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I forgot you were still playing this game too

A particularly creep episode, remember the mirror encounter from the original game, they really have adapted this well so far

Good progress Raph, keep up te great work

Nice progress made, this video. 28:40 You can indeed use the Lysandrian Mace, by transferring it from your quest inventory to your hand slot, although its dmg is abysmal. There are also some other quest inventory items, that you can use in a similar manner. I think if you have a stack of empty bottles, and very quickly click on the red healing fountain, you can fill several before the fountain temporarily deactivates. At least it worked once for me. Might be a glicht or intended. If you untick [Always use best attack] under [Options], [Game Settings], you can choose which attack you use. Forward moving, you do a overhead bash. Backwards moving you do a stab. Moving sideways, you do slashes. This can be useful with swords and axes, that do decent dmg with all attacks. That way you can control the attack you do, which is useful when fighting in narrow spaces. For blunt and pierce weapons I find it less useful, since they deal far less dmg with their secondary dmg types. 40:14 Now you know what weapon I use on my dumb strong ox playthrough, that I currently try ;-) There I put all skill points in blunt weapons and all attributes in Str, with only a few in Dex, Vit, End. But more seriously, as far as I observed, the only effect of not meeting skill or attribute requirements of a weapon, is lowered damage. So if the resulting remaining dmg (or DPS = dmg * weapon speed) is higher than for another weapon, it is still worth using weapons despite of not meeting their requirements. Arguable DPS is not as important as pure dmg in Monomyth, since an effective style of fighting is walking away while regenerating stamina, then charge up a strong hit at the right time to let a foe walk into it. So depending on how you fight, weapon speed is not that important and thus a slow heavy hitting weapon might be much better than a higher DPS but low dmg weapon. Examples at around 1:01:43 - The Excellent Spiked Mace does 55 blunt dmg at .84 speed -> 46.2 DPS, despite of you not meeting all its skill and Str requirements. (With the Str+1 you put in later it should be much better.) - The Excellent Broadsword does 50 slash dmg at .93 speed -> 46.5 DPS, despite of you not meeting its skill requirements. - The Excellent War Axe does 50 slash dmg at .90 speed -> 45 DPS, despite of you not meeting its skill requiremetens. - The Excellent Raven's Beak does 49 blunt dmg at .77 speed -> 37.7 DPS, despite of you not meeting any of its requirements. - The Excellent Short Sword does 40 slash dmg at .98 speed -> 39.2 DPS, including the bonus you get from surpassing its skill, Str and Dex requirements. - The Excellent Dagger does 33 pierce dmg at 1.23 speed -> 40.6 DPS, including the bonus you get from surpassing its skill, Str and Dex requirements. So the Spiked Mace seems to be overall best, at your current (in the video) skill/attribute level, considering it's easier to use attack pattern and higher damage. But it is on par with the Broadswords DPS, if you want higher speed or the more versatile set of effective attacks, when you switch off the [Always use best attack] setting. I did not test if reach advantages exist in Monomyth. Obviously the weapons with higher skill and attribute requirements will profit much more from you increasing those. So do not expect the above order apply if you next time increase them! By the way: The strong attack (hold LMB until visual cue) also staggers enemies out of the healing potion animation, like the kick, but usually takes less stamina and deals more damage. 1:32:34 Putting on those yellow glowing hot ~1000 °C chain mail pants on your body, to carry them from the forge fire to the anvil does not seem to be a good idea. Also: You can change the orientation of items to place, using the mouse wheel. 1:37:52 The ladder you are looking at, there, is useful. You should easily be able to jump over, from where the torch is at. 1:38:30 Seeing the shadow behind the waterfall, a curious mind ...

Trick I figured out with picking up items, like grabbing swords from the coals to move to the anvil. Keep your inventory open and you can keep the sword as your cursor instead of the weapon dropping into your inventory.

Maggies farm..rage against the machine?

And the adventure continues.....thanks 🙏.... great commentary

Loving your long vids of this. Want to give it a try but I’m still addicted to tarkov lol

Curious when the ninja launches at you and it says you must block his attack if he surpassed your defence can you STILL BLOCK

NINJA from the way of the Scorpion is on the ceiling like Spiderman.. flash powder

If you helped the samurai rather than help the village girl from the witch then you would have got a samurai army to help you in book 4 or 5 I think

I guess the samurai come in handy for book 5

Yeah this book was tough

Brilliant job, Raph, really great readthrough. Well done as its a tough one but I remember enojying book 3 Usurper. Cheers

What an adventure. Thankyou for releasing this episode so soon!

Congratulations on surviving this very difficult book!

Afaict, "Iya na inu" means "nasty dog" in Japanese.

I must ask, are you playing this game at night, alone?! If so, you are one brave man!

Great episode. Can't wait till the next one!

Haha what a rant..😆

Haha ..jump you fn fly 😆

Jumping puzzles are awful and have no place in this sort of game. I’m totally with you on that point.

When you light a candle it goes on your belt somewhere so you can still fight with both hands

There’s a fountain near the church that glows red you can fill the empty vials you have 4 or 5 to dip in fountain and create a healing potion wait 20 seconds and make another one , rinse repeat. The blue fountain makes mana potions

Ooh, spells! A taste of things to come. Maybe certain attribute increases or pieces of equipment can help with mana/health regeneration, beyond the usual potions and food...

Do you remember the prison, you freed one of your brothers servants, from one of several cells? There you read a note, saying not to put prisoners in one of the other cells. A curious mind might want to investigate why that is so.

Curious what 3 skills would you choose that are Very helpful from the first book avenger

I think if I remember if you had the skills of acrobatic you could have run from this fight against the brigands

So close to the end now my friend, keep up the great work

Assisting Lord Kiyamo would have given you 100 samurai to help in book 3, AND the villagers would have been safe because, as they tell you in the text, Onikaba would have sent a detachment of samurai back to solve the problem of the Hannya and her O-bakemono henchman. The villagers would have been protected either way.

57:00 They inserted the two maps the wrong way round in this book. You ought to find the map of the underworld here! XD

Greatest game this year!

01:39:40 Excellent!! Not a fan, Raph,??!

Loving the atmosphere of this game, much hilarity from Raph!

I'm enjoying this series and your commentary. Just a quick point of clarity: if I'm not mistaken, the Rusty Sword weighs 1.11 and the War Cleaver weighs 1.4, making the cleaver heavier than the sword.

I finally found someone, that hates platforming games and platforming puzzles in other games even more than me. Regarding the ghost's body parts, minor SPOILER below: 1. Free Loyds Farm and one of the farm hands, held there. 2. Talk to the priest in the Chapel of Rahi, afterwards. He will give you the quest to lay the murdered farm hand (I think his name was Owen) to rest. To get the dialogue, you might need to talk to Loyd and the other farm hand on the farm, first. 3. Talk to the ghost, that then starts to indicate the locations of his scattered bones, if you walk around Lysandrian Heartlands. 4. After collecting all 6, you can bury them right at the backdoor of the Chapel of Rahi, that is locked. You either need to pick the backdoor, or take the path with the slimes, to get on the other side. It might be also possible to jump there with a very high athletics skill, or with the use of magic or consumables. A spoiler on how to (partially) bypass annoying platforming passages. There is an effect, that makes you temporarily jump very high. You either get it by a spell, or by consuming the plant, you previously refused to pick up, because you did not like its look.

Everytime Raph puts out a new video..i hear the Match of The Day theme in my head 🎶

Really enjoying the current LPs. Keep going man.

Jump higher and run faster by unequipping heavy items.

I see said the blind man to his deaf wife on the telephone 📞 😆

If you are going blunt damage there is a spiked mace in the barracks 😉

27:32 Looks like I need to go back and check that corner behind those barrels now doesn't it?

haven't been able to watch the series as my account is screwed up and doesn't believe I'm 18. my apologies. Also the bata for Monster hunter Wilds is out on until Monday on PC I'd gibe it a shot do some research into the games mechanics and how weapons work. looking that the MH wilds mechanics overview and then picking a weapon of choice should be sufficient. I'd see if you can get a friend who has more exprince with the series to help out to begin with. hope you give it a look.

Imagine a Netflix TV series of these books

I remember first encountering these books at a old book shop ( remember them) in the 80's in my search for back copies of marvel( notably daredevil) and DC comics.. The artwork was amazing seeing ninja's in a fantasy lord of the rings world was cool

If you died would you start from the beginning or where you left off on these audio podcasts

So that's where you got that signet ring 💍. That ring comes in handy in later adventure

Any more Monomyth coming Raph?? 😊

40:50 By the hover in the corner! Classic gaming moment

19:02 My ears are damaged and ruined now too.