“Hey hey people, it's Paul Anthony Romero here.” Hey hey people, Sseth here. Shoutout to my man - Paul Anthony Romero. The actual composer for the
entire Might and Magic™ series. He made like uh- 9 takes of this intro. Bless your autism. Today, we're doing two things - for the first time. One. I'm re-reviewing Might and
Magic™ VI: The Mandate of Heaven. Why? Because my original - wasn't very good. So I took it down. Completely unrelated – but – it also featured hardcore
pornography in the first few milliseconds. Two. I'm not actually reviewing Might and Magic™ VI. I'm reviewing Might and Magic™ VI
inside Might and Magic™ VIII. Listen, it's complicated. Some time ago, a madman decided
to merge Might and Magic™ 6, 7 and 8 inside the Might and Magic™ 8 engine, and uh- mod the shit out of it. How does it work? No idea. My coding experience – is limited. [“Would you like to buy something?”] [“See ya. cheapskate...”] But - it's very fun. All you need is a copy of Might and
Magic™ VIII: Day of the Destroyer from GOG and to follow the instructions linked below. Right. Let's get to the meat of it. 'Sseth – why you playing a bunch of first
person RPGs more than two decades old?' [“I don't know.”] Because – nostalgia is a hell of a drug. And my emotional cortex is holding me hostage falsely associating the first
time I ever played these games with the positive connotations – of being a child. That's why – I’m here right now,
walking through a Grey-brown corridor, searching for a tiny button
on the wall - the colour of puke that will help me access - the next
part of this endless, featureless abyss. That's also why – there's grown-ass men
out there wearing Zelda T-shirts in public. Because they played before life got complicated, and they relate it - to a simpler time. Before mom and dad got divorced. Before dad caught yellow fever. And came back - with a new
mommy from the Philippines. The mod – titled 'world of enroth' lets
you start in any one of the three games, allows you to travel across worlds
and complete all the story-lines. [“I suppose you'll be wanting serrrrrrrrvice.”] [“Don't mind the rats. Hehahaha”] The lore explanation for this is
that the other two groups of heroes Have been – accidentally 'written' out of time. This might sound ridiculous. On the other hand, I'm in a universe
where I’m spending all my time getting the approval of the medieval United Nations so I can visit their oracle downstairs, which is actually an ancient supercomputer
you have to restore by finding all four of its RAM sticks. So it can give you the prophecy
that you will visit the oracle and return upstairs with an ancient weapon
that will help expel the devils from enroth. A fucking gun. Which comes in two flavors, gun. And Gun with capitalization. Now, before I go on to explain that
angels in Heroes of Might and Magic™ 3 are actually synthetic androids, or that devils are actually a race
of aggressively expansionist aliens and that the reason we're inside a
medieval fantasy setting is because... We nuked ourselves. And took out the entire
interplanetary star-gate network... to slow their advance. I'll make the quick point that the actual
lore of this game is insane enough already. Let's talk about gameplay. First and foremost: Check this out – we got mouse look. Don't have to press PG-UP, PG-DOWN
each time I want to rotate my neck. Because we're in the latest engine,
you can have five party members which can be swapped out
and replaced at any time. For my current party, we
started in Might and Magic™ VI. Why? Because they got the best portraits. And - one of them looks like Johnny Depp. Just look at his bright smile as he... murders an entire crowd of women. You can complete the games with
any combination of party members. But – who am I kidding? No-no you can't. There's shit out there that turns you to stone, gives you autism, causes schizophrenia, induces narcolepsy, goblinization, smallpox, death, and eradication. Do you know the difference
between death and eradication? With death – you still got a body to revive. With eradication... there is not a single atom left of your body. Good luck medicating a lack of existence. Thus, I 'strongly' recommend
you get a cleric and a sorcerer. Others claim you can 'survive' with just a druid, but here's a hypothetical: Somebody dies – the druid can revive them. The druid dies – the druid can't revive them... because he is dead. Immediately upon starting the game you're
going to click the left wall of the bank take a scroll of fly, pop it and fly on top of the smuggler's guild. Do try to be quick – or you're gonna find out... what that little tower up there does. Click the wall and teleport
yourself to a fucking endgame area where you're going to
quickly evade all the dragons, get inside the shrine and get a
permanent +20 to all of your attributes, then - hug the inner wall and keep smashing
left click until you teleport again. Imagine being so based that you program in a 1:1
replica of your development office, include all the staff and include your boss... as a fucking goblin – you kill inside his office. Because that's exactly what the
staff of New World Computing did. Walk inside the office. Go to the payroll desk. Pay yourself a salary, you deserve it. Go to the canteen, load up on food, eat some curry... get food poisoning. Don't worry, we'll get revenge
on the ones responsible... very soon. Walk inside Jon Van Caneghem's office, become afraid. But... you can't be fired. You quit. Smack him dead. Walk to the promotion desk and give your
entire party a megabuff which will last for as long as you're able to stay awake. That's fine. Because we don't need sleep. Teleport out of the office. Run. Hug the outer left wall of the
shrine and keep smashing left click. Teleport back to the starting town. Now - you're going to go on a
rampage and kill everything on the map. Don't stop until you're done If sleep deprivation kicks in, rub caffeine powder – directly – into your eyes. Once it's all over – congratulations! You've essentially skipped the
entire start of Might and Magic™ VI. The world is your oyster. [“Rot in hell you penny-pinching miser!”] As you can tell, I play this shit way too much. However, the mod can still surprise me. You might get a side-quest in the beginning to
return a certain candelabra to a certain cult. Don't do it. My reputation tumbled... to the negative hundreds. All because I returned a single
menorah to the cult of Baa. It does make sense, since the cult is trying
to directly usurp the king. How do they plan to do that? By offering cheap, and affordable healthcare. I know. It makes me sick to my stomach. They even laugh, maniacally... each time I walk out – knowing full
well I won't have to sell my house or my children - to pay for treatment. As a result every guard in every city tries to reduce the number of limbs I possess. This might not sound too bad, except
reputation directly controls the price of everything. Positive rep, lets you buy and sell at
100% percent of the real value. Negative rep reduces the sell price of
anything – to a single gold coin. However, the cost of buying
anything will keep increasing... forever. Because, Negative reputation is an infinite spiral. So you can't sell shit. But you can't buy anything either. The only way out of it – is to bribe the church. Unfortunately, donations are now... a lot more charitable. I'm not talking loose change kind of charity. I'm talking Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation kind of charity. The cheapest donation is 150 Gs, for a single point of reputation. And uh- we need 200. I don't have that kind of cash. So I reload my game and pretend it never happened. Except it did. And I saved over it, so I can't go back. Later in the game I went to
the superior temple of Baa and accidentally did a miniquest for them. Do not talk... to that fucking head. Listen. I had something like uh- 400 positive reputation? Let me show you how much I have now. Yeah, it's at a healthy... negative fourteen hundred. I did some quick math, and I’m here to tell you... I can't afford shit. Luckily, when you jump across time and space, reputation... doesn't follow. There's many locations where you can dimension door across worlds, But – I found out I can just
drink all the water in this fountain and take the secret express route. So I went to Might and Magic™ 8, got myself a member of the chosen people, and came right back. Now – nobody questions me. War crimes? Don't know any. I've grand-mastered the Merchant arts. My hustle is supreme. And you will pay me a fair price for these shoes. Besides these two little hiccups, everything
else in the mod – works perfectly. Graphics have been upscaled
to fit modern resolutions, which is great, since you'll be spending
most of your time staring at pixels. The only stuff which isn't baked in textures is the pre-rendered scenes in the shops,
houses and taverns across the game. These still look really good for something made... a century ago. Personally, I like to go drinking in Shadowspire. They know how to treat their elvish compatriots. Because they've got one in the fucking chandelier. There's now extra options to increase render distance, and to turn on the weather. Which, under every circumstance I've ever pressed it makes it impossible to see shit. The music is delightful, as always. I never talk seriously about this, but
Might and Magic™ has an insane soundtrack. This shit is designed to unsettle you, and I love it. Also, the sound is crisp. And it's really crispy each time you take a boat. Might and Magic™ is a game with a simple thesis. Violence solves everything. In this game we shoot first, and justify it later. For example, Misty Islands. I need you to investigate an organization
for evidence of corruption. How do we do that? We break in, we murder everyone. We find a single scroll that says 'we're corrupt'. And we get justification
for our pre-emptive massacre. That doesn't mean the game is simplistic. Compare the size and complexity of the average Might and Magic™ VI dungeon to the average cave in Skyrim. No comparison. Many quests and dungeons in
this game – will drive you insane. What's that? You didn't realize that scroll of telekinesis
on the floor -wasn't- random loot and actually was meant to activate an
unreachable button you accidentally missed, and now you sold the scroll? Sounds like a personal problem. Did you just dive into a series of dwarven
tombs without recording the steps you took? Which – may be necessary –
in case you ever want to leave? And my personal favourite, would you
like to promote your monk into a Ninja? Then – I hope you like cryptography. Because – oh boy – I got a cipher puzzle for you. Luckily, people have suffered through
this shit two decades before you so – the suffering is optional. This game has something for everyone. For 12 year old me, this game was all
about going to the wine cellar in Tatalia, killing the necromancers there and reanimating them, so I could look at their ass. Please understand, this was before we had internet. I didn't know any better, so I had to make do. It's like Plato's allegory of
the cave, except in this cave everyone's a degenerate. If necromancers weren't available, my next best option was genies, Medusas, and – if I’m very desperate... Water elementals. Listen, you don't know how tough you got it until you're looking at a fish
and you're thinking to yourself... Damn. That's a pretty good looking fish. Like I said, this game has something for everyone. So - here's a list of features
to entice the general public. Explore immersive, magical landscapes which are composed of about 10 polygons. What did you expect? It runs on a 300mhz processor. Your – refrigerator – could probably run this game. Twice. Adventure through dark, grainy corridors where the best way to navigate is by muscle memory. Which - you don't have. Acquire objectively better gear. Throw it away. Because a real man dresses
for fashion over function. Commit violence against everyone. Equally. Without discrimination. Originally, this game produced a lot of controversy, after a Might and Magic™
player smacked dead a Hindu, believing, he was a follower of Baa. Hard to believe, but true. And if you let me edit the wiki article, I can prove it too! Real talk, this game is actually quite endearing. The developers pretty much
went around and asked people: “yo – you wanna be in a videogame?” “Sweet. I'll make you a gypsy.” That's why most of the
portraits are actually real people. Dig through piles of trash! Catch STIs in the process! Drink from strange water sources! Get mutilated by a fucking minotaur. Go through the whole game in real time
because you're not an arthritic old man, and switch to turn-based mode
whenever it's more convenient. Abuse turn-based mode to fly up
and down between animations and dodge every attack. Why touch the ground when you can just fly above the world and cast meteor shower all day. Honestly, why would you even go into a dungeon
when you can just buy all the items in town and enchant them for 10 times the original price. Learn the value of different skills. Such as: [“oops...”] Disarm trap. Assert your dominance by yelling at the peasantry and forcing them to run through your magical minefield. Any death or injury is purely accidental. Besides, even if they do die,
we can just reanimate them. No harm, No foul. Run around town and recruit the only two useful NPCs, an accountant, and a banker. Which take 5 and 10 percent of your earnings, but increase them by 10 and 20. In this game, there's no income tax. But there is tax on inheritance. And you pay that each time you die. How much exactly? 100%. Avoid that by storing your capital
inside the Dark Elvish central bank. [“Your gold is safe with us!”] Visit the arena. Participate in the arena. Especially at low levels. Where you'll be spending your time
killing cats and strangling chickens. Visit the circus! They're always on tour. In one of the three most popular
holiday destinations of the world, Werewolf town, Undead town, and of course tropical islands, filled with cannibals. DISCLAIMER. If you don't want to see hardcore
pixellated gore of cannibalized women Don't go to Bootleg Bay. Conversely, if you're into that stuff go to Bootleg Bay. Cast Armageddon. Nuke the entire map, and kill everyone in town. Lose... not a single point of reputation. Sell a single human bone to a private collector. Lose five. Actually enjoy the world, and get immersed into it despite the fact none of this shit makes sense. In conclusion, I give this mod
and all the games merged inside it a childhood out of 10. I'm extremely biased and I know it. Remember, you only need Might
and Magic™ VIII for the mod to work. But if you're interested, I hustled my man at GOG to put all
the Might and Magic™ games on sale. Follow my link, and you get discounts on all of them. As always, more content to come so stay tuned. A warm thanks to the many
members of the merchants guild, generously funding and bankrolling these videos. Except this one. It's also a freebie. You're all truly wonderful. Have a good one.
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I've never finished 6 but MMVII is my comfort game. It's very easy to get into, you're rarely confused about the mechanics of the game, and you're always rewarded for doing your own thing. It makes RPGs released years later seem archaic in comparison.
It's also often hilarious, and you get to drink tea with skeletons. If that doesn't convince you, nothing will.