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>> RYAN: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Welcome back, Internet people. My name is Ryan and today we are playing Shadow Man for
the PC.
I just beat Jack 2!
I was doing very poorly
and now he is dead
and somewhere in this area that I have been multiple, multiple times there is
some dramatic and exciting way to progress I believe.
I'm not exactly sure where it is.
I think I saw a tunnel of some sort that opens up.
I think I'm going to need my lightbulb on a stick.
Really wishing I got that flashlight but to be quite honest I can't be arsed to go find
it now.
So, Jack, where would you have hidden a pathway to go?
Could it be this way?
This certainly looks like a pathway.
Oh look at that. It is a prism room.
>> SHADOW MAN: Oh yeah. >> RYAN: Shadow Man's happy about it.
I'm happy about it too.
Schoonk.
What were these things called?
Schisms?
No, those were the things...
those were the things with the awful people that got...
spread wide open.
Oh, got to make sure you get everything in these barrels.
Actually, now I suppose it doesn't really matter because I know there's thingies that
I missed and frankly I'm not going to go back to collect them so going through every bottle,
or, going through every barrel is now pointless.
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
I really love the thingies, but they're...
They're useless to me now.
It's like...
It's like telling an old friend that you hate them.
OK, maybe it's not that dramatic.
I guess I might as well just do it this way. Hi!
You have no idea. I'm actually rather broken up about this.
What am I going to do?
I really...
I really like collecting the thingies. It was one of the best parts of my day.
And now I just have no reason to.
Pig men, why do you have to sully my day?
I can't collect thingies AND I'm being shot at? That's just ridiculous.
Just absolutely unfair.
Shadow Man is mad and angry.
OK, well this one's rather dramatic.
Actually, going to go for these ones just because I need some health globules there.
Nothing over there.
Left or right? I'm going to go right because I'm closer to that one right now.
Oh, I missed fighting really, really enemies. It's just the bees' knees.
Those Jack fights... Jackfights? That sounds like knifefights.
Those Jack fights just pretty much...
made me...
not- It kind of burned me out I guess is what I'm trying to say.
It kind of burned me out from this game.
Oh my goodness. You have no idea how...
frustrating it can be to die so many times
on Shadow Man, a game that's not that hard.
It's really quite an easy game.
I've only died like,
if we don't count the Jack fights of course...
I've only died like three times, maybe?
Well, OK. Not counting the platforming. We're just going to ignore the platforming.
But, you know, dying from...
enemy battles. The only ones I can think of are...
Gosh, way back in the beginning of the game when I had to fight those... I think they're
called Duppy? I don't know. The game never really told me.
Jumping over there!
Yeah, there were those two in that little room. This is a retrospective because I have
nothing else interesting to say.
I thought that was a grate right there but turns out I'm just a little daft.
Woop. Woop. Woop. Woop.
Yeah, those poor Duppy.
Actually, no. Poor Shadow Man.
That was back when I didn't really get the concept of pretty much anything in the game.
I wasn't sure what I was doing.
We're not going to go that way just yet
and frankly battles with everything were just super scary.
Can I get hurt by these?
Oh, I can't. That's awesome.
Hello. How's it going?
Why is there even nonsense down here?
There's pretty much no reason for me to jump on any of these silly platforms.
I think it's just an explanation for why this guy was over here.
Oh, hello.
Health please. Oh, I don't even need it. Look at that.
Now I can skip the powerups all the time.
Oh, I hear trueforms.
These are trueform cages.
Come...
They can hit me from way over there but I can't hit them.
That doesn't seem quite fair now, does it?
Hm, how do I get that guy?
Do I climb atop here?
It seems that perhaps I do.
Hello! How's it hanging?
I'm going to say not very good because you're exploding and things can't hang off of exploding
people.
Really, now I'm just checking for violator ammo.
Oh, you guys seem so restless in your cages.
Jump down here...
Oh, "you guys," there's just one of you. OK.
I was kind of worried that this switch would open all three
and then I would have to fight three of you
and that would be difficult.
But one I can do.
Don't lose your lock on, Shadow Man. That's a bad Shadow Man.
It makes it very difficult to fight him.
Oh god.
I forgot that these things are very, very difficult to avoid.
Oh god! There's like 80 bajillion!
Oh, I'm going to use this thing for like the first time ever.
There we go.
Didn't even need it. Look at that.
And a dark soul is mine?
>> SHADOW MAN: The dark souls... are mine. >> RYAN: The dark soul is mine.
Thanks for letting me know, Shadow Man.
So that is nine out of 11.
That is 118 out of 120.
118 out of 120.
I have played this game for a very long time in order to get that many dark souls.
That just leads back that way. Yes it does.
My goodness.
It's been such a long time.
Like, it feels so...
Oh, I can hit you. Why can I hit you? That doesn't make any sense.
Come on. Come on. Come on, I can hit you.
I probably shouldn't be trying...
This is interesting. Um.
Oh, it's opened. Oh god!
OK.
Not going well for Shadow Man because I'm not paying attention!
Come on. Finish your dying animation. I want your dark soul.
I heard that there's a couple of guys in here that don't have dark souls.
Just sort of waiting for those guys to pop up.
So far I haven't seen anything of the sort.
I kind of expected to have come across some that don't have dark souls by now.
Oh, unless perhaps they're on the path to Legion.
For we are manyyyyyeyyeyyey
or something.
Does this have light? It does not.
Oh, you shouldn't shoot at people from down there like that.
That's not very nice of you.
You going to open up? Come on.
You're just not even moving at all. That's odd.
Who's shooting at me? I can't even see their bullets?
I wish I could!
Was it that guy?
Oh, it's from above!
Death from above! Oh god!
Well, I'll just fight this guy while I'm getting shot at because the guy from above probably
won't be able to hit me.
Oh, come on, trueform.
You exist solely to give me a dark soul. Come on.
You know you want to. You know you want to explode.
Come on, exploderate. Come on.
There you go.
Is this going to be 120?
Yes!
Whoo hoo hoo!
>> SHADOW MAN: ...I embrace it.
>> RYAN: Tenth level! Woo hoo.
OK, now I got to be perfectly honest with you.
I'm really, really interested...
OK, I looked up... Apparently, this game is supposed to come with a map.
My copy did not come with a map
and this map has on it that tenth level door
and behind it...
How am I supposed to do this? Up here?
Violator ammonition...
Has on it, like I said, a tenth level door. Behind it is what is labelled a "mystery."
Now, I like mystery. I don't know if you guys ever...
Oh, god dammit. I don't want to do a jumping thing.
Sorry, I don't know if you guys ever saw that really terrible episode of...
Dammit, 45 degree angles!
An episode of that really terrible Family Guy show where he like...
There we go. I got it.
Where he... is given a choice between winning a boat or opening a mystery box.
I'm the sort that would open the mystery box. Not even going to lie.
I love the mystery box.
And as such, I have wasted countless hours of my life playing Shadow Man
just to open that mystery door
because I want to no what's behind it.
My guide lists no weapons behind this mystery door.
I'm going to see what's over there. Apparently nothing interesting.
So I'm guessing what has to be behind this mystery door is a plot element of some kind.
Frankly, I have no idea. It could be anything.
Where am I?
Actually, you know, before I proceed I'm running out of time...
But let's press on anyway. We'll see how far we can get before we run out of time.
Dodlodlodlodlodlo, hustle and bustle, Shadow Man!
Kill some bluh guys really quickly!
Oh, go up here!
Go up here!
Come on!
Oh, look at that. It's the last room.
We'll actually make that a video here.
So thanks for watching, Internet people. We'll see you again next time
after I'm already to go and complete the engine block.
Thank you so much for watching.
Oh, sorry. By the way. This is console room #2 so the code's 1-2-4.
So that's very exciting. [laughs]
Come back next time! We'll see what's in the mystery room!