Lokathor's Audio Only Let's Plays

Once more into the world of Skyrim!

I hope you like hearing about the badge system.

Trains are cool until the train station breaks their gate and we have to go inside and find a key.

Trains are pretty cool.

Okay so normally we'd just get warped back to town in short order, but this time it's gonna be a Whole Thing.

This chapter's kinda a long one.

This chapter's kinda a long one.

There's a lot more connective tissue in this game than the last one, but I do like it more like this.

Bells.

Again, it's just part of the pit, but ya know.

Glitz glitz glitz

This chapter actually kinda sucks.

These little boggle spirits are pretty cute, really.

If you thought that we were going to just do one episode per chapter I've got some very bad news for you.

Where would a Mario game be without a trip to a castle?

We're gonna be stuck in paper form for a thousand years?!?!?!

It turns out that a midquel still has to end where the "Part 2" begins, so our luck takes a bit of a downward turn.

We're finally here, finally ready to take on the Crusade. There's a lot of people counting on us, better be careful.

There's a whole additional world down here, which is neat, but also means we've got more stuff to do than we thought.

More scouting around for a way into the castle. I think we're getting closer to something.

The coalition camp basiclly wants us to scout out the area, so we get to wander in the wilderness again.

Time to finish up all this "bridge" nonsense and move on to gathering our forces as close as possible to Dragonspear Castle.

Join me as we find out what my game of the year for 2022 is, and if it's even gonna be a game that came out in 2022!

There's a bit of a scuffle happening on the bridge, so we'll have to meet another old friend and do some stuff to de-scuffle the situation.

These trolls don't have candy corn horns :(

This forest thing is optional, but in a sense all games are optional, so we might as well have a look in the woods. Beats a cave.

We have to go check out a mine, and so of course it gets kinda spooky.

The band broke up, and then a crusade maybe started, and now we've gotta get a band together to go try and help handle it.

It's not quite the same band we had before, but we get mostly the same folks at least.

Today you can join along as I check out the next Atelier game I'll be playing through.

The band broke up, and then a crusade maybe started, and now we've gotta get a band together to go try and help handle it.

It's not quite the same band we had before, but we get mostly the same folks at least.

The infinity engine sinks its fangs into us once again as we start out on our post-Sarevok journey.

Today: gotta go deep into a tomb, because Imoen says so. When the childhood friend says it, you just gotta.

Today we're playing through some of the surprise-release Loathing-series game Shadows Over Loathing, a cosmic horror themed RPG set in the 1920s.

Trying out the latest indie JRPG hit, and it's pretty cool.

Today on Bayonetta 3 there's a spider demon, and also Bayonetta steps on a werewolf.

This is it friends, the last Elden Ring recording! Last week we "beat the game", but there's one important optional boss we have to go back and defeat.

Here's a Halloween bonus episode that's not actually spooky, but it's death and afterlife related. I've been wanting to check it out for a while, and Halloween was just an excuse to do so.

Today we're playing Bayonetta 3, the opening bits and Chapter 1.

There's an unstoppable army that wants to march across the universe, and it shows up on Bayonetta's doorstep.

Hey, it's September 28th! This podcast's birthday!

After we get the game files all verified, we finally get our maiden where she wants to go.

This time we're deep underground and fighting all manner of bugs and space monsters.

To describe what he's doing, in a single sentence, or a word, would be impossible...

Also, it's spelled "Vargouille". That'll make sense once you listen to the episode.

We finally get to the north, and gosh does it sting. So, instead, we turn back and delve under the ground.

Brian, I'm slightly sorry, but I never put in any Enya music.

Sometimes it's hard to make your way north when you keep stopping to do side quests.

Melina wants us to commit some OSHA violations, but you should always support your maiden.

We open the episode getting ready to fight the Omen King, and then by the end of the episode we just barely have time to actually do the fight.

The fine students of the Raya Lucaria have a thing or two that they want to teach us about magic.

Meanwhile, Brian and I have a thing or two we want to teach the students about getting stabbed.

For this episode I played the game all the way to the end.

There's a lot of dramatic stuff. Some of it had to be cut for time. We're really strict about the duration of an episode here on the Lokathor cast, you all know this by now.

But... I kept in a few short rants at the end, that I think you might like.

I truly hope that you enjoy this take on the ending to Mass Effect 3.

I got a little antsy and decided to record a Stellaris. Dunno if I'll do more, but if I don't, oh well.

Grunt needs our attention, then we check up on that Kai Leng fella.

Today we do side quest nonsense for like an entire hour, and then eventually we go to Thessia (the Asari homeworld).

It's not every day you get to resolve a centuries old conflict between two major powers.

That's a lie, suddenly resolving centuries old conflicts by magic plot powers is the only thing Shep does.

Keith David has a lot to say, then we maybe (just maybe) lose track of our entire ship, and once it comes back we throw a wild party to celebrate.

This episode we slow down on the major storyline to finish up a bunch of smaller side quest stuff.

There's lots to do on Tuchanka, and then we have to defend the Citadel.

Stay tuned to the end and you might get to be as sad as I was!

...and from that moment, we traveled together.

East...

Always into the east...

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First we rescue a Krogan named Eve (for lack of a better name), and then also we help out Grunt. It's a very Krogan-centric episode you might say.

First Hackett wants us to do stuff, then Javik wants our attention, and then even Aria does too. Since it's SOP to do whatever Carrie-Anne Moss asks, we've gotta go get her asteroid back.

Today we do the Leviathan DLC side quests. There's a lot of stuff to do just to find the quest itself (which starts at about 2:20:00, yes this is a very long episode).

There's a galaxy full of Reapers, and it's not even Reapers we have to put up with today.

Time for that game of games, with that ending that we all know about and all that, Mass Effect 3!

We've finally found a boss (an optional one) and killed it, and thus ends our Elden Ring journey.

I'll keep playing the game, just not on the cast. Because this game can go for like 120+ hours, which is like, 70+ episodes, which is like... way too long to be interesting. So next week we'll be off to some new game and I'll be playing Elden Ring "off air".

Across the bridge we find another maiden, and she's asked us to deliver a letter. Can't be too difficult, right?

Well obviously the dragon temple would be through tunnel connected to a hard to spot cave.

Farther west and off the cliff we can go down the hill into the Mistwood, home of many deadly things that want to kill us.

Well that whole castle deal is kinda deadly to approach, but if we just turn south instead there's all sorts of stuff to explore and check out.

Our gal Melina wants us to party at her place, but we can only stay so long before we have to get back out into the wild world.

IT'S FOUR TWENTY TODAY WHICH MEANS IT'S OFFICIALLY MEME DAY!

The special meme this year is that Loka is gonna play Elden Ring. Not just a little bit of Elden Ring, but actually a whole lot of it.

This is the VERY LAST episode of the base Baldur's Gate game! Eventually I'll do the Siege of Dragonspear expansion, but for in between we'll have other games for a while. Possibly quite a while, depending on how things shake out.

Durlag really went down deep into the ground.

Down, down, farther into the depths of the earth we go.

We're delving more into the basement this week. Attention must be paid, or the perils will perilously imperil us indeed.

Durlag has a big tower in the woods. And that tower has treasures. So we gotta go check it out, of course.

Even after defeating Sarevok, there's actually still some side content to do in the "main" campaign zone!

Today is that start of our "Tales of the Sword Coast" arc. This was once sold as an expansion pack to Baldur's Gate 1, but now it's built directly into the  BGEE experience. After this we'll have some other games before eventually we do the Siege of Dragonspear DLC.

This is the end of the main plot, but not the end of Baldur's Gate! Next week we'll begin to cover the non-DLC expansion content as well.

The attempted-murder victim always returns to the scene of the crime!

We've been playing this amazing game called Baldur's Gate for ages now, and now we're FINALLY HERE!! We're in the city of Baludr's Gate!

In honor of this lovely occasion, we've got an extra long episode! All of chapter 5 in one go. Be sure to take a break and drink some water while you listen to this one.

Wait this is seriously only the 5th Baldur's Gate episode? Holy crap.

Well, anyway, I guess we just barely started chapter 4 or whatever, but that's no reason to not do the entire thing all in one sitting.

BALDUR'S GATE IS BACK AND IT'S BIGGER THAN EVER.

This is it, time to fly through the Omega 4 relay and face what comes.

This episode has a lot of bonus spookiness.

That green pal of ours that we met last time has a little bit of a task he wants some help with, and it's so noble even the cops are willing to play along if they can.

Also, Garrus finally has a lead on that thing he needed some help with, so we look into it.

And then some side quest stuff that doubtless goes on and on and on.

Thane and Jacob are interesting, but Zaeed sucks so feel free to skip that part of the episode.

I kinda like Tali because she's got some neat writing, but also she's racist against robots and her society is a military dictatorship, and it's impossible to say if that's good or bad because we could never judge another culture, no.

This episode has three main parts:

* The collector ship is cool and spooky.

* Jack's missions is sad and spooky

* The scanning stuff is bad and you shouldn't listen to it.

The contract is completely legal on Illium!

Today we recruit a very cool blue lady onto the team.

Nobody ready episode descriptions.

Krogans usually get pretty old because the writers only ever know how to talk about the geophage 10 billion times.

I hope that you like Kasumi because it's time to meet her, and then immediately do her loyalty mission almost on accident.

And then we'll probably never go on a mission with her ever again.

It's Mass Effect 2 time, which means we gotta recruit more party members of course.

Today we threaten mobster violence against the local shopkeepers (but in a paragon way!), and then meet a gekko-man that talks very fast.

Today we check our mail of course and then make our way to the dangerous hive of scum and villainy that is the Omega space station.

Time to dust off that space suit and get out there to save the galaxy a second time.

There's a bit of a walk-about to clear a little side quest deal, and then we take on Bowser's Castle.

Looks like a whole heap of damage does, indeed.

And by "one", we of course mean the baddies in Flower Fields.

Alright friends today I'm gonna tell you the story of the star spirits, or whatever.

This episode is another setup sort of episode, getting ready for Flower Fields next time.

By which I mostly mean that we've got to deliver a lot of mail all over the kingdom.

A postman's job is never done.

Lava Lava Island can go Lava Lava right off, if you know what I mean.

Today's episode is focused mostly on collecting all the star pieces that we haven't been collecting so far.

And eventually we talk to a whale. Not like a big spender, like an actual aquatic whale.

We're still on Shy Guy's Toybox, but that's okay since we're still being awesome the whole time.

Normalization. We need Unit Vectors. And you get a Unit Vector in the Shy Guy's Toybox. Somehow.

A short little episode today where we do some side stuff to get set up for the next chapter.

The 2nd strongest foe in the world, and a mansion full of ghosts. Spooky stuff for sure.

Today we go to Mt. Rugged, and then past that to Dry Dry Desert.

Today we meet a new pal named Kooper and then make our way to the Koopa Bros Fortress, where we'll have to rescue the first of the Star Spirits.

Today on Paper Mario we manage to get all the way into Chapter 1, where we have to battle against the Koopa Bros which are definitely legally distinct from the ninja turtles.

Folks I know this is a long episode but we're going hard at one task the entire time: make it through Kefka's tower of madness and then stab him until he fades out of the world forever.

That's right, we're going to Attack And Dethrone God. As you go in all good JRPGs.

On the music suggestion front, we're closing it out with the final dungeon theme, Dancing Mad (Kefka's battle theme), and the ending suite song which is a medley of many of the character themes we've all come to know and love.

Today there's two dungeons to do, but neither of them yields any new characters.

Today's episode is all walkin' in the woods, no commentary from me.

Two more people to pick up today. One of them is a fairly quick affair, and then one of them takes like, a whole complicated dungeon. It's like an entire whole deal.

Suggested Music:

Today's recruitment is far more weird than the previous ones.

Gotta build up the party more! Today we're adding three cool friends to the squad, including a new World of Ruin exclusive character!

Musical Tracks:

This ep we find out Skelly's big sin in the World of Ruin, once characterized by the Nockat crew as "unforgivable". Though really, I can forgive it.

This episode we meet up with Dan K finally, and we've gotta get our wings back so that we can save the world.

Now that we're able to travel again, it's time to get a look at what's nearby and see who we can get back on the team.

Well Kefka has gone and really done it this time. A whole flying continent of evil at his command. We've got to stop him for sure.

But, you know, first let's go pick up a side character.

And then onward to stop Kefka!

We finally clear up that horrible "mansion on fire" situation in Thamasa, and then head through the mountains to the west, hot on the trail of those espers.

The espers have gone berserk and burned the Imperial capitol of Vector.

The Emperor is starting to see the error of his ways, but needs us to reach out and try to calm the espers down before the violence gets any worse.

This episode's music suggestion is the two themes of the two characters we meet today:

Jess is back with the team, but The Empire isn't going to slow down. Narshe has the cash, Figaro has the tech, but we still lack the manpower required to enact any kind of heavy assault against Imperial Forces.

Well who else hates the Empire? That's right, the Espers do.

Our Mission: Contact the Espers, and recruit their aid to help stop the Empire.

Alright amokoj, you all knew it would happen, this is the most famous part of Final Fantasy 6: The Opera. I've been doing all the voices in the game so far, and now you get to hear me do all the singing in the game too.

Also, like, after the opera we go to a factory and learn about the history of espers and stuff. Sure, sure. Plot or whatever.

First we battle Kefka on the snowy mountain top, and then Jess goes to speak with that frozen esper.

Things don't... go as planned. Soon the party has to find and rescue Jess from herself. dun dun dun!

Today we've got three separate plots to work our way through, even if all roads lead to Narshe in the end.

We're still on our way to join up with the rest of the Returners, but to get there we have to travel all up and down the slopes of Mt Koltz.

That's where we heard that Ryan was last spotted, right? Hmm, hmm.

Starting today we'll be going through Final Fantasy 6!

Grab your magitek controls, and let's march off through a field of snow.