Tag: grim tales

There were more corpses in this one. This one really leaned into Eastern European paganism, with shamans and totems and swamp witches, which I can really appreciate. Is paganism the right word? Anyway, shit went down.

I finished the game tonight and the bonus content (I really like the follow ups!) and here’s my last “The Wishes’ update!

I had a few goals in this one – I had to save John Gray from another wacky mishap, get my sister out of a crystal ball, and uh, evict a demon from my nephew. John Gray was off in Siberia being chased by bears (as one does) and I’m just so proud of him for not being in someone’s dungeon. He’s getting tougher.

The horrible puppet was never fully disposed of, but… perhaps one day that family will finally be safe. I wonder what happens in the next game, The Stone Queen. I’m sure nothing zany is happening to them now!

So the possession was pretty freaky! I had a friend watching me play and I do believe she screamed at this part:

 

What I wished I’d screencapped: The demon bear I exorcised that turned into an adorable orphaned cub and the literal frozen corpse of the shaman standing outside his hut by the human skeletal remains that there is no real comment on besides ‘rub fish oil on his hand to get his flask!’. I don’t know what is up with the protagonist but she is cold as hell.

For the bonus content:

 

Anyway, good times. I also played Bejeweled to save the world from a demon, proving I DO have the skills that will serve me well in the coming devil wars.

First off, I used this to try out Twitch streaming and even with no viewers (and one spammer) it took a lot of the joy out of the game because I suddenly felt like I had an obligation not to fuck around. Well, we’ll see if I try that again. I prefer when I’m in a mood to keep trying the fire on all the puzzles.

Also pleased to report that fire was, again, a solution.

So I found the witch’s house (only the witch is a demon dude?) and after setting fire to him, in my charming way, I took a moment to reflect on the surroundings of his lovely cabin in the woods.

 

IT DOES INDEED APPEAR TO BE A DECAPITATED HEAD JUST KIND OF CHILLING THERE. It is not interactable and Auntie has absolutely nothing to say about it.

As Luisa was forced into a crystal ball, I chuckled fondly. “Oh Luisa,” I thought, “you just can’t stay out of trouble!”

Meanwhile, finally got an update on her husband. He has been lost in Siberia. I assume he’s in a dungeon again.

Still unable to use any weapon I acquire on the horrible living puppet and there was a second one with moving eyes that kept following me… thankfully it was just a puzzle and I’m safe now but that’s gonna haunt me.

As a final update, I realized I could open up the map and click wherever I wanted to go without having to manually navigate each time like I’d been doing this whole game and after a pause to consider my life choices, I shut off the game and decided to go to bed.

New game! Okay so apparently SHIT IS GOING DOWN with my nephew Brandon who no longer lives in werewolf castle but now lives in the suburbs (my sister really gets around since the first game where she was being sacrificed by our evil wizard father) and it’s up to me, his loving aunt, to find out why he’s so moody and mysteriously elderly!

Well, after some investigating and attempts to find a use for a cat I have in my inventory, it turns out my nephew made a deal with a witch to get a piece of paper that makes wishes and his first wish was to bring this horrible puppet he owned to life and it’s offering to help me.

I tried using the axe, the bullet, and the fire on the puppet and then I tried using the knife but that just cut its strings and now it’s telling me to follow it.

Now I understand why my nephew, before being torn from this world, declared: ‘I MUST CONFESS. I AM GUILTY. I MUST PAY FOR MY SINS’

He knew what he did, with this puppet wish. I salute you for understanding your crime. I will burn down your house as I leave to make sure the evil is thwarted.

Anyway I quit today’s session when that horrible puppet wouldn’t stop staring at me from the corner of the screen.

Game update: With luck I found someone’s credit card in a tree with the help of a chisel I got from a bag that was on a fountain in a hidden basement that I got down via a piece of bamboo I sawed off by the cliff edge!

I then used the credit card to break into the car’s glove box and which allowed the hot wiring of the car with the hex screwdriver that was in the glovebox!

From there I frantically scavenged in a bear’s den to find a coffee bean which enabled me to acquire a muzzle to use on a werewolf, which I proceeded to carry around in a sack before curing and releasing into the wild to live out its natural life.

And with that, I have saved my sister’s marriage.

My protagonist continues to be an agent of chaos and destruction.

I want it to be clear, for the upcoming pictures, that my goal was to scare away a wolf. Okay. Just scare away a wolf.

 

So I do eventually scare away the wolf after destroying a small town (at some point I cut a hole in a display case because that was less destructive than just smashing it?) and etc etc I’m not giving away the plot any further but my next obstacle:

 

And now I am taking a break because I have solved enough puzzles and burnt enough things down for today.

 

So I’m playing another session of Grim Tales: The Legacy where I spend my time backtracking back and forth across yet another property with a torture chamber inside. Incidentally, a lot of chaos gremlin energy in this session. At one point I decided to just start using the guns/boomerangs on any animal in my way and it turned out that was, in fact, the answer the game wanted me to do.

Then the fires began.

 

It wasn’t just fire.

 

This is somewhat out of sequence, the petty destruction of the bird was third in order. Anyway, I had been given three items to burn things at this point. Flint, matches, and a hunk of burning coal. I hope, eventually, to take down the entire castle.

 

And I think by this point, the protagonist wants me to as well.

So we begin our session with a bit of resolution on the last game that we apparently DID let that guy out of the dungeon eventually because we are on the way to his castle! And we crash our car? But we don’t care much about that.

Immediately the game gives me a machete.

 

I end up using the machete to clear some weeds but then I throw it away and replace it with a morning star which they are not letting me use on: ghost in the painting, crow holding object I want, locked door, object in chair, clearing fog, or missing chess pieces. Why even give me a mace if I can’t use it to its full potential?

 

EDIT: I got to bash the head off a suit of armor. All is forgiven.

 

EDIT 2:

 

EDIT 3:

The plot’s really heated up. My protagonist seems to have a particularly kind heart because if a hand suddenly shot out of a wall at me in a game where a demon is sending me around through time, I’d have to say my reaction wouldn’t be ‘oh no some poor soul has been bricked up! How awful!’ it would more like ‘okay, time to run’.

That said, it’s still suffering from the giving me a hammer with a bunch of nail problems but saying the nails are actually weirdly shaped amulet keys STOP TRYING TO USE THE HAMMER.

 

EDIT: So this guy marries into the family and gets locked in the family dungeon. We’ve all been there. We’ve all been there.

Found a skull in the kitchen to solve a puzzle and you know combining this with the existence of the ‘family dungeon’ I’m starting to think this wasn’t a normal group of relatives.

EDIT 2: And done! That was the most abrupt ‘back to the start screen!’ ending I’ve yet experienced (you rescue the girl, she smiles at you, BAM start screen hope you didn’t blink). I wonder if I ever go back and help that guy we locked up.

Very atmospheric but already this game disappoints me by giving me a machete early on in play but denying me the ability to use said machete to solve all my problems/puzzles. I’m pretty sure that the solution to getting the key amulet from the dead man’s clenched hands isn’t to give him another amulet to put around his neck, it’s to hack his corpse with the machete.

Want in that door? Hack with the machete. Want the torch out of the dragon’s mouth? Hack with the machete. Want up the treehouse? Hack with the machete.

EDIT: I have progressed further where I now have a blow torch and was asked to solve a puzzle on an evil clown… mannequin? Puppet? To get it to release the gun in its mouth and I really think I should have just been allowed to use the blow torch.

Not to solve the puzzle. I just think that clown needed blow torched.

EDIT 2: Oh now they’re just taunting me with things I can’t use on every little obstacle that crosses my path.