The Darkness Playthrough (Archive*)
0*NOTE: This is an unedited archive of a live no-commentary playthrough originally streamed on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/bippoernesti), which means there may be deaths, restarts or intermissions/interruptions.
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Wanted to replay this game recently and realized it's short enough to fit into a single stream, so I figured I might as well go for it. For the sake of visibility, I very slightly upped the gamma and switched to Profile 1 in the game's Video Quality settings, which makes dark areas slightly easier to see in, but at the cost of looking a little washed out.
Physical copy, played on an Xbox One X. I have a 360, but I already had the console hooked up, so it was easier and I haven't seen any sort of compatibility issues doing it this way.
Fun fact: Twitch muted the biggest story point in the game, but I've learned from a past stream to always have local recording on, so it's unaffected here.
Today's funny reference is lyrical. Stream title is a reference to Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark, which was a choice I made to avoid going for the lower-hanging fruit of One by Metallica.
Stream Date: 2022-10-31
Stream Title: When the light begins to change, I sometimes feel a little strange
Live Notification: Had to resist going straight for the One reference.
Stream Description: "Ah, The Darkness. One of those random game purchases that turned out to be gold.
Plan is to just beat the game. Will go for collectables that I remember, but I won't remember/know all of them, so this isn't going to be a completionst run. Gonna also try to complete all the side quests, and attempt to check out some easy-to-miss optional content for fun.
The story really got to me the first time, and while the gameplay is a little stiff and slow, it's still fun once you get used to it. I would love to see the game on PC some day, maybe get Nightdive Studios on it or something.
I know I say this about almost anything, but man, the music. The music is so good."
Chapters
0:00:00 Game start
0:01:37 Chapter 1
1:52:41 Chapter 2
2:38:56 Chapter 3
4:37:33 Chapter 4
5:04:19 Chapter 5
6:01:00 Phone calls (extra content)
6:36:43 Chapter 5 continued
6:49:53 Final encounter & ending
7:05:25 Extra