The Mystery of the Druids: A Bizarre Adventure Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Most people know The Mystery of the Druids from the screaming face meme cover. That's barely scratching the surface of this insane adventure game
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00:00 - Intro
1:22 - An Opening Cutscene
3:37 - Mystery Begins
12:20 - Halligan Tries to Make a Phone Call
18:13 - On the Path of Druids
22:33 - The Salt Arc
28:15 - The Amulet's Fallout
36:46 - The Deus Ex Neo Druids
43:00 - The Melanie Arc
47:58 - Struggle Continues
54:00 - Return to the Past Now
01:05:06 - Grand Finale
01:10:15 - The Mystery of the Droods
1:12:36 - Credits
1:14:07 - It's Not Over - เกม
Druids on GOG - gog.la/Lowry
THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo
I was starting to doubt parts of this game happened but at least I'll have permanent evidence now.
I was just fucken waching some of your vids the fuck
robbing hobos will do that
Poor thing
That's not a deal, that's a punishment
The Druids are finally upon us! I'm going to savour this later.
Does anyone else feel like there's an undercurrent of meta-commentary going on here? Halligan obsessively picks up random things, follows insane paths of logic, and goes off on random journeys to follow inane threads. In response, the people around him treat him like a crazy conspiracy believing, kleptomaniac nutjob who is grossly unqualified for his position.
Halligan is essentially the real world equivalent of an adventure game protagonist and the people who know him treat him exactly like you would expect them to.
This makes too much sense sir
That's what I was thinking too. The people around him know he's got adventure game protagonist syndrome, so he can't be trusted. It's just good meta.
Problem is the people around him are idiots too. Like the Chief just immediately assuming the guy who Lowry imprisoned must not have been the murderer because they were killed. This completely ignores the possibility of their being multiple killers.
@@Shenaldrac That, while true, is another issue entirely. It doesn't take away from the good use of meta-narrative. They can be simultaneously idiots and distrusting of the main character for his obvious adventure game protagonist syndrome.
Yeah, this game is self-aware. We may need to stop it from causing the nuclear holocaust.
"Have you tried working?" Proceeds to poison homeless man and steal his change.
Govt in a nutshell
Tory simulator 2020
Why are you locked in the bathroom?
@@TheAwillz "all homeless people will be cut in half"
Oi, you got a beggar loicense?
Halligan's behavior makes perfect sense considering he goes through 28 cigs a day.
His brain is so full of nicotine that there's no room for empathy, shame or regret.
Honestly at this point I just want to know the logistics of how he smokes so many cigs a day. Like they take a bit of time to get through, does he do like 2 at once or something?!
By my math, smoking 28 cigarettes a day should take about 2 1/2 hours. It must be all this man does in his spare time. I can only imagine the smell on that jacket.
@@sealogic4552 Even just walking in to a room with that thing will make it smell like a smoker was living in it.
I was a two pack a day for a bit so it's not that hard for me to believe.
@@turtleofpride4572 >2 pack a day
Alright, how'd you do it? Please, I am genuinely curious as to how you managed to go through so many.
Halligan and Melanie's relationship makes a billion times more sense when you realize that because of his deal with Serstan, she's technically a puzzle item
I mean…Halligan probably cares more about his puzzle items than actual people.
@@boiyado6717If they just changed the line from "Nothing will happen to either of us" to "No druid will harm either of us" when bartering for their lives, the whole stabbing Melanie plan could have actually been brilliant with the mistletoe being the crowning jewel of the plan instead of an afterthought
the puzzle is his deranged nature
@@GuitarSlayer136 I think he just really wanted to stab Melanie
@@moomby3572 It would've one hell of a plot twist if he just figured that he really likes being a psychotic killer lol
Halligan didn’t ask her out for pizza to actually go on a date, he needed someone to pay the Pizza Tab
Pitza
That could be a twist ending.
@@Ezio999Auditore That's technically how you will say it in Italian: /pitsa/
I was really expecting some cheesy ending scene where they show up at the place and he gets kicked out because he never payed his tab.
Pizzagate...
I love the idea of the druids brainwashing and recruiting Halligan, but quickly regretting it after realizing just how unpleasant he is to be around.
Druids: "Muahahaha! Halligan is now under our control!"
*42 seconds later*
Druids: "Holy shit, how do we undo the mind control spell?! This guy is fucking nuts even for our standards!"
He ate HOW many pizzas!?
I also feel like he would end getting them in trouble - he would drug the homeless man again to steal his hat because he can't find his own hat, and all the droods would get arrested...
Like that Al Capone going to jail for tax evasion
@@dougla517 its pitzas
@@kindbudkudos *Pizzen ;)
For clarity: Thats the correct GERMAN plural for the word and, as Mandalore pointed out already, in german the word is pronounced the way Halligon does.
@@derfzgrld lol. my b. i was shooting for pronunciation. im not literate in zeet german.
The forensics guy casually accepting that Halligan wouldn't know what grass is kills me every fucking time
Could have been snark on his behalf, but that works just as well.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarineI mean, he did think the forensics guy has a great job because he's a cabinet away from medical alcohol
"....This is grass, Halligan"
"Every time"???
Do you play this game often? Don't force us to do an intervention.
Don’t tell me you haven’t watched this at least twice.
My favourite part of this video is how Halligan says "I've been *investigating*!" Like he's genuinely really pleased with himself and is legitimately expecting praise from the Chief.
I just love the way the Chief is furious with Halligan for not having some kind of breakthrough on the case when he has had it for like, 6 hours
@@christophersmith8848 To be fair, in those six hours he's poisoned a homeless man and taken a quick trip to France. And he refused to explain why a druid expert might be relevant to the case at hand.
@@timothymclean Halligan is simply efficient with his time, Lowry could never 🙄💅🏻
@@error-try-again-laterI wonder how Halligan manages to tell the chief on how he managed to travel back in time, defeat a cult of canibals preparing to end the world,and obtains magical Druid powers to heal a person he stabbed with a knife.
There is no chance that halligan is going to keep his job after this.
@@prometheus9732He has Druid powers now they can't stop make him leave even if they wanted to
I like how the druids tell him he's eating human flesh, in order to elicit some sort of shock response, but after we've been following Halligan for a while, we know he's unfazed because it's probably not even in the top five of heinous acts he's committed this week.
It should have instead cut back to Palpatine with a shocked face that the guy with them is even more sinister than they are.
It's probably not even his first time.
Halligan just calmly dabs his mouth with a handkerchief he uses to dry the tears of the terminally ill orphans he frightens as a Hospital Clown.
@@kaspartambur "....uh, Mr. Halligan, they generally don't....oh wow ok you're okay with this ok now you're silently handing me an empty plate without breaking eye contact ok that's okay yeah"
Halligan: *witnesses the druid brutalize and torture man in public*
Druids: the food we gave you didn't walk on all fours
Halligan: *surprise pikachu face*
My favorite thing is that there's only two detectives in Scotland Yard, but both of them are terrible.
@@cibo889 To be fair he did attempted murder in two occasions, messed with the time space continuum, illegally break in a suspect's house messing out the whole investigation, partake in cannibalism, committed arson against multiple people, framed an innocent man of thievery, destroyed historical buildings, desecrated evidence while disrespecting someone's grave. I'm even surprised he still had a job by the beginning of the game
@@gantzllat well he still saved the world i guess
@@valletas yes he did. While being a terrible detective
@@gantzllat i disagree because by the end he isnt even a detective anynore he is out of a job
@@gantzllat so he's perfect FBI material
Halligan is like a DND player that constantly does really stupid things on purpose, but he keeps rolling really high so the DM is forced to have all of his absurd, convoluted, criminal schemes work.
The cutscene of the guy getting dismembered was actually terrifying but all I could think of was the idea of the Voice Actor being told "Alright just fucking scream for like 3 minutes"
I like to think that he was called to do a single scream, but then after every take the voice director was like “That was good, can you give us another slightly different one?” for an hour
I think they just looped one or two screams over and over.
fell asleep watching the video, imagine me hearing this scream from my laptop for like what feels like 10 minutes, never ending.. what the fu
The voice actor sold it though!
I'm here because the queen is gone and somehow Halligan might have a hand in this
Ah, that makes sense......
He needed her iv bag
He needed her dinner fork to repair his jeep so that he can fly over the cliff towards the druid fortress and lockpick the castle gates with it.
HALLIGAN!
Check if somebody's issued an arrest warrant for King Charles.
Poisons and robs a homeless man
Eats a human steak
Stabs his girlfriend
Owes debts to all of his co-workers
Calls the Caribbean for reasons
All of his co-workers hate him
*Saves the world*
This is literally the most interesting character of all time.
not to mention he sent out an arrest warrant for prince charles for no other reason other than shits and giggles
all but the last sound like an average police officer tbh
If I had to guess, the only reason he had to save the world was the fact he happened to live there...
Probably uses the carabean as a tax haven for bitcoin.
@@mikalmandichak8328 Didn't exist yet
Ok but someone being slowly eaten alive by their limbs being methodically slivered away a bit at a time while they scream and cry is legit horrifying
And absolutely wrong from a culinary standpoint. Everyone knows pain and fear hormones ruin the flavor of meat.
@@passingrando6457 aw man, it's one thing to be eaten alive but to not even taste good? That's too much :(
Ngl for some reason that part kinda messed me up
I have some bad news about all your favorite celebrities and politicians
@@jiaan100 bro?
I find Halligan strangely endearing. He was just made wrong, he can't help what he is.
Built incorrectly.
@@KnightGamer724 he's built different (derogatory)
Built wrong, built stupid
That druid ain't right.
@@tentativegazeryou sound like one of THOSE people
I love a protagonist whose actions are so divorced from reality that when he gets mind-controlled into eating human flesh and murdering the woman he likes the audience honestly can't tell if there's anything out of the ordinary.
I don't think he was being mind controlled, he seemed entirely unconcerned, which is more his usual self.
@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 I'm convinced he knew it was human flesh and was trying to scam them but the food caused mind control
@@marley7868 feels like it.
@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 i think he was also playing along to not be killed or smth
@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 I like to think he wasn’t being mind controlled, he just was happy to have friends.
Friends that he can mooch off for pizza money later.
You start off the game wondering why everyone hates Halligan and you end it wondering how Melanie doesn't
Perhaps her ex was worse and he seems sane in comparison
@@cbot72 Then her ex had to do something worse than STABBING HER WITH SCISSORS. Maybe he decapitated her a couple of times, who knows
@@cbot72 that... Is a frightening thought.
She didn't have a puzzle item
How? Through the magic of the Druids!
I like how halligan took one sip of the medical ethanol, lost consciousness, and then immediately decided to dose a homeless man with it for pocket change
31:20 The way Halligan asks what time
the police chief got those calls legitimately makes me fear he's going to hunt those people down for snitching.
Making sure he gets his alibi's straightened out.
You are the big hero of the story, the only way to stop the druids is to cause Serstan to break his deal. Do you:
A. Sacrifice yourself heroically to end the ritual
B. Stab your new girlfriend and the only human being in space AND time that wants to have anything to do with you.
It was the right choice though, he still had the mistletoe and perhaps in that one moment of desperation - Halligan thought clearly for once.
@@SoulReaperIsHere ah yes, the magical druidic powers of healing that ... he never practiced before, and was never even explained how they work or how to use the plant beyond “it has healing properties”. Come on ...
@@93Avenger93 Eh, Halligan is a proven druidic magic prodigy. He can make salt collapse buildings just by having heard that that's a thing.
Like...the promise was that no HARM would come to either of you. He could’ve done something like cut her finger, or punch her in the shoulder. But NO. His FIRST instinct was to stab her in the liver without hesitation.
Yes, because mistletoe worked so well the first time around!
Halligan is such a fascinating character. Morally dubious, not a hero, not an anti-hero, just a bad person completing a task.
The villain saving the day lol
@@someone___1240 Wouldn't really call him a villain. He doesn't have any villainous goals in mind, he just wants to solve the crime in the most psychotic way possible.
True chaotic neutral
@@drugmate9710 I'd say he's the alpha villain, actually, think about it, he could've sold Melanie down the river to remain a neo-druid, but he opted to use time travel & a grammatical loophole in the application of a celtic curse to ensure that he not only got the girl but is now the last ordained drood, thus allowing him great power that he doesn't have to share with Sinclair & his brethren, as soon as he figures out that magic missile spell that'll be the end for Lowry & Miller.
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Thinking back on it, the drone strike doesn't seem as out of place when you remember that Sinclair mentioned he had a general of the British Army at his disposal.
I think it was some kind of magical explosive spell, as the house begins shaking and the windows shatter long before impact, and after the explosion we hear Lord Sinclairs voice booming from the wreckage. The projectile itself also looks exactly like the one Serstam fires at Halligan and Maglor when they are making their parachute escape
@@lxjoe96the whole drone strike thing is a joke that's literally whats meant to have happened yes
Halligan and lowry have the energy of a couple whos been married and divorced witch each other at least 5 times
Lowry does give off Nero tol Scaeva vibes sometimes.
Enemies to lovers back to enemies
He is the Squilliam to Lowry's Squidward.
love loses❤
“Why do we always keep coming back to each other, knowing full well it’s never going to work?”
Considering Halligans regular diet, real human flesh is probably the healthiest thing he has eaten in months.
Kek.
considering some of the pizza places I've seen it won't be the first bit of dubious meat he's eaten
The likes are 666 at the moment. I wanted to leave it like that
> implying Halligans pizza isn't already topped with human flesh
Unless it was an American
the fact that Halligan's first choice was, with no warning whatsoever, to stab his maybe-Girlfriend when any other 'chosen one' would have stabbed himself to accomplish the exact same thing is both an absolute dick move and entirely in character.
brilliant
Didnt even consider that. Wow
Psychotic dick move which turned out to be brilliant. Classic Halligan
Melanie could not have revived Brent, so he made the only "sane" choice. A paper cut might have been enough to break the vow but best not chance saving the world. So obviously you shove a blade into the lower torso of your companion.
The Doctor would approve. Well, at least some of the Doctors.
@@Casanuda Considering everything he's done up to that point you cannot convince me that he considered the healing Mistletoe even one nanosecond before jamming that hedgeclipper into his love interest's abdomen.
This guy was fully willing to roofie a homeless man and rob him, steal a human bone from a crime scene and keep it for no apparent reason, chug medical ethanol, forge his superior's signature, steal an undoubtedly expensive fishing rod to scrape salt of a boat instead of just getting some salt anywhere else, EAT HUMAN FLESH UNPROMPTED and never mention it to anyone ever, frame an innocent professor for theft to use a library computer, leave a wheelchair bound elderly man to die in an explosion, ask a girl out to a pizza place he has an unpaid 275 pound tab at while they were stuck in the lair of an evil druid cult in the middle ages and loot his savior's dead body without hesitation after he convinced him to jump out a window.
He also never once said a word to her to let her know of his intentions, he just straight up stabs her. the game could have ended with Halligan doing a heel turn and joining the druids after that and it would have made just as much sense.
Halligan is a chaotic stupid lunatic who only saves the world because no one else would have taken the absurd leaps of logic he did or gone through with his awful actions as casually as he did.
The druids were defeated by a pizza obsessed kleptomaniac conspiracy theorist with zero self awareness and one braincell.
@@Inkspeckle I like to think Halligan is intelligent but so insane that he can't operate like a normal human. How else would he become a homicide detective for Scottland Yard? It would be interesting to see a prequel with him becoming the hero he was in Mystery of the Druids.
I like how at the end Halligan's gut instinct was to stab Melanie when he could've stabbed himself for the same effect
You very well know Halligan wouldn't do that
He also stabbed her right in the gut instead of like, the shoulder or something. Went straight for arguably one of the worst places to be stabbed.
He doesn't even need to stab anybody. Considering the vow was "Nothing will happen", pricking his finger or cutting his palm could have probably worked just as well. But then again, I don't know how "the magic of the druids" even work.
@@bananawithaknifeWould you really expect halligan to actually have enough brain cells to think about that?Also I bet that he wanted to stab Melanie so he can rob her like the homeless man to pay for the pizza tab.
No, that part's fair actually, Melanie couldn't have healed him with the mistletoe and wouldn't have known to do it anyway.
When Halligan is at dinner and the first thing he gets told is that they are eating human flesh, I thought how funny it would be if he just kept eating... Well, the game did not disappoint because that is what this insane man does.
"It is human flesh, Mr. Halligan."
*Halligan keeps chewing*
AND THEN HELPS HIMSELF TO ANOTHER PIECE! :D
I mean, we do taste like pork
@Yggdrasil Burnes Got a source on that?
Come on...how long has it been since he ate pizza? Can you really blame the guy
pizza time
Here's the thing about inviting Halligan in to the droods: To everyone who doesn't know him, Halligan appears to be a competent, professional detective. He works for the homicide department of the most central police bureau, and has an unflappable demeanor and a kickass RP accent. Sinclair is a not-vampire who has been manipulating the world from behind the scenes for centuries, so he'd naturally assume anyone who is sent after him, especially someone who actually makes progress against him, would be someone pretty special himself. Halligan stumbles on to the right lead within an hour of being assigned the case. He gets on to Sinclair's estate without a warrant when Sinclair probably thought of himself as untouchable. Sinclair even says, "your investigation had us worried."
Sinclair has *every reason* to assume Halligan is a Bond-esque supercop, and no reason to think he might be a pizza-addicted dysfunctional psychopath who ruins everything he touches for no reason. He genuinely believed Halligan would be a great asset to the Drood Illuminati. It's a shame Melanie snapped him out of it. Can you imagine the antics Halligan would get up to with access to the levers of world power?
he won't have a pizza tab anymore
This comment fucking SENT me I didn't even THINK of it from Sinclar's perspective.
Sinclair: _Now for the hard part of the plan-making sure he keeps eating now that he knows it's..._
Halligan: _chewing_ "...What? Do I have something on my face?"
Sinclair: _Alright, I'm sure there's a perfectly valid reason that this guy, presumably Scotland Yard's greatest detective, is still eating human flesh._
Halligan: "Man, this meat tastes weird. What did you say this was again?"
Sinclair: _Oh gods, what have I done?_
sinclair was worried, but for the wrong reasons.
"hello mister sinclair, would you like some apple schnapps?"
guys... ...what if we are living the aftermath of the bad ending and halligan caused 2020?
I'm not sure if you've been told before, but in the original release of the game in 2001, Lowry was sitting in his chair. For some reason, when the game was re-released in 2004, he was floating. So for some reason, the updated version of the game (which fixed bugs and added the physical copy of Lowry's file, among other things) decided to make him float instead of sit.
That makes it better, it means Lowry sitting on the chair was a bug, and his levitation is the fix.
@@katanatsunami
Lowry is the one in a billion who can develop yoga powers at incredible speed
Patch Notes:
1: Untethered Lowry from this mortal plane.
I like to believe that Lowry isn't levitating, but instead that he's just so absurdly strong that he can hold his entire body weight by only his heel on his desk.
I just realized that the entire point of baiting Chris into giving you alcohol, passing out, and then dusting for fingerprints, was that Halligan was literally too stupid to know what ethanol was. It's not even terrible adventure game logic, it's just terrible Halligan logic lmao
oh so it was to know which bottle was alcohol, because he's too proud to ask or google it
@@judeironheart7252 probably too stupid but yeah lol
Halligan is amazing, He doesn't know how to operate a printer and thinks the phone receiver is too heavy to use, his main professional use of the copier is to scan pictures of his face. you might assume he's some sort of eccentric genius detective but no...He's just Halligan, a true original.
@@seanodonnell9826 he acts like he THINKS he's an eccentric genius detective, which is the worst form of crime on earth imho
@@mozarteanchaos Yeah, as an eccentric detective who once investigated an indie developer to confirm suspicions of the developers clear greed and corruption. I can confirm I've never once scanned my face on a copier, I've scanned my rear like a sane person.
I just love that instead of heroically sacrificing himself he shanks his girlfriend
I think it was because she didn't know about the healing properties of the herb. And so she wouldn't know how to save halligan.
@@ciceroissad4821 That and also it is just weird psychotic Halligan logic. I mean No one would think it would work since you are the one breaking the vow. It is like having a peace treaty and then go to war, only to blame it on the invaded country. Who would think like that? Halligan that's who.
The best part was in Mandy's stream. He got so used to the insane logic of this game that he using the scissors on her was his immediate response. And it was the right one.
peak bri'ish logic
@@517342 Honestly i think this game story is intertwined with crazy logic of many similar games. Certainly it doesn't make sense to do the things he does, but since in many games you can drag and click items from inventory and use them(usually getting "you can't do that" sign), this game just rolls with it and shows how silly it would be and the kind of mindset such protagonist would need. I mean, i am sure many players at some point while being stuck in puzzle game would use every single inventory item in desperate attempt to complete the game.
This game needs a spinoff following a new hire at Scotland Yard who never ends up in the same building at the same time as Halligan, and you just hear about him from the other characters and find his pizza boxes and alien magazines and you have to piece together what this being is.
And then it turns out you ARE Halligan, in a big Fight Club esque twist
When you start to realize your case has a supernatural twist to it, you have to track down Halligan and ask him some questions. You find him passed out on a bench at Al’s Pizza Palace, and the only way to wake him up is with a whiff of Apple Schnapps (his favorite)
Alternatively you are playing someone who was cursed by droods (neo or otherwise) and need to get in the know on all of the secrets and mysteries that the droods had, culminating in a quest to find the last living drood, only to find out that he is a pitza-holic and conspiracy theorist working for the Scotland Yard. I honestly don't know if Halligan would be more or less than what one might expect of the last living drood. Probably both.
every step of the case, he's been there first, and you can tell by the sheer volume of poisoned homeless people and quantities of salt in places salt wouldn't otherwise be
I love how the guy is just ceaselessly howling in pain (in Dolby Surround!) as his meats are being slowly flenced from the bone, but just lays there while being served up like premium deli meats... No straps, no chains, the only thing keeping him on that table is basically just the awkward embarrassment of getting up and interrupting their dinner plans.
It's the magic of the droods
I can relate to him tbh
This just would be a very rude thing to do for a British Gentleman
They probably slit his tendons and ligaments first
> Enter main villain's office
> "Get out of my room, I'm plotting the end of the world! >:("
Again?
"I AM THE SUPREME PATRIARCH"
"I'LL TAKE OUT THE TRASH IN A MINUTE, MOM!"
"You aren't mom with my chicken tendies!"
"I'M TOTALLY WORKING ON MY PLANS FOR WORLD DOMINATION AND NOT FINISHING MY SWEET FARM IN MINECRAFT"
The police chief desperately begging Halligan to tell him that he didn't seriously poison a homeless man to steal his change really elevates this for me
I was really hoping Halligan would say "any clues as to his whereabouts?" when told the chief was looking for a "detective Halligan" who works in his department.
I love the operatic music in the background during that scene...it absolutely nails the tone.
his suffering is so human, you want to believe the best in your fellow man, but deep down you know they’re animals.
For real. The chief sounds like an asshole antagonistic character but by a few hours into the game it becomes clear he's just *utterly tired* of Halligan's nonsense.
@@Electric0eye you kinda get that vibe from most of the people in the office. At first you think they’re just a bunch of a-holes, then you realize they’ve got every reason to hate Halligan
I still love the fact that you take the guy’s fishing pole for one second just to scrape some salt off the side of a boat that’s only about 3 paces away and yet you just never give it back
I feel like some adventure games would have followed with a quick little animation of the guy sneakily putting it back in its place, but that’s just not Halligan’s style.
he tricked that guy out of his fancy fishing pole fair and square, it's Halligan's now
Halligan stole a co-worker's scarf and took it to France. He still has that fishing pole to this day and takes his children fishing with it.
@@gabrielferreira7550 the only reason Halligan had children was because he needed them to solve a fishing puzzle
Considering Halligan’s a cop, I can at least respect the gumption it takes to convolutedly steal something in secret, and not steal things the way cops USUALLY do.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick He has no jurisdiction in France.
I like to picture Sinclair as a sadist.
At the table with Halligan he wanted to take his time before eating. He'd go on explaining that Halligan had a choice to either consume human flesh and fall under their influence or face the same horrible fate as their victims.
Sinclair then wanted to observe the horror in Halligan's eyes upon facing this hard choice.
But everything is ruined when Halligan starts to eat while Sinclair wasn't done monologuing, and in sheer panic he has to blurt out what it is to get some reaction.
"It is Human flesh Mr. Halligan."
Halligan: **Adds A1 Steak Sauce**
**Takes Bite**
Druid: *Surprised Pikachu face*
Lecter has nothing on this guy. All he needs is some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
hahaha literally keeps chewing lmao
@@RED-jg6mt it killed me when he just kept eating , i could not stop laughing for like 5 minutes
@@acewolfgang276 *jazz music stops*
Halligan is the only character I’ve seen and confidently say that he would survive in Pathologic
He's basically if the Bachelor dropped out of college to become a cop
You should ask the real question: Would Pathologic survive Halligan?
@@galedex5661 no
@@galedex5661 he would destroy that world for pitza money
@@galedex5661 The amount of poisoned hobbos and skeletonized bodies would skyrocket
The idea of Halligan ignoring the villains monologue while absent mindedly eating human meat is hilarious
Halligan could have stabbed himself at the end there because the vow was to not to hurt the both of them. He actively chose to stab Melanie.
Halligan would not do that as that may interfere with him completing puzzles in the future. She, on the other hand, is expendable
Melanie's case is really tragic considering her whole backstory is that she is trying to move on from a crazy abusive ex and she's hoping that change to come from Halligan of all people.
You know, now that you mention it, that is insanely true-to-life. It has to be one of the most subtle and congruent pieces of story-telling logic I have seen in a video game supporting character. It explains an awful lot, like her fairly low-key reaction to being smacked around. The only way that an intelligent, brave, accomplished, attractive woman like Melanie would have any romantic involvement with an inherently untrustworthy, somewhat hapless, selfish and self-serving, amoral, slovenly, chad like Hallagan is that she comes from a background of abuse. With that one detail of her past we can understand that she must have grown up in an abusive environment, which affected her development in such a way that she cannot distinguish warning signs in a man who expresses interest in her. For Melanie, abuse and love have been entangled in the chaos of her early upbringing resulting in what will be a string of bad choices in relationships as an adult. Being slapped around by Hallagan, who then says it wasn’t his fault, probably strikes a chord deep in her limbic brain, manifesting as an unconscious attraction, a feeling of familiarity as if they were “meant to be together.” Annnd then he stabs her in the abdomen.
Dam bro
With all of the things that the game tried and failed to get right I wasn't expecting the tragic cycle of abuse to be one of the things they succeeded in getting across.
@@ColdHawk strong projection bro
I like to think of his not deflecting this time when she confronts him about his obsession with pizza and office untidiness (compared to how defensive he got when his other co-worker brought it up) as a small hint of his growth.
I love that he could have stopped the ritual by heroically stabbing himself but instead he casually murders his girlfriend.
I know i just realized that too!
not to mention he could have like, just knicked his arm or something
not like stab her
To be fair, it’s easier for a doctor to heal someone else than themselves
@@phearamax4146 he sure had a lot of confidence in his ability to resurrect the dead for someone who has never done it before lol
'Casually' doesn't even cover it. He's so fucking relaxed when he stabs her that it's actually terrifying. His posture doesn't even change as he does it. It's the way a secret psychopath would do it in a movie or TV show to shock the audience.
@@phearamax4146 he had magic mistletoe, he can jam that into his own gut
Or have melanie do it
It's a nice touch of realism that poisoning and robbing a homeless man would only get him demoted and not like. Fired or put in jail.
"Civil asset forfeiture"
“You misappropriated both evidence and forensic resources, poisoned and robbed a homeless man, conducted an investigation on foreign soil without a permit, robbed somebody else, desecrated several ancient grave sites, and stole a priceless historical artifact…
That’s two weeks paid time off!”
Melanie takes a single look at Detective Halligan and thinks "I could fix him." and then she gets stabbed
The fact that Halligan knows you can't draw money from the bank of England but doesn't really know what medical ethanol is makes me think he actually went there to get money
Him being drunk the whole time would explain a lot
He definitely only knows because he's tried.
Halligan probably has a lot to say about central banks and "fiat currency." But you'd have to get some pitza and beer with him to hear about it.
lol yup
Medical ethanol is the same substance that is in your beer - ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH). What makes it 'medical' is just the purity and strength. Why Halligan passes out from just a sip is yet another mystery.
This is so batshit insane, that I seriously thought for a moment there that the ending song was part of the actual game.
It wasnt?
Me too, LOL.
I thought the same thing until Blake opened the door and Mandalore's helmet was in front of the computer, so about halfway through the song.
I thought so too until i saw the Mandalor office in the video lol
Guys, not the army of predator drones flying?
So let me get this straight: Serstan, a man who knows no honor, enters into an agreement (which he said previously he wouldn’t do, reminder!) with Halligan, who also knows no honor, to not let harm befall Halligan or Melanie, upon the honor he never gave a rat’s ass about before…
And because of that, for the first and last time in his existence, Serstan was bound to his honor.
And then Halligan pulls a fast one by being just a smidge more dishonorable and stabbing Melanie in the gut for no good reason.
Which then promptly unmakes Serstan, who was still bound to his honor.
You know, if Serstan had just held fast to not entering into any deals with Halligan like he had claimed, he could’ve avoided this karmic bullshit.
My headcanon is that Halligan is Lucifer and getting into any deals or agreements with him of any kind dooms you instantly
Villains always like to tell you their plans though. I think maybe he mellowed because he's been there in the past and future and knows that they don't stop him. Villains always think nobody will stop them.
@4:03 - "Dead people don't go around committing murders." - Amazingly boneheaded. The guy could've been a copycat or he might've had co-conspirators, partners, apprentices, or masters who decided to kill him in jail. So, no, it's entirely possible for that guy to have been one of the murderers. Especially since the police hadn't even nailed down how many murderers might've been involved.
that honestly bothered me a lot. That's something I'd expect from Halligan himself, not the damn chief.
@@deerenthusiast885 The fact we *expect* it from Halligan says it all, really!
Especially considering that the actual culprits of the murders WERE, in fact, a group of co-conspirators.
Lowery is a druid, it explains everything. why he floats, why his social status is so high, and why he turned in the wrong guy for the skeleton murders even though he is clearly a better detective than halligan. He was covering for his druid buddies
This makes too much sense considering he would know Halligan was going to try stopping Sinclair eventually, thus giving him reason to be Halligan's workplace rival.
That would make for an excellent plot for the sequel.
This makes a lot of sense, but I still prefer to think he just can float for no reason and everyone just accepts it.
I am fairly sure Halligan went into a coma after drinking the medical alcohol and everything after was just his weird dream
17:43 anyone know what this is a reference to?
A thing that makes adventure games unrealistic is how the protagonist will devise incredibly convoluted ploys to get everyday items they could just buy from the store. Mystery of the Druids solves this by establishing early on that the protagonist is so hard up he will murder a homeless man for pennies
Hey, he didn't murder him!
@@dungeonmaster217 do you think Brent really cared if the hobo lived?
@@kipras1412 of course not.
Finally some realism in video games. Designers take note!
To be fair, Halligan is completely broke
"Through the magic of the duids!" is gonna be my "a wizard did it" for the foreseeable future.
This is one of the best videos to sleep to. Except for the literal 90 second long part in the middle where they scream in constant agony over and over
So Halligan may be an amoral sociopath, but from an outside perspective, he’s a super detective. He solved a murder case that’s been going on for months in the span of a few hours using basically nothing but a bone and some burnt grass.
It’s no wonder Sinclair is afraid of his investigation, he’s basically Sherlock Holmes if Sherlock Holmes were about 60% more unhinged.
He kicked the cocaine habit, but the damage was already done.
Halligan is truly the best detective they have. Until Lowry deigns to stop levitating and rule the world.
@@rattles8789 idk, Lowry put an innocent man in jail and got that man killed. He may have transcended humanity but he’s a lousy detective.
@@rattles8789 Lowry may be a superchad. But he's still a pretty subpar detective.
To be fair to Lowry, we only see him in the context of the _one_ case where the detective being as loony as Halligan and equally prone to conspiratorial tangents is helpful. He probably does better on ordinary cases.
Virgin Hero: Stabs himself to inflict harm to break vow.
Chad Hero: Murders girlfriend to inflict harm and to break vow.
It's the fact that she doesn't even see it coming. Like; it would be one thing if she told him to do it and this was some big sacrifice, but instead, he just up and stabs her without saying anything.
@@guyofminimalimportance7 If you want to get into it I would say that them agreeing to do it, or him doing it to himself, shouldn’t constitute breaking the vow. Because it isn’t “harm” if you’re doing it on purpose to fulfill some goal. IE if the rewards outweigh the costs, it’s a net benefit. And it’s not ultimately harming Melanie if she wants to do it because it’s ultimately beneficial.
Meanwhile the straight-up betrayal of stabbing her is harmful to her, because she doesn’t understand what’s going onz
I'm no sociopath , but 20 pounds is 20 pounds.
What vow was he talking about, anyway?
Edit Oh I think I get it, the leader of the druids swore on his honour nothing would happen to Halligan or Melanie. So when a druid serving under the leader, Halligan himself, stabbed Melanie, the leader's vow was broken and druid magic with it. Is that correct?
@@NeoSaturos123 Yes.
When Halligan tells Sinclair “you seem to not know the situation you’re it”, at first I thought he meant that Sinclair was going to be ~arrested-. As time goes on though, I don’t think Halligan even KNOWS he can arrest people. He literally never even attempts to. So there’s gotta be something else there, maybe he’s remembering the salt arc and thinks he has powers. I mean, he isn’t even trusted to have a GUN, there’s no handcuffs or anything outside of a badge in him in terms of cop memorabilia, so who knows what his plan is when there’s a gun to his head lol
Nah, he just told him hes fucked for trying to be with Halliga
"The first time playing it, I felt like I was being poisoned, but I liked it a lot!" Physical re-release with that quote on the box. Put the song at the end with the video as the credits as well.
I would pay $60 for a HD upscaled Switch port.
Melanie: I was married to an abusive and crazy husband, but you seem alright and we should go on a date.
Halligan: *Stabs her.*
"You stabbed me you barsterd."
"It was to save the wooooorrrrrrld, Melanie."
"And?????"
It's not a crime if you resurrect her later, apparently.
@@nitrokid i mean, she technically didnt fully die, so she can probably choose not to press charges. So you're not wrong. XP
it's actually pretty funny that he can actually stab himself and the result is still pretty much the same
@@ultimateninjaboi At that point it's just assault, right?
I think that the presentation of Lowry's ... mysticality ... is perfect. Halligan is an alien conspiracy fan, he clearly views Lowry as an alien, aloof and unknowable. And it perfectly represents the charisma chasm that separates them.
This is, hands down, my weirdest comfort video.
Yep
I love it too :>
Same. 'vbeen rewatching my G for the 16th time lika there is no tmrrw
I fell asleep to this video dozens of times, for like months, and Im watching it again...
I thought i was the only one lmao@@Bryan-ib3jo
MOM, MOM GET IN HERE! IT'S THE DROODS, MANDY'S TALKING ABOUT THE DROODS
I'VE WAITED SOOO LONG!
.... OH! Is THIS where the old school WoW slang came from?
Oh shit it's RoachDogg JR, that's a meme I didn't expect to see anywhere else on the internet.
Hey bro
@@jacksonhodge8142 sup, dude.
I love how Melanie isn’t even slightly upset that Halligan stabbed her
She really wanted that Pitza date.
@@carlosfred8673 Brent is just going to ditch her so that she has to pay his tab.
I love the fact that Halligan could have just as well stabbed himself, since the deal with Serstan was that both him and Melanie had to survive. But of course Halligan stabs the woman he loves instead, as Halligan is want to do.
He could have just stabbed either one of them in a leg or an arm and it would have done the job. He was just being a sadistic sociopath at that moment. That's our Halligan for you.
@@joaogomes9405 sorry to be that guy but it’s “won’t to do” as in something he is predisposed towards doing often or in the past
"If you have something he needs for a puzzle your life is over"
In all fairness, his mother could actually be worse than Brent, so much so that even he knows to avoid her
This woman probably *raised* Halligan, and half her genes came from her. She's got to be terrifying.
That woman must be an eldritch being , a lovecraftian nightmare come to life
Y’guys ever played Sanitarium?
I'm fairly sure his "mother" is Nyarlathotep.
@@smergthedargon8974 Or Shub-Niggurath. Perhaps he’s one of the Thousand Young.
“Learning empathy from his travels, Halligan gives him his last rites.....
*just kidding, he’s looting the body.”*
Ohhh, Halligan! **you hear a faint yet obnoxious laugh track**
*Cue the mariachi sewer surfing mix*
He's essentially every fallout player ever.
@@hellishwerewolf7798 Yep... you play as Halligan in every fallout game.
Even though I saw that from a mile away, it was still very funny
"Halligan runs like there's something wrong with him"
Well you see: There is.
Multiple things are...
26:03 I was so afraid he was going to kill that cat and offer it to the fisherman like "Hey, solved your problem! Now we're BEST friends. Can I barrow your fishing rod now?" But I'm glad it was just stealing the rod with the cat as a distraction. After the poisoning of that homeless man, who KNOWS what he's capable of.
Halligan is like Fox Mulder's dumber, more chaotic British doppelganger.
One gag that I noticed: Lowry accuses Halligan for getting his suit at Woolworths... and later on the beggar has a Woolworths bag next to him. Feels like a subtle comment on how dishevelled Halligan looks.
Melanie also comments that she thought he was wearing an ungly suit when she first saw him.
im gonna be honest
people joke halligan is a terrible person to have on your side, which is true
but your enemy literally cannot in anyway predict him, he is a force of nature itself, you cant plan around him, you cant hide from something you dont understand
hes a pricey asset, but a useful one
Thats true - be random and your enemy is too confused to plan an attack!
It’s like a new alignment: lawful chaotic
@@ColdHawk halligan is not lawful. he's chaotic chaotic
he's not a hero - he's a cosmic horror to the villains
he's a terrible ally but a terrifying foe
A hero would stab himself to abuse a loophole in a magical sworn contract. Halligan, instead, stabs his romantic interest in the gut without a second thought. And that honestly totally fits all we've seen before that point.
At least he kinda became a druid, not like his romantic interest, so he was able to heal her. She couldn`t-
@@Flamme-Sanabi but that begs the question, was a lethal stab even neccesary? A small cut should have been enough
@@freakymoejoe2 I mean, a papercut could do it. But I'd make sure that it works, so it's a lethal stab.
I mean, they just could've tripped and fall on their face and that way the thing would've been ended.
It gets better, man. They tried that first, no dice. Even his line about the things is "All you could do with those is hurt yourself" but apparently it doesn't even register to Halligan that that'd work. Shivving his new girlfriend is insane but...well, yeah that fits.
That contract was unbelievably literal. He could have tripped over his shoelaces and sprained an ankle and the big bad would have to vanish from existence. The logic of the act is what surprised me, not the act itself.
What makes this so much more bizarre is that I have been to all of those places (Epping Forest, the Anthropology Museum in Oxford, Scotland Yard) and they all look similar enough to pass off as them in a video game but different enough that it's very weird to see them portrayed like this
"promise you won't harm us"
"ok fine"
>stabs other person
"dude no that's not how oaths work"
could you imagine how dumb the ending could have been if hallegan's dumb gamble hadn't worked
That's why Halligan had the vow be "promise that no harm comes to us".
@@caav56 Wait a second, was that 'no harm' vow why he was out of nowhere invited to join the druids instead rather than flayed piece by piece for dinner. It all makes sense oh sh
"You'll find two items in the castle, jack and shit."
My favorite phrase.
It's a real standout line.
And Jack left town.
Nice.
@@ILSS Nice.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick Nice.
Halligan may be the most accurate video game player satire I have ever seen. He's so casual about scamming, robbing, eating human flesh and straight up poisoning and stabbing people so long as it advances the plot, he makes GTA5's Trevor bland in comparison.
If all of that was intentional on the part of the devs, kudos to them I guess
Halligan knowing you can't draw money from the bank of england, off the top of his head, implies he tried to.
There's a non-zero chance Halligan dies after drinking the medical alcohol, and the rest of the game is a hallucination created as his brain shuts down. Just tell me the forensics guy doesn't sound straight up evil in the cutscene (14:25), and that the entire department wouldn't be liable to believe Halligan really did find it reasonable to have a go at their supply of ethanol.
The best part of Halligan stabbing Melanie is that he tells her he's going to go get help, and only after she asks him not to leave her does he seem to realize he can just use his newfound druid magic instead. He lives so much in the moment that he literally stabbed his prospective girlfriend in the stomach with absolutely no plan in mind of how to prevent her from dying. What an incredible character.
Not to mention by the logic of the vow he could have just stabbed himself instead but of course he didn’t because he’s Halligan. I honestly wonder how much of his characterization was intentional and how much of it is just weird/sloppy writing lol
@@JDizzle785 Or not even stab. If all it took was one of them being harmed, he could have just made a small cut.
I think Mandalore really got it in one saying Halligan has the mind of an insect, I busted up at that
There are also a lot more incredible characters, I daresay a disproportionate amount, on death row.
Twenty years ago, I would have also said something to the effect of "great characters who are unlikely to have prospective girlfriends," but a lot of seriously jacked-up stuff has become the norm' over the past half a decade.
@@JDizzle785 I thin 1:11:17 answers that. "No matter how illegal, corrupt or immoral"
I absolutely love that Halligan is an absolute psycho that operates on the adventure game logic, while everything else (non-magic, anyway) is more like real world.
It's like Mandalore said: "You have something he needs for a puzzle - your life is over."
@TooLateToTheStory There Was Game like that a while back called Edna escapes the insane asylum or something
@TooLateToTheStory yeah the second one follows her friend right?
@TooLateToTheStory I shudder to think what foul thoughts are running through the minds of the protagonists of Forklift Simulator 2020
It's even better that like all the people in the game who know him also know it. So it's not like it was unintentional on the part of the game creators.
Three and half years later, I still periodically watch this video. There's something genuinely mesmerizing about your reactions to this game's insanity.
Same 🥲
36:03 I love this. Lowry is just so fed up. He doesn't say anything witty, he just wants Hallagan to go away lmao
I love how the conceit of Halligan as a character is literally just "acts like an adventure game character, but with real world consequences."
Adventure Games should really be more accurately relabelled "Sociopathy Simulators", or perhaps "Kleptomania-'Em-Ups". In some cases, I suppose, "Ludicrous Guesswork Bonanzas". But a lot of the time, especially with the "modern(ish) setting, plausible protagonist" ones, it very often boils down to "Who the frick would actually behave like that? Put a spider in some guy's tea so he'll crash his fucking truck?! Steal the candy from the baby to distract a seagull so you can take a ring from its nest for a wax imprint?"
I like how Quest for Glory is one of the most sane adventure games out there because it's also an RPG.
There's kleptomania, but you have to be a thief and not get caught.
I think I read somewhere that that's basically what happened. They weren't sure if they wanted this to be a more comedic or a more serious type of Adventure game....and so they ended up with this amazing hybrid that is Halligan 😆
look up Deponia :)
So… Sterling Archer?
Halligan is like if an adventure game protagonist was a medically diagnosed psychopath, but not in a funny "haha rube goldberg machine steal everyone's shit" way, in a realistic and slightly disturbed way.
Like Edna from "Edna & Harvey: The Breakout" which is about escaping an insane asylum. Except not intentional? I think?
pretty sure sseth wrote the script for halligan
"""Slightly"""
@@thefool8224 "Hey hey people, today we're going to poison the homeless and shank the women we love." - Yeah, checks out
"You're not being very talkative."
"No."
Gold.
I love how Halligan could've told the chief "there's evidence that a dangerous cult is behind this, and they seem to be emulating the Droods, so I'm speaking with an expert on the subject" and it would've easily shut him down, but because Halligan is, well, Halligan, he just said "DROODS" and expected it to go over well.
The real Mystery of the Druids is how Halligan still had a job at the start of the game
Clearly he has no competition in this town
Because unfortunately in the full version he's sadly the most competent officer.... I'm not kidding, you may think I'm joking, but the other police in the precinct are THAT bad.
well, that part is actually quite realistic. Police in the real world have the best job security and can often get away with doing questionable shit.
Police unions, man.
Okay, as an English person, a police detective in the 90's/00's issuing an arrest warrant for Prince Charles for the murder of Princess Diana, then going, "It was just a prank, bro," has an energy that foreshadows Halligan's character *perfectly.*
As a Brit who was born in the 90's and doesn't know what's real and what's rumours about the Royal Family, heck I can barely keep track of who's who really, how close was/is Halligan to whatever truth has been revealed?
Also shame we'll never see her glorious shades of green again.
@@HelghastStalker That doesn't answer my question but that much I knew, thanks XD
@@Roadent1241 It was a semi-popular conspiracy theory at the time that Princess Di's accident was a setup from the Queen or Prince Charles, Di's ex-husband, in order to prevent her embarrassing the Royal Family with the divorce. About the equivalent of the American 9/11 truthers, "jet fuel can't melt steel beams," in terms of conspiracy and meme-fodder in later years.
@@MaskOneOneTwoThree Ah, right, yes. I remember hearing stuff about Di and Charles on the car radio when I was very little before That happened and mum just going "well just divorce him then!!".
And I almost consider my parents old fashioned given there's a 40-year gap between me and them XD Didn't think they'd think of that as an option.
@@jiaan100 LOL if you're trying to claim covid is some bioengineered weapon, its a shitty one. A bioweapon that at best kills 60+ yr olds and people with shitty lungs? Terrible weapon, like as gun that mostly just bruises people unless you hit nana in the eye.
Everyone knows covid was actually a punishment from God for us daring to build flying machines, duh.
I just realized something: Halligan isn't so stupid he'd tell his name and title to someone he plans to knock out and rob.
Halligan fully intended to murder that beggar.
“Why do you keep re-watching this video?”
“Why, because of the magic of the druids!”
I don’t care what anyone says this is now cannon lmfao
Honestly it’s become a comfort video at this point when I have a shit day
Droods
Halligan is a fascinating character. Not even Hannibal Lecter eats human flesh so casually
Love your videos!
@TooLateToTheStory well, there's a country I'm never gonna try to visit apparently.
"couldnt hurt to try" *shank melanie"
@UCQo_Si_W1450BKjXFI09Q9w come on, der Wixxer was fun
@TooLateToTheStory Wait so Halligan are purposely write to be a weirdo? For the longest time i thought the writer just try to make naive under dog Protaginists but failed huh now that interesting.
Halligan is the type that'd outright catch the Zodiac Killer while leaving his fork in the microwave.
Sure but in the process he would have committed as much if not more heinous crimes.
@@EggheadsGuide Halligan: "You can't make an omellet without cracking some eggs."
@@espio87 "We're making the mother of all pitza here Lowry!"
Pretty sure leaving the fork in the microwave was part of puzzle, somehow.
@@BlondieTH-cam Had to burn down the break room to get out of it.
"The car alarm isnt in the habit of going off by itself".
Spoken like someone who never actually owned a car tbh. Especially from that era.
So Halligan wins because the exact words of the oath he makes Serstan swear are "Nothing will happen to her" not "I won't do anything to her." And from how quickly Serstan swore it, he seems not to have even considered the possibility of Halligan himself voiding the oath.
Good grief, evil is only defeated because our hero's moral compass is warped beyond even the villains' comprehension. Wonder if that was intentional.
It's weird where they draw the line with technicality. If you think about it serstans oath is broken pretty much the moment he makes it because Melanie is breathing, the cells in her body are moving and replicating, basically something is happening to her all the time.
I think the best option for serstan was to promise that nothing will happen to her *once he let's her go* and then kill her while still touching her.
Imagine how weird it would‘ve been, if Halligans plan failed:
*stab*
„Wtf!!! Why did you stab me?!“
„relax…I tried something, but it didn’t work“
Is... Is Halligan a Fae?
They could have done a much more clever twist too! All we would have to do is change the line to "Swear that no druid will harm Melanie" and since Serstan doesn't know about Halligan being a Druid it would make more sense to swear the oath. It would dampen the impact of the later mistletoe reveal, but I think it's worth it
Halligan is such a perfect character that him eating human flesh is understandable for SEVERAL reasons
To be fair human flesh is pretty tasty
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Doesn't it just taste like pork?
@@roadent217 nah its taste more like beef
Sinclair: “It is Human flesh”
Halligan: :T
He just seems annoyed if anything.
i heard that human flesh tastes like a mix of 4 diferent meats i heard it on a video the guy cutted a piece of his meat and mixed it with the 4 meats, man curiosity can take people to skyroquet
This game is a thing of wonder. So many weird elements somehow blending with each other. The voice work and dialogue are outstanding which seems to tie everything together with a kind of authenticity, no matter how crazy it gets. They REALLY don't make games like this anymore.
"Crabs? They're for snobs" says Halligan after time travelling and wandering around an 11th century druidic castle. That killed me.
The Dark Souls boss music as the chief scolds Halligan for poisoning the beggar is hilarious
I love that the captain calmly watches as Halligan kidnaps his fucking cat
"It was druids my boy"
*cap-i-tan
@Boa-Noah this need to be animated.