In this part, we meet up with historian Arthur Blake and begin to unravel the titular mystery. Hope you guys like long dialogue trees! (It never again gets as bad as it does in this episode, I swear.)
The Mystery of the Druids is a point-and-click adventure game for Windows released in 2001, and the first game released by German developer House of Tales, who would continue to develop games for Windows and mobile platforms through the Noughties.
Though the game itself is very obscure, it's become infamous for its very Photoshoppable box art, which depects a CG druid with an emotionally ambiguous, yet intense, facial expression. If you've never seen it before, the game's Wikipedia article has it available for your viewing pleasure. If you found this longplay by searching, chances are that's the reason you're here in the first place. I'm happy to report that the game itself is just as ridiculous as said box art. I'm not going to spoil anything specific, though. Just watch it and find out.
If you want to play this game, good luck! The discs are relatively cheap and easy to track down, but the challenge is actually getting it to run on a modern computer, since it wouldn't work on Windows 7 no matter what I tried. (The game also became available on Steam after I recorded this, but that version is currently chock full of crashes and other weirdness that make it unplayable.) In order to record it, I ended up having to run a Windows XP laptop through a VGA capture card, because trying to use recording software on the laptop itself would output unwatchable footage where the character models and text flickered constantly. I think it was worth the effort, though.
I don't really know what else to say except... druids. Enjoy.
