Let's Play KGB!

[Higher Game]

And if you didn't understand all the symbolism and the ending of No Country for Old Men, you should stick to Halo and Will Smith movies.

 

[DefJam101]

Stay in school, kids!

 

[Witchblade]

I have the starnge feeling that for some weird reason, this thread actually started out in the RPG section..

So anyway, I was wildly searching for it now, as I thought by now we would have some
awesome, mind-boggling ending...

..but there's only this?

C'MON, TIN TIN, YOU'RE NOT SERIOUS, ARE YOU?

 

[Tintin]

Of course I'm not serious. :wink:

My computer screwed up on me and my save games were deleted.

I'm currently playing back to the part I left off....

 

[Witchblade]

Sad to hear about that. Sorry for your extra effort, but we'll never forgive you if you leave us hanging there.

(umm.. perhaps saving to CD/DVD every once in a while might be a good idea? )

 

[Seboss]

Awesome LP.
This is one of the few adventures game I did not have the chance to play back then.

 

[Tintin]

There isn't much playing in this finale.

Some knowledge of the USSR, particularly the August coup, will enrich your enjoyment of this.

WARNING this isn't really a "Let's Play", more like a "Let's read!" and I don't have anything to really comment on either. Basically one long string of screenshots.

Here we are in the art gallery:

Nothing much in the front. Just paintings.

Head on over to the back.

There's a statue. Upon closer inspection, the sword appears to come out.

We pull out the sword from the statue. Maybe it triggers something?

There is a letter open nearby.

So we push the letter opener into the hole and...

So the painting slides over leaving a big hole. We go inside.

If it isn't old Gorbachev. What's an important fellow like you doing in a place like this?

Footsteps behind me.

Major Vovlov and Major Savinkov are in front of me.

The Gorbachev lookalike is Protopopov. It should be clear now why he was involved in this mind-altering psychoexperiments.

Just as Cut-Throat predicted.

Didn't work.

Wtf.

"New Birth". We know that, remember?

I refuse.

Won't do it.

Then there's noise behind us.

A new pair join the room.

My Uncle Vanya and his nurse-dude.

"Comrade colonel Rukov"?

Vovlov raises his gun.

The nurse dude jumps in front.

Vovlov is about to stir.

I take the opportunity to grab the gun that Savinkov had dropped.

I shoot him.

He drops, clutching the wound.

Vovlov dies.

Suddenly, Protopopov, the Gorbachev lookalike, begins to speak, reciting the brainwashed lines fed to him. He speaks as Gorbachev, announcing his resignation as was planned:

And that's the end.

As I have said before, what we were witnessing throughout this game was the lead up to the August coup of 1991.

Obviously the Protopopov bit was fictionalized, but there was indeed a conspiracy to overthrow Gorbachev by hardliners in the government organizations, and in this game you were kind of thrown in the middle of that as it happened, but with this fictionalized Protopopov stuff, and the culprits being a select hardline group operating within the KGB.

 

[DefJam101]

Nice LP. Very nifty adventure game, too!

 

[silver crowaxe]

Good fun, thank you.

Looking forward to your next adventure.

 

[Castanova]

Thanks, Tintin! Good stuff.

 

[kingcomrade]

0/10 ruined the game for me

 

[Witchblade]

Wow! Well, thanks for all your hard work, Tin Tin. That was quite an experience.

Looking forward to your next LP thread.... :wink:

 

[Wyrmlord]

Fantastic stuff. And what a masterstroke of an ending.

But your dead parents...why did Verto have pictures of their car accident?

It seems that there is still much of the story that you have to figure out yourself, much like the Bronze Sphere from Torment.

 

[Tigranes]

Well so it ends.

When I played I missed a couple of small things, and had absolutely no idea Protopopov would turn out to be a Gorbachev clone. It was a nice surprise.

(And so an LP actually finishes!) Thanks Tintin.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

Great job Tintin, thanks for giving us a great LP.

 

[Insane Psychic]

Great job, brought back some good memories.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

THIS IS THE WORST LP EVER!!

 

[Tintin]

Thanks guys. Classes start for me so I'll have less time from now on, but this was fun enough that I'm considering doing another game from my childhood, maybe Lost Eden (another Cryo adventure game), or Bad Mojo, something like that. We'll see.

 

[Witchblade]

Hey, won't you do Bad Mojo, Plz? : :!: I've always wanted to do that one, but never got around to it.

 

[Azael]

Good job. Is Lost Eden the first-person one with the dinosaurs? In that case, do another game since it's incredibly easy and not very good in general.

 

[Tintin]

Yeah, it's pretty easy. I kind of like the story though.

 

[burrie]

Did you consider to submit this one to The Let's Play Archive, Tintin?

Also, what alternative endings does the game have? What happens if you break Protopopov's neck, for example?

 

[Tintin]

There's only one ending. Also how would I submit to that site?

 

[burrie]

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Only problem might be that this one was done on the Codex instead of SomethingAwful, but I can't see why they wouldn't accept this one.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

From the FAQ...

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Only problem might be that this one was done on the Codex instead of SomethingAwful, but I can't see why they wouldn't accept this one.

I can.