The Mystery of the Druids: A Bizarre Adventure Game 

I was just fucken waching some of your vids the fuck

robbing hobos will do that

Poor thing

That's not a deal, that's a punishment

The Druids are finally upon us! I'm going to savour this later.

This makes too much sense sir

That's what I was thinking too. The people around him know he's got adventure game protagonist syndrome, so he can't be trusted. It's just good meta.

Problem is the people around him are idiots too. Like the Chief just immediately assuming the guy who Lowry imprisoned must not have been the murderer because they were killed. This completely ignores the possibility of their being multiple killers.

@@Shenaldrac That, while true, is another issue entirely. It doesn't take away from the good use of meta-narrative. They can be simultaneously idiots and distrusting of the main character for his obvious adventure game protagonist syndrome.

Yeah, this game is self-aware. We may need to stop it from causing the nuclear holocaust.

Govt in a nutshell

Tory simulator 2020

Why are you locked in the bathroom?

@@TheAwillz "all homeless people will be cut in half"

Oi, you got a beggar loicense?

Honestly at this point I just want to know the logistics of how he smokes so many cigs a day. Like they take a bit of time to get through, does he do like 2 at once or something?!

By my math, smoking 28 cigarettes a day should take about 2 1/2 hours. It must be all this man does in his spare time. I can only imagine the smell on that jacket.

@@sealogic4552 Even just walking in to a room with that thing will make it smell like a smoker was living in it.

I was a two pack a day for a bit so it's not that hard for me to believe.

@@turtleofpride4572 >2 pack a day Alright, how'd you do it? Please, I am genuinely curious as to how you managed to go through so many.

I mean…Halligan probably cares more about his puzzle items than actual people.

​​@@boiyado6717If they just changed the line from "Nothing will happen to either of us" to "No druid will harm either of us" when bartering for their lives, the whole stabbing Melanie plan could have actually been brilliant with the mistletoe being the crowning jewel of the plan instead of an afterthought

the puzzle is his deranged nature

​@@GuitarSlayer136 I think he just really wanted to stab Melanie

@@moomby3572 It would've one hell of a plot twist if he just figured that he really likes being a psychotic killer lol

Pitza

That could be a twist ending.

@@Ezio999Auditore That's technically how you will say it in Italian: /pitsa/

I was really expecting some cheesy ending scene where they show up at the place and he gets kicked out because he never payed his tab.

Pizzagate...

Druids: "Muahahaha! Halligan is now under our control!" *42 seconds later* Druids: "Holy shit, how do we undo the mind control spell?! This guy is fucking nuts even for our standards!"

He ate HOW many pizzas!? I also feel like he would end getting them in trouble - he would drug the homeless man again to steal his hat because he can't find his own hat, and all the droods would get arrested... Like that Al Capone going to jail for tax evasion

@@dougla517 its pitzas

@@kindbudkudos *Pizzen ;) For clarity: Thats the correct GERMAN plural for the word and, as Mandalore pointed out already, in german the word is pronounced the way Halligon does.

@@derfzgrld lol. my b. i was shooting for pronunciation. im not literate in zeet german.

Could have been snark on his behalf, but that works just as well.

​@@0neDoomedSpaceMarineI mean, he did think the forensics guy has a great job because he's a cabinet away from medical alcohol

"....This is grass, Halligan"

"Every time"??? Do you play this game often? Don't force us to do an intervention.

Don’t tell me you haven’t watched this at least twice.

I just love the way the Chief is furious with Halligan for not having some kind of breakthrough on the case when he has had it for like, 6 hours

@@christophersmith8848 To be fair, in those six hours he's poisoned a homeless man and taken a quick trip to France. And he refused to explain why a druid expert might be relevant to the case at hand.

​@@timothymclean Halligan is simply efficient with his time, Lowry could never 🙄💅🏻

@@error-try-again-laterI wonder how Halligan manages to tell the chief on how he managed to travel back in time, defeat a cult of canibals preparing to end the world,and obtains magical Druid powers to heal a person he stabbed with a knife. There is no chance that halligan is going to keep his job after this.

@@prometheus9732He has Druid powers now they can't stop make him leave even if they wanted to

It should have instead cut back to Palpatine with a shocked face that the guy with them is even more sinister than they are.

It's probably not even his first time.

Halligan just calmly dabs his mouth with a handkerchief he uses to dry the tears of the terminally ill orphans he frightens as a Hospital Clown.

@@kaspartambur "....uh, Mr. Halligan, they generally don't....oh wow ok you're okay with this ok now you're silently handing me an empty plate without breaking eye contact ok that's okay yeah"

Halligan: *witnesses the druid brutalize and torture man in public* Druids: the food we gave you didn't walk on all fours Halligan: *surprise pikachu face*

@@cibo889 To be fair he did attempted murder in two occasions, messed with the time space continuum, illegally break in a suspect's house messing out the whole investigation, partake in cannibalism, committed arson against multiple people, framed an innocent man of thievery, destroyed historical buildings, desecrated evidence while disrespecting someone's grave. I'm even surprised he still had a job by the beginning of the game

@@gantzllat well he still saved the world i guess

@@valletas yes he did. While being a terrible detective

@@gantzllat i disagree because by the end he isnt even a detective anynore he is out of a job

@@gantzllat so he's perfect FBI material

I like to think that he was called to do a single scream, but then after every take the voice director was like “That was good, can you give us another slightly different one?” for an hour

I think they just looped one or two screams over and over.

fell asleep watching the video, imagine me hearing this scream from my laptop for like what feels like 10 minutes, never ending.. what the fu

The voice actor sold it though!

not to mention he sent out an arrest warrant for prince charles for no other reason other than shits and giggles

all but the last sound like an average police officer tbh

If I had to guess, the only reason he had to save the world was the fact he happened to live there...

Probably uses the carabean as a tax haven for bitcoin.

@@mikalmandichak8328 Didn't exist yet

Ah, that makes sense......

He needed her iv bag

He needed her dinner fork to repair his jeep so that he can fly over the cliff towards the druid fortress and lockpick the castle gates with it.

HALLIGAN!

Check if somebody's issued an arrest warrant for King Charles.

And absolutely wrong from a culinary standpoint. Everyone knows pain and fear hormones ruin the flavor of meat.

@@passingrando6457 aw man, it's one thing to be eaten alive but to not even taste good? That's too much :(

Ngl for some reason that part kinda messed me up

I have some bad news about all your favorite celebrities and politicians

@@jiaan100 bro?

Lowry does give off Nero tol Scaeva vibes sometimes.

Enemies to lovers back to enemies

He is the Squilliam to Lowry's Squidward.

love loses❤

“Why do we always keep coming back to each other, knowing full well it’s never going to work?”

I don't think he was being mind controlled, he seemed entirely unconcerned, which is more his usual self.

@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 I'm convinced he knew it was human flesh and was trying to scam them but the food caused mind control

@@marley7868 feels like it.

@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 i think he was also playing along to not be killed or smth

@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 I like to think he wasn’t being mind controlled, he just was happy to have friends. Friends that he can mooch off for pizza money later.

Perhaps her ex was worse and he seems sane in comparison

@@cbot72 Then her ex had to do something worse than STABBING HER WITH SCISSORS. Maybe he decapitated her a couple of times, who knows

@@cbot72 that... Is a frightening thought.

She didn't have a puzzle item

How? Through the magic of the Druids!

Built incorrectly.

​@@KnightGamer724 he's built different (derogatory)

Built wrong, built stupid

That druid ain't right.

@@tentativegazeryou sound like one of THOSE people

It was the right choice though, he still had the mistletoe and perhaps in that one moment of desperation - Halligan thought clearly for once.

@@SoulReaperIsHere ah yes, the magical druidic powers of healing that ... he never practiced before, and was never even explained how they work or how to use the plant beyond “it has healing properties”. Come on ...

@@93Avenger93 Eh, Halligan is a proven druidic magic prodigy. He can make salt collapse buildings just by having heard that that's a thing.

Like...the promise was that no HARM would come to either of you. He could’ve done something like cut her finger, or punch her in the shoulder. But NO. His FIRST instinct was to stab her in the liver without hesitation.

Yes, because mistletoe worked so well the first time around!

Kek.

considering some of the pizza places I've seen it won't be the first bit of dubious meat he's eaten

The likes are 666 at the moment. I wanted to leave it like that

> implying Halligans pizza isn't already topped with human flesh

Unless it was an American

Making sure he gets his alibi's straightened out.

I think it was some kind of magical explosive spell, as the house begins shaking and the windows shatter long before impact, and after the explosion we hear Lord Sinclairs voice booming from the wreckage. The projectile itself also looks exactly like the one Serstam fires at Halligan and Maglor when they are making their parachute escape

@@lxjoe96the whole drone strike thing is a joke that's literally whats meant to have happened yes

Didnt even consider that. Wow

Psychotic dick move which turned out to be brilliant. Classic Halligan

Melanie could not have revived Brent, so he made the only "sane" choice. A paper cut might have been enough to break the vow but best not chance saving the world. So obviously you shove a blade into the lower torso of your companion. The Doctor would approve. Well, at least some of the Doctors.

@@Casanuda Considering everything he's done up to that point you cannot convince me that he considered the healing Mistletoe even one nanosecond before jamming that hedgeclipper into his love interest's abdomen. This guy was fully willing to roofie a homeless man and rob him, steal a human bone from a crime scene and keep it for no apparent reason, chug medical ethanol, forge his superior's signature, steal an undoubtedly expensive fishing rod to scrape salt of a boat instead of just getting some salt anywhere else, EAT HUMAN FLESH UNPROMPTED and never mention it to anyone ever, frame an innocent professor for theft to use a library computer, leave a wheelchair bound elderly man to die in an explosion, ask a girl out to a pizza place he has an unpaid 275 pound tab at while they were stuck in the lair of an evil druid cult in the middle ages and loot his savior's dead body without hesitation after he convinced him to jump out a window. He also never once said a word to her to let her know of his intentions, he just straight up stabs her. the game could have ended with Halligan doing a heel turn and joining the druids after that and it would have made just as much sense. Halligan is a chaotic stupid lunatic who only saves the world because no one else would have taken the absurd leaps of logic he did or gone through with his awful actions as casually as he did. The druids were defeated by a pizza obsessed kleptomaniac conspiracy theorist with zero self awareness and one braincell.

@@Inkspeckle I like to think Halligan is intelligent but so insane that he can't operate like a normal human. How else would he become a homicide detective for Scottland Yard? It would be interesting to see a prequel with him becoming the hero he was in Mystery of the Druids.

The villain saving the day lol

@@someone___1240 Wouldn't really call him a villain. He doesn't have any villainous goals in mind, he just wants to solve the crime in the most psychotic way possible.

True chaotic neutral

@@drugmate9710 I'd say he's the alpha villain, actually, think about it, he could've sold Melanie down the river to remain a neo-druid, but he opted to use time travel & a grammatical loophole in the application of a celtic curse to ensure that he not only got the girl but is now the last ordained drood, thus allowing him great power that he doesn't have to share with Sinclair & his brethren, as soon as he figures out that magic missile spell that'll be the end for Lowry & Miller.

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You very well know Halligan wouldn't do that

He also stabbed her right in the gut instead of like, the shoulder or something. Went straight for arguably one of the worst places to be stabbed.

He doesn't even need to stab anybody. Considering the vow was "Nothing will happen", pricking his finger or cutting his palm could have probably worked just as well. But then again, I don't know how "the magic of the druids" even work.

⁠@@bananawithaknifeWould you really expect halligan to actually have enough brain cells to think about that?Also I bet that he wanted to stab Melanie so he can rob her like the homeless man to pay for the pizza tab.

No, that part's fair actually, Melanie couldn't have healed him with the mistletoe and wouldn't have known to do it anyway.

he won't have a pizza tab anymore

This comment fucking SENT me I didn't even THINK of it from Sinclar's perspective.

Sinclair: _Now for the hard part of the plan-making sure he keeps eating now that he knows it's..._ Halligan: _chewing_ "...What? Do I have something on my face?" Sinclair: _Alright, I'm sure there's a perfectly valid reason that this guy, presumably Scotland Yard's greatest detective, is still eating human flesh._ Halligan: "Man, this meat tastes weird. What did you say this was again?" Sinclair: _Oh gods, what have I done?_

sinclair was worried, but for the wrong reasons. "hello mister sinclair, would you like some apple schnapps?"

guys... ...what if we are living the aftermath of the bad ending and halligan caused 2020?

AND THEN HELPS HIMSELF TO ANOTHER PIECE! :D

I mean, we do taste like pork

@Yggdrasil Burnes Got a source on that?

Come on...how long has it been since he ate pizza? Can you really blame the guy

pizza time

That makes it better, it means Lowry sitting on the chair was a bug, and his levitation is the fix.

​@@katanatsunami Lowry is the one in a billion who can develop yoga powers at incredible speed

Patch Notes: 1: Untethered Lowry from this mortal plane.

Again?

"I AM THE SUPREME PATRIARCH"

"I'LL TAKE OUT THE TRASH IN A MINUTE, MOM!"

"You aren't mom with my chicken tendies!"

"I'M TOTALLY WORKING ON MY PLANS FOR WORLD DOMINATION AND NOT FINISHING MY SWEET FARM IN MINECRAFT"

I was really hoping Halligan would say "any clues as to his whereabouts?" when told the chief was looking for a "detective Halligan" who works in his department.

I love the operatic music in the background during that scene...it absolutely nails the tone.

his suffering is so human, you want to believe the best in your fellow man, but deep down you know they’re animals.

For real. The chief sounds like an asshole antagonistic character but by a few hours into the game it becomes clear he's just *utterly tired* of Halligan's nonsense.

@@Electric0eye you kinda get that vibe from most of the people in the office. At first you think they’re just a bunch of a-holes, then you realize they’ve got every reason to hate Halligan

And then it turns out you ARE Halligan, in a big Fight Club esque twist

When you start to realize your case has a supernatural twist to it, you have to track down Halligan and ask him some questions. You find him passed out on a bench at Al’s Pizza Palace, and the only way to wake him up is with a whiff of Apple Schnapps (his favorite)

Alternatively you are playing someone who was cursed by droods (neo or otherwise) and need to get in the know on all of the secrets and mysteries that the droods had, culminating in a quest to find the last living drood, only to find out that he is a pitza-holic and conspiracy theorist working for the Scotland Yard. I honestly don't know if Halligan would be more or less than what one might expect of the last living drood. Probably both.

every step of the case, he's been there first, and you can tell by the sheer volume of poisoned homeless people and quantities of salt in places salt wouldn't otherwise be

It's the magic of the droods

I can relate to him tbh

This just would be a very rude thing to do for a British Gentleman

They probably slit his tendons and ligaments first

oh so it was to know which bottle was alcohol, because he's too proud to ask or google it

@@judeironheart7252 probably too stupid but yeah lol

Halligan is amazing, He doesn't know how to operate a printer and thinks the phone receiver is too heavy to use, his main professional use of the copier is to scan pictures of his face. you might assume he's some sort of eccentric genius detective but no...He's just Halligan, a true original.

@@seanodonnell9826 he acts like he THINKS he's an eccentric genius detective, which is the worst form of crime on earth imho

@@mozarteanchaos Yeah, as an eccentric detective who once investigated an indie developer to confirm suspicions of the developers clear greed and corruption. I can confirm I've never once scanned my face on a copier, I've scanned my rear like a sane person.

I think it was because she didn't know about the healing properties of the herb. And so she wouldn't know how to save halligan.

@@ciceroissad4821 That and also it is just weird psychotic Halligan logic. I mean No one would think it would work since you are the one breaking the vow. It is like having a peace treaty and then go to war, only to blame it on the invaded country. Who would think like that? Halligan that's who.

The best part was in Mandy's stream. He got so used to the insane logic of this game that he using the scissors on her was his immediate response. And it was the right one.

peak bri'ish logic

@@517342 Honestly i think this game story is intertwined with crazy logic of many similar games. Certainly it doesn't make sense to do the things he does, but since in many games you can drag and click items from inventory and use them(usually getting "you can't do that" sign), this game just rolls with it and shows how silly it would be and the kind of mindset such protagonist would need. I mean, i am sure many players at some point while being stuck in puzzle game would use every single inventory item in desperate attempt to complete the game.

he tricked that guy out of his fancy fishing pole fair and square, it's Halligan's now

Halligan stole a co-worker's scarf and took it to France. He still has that fishing pole to this day and takes his children fishing with it.

@@gabrielferreira7550 the only reason Halligan had children was because he needed them to solve a fishing puzzle

Considering Halligan’s a cop, I can at least respect the gumption it takes to convolutedly steal something in secret, and not steal things the way cops USUALLY do.

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick He has no jurisdiction in France.

Halligan would not do that as that may interfere with him completing puzzles in the future. She, on the other hand, is expendable

Druid: *Surprised Pikachu face*

Lecter has nothing on this guy. All he needs is some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

hahaha literally keeps chewing lmao

@@RED-jg6mt it killed me when he just kept eating , i could not stop laughing for like 5 minutes

@@acewolfgang276 *jazz music stops*

You know, now that you mention it, that is insanely true-to-life. It has to be one of the most subtle and congruent pieces of story-telling logic I have seen in a video game supporting character. It explains an awful lot, like her fairly low-key reaction to being smacked around. The only way that an intelligent, brave, accomplished, attractive woman like Melanie would have any romantic involvement with an inherently untrustworthy, somewhat hapless, selfish and self-serving, amoral, slovenly, chad like Hallagan is that she comes from a background of abuse. With that one detail of her past we can understand that she must have grown up in an abusive environment, which affected her development in such a way that she cannot distinguish warning signs in a man who expresses interest in her. For Melanie, abuse and love have been entangled in the chaos of her early upbringing resulting in what will be a string of bad choices in relationships as an adult. Being slapped around by Hallagan, who then says it wasn’t his fault, probably strikes a chord deep in her limbic brain, manifesting as an unconscious attraction, a feeling of familiarity as if they were “meant to be together.” Annnd then he stabs her in the abdomen.

Dam bro

With all of the things that the game tried and failed to get right I wasn't expecting the tragic cycle of abuse to be one of the things they succeeded in getting across.

@@ColdHawk strong projection bro

I like to think of his not deflecting this time when she confronts him about his obsession with pizza and office untidiness (compared to how defensive he got when his other co-worker brought it up) as a small hint of his growth.

He's basically if the Bachelor dropped out of college to become a cop

You should ask the real question: Would Pathologic survive Halligan?

@@galedex5661 no

@@galedex5661 he would destroy that world for pitza money

@@galedex5661 The amount of poisoned hobbos and skeletonized bodies would skyrocket

Him being drunk the whole time would explain a lot

He definitely only knows because he's tried.

Halligan probably has a lot to say about central banks and "fiat currency." But you'd have to get some pitza and beer with him to hear about it.

lol yup

Medical ethanol is the same substance that is in your beer - ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH). What makes it 'medical' is just the purity and strength. Why Halligan passes out from just a sip is yet another mystery.

"Civil asset forfeiture"

“You misappropriated both evidence and forensic resources, poisoned and robbed a homeless man, conducted an investigation on foreign soil without a permit, robbed somebody else, desecrated several ancient grave sites, and stole a priceless historical artifact… That’s two weeks paid time off!”

I know i just realized that too! not to mention he could have like, just knicked his arm or something not like stab her

To be fair, it’s easier for a doctor to heal someone else than themselves

@@phearamax4146 he sure had a lot of confidence in his ability to resurrect the dead for someone who has never done it before lol

'Casually' doesn't even cover it. He's so fucking relaxed when he stabs her that it's actually terrifying. His posture doesn't even change as he does it. It's the way a secret psychopath would do it in a movie or TV show to shock the audience.

@@phearamax4146 he had magic mistletoe, he can jam that into his own gut Or have melanie do it

It wasnt?

Me too, LOL.

I thought the same thing until Blake opened the door and Mandalore's helmet was in front of the computer, so about halfway through the song.

I thought so too until i saw the Mandalor office in the video lol

Guys, not the army of predator drones flying?

My headcanon is that Halligan is Lucifer and getting into any deals or agreements with him of any kind dooms you instantly

Villains always like to tell you their plans though. I think maybe he mellowed because he's been there in the past and future and knows that they don't stop him. Villains always think nobody will stop them.

that honestly bothered me a lot. That's something I'd expect from Halligan himself, not the damn chief.

@@deerenthusiast885 The fact we *expect* it from Halligan says it all, really!

Especially considering that the actual culprits of the murders WERE, in fact, a group of co-conspirators.

This makes too much sense considering he would know Halligan was going to try stopping Sinclair eventually, thus giving him reason to be Halligan's workplace rival.

That would make for an excellent plot for the sequel.

This makes a lot of sense, but I still prefer to think he just can float for no reason and everyone just accepts it.

I am fairly sure Halligan went into a coma after drinking the medical alcohol and everything after was just his weird dream

17:43 anyone know what this is a reference to?

Hey, he didn't murder him!

@@dungeonmaster217 do you think Brent really cared if the hobo lived?

@@kipras1412 of course not.

Finally some realism in video games. Designers take note!

To be fair, Halligan is completely broke

He kicked the cocaine habit, but the damage was already done.

Halligan is truly the best detective they have. Until Lowry deigns to stop levitating and rule the world.

@@rattles8789 idk, Lowry put an innocent man in jail and got that man killed. He may have transcended humanity but he’s a lousy detective.

@@rattles8789 Lowry may be a superchad. But he's still a pretty subpar detective.

To be fair to Lowry, we only see him in the context of the _one_ case where the detective being as loony as Halligan and equally prone to conspiratorial tangents is helpful. He probably does better on ordinary cases.

It's the fact that she doesn't even see it coming. Like; it would be one thing if she told him to do it and this was some big sacrifice, but instead, he just up and stabs her without saying anything.

@@guyofminimalimportance7 If you want to get into it I would say that them agreeing to do it, or him doing it to himself, shouldn’t constitute breaking the vow. Because it isn’t “harm” if you’re doing it on purpose to fulfill some goal. IE if the rewards outweigh the costs, it’s a net benefit. And it’s not ultimately harming Melanie if she wants to do it because it’s ultimately beneficial. Meanwhile the straight-up betrayal of stabbing her is harmful to her, because she doesn’t understand what’s going onz

I'm no sociopath , but 20 pounds is 20 pounds.

What vow was he talking about, anyway? Edit Oh I think I get it, the leader of the druids swore on his honour nothing would happen to Halligan or Melanie. So when a druid serving under the leader, Halligan himself, stabbed Melanie, the leader's vow was broken and druid magic with it. Is that correct?

@@NeoSaturos123 Yes.

Nah, he just told him hes fucked for trying to be with Halliga

"You stabbed me you barsterd." "It was to save the wooooorrrrrrld, Melanie." "And?????"

It's not a crime if you resurrect her later, apparently.

@@nitrokid i mean, she technically didnt fully die, so she can probably choose not to press charges. So you're not wrong. XP

it's actually pretty funny that he can actually stab himself and the result is still pretty much the same

@@ultimateninjaboi At that point it's just assault, right?

Yep

I love it too :>

Same. 'vbeen rewatching my G for the 16th time lika there is no tmrrw

I fell asleep to this video dozens of times, for like months, and Im watching it again...

I thought i was the only one lmao​@@Bryan-ib3jo

I'VE WAITED SOOO LONG!

.... OH! Is THIS where the old school WoW slang came from?

Oh shit it's RoachDogg JR, that's a meme I didn't expect to see anywhere else on the internet.

Hey bro

@@jacksonhodge8142 sup, dude.

She really wanted that Pitza date.

@@carlosfred8673 Brent is just going to ditch her so that she has to pay his tab.

I love the fact that Halligan could have just as well stabbed himself, since the deal with Serstan was that both him and Melanie had to survive. But of course Halligan stabs the woman he loves instead, as Halligan is want to do.

He could have just stabbed either one of them in a leg or an arm and it would have done the job. He was just being a sadistic sociopath at that moment. That's our Halligan for you.

@@joaogomes9405 sorry to be that guy but it’s “won’t to do” as in something he is predisposed towards doing often or in the past

This woman probably *raised* Halligan, and half her genes came from her. She's got to be terrifying.

That woman must be an eldritch being , a lovecraftian nightmare come to life

Y’guys ever played Sanitarium?

I'm fairly sure his "mother" is Nyarlathotep.

@@smergthedargon8974 Or Shub-Niggurath. Perhaps he’s one of the Thousand Young.

Ohhh, Halligan! **you hear a faint yet obnoxious laugh track**

*Cue the mariachi sewer surfing mix*

He's essentially every fallout player ever.

@@hellishwerewolf7798 Yep... you play as Halligan in every fallout game.

Even though I saw that from a mile away, it was still very funny

Thats true - be random and your enemy is too confused to plan an attack!

It’s like a new alignment: lawful chaotic

@@ColdHawk halligan is not lawful. he's chaotic chaotic

he's not a hero - he's a cosmic horror to the villains

he's a terrible ally but a terrifying foe

Melanie also comments that she thought he was wearing an ungly suit when she first saw him.

At least he kinda became a druid, not like his romantic interest, so he was able to heal her. She couldn`t-

@@Flamme-Sanabi but that begs the question, was a lethal stab even neccesary? A small cut should have been enough

@@freakymoejoe2 I mean, a papercut could do it. But I'd make sure that it works, so it's a lethal stab. I mean, they just could've tripped and fall on their face and that way the thing would've been ended.

It gets better, man. They tried that first, no dice. Even his line about the things is "All you could do with those is hurt yourself" but apparently it doesn't even register to Halligan that that'd work. Shivving his new girlfriend is insane but...well, yeah that fits.

That contract was unbelievably literal. He could have tripped over his shoelaces and sprained an ankle and the big bad would have to vanish from existence. The logic of the act is what surprised me, not the act itself.

It's a real standout line.

And Jack left town.

Nice.

@@ILSS Nice.

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick Nice.

That's why Halligan had the vow be "promise that no harm comes to us".

@@caav56 Wait a second, was that 'no harm' vow why he was out of nowhere invited to join the druids instead rather than flayed piece by piece for dinner. It all makes sense oh sh

Multiple things are...

@TooLateToTheStory There Was Game like that a while back called Edna escapes the insane asylum or something

@TooLateToTheStory yeah the second one follows her friend right?

@TooLateToTheStory I shudder to think what foul thoughts are running through the minds of the protagonists of Forklift Simulator 2020

It's even better that like all the people in the game who know him also know it. So it's not like it was unintentional on the part of the game creators.

I don’t care what anyone says this is now cannon lmfao

Honestly it’s become a comfort video at this point when I have a shit day

Droods

Same 🥲

Not to mention by the logic of the vow he could have just stabbed himself instead but of course he didn’t because he’s Halligan. I honestly wonder how much of his characterization was intentional and how much of it is just weird/sloppy writing lol

@@JDizzle785 Or not even stab. If all it took was one of them being harmed, he could have just made a small cut.

I think Mandalore really got it in one saying Halligan has the mind of an insect, I busted up at that

There are also a lot more incredible characters, I daresay a disproportionate amount, on death row. Twenty years ago, I would have also said something to the effect of "great characters who are unlikely to have prospective girlfriends," but a lot of seriously jacked-up stuff has become the norm' over the past half a decade.

@@JDizzle785 I thin 1:11:17 answers that. "No matter how illegal, corrupt or immoral"

Like Edna from "Edna & Harvey: The Breakout" which is about escaping an insane asylum. Except not intentional? I think?

pretty sure sseth wrote the script for halligan

"""Slightly"""

@@thefool8224 "Hey hey people, today we're going to poison the homeless and shank the women we love." - Yeah, checks out

If all of that was intentional on the part of the devs, kudos to them I guess

Clearly he has no competition in this town

Because unfortunately in the full version he's sadly the most competent officer.... I'm not kidding, you may think I'm joking, but the other police in the precinct are THAT bad.

well, that part is actually quite realistic. Police in the real world have the best job security and can often get away with doing questionable shit.

Police unions, man.

As a Brit who was born in the 90's and doesn't know what's real and what's rumours about the Royal Family, heck I can barely keep track of who's who really, how close was/is Halligan to whatever truth has been revealed? Also shame we'll never see her glorious shades of green again.

@@HelghastStalker That doesn't answer my question but that much I knew, thanks XD

@@Roadent1241 It was a semi-popular conspiracy theory at the time that Princess Di's accident was a setup from the Queen or Prince Charles, Di's ex-husband, in order to prevent her embarrassing the Royal Family with the divorce. About the equivalent of the American 9/11 truthers, "jet fuel can't melt steel beams," in terms of conspiracy and meme-fodder in later years.

@@MaskOneOneTwoThree Ah, right, yes. I remember hearing stuff about Di and Charles on the car radio when I was very little before That happened and mum just going "well just divorce him then!!". And I almost consider my parents old fashioned given there's a 40-year gap between me and them XD Didn't think they'd think of that as an option.

@@jiaan100 LOL if you're trying to claim covid is some bioengineered weapon, its a shitty one. A bioweapon that at best kills 60+ yr olds and people with shitty lungs? Terrible weapon, like as gun that mostly just bruises people unless you hit nana in the eye. Everyone knows covid was actually a punishment from God for us daring to build flying machines, duh.

Love your videos!

@TooLateToTheStory well, there's a country I'm never gonna try to visit apparently.

"couldnt hurt to try" *shank melanie"

@UCQo_Si_W1450BKjXFI09Q9w come on, der Wixxer was fun

@TooLateToTheStory Wait so Halligan are purposely write to be a weirdo? For the longest time i thought the writer just try to make naive under dog Protaginists but failed huh now that interesting.

Sure but in the process he would have committed as much if not more heinous crimes.

@@EggheadsGuide Halligan: "You can't make an omellet without cracking some eggs."

@@espio87 "We're making the mother of all pitza here Lowry!"

Pretty sure leaving the fork in the microwave was part of puzzle, somehow.

@@BlondieRU-vid Had to burn down the break room to get out of it.

Adventure Games should really be more accurately relabelled "Sociopathy Simulators", or perhaps "Kleptomania-'Em-Ups". In some cases, I suppose, "Ludicrous Guesswork Bonanzas". But a lot of the time, especially with the "modern(ish) setting, plausible protagonist" ones, it very often boils down to "Who the frick would actually behave like that? Put a spider in some guy's tea so he'll crash his fucking truck?! Steal the candy from the baby to distract a seagull so you can take a ring from its nest for a wax imprint?"

I like how Quest for Glory is one of the most sane adventure games out there because it's also an RPG. There's kleptomania, but you have to be a thief and not get caught.

I think I read somewhere that that's basically what happened. They weren't sure if they wanted this to be a more comedic or a more serious type of Adventure game....and so they ended up with this amazing hybrid that is Halligan 😆

look up Deponia :)

So… Sterling Archer?

It's weird where they draw the line with technicality. If you think about it serstans oath is broken pretty much the moment he makes it because Melanie is breathing, the cells in her body are moving and replicating, basically something is happening to her all the time. I think the best option for serstan was to promise that nothing will happen to her *once he let's her go* and then kill her while still touching her.

Imagine how weird it would‘ve been, if Halligans plan failed: *stab* „Wtf!!! Why did you stab me?!“ „relax…I tried something, but it didn’t work“

Is... Is Halligan a Fae?

They could have done a much more clever twist too! All we would have to do is change the line to "Swear that no druid will harm Melanie" and since Serstan doesn't know about Halligan being a Druid it would make more sense to swear the oath. It would dampen the impact of the later mistletoe reveal, but I think it's worth it

To be fair human flesh is pretty tasty

@@mohamednail1707 Doesn't it just taste like pork?

@@roadent217 nah its taste more like beef

Sinclair: “It is Human flesh” Halligan: :T He just seems annoyed if anything.

i heard that human flesh tastes like a mix of 4 diferent meats i heard it on a video the guy cutted a piece of his meat and mixed it with the 4 meats, man curiosity can take people to skyroquet

"It was druids my boy"

*cap-i-tan

@Boa-Noah this need to be animated.