Okami's El Dorado Playthrough

[~okami~]

Yes, I'm actually doing this.

Anyway, welcome to my playthrough of the 2000 game Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado. Specifically, I'm playing the PC version. I've been in an El Dorado mood lately (if you somehow couldn't tell), so this game was an obvious choice for my first let's play. Unfortunately, most of the reviews I've read on this game have been... mixed at best, so we may be in for quite the experience. Also, before we begin, I just wanted to show this wireframe thingy of Tulio that I found in controls configuration. I just think it's neat!




So if you... OH GOD. OK, maybe these graphics were good for 2000, but... yeaaaahhh. As I was saying. If you're not familiar with the plot of the film (and by extension, this game), here's a quick, spoiler-free summary. Tulio (left) and Miguel (right) are two Spanish con artists living in early 16th century Spain. They win a map that leads to the mythical city of El Dorado. Miguel is eager to follow the map, but the more skeptical Tulio doesn't buy the whole thing. After a series of little incidents, they end up on an escape boat with Hernan Cortes' warhorse. Eventually, the three wash up on the shore of the New World. They follow the map's directions and eventually discover El Dorado, where they are mistaken for gods! And yeah, there's the friendly chief, the villainous high priest, the love interest and fellow con artist, and an armadillo who may or may not be the actual god. Or some guardian angel or whatever.


The game proper starts off with Miguel and Tulio discovering a wanted poster of themselves. Not wanting to be noticed, Tulio makes the smart decision to remove the poster.


After removing the poster from the wall, the duo notice a man selling corn imported from the New World. Tulio decides to buy a bag for one peseta. Not a bad deal, right? Except that was their only money. Damn, these two are poor.


They walk a few steps further and notice another man selling chickens. For twenty pesetas. Yeah.


Luckily, Tulio gets the idea to bait a stray chicken nearby with the corn that he bought. He figures that the chicken man will buy the stray chicken for twenty pesetas.

Except not. The chicken seller offers them five pesetas for the stray chicken. Miguel points out that he himself sells chickens for twenty. But the merchant basically tells him "that's how the market works" or whatever. What an asshole.


We then get to the dice minigame. The fucking dice minigame. I really hate this part. Like, really. I don't even want to get into it. It just sucks, dude. For real.


After winning that god awful minigame, Tulio wins a map to El Dorado. Also, Miguel and Tulio are now free to walk through other parts of Seville, since one of the guards left.


After doing some wandering, the boys encounter a bullfighter who calls himself "The Great Malezo". This one chick goes fucking cray-zay over him. Fangirls. Malezo boasts to the two about having defeated "the devil in bovine form", El Diablo. However, Miguel and Tulio both write Malezo off as not worth their time and leave.


They then encounter this little boy with a slingshot. The kid is guarding the area for some reason, and when they get too close, he hits them with his slingshot. Tulio then gets the idea (he's the idea guy if you haven't guessed by now) to put Miguel in a fishy smelling barrel so he can walk past the boy unharmed. The kids accuses them of cheating and runs off, conveniently dropping his slingshot in the process. Tulio picks up the slingshot and the duo heads off.

So yeah, that's part one of my playthrough. I'm stopping here 'cause I don't wanna post too many screenshots. I'll probably post tomorrow or the next day. Hope you guys enjoyed this first part!

[josh6243]

Interesting playthrough. I might follow this for future posts.

[~okami~]

So we're back. Funny enough, today is also the 21st anniversary of The Road to El Dorado (the movie at least). It can legally drink in the US now! Anyway, on to part two.



Tulio spots a dress hanging on the wall and gets yet another idea. Miguel assumes that Tulio will force him to wear it, but Tuli insists that he'll be the one wearing it instead in order to get past the guard. If only they had a way to knock down the gate...


After some walking, they meet a man who guards the gate that holds El Diablo, the bull mentioned previously. The man doesn't seem too fond of Malezo, calling him a coward.


Tulio and Miguel go back to Malezo and have a chat with him. Malezo agrees to go to the gate or whatever.


The three go to the gate. The man gets all pissed at Malezo and Malezo shows more signs of his cowardice.


Tulio then decides to unlock El Diablo's gate... you'll see where he's going with this.


Yeah, there's no denying it. Malezo's a complete fucking coward and runs from the loose bull.


Tulio then decides to anger El Diablo by shooting him with the slingshot. Again, he's going somewhere with this. Also Miguel makes this kinda amusing comment.


So Tulio puts up the poster from the very beginning of the game on the gate that blocks the dress. El Diablo charges at the poster and destroys the gate, allowing Tulio to take the dress. See, I told you he was going somewhere with this.


Things start to get G A Y from here. Just like the movie!


Miguel doesn't really like this at first


Tulio, dressed in drag, distracts this sleazy fat guard(?) dude. Meanwhile, Miguel sneaks past the guy in order to get onto the docks... for free, at least.


After Miguel successfully sneaks past the guy, Tulio meets up with his (or "her" teehee) companion. We also get this gay little piece of dialogue.

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Aaaaaaand that's all for part two! Part three will be up soon.

[~okami~]

Guess what? We're back. You know what, I'm just gonna get straight into this...

Miguel and Tulio have now reached the docks - almost. They now need to find a way to get over there. Luckily, Miguel (who we finally get to control) sees a donkey powering this conveyer... thingie. He just needs something to motivate the donkey.

Tulio notices a barrel of carrots nearby, forcing Miguel to sneak pasts the guards to obtain a carrot. Inside of the barrel. Again. So basically this part of the game is a tiny stealth section. Like Metal Gear Solid, except shitty.

We've got the carrot! But Miguel, being kinda... stupid (they both are really), accidentally says this out loud. The guards notice but are dumber than he is and go on with their guarding stuff. They're so stupid that they fail to notice the barrel moving places.

Miguel ties the carrot to the string and the donkey tries to walk toward it. Kinda like that scene in Mulan with the dog and the bone tied to a string? Maybe? Anyway...

Miguel pulls a lever and it changes the direction of the conveyer. He climbs up a ladder.

Miguel and Tulio then hide in barrels to get to the docks. If you've watched the movie, then you can see how much this deviates from it. There were barrels involved, though.

Also we get... oh, wow. I think I took this screenshot at the wrong time, lol. We get another cool lil FMV lifted from the movie. I forgot to mention that there was also one of those in the beginning of the game. I didn't take screenshots of that though.

So the duo got on a boat, but when they lifted the barrel lids, they were caught and imprisoned. And here's where things deviate from the film yet again. See (for those unenlightened), in the film, Miguel was the one who tried to get Altivo (the horse) to help them. But here, it's Tulio who does that. At least we get more sarcastic Miguel, though. He's definitely a bit more sarcastic here...

Altivo retrieves a boathook for Tulio, but it hits Miguel in the head and knocks him unconscious. Tulio uses the boathook to pull down a ladder.

Tulio climbs up the ladder and peeks into a room. He notices keys, biscuits, and monke. Tulio uses the biscuits as bait for monke so that he can get the keys to the room on the other side of the ship. monke gives him keys.

Tulio unlocks the door to the other room, but a crew member notices him. Tulio makes up this shitty excuse but doesn't buy it. Dude then pulls out a FUCKIN' SWORD on Tulio and pushes him back to the prison thing he was in with Miguel.

Tulio bangs his head against the wall (it's funnier in the actual movie) for another idea. Miguel half trolls, half... idk. He basically tells Tulio to bang his head into the wall harder. Tulio listens and accidentally knocks himself out. But hey, the ladder is back down again! So yeah, I'm gonna end this part of Monkey Island... I mean El Dorado right here. Expect another update soon. But first...





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