Wherever I leave my cap, that's my stool.

After bragging about how great I was doing in Sacred 2, guess who’s character died for no reason & screwed his entire game up – that’s right, me, how do you always know that? How did I kill my fairly high level character after passing the game ( & getting the silver survivor trophy ) safely?

Well, I’ll tell you. I had, in fact, just passed the campaign on the bronze baby setting & was looking forward to taking my unmurdered magic using exhibitionist gal ( it’s a class – technically called High Elf, but really, they hate clothes ) through the game to the end of the highest level without dying – most likely getting some kind of fantastic gold or platinum trophy into the bargain.

The way normally abled ( to say nothing of smart ) people go about this is to select new game at the next higher difficulty setting with their character of choice. The way I did it was to select continue, which of course brought me back to just before I finished the game, surrounded by hoards of the toughest enemies in the game without either of the buffs activated which my character needs to survive.

The thing about Sacred 2 is that it’s all real time – you can’t pause it, for instance, & put the buffs on, exit the game, or think about some other strategy that might be helpful. Nope, all you can do is maneuver around, picking off the enemies one by one ’till you buy yourself enough time to put on your buffs, finish off the enemies in the immediate vicinity & then exit the game. Or, you can do what I did & panic, bring up the map screen ( while I was being attacked in real time ) & select a safe destination, initiating the fairly lengthy ( did I mention I was being attacked by many enemies in real time? ) process of transporting away.

I still have a dryad ( stupidly called Willow because I never intended her to be my main character ) at a fairly high level & close to the end of the game with no deaths, so I’ve continued that campaign, but honestly, the dull sound & visual ( well – there is no visual, literally, you can’t see the ammunition ) of the blowpipe just doesn’t compare to the Elf nudist’s magical pyrotechnics.

So there you have it, the sad chronicle of lameness – learn from this, & remember: some people need to pay more attention & apply themselves, some people need to curb bad habits which hold them back like drug abuse & alcoholism, but the sad fact is that for a fairly sizable  number of people the problem is that they’re not smart, and they will fail it.