could want in a basic action RPG, one thing I particularly enjoy is the idea that you need to upgrade your physique to use bigger weapons in the game and eventually , they leave you alone. which basically involves you doing story quests or optional quests from the big table in the middle.

The introductory part of this game feels extremely simple and is more about eliminating the tutorial for all the mechanics than writing a compelling story, I mean. Obviously, your entire family dying because bandits were looking for you for some reason is definitely intriguing, but the execution of throwing your character through Hogwarts for many years in a training montage is a bit lackluster either way. Actually, I can't help but be excited. Dive into the essence of this game with all the possibilities that I have been shown so far, so here is my first major insight into this game.

It's weird and that's not a bad thing because I honestly can't think of another game that's like a

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. You can say that outdated combat mechanics appear in other games or that the upgrade system isn't particularly unique, but there's this reputation system that affects how people treat you, they can cheer for you, they can cower, they can just ridicule you, the people you interact with. These strange, brilliant cartoon characters range from town fools and drunks to cocky heroes who look down on you like a simple farmer. Your choice of armor or clothing could mean the difference between protecting you in combat but looking extremely ugly to other people or it could mean you're an unarmored glass cannon but hey you look beautiful the sly system makes your character do this weird lazy hunch and this me in the top right corner tells you how many people see you, there is a constant disembodied voice from the guild. the master tells you where to go and what new things are happening all the time, the blacksmith shouts that he has shields and armor and none of those villagers and vendors tell you the location of your next objective when you constantly walk past them, the game is It's just really very strange, but it also uses charm and I'm really enjoying it so far, so the first thing you have to do in the main quest is kill a wasp queen and a group of normal wasps seem to be carnivorous.

I think the lightning bolt might be a little too fine-tuned, but it sure gets the job done. Also, the wasps in this game sound like pigs. I haven't figured out why from here you head to the main city in the game. Bower Stone. Upon arrival, they tell you that your horror movie sister's monster might have survived the attack, but they're still not sure if you can do whatever you want again after this, which for me involved doing some side quests, so Fable has this thing called brag system, it's basically a way. of adding more challenges to your missions while risking some money in exchange for more when you brag about your character basically standing on a platform and telling his followers that it's okay.

I'm going to protect these next guys in this next contract while I'm Naked, there's some of that variety besides this, a lot of your missions have you fighting on the side of justice or villainy. In a mission you can earn good guy points but less money if you fight bandits who are looting a farm or you. You can earn more shekels by helping the bandits loot the farm. I guess the definition of a hero in this game is simply someone who does things for people because Whisperer opposes you once you choose your side, whether good or bad, it just seems a little strange. that you were rescued by this guy who runs the Justice League only for you to leave, yeah you know what my family deserved, being a murderous bandit is the way to go anyway, this kind of choice is pretty cool , even if it doesn't affect the overall story of the game I often felt quite overwhelmed by the sheer amount of things you could do, but I don't always consider that to be a bad thing when done well, a huge amount of options and things. doing can make time go by quickly when you play and that's exactly what happened to me with Fable.

There are a variety of different settings, enemy types, and little extra additions like these mini-games that change from area to area, but one of my favorite things. fable are these giant talking stone doors. I love these Diamond doors. They're probably one of the biggest things I

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from the Fable series simply because of how cool and different they are. There's another big part of Fables with a unique flavor that would probably make The Game feel less complete if they weren't there. The puzzles they present range from things as simple as lighting a lamp in your inventory or wearing certain armor to performinggreat evil acts, asking a door to marry you or giving birth.

Inflationary porn in this world, finally someone who understands me, the doors open to these cozy little areas with a nice aesthetic or an interesting vibe and the rewards range from elixirs that extend your life or magic bars to powerful weapons and outfits that don't They are all rewards. The areas are particularly attractive to look at, but many of them have their own interesting twist and their own little stories to tell without implicitly saying anything. They are a fantastic addition to the game with how strange they are and how satisfying they are. opened in the middle of a swamp like the dark wood brothel, an establishment intended to provide pleasure to men in exchange for money, it is a whorehouse, the owner's name is mr. groping, which yeah, okay, apparently he's a horrible person who treats the women here like trash and only cares about profits.

The leader of the women here is doing everything she can to get the deed to the establishment so she can get rid of of it, which is where I come in, but first I have to take a test drive here, the most interesting thing we learn. Here's why I look like a fat corpse to Geralt of Rivia after this, getting the deed is as simple as leaving the owner looking shitty, who then proceeds to babble upstairs and into bed, where he talks in his sleep and has a heart to heart with you as you tenderly care for him.

I'm not entirely sure, but yes, he reveals the location of the writing that is buried in front, near the statue, after returning with a shovel, you can dig it up and become the new owner of the brothel. It means you can make profit every few days from the establishment and you can sleep with the women as many times as you want for free, but if you want to be the best guy you can turn the brothel into a women's shelter. I like that option, so I do that and I'm rewarded with a little halo over my head for being such a good sport.

The flip side of this new sanctity is the SCORM Chapel which also branches off into the dark wood area of ​​the map. The chapel is a place where you can bring followers with you to sacrifice them to the evil god SCORM. The whole area is very reminiscent of the Red Mountain area of ​​Morrowind, which is pretty impressive. There is a whole system here where it is better to sacrifice at a certain time if you are good and bad. neutral, the rewards you get are really good, including the best arc in the game, the system is ridiculously complicated and definitely reeks of the older games mentality of creating a very complicated system and just letting the players figure it out when you get to the next big tournament.

In the city area, you meet the girl you helped in the game's prologue, apparently she got over the attack and is now hell-bent on giving you flashbacks of Vietnam. Hey, you know how everyone she loved died. I thought you did too, but I guess not, okay, bye, it actually took me a moment to realize that the oak tree hides the characters from the villagers. I guess I thought it would look like this, but apparently it has repopulated nicely. The maze finds you outside the tavern and informs you that years ago a hero named Twin Blade moved from the guild to unite dozens of bandit clans and begin wreaking unified havoc on many cities.

Mays believes he could have been the one behind the siege of his village all those years ago and also believes him to be an exceptionally talented man. The psychic has been helping them get rich, so my mission here is twofold: to discover if it was Twin Blade who was behind the attack and two, to use the services of the psychic to discover the whereabouts of my sister who infiltrated the camp. of bandits. making a sneak tutorial that is painfully slow and probably works as well as Elder Scrolls sneaking if you take it to a high enough level.

For example, this guy explains to his comrade here that Twin Blade only allows people in full suits. he enters the camp, then turns around and says who is that and then just forgets about you when you crouch a little, the game goes from teaching you how to sneak to practically giving you no option to do so in the next area. There are like 40 bandits here, so I rush towards them because before I was bragging about not having killed anyone on the way. I collected five pieces of banded equipment that allow me to transform into my alter ego, the chromosome hijacker, the guy in front of me.

The door is your SiC bandit gear, brother, there is an angry mob behind you that will break in when you enter. You can change back into your old clothes if you want and can roam freely around the campsite. There are some vendors and games. The doorman and a big guy simply named Slam. Okay, I hire him to follow me after I play a game of hide-and-seek with the game's bouncer so I can win a free ticket to the elite part of the camp. Slammin's eyes wander around the camp. I'm ready to blow some bandit's ass off except I was still bragging about not killing anyone so I thought of something else so I pay these assassins to create a distraction and they do it by picking the most beta bandits and this causes alarms.

You have to run for some reason and the three guards run out of the castle to scare away the murderers. It is here that we encounter the most uneven combination of body and voice in the game. This mountain of hoarse whispers sounds more suited to an old blind man and He has an urn, but whatever he's ready to fight and I'm ready to loot, apparently he doesn't count as a bandit, so I finally abandon my search for loot to defeat him. After defeating him, the psychic reveals from the tent that there were no additional hiding places and I definitely just checked everything for loot.

She also gives you about half a second to process her existence before saying, "Hey, by the way, I'm your sister." I guess the Raiders found his face just as unfortunate. like I did and decided to cut her eyes and dye her hair I guess it's weird but mine just stood up and turned blonde so yeah I guess the narrator tells you that the Raiders threw her aside and then she She crawled for three days before the bandits found her. her twin sword basically kept at her side after seeing how surprisingly skilled she was in combat and the whole seeing the future thing, she basically became a complete badass and imparts some kind of gift of power to you before leaving you again, you get the choice to kill or spare this walking anime, leave the camp when you return to the corn, he says, oh yeah, cute.

Congratulations on still having a sister. You want to fight in the arena, although it is also possible that my archaeologist friend has killed himself. I want to check it. I don't know, I was just sitting here thinking that he might have a lead on the Raiders that killed my childhood, but we're going to rescue that guy, but before that I realized that I have to pay Slam all the time. I even have to pay the friend during cutscenes, I guess I could probably let him go back to camp or he's now on his way to what would be an area on a small island at the top left of the map, it's basically a rainier and lighter tone of dark wood. find a labyrinth archaeologist friend behind this diamond or who gets angry at you for finding it and then shortly after you find the counterpart of the SCORM Chapel called the temple of Evo, instead of sacrificing types for profit, you have to contribute the your hard-earned money. to get good guy points, it's basically a catholic church, it eventually rewards you with one of the best melee weapons in the game, but yes, it requires a lot of funds, but it actually requires a lot less if you start contributing when you're 100% evil , now we can pick up this bad boy, it's still very expensive, but hey, it's worth it.

I replaced it an hour later, there is also this King Arthur sword on this hill and you have to be super strong to pull it off. Ironically, when you get this strong, the amount of DPS it puts out is less than some of the two-handed weapons you can grab from other sources, but it's cool to come back as this human monster to rip this thing off. the ground in front of everyone and the description says that the twins who did it cut off their own hands to make sure no one else could do another brutal one after this area reaches the next town, not the entire clearing, it's been having a problem.

Problems with Vereen lately and I guess I'm the one who needs to solve them by fighting them. Their raids have become increasingly brazen since their leader, a white valve, Erine, has been leading them into the city, supposedly a hunter who lived in the city. killed the last one and then disappeared, the wife reveals to you shortly after that her hunter husband had been bitten by Bal Vereen himself and has now become one, so you have to take him and his lackeys out with an augmented silver weapon or just a really powerful one when you return with the guys head the city leader lets you know that he will basically sponsor you for the arena allowing you to start competing against other heroes the arena is actually pretty cool the rules are about what It's to be expected, except you keep fighting until you're ready to throw in the towel.

Each round you fight gives you more and more money and until you reach the grand prize, the first round has you fighting these sharp guys in the second. round while you fight a pack of short, fat Thanos and then the third round comes and they join you in whispering from here on out and I absolutely hate this decision because it's so obvious why they put her here and what will probably happen besides This is absolutely useless other than attracting extra enemies to her like I'm shooting some of these mobs and the most she can do is knock them down sometimes and then it's like wow these two heroes are actually on the same level as each other cool so yeah , you fight a series of the same type of enemies that you have seen in the game so far, werewolves, zombies, trolls, they are trolls and finally the big boss, a gigantic and twisted scorpion, this type would probably have been much more difficult . if I had fought exclusively with my melee weapon but he does absolutely nothing when you stay back and shoot him, that's why I did it here's the big semi predictable twist, apparently there's a guy nicknamed the hero from Heroes known as Jack of Blades . returned after a long time to reside in this tournament and deliver the final bonus prize, so MF DOOM comes out and basically sounds and looks like what you'd expect an average villain to sound and look like instead of dropping some sick beats and lyrics . about us, he says it's okay now, I fight to the death while I understand this plot twist in quotes, the game spoils it before you even get to this point because of the brag system, you have the option to kill your enemies or forgive them like bragging and since every wave has a type of monster or bandit you never have that option, introducing Whisper as an ally is a terrible decision no matter how you look at it and I wish they would have left me alone and introduced her later as my final opponent suddenly.

Then the final fight between us shows how useless she is and says don't kill her and that she wouldn't have killed you if she had won. If I kill her, I'll get 10,000 gold and a bunch of evil and Thunder points. is still a for me, I imagine, by the way, this is thunder, thunder, his sister whispers and he is just the worst. I just hope they both end up in the arena one day and then we'll see who is the bigger hero. Anyway, don't do it, farmer, when I initially accepted this mission, I needed money, I desperately needed money for this big stick strapped to my back, I was completely evil sacrificing people without caring who I killed, if I was still in this position, I would do it. would do. mata whispers without hesitation, she's been nothing but annoying throughout this entire game constantly acting like she's better than me even though she literally never showed it once and then her older brother whose thigh is bigger than my entire being, she speaks to me at every opportunity, even in her possible In the last moments she calls you farmer again.

I understand this is more of a thing because your guy doesn't have a name but he does have a title and she could have called him that or just anything that she wouldn't be so derogatory about either way. I decide to forgive her because I'm ready to get back on her good side. I'm just tired of people cowering before me. I guess you sacrifice a dozen villagers and suddenly they're all afraid. Jesus, when he got back to the staging area, he thunders there and he's talking about you again, he tells you this isn't over and blah, blah, blah.

Lady Gray is the most interesting person here, she is the mayor of Bower Stone and she cordially invites you in her own way before taking her two best assets and leaving. After being escorted out of the arena this year by a guard who points out that you reminded him of the arena's first scarlet-robed heroine, a statue of her lies on the right side of the hallway and your character falls flat.Upon seeing it, she can apparently see a distinguishable human being in this piece of clay and, more importantly, it is her mother, Jack of Blades, who approaches and monologues about how great she was and how she left behind to two great heroes in his life. wakes up and then casually says yes, I can't wait to get the three of you together, my character doesn't react to this at all, the guy definitely admits that he was behind the attacks more or less while my character is sitting there, Dream Weaver plays. in front of the statue, so I guess instead of getting revenge I'm going to have tea with Lady Grey.

Oh, and to find my sister again, but first Lady Gray jumps on her almost immediately and asks you to pick up a black rose for her. The item description for this says you have to have a heart as black as petals to appreciate it, so I guess she's not a great person and the guy who's about to be executed in this cage also says the same thing, but I want to marry her, so she wants you to have a house before you marry her, I mean come on, who do you think I am? And she finally wants you to get her necklace back from someone who stole it.

You talked to all of these in town. and all are like man. I can't believe Lady Gray murdered her sister. Did you know that Lady Gray actually literally slaughtered her own sister and took her necklace from her? Did you know that Lady Gray is carrying her sister's dead ass? necklace, by the way, is an oak veil despite all these seemingly limitless clues and witnesses, my character completely ignores these people to go retrieve the necklace from her. I'm very disappointed in him, but he's okay, so I head to Oak Vale and enter a tavern that's full of hearts.

I have never had so many people love me in my entire life until I played this game but the most important thing is that it whispers here and she says hey I'm sorry I put you down and gave you all the time I met you is because I was super jealous anyway I thought I'd tell you now and I'm going back to my old country see you nerd I mean it's cool that she apologized but I guess I don't care at all because she's been a total non-factor for her entire existence, speaking of not factors, not only have these two fools been guarding the entrance to the cemetery to make sure they could talk privately and then reveal the location of the necklace anyway when I enter. but Thunder is apparently Lady Grey's other suitor.

He basically says that he will kill me in this creepy esse land and tells it to a group of peasants or something. He was thinking we were going to meet in the sand, but I guess this works. The guy is a horrible fight, it's not difficult, it's just that the annoying thunder moves consist of turning towards you blocking and his main move calls lightning around him in a circle, this makes close combat a pain. stupid idea and the whole fight is basically shooting him. and once again, halfway down her health bar, she throws you off a cliff and your character sounds like this, then she says, "You think you can take her by just killing me, she loves me, then she runs away to this cave where the last part of the game takes place." the fight". place with no modifications to strategy or new moves when you defeat him you don't get a chance to cut off his head or anything he just limps away and says you can have Lady Gray when you go back to Lady Gray and tell her you beat her shit for brains, She marries you on the spot and that's what I was hoping for was something a little more special about marrying her, but I guess 15,000 gold and access to this diamond gate is a pretty good reward.

Let's go to bed, is it time to go meet my blind sister? She's hanging out at the place where Lady Gray grew up. I think it's known as the gray house. This place is fucking sinister and it's really cool. In fact, she made me a little nervous. a little bit, although nothing is actually going to hurt me, as you enter the house this clock rings before the zombies get up from the floor, they are pretty easy to kill, but then the camera pans out to show you some kind suddenly coming from one of the furthest tombs.

The investigation puts you in contact with this diary written by Lady Gray which basically says that she is going to execute the Bower Stone no matter what and that the masked man was the one who spurred this on so I imagine it would be Jack of Blades and finally putting an end to it. . Lean into this area, the tombs behind have no zombies that spawn, but they say things like I ended up first in the human race and I'm not dead, just sleeping, they buried me anyway, my wife is a murderer, so my sister tells you that your mom is actually still alive and is being held by Jack of Blades in some kind of prison, his goal seems to be to get some kind of special sword that has the ability to destroy the world or something like that, he He was also the person who cut out your My Sister's Eyes in the first place, the archaeologists from before know how to get into Jack's prison, but he has been captured by Jack's henchmen and is now in the process of being captured by a man. by Bower Stone.

Jack's henchmen are these strange hunched creatures that sound a lot like scrap metal scraping against each other as they move, wield these long twin sword type things, and are generally super weird. I really like his design when you get to the archaeologists and send all the bad guys packing, he tells you he knows where the secret entrances are. the prison, but you'll have to discover the rest yourself, so you'll be sent to the cemetery in the northeast of the map. The cemetery guardian apparently looted some type of armor and hid it throughout the cemetery. Have him mutter about how all these things must have gotten into their hiding places by accident before he completely disappears.

As he leaves the last piece at his house, you must return all four pieces before the demon gate lets you pass and then you are in the final stretch before reaching the prison, which apparently is through some kind of mystical chimney that It opens when you defeat these skeletons in a prayer circle. The whole way to this place is just a tsunami of undead, which is also pretty cool, but it also makes fighting them completely pointless beyond trying to clear a path, but eventually you infiltrate the prison to try. to find your mom. We're getting to a part of the game where I think the developers ran out of ideas. or they didn't know how to design an ending to the game because this prison is crawling with these whack-a-mole undead and it sucks, not because it's hard but because it's annoying as hell, I barely take it.

The damage from these guys is just the sheer amount of them that keep appearing under me and just knocking me down and then the Darkness Explosive Mushrooms would make another appearance, which is just fantastic to try to deal with when you have a never-ending one. horde of scrawny guys trying to give you business from behind. This is followed by a group of average-looking city guards, but they wear red, which apparently allows them to take several hits from some of the most powerful weapons in the game. At least they don't keep knocking me down over and over again, you finally get to your mother, who looks like she's 70, now she's absolutely thrilled to see her son again, so you run out of there fighting the respawning guards and everything. that. things and it seems like mom can't fight anymore, probably because she looks like she was there when hieroglyphics were invented, but then Jack interrupts you and gets really big and floats and goes hahaha.

I planted a modern FBI. bug on your clothes when we were in the sand. I know everything about everything you've been doing and then you get captured, yeah, you just get captured by these four enemies that you've been beating up for a while, I mean, yeah, right, I guess. Jack of Blades was involved, but you don't even actually try to fight him, it's just a snapshot, it's absolutely horrible design because all you really needed to do was have Jack grab the heroes, mom, and look, dude. Kill her if you don't give up and also his whole reasoning for all this happening is to get to this overpowered sword, it requires a key or something and he demands to know where the thing is I don't want.

What I don't understand is that he clearly heard your conversation with your sister and what she said, so why not let you escape to your mom and hope she tells you where the key is? So here I am sitting in a cell looking like Agent 47 and sir. Clean decided to create a baby out of bones and raise him until he ran away and got a tattoo. Oh, and just because we're operating by playground rules, I can't use magic because Jack of Blades charmed the entire prison. I don't know, I mean, let's talk about this. I am a powerful hero.

I could easily defeat these idiot guards with just my fists, even without magic. The guy next to you even says that they take us out every year once a day to compete with us. yard like you can't just escape from one moment to the next to accumulate - all this is the fact that I am the husband of one of the most powerful people and Albie in that it just doesn't make sense, I mean, for the sake of the guardian he recites a poem about Lady Gray in your presence I think this whole ordeal would have fit much better at the beginning of the game.

I know that would mean restructuring the story, but damn, I really can't stand him being this super powerful, super renowned hero and I just get thrown in prison for a year out of every year. When you run through the prison and win, you get the reward of hearing the warden recite his poetry to you. During this time, you can sneak next to him and read the code on the wall. unlock one of these three journals on the desktop and no matter which one you choose, it's wrong. I know because I tried, so you wait a year and then you do it again and this time you get the key and this starts an escape sequence where you do the same thing you should have done the first night when they let you out for the race. , freeing the other prisoners gives you good karma because the criminals are great people and the police, I guess then you run with a stick before your mom says Dude, what the hell go get it so my prisoner friends can die bravely while I recover my belongings?

Apparently Jack of Blades decides to abandon the prison-wide magical power gang as soon as he gets my stuff back because I can suddenly use my powers again, hopefully. I remembered to turn off the spy device he placed on my computer or this is going to get really awkward in a few moments Dario, what's up man? Not much, bro, I'm finishing up a shift at the old prison unit tonight. Jessie will be there. Yeah, coming in, I mean you're going to have to give me a few hours, man, you know we have a zombie camp outside my work, right.

I know I only know one way in or out, but hey, they pay me $14 an hour. Combine that with the Tim Hortons concert I started and I'm doing just above the poverty line oh yeah I'll have to get back to you Dale they brought back the Kraken. I know, yeah, I'll see you tonight, buddy, at the usual spot. 2g yard Fridays this boss is kind of neat. I mean, it's easy, of course, but Tidy Grandma keeps telling me that she thinks she might be blocking the exit. She is quite shrewd in her old age. After this, you are given a short scene where I was told that your hero now knows that Jack of Blades must be stopped.

The guy directly reveals that he is imprisoned. Your mother. Your sister. Yes, he cut my eyes out, but what really pushes our boy over the edge is being in prison for a year. so now we have to stop him because he knows where the key to the sword is but what he doesn't know is that only a member of the hero's bloodline can reveal the key so to stop him and make it so he can't get the key . The three family members split up and one of them must go directly and reveal the key. Yes, it seems like a great plan to me.

I'm going to activate a much-needed Cullis Gate in the dark. Wood and then headed towards the Hook coast. This place is a frozen northern region that I love the look of so far, although I must admit I'm a sucker for cold, snowy places when I'm trying to get out of the city. I get there, there's a red force field keeping me away, my mom tells me to come back to her so she can figure this out and when I do, they shoot her again right in front of me, the last thing she screams is Don't let me.

I forget about the book, so I grab it and take it to the guild master, who says he can use it to take down the force field. This is the beginning of the last leg of the game and he forces you to abandon all other side quests. For starters, when you return to town, there are these Banshee specters chasing people. It's actually a pretty nice sound when combined melodically with the guild master singing nonsense into my ears, so here's a twist that I should have predicted from the beginning, but still didn't. It doesn't make sense in a lot of ways, Maze is a bad guy who serves Jack of Blades, so there's been almost no indication that Maze was going to betray you because she's always been pretty firm in the way she talks to you. .

I don't know, maybe she was trying to raise you to defeat Jack, but she sure abandoned that.I sleep pretty quickly, if that's the case, the only response you get from him when you defeat him is that he's a coward, the funniest thing. About this whole ordeal is the part where Jack goes. I can't believe it took you a whole year to get out of prison, yeah you and me guys, the actual fight is a little silly and annoying, but not as bad as the weirder thunder fight. Part of it was this part where he teleported to a closed lighthouse, which makes me wonder if it would have been open during the day.

Fortunately, my cunning was high enough to pick locks, but it's still very strange after dealing the killing blow. He says oh Pham, maybe. After all, you can be Jack, thanks for the eternal maze of faith, the final showdown has you chasing the Jack of spades all over the map. Not only does this run have you revisiting different corners of the map, but it also has pretty much all the different enemy types that Jack is employed throughout the game and show up to try and stop you. They don't do a very good job, although Jack is always one step ahead of you anyway as he activates these different ritual sites around Albion Thunder appears in an entire room before leaving.

Go ahead, I'm exhausted, I need a break, have you ever cooked someone so strong that they will always be low on energy When you finish chasing Jack, he ends up at the Heroes Guild, where he has started the decimation process and then heads off. to the secret chamber at the back of the guild where he awaits you for the last battle before the battle begins, although he eats your mother with the sword and then the fight begins, this battle is annoying and you have to fight the minions from Jack first and then he'll fight you the first two times I approached him after he took down his barrier he just put it back up to summon more minions which is a huge waste of time when I left him halfway through his health, he floated in the air and started shooting at me from above, so I just used my bow and that wasn't a very exciting battle.

Your sister comes up to you after this battle and she tells you, hey, if you want the sword, you have to kill me. I guess this was meant to Make the Final Choice between Good and Evil, but I feel like the evil characters are pretty screwed up in this game. I decided to throw the sword into the void because it is very weak compared to mine in terms of DPS and base game wise. That's it, your hero is finally put to rest and Albion is saved from Jax's evil, which, let's be honest, the super weak ending to the DLC has a lot more elaboration on many of the key elements that makes me wonder if the game was rushed initially or if This was always the plan.

It all begins with one of Albion's oldest heroes relaying a message that there is a big problem in the north and we need to restore power to the lighthouse. that's off the coast so we can transport ourselves there, this involves entering this new diamond ore that has appeared and freeing these dumber prophets that are locked in confinement, if you want to kill them, turn the puzzle into moons if you want. To free them, you turn them into suns, either way you get back this big flaming boy who has the ability to make the lighthouse do his job.

After this, it is mentioned that Maze was working frantically to try to recover a sword that could rival the Aeons type according to her journals, she has been trying to free herself from the Jack of Blades for most of her life and this new sword It would probably give him the power to do so. The Paavo Spear is basically the good counterpart to the Sword of Aeons and basically only appears for someone. When Albion's passing heroes deemed them worthy, that would be me. I decided to use it for the DLC, I guess, because it has some cool augmentations.

I think Aeons' sword was greatly nerfed in the base game, if I remember correctly. is a damaged output and therefore the avos tears damage output does less than the soulless greatsword would make sense to some extent, well we'll give it a whirl and take the heart of fire to the lighthouse which results in some of the summoners who were besieging. The north appears to start attacking it, this forces you to do a little protection quest before the heart does its job and summons a ghost ship so you can travel north when you reach the Snow Spire village.

The Mummy returns, greets you and tells you. I tell you that you are going to visit the Necropolis and recover four glyphs to restore this great monument known as the Snow Needle Oracle. The goal here is to hopefully have some of the knowledge in this thing to protect yourself from these summoners permanently, so it's time to go. Robbing Graves Again It took me a little while to figure out the pattern, but when you read these headstones they will either tell you something bad about the person or the way they died or they will say something nice and positive that I'm looking for. the positive ones continued, the negative ones caused a wave of squeakers to appear where it's a bit annoying when the showers of white valves keep appearing repeatedly, besides these non-stop zombies, at least the zombies are big, clumsy and not too plentiful.

When you return, these stone faces wake up and tell you that the summoners are here because the Jack of Blades has sent them. Apparently he has cheated death somehow and is now trying to find a way to return to Albion from a place known as the Bronze. In order to open the door and put an end to this, the souls of three heroes are needed. The mask Jack was wearing seems to play a key role here as well when Jack starts talking to you directly through it. The first soul you use. What we are going to collect is from a hero known as the king of sand.

Thunder is the top choice for this, so it's time to visit him again to see if he's recovered from that long run through the single room before the guy has apparently been begging for work. from the mayor of Knothole Glade, who is just sad, tells you that you can kill him for his soul or you can go to the arena and search the sands of the main fighting pit for the souls of long-dead heroes who may still be chases him, Jack encourages you to just kill him, but I'm being the blessed child, so I decide to return to the arena where dozens and dozens of bodies are lying all over the place where the summoners have destroyed here your test by participating in another Round the arena destroying trolls, valve summoners and pyramid heads that are employed by Jack to stop you, you are rewarded with the soul and report to Briar Rose.

The following inscription asks for the soul of a hero. 'and Briar Rose fits the bill, but she says Hyo, she only uses your dead mother's soul. I mean, what are you going to do with that, so I go to the cemetery where my mother tells me that there is a screaming legion here to stop it from devouring me. her soul, what were they thinking? At least it was over quickly compared to the arena and finally the last soul required is the oldest soul. Jack suggests that I kill the guild master and the guild acolytes suggest that I go take alma nostro which is the skeleton in the graveyard who I recovered all the armor for earlier, the funniest thing about this is the fact that the guild master heard about this and just noted that outside of that, I really feel like playing an evil character would have been a lot more fun.

Here, well, when you head to the Nostrils fighting area, there are plenty of zombies as always, but there are also Jack's henchmen. The nice thing is that they actually fight each other, which is a nice touch. Nostril is a badass warrior who is willing to give you his soul, but only if he falls in battle, you destroy him and capture his soul and then you face Jack one last time, except this time he's a huge dragon and I can't believe that Skyrim copied the fable this way, damn, these fights are great. that I take damage, but Jack just stands to the side and lets you hit his head alone or he flies away and you waste time.

I guess that's all I can hope for at this point when you finally defeat the big bad guy you get. the final option of putting on the mask and basically turning into jack or throwing him into the lava. I really like this choice, it definitely exemplifies each side of the morality coin, but after this, that's the true ending of the game and it feels a lot better than vanilla games ending, so let's get this over with and give my Final thoughts on Fable, the huge amount of things you can do in this game, from changing your character's body weight, scary alignment and attractiveness to buying a stock of cider from a merchant and selling it. at a higher rate than another, fishing and digging for treasure, buying a house and upgrading it before renting it or simply exploring every corner of a map to find hidden treasures is, honestly, a delight.

I guess I've just gotten used to this mentality that a lot of newer games have where the developers have just taken this huge open world map and put nothing into it, and while I wouldn't call these fable open worlds per se little micro levels and areas of The maps are packed with enough content to make me think, well, what is Rose Cottage or what's behind this building without going overboard and making me not care to explore anymore? The side quests in Fable are split 70/30 between short and sweet and tedious as hell, there's the occasional uninspired or just plain boring one and then there are horrible ones like this godforsaken quest.

It's an escort mission, except you have to stay close to your slow party at all times and if you stray too far during combat, the prisoner escapes, but for the most part the side missions are pretty fun additions to the game and not There is a lot to complain about. Some examples include this grandmother who appears as a sweet old woman who is worried about her grandson in a cave when you make your way to the end of the cave, a nymph has the child locked in a barrier and demands that you bring her another innocent to sacrifice instead of the child.

I chose to kill the nymph, which results in a mini boss fight when you return the boy to his grandmother, he tells you that she is worse than the nymph and that he is going to grab some of the cabin and leave, then there is this one that He says hey, you want to go out with my daughter, well, you have to change your hairstyle to this really boring one. and unattractive, oh, and mutton chops, she loves mutton chops and mmm, a big stupid sarcastic mustache and by the way, I don't have a daughter, so see how to make heroes like you look stupid, Have you seen yourself?

The game is not at all great. things obviously there's a lot of things like how do I do this. I had to look up a lot of different things because the menus and different systems like marriage don't have an obvious tutorial. I gave this girl like 10 boxes of chocolates before trying to Give chocolates to every person in town before giving one a wedding ring before she gave me the option to marry her. I actually tried to marry the barber first, but it turns out she only gives you the option to shop with her and not get married.

Even though I give her a wedding ring, when you get married and are ready to take Grandma to Applebee's, you have to be flexible with your wife until she is ready to put it on. I mean, that's real life, but I guess I just did it. I don't expect it to translate so well into a video game. Instead, I was trying to go to bed and get her to follow me and I was trying to press some kind of button from there. I will say that at least you're rewarded with 30 seconds of awkward black screen which, honestly, is a very apt description of the real-life act.

Oh, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to use my hotkey because I didn't realize that you have to hold down the key. trigger to use them because it's usually just the XP collection button, which in itself is a bit of a silly mechanic, as mentioned before, the whole sacrificing of people for rewards is one of the most complicated in the game and they offer me little or nothing. The explanation on how to maximize my rewards without looking for it. The bragging confused me at first because it seemed like if I backed out it would cancel the mission.

The game explains how bragging works after you have gone through a bragging cycle. The menus look nice and neat, but there's too much on them and I can't stand trying to navigate and sort through them most of the time, although I did praise the concept of an economy where you can buy goods from one merchant and sell them at another for profit , it's actually terribly broken because you can buy a bunch of stuff wholesale from a seller and, with enough cleverness, you can sell it to them for a profit. The voice acting is lovely when you're doing a minor side quest. or something that is intentionally ridiculous.

I'll leave Gaunt's cabin last week and see more hostages recovering, but it hurts the game when more serious things happen because of how they're stuck together or how the voice lines seem rushed or confusing. Finish it quickly and then do the same for yourself, there you are, what's wrong, don't you recognize your own sister? The last missions, theSide quests and areas of the base game range from a bit difficult to just not good. I wasn't that entertained with any area. north of Bower Stone, beyond the shores of Hook, Vanilla's story was very mediocre until the DLC begins and then becomes a little more bearable when it is explained that Jack is some kind of entity that took over Albion and , by extension, explains the betrayal of mazes, but despite all those negatives, none of them stop me from having fun with Fable.

Overall, all the bad things combine to make the game less than fantastic, but they don't have enough impact to keep it from being a great and entertaining experience. in its own right, especially for 2004, you can make out the definitely shitty animations, the cartoonish voice acting, and at best the decent plot, but the game is ridiculously ambitious for its time, so it's a fable as good as I remember, yes, actually it is, maybe even a little. Better, I have a feeling that I don't think any other game plays the same way and I really had a lot of fun if you haven't played the game in a long time or haven't tried it yet.

I highly recommend you do it right if I haven't ruined it for you, thanks for watching. I've been meaning to watch this series for a while, so it's nice to finally be able to, plus I think it's only like an hour long. Beyond that, I have a tick where I do my best to stream things every week, meaning two, three, or four that I stream. I swear, sometimes it doesn't do much. I have a Twitter where I tweet my videos as I make them, sometimes I complain. stuff, yeah I have a discord where we discuss the latest gaming trends but mostly we post non-stop at an alarming rate and that's it, have a good one.