Valor Mortis Part 16: Story, Combat, & Gameplay — Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:05] and I've not seen a live notification ever since I installed it." If you ever see a single notification, that means for some reason your phone is blocking the notifications. There are many phones where you have to approve the

[00:19] that message when you install the app for the first time. If you don't approve notification. So, you may have to go into the settings notifications cuz if you don't, it won't. Yeah. But it worked, trust me, it

[00:35] works. I Every single day when I go live, and Barry can tell you this cuz I day when I go live I check for the notification and if it's not there, he's been doing that for the last 6 years. And I haven't had to tell him

[00:48] >> [laughter] >> So, it's going great. not user error, dude. Phones Phones do all sorts of confusing [ __ ] It's It's It's not user fault. It is user error, but it's user error I've done before. I

[01:02] downloaded have not been giving notifications only to find out later that the setting is off randomly in the settings for the app. That just happens, man. It's dumb.

[01:14] Okay, so I think we're back at the broken bridge. Wait, we're We just unlocked that big shortcut with the bridge. Is that here?

[01:37] beginning of the zone. Isn't this the beginning of the zone? zone. Okay, it's not this one. Um

[02:02] into it on my phone and it had blocked it off not the first time we've seen that not the last

[02:16] that we just cleared the giant fast travel point on I thought it was right oh oh oh there it is right there that's it okay great perfect

[02:38] got nerdy super chat I used to live stream on streaming on YouTube I don't have to worry about streaming all the time

[03:04] ooh >> Look down the lighthouse destroy symbol the resistance is still fighting I have those who dare to go into that lighthouse are never heard from again bollocks that's how they scare cowards

[03:16] resistance >> I know what I heard >> I know what I heard whoever walks in

[03:29] >> I should hurry and find a bottle of laudanum

[03:42] >> hey >> [groaning] >> uh-huh oh [groaning]

[04:43] being set on fire in this game is pretty pretty brutal at times.

[05:27] Got to be thorough, chat. Got to be thorough. summoned I bred thy freedom. >> Legends and lies, that is what the >> Look, he's still in one piece. Look at his

[05:42] He must be a magic heart. Be careful, mister. The deadlies are near.

[05:55] about? >> He said he wanted to prove himself, join the resistance. It's been a week. I haven't seen him since. >> Did he go into that forsaken lighthouse?

[06:09] Oh, sweetie. Don't worry. I'm sure he'll be back soon. >> Uh Mr. Chase, what what quality stand out among the rest of the genre? >> Uh well, first of all, this genre isn't

[06:23] very populated. The the first-person slower tactical games that are not RPGs like Tainted Grail are are not There's not a huge amount of Um so, one of the things that I think kind of set sets this one apart is

[06:37] threefold. First of all, the setting of this game is awesome and it's unique. Uh the setting is interesting, the world is cool and fun to explore. Um and that entire presentation of this game is really high quality. The voice acting is

[06:52] super good, all the sound effects are super good. Um it is it is the And the third thing that I would say really separates this game is the combat feels good. When I die in this game, I don't get mad

[07:07] because when I die, I almost always think to myself, "Oh, if I would have done this, this, and this, I would have been fine." And I love games like this that feel like that instead of when you die,

[07:19] you're going, "Oh, that sucked. That was cheap. That was a dumb move. That was a so many ways to die in a game like this that feels bad. tight enough and everything kind of synergizes enough and the enemy move

[07:33] sets are are are designed well enough to where you never really die and feel bad and I love that. I love that feeling. So, combat system coupled with a very well presented world and story. And I mean

[07:48] in my book. Yep. Mhm, that's one of the reasons I've been digging it as much as I have been.

[08:02] Oh, this is the room we just came out of with the pretzel. Okay. down this road. >> Oh.

[08:27] Jesus Christ. Uh those hidden like that. We did

[08:43] Get out of here. Cut that dude's leg off. Hell yeah.

[08:59] An exquisite firearm part. Nice, man. Hell yeah. Hurt? No.

[09:13] yourself. Hurt? It's not happening. No. two-hand sword. It's a very nice one. It's a super

[09:28] offensive weapon. You can't even parry with this thing. It doesn't allow parrying. It's that beefy.

[09:46] almost every other sword or pretty much every other weapon we found so far uh this sword does not allow dual-wielding which means when you right-click you're like Scruffy the most loyal companion a man could have. The day he

[10:00] shall remain somber >> Poor Scruffy. dog. This must mean that the Lord Nostash is >> Oh, good boy, Scruffy.

[10:20] a good boy. I still hear your bark, I swear I do. effin war and bottles of laudanum to numb my pain. numb my pain. I miss you, old friend.

[10:36] Rose's only friend was his puppers. That's that.

[11:02] A little closer than I would have liked. City offensive rebels. been sighted. They're gathering in the lighthouse. You

[11:15] know, that's that's where we got more information on that, it looks like.

[11:34] sometimes. Um

[12:01] any sponsored stuff for Enshrouded. I think they knew I was going to be that makes a lot of sense. It's pretty normal. normal. >> [groaning]

[12:13] this game. Mhm. Enshrouded run for years.

[12:28] >> So, I mean yeah. Oh god. Sometimes a lot of times companies know

[12:41] sponsor me and kind of like uh you know you go. But most of the time that a company the time they do not sponsor me. They sponsor other people. And that is

[12:56] Like that, you know, I never [music] I never take that personally. That's Sponsorships are business and that's business. don't pay the guy you know is going to play and you pay somebody who isn't

[13:09] going to play and that way you get more eyes on your product. So, you know, it's that kind of thing. I get it and I don't. I don't. I don't give them a hard time for it.

[13:22] I don't give them a hard time for it. It's math and business. >> Well, I mean I'm if if a lot of times I'll play a game early if I get

[13:34] sponsored and then I'll literally at the end say, "I'm going to play this later. I'm just not going to play it now." And that happened sometimes, but I'm with Enshrouded cuz I'm I'm looking forward to just focusing on that when

[13:48] I'm ready. So, you know, I'm my my Enshrouded run is going to be Enshrouded run. I I like kind of being able to do it on my own schedule. It was a a nice kind of a

[14:00] It was a a nice kind of a mixed blessing. Okay. So, when we were at the corpse it said we were near the room or the

[14:12] We were near the grave and then we found a door that we could only open from the for Enshrouded. >> bottle. >> bottle. Untouched, it would seem.

[14:28] to have killed himself with the laudanum. Oh. I thought that's what the note was inferring. I guess not.

[14:46] If they had sponsored you, would you have been able to stop and finish this back? I'm going to be real, I don't know. Which is why I'm glad I don't have to worry about that.

[15:00] If they would have sponsored me, that might have bumped my play through up a little bit, but I'm glad it didn't. I'm glad it didn't. >> [laughter]

[15:17] Just Just have this one hit. It'll be fine. No problem. fine. No problem. No problem. It'll be It'll be okay.

[15:38] We came through here, but there's that door over there. How do we get like feel like we're missing something in here. Is there like a path we can take?

[15:50] No. Can't go out the side of this.

[16:03] other area so we can go talk to the old lady real quick. Cuz I want to do that. What I think was it Silent Whispers? Is it Silent Whispers? Blood of the Dawnbreaker 1.1 1 update

[16:16] Blood of the Dawnbreaker 1.1 1 update will let you pet animals.

[17:00] He missed the back of her house. Thank god. What? lady's house right here? Am I supposed to go somewhere from here? Was I supposed to be able to use the door?

[17:17] Oh, interesting. So, if I had not gotten the laudanum, I could have gone behind the house?

[17:33] it, tell me what tell me what happens. Well, let's let's do this first, and next. >> Here's the bottle of laudanum you asked for. >> Ah, my sweet laudanum, my sweet juice.

[17:49] children? >> The children? Oh, yes. Do not worry about them, lumpkins, my dear. You can visit them when they get better, huh? But here, have this for your troubles.

[18:04] >> Oh god, the kids are locked >> only knows you care. >> Oh, no, the kids are locked in a room and she's stealing all the laudanum? Oh, no, that's a Oh, bad ending.

[18:18] he was like, "Oh yeah, I got kids. Oh yeah, the the kids." yeah, the the kids." Oh yeah, those.

[18:32] Oh, chat just said go rest and come back? back? Okay.

[18:49] I should check on her and the kids. >> Oh, you know it's bad when the MC tells you to go do it. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no.

[19:10] She was a common drunkard. Used the children as bait. alley this morning. All skin and receipts. Up the stairs they went into

[19:24] my hospital. Lock them up now. Just wait for another gullible idiot willing to help the little lambkins. >> Of course grandma did that. Two more died yesterday. Small Anna quiet at dawn. The boy with the blue lips

[19:38] followed by supper. The smallest one is hacking herself hollow. She won't last the week. I'll need fresh children soon. >> She never took care of them. Simply left them to die.

[20:08] Oh, man. The alarm.

[20:27] Market Square. Can we restart the game? Oh, we can't go back. There's there's no going back there.

[20:40] going back there. Yeah. One second. Mhm.

[20:52] to do, chat, is I need to go use the bathroom real quick. I'll be back in another probably half hour before I got to go to lunch. go from there. Mod, you know what to do if you can. If not, I'll be back in just

[21:05] a second. Be honest. I think I woke up Danny King. Okay.

[21:23] I have no idea where to go. Oh, this way.

[21:35] That works. Oh, BRB screen still up. Let's turn that off. Let's probably go ahead and turn that off, huh?

[21:49] >> [groaning] >> I hit my three key. I thought I used it, too, but I still died from fire.

[22:03] Thankfully, it was right by here, so we're good.

[22:26] I'm also stuck in the wall. Um

[23:13] Oh my god. Um Huh. What are we going to do What are we going to do here?

[23:59] asked in the Ember Boat, are your ears on or boat's ears on? real quick. Just want to clarify that. Somebody asked earlier and I want to say

[24:13] Somebody asked earlier and I want to say I said the right thing.

[24:58] Embervale have regional pricing for EA launch? And the answer is yes. they did get all that wrapped up and and finished up, so. Awesome. There you go. Thank you Boatman for confirming that,

[25:11] bud. >> [groaning] >> Now, this doesn't Is this Oh, it is. It is.

[25:30] This place is in shambles. I I don't think she survived. I thought that being in that house would get my corpse.

[26:13] like that's a good thing to work on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[26:45] Let's look around this arena right here. Um somehow. How we doing this?

[27:04] That's too slow. Okay.

[27:58] >> I should look around. She might be somewhere here. good, man. Uh he didn't give us Oh, he did We did

[28:11] just level, didn't we? Yeah. >> Run, kill me, you cowards. I gave no orders to fall back. >> Sir, we had no chance against the creature. It It tore your head off. >> I cannot. It tore his heart from his

[28:27] >> I cannot. It tore his heart from his chest. YOU WERE SENT TO FIND THE STRIKE, AND YOU'LL hunt her till your final breath. breath. >> Man, that guy's VA, wow.

[28:39] >> Man, that guy's VA, wow. Geez.

[29:03] wrong. Not wrong. I think it would make his day significantly better. Um wait. Yeah. This is where we were. Interesting.

[29:50] We call that flavors of Ghostrunner. I love it.

[30:02] They lead up that road. >> You must find her. Find her >> You must find her. Find her and end her.

[30:37] I don't know why all of a sudden I got some big Lies of P vibes. >> Oh [ __ ] we're going to hold this zone. Hell yeah, man.

[30:54] awesome. That's awesome. And Burda Hermes, that is amazing. I love it. I love it.

[31:11] Fantastic. >> The blade stuck in endless loop. Torn >> Shh. >> There he goes. Hide, quickly.

[31:51] Oh, look, there's a guy there, too. Nice. two. I just shot your friend in the back of

[32:06] the head, bro. Not cool. You put We call that pulling a Cheney.

[32:30] Yeah. Oh, yeah. Also called a dick move. I love it. I love it. Thank you.

[32:57] Yes, the two-hander is so far is feeling very overpowered. Can't confirm. very overpowered. Can't confirm. I'm here for it.

[33:09] I wish there were a window nearby so I could have defenestrated that man. A child must have drawn that. >> Men in the city are not to be trusted. lure allies and under lure soldiers into ambushes.

[33:38] Why are you crying? >> I'll grow up, mister. >> Teddy. >> How old are you? >> I'm eight, almost nine. So, I know what's going on.

[33:53] I know our parents are dead. They're not coming back and the Shrike is lying to us. We will never be free. Spring will never come. We'll never eat fresh apples again.

[34:05] Only rotten carrots forever. You are an adult. So, you know that's true. >> You're wrong. >> You're wrong. War has taken your parents, destroyed

[34:18] But spring spring always comes no matter what. And apple trees don't care for war. They will blossom anyway. Isn't a crispy apple something worth waiting for?

[34:32] >> Maybe. I could hide it in my pocket and eat it on the rooftop looking at the sunset with Annie and thank you, mister. Feel better now. If you're still looking for the strike, you should find the red

[34:45] mice hole. Those mice will tell you what to do. Dude, I swear the main character, the main VO in this game, uh the main voice actor, he he he sounds like he should be in

[34:58] he he he sounds like he should be in like Hollywood movies, doing audiobooks. He is so good. It is crazy.

[35:10] really good acting with it and it's got really good acting with it and it's got good pacing. Like

[35:26] Cassel is Napoleon. Is Napoleon. Yeah. goes yellow and you see the Napoleon talking to us in our head.

[35:42] talking about is James Alexander. Yeah. He's the guy that VAs the main character.

[36:22] I wish there was more of this in this game. I feel like this this kind of combat could be really fun. one, but it's kind of like moving through

[36:34] Brothers, we are trapped in the townhouse. We won't live through the waves and we're outnumbered. Some of them fall sick, cough blood, and their skin breaks open, and then they stand back up wrong like beasts.

[36:47] Uh meanwhile, gold-faced bastards watch this hell on Earth with dead eyes. My lord. Ooh.

[37:05] are on me. That looks That looks much better, dude. more up, I think that's fine. Yeah, especially when you factor in that could be helmets and stuff. Mhm.

[37:26] Okay, so we got the area down there open. move up like 30% into the window? Yeah.

[37:41] and everything could move up. That's just fine. Mhm. Mhm.

[37:54] Oh dear god. Yeah. I was going to say, I'm surprised he's not commenting on I'm surprised he's not commenting on this.

[38:33] There it is right there. How's it hanging? Guys Guys, we're adults. You can't say that kind of thing, okay? That's it. >> Come on. Come on.

[38:46] Come on. Focus up. Focus up.

[39:00] search for the Shrike. Thus far, we have broken the rebels' defense in the first more buildings we reduce to rubble. She will not hide from us forever. Long live will not hide from us forever. Long live the emp-

[39:15] Spy, spy, spy. Don't Don't say anything. Don't ask why. >> Okay, kid, you don't have to be creepy. Oh, that's a thing. Look at this.

[39:38] Uh Oh, this is all going to catch fire. Hold up. We're on the other side of the guillotine right now.

[39:52] >> Little rodents no one likes, sniffing for the queen of spikes.

[40:08] >> Oh. >> [groaning and screaming]

[40:36] >> I can't I can't dodge out of here. Ooh, man, we got lucky there. And it was not looking good. >> Hide, hide, hide. Monsters hunt for you.

[41:04] noisy. Don't get caught. >> [groaning] >> [groaning] >> I'm talking to you, man.

[41:25] fever, red blotches, or blood discharge is to be isolated without exception. daily. No movement permitted until cleared.

[41:42] >> Under Shrike's vigilant eye, follow us to stay alive.

[42:02] Let's do Fireclad.

[42:36] Ah, okay. We're fine. This is good. This is fine. So we get away from not sipping you're not wrong.

[43:24] Hell yeah. Got him.

[43:47] Hey. Mhm.

[44:01] Nothing in here? Nothing in here. Oh god, do I have to jump this? >> What? Whoa, buddy, buddy, buddy. Get out of here.

[44:16] Shirk. That was That was some of that dev trollery right there. >> Dev trollery.

[44:30] >> Mhm, what are we looking at? >> rude over there. >> Oh, it's a red bull.

[44:53] dodges back the second I swing my sword. That was crazy. That mob almost got me good. >> Do you worship the Shrike? >> I do. I do.

[45:06] Would you help me find her? >> Only if you play with us. >> Yes, yes, play with us. Find the wooden fort, the great mouse castle. >> Are you sure he can be trusted? What if he's a deadly?

[45:20] What if he's a deadly? >> He is not a deadly. He fights deadlies. Find the wooden fort. Follow the bird. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Find the bird. Follow the bird.

[45:32] Or die. >> [laughter] >> Geez.

[45:56] but did it burn the Let's see what it did over here. but we haven't gotten it yet. So, let's let's make sure we go back and get let's make sure we go back and get whatever the heck that is.

[46:15] circle around. >> Look for the bird and let me just say the beak of the bird will point either way. >> God, you just got to be kidding me, dog. All right, hold on.

[47:31] cleared this area. I want to see if we can Excuse me, Sharty [clears throat] be Yeah, we didn't use the lamp. So, we can just run through this area

[47:44] and loop back around and see if we can do that there.

[48:02] >> And did we ever go up here? Okay, I think this is the room on the other side. We blew this up and then we set this on fire. then we set this on fire. >> Oh, there it is. [ __ ]

[48:17] >> Hell yeah, that's exactly what we wanted to do. shortcut. Okay. That's a great shortcut, but not what I

[48:29] was looking for. We want to be in like here. enough. That was this building. So, we need to figure out how to

[48:43] So, we need to figure out how to get to that corner.

[48:57] It's like in there. Go in here? all by ourselves. >> They're beautiful. The Shrike must be

[49:12] very proud of you. >> Yes, she must be. Thank you. Do you >> Yes, she must be. Thank you. Do you believe in the Shrike? Do you believe in her? >> Of course. We are the mice, you ninny.

[49:29] We are her spies. Oh, she is simply wonderful, very kind. But she can get very angry. >> She protects us from harm, and she will >> No, she won't. They're dead.

[49:45] >> Yes, she will. Don't listen to him. He's [snorts] in a bad mood cuz he's hungry. But the Shrike is our savior. You should go find the red mice hole. They know where the shrike is. They might tell you.

[50:10] unaccounted for. Last night, Officer Barbaro failed to return to quarter and vanished without a trace. Desertion cannot be ruled out.

[50:30] This takes us to the next area. this building somewhere. Um

[50:44] I know it's on a lower floor. It's not on an upper floor. We're very much on the upper floors right now.

[51:10] Yeah, it's like in here. That's where it is.

[51:27] It's the corner of the house that has the part busted out.

[51:39] Interesting. Maybe it's a lot lower than I was thinking. Starting to think I'm in the wrong place. I'm tired.

[52:03] Can you go up the ladder by the guillotine? No, no, no. It's It's a guillotine? No, no, no. It's It's a It's one we have to knock down.

[52:32] Weird. Very weird. I guess the only thing we can do at this point is to go into it. We have to drop But I could have sworn the part above it was

[52:47] was um we go, Barry. Boop. Hell yeah, looks great, Barry. There we go. Awesome. Thanks, man. Looks fantastic. Those are our covetar

[53:02] Pretty awesome. He's out showing them off whenever it's happening. All right, so it's right there. We can't get in from here. get in from here. Um oh.

[53:25] >> The executioner held the seat with the best view.

[53:39] Oh Oh isn't there a lamp right here? That is like an excellent shortcut. But we are very very low and we just whipped all around and just opened a shortcut, so. Guys, it has been awesome.

[53:53] another day of this awesome game. This game is I'm still having such a good time with this game. I have no idea how much more we have of it, but I think we've got at least one big stream left, if not more. Uh anyway, I

[54:05] now, so I'm going to go take a quick lunch break, um order some food and probably play some M&M, but I will be back around 12:30 at playing another couple hours of Castlevania: Belmont's Curse today. So,

[54:19] yesterday, turned out to be pretty damn good, and we're going to play some more As always, thanks for being here. I'm going to raid you over to Pasco until I'm back, and then as soon as I'm back, we'll raid back to here and go from

[54:32] there. See you guys soon. Have a great one. Bye-bye.