Em returns to do more Artorias of the Abyss DLC! This time we go through Oolacile Township, we die a lot, A LOT! It's great. Then we get to the Abyss! We confront Manus, Father of the Abyss, it's rough y'all. And then we meet our solid bro Brunhilde!
SO TO BRUNHILDE!
We take a trip to the ~distant past~ as special guest Em from Abnormal Mapping and I begin our journey through Dark Souls' DLC -- ARTORIAS OF THE ABYSS!
2021-10-29 13:05:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on With Love from Lordran, Jackson from Abnormal Mapping joins me as we take Derby into the watery darkness of the NEW LONDO RUINS! There we confront THE ABYSS, & DARKWRAITHS, & the FOUR KINGS!
There are so many runs on the boss. It's ridiculous. Hope you enjoy! It's our last boss of the main game until The Final Figh...
ONE Special Guest (Trevor Strunk!)
TWO Zones
THREE Bosses
FOUR NPC Duels
And a FIVE Star Runtime!
Derby's back in a new epic adventure, this time exploring the lava nightmare of the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith!
Get STORY MODE by Trevor Strunk:
https://bookshop.org/contributors/trevor-strunk
2021-10-15 18:02:55 +0000 UTC
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Hey Everyone,
This week Michael Lutz joined me to go pants a scaleless dragon! I had a blast recording with Michael in one of the weirder zones in Dark Souls -- The Duke's Archives, a sort of laboratory by way of prison that was once a library. And it's home to a scaleless, mad, albino, blind undead dragon who was the father of sorcery!
In this episode, Derby decides she really hates sorcery.
Hope you enjoy!
Next week -- The Demon Ruins with Trevor Strunk!
It's a new month and a new season! This time on $1 One Shots we head off to an autumnal Michigan to a flood-ravaged landscape with just our blue-color knowhow and our truck (bearing the vanity plate "5AVA6E" -- I'm not even joking).
SNOWRUNNER is kind of fantastic, making use of the worst aspects of open world game design and somehow pulling it off. Except...
EXCEPT...
There's no fucking radio.
So we make-believe...and collect copyright notices.
Hope you en...
Hey everyone,
Starting October out with a solo episode. This week, we're cleaning up loose ends. A couple of minibosses, a boss that's much more of a tragic set piece than a Boss boss, and a lot of bouncing around between zones trying to get the pieces in place for a smooth glide into the end of the game.
Next week (unless I get too excited and just release it early) I'll be joined by Michael Lutz on a trip to Seath the Scaleless' personal library!
We're closing in on the e...
On this episode, we start out by fighting Sif. It's a brutal and narratively interesting moment that doesn't have an immediate payoff at all, and has to be put somewhere, so I decided to sandwich it on a day where I had the bulk of an episode that wouldn't also be miserable. If violence against against animals in games is upsetting to you (or you just don't want to see it -- Skip to 15:28, or click on t...
2021-09-24 14:59:54 +0000 UTC View Post
After a long absence we return to SMT and dedicate our hearts to finally getting over this next narrative/mechanical hump. We finally save up enough to buy a machine gun at the mall and then we save our mystical girlfriend from almost being executed by our mystical side chick with our epic Bros BIGTEXAS & RED COMET, and the narrative advances!
2021-09-21 13:36:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Jackson from Abnormal Mapping joins us to go deep into the darkness of THE TOMB OF THE GIANTS to confront THE GRAVELORD NITO, FIRST OF THE DEAD! What else will Derby find there in the Dark?! Smash play and find out!
2021-09-17 10:23:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, Gabriel struggles against cops, DOSBox, and old school PC adventure puzzle design. And an old friend appears...
2021-09-14 13:39:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Booty Bandit gets wrecked in the dark corridors of Bitterblack Isle...
With special guest Em of Abnormal Mapping!
2021-09-11 14:56:57 +0000 UTC View Post
On this episode, Derby is sick of the SKELETON MENACE, so she goes down to BONETOWN to kick some NECROMANCER ASS and RATTLE SOME SKULLS in the ~CATACOMBS~
2021-09-11 14:24:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Antifarose is back! This time in our explorations of Vana'diel, we take a trip to the Jugner Forest as we regain our bearings after several weeks off, and then we take a boat ride.
In this episode I talk a lot about the latest Game Studies Study Buddies episode about T.L. Taylor's Play Between Worlds. You can (and should) listen to that episode here: http://rangedtou...
Gabe learns about his dead racist family of mystic cops and people that Gabriel's talked to start dropping like flies...
2021-09-07 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Everyone,
ICYMI -- the latest episode of With Love from Lordran is live and it features none other than dear friend and colleague Trevor Strunk!
In this episode, we investigate the lies that bind Anor Londo together and the treacheries that lurk below that well-marbled surface!
This was a really fun episode to do full of death and trials and great conversation about Dark Souls and more...
2021-09-07 04:51:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
We're starting off September with the very first of the much promised One Shots -- my patron-only quick look LPs. I'm not always going to focus on little indies, but a lot of them will pull from the shorter and weirder when possible.
This time we're playing Don't Make Love by Maggese.
What does consensual mantis sex look like? Well, let's find out in this weird little conversation game about the complications of carnivorous copulation.
I hope y...
2021-09-01 04:34:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Derby in the Painted World, Part 2!
2021-08-13 20:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
After a long absence, we return to Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers!
Day 3 is a fun section, with lots of wackiness, a dose of spooky mystery reveals leading to deeper mystery, and a solid bit of adventure game bullshit!
Or, as the episode description says -- Gabe uses the telephone.
2021-08-12 00:05:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Derby crawls her way out of Blighttown to find out that something new has turned up at Firelink Shrine...
2021-06-11 07:11:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We chemically alter Lady Omelet's personality, and go off to fuck up Bitterblack Isle.
2021-06-07 00:36:46 +0000 UTC View Post
A quick bonus episode this week where Derby finishes up her business at the bottom of Blighttown!
2021-06-04 22:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Bit of a weird one because OBS didn't record any of my video, so this one is more of a podcast episode. In this episode we wander around the Valkrum Dunes working on our Subjob unlock quest and talk a lot about what the zone was back in the day. Then we walk back to San d'Oria after we realize how out of our depths we are in Jugner Forest.
It's a weird one but a fun one! Hope you enjoy!
2021-06-02 22:16:30 +0000 UTC View Post
We go back to the mall and learn about THE RESISTANCE and the COUP D'ETAT and the AMERICANS who are absolutely going to Nuke Japan.
2021-06-01 08:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Derby Goes to Blighttown, now in 60fps!
2021-05-29 15:34:25 +0000 UTC View Post
What makes Morrowind work is our encounter with the alien on a fantastic and treacherous island. It’s the engine that drives The Odyssey, The Tempest, and Jurassic Park. Morrowind uses the concept of the island to be weird and place us into conversation with that weirdness.
Closing out May at Paste by thinking through my feelings about why Morrowind worked, and what going back would even mean, and...
"This is what the initial promise of Biomutant was: wreck shit as a mutant Fiver from Watership Down while doing some Borrowers-style wandering and collecting in a post post-calamity world. I was practically stamping up and down in my editor’s inbox to review this one. And up through the character creator, it was everything I wanted."
You ever have a game go so horribly wrong on you? That was Biomutant for me. Every step forward in the game felt like a betrayal, and it left ...
What happened to Episode 27? Well it got eaten, but we salvaged what we could and pushed ever forward!
In this episode, Booty Bandit & Co. face off against some familiar foes, and then go deep into a dungeon at the far edges of the world that I don't even know I ever knew existed!
2021-05-26 03:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Derby wrecks the Gaping Dragon (with the help from some solid bros).
2021-05-23 04:53:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Antifarose finally figures out how to get the missing child away from those damn orcs and then makes her way through La Thiene Plateau and finds herself in the desert fishing hamlet of Selbina.
2021-05-23 04:52:27 +0000 UTC View Post