Let's Play Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon

A Blind Let's Play

Platform: Amiga

Released: 1992

Genre: RPG

Setting: Fantasy/Dungeon Crawler

Developer: Westwood Studios
Publisher: Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI)
Version: 1.05 AGA, WHDLoad Version: 0.1

Playlist:

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First Video in the Series:

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Khelben the somber archmage bids us to investigate the Church of Darkmoon. There have been disappearances and other strange goings-on in the vicinity. We soon find that the priests and priestesses are indeed behind the disappearances. I mean, come on, it's named "Darkmoon," for crying out loud! As expected, there is some dungeon-crawling, but the majority of the game consists of tower-crawling. Not that there's much difference, but this game is crazy fun anyway. 

Just like with EotB1, someone named CFou! refurbished the original Amiga game with the 256-color graphics from the IBM version. Here is the game in all it's AGA glory. And don't forget the automap.

[Total Game Time - 21:57:41]

Selected Comments From YouTube:

• Cool, you'll be doing this EOB as well. The general consensus is that #2 is the best of the series. I can't wait for your take on it, but first, I've got some serious catching up to do on the second half of your EOB I run... :-)

• Your faction with The Cult of the Diaper is taking a beating.. 

• it's interesting to see a 2-cleric party go through this game. i resurrected san-raal and played 2 mages i think. this approach is good i think - taghor is much tougher and doesn't die nearly as much =) 

• fireball fun for all the family! 8)

• i saw the still and thought, that dwarf is on rhoids. lol

• tough tower this but great fun to watch. crazy hard monsters still to come - keep those protection spells up! 8)

• Amazing amount of work you went through in order to show us this longplay. Thanks for putting in the hours. It was great to relive this nostalgia trip once again. Keep up the good work and keep more of this stuff coming.

• that was a really fun LP. very good entertainment! =) it was a heck of a challenge to figure out the keys while fighting the toughest monster in the game. i wonder if alain the ancient had touched amethyst would she have reached lvl 12 before the end? 

• Ah, This game brings memories too. Never finished it tho. Watched my big brother play all of them through. And EotB3 was hard nut to crack. Endless mazes and teleportations if i remember right. One good dungeon crawler i might suggest is Bloodwych, we played it co-op a lot when we were young... To think of it, there weren't many other co-op crawlers. It has some nasty teleport, click buttons fast mazes too :) Time to get some snacks and enjoy the show.

 Links of Interest:

Eye of the Beholder II AGA Fan Project Page

Eye of the Beholder II Fan Page (with many other useful links)

Eye of the Beholder II on Wikipedia (focuses on the first game, but there is some info)

Eye of the Beholder II on MobyGames

Review in Dragon Magazine # 179 (March 1992) (PDF- Pages 59 & 60) Large File!

Review in Amiga Action # 33 (June 1992)

Review in Amiga Format # 35 (June 1992)



This post has been backdated to reflect the date of the original Let's Play.