Summary
: We’re back in Erromon, and it’s time to finish this game.
: Once you’ve merged with Alaron’s shadow, Yeraza will be here. There’s a cutscene that can happen here that I won’t show because it takes like an hour of backtracking.
: Basically, if you go back to the inn in Terminor there’s a final party member who is actually a traitor.
: I mentioned this before, but it’s clear now that the writer probably wanted this to be a Legacy of Kain scenario where Alaron goes evil.
: In the sequel I imagined up, Alaron is the tutorial boss and dies to having the life drained out of him.
: I’m going to summarize the rest. Alaron asks what’s behind the door in the tunnels, Yeraza is evasive, and then Alaron outright says it’s where they’re hiding Rooughah.
: You can go Kain mode on her at the end.
: The game throws another big, empty cavern at us. This one is special because the very limited camera controls don’t work at all.
: The first thing we need to do is head to the left. It’s kind of hard to see.
: We need this to progress for some unknown reason.
: If you go directly across from where the dragon key is, there’s another hallway that leads to a lava pit.
: This thing is a Firelord, which is a beefed-up Fire Elemental that has access to the Fireball spell.
: It takes out almost half of its maximum HP casting it, because it hits itself with its own spell.
: Crossing the bridge puts us in a room that kinda looks like a caterpillar. Each one of the “legs” at the bottom has a fight and some items in it.
: The biggest draw is the Reflection Belt, which adds 25% magic resistance on top of what’s provided by the Chaos Robes and Spellbreaker Axe. Speaking of..
: There’s a second Spellbreaker Axe down here as well. The final couple of bosses are very magic-heavy, so I put these on Becan and Baird. The belt goes to Brenna.
: Our goal is this floating wooden platform at the end. Why we need a key for this, I do not know.
: Rooughah only speaks in lowercase for some reason. I never mentioned this up to now, but this entire time I’ve been pronouncing his name like “Fhqwhgads” in my head.
: This is untrue because pretty much every NPC in the game will tell Alaron to fuck off if you talk to them.
: The dragon looks like he’s about to vomit from seeing Alaron and honestly, that’s kind of the natural reaction to Alaron exposure.
: I like that they had to make it so that Fhqwhgads doesn’t speak English properly, but not in a way that sounds like someone who took English as a second language. He sounds like he’s having a stroke.
: This is 18 years before the infamous “Why do they call it oven” tweet and yet captures the same thing perfectly.
: We need to pick the second option even though it’s pretty clear Alaron is the child of a kitchen appliance and has all the personality of his parents.
: I’m going to skip the rest of this because I think we’ve all heard enough.
: I’ll get a recording of it later, but the sound they use for the horn is.. you know the kind of cliche sound they use for ray guns in old sci-fi movies? It’s that.
: Alaron casually T-posing in the rain with a fantasy saxophone.
: You know, I didn’t think about that but it is kinda weird that when we got to that scene with the doorwhore in Talewok that Brenna’s “true name” is apparently different from her normal one.
: It’s also kind of a plot hole that Alaron can still use all four schools of magic after being named, since it was made pretty clear the only reason he could do that was because he didn’t have a name.
: I’m not sure how they did that when they’re in a cave.
: Did this cutscene just contradict itself in all of three lines? Brenna says they saw the fire, Becan says they saw nothing.
: I honestly think this is as fucked up as it is because no one expected you to take Brenna all the way to the end of the game.
: We now need to head all the way back to the portal and use it to go to Gwernia. This is where we run into the game’s true final boss.
: This is the hallway between the lava bridge and the door we took to get into this area (the one we just had the cutscene in front of). See this mushroom? This mushroom is the game’s true final boss.
: It’s hard to show in screenshot form, but the mushroom has collision on it and the bounding box is so large that it blocks the hallway.
: I was convinced when I ran into it that this was some kind of emulator bug, but nope! That’s just how the game is.
: To get past it, we have to place Alaron at a precise angle (you can see it in the longplay video I linked) and force him into the mushroom’s bounding box so it pushes him out the other side.
: In my books, this means that finishing Aidyn Chronicles is an unintended bug.
: I went and checked to see if those chaos enemies ever spawned in that cave behind Kitarak, and they finally did.
: The only real highlight is this Chaos Lieutenant, which is one of the reasons casters aren’t viable in the end-game. Chaos Lieutenants cast buffs that increase magic defense.
: This gets us the Helm of Tempests, which is absolutely useless. The final two bosses can only be damaged by Lodin’s sword and go down in like three hits.
: We warp back to Gwernia, and nothing has apparently changed.
: Gabrion is standing by the front door, and we need to talk to him to progress the plot.
: The last 10 minutes of the game are absolutely riddled with typos.
: Without any real warning, the game throws us into a fight against a Chaos Major, the highest level chaos enemy.
: Chaos Majors have a ton of HP and high defense, but not so high that we need Lodin’s sword. They mostly use buff and debuff spells, but also have access to Fireball.
: There’s a new battle background on top of the castle, where we get to fight even more Chaos shit.
: Chaos Majors have a chance of dropping Chaos Armor, which is useless because every enemy from here on out is magic based.
: As we get closer to the observatory, the game throws the second Chaos Marquis at us. If you have the Marquis Amulet from Chaos Island, you have like a 3% chance per cast at ending the fight.
: …Or you can just cast Wall of Bones and end the fight instantly, the same way we did the first time.
: The best part is that Brenna’s going to kill him.
: If I was making the sequel, I’d have Brenna as a returning party member, and she reveals that she actually had zero romantic interest in Alaron.
: And I’m sick of these goddamn typos.
: I’m also sick of this game, so it’s good that it’s almost over.
: He told me! The whole thing! The typos!
: I’m bored, let’s cut to the chase.
: We fight Sheridan as a boss. He is a total pushover, except for the fact that he’s virtually immune to everything that isn’t Lodin’s sword.
: Supposedly, you can Wall of Bones him for an insta-kill, but even with Alaron at max intelligence, max Wizard, and with Wall of Bones maxed I was unable to hit with it.
: We get Sheridan’s sword, which we won’t have time to equip because the game is going to throw us directly into the final boss fight.
: I realized coming into this that I had no idea what the actual plot is, and the answer is apparently that Rabisat was just kinda hoping Alaron would fall to chaos and not get named.
: The final boss is very similar to Sheridan, except that she casts Mirror on her first turn to try and stop you using Wall of Bones.
: You need maybe four hits with Lodin’s sword to kill her.
: I’m not sure who replaces Brenna in this scene if she’s dead. I’m guessing Rheda or Keelin, and if they’re both dead.. dunno.
: Again, he’s not beating the “I’m going to be Kain in a sequel” allegations.
: Sheridan was maybe like, twenty feet away from here and given the fact that every sentence ends in four exclamation points was probably screaming loud enough that people outside the castle could hear it.
: This sounds like something you’d hear in divorce court. “Your honor, I didn’t pay my child support because to the best of my knowledge, my wife was murdered by Goblins, with a capital G.”
: This makes it sound like he wants Alaron to go Oedipus on his mom.
: In the sequel I thought of, Shamsuk’s apprentice is offered the crown after she kills Rabisat and throws it to the dirt where Arturo picks it up.
: The Dr. Who reject from the Jundar Gate got to be a real boy.
: And that’s it! We’ve finished this godawful game and I can move on to playing something much better. @moderators can put this in completed.
: Finally, one quick thing. After I recorded this, Ryan got back to me about the mushrooms:
: Oh, and Salty finished that piece.
