Few games start out with such a somber and melancholic atmosphere as "Dungeon Master 2". The minute the player steps up from the cave, sees the rain pouring down from dark grey skies outside the house and hears that simple yet strangely moving melody in the background, he or she is immediately immersed in an entrancing and timeless autumnal world.
This short video is about nothing else than trying to capture that peculiar ambience which makes DM2 a special and unusually memorable dungeon hack. Just sit back, relax, listen, watch the raindrops fall and ruminate wistfully over the ephemeral nature of existence...
(The poetry excerpt in this video is from Sonnet 73 by Shakespeare, read by Sam Dastor.)
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