tangobunny:I played some more Hexen II and the game keeps getting more and more inexplicable.I climb
tangobunny:I played some more Hexen II and the game keeps getting more and more inexplicable.I climbed up a chimney, and at the top of the chimney, it said “You need a bead of glass.” No explanation as to why.I then found a note in one of the buildings saying “I have hidden a key in the nearby store.” Finally a lead that makes sense! Upon going to the store, and finding a hidden passage, the game wouldn’t let me enter and said “Only one of the Brotherhood of Hunger may approach the Altar.” I didn’t even know there was an Altar there because I can’t go in to actually see it. I certainly don’t know what the Brotherhood of Hunger is.In another area, I found a note mentioning how a key was buried by the tree and the forge. I found where it was talking about, starting hitting the ground all around the area as that’s how every secret has been found so far, with no luck. I found shovels on the wall, but apparently they were the wrong shovels because I couldn’t pick them up. On checking a walkthrough, I had to get a specific shovel which was hidden behind a secret wall which could only be accessed by jumping across attic beams to an area you can’t actually see.This game feels like it was written by one of those Twitch Chat not-quite-backseaters who say “Ha ha, I won’t spoil what you have to do, BUT! I will make a RIDDLE to help you!” and then their riddle is completely nonsensical and doesn’t help anyone even if they did know the answer.(Tagging @davidxn)Thanks, I love seeing someone going through this stupid thing for the first time :) This was one of my big sticking points as well, in retrospect - why, in the stables and castles of the Mediaeval Zone, is there only one usable shovel? And why’s it stored behind a stone wall with the only switch across an awkward set of 90 degree ceiling beam jumps? (I assume that the other shovel built out of level geometry is just a momentary lapse in them remembering that there shouldn’t be any other shovels in the game.)I did my own increasingly vexed playthrough of it last year oh god three years ago.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJNT_ZYmZM&list=PL-36gm0W-VKk7QWN4muN_PJ4MeJxmthTs -- source link