Let's Play: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow ► FINALE
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
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About the game
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Antiquarian Thomasina Bateman is writing a book on the barrows of England, documenting the treasures she finds buried within. When an intriguing letter summons her to the small village of Bewlay, tucked away in the remote countryside, she sets off by train with her assistant a day behind.
Upon her arrival, however, the mysterious man who summoned her is nowhere to be found. Her assistant never arrives. A stubborn landowner refuses access to the barrow, and the locals are wary of this woman who is traveling alone and (gasp!) wears trousers.
The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow is off to a rocky start. And then Thomasina starts having strange dreams…
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And here I though she was smarter. All the signs, but she still did exactly what they wanted. Reminds me of a movie I saw where something similar happened to the "crazy woman". This was definitely good and suspenseful.
The ending just felt like pure stupidity.
So my father who I love and idolize went into a coma after doing this and explicitly wrote in blood a letter to seal away this thing and NOT let it out.... BETTER LET IT OUT THEN!
Lovecraft + Poe + Pixel art + ZenBear You choosed a nice one for your serie return, thank you!
Missed you, and this was very good. Please don't let it be another two more years before you return with another gameplay here on youtube.
I am so glad you are here again. Your LPs are among my favorite and seeing a new upload always makes me happy. The game was also very good.
Great stuff, game is made with care and your playthrough smart and respectful as usual. I don't mind the super bad ending xD, it's good to go back to this kind of old tales formulas from times to times. Please come back, the world needs you! :P
I am glad to see another LP of you again, Zen.
Also, amazing timing - I was thinking about checking this game out but I just don't have the time and energy right now.
A really good game! Very lovecraftian, they really got the vibe better than a lot of games that claim to be lovecraftian. Especially with the ending... its dark but really fitting. And tbh, after all that hinting/foreshadowing it was clear this wouldn't end well.
This episode specifically reminds me so much of the best parts of sally face. The occult magic, the cults, the persistent doom following thomasina. Really really enjoyed it to the end.
That was great! Thank you for playing this game!
I was very pleased to see you are back, and enjoyed this series! I liked the ending but was disappointed there is just the only one and you didn't get to make any choice. Quite unfair to Thomasina! It would have been fitting to get a few choices but make them all result in tragedy: 1.) Get murdered by the villagers for refusing to cooperate (they find a way to use your blood and still free the god), 2.) somehow fighting back and getting jailed for life for accidentally killing one of them (maybe this way the god stays imprisoned) 3.) this original ending with self-sacrifice. Some of the ending options could have been unlocked by talking the right way to Mother Mildred and finding out that one of the herbs in the priests garden was traditionally used for exorcisms and you could scatter that on the unholy ground in the end. And maybe another option could be unlocked by talking the right way to our drunkard friend and unlocking his memories in the woods by showing him an object from the alleyway. Designers should have asked me! :D
Or do more with the idea of there being hallucinogenic flowers everywhere.
I keep crossing my fingers, hoping for an announcement from Zenbear that she’s starting her streaming channel.
Mixed feeling about this one. Good voice acting, good art, some good music, but hit and miss writing and very constrained mechanics. The ending was probably the best part.
woo, missed your series.
I hope there is another game which continues the story
Wau quite a dark end…. Thanks for let’s play it was fun. Looking forward for next one.
Would love to see an alternate playthrough with 'Lie' option
I got the creeps when all the animal heads turned quickly. I was hoping that she'd did something different, but at the same time, perhaps this is the logical dark end that should happen. O_O
If youre looking to play more. There is a wadjet eye humble bundle right now, with every wadjet eye game for 9$ or something.
Yay new completed series! Hope you had fun coming back on youtube
Awesome concept. Loved the twist.
I'm a bit shocked Thomasina bought the story that her father "buggered" the incantation, leaving him stuck. But the tablet clearly states the intent to seal someone in the earth.
I'm still confused if they're all high or what?
I hope Mr. Ambrose got out of town with his lady.
If she went crazy from the purple plants it's tragic that she ends up committed.
If she actually summoned some elder god it doesn't matter cuz we're all boned in that case. :P
mmh idk this is a very personal story, but then they also imply at the very end that freeing "Abraxas" (sounds like a laundry detergent) has far reaching consequences.
That was good ty ❤
Geez, the twist at the end... Wadjet's games (both published and developed) usually have a bittersweet ending to them. Not this one though.
I mean, is not a good pagan horror story if the cultists don't win.
Great voice acting (recording quality was a bit poor in my opinion). Art was good for the most part and music fits well. The game captures the setting of the moors (wind, clouds, loneliness, mystery...) very well. Maybe the best part in my opinion!
So... What about that "ass" thing at one of the final puzzles? English is not my main language, so I was a bit confused. Ass like... Buttocks? Is there other meaning for "ass" that I don't know? What a weird thing to put in such a tense and decisive moment of the story. Seeing that word there is going to make you laugh no matter how trapped you are in an ancient tomb. Weird... but capital.
The Lordship reminds me a lot of Lord Summerisle, from The Wicker Man. I guess there are a lot of references to pagan horror films.
Do we know if there are different endings?
Bugger off!
"Ass" is also commonly used to refer to a donkey :) As far as I know, this is the only ending.
@@TheZenBear I see! It make sense since the puzzle was about animals, but I was just hearing (not watching) during that part and it didn't make any sense to me 😂. Thanks for the answer and for the playthrough!
The ending of this really left a nasty taste in the mouth. It felt like Thomasina had no choice but to grab the idiot ball and do exactly what the cultists wanted.
I know what they were aiming for. And the first parts of the game are very Wicker Man but the last bit was incongruous as well.
Bad guy wins endings in games only work if there is a way to avert them if you're careful or lucky. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is an example. Yes, most of the time you are a great soft jelly thing like in the original novella but if you're careful and spot the clues through the characters individual stories you can find a way to transcend this. Similarly here there should have been a way to know the secret and escape without ending up mewed up in an asylum.
Speaking of which, maybe IHNMAIMS for your next one?
do you already know what you gonna play next ?
Yeah what a bleak end, it would have been nice if you could a final option to unleash Abraxas or not but ah well!
It was an enjoyable playthrough!
This just goesto show again that unleasing an elder god is not a good idea.
It seems content to stay in a small village in England
a queer heat? I guess that's why the story wasnt fully straight.
But it was not curiosity which killed the cat, it was worry what killed the cat. First one is just wrong "translation". The cat was worrying what happen to others, that worry killed the cat. It was "translated" wrongly, since the cat was wondering what happen to those member(s?) of their family.
Didn't like too much about ending of the game. Not so much because it was not happy ending, but just bit too tired on theme that every forgotten god is in entertainment industry seen as bad, while there is actually lot of good gods forgotten... I see that the game had lot of inspiration from movie "Wicked man", which is good movie..
But otherwise than boring out come of story and complaining that writer does not really know what it is life in country side (or that era what it represented)... it was quite great game.
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Hopefully next LP takes less than 2 years, but if it takes...then it takes.