He was wise enough to realize humans aren't meant to become gods nor know knowledge beyond this world. Instead working with what he has, to become the best version of himself.
@@MikeCrainI don't think Enki hates knowledge beyond what mortals were designated to know. He wrote the skin-bible series for a reason. The reason why he pursue the path to enlightenment in the first place is to have an objective understanding of the greater scheme of things and he in the end, he did. Absorbing every knowledge the dungeon could offer along the way.
Sylvian in hard mode made Dark Priest's S ending the hardest to achieve. You have one chance in the beginning if not you get held by tentacle and beaten to death.
@@skell6134 D'arce's S ending is hard to figure out if you don't look it up. Cahara's S ending is easy but also hard to figure out. These things would only happen by accident.
@@bizznick444joe7 Welp,to be fair ANY of S endings are hard to figure out without looking up for them But Outlander and Dark Priest endings just get so much harder from actually requiring to fight pretty hard enemies to achive them
1:08:53 This game is a trip...creepy, unforgiving mechanics with an actual story and lore that is sufficiently complex to make it engaging, but not so complex to make you tune it out. Whatever version of Enki's life is most accurate--Enki decides to off himself. And before the ritual of human sacrifice can be complete he has a vision or series of visions about Le Garde. Were these visions triggered by an Old God, a New God, or something else? Who benefits the most by luring Enki into the depths of Fear and Hunger? Are they sending him to his death? To help Le Garde? To help The Girl beome an Ascended God? To become the new enlightened one and strike some sort of balance between being a New God and merely a mortal? The Old Gods have mostly faded from the world. And agents of the Moon God seem to mostly target human children. I suppose one could argue that demanding human sacrifice is another way to cull the human population of potential threats to the Gods. It seems unlikely that an Old God would be the source of his visions. When you come out of the dream one of the New Gods (who's name I am blanking on) asks you to take The Girl to the depths of Fear and Hunger. There is nothing said about Le Garde. Heh...I guess Le Guard was probably just a means to an end to bring into existence a child to become an Ascended God and usher in a new age that ends the suffering and stagnation. Very curious... Adding onto my initial thoughts... Le Garde steals the artifact that was recovered by this world's version of Vikings and orchestrates his own imprisonment because this gets him closer to his ultimate goal of becoming a God. D'arce wants to rescue her man from danger. The mercenary as far as we know is purely motivated by money to better his life and the lives of his lady friend and her unborn child. And the buff Viking dude is motivated by a desire to avenge the deaths of his people at the hands of Le Garde and his followers. On the surface Enki is the only one to have a supernatural origin for his motivation... Unless we try to read deeper meaning into Le Garde's memory flashback...(which I need to watch again more closely). Did Le Garde through his intention, his belief in himself and his belief in being destined for greatness in some way cause Enki to have a vision? Gor-Goroth (?), the Old God of destruction says something during ending B that the Gods are a manifestation of humans intentions, beliefs, behaviors... something like this. Did Le Garde literally create his own self fulfilling prophecy? Or did the prophecy exist prior to his accomplishments? Perhaps this is only the newest iteration of a cycle that has been repeated many times? The Fellowship consisted of five members originally. And counting Le Garde and our four playable characters gives us five total. Though I don't think their personalities and attributes are a perfect 1:1 equivalent, but maybe this detail isn't important. Whether this cycle is by divine influence or simply the result of a handful of people from each generation converging on the same thought process and solution is debatable. I should reference the wiki and rewatch the memory flashback.
They do supposedly correspond to each New God, if you look at their souls and account for Le Garde being akin to Nosramus/The Forgotten One. The correspondence would be as such: Valtiel = Enki's Enlightened Soul Francois = D'arce's Dominating Soul Tormented One = Ragnvaldr's Tormented Soul Nilvan = Cahara's Endless Soul. Their soul information is on the wiki, and I'm not sure if this is in the game files, but it seems there's a precedence here. This would also imply that said soul types are not limited to gender, though there are again 4 males and 1 female, with 1 male outsider/traitor archetype. It's also worth mentioning that the lore of the gods is heavily inspired by the Old Gods of Silent Hill, to include their death and rebirth rituals like in SH2, and the Crow Mauler being inspired by Pyramid Head behind the bars in the first encounter. Another example is (another spelling of) Valtiel, being a New God of enlightenment with poor communication skills and same name in both settings. Much of the upshot of F&H occult lore could be lifted from this inspiration, to include Berserk's Eclipse. EDIT: There are also 5 confirmed old gods at this time, but there were only 4 in the original F&H, continuing the pattern. The fifth was a child of two of the old god's, Sylvia and Gro-goroth.
@@EleusiusBlack I had a thought that maybe the soul types could better account for a possible connection between the fellowship and the most recent group of adventurers in F&H. However, I think the significance of this soul correspondence can be brought into question with Fear & Hunger Termina expanding the number of soul types to 24 (I believe). Unless, perhaps there are certain soul types that are more important or more powerful than others. In western astrology I know different signs have various attributes associated with them, but there are some commonalities. For example there are 3 water signs, 3 air signs, 3 fire signs and 3 earth signs. Having had a chance to re-watch the memory segment about D'arce and Le'Garde it seems the prophecy has existed for a long time. And it's mentioned how certain parts could apply to other people. Le'Garde was aware of the prophecy and seemed to use it for his benefit to grow his following and impress upon people that his ascent to power is inevitable. I guess some time soon I should do a deep dive into the source material that inspired F&H. This is faster than waiting for a new game that will answer some questions and raise new ones that complicate the existing narrative and lore.
@@freddymedina-ui7mm Edit: Watching the flashback of Enki on the brink of being sacrificed and having visions... His dialogue gives us no indication of what he is seeing or experiencing. Does he see Le'Garde? Don't know. Does he see The Girl? Don't know. Is someone telling him that there is a secret library filled with books to strengthen his body and tell him about the true nature of the Gods and reality? Don't know. Thanks. 😊 I had to stop and start the Enki flashback quite a few times to read everything. While this flashback does give us SOME insight into Enki as a person there is much that remains unclear and is subject to debate and interpretation. I doubt Enki's visions were caused by the Old Gods... Unless, the Old Gods desire the death of the New Gods AND want to thwart Le'Garde's ambitions. Maybe it's simply time to start the cycle again with a fresh set of puppets, since the current batch seem to be aware of their limitations and have lost favor with the public. What good is it to have New Gods as puppets if they have no influence over the masses? Overall, I lean toward his visions being the result of meddling by the New Gods, but why don't the visions center around The Girl? Why Le'Garde? Is the intention to lure Enki to F&H because of Le'Garde...but along the way he knowing or unknowingly will be compelled to guide The Girl safely to the darkest depths to become an Ascended God? If this ultimately is a bait and switch this plan relies upon a vast number of assumptions in order to work. It's also not outside the realm of possibility that Enki was in such an extreme state of psychological distress and physical pain that his brain mashed together a hallucination of the various thoughts stored in his head. What are the rules for making human sacrifices? Can anyone be sacrificed, or is there a priority ranking? For example, prisoners and criminals are prioritized for sacrifice, followed by people who are willing, people who are crippled / chronically ill and the elderly. Are Enki and the priests part of the same religious order? Or is Enki part of a more secretive occult branch that is outside the mainstream Al-Mer establishment? Maybe members of Enki's occult branch are scholars and scientists who seek to push the boundaries of what is possible. Maybe the priests presiding over the ceremony are more "functional" and deal with more mundane tasks like donation collection, public mass, ceremony and administration. It seems strange to allow one of your fellow member to sacrifice themselves, especially if they already limit their numbers by only allowing one child of each (noble?) family to enter the priesthood. Then again...cults have a tendency of rationalizing horrible deeds. Perhaps, it's an "honor" to be sacrificed or a way of redeeming yourself for some transgression, defect or failure. Were they going to sacrifice Enki to Al-Mer (the Jesus ascended God) or some other deity? We have a scene exactly like this earlier in the game, I think the magic circle was dedicated to Al-Mer. Looking around at other videos I don't think Enki has a noticeable reaction to the priests having someone at the ready to sacrifice in the same manner that he was going to be sacrificed. Does this flashback give us any possible indication of his true origin? The short answer is simply...we can't be sure. It's easier to imagine that he would be much more unhappy in the future if he refused to kill his sister and was dropped down a hole and left for dead. Whether he takes revenge on the cult or simply leaves the fact remains he has no human attachments. If he did take this path we have to wonder, how it is he has magical abilities? Was he able to learn magic by communing with the Gods through prayer, meditation and the bugs that kept him company? Is he simply gifted? Is magic an innate talent for a select group of people? Did he learn everything he knows through self study and experimentation? If he did spend time traveling to different places to study the dark arts...is no one seriously going to inquire about a temple that was burned down? Is no one going to ask questions about his name, family of origin, where and when he was initiated or figure out that Enki shouldn't be alive? Do they not keep track of their members? Is no one responsible for monitoring and keeping track of the apprentices? If Enki had chosen to kill his sister...that could of instilled in him at an early age that the world is cruel and apathetic to people's suffering. And then to be cut loose, alone, to go on a pilgrimage of self study and ostracized by virtually everyone for your line of study... Maybe Enki was uniquely traumatized by not just killing his sister, but killing his twin, who spared him. Maybe he was one of the few people in his order who had to endure this as an initiation? Maybe others had to kill an animal or a stranger they had no connection to instead of killing a sibling? Not exactly a recipe for creating a sense of well being... For all his time and effort applying himself to his solitary studies... He concludes: there is nothing. No joy. No meaning. In the end everyone is a helpless play thing for the Gods. His twin sister is dead, his body is frail and has not improved with different medicines and treatments and piecing together everything he has studied he can only conclude that there is no hope that things can change for the better.
Ragnvaldr S mode hardest to achieve mainly due to it requiring the highest endurance to win. You have to defeat many enemies therefore your items will dwindle, your torches will run out faster. Enki's S mode is second hardest to achieve due to having to fight Sylvian in hard mode. Cahara's S mode might be the third hardest but not by that much compared to Darce's. Darce's S mode is the easiest to achieve however it is hard to figure out. Enki's ending might be hardest to figure out but Darce's ending is second hardest to figure out.
I agree with your take, but i think Ragnvaldr is easier than enki, he just has access to better stuff, better choices and ultimately can diminish his rng hell. enki has to survive rng hell just in order to start
@divyanshsingh1078 yeah but he also has the stats to be able to , and has a much easier time, and no equipment locks. Also it's really simple, kill everything that has a soul to drop and get the cube.
46:00 lol Dark Priest: by tincture spilt of Alll-Mer's veins, cursed souls bend to my will. I invoke the sign of Gro-Goroth to punish the sin of life. I am the architect of your destruction. STEVE: unga
Despite losing an arm and gaining panaphobia at the last second as a result of Sylvie showing you all her space colors a dozen times over, that was still a badass run.
A full run? Lets goo i have seen/heard so much about this. it sounds super punishing lets see how someone can deal with all the unfairness of this game.
I've always wanted to play this one and the newer one, but I just don't have the patience to deal with the possibility of losing because of RNG or losing my limbs over and over.
It's not impossible. I mean, there are mature games on the switch like survival horror games and adult eroge. What might probably make it difficult for this game to get into the eShop might be the graphic depictions of sexual assault, pedophilia, and alleged racism (cave dwellers)
You need Fast Attack or White Angel Soul to reliably kill Tormented One when you have mindless party members (summons.) You would spend each of your personal turns attacking one of the wheel pieces (2,3) and watch in dismay and your summons are for some reason weighted towards hitting The Tormented One instead of jamming the wheel. You need good RNG to have your summons hit the correct wheel piece that you are not hitting to jam it, and you need good RNG to not be the target of a 100+ damage combo; Chains of Torment + Torment Rip (melee attack from wheel whatever it is called) to 1 shot you or a party member. It is not so bad as I have put it though; I learned with Pheromones' and a tank with good enough MDef where Chains of Torment only does ~50 damage you can hypothetically tank the boss for as long as possible until you get good RNG to jam the wheel-- provided you have enough healing.
True, both become on par with the New Gods, perhaps even stronger. They are both Gods of a different kind and I'd say that Rag is also alive in Termina but he's busy taking down even bigger monsters. Enki? Man is likely pulling stuff that would make the new gods crap their pants in the present. Those two are GOATS.
Man you have insanely good RNG in a lot of these runs, I'm super jealous. How often do you have to reset just due to bad early item drops or coin tosses?
Maybe ~5 attempts, I can just explore the first 2 sections of bookshelves and determine if the run is worth continuing. In essence, I always wanted my videos to serve as guides so I have been working on making "No Empty Scroll" runs where the viewer does not need to match insane luck to make it through the run.
@@garenoak6589 I never played this game but did you make a run where you are as evil/amoral as possible while killing as many opponents as possible too? Preferably with dark priest. Stuff like killing your sis at the start instead of accepting defeat and going for revenge and burning down the church? Even if its not the "best" option, just be as evil as possible. Also could you go a bit slower when you talk with npcs? Having to go 0.25 each time just to read them kinda sucks. Those are just a suggestions of course and maybe its not your thing or something but it would be kinda nice to see "total bastard" run.
Dark Priest look and skillset make him the coolest character. Don't know why people tend to go for Outlander. Me also go for Occult in Fear & Hunger 2 instead of that thug guy
I notice you took the good way, instead of going for necromancy, is it possible to learn necromancy pretty early on down this path too? Same with blood golems?
Yes if you pick grogoroth in your intro studies you gain max affinity and can get necromancy very early on as long as you find 2 soul stones, picking necromancy in your intro isn't recommended as it locks you out of dash which is a great quality of life skill
I was following the guide on the wiki and nowhere did it said I had to equip the soul anchor to Enki after beating Sylvian and I lost an entire day worth of process.
Would you maybe do annotations or even a voiceover for one of these runs? Or do you have some good guides or resources you can link to so I can learn more? I'm just getting into this game, I finished a single run and got the E ending, and now that I'm looking into different runs and endings, I'm amazed by all of the sheer depth of content and eager to dive in!
Some questions I thought of while watching this run: 1. Why did you pick Alll-mer as the god you serve? 2. Why are you searching the libraries so extensively? 3. How did you steal an item from the priest during combat? 4. What is your thought process wrt the Hexen table and its tech tree? 5. It seems like it's more than just a difficulty increase in hard mode-there seems like there's more content, items, encounters, etc. in general? 6. I noticed you picking tails a lot on coin flips? Is that just a preference or is there some metagame to the coinflip system? Or is it truly a 50/50? 7. At around 19:00 ish you keep going up and down the stairs. Why? 8. What happens when you cut the purple pulsating thing in the catacombs?
@@HammarHeart 1. To unlock Blood Portal early 2. For Quills I assume 3. He found a book that taught him Steal, so he used it on the enemies 4. Blood Portal first to save time and resources; Necromancy is extremely valuable in Hard Mode; Dark Orb is a good damaging skill 5. No Save; No Teammate (other than Necromancy); Enemies are tougher; Food has a chance to be rotten, etc 6. True 50/50 7. IDK 8. That's for Ending A & B, meaningless for S runs
I wish I could find a video where everyone isn’t skipping through the text as if it matters how fast they complete the game. Obviously the viewer if new to a series would enjoy reading along.. but it seems like this content creator assumes everyone who watching his videos has played the game. I haven’t. This was to see if I would want to play it and I do just to read it for myself 😂
"It just let you go..." Not the game casually reminding you the only reason the party was "victorious" in this scenario is cause you bored Sylvian till she left 😭😭
Every room in the dungeon is a preset; for that particular level "Level 3 Thicket" there are probably 3-4 preset maps the developer made. On this particular map (I seem to roll this map like 33% of the time,) there is a glitched lucky coin spawn where you may pick it up an infinite amount of times. I have played this game so much; I can immediately recognize if I got that particular map the first 5 seconds of loading in based on the layout of the level and the enemy spawns. As good as infinite lucky coins sound; it is definitely something I am not dependent on-- on completing the run; especially since I plan to do No Empty Scroll runs in the future, and the most useful thing of lucky coins is using them on bookcases-- for empty scrolls.
@@MattBG67 the glitched coin is conditional to another lucky coin in the mines, inside one of the cavedweller huts; if you grab that one, the infinite glitch reverts to 1.
would you consider playing this for people who havent seen the game before? you skipped so much i have no idea what is going on even playing the video at .25% speed i am missing several dialogue boxes and it is actually rather hard finding a version without talking
Man why does the game lag like that and drop frames so hard randomly? Its not a very graphic intensive game, but It'll do it to me randomly as well, granted i have a pretty old PC.
I know this is 8 months old but, search: "Fear and Hunger PC Fixes" and click on the first link (it icon is that of a wiki icon) there you will see a fix for the performance which basically updates the games JS and shaders to run better follow it and yeah better performance.
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When I realized what the dark priest was capable of, he became my favorite character. It almost seemed like he was MADE for this.
Yes the character in this game was made for this game, great observation
Braindead mf
I mean,he came to the f&h dungeons because "god's told him to do so"...
How to acquire the ability to steal?
@@observadoranonimo3782 You can get it from reading some books as the mercenary or get the endless soul and then use a soul stone to get the ability
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Dark Priest by far has the most bad fucking ass ending, literally rejecting GODHOOD to become stronger than gods
@TheDemi-fiend WAR BROKE OUT IN HEAVEN
Enki and Rag are certified badasses
He was wise enough to realize humans aren't meant to become gods nor know knowledge beyond this world. Instead working with what he has, to become the best version of himself.
nah he rejected it to keep his human form and not be transformed into an ugly monster
@@MikeCrainI don't think Enki hates knowledge beyond what mortals were designated to know. He wrote the skin-bible series for a reason.
The reason why he pursue the path to enlightenment in the first place is to have an objective understanding of the greater scheme of things and he in the end, he did. Absorbing every knowledge the dungeon could offer along the way.
Best part was Enki casually bending fate to his will by picking up the same lucky coin over and over again
Because he was be "the lucky one"
how did that happen? is it a bug/debug tile?
@@Aqua_9191 I think in this case it is just an improperly coded tile, mainly say that due to the fact it keeps shining even after you pick it up
I can almost feel the anger of getting 3 empty scrolls immediately and then not getting a quill until after mahabre
Sylvian in hard mode made Dark Priest's S ending the hardest to achieve. You have one chance in the beginning if not you get held by tentacle and beaten to death.
What about Outlander S ending tho ?
@@skell6134 No tentacles at least but I would say very close to it as well. It was the tentacles that really threw me off.
@@bizznick444joe7 I mean,just considering how much Outlander NEEDS to kill for his ending i really would say that Sylvian is kinda on same level XD
@@skell6134 D'arce's S ending is hard to figure out if you don't look it up. Cahara's S ending is easy but also hard to figure out. These things would only happen by accident.
@@bizznick444joe7 Welp,to be fair ANY of S endings are hard to figure out without looking up for them
But Outlander and Dark Priest endings just get so much harder from actually requiring to fight pretty hard enemies to achive them
Average dark priest playthrough:🧓💀💀💀
Enki be like: RIP BOZO
@@grievetan RIP BOZO
Or sometimes 🧟
Dark priest smoked that blunt at the end, and became god
goals
Reject godhood, accept opium pipes
Local opium addict abuses christianity to kill squid god
based
Yeah
Damn, that Sylvian fight was HARD. Old gods are no joke (by comparison, newer ones ARE a joke.)
Yes. Remember what you're fighting are the traces of old gods. Merely their traces. It's only 0.1% to the nanoscale of their power.
Yo new gods are week af then. Makes sense, they're basically just mortals with immortality plus some bonuses. They aren't true gods.
@@Nick-wi3kd so wait. Would all of humanity’s god be classified as new?
@@Ttegeggyes, the only exceptions being ALL-MER and the god of fear and hunger who are classified as ascended god's instead of new ones
@@somethingsomewhat8860 I'm new. Is the yellow king strong compared to new gods?
Using the elixir of mind to bring Servil to sanity and then killing him was ice cold.
It might was, but it was also satisfying
Local man hunts for quill for half hour
Local dark priest*
3 Empty Scroll and 1 pinecone instruction in the first 5 minutes! By the grace of Al-Merr, you are really blessed!
Missing that yellow mages arm 4 times hurt to watch
24:44 if anyone is curious
But peep the success rate of running 👀 ON HARD MODE
@@translivesmatterfr😮😮😮😮😮😮😢😢
1:08:53
This game is a trip...creepy, unforgiving mechanics with an actual story and lore that is sufficiently complex to make it engaging, but not so complex to make you tune it out.
Whatever version of Enki's life is most accurate--Enki decides to off himself.
And before the ritual of human sacrifice can be complete he has a vision or series of visions about Le Garde. Were these visions triggered by an Old God, a New God, or something else?
Who benefits the most by luring Enki into the depths of Fear and Hunger?
Are they sending him to his death? To help Le Garde? To help The Girl beome an Ascended God? To become the new enlightened one and strike some sort of balance between being a New God and merely a mortal?
The Old Gods have mostly faded from the world. And agents of the Moon God seem to mostly target human children. I suppose one could argue that demanding human sacrifice is another way to cull the human population of potential threats to the Gods. It seems unlikely that an Old God would be the source of his visions.
When you come out of the dream one of the New Gods (who's name I am blanking on) asks you to take The Girl to the depths of Fear and Hunger. There is nothing said about Le Garde.
Heh...I guess Le Guard was probably just a means to an end to bring into existence a child to become an Ascended God and usher in a new age that ends the suffering and stagnation.
Very curious...
Adding onto my initial thoughts...
Le Garde steals the artifact that was recovered by this world's version of Vikings and orchestrates his own imprisonment because this gets him closer to his ultimate goal of becoming a God.
D'arce wants to rescue her man from danger.
The mercenary as far as we know is purely motivated by money to better his life and the lives of his lady friend and her unborn child.
And the buff Viking dude is motivated by a desire to avenge the deaths of his people at the hands of Le Garde and his followers.
On the surface Enki is the only one to have a supernatural origin for his motivation...
Unless we try to read deeper meaning into Le Garde's memory flashback...(which I need to watch again more closely).
Did Le Garde through his intention, his belief in himself and his belief in being destined for greatness in some way cause Enki to have a vision? Gor-Goroth (?), the Old God of destruction says something during ending B that the Gods are a manifestation of humans intentions, beliefs, behaviors... something like this.
Did Le Garde literally create his own self fulfilling prophecy? Or did the prophecy exist prior to his accomplishments?
Perhaps this is only the newest iteration of a cycle that has been repeated many times?
The Fellowship consisted of five members originally. And counting Le Garde and our four playable characters gives us five total. Though I don't think their personalities and attributes are a perfect 1:1 equivalent, but maybe this detail isn't important.
Whether this cycle is by divine influence or simply the result of a handful of people from each generation converging on the same thought process and solution is debatable.
I should reference the wiki and rewatch the memory flashback.
They do supposedly correspond to each New God, if you look at their souls and account for Le Garde being akin to Nosramus/The Forgotten One. The correspondence would be as such:
Valtiel = Enki's Enlightened Soul
Francois = D'arce's Dominating Soul
Tormented One = Ragnvaldr's Tormented Soul
Nilvan = Cahara's Endless Soul.
Their soul information is on the wiki, and I'm not sure if this is in the game files, but it seems there's a precedence here. This would also imply that said soul types are not limited to gender, though there are again 4 males and 1 female, with 1 male outsider/traitor archetype. It's also worth mentioning that the lore of the gods is heavily inspired by the Old Gods of Silent Hill, to include their death and rebirth rituals like in SH2, and the Crow Mauler being inspired by Pyramid Head behind the bars in the first encounter. Another example is (another spelling of) Valtiel, being a New God of enlightenment with poor communication skills and same name in both settings. Much of the upshot of F&H occult lore could be lifted from this inspiration, to include Berserk's Eclipse.
EDIT: There are also 5 confirmed old gods at this time, but there were only 4 in the original F&H, continuing the pattern. The fifth was a child of two of the old god's, Sylvia and Gro-goroth.
@@EleusiusBlack
I had a thought that maybe the soul types could better account for a possible connection between the fellowship and the most recent group of adventurers in F&H.
However, I think the significance of this soul correspondence can be brought into question with Fear & Hunger Termina expanding the number of soul types to 24 (I believe). Unless, perhaps there are certain soul types that are more important or more powerful than others.
In western astrology I know different signs have various attributes associated with them, but there are some commonalities. For example there are 3 water signs, 3 air signs, 3 fire signs and 3 earth signs.
Having had a chance to re-watch the memory segment about D'arce and Le'Garde it seems the prophecy has existed for a long time. And it's mentioned how certain parts could apply to other people. Le'Garde was aware of the prophecy and seemed to use it for his benefit to grow his following and impress upon people that his ascent to power is inevitable.
I guess some time soon I should do a deep dive into the source material that inspired F&H. This is faster than waiting for a new game that will answer some questions and raise new ones that complicate the existing narrative and lore.
I love this, you put in my thoughts but articulated them better, also nice interpretation on the Enki flashback, couldn't make much sense about it.
@@freddymedina-ui7mm
Edit: Watching the flashback of Enki on the brink of being sacrificed and having visions... His dialogue gives us no indication of what he is seeing or experiencing. Does he see Le'Garde? Don't know. Does he see The Girl? Don't know. Is someone telling him that there is a secret library filled with books to strengthen his body and tell him about the true nature of the Gods and reality? Don't know.
Thanks. 😊
I had to stop and start the Enki flashback quite a few times to read everything.
While this flashback does give us SOME insight into Enki as a person there is much that remains unclear and is subject to debate and interpretation.
I doubt Enki's visions were caused by the Old Gods... Unless, the Old Gods desire the death of the New Gods AND want to thwart Le'Garde's ambitions. Maybe it's simply time to start the cycle again with a fresh set of puppets, since the current batch seem to be aware of their limitations and have lost favor with the public. What good is it to have New Gods as puppets if they have no influence over the masses?
Overall, I lean toward his visions being the result of meddling by the New Gods, but why don't the visions center around The Girl? Why Le'Garde? Is the intention to lure Enki to F&H because of Le'Garde...but along the way he knowing or unknowingly will be compelled to guide The Girl safely to the darkest depths to become an Ascended God? If this ultimately is a bait and switch this plan relies upon a vast number of assumptions in order to work.
It's also not outside the realm of possibility that Enki was in such an extreme state of psychological distress and physical pain that his brain mashed together a hallucination of the various thoughts stored in his head.
What are the rules for making human sacrifices? Can anyone be sacrificed, or is there a priority ranking? For example, prisoners and criminals are prioritized for sacrifice, followed by people who are willing, people who are crippled / chronically ill and the elderly.
Are Enki and the priests part of the same religious order? Or is Enki part of a more secretive occult branch that is outside the mainstream Al-Mer establishment? Maybe members of Enki's occult branch are scholars and scientists who seek to push the boundaries of what is possible. Maybe the priests presiding over the ceremony are more "functional" and deal with more mundane tasks like donation collection, public mass, ceremony and administration.
It seems strange to allow one of your fellow member to sacrifice themselves, especially if they already limit their numbers by only allowing one child of each (noble?) family to enter the priesthood. Then again...cults have a tendency of rationalizing horrible deeds. Perhaps, it's an "honor" to be sacrificed or a way of redeeming yourself for some transgression, defect or failure.
Were they going to sacrifice Enki to Al-Mer (the Jesus ascended God) or some other deity? We have a scene exactly like this earlier in the game, I think the magic circle was dedicated to Al-Mer. Looking around at other videos I don't think Enki has a noticeable reaction to the priests having someone at the ready to sacrifice in the same manner that he was going to be sacrificed.
Does this flashback give us any possible indication of his true origin? The short answer is simply...we can't be sure.
It's easier to imagine that he would be much more unhappy in the future if he refused to kill his sister and was dropped down a hole and left for dead. Whether he takes revenge on the cult or simply leaves the fact remains he has no human attachments. If he did take this path we have to wonder, how it is he has magical abilities? Was he able to learn magic by communing with the Gods through prayer, meditation and the bugs that kept him company? Is he simply gifted? Is magic an innate talent for a select group of people? Did he learn everything he knows through self study and experimentation? If he did spend time traveling to different places to study the dark arts...is no one seriously going to inquire about a temple that was burned down? Is no one going to ask questions about his name, family of origin, where and when he was initiated or figure out that Enki shouldn't be alive? Do they not keep track of their members? Is no one responsible for monitoring and keeping track of the apprentices?
If Enki had chosen to kill his sister...that could of instilled in him at an early age that the world is cruel and apathetic to people's suffering. And then to be cut loose, alone, to go on a pilgrimage of self study and ostracized by virtually everyone for your line of study...
Maybe Enki was uniquely traumatized by not just killing his sister, but killing his twin, who spared him. Maybe he was one of the few people in his order who had to endure this as an initiation? Maybe others had to kill an animal or a stranger they had no connection to instead of killing a sibling?
Not exactly a recipe for creating a sense of well being...
For all his time and effort applying himself to his solitary studies...
He concludes: there is nothing.
No joy.
No meaning.
In the end everyone is a helpless play thing for the Gods.
His twin sister is dead, his body is frail and has not improved with different medicines and treatments and piecing together everything he has studied he can only conclude that there is no hope that things can change for the better.
Interesting take. I also wondered who appeared on Enki's vision.
55:50 Steve getting hit with the top5 anime betrayals....
There's no mercy in the dungeons, not even between friends
O LORD GIVE ZAZA: Priest calms down
Zaza
Man super eyepatch wolf got to Sylvian and died and I have been gasping to see what happened next so I appreciate this
same
Ragnvaldr S mode hardest to achieve mainly due to it requiring the highest endurance to win. You have to defeat many enemies therefore your items will dwindle, your torches will run out faster.
Enki's S mode is second hardest to achieve due to having to fight Sylvian in hard mode.
Cahara's S mode might be the third hardest but not by that much compared to Darce's.
Darce's S mode is the easiest to achieve however it is hard to figure out. Enki's ending might be hardest to figure out but Darce's ending is second hardest to figure out.
I agree with your take, but i think Ragnvaldr is easier than enki, he just has access to better stuff, better choices and ultimately can diminish his rng hell. enki has to survive rng hell just in order to start
@@ProffessorYellow nah, ragnaldr is clearly harder because of things you need to do, like defeating everyone
@divyanshsingh1078 yeah but he also has the stats to be able to , and has a much easier time, and no equipment locks. Also it's really simple, kill everything that has a soul to drop and get the cube.
@@ProffessorYellow You have to go through a lot of RNG since you have to fight a lot of bosses.
@@bizznick444joe7what is rng?
46:00 lol
Dark Priest: by tincture spilt of Alll-Mer's veins, cursed souls bend to my will. I invoke the sign of Gro-Goroth to punish the sin of life. I am the architect of your destruction.
STEVE: unga
So.. I actually have no idea what this game is and this is my first time seeing it, it just randomly showed up in my recommended!
You should do a captains log for these findings ;)
cheese pfp fr fr
Basically Dark souls but we are actually truly unfair edition
@@That1Smug dark souls is for kids compared to this game... and i love souls games but this game scares me
@@That1Smug more like if Dark Souls wasn't holding back and is out for your blood.
Great run! Can't wait to see you play Fear & Hunger Termina.
Despite losing an arm and gaining panaphobia at the last second as a result of Sylvie showing you all her space colors a dozen times over, that was still a badass run.
46:09
Highly dangerous magic targeted at the head: Miss
Ghoul slap: Instant death
Everybody gangsta until the girl/random ghoul with 5 damage hits 100% head hits
A full run? Lets goo i have seen/heard so much about this. it sounds super punishing lets see how someone can deal with all the unfairness of this game.
I have a feeling from when you made your first skeleton that you may have seen Overlord.
Call it a hunch.
56:08 Lmao that cave spider was SOO ofended!!!
36:06 my ass clenched so hard when the he spawned right next to you
i love good steve
nooo good steve
i love the dreadful OST of encountering an enemy, it makes u feel like it could be your last moves
Rip Zombie Steve , you are a real one for almost half of the playthrough 😢
Is that Crow Mauler busting through the wall at 33:45 ??? I didn’t even know that could happen
OH YEAAAAAAAH
It happens on "Terror and Starvation" or Hardmode only, and not in the base game.
Ignore him, he's not the main character, I'm!
@@MightyEnkiAnkarian Lucky coin plot armor
I've always wanted to play this one and the newer one, but I just don't have the patience to deal with the possibility of losing because of RNG or losing my limbs over and over.
There are mods where you can save as much as you want, they recently came out though
and you can cheat in infinite books of enlightenment
46:22 it's so funny that hurting missed then steven just walked up and punched them out. Thank you for at least one good thing normal steve.
i watch your playthroughs while working, it's strangely relaxing
How many Steves do we have to lose, before the thing will done? STEVE LIFE MATTER
i've been crying for 50 minutes because of steve's death. he didnt even know what happened. so sad. but i loved the video, thank you
I wish the dev could put fear and hunger 1 and 2 in the switch. Portable horror 👏
It's probably too mature. Nintendo is aimed at kids.
@@dreye3215Yeah, i cant imagine a world in which nintendo would let this type of game in their platform
There is a hentai game on the Switch game store soooo...
It's not impossible. I mean, there are mature games on the switch like survival horror games and adult eroge. What might probably make it difficult for this game to get into the eShop might be the graphic depictions of sexual assault, pedophilia, and alleged racism (cave dwellers)
Dude, steam deck
Huh i never knew Francois could get passivity looped by dialogue like that
The character portrait in the end reminds me of the JoJo style.
14:54 Just as the devs intended..?
I can't wait to see you play termina! Awesome run!
You gotta love how he gives himself greater blood magic with an empty scroll despite getting the scroll of wizards
Is Tormented one really that bad? I always found the fight easy with crit katana and charm + Penance Armor and necromancy.
You need Fast Attack or White Angel Soul to reliably kill Tormented One when you have mindless party members (summons.) You would spend each of your personal turns attacking one of the wheel pieces (2,3) and watch in dismay and your summons are for some reason weighted towards hitting The Tormented One instead of jamming the wheel. You need good RNG to have your summons hit the correct wheel piece that you are not hitting to jam it, and you need good RNG to not be the target of a 100+ damage combo; Chains of Torment + Torment Rip (melee attack from wheel whatever it is called) to 1 shot you or a party member.
It is not so bad as I have put it though; I learned with Pheromones' and a tank with good enough MDef where Chains of Torment only does ~50 damage you can hypothetically tank the boss for as long as possible until you get good RNG to jam the wheel-- provided you have enough healing.
@@garenoak6589 have you tried using brown vials? that should alleviate your problems with being targetted.
Your tags must not be filled in. So many ppl searching and you have the answers
@@garenoak6589 You can poison the wheels too.
Enki and Rag are certified badasses
True, both become on par with the New Gods, perhaps even stronger. They are both Gods of a different kind and I'd say that Rag is also alive in Termina but he's busy taking down even bigger monsters. Enki? Man is likely pulling stuff that would make the new gods crap their pants in the present. Those two are GOATS.
21:25 I could feel the rage and frustration through my screen.
Man you have insanely good RNG in a lot of these runs, I'm super jealous. How often do you have to reset just due to bad early item drops or coin tosses?
Maybe ~5 attempts, I can just explore the first 2 sections of bookshelves and determine if the run is worth continuing. In essence, I always wanted my videos to serve as guides so I have been working on making "No Empty Scroll" runs where the viewer does not need to match insane luck to make it through the run.
You bet your ass he had to run it again and again
@@garenoak6589 doin' The Gods work my fren
@@garenoak6589 I never played this game but did you make a run where you are as evil/amoral as possible while killing as many opponents as possible too? Preferably with dark priest. Stuff like killing your sis at the start instead of accepting defeat and going for revenge and burning down the church? Even if its not the "best" option, just be as evil as possible. Also could you go a bit slower when you talk with npcs? Having to go 0.25 each time just to read them kinda sucks. Those are just a suggestions of course and maybe its not your thing or something but it would be kinda nice to see "total bastard" run.
i kept screaming: "GIVE THIS MF A GODDAMN QUILL" for the first half of the video
34:52 best name. "man i m dead" was a good name also
Francios: please do tell me who’s above me
> dies
1.13.00 in memories of good steve, rest in piece ☹️
Dark Priest look and skillset make him the coolest character. Don't know why people tend to go for Outlander. Me also go for Occult in Fear & Hunger 2 instead of that thug guy
Occult? You mean Marina? Also yeah, I'm the coolest character
34:49 this is a certified sasuga moment
I know this is a year old, but I love having these play in the background while I play animal crossing or roblox. It's like a movie, sort of.
"You found lucky coin!"
Me: Okay.
"You found lucky coin!"
Me: OKAY.
*"YOU FOUND LUCKY COIN"*
Me: HOLY ALL-MER, WHAT WITCHCRAFT IS THIS!?
I have absolutely no idea what this game is but it's interesting enough to watch
that's me when im afraid and hungry (Idk never played this game myself)
1:40:24 - hehe, you grew a hand from sitting on the golden throne only to lose it right after...
ALL PRAISE SKELEBRO. What a champ.
*kills elder god and smokes a cig*
Don't make it a sigma edit
46:10 the most dumbest, yet most luckiest situation ever.
O LORD
GIVE
TRACES OF GRO-GOROTH
I'm too much of a baby to play and I hate frustrating games so thank you for uploading.
RIP steve 😔
I notice you took the good way, instead of going for necromancy, is it possible to learn necromancy pretty early on down this path too? Same with blood golems?
Yes if you pick grogoroth in your intro studies you gain max affinity and can get necromancy very early on as long as you find 2 soul stones, picking necromancy in your intro isn't recommended as it locks you out of dash which is a great quality of life skill
me who just stumbled upon this seemingly unfamilliar video: "Ahh yes cool im gonna watch this whole now"
SMOKING THAT SYLVIAN PACK...
Dark priest so goated he became cunty at the end 1:52:52
Stop it
Have you ever considered doing a commentated run? Doesn’t have to be a voice-over. Could just be through Closed Captions
I was following the guide on the wiki and nowhere did it said I had to equip the soul anchor to Enki after beating Sylvian and I lost an entire day worth of process.
never played this game and never will but wow, captivating thanks for that
34:48 Ainz Sama!
can you make a video beating that one trex enemy
42:25 Legends were made here
Would you maybe do annotations or even a voiceover for one of these runs? Or do you have some good guides or resources you can link to so I can learn more? I'm just getting into this game, I finished a single run and got the E ending, and now that I'm looking into different runs and endings, I'm amazed by all of the sheer depth of content and eager to dive in!
Some questions I thought of while watching this run:
1. Why did you pick Alll-mer as the god you serve?
2. Why are you searching the libraries so extensively?
3. How did you steal an item from the priest during combat?
4. What is your thought process wrt the Hexen table and its tech tree?
5. It seems like it's more than just a difficulty increase in hard mode-there seems like there's more content, items, encounters, etc. in general?
6. I noticed you picking tails a lot on coin flips? Is that just a preference or is there some metagame to the coinflip system? Or is it truly a 50/50?
7. At around 19:00 ish you keep going up and down the stairs. Why?
8. What happens when you cut the purple pulsating thing in the catacombs?
@@HammarHeart
1. To unlock Blood Portal early
2. For Quills I assume
3. He found a book that taught him Steal, so he used it on the enemies
4. Blood Portal first to save time and resources; Necromancy is extremely valuable in Hard Mode; Dark Orb is a good damaging skill
5. No Save; No Teammate (other than Necromancy); Enemies are tougher; Food has a chance to be rotten, etc
6. True 50/50
7. IDK
8. That's for Ending A & B, meaningless for S runs
I wish I could find a video where everyone isn’t skipping through the text as if it matters how fast they complete the game. Obviously the viewer if new to a series would enjoy reading along.. but it seems like this content creator assumes everyone who watching his videos has played the game. I haven’t. This was to see if I would want to play it and I do just to read it for myself 😂
"It just let you go..."
Not the game casually reminding you the only reason the party was "victorious" in this scenario is cause you bored Sylvian till she left 😭😭
1:51:28 Meeting an godly reflection of the Dark Priest.
yea, this is roughly what my first playthrough looked like
14:53 I haven't played this game that much, but is picking up that many lucky coins an exploit or is there something I'm missing?
Every room in the dungeon is a preset; for that particular level "Level 3 Thicket" there are probably 3-4 preset maps the developer made. On this particular map (I seem to roll this map like 33% of the time,) there is a glitched lucky coin spawn where you may pick it up an infinite amount of times.
I have played this game so much; I can immediately recognize if I got that particular map the first 5 seconds of loading in based on the layout of the level and the enemy spawns.
As good as infinite lucky coins sound; it is definitely something I am not dependent on-- on completing the run; especially since I plan to do No Empty Scroll runs in the future, and the most useful thing of lucky coins is using them on bookcases-- for empty scrolls.
@@garenoak6589 I accidentally found that glitched coin too
@@MattBG67 the glitched coin is conditional to another lucky coin in the mines, inside one of the cavedweller huts; if you grab that one, the infinite glitch reverts to 1.
Well played!
The mouse cameo around 1:29:00 ❤
Mans was breaking ankles
46:13 iconic moment
The game that separates the men from the boys.
Unless you use debug tiles
is there a particular reason you tend to go into your inventory to light a torch instead of just pressing t?
would you consider playing this for people who havent seen the game before? you skipped so much i have no idea what is going on even playing the video at .25% speed i am missing several dialogue boxes and it is actually rather hard finding a version without talking
I’d like to see this too ^^
I wish this was on consoles.
1:05:36
EXCUSE ME THERE WAS A WHAT?!?!
36:07 Damn, that was a terrifying moment
THREE
EMPTY
SCROLLS
LEVEL 1
Splendid run, I loved it
Took so long to get a quill holy!!
Man why does the game lag like that and drop frames so hard randomly? Its not a very graphic intensive game, but It'll do it to me randomly as well, granted i have a pretty old PC.
I know this is 8 months old but, search: "Fear and Hunger PC Fixes" and click on the first link (it icon is that of a wiki icon) there you will see a fix for the performance which basically updates the games JS and shaders to run better follow it and yeah better performance.
Thank you Eyepatch Wolf
Why did it show the necronomicon text when you picked up the thievery scroll in the beginning?
Amazing run. My one request would be maybe to not speed past dialog boxes toward the end? I for one want to know the end story.
what happened with the dog audio in the beginning?1:01 I have NEVER seen or had that happen to me. the torch?
If you take too much time outside then the dogs spawn and can enter the dungeon
@@ivotcomer3183 I realize it's based on difficulty now, my b
This game reminds me of a mobile game I used to play called Zelle. The gameplay is entirely different but the animation is pretty much the same.
33:45 bro said hello 😂
Nothing like a good steve
Stevez
I love your vids, just wish you fought more