Part 71: Shadow of the Colossus

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Come one, come all to the r/civ’s civbattleroyale! This part is hectic (as of writing this I’ve only seen half the part, fun!) I’m /u/_xSyracuse, and welcome to the 71st part. God, I really had no idea what I wanted to type there, that sounds so bad. Let’s keep it! Anyway, last part we saw a whole lot of Orange, and that when mixed, Dark Green and Black create Orange. Anyway, this part… may or may not be any different. We’ll find out soon, I guess. Anyway, let’s get STRAIGHT into the…. Part? PART! This spectacularly well made oc is made by /u/Spherical_Melon and is a watercolor painting of an Icelandic Submarine.

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Our newest tile accurate map by the legendary cartographer /u/edse1991. For a brief overview of what happened in the last part - /u/CapnJackSparrah has us covered: - Sweden settled a new city - Buccs captured 3 from the Boers and nuked one out of existence - Boers capture 9 nine cities from Ethiopia - Ethiopia capture one city from the Boers - Finland claim empty fallout land and citadel Sweden - Sibir claim empty land and citadel Finnish exclave - Vietnam settle a city in northern IRL India - Australian city in IRL Indonesia nuked out of existence - Texas recapture Austin from Mexico - Brazil capture final two Chilean cities

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Last part was a rather large part, which we saw the declarations of the Inuit and Vietnam on the Boers. The Ryk also peaced out with Sweden, and Australia also peaced out Vietnam.

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Paul Kruger takes the #1 spot in the PRs, but since the wars with Ethiopia and the Buccaneers began, there is certainly no doubt that their position has been earned.

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/u/christopherkj shows us a fairly accurate representation of happenings during the Boer-Buccaneer war.

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This map made by /u/AcipenserSturio shows the current coalition on the Boers. Notice that most of the world powers are currently trying to contain the Ryk, but to no avail. Ethiopia and the Buccaneers are currently on the front line, but soon, Vietnam, Sibir, and possibly even Brazil may join them on the frontline.

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Ethiopia seems to have a large amount of Paratroopers that would seriously help in their defence against the Boers up near Artashat and Gyumri. Either the radio is out and the troops cannot receive direct instructions, or perhaps they‘re to be utilised in a major counteroffensive. Meanwhile, Vietnam‘s freedom tiles stands in the way of Armenia hosting a contiguous land empire.

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The Free City of Dvin further establishes itself as a home for the fallen, housing Hunnic, French and Timurid refugees whilst the Hawaiian diaspora struggles to gain entry to their wonderful city. It also seems that Sweden is going to continue to do Sweden, as they plot against Sparta for the 3928101st time. Apparently, Dvin the glorious canal that is, can no longer be a haven for the dead civs of the world

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Speaking of dead units, Songstan Gampo the Glorious of Tibet is plotting against Attila the Hun. Maybe Songstan still thinks that he’s still out there somewhere, burning down houses in nearly destroyed Sibir cities. Dang it Attila, stop burning things down.

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The city of Bamako is surrounded on all fronts by Boer units, except for the sea. The Buccaneers rule the sea. Anyway, it looks as if the Boers are pushing towards Sale and Rabat, while small skirmishes take place on the rest of the Boer-Buccaneer front.

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The Boers primary invasion force, Hover Tanks and Vertols are pushing deeper and deeper into Ethiopia. Ethiopia has just lost Harar and Adawa, but currently maintain control of Addis Ababa. Although, looking around, it seems that Ethiopia has only 4 (visible) cities not in deep red- Cairo, Bethlehem, Jericho, and Damascus.

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Our beloved agents Em, Semiramis, and Ishtar have received their new assignments, to Pretoria, Nedong, and Kangiqtiniq. In the real world, Kangiqtiniq is a small Inuit hamlet in Nunavut that once recieved 40% of the vote to be the location of Nunavut‘s capital. Nedong on the other hand was the seat of the Phagmodrupa dynasty, which was the dominating regime in Tibet from 1354 to 1435 and maintained a degree of authority until the early 17th century.

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A war the world nearly completely forgot about- Yakutia and Afghanistan has finally come to an end. Nothing resulted of it of course, but still, this gives us an excellent to look at Vietnam. They have a massive UAV carpet- that’s actually terrifying- but I really don’t see much of anything else.

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In another war nearly everyone had forgotten about in the excitement of ‘Nam v. Australia and Boer attempted gang bang, nothing is still happening. Nothing, except for a nuke in Turinsk and Oymyakon. Both sides are still stalemating, and this seriously reminds of the past Sibit/Yakutia war.

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Nukes everywhere! More Mexican named Inuit Cities! More Flips! Wait… rewind… Flips? Yes! Your eyes are NOT lying to you, Yakutia actually captured the first city when they conquered Igloolik. It’s most likely going to flip right back, because Inuit Unit Purchasing. As for the Mexican City names: see Top Right. And as for nukes: look nearly anywhere on the screen.

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Here’s the Inuit Core, which consists of Stupendously big Snow Cities, a few XCOMs, waaayyyy to many Cybersubs and Arsenal Ships, and a whole lot of Blackfoot Paratroopers! Seriously though, Inuit, build some Advanced Destroyers for your own good

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Still not many Advanced Destroyers floating around in Inuit Waters… But anyway, I still see more Vietnamese Units then Inuit units, and that is not a good thing. Iceland does Iceland… Ships with no land units.

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Big moment in Mexico right now! Australia makes a push cand captures Monterrey, Torreon and Merida, as Mexico pushes yet again with their Mechanized Infantry to take Austin yet again, and this time, they don’t have a Melee unit to replace it. Ciudad Juarez gets another dosage of nuclear radiation.

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Judaism fails yet again to get past the world congress as the world religion, while the boers push yet again on Ethiopia. I can’t quite tell what cities they’ve just taken, although i can tell you that they just damaged Cairo for the first time!

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Here’s a shot at Sibir’s core while we acknowledge that Historical landmarks was also not passed. Alright, now that we moved on, look at the new city of Zibo, and also the Roman Ballista, along with the two Chinese Knights.

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Here’s a nice shot of Vietnam’s Highly Dense, industrial, semi-carpeted core. It’s quite impressive, with large cities such as Saigon, Hoi An (Hi Lung!) Tianjin, Hai Phong and Vijaya dotting the landscape. Although, the real reason we’re looking at this slide is that Tibet is plotting against Sparta. Which in reality, is quite sad that Tibet think’s their stronger the Sparta.

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EAT YOUR WORDS, /u/TA_Knight! We aren’t sleepy anymore! Sorry about that, my inner Iceland fanboy has come out in full crazy mode. Let me deal with that real quick… Alright, Iceland has declared war on the Boers, joining basically every other major power in the game other than Finland, Much like Sibir, Vietnam, and the Inuit, this DOW will not be very relevant until/if the Boers conquer Iberiarr, as it seems Paul Kruger has stopped building XCOMs. Also, I was in class trying to sneakily narrate this and I fell out of my chair when I saw that Iceland did a thing. What a great supporter I am. /s Oh, and TA, Iceland can into relevance.

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Darius is alive! 3 Privateers and a Submarine float along near Ireland, now relegated to the task of acting as pirates in international waters ambushing embarked Vietnamese expeditionary forces for meagre supplies to help them in their upcoming struggles.

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Chile is also alive, in the form of Nuclear Submarines spread out across the globe.

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It seems that Iceland is ready for war with the Boers, as Atomic Bombs are already stationed inside of Sparta, and i’m sure Rome has one or two as well.

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It seems that Malian Nuclear Holocaust Mk. II is going just how Captain Morgan had planned… if he had planned to be losing and nuking cities off the map, and was the Defender in the war. God, I’m actually beginning to think that Captain Morgan is not having things go his way! Also, amidst the Nuclear Hellfire, Buccaneer refugees have set up the city of Basse-Terre. That is probably not going to survive the part.

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Here’s a shot of Korea’s Core, which doesn’t look as terrifying in Strategic Mode as it does in regular mode. I really don’t know what else to say on this slide… So.. tell me how the weather is where you live and what country is is! US, Russia, UK, and Australia, cities/provinces/territories please because they’re large af.

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We also get a quick overview of Yakutia in Strategic mode, where there are more Brazilians than Yakutians!

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And Finally, the stalemate has been broken, as a Marine sneakily sniped the city overnight… although Sibir will quickly take it back after their turn processes.

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Mexico has recaptured the cities of Monterrey and Torreon, and Texas had recaptured their own capital. But, alas, Mexico recaptures the city of Austin. Also, as of right now, Henry Morgan and the Buccaneers are technically winning, owning a total of 7 (!) Capitals!

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Cairo has flipped, as I’m sure most of the cities on screen has. The Boers really are making quick work of Ethiopia cities like Baalbek and Ejura falling. Hippo Regius, Kwilu, and Gades, the current capital of Ethiopia look to be the next to fall.

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SWARM! That’s basically what Kumasi looks like right now. Boers units are on every side of the obliterated former Ashanti capital.

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All of Ethiopian Ethiopia has fallen to the Boers, except for two small towns on the tip of Somalia, but Hover Tanks are already breaking down their walls. Honestly, I’m a little shocked that anyone thought that Ethiopia could beat the Boers at all, and by this performance by Paul Kruger of getting rid of their only real competition right now in a matter of turns, I don’t see a way to stop them. The Ashanti after generations of being militaristic lake nomads reclaim their lake legs as the new empty land is almost a frightening prospect to navigate. Hearing promises of more nomads like themselves in the former Ethiopian lake was reason enough to embark on a journey to meet with the “Lost Riflemen of Marrakech”. Their journey however looks to be in vain, as there are no damn Moroccans anywhere in sight.

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How would one describe Yakutia? A land of peacekeepers. Brazilian peacekeepers are currently abundant within the Snoryak Empire, but in previous parts the were usually filled with Finnish units, usually only having enough room for their own workers and ships. Although Brazil doesn’t have a carpet like Finland, I wouldn’t be surprised if one magically appeared over the coming parts.

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It seems as if the Vietnam war hurt ‘Straya’s carpet as much as it did Vietnam’s, and that the war may of ended in a stalemate.

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As predicted, Rome is filled with Atomic Bombs waiting for the Boers to conquer Northern Africa. I don’t think Iceland has used a Nuclear Bomb before, so it will be interesting to see if they will in this war.

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It seems that the Aussie conquest of Mexico will have to be put on hold, with the extreme lack of Aussie Naval Destroyers. I see a total of 4, but one is about to die, and another is closer to Honolulu then a Mexican city.

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Gosh Dangit Ekeuhnick, why do you have Nukes all over the world? He currently has nukes in the Gulf of Persia, the West coast of Australia, and now, Buccaneer Africa. Although this is strategic and fun to have, it’s a waste of nukes that he could throw at Yakutia! Also, Iceland has 1 Advanced Destroyer outside Marrakech, which they could be able to snipe.

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Lots of dead civs of the Horn of Africa, including Burma, Morocco, Sri Lanka, and Hawaii. Wait? Sri Lanka and Hawaii are still alive? I had completely forgotten. Anyway, they are all fleeing from Ethiopia as the Boers conquer it.

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Mongolia can into technology! Unless that’s a Boer loaner for the open borders, Mongolia has teched up enough for Nuclear Missiles, and maybe if he plays his cards right, he can whip a Yakut city off the map!

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The Boers conquered Gades, and only Gades somehow. Anyway, Ethiopia relocated their capital somewhere currently unknown, but as Boer hover tanks and Giant Death Robots swarm northern africa, Ethiopian soldiers and civilians are piling into the sea to see refuge in Buccaneer Italy, Sparta, or Finnish Greece. Meanwhile, in the mini-map we see that because the backup Ethiopian paratroopers were called to war - the Afghani colony of Gymuri was invaded and taken over by Sibir.

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Gades flips again, but honestly, Ethiopian Africa is toast. I don’t see a way for them to recover, unless they peace out right now, Ethiopia may be exiled to Arabia. A unified force of Buccaneers and Iceland may be able to establish strongholds in North Africa, but for the most part, anything subsaharan is destined to be orange.

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Our spies are still in the Ryk, the Inuit, and Tibet, and have been feeding us juicy information about who these leaders recently had a petty fight with.

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TEXAS SHALL LIVE! Yes, this just in, Texas and Mexico peaced out with Texas in control of Laredo! They didn’t own a single melee unit, so Houston was quite smart in peacing out with his life. Also, I’m pretty sure that’s 60% of the Inuit’s ground troops on their Mexican border, but they also have a settler at the ready if Monterrey is nuked out off the planet.

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Here we see Pretoria, the capital of the Ry- holy crap look at that Science number. That’s just impressive. I’m not even mad, I’m jealous. I know they’re using their Production for research, but that is a crazy high number. And since they are working a total of 9 tiles, only 4 of which give food, I give you the OP-ness of Future Worlds buildings/wonders Meanwhile, an extremely sexually charged rendition of the Afghani leader Mirwais Hotak resides in the capital‘s Staatsmuseum.

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Here we have an Inuit City-Kangiqtiniq home of Al Burj and the highest metro population in the Inuit Empire. It currently is still growing, and wields a lot of production.

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Nedong. Glorious Nedong. Not much to say about it, but for a 2 pop city it has decent production. After gaining inspiration from their Lotus Blossom Chorten, the citizens of Nedong wish to entertain themselves with Opera, much to the confusion of the surrounding Finns. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

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Remember oh I said the inuit have a nuke sub outside of Australia? Well, here it is for ya!

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The Australians complete the Shimizu Mega City Pyramid, which in our world is a proposed structure for Tokyo Bay, Japan that could house over 1,000,000 people. It is currently not even possible to be built, as it relies on the future availability of of Carbon Nanotubes that are currently being researched. With an estimated completion time of 2100, by then that will be only a fraction of Tokyo’s expected population. Yeah, I told you that because I don’t have access to what it offers to be built ingame.

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More flips on the Ethiopian front, as the cities of Carthago Nova and Kwilu flip again as Utique falls to the Boers.

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Iceland is moving a whole Cybersub fleet down to Boer territory, but 1 single Advanced Destroyer accompanies them. Can this Advanced Destroyer make a difference?

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A Boer Hovertank has made it as far as Vietnamese Persia, but is nearly dead. Meanwhile, I believe Jericho is the only Ethiopian city that remains undamaged.

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The Inuit has actually managed to land some XCOMs in Yakut territory, and it seems as if a city or two may flip a few times.

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City-State to City-State, Houston hates Meiji. While this DOW entails nothing, it does remind me of the Order of the Rump series, which mysteriously disappeared a few weeks ago. I really wish it came back, as it was an extremely interesting series to watch.

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The TIbetan Soap Opera is back! In the past two weeks, we’ve seen Songstan Gampo have fights with both Leonidas and Atilla, and for this week’s episode will have special guest star- Augustus Caesar! Gyumri is still in the yellow, being freshly captured by the idealistic Afghanis.

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Ethiopia seems to have finally moved it’s Anatolia army to help out, but I’m afraid it’s too little too late.

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As the final Sonallian cities fall to the Boers, the Ashanti Pikeman slowly makes their way to the ocean. They have long done laps in his lake in Boer Territory and visited schools in nearby cities, but they cannot remember the last time they had been out of the Boer territory, and this was their best chance.

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I see a surprising lack of units on the Boer-Buccaneer war- on both sides. And that could be a good or bad thing. Is the Boer war machine finally slowing down?

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Iceland valiantly captures the city of Bamako, a city on the West Coast of Africa that has seen a lot in the past 30 or so parts. This 420 noscope by Ingolfur Arnarson will not hold, but it’s nice to prove to the world’s leaders that Iceland can do what Vietnam, the Inuit, and Sibir cannot.

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Ethiopia has done it! Klerksdorp has been nuked. Klerksdorp was a massive city- 44 pop i do believe, and the citizens there must be growing their third arms by now.

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Cue Meiji peeing his own pants. The Inuit are currently plotting against poor, old Japan, and if I were Meiji, I would just give him my city. Japan would really not have a chance.

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The Trung sisters have officially hit hit phase of “Settle every city humanly possible”, as both of these cities are brand spanking new. If we saw other places in their empire, we would probably see even more infant cities, but for now, enjoy these cool Vietnamese City Names.

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Suntar is nuked for the first time (presumably by Kuchum Khan) and Khonuu falls prey to even more artillery shells from the north.

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The Inuit have captured the city of Russkoye Ustye, and with 4 XCOMs in the area and only a few Yakut units, who knows, perhaps the city will stay in Inuit Hands.

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Okay, Tobolsk is one scary looking cities. With Industrial Complexes all around it, it has got to have a good production output. TPang - if you ever do another screenshot release of the game with no UI, please include this Siberian city. TPang‘s note - I‘ll post a picture of Tobolsk without the UI alongside this part!

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The Boers still have the title of the highest population, by almost double the runner up! Although, I would not be surprised if their war growth moved into the negatives with all the nukes that have hit the Boers in this part.

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Australia still reigns supreme over the amount of held land.

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Now THAT is interesting. The Boer War Machine does seem to be slowing down, as they have moved down to 5th in manpower, behind Iceland. Paul Kruger has obviously lost a lot of men in the coalition war, so it will be interesting to see if they will fall farther in part 72 Australia further rises up the ranks as having the largest military in the world. It helps that the majority of countries in the top 10 are embroiled in a series of wars though.

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And the Inuit have passed the Boers for tech, due to their code giving them an extra invisible tech at the beginning of the game. At this point where the Inuit have discovered everything, an alternate theory has arisen that they started mashing together random words in an effort to “out-tech” the Boers who have also discovered everything. Anyway, Iceland has fallen quite a few places since part 69, and have been on 91 tech for a long time. I’ve also heard that Vietnam has been stuck one tech for a while too, but I don’t know if that still remains.

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Here’s a new stat- total faith accumulated. The Blackfoot and Armenia top the list top the list by a large amount, and Sibir comes in 3rd. It’s really not surprising because none of these civs have religions to use all this faith on.

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Catholicism continues to dominate follower count. Buddhism continues to dominate more cities than Oriental Orthodoxy despite having fewer followers. Each follower is representative of around a million people.

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Aaaanndddd here’s the religion map… Remember that the religion map also allows us to take a look at new cities, alongside razed ones. Alright everyone, that is the end of this part! I know it hasn’t been the best, and a rollercoaster of quality, but it’s done and hopefully this is out in time! I hope you all have a wonderful day, week, month, and year! This has been /u/_xSyracuse, signing out!

Part 71: Shadow of the Colossus – mk2

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