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This is a short review of the game Kingdom II: Shadoan.
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Hello everyone and welcome to a pros and
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cons of the video game Kingdom 2:
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Shadan. I'm not now Mom, I'm gaming.
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These are short videos featuring all my
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little nitpicks and pleasantries with
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having played the game while sustaining
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a bare minimum of spoilers. Let the
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reviewing begin.
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Pros: journal for noteing.
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Do I have anything in my journal? Why do
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I not have anything in my journal? Why
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do I have a journal? I'm so used to
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games where when you have a journal, it
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self updates at specific checkpoints in
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the game. And this is not a journal that
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does that. It's for you to write notes
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in so you don't forget things. But I
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don't really think this is a game where
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you truly need to keep notes. It's not a
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huge game with a lot of things to do at
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once, so it's not like there are critic
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puzzles you need to figure out.
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Everything is fairly straightforward.
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You just need to make sure you have the
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right items to get past specific areas.
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Also, you can't progress until you have
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certain items anyway, so keeping a
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journal for a small area of the game
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seems redundant. Still, if you're
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someone who needs or likes to keep track
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of things, here you go. Old school feel.
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We've got 80s type of animation going on
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that are fully voice acted and can be
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skipped if you keep landing on them. But
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something else gamers aren't used to
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these days is that it doesn't exactly
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hold your hand. I believe most of the
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tutorial you can find in the manual, but
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you'll have to click on things on the
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screen in order to figure out what
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things do and find information on stuff.
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And while there are clues in the game
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with people telling you what to do in
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certain circumstances, it still doesn't
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tell you where to go and how to get to
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that specific moment. I don't know. To
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tell you the truth, I don't remember a
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lot of games from way back when, but I
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do know you needed to save quite often
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or you'd get screwed over and that you
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needed to find your way through to the
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end on your own.
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Cons:
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Script is hard to read. Oof. When you go
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into the journal that has all the
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information regarding characters and
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locations, the script is set into that
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style that you'd see in books written
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back in the days of old. Very
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fantasylike. Very difficult to read at
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times. I sometimes couldn't figure out
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the names of people. Game weights on
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subtitles.
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>> Hello, Grace.
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>> Gra, what are you still doing here? You
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were needed in the far reaches. The
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tapestry of seeing will show you the way
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there. You must hurry.
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>> Oh my god. I think I need to turn the
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subtitles off.
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If you have the subtitles on, then when
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the character speaks, they're going to
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scroll across the bottom. Well, you have
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to wait until the subtitles are done
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scrolling in order for the game to
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continue. And the text goes by slow
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enough for you to be able to read it.
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So, you might be waiting a while.
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You can lose your scrolls.
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Use your spell scrolls wisely. You only
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have a limited number available.
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I hate this, especially since you need
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one of the scrolls at a later point in
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the game. There's no way to get it back
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once it's gone. And while it states to
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hold on to your scrolls in the endame
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book that provides information to you,
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half the people aren't going to know
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there's something of a tutorial as part
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of the main screen. Meaning if you use a
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scroll and it doesn't do anything,
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you'll want to load at a point where you
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haven't wasted using it. So save
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four lives.
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I think I died.
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Yep, I died.
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Your quest has ended. Are you freaking
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kidding me?
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Do I have like a health bar?
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You don't have a health bar. Your lives
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are indicated by the roses on the right
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side of the screen. Why roses? I have no
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idea. Doesn't really fit with the
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aesthetic of you being a wizard,
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honestly. But whatever. The only way
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you'll know the roses are your lives is
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if you read it in the game manual or if
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you die and notice one of the roses
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turning black. I didn't notice this
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before until after I got a game over
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from dying too many times.
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It seemed like the game was just
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allowing death whenever it occurred, but
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no, that's not the case. You have a
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limit. Don't exceed it. I DNFED.
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I'm sorry. Are you telling me if we use
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the scrolls, like use them up at the
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very beginning of the game, we can't
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make it to the end
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because we need one. For those of you
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that don't know, this means I did not
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finish. This was not my choice, by the
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way. I was enjoying the game to a
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certain extent, despite the difficulty I
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was having figuring out where to go and
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what items to use. But that's on me. The
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reason I didn't finish the game is
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because I need a certain scroll to
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progress. And once you use the scrolls a
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certain number of times, they disappear
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permanently. Meaning, I could no longer
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progress the game because the devs
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decide not to implement a second option
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of getting around that flaw. Instead, we
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were forced to reload to where we do had
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the scroll still, which none of my saves
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took me to that moment or restart the
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game. A terrible flaw if you ask me,
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considering all the times I've already
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backtracked to get to where I had to
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stop. And that's the end of a pros and
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cons review of Kingdom 2: Shadowan.
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Thanks for watching everyone, and don't
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get in too much trouble when you say,
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"Not now, Mom. I'm gaming.