

The unseen Heir player character is getting escorted to the town around the estate by a Crusader named Reynauld and a Highwayman named Dismas. My justification is that they feel like they’re for people who already played enough of the game themselves and I’ll just be making things unnecessarily harder for myself.Īnd with that, I chose the normal “Darkest” difficulty and thus began the story of the Iscariot Estate. I have Darkest Dungeon with all the DLC, presumably because I got it at a point when it was all cheap enough that I said “why not?” However, for the purposes of our adventure, I decided to turn off the two big expansions and the multiplayer. It’s a game that I only experienced through watching videos a few years ago and I’ve really been wanting to play it for myself, so pointing a metaphorical gun at my head via this blog is the perfect motivator to get playing. But then I thought: why not do a text let’s play like those old ones on Something Awful? So yeah, here we are.įor this experiment, I chose to go with Darkest Dungeon. I wanted to do something different from the usual reviews, but because of my limited free time, I can’t really do anything “newsy.” I thought, “hey, maybe I should do videos,” but my ability to be verbal really degraded in the past two years for various reasons. So, let’s go through Darkest Dungeon together.įor the longest time, I felt that I was in a rut with Indie Hell Zone. And much like real life, it’s up to you, a member of the next generation, to fix the problem. Unfortunately, much like real life, the world suffers the results of his bad decisions when he uncovers a horrible evil underneath his estate.


Your Ancestor is like any rich guy – somebody that got so bored with their wealth that they pivoted their life mission around an insane hobby, which in his case was studying the occult. “Ruin has come to our family,” is the first words you hear when starting up Red Hook’s Darkest Dungeon, which is a pretty apt mood setter.
