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The Staggering Fall of The Lucius Franchise

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What The HELL Happened To The Lucius Franchise?

This video will examine the progressive decline of the Lucius Franchise.

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In 2012, Lucius promised players a truly unique horror experience, playing as the son of the Devil.

Drawing inspiration from classic horror films like The Omen, this game placed players in the shoes of a devil’s child, orchestrating elaborate murders inside a wealthy family’s mansion. But did Lucius live up to its sinister potential, or did its ambitions burn out along the way?

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0:00 Introduction to the trilogy
1:01 The sequel's narrative start
3:20 Missing powers and resets
7:22 Murderous freedom in Lucius 2
10:12 Power systems and AI issues
13:33 Utility of powers explored
17:02 Technical flaws and feedback
23:33 Hospital escape progression
27:56 Religious themes and prophecy
31:14 Revelations and rivalries
34:06 Horror tropes and references
37:04 The father's role and finale
40:00 Hospital finale and departure
43:04 Arrival in Ludlow
46:22 Infrastructure and sabotage
50:57 The power plant and lab
53:47 Confrontation with Isaac
57:10 The locusts and concluding acts
1:00:27 Final struggle in Ludlow
1:04:04 Escape and franchise outlook
1:07:07 Lucius 3 introduction
1:10:20 Winter Hill exploration
1:14:09 Getting to know the town
1:18:46 McGuffin's past revealed
1:21:41 Drip and world interaction
1:25:09 Stagnant pacing
1:29:07 Side missions and hitches
1:34:22 The stamp collecting mission
1:36:40 Targeting the town mayor
1:40:54 Carousel carousel conclusion
1:42:36 Open world technical collapse
1:48:21 Church and side puzzles
1:52:22 Priest and judge encounters
1:57:48 Soundtrack and hidden clues
2:01:27 The judge's lair
2:02:23 The motel murder
2:06:43 Stealth and mechanical flaws
2:10:03 The fourth target
2:14:37 Prophecy and final preparations
2:18:21 Church confrontation
2:24:02 McGuffin's betrayal
2:28:14 Hell and the final jump
2:32:15 The ending choices
2:36:44 Final thoughts on the trilogy

20 Comments

@Lawrence_Talbot 2 months ago

He promised the Lucius saga would continue, and 9 months later he made good on his promise. Patience is a virtue kids

@Floorbanana 2 months ago

"please don't buy their product they haven't paid me" is a contender for the funniest thing you have every said.

@ShwintyKat 2 months ago

Look. If I saw a child use satanic powers to kill a room full of people, I'd pretend I didnt see anything too.

@TheNobody-ru5xg 2 months ago

Comes back after 9 months to reveal to me that Lucius summons the Klan to kill a guy, you can’t fucking do this to me.

@maidenless_alan5136 2 months ago

My favorite reset of powers is DMC, the protagonist is in so much debt he sells most of the weapons

@justinbinns7553 2 months ago (edited)

Lucius 2 is my personal favorite. The fact that it tried to have this hitman-esque open ended mission design combined with the fact that they had nowhere close to enough money to do that makes it on the same level as oblivion when it comes to being unintentionally hilarious

@Scoutiemout 2 months ago

hearing the mic quality difference between charlie and the professional voice actors was genuinely gut busting

@super_seeker 2 months ago (edited)

Give me a reboot where a detective has to wrestle with his morales, lucius's demon dad trying to seduce him, and trying to make lucius a better person (and failing)

@VesselGunpoint 2 months ago

Lucius franchise may have one of the most insane devolutions in gaming. Starting from a promising, almost AA-quality game for its time, to a regular indie simulator sandbox game, to some dude's Unity pre-alpha game with voice acting.

@NoovaWyvern 2 months ago

The ending of the trilogy being the son of the devil getting dog piled by a bunch of average small town church-goers is honestly peak. I love it so much.

@jusyoniox 2 months ago

OH MY GOD WHEN THE WORLD NEEDED HIM MOST

@grindhouseradio1418 2 months ago

I choose to believe that the baby growing up to be Freddy Krueger, while Freddy Krueger just got arrested, is a reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child.
The timeline makes no sense, but it's Freddy he can do whatever the fuck he pleases.

@adamcammack3534 2 months ago

A Hitman game where you play as the Omen should of been a slam dunk and yet they somehow made 3 of these

@Alaskanraider2734 2 months ago

Honestly, I think that final scene with Dad immediately knowing what you're doing, but Gabriel comes out of nowhere and takes the glory from you, kinda ruins it for me. We don't get to kill him, something that had been led up to for pretty much the entire game, and instead get to kill Gabriel, who we have only known for this final game.

@InVinoVeratas 2 months ago (edited)

Ah yeah, the game where a child's body physics, ragdoll as soon as you grab them. Reminds me of when my siblings ragdolled as soon as I took their hands as toddlers.

I preferred when they were ragdollable, compared to the adults they are today.

Now I have to throw them hard enough, and then they'll Ragdoll, wish the Dev's left in this exploit.

@TheScrewbucket 2 months ago

I beat Lucius 3, but I didn't actually finish it. The game experienced some kind of catastrophic glitch that led me to skip the vast, vast majority of the game and skip right to the last scene in the church. I could have gone back to finish it, but that jank felt almost like a fitting end to the series to me.

@rebeccahogan876 2 months ago (edited)

1:01:22 Holy shit, are you the first person on the entire internet to correctly identify the rider on the white horse as Conquest instead of Pestilence? Finally!

@joaogomes9405 2 months ago (edited)

Blame QA less. We often have no real power to force fixes, we just report the broken thing. If a dev tells us they won't fix the thing and the feature owner/ producer backs them up, all we can do is twiddle our thumbs.

@mrgoatman6202 2 months ago

2:35 I didn’t know there was a sequel to the Gluck-gluck 9000 technique 😭

@hotcheetoaddict5400 2 months ago

I kinda hope that Lucius gets a series remake. Where they can have better animation, a good power system, and a story where the decisions matter. I can see a story where a boy listens to his father because thats what kids do, even if it makes the kid feel bad. I can story where he fights against his own brother in hopes of staying daddy's favorite boy. And I can see a story where that same kid who has hurt so many really starts to doubt his father, because he doesnt really like hurting people and being taken care of and seen as a child rather than a tool feels so much better. I think I would love a story where Lucius is a kid just listening to Satan because he thinks he should, and as the story goes on he starts doubt.