Before You Continue!

To say that the Fear and Hunger series of games is "for mature audiences only" is putting it VERY LIGHTLY. If you are interested in this series, you should to be aware of the trigger warnings. From the Steam page of the second game: The game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore. Dismemberment is one of the core mechanics in the game. The game also includes the following: Use of alcohol and drugs, scenes of self-destructiveness from suicide to self-harm, nudity and sexual content. Themes of depression, mental health, sexual violence, child abuse, war and atrocities that come with it are represented in the game.

The first game has all of that and more but it's ramped up to 200%, especially when it comes to gore and sexual assault. Needless to say, please use caution if you want to delve deeper into the series. Since this is my first playthrough of the second game, please use discretion when viewing the images below. There are examples of nudity, blood and dismemberment in the screenshots. Click on the lovely image above to head back to the main page.

Before the Playthrough...

You should know that I've been a big fan of the series before I started playing the game and thus know a good deal about what's to come. This really isn't a 'blind' playthrough when it comes to the plot. About what to do and where to go, however... well, that's part of the fun.

I also held off on playing the game for a loooong time due to my apprehension of playing not only horror video games but difficult video games hence the reason I chose the easiest difficulty for my first playthrough.

This is NOT a "Let's Play" or a walkthrough, just a glimpse of my first attempt to survive the festival.

WELCOME TO PREHEVIL

So I WANTED to pick Abella as my first character but every single "tips for first playthrough" post on Reddit is pretty much "get Abella and Wrench Toss all opponents". Then I wanted to pick O'saa but reaaaally didn't want to go through his intro even though it's optional. So I settled on Marcoh even though I wanted him in my party for his cute party talk scenes.

Also I started in windowed mode, then fullscreen but didn't like the blurry pixels so then I went back to windowed mode.

I forgot to use a guide when picking choices during the intro backstory but I did get the Steal and Bob and weave skills. Not bad! Marcoh has a really good skill set. I wanted to get Lockpicking and I wish I had restarted because that would've been much more useful for my first run. Steal takes up a turn that could instead be used to take out an enemy's limb and I honestly forgot I had it most of the time.

'Googling'?

See why I put those warnings up? ... So, anyway, I punched his dick off after the arm fell off then killed him.

I know people gave Miro (the person that made the game) grief for using the term 'big chad' here but I think it's cute.

O'saa is based.

SAY THE LINE KARIN!!!!

Naturally I ship it, but I'm actually into O'saa x Abella more. I also like Marcoh x Olivia but it seems like Miro is going to delve more into Marcoh's sexuality (and maybe the 'dallying' incident that Caligura mentioned during that one scene) in a future update? Yeah, yeah, it's the joke reddit but whatever.

No, Marina. YOU'RE the big chad. She only gives you this on easy mode and reading it allows you to save at ritual circles. I'll talk more about the saving system later...

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT

Just had to get stuck on a rock - or maybe it was a tree - while running from him. At least I didn't get his parasite penis on my face. Yeah, I'm not joking. also jojo yadda yadda, i don't know anything about the series

Goat! Just, uh, don't read the bloody text in the basement of the house...

The most overpowered item in the game.

Yay, Abella! She's a huge help early game and, yeah, Wrench Toss is a godsend even on easy mode. Sucks that you have to re-equip the pipe wrench every single time after you toss it but I suppose that's a fair trade.

Doors are very tough enemies!

You can trap Needles in the room that he starts in (with poor Tanaka) by pushing that blue box over the way out...

But if you don't go out via the sewers (I tried to but the door was too strong...), he escapes. I did accidently go in and out of the room he was in though so maybe I entered this room too many times? Eh. Check out my awesome bear trap placement.

Had to deal with infection and poison but managed to kill the fucker without losing any limbs.

shut up you floozy

lol marina, also I had no chalk for like the first two hours, which means a whole two hours without saving at a ritual circle... I should've slept on the train to save. It wouldn't have been too much of a loss of time.

This is the main reason why I won't play the first game any time soon. The Girl's fate makes me so sad. :(

Meanwhile two moonscorched are ripping their skin off in the background. ... wait, just one. I killed the other villager.

... where the FUCK have you been, Karin, that's worse than this?!

Levi scared the SHIT out of me here.

are you fucking kidding me

oh that's nice btw the NPC next to Abella is hostile of course and just ignore that weird statue :)

Hooray! We won against a door!

I got SUPER LUCKY here and found a Sylvian skin bible in the mayor's manor. Killed the priest (he deserved it, trust me) and voila! Got an arm and a leg back! also idfk why the last one is cropped weirdly like that, i think i used irfanview's auto crop option by accident and saved it by accident

Yeah, I didn't get the Caligura cutscene here when I saved in the mayor's bedroom. Apparently it's only a 50% chance. Damn, I wanted to kill him.

For some reason he wasn't there before I saved via sleeping? So I guess Henryk is still alive Day 1 morning even if you recruit Abella? I have no idea, don't quote me on this.

Okay, potatoes I can understand. Eating a raw potato doesn't sound too tasty. But lettuce? That's just a salad. Sheesh.

amriel.neocities.org

I love porkchops but what the hell is 'murky brown sauce'? A1? Google is giving me results for 'chinese brown sauce'.

Recruited Levi! Yes, you are supposed to give him heroin.

Oh, him. Am I the only one who's kinda 'meh' on Pocketcat? Dude needs to shut the fuck up.

I'm too lazy to search for the article but Miro said that he created... this because he had a fear of white button down shirts as a child.

This is fine.

Finally! Found a fourth party member! Now we can win against those doors!

FUCK

SHOULD'VE GIVEN LEVI HEROIN

this neighbor was having a moment over here, not moving and staring at the wall

SO I FOUND OUT THAT if Tanaka dies and you're playing as Marcoh you can't recruit Olivia. Thankfully there's a mod that fixes that! Olivia is not the best party member however I was getting tired of Levi's lowered stats due to heroin withdrawl. So Levi went at the train and Olivia took his place.

what are you looking at you barefoot bitch

A bit on the nose there. Imagine going to this church every Sunday with your family...

lmao daan the monster's already dead do you REALLY need to shame it like that

... yeah, O'saa is still based. His laughing sprite is ADORABLE too: Made this gif in like a minute with ezgif and with the sprites found here, it's not the best but eh.

Alright, this page is getting pretty image heavy so...

PART TWO

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