Dark Messiah Might and Magic – Part Seven

I would like to dedicate this post to the voice actress who played Xana.  It’s rare that a character in a game impresses us, it’s even rarer for them to do that when they don’t have any visual representation.  (Most of the time anyway.)  Add to that, voice actors in computer games are often pretty [...]

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Dark Messiah Might and Magic – Part Six

I’m getting close to the end now, I can feel it. Continuing on from yesterday I step through the portal.  This doesn’t follow the traditional practice of loading a new level, the transition is immediate. Chapter 8 cont’d Upon stepping through I find myself at the end of a corridor, at the other end I [...]

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Dark Messiah Might and Magic – Part Five

Back on track today.  I thought there was a chance I could complete the game today, but I had forgotten a pretty large section, so it will take a few more days.  But then that’s the point of this exercise. Quick re-cap, Arantir took the Skull of Shadows and killed me.  Xana managed to save [...]

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Spring Cleaning

Putting things off is a really bad habit to get into.  Tomorrow I shall make a concerted effort to get back to, and hopefully finish, Dark Messiah Might and Magic. Today though I decided to mix things up a bit.  My blog has been around for a little over three months now (and I’ve enjoyed [...]

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A Quick Break on a Beautiful Island

Dark Messiah has been becoming a chore.  It has a lot of flaws, these can be overlooked on the first play but become more apparent second time through.  So I’m taking a short break. Incidentally Dark Messiah is one of the games in Steams weekend deal this week.  Beyond Good & Evil, Dark Messiah, Far [...]

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