Deception 3: Dark Delusion Playthrough #1 - Wish Route (No Commentary)
15Deception Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPO56tlewLYQStux_4OFj3SBHrrMPiMh5
Please note that this is segmented and edited.
Notes
All of the dialogue auto-advances and it’s fast.
Unlike Deception 2, there are only 4 choices you can make, all killable enemies are mandatory and there are just two routes. I show the 3 endings you can get with the first route in this video. The second route only has 1 ending.
The repeated use of the waterwheel setup was to generate large amounts of ark. It’s around 1k per cycle and definitely worth doing when maxed out traps cost over 10k to make.
Wall traps, all of them, suck pretty hard in this game due to the extremely common immunity to them.
In chapter 17, you encounter Gelfaust. He is a effectively a boss. With the setup I had, there was no way to make good use of the environment traps, especially with his immunities, so I had to pin him to the wall.
I know critiquing a 20+ year old video game is pointless and video games tend to have awful stories for a variety of reasons but I really did hate how the story played out in this game. You have this mostly helpless generic girl for a protagonist who gains the power to avenge her murdered family but instead of that being the focus of the story, showing how that power and lust for revenge consumes her and possibly the guilt involved with murdering people, she just uguu’s in the background while a bunch of other people move a clumsy political plot forward between gameplay segments where she brutally murders randoms with traps. Wait, I’m sorry. Defends herself from randoms with traps. Because self defense is morally acceptable while murder is not, therefore Reina (and the player) remain good. Don’t even get me started on how much of an idiotic cop out the end of chapter 23 is or the numerous plot holes. That cutscene is easily one of the worst I've ever seen.
The ultimate problem is that Reina is meant to be a sort of self-insert for the player and the inability to be a true character due to this renders Reina a bystander in a completely forgettable story that really should have been all about her and her revenge. Not a problem unique to this game or series obviously, but I was pretty disappointed by this game after playing Deception 2. The opening scenes gave me the impression that this was going to be a leap forward for the series narratively but alas, it was not. It was your typical worthless video game story.
What makes it worse is that I had to subject myself to two playthroughs of this crap.
At least it didn’t do the whole “No, you can’t kill him! You’ll be just like him!” garbage, completely ignoring the fact that you kill 90+ people during gameplay. God, I hate that.
00:00 Intro
06:54 Chapter 1 - Escape to Tragedy
12:41 Chapter 2 - Alendar
18:00 Chapter 3 - Encounter at Old Castle
26:39 Chapter 4 - Disaster
33:44 Chapter 5 - Scratched Jewel
41:13 Chapter 6 - Marco
51:18 Chapter 7 - Brute
57:59 Chapter 8 - Price for Secret Arts
1:05:30 Chapter 9 - AUO Raid
1:11:10 Chapter 10 - Vestiges of Distant Day
1:18:05 Chapter 11 - Blue Legend
1:23:12 Chapter 12 - Tracking
1:34:16 Chapter 13 - Past Days
1:41:11 Chapter 14 - Crossroads of Destiny
1:50:28 Chapter 15 - Poison
2:02:44 Chapter 16 - Awakening from Nightmare
2:10:26 Chapter 17 - Revolt
2:22:54 Chapter 18 - For a Loved One
2:32:42 Chapter 19 - Time-Controlling Stone
2:41:53 Chapter 20 - Long Parting
2:50:38 Chapter 21 - Dying Lamp
3:05:54 Chapter 22 - Stratagem
3:14:49 Chapter 23 - Queen Margareta
3:33:43 Chapter 24A - Back to the Beginning
3:42:03 Ending 1
3:45:47 Ending 2
3:49:13 Chapter 24B - Answered Wish
3:57:31 Ending 3
3:59:48 Credits