LONGPLAY: Heretic - Episode 3: The Dome of D'Sparil (1994) [MS-DOS]

Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game released in 1994. It was developed by Raven Software and published by id Software through GT Interactive. The game was released on Steam on August 3, 2007.

The Dome of D'Sparil is the final episode of Heretic. After killing the Maulotaurs at The Portals of Chaos in Hell's Maw, Corvus enters a giant portal to an ancient castle at the bottom of the abyssal ocean, protected by gigantic crystal domes and inhabited by many monsters. This is D'Sparil's strongest fortress, for it is where he resides. Aside from D'Sparil and his Green Chaos Serpent, the only new monster introduced is the Ophidians.

Using a modified version of the Doom engine, Heretic was one of the first first-person games to feature inventory manipulation and the ability to look up and down. It also introduced multiple gib objects that spawned when a character suffered a death by extreme force or heat. Previously, the character would simply crumple into a heap. The game used randomized ambient sounds and noises, such as evil laughter, chains rattling, distantly ringing bells, and water dripping in addition to the background music to further enhance the atmosphere. The music in the game was composed by Kevin Schilder. An indirect sequel, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, was released the following year. Heretic II was released in 1998, which served as a direct sequel continuing the story.

Three brothers (D'Sparil, Korax, and Eidolon), known as the Serpent Riders, have used their powerful magic to possess seven kings of Parthoris, turning them into mindless puppets and corrupting their armies. The Sidhe elves resist the Serpent Riders' magic. The Serpent Riders thus declared the Sidhe as heretics and waged war against them. The Sidhe are forced to take a drastic measure to sever the natural power of the kings destroying them and their armies, but at the cost of weakening the elves' power, giving the Serpent Riders an advantage to slay the elders. While the Sidhe retreat, one elf (revealed to be named Corvus in Heretic II) sets off on a quest of vengeance against the weakest of the three Serpent Riders, D'Sparil. He travels through the "City of the Damned", the ruined capital of the Sidhe (its real name is revealed to be Silverspring in Heretic II), then past the demonic breeding grounds of Hell's Maw and finally the secret Dome of D'Sparil.

The player must first fight through the undead hordes infesting the location where the elders performed their ritual. At its end is the gateway to Hell's Maw, guarded by the Iron Liches. After defeating them, the player must seal the portal and so prevent further infestation, but after he enters the portal guarded by the Maulotaurs, he finds himself inside D'Sparil's dome. After killing D'Sparil, Corvus ends up on a perilous journey with little hope of returning home.

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00:00:00 Heretic - Episode 3: The Dome of D'Sparil
00:00:21 E3M1: The Storehouse
00:10:04 E3M2: The Cesspool
00:23:21 E3M3: The Confluence
00:39:04 E3M4: The Azure Fortress
00:53:47 E3M9: The Aquifer
01:06:31 E3M5: The Ophidian Lair
01:17:09 E3M6: The Halls of Fear
01:27:55 E3M7: The Chasm
01:40:24 E3M8: D'Sparil's Keep
01:48:44 Ending lore