Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 3-4: Shrouded Marsh / Orcus (Boss)

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 3-4: Shrouded Marsh / Orcus (Boss)

Our heroes is in Shrouded Marsh and ready to fight Orcus, the Devourer of Life,
who’s the third boss in the game!

Boss Info:
Biogenetic specialist Orcus had been fascinated by how prions, viruses and bacteria functioned to conquer and destroy life. He argued that such destructive entities were microcosmic examples of all the greatest military minds of galactic history. He claimed even that such entities possessed a fundamental, aggressive consciousness that, if decoded, would serve as the natural model for universal progress.
 

Despite being the galaxy's leading forensic mind, Orcus found himself laughingly dismissed for his theory of "Biomolecular Ascendance." Determined to redeem himself, Orcus planned a series of experiments on Verdanth's intelligent races. Denied permission for the scheme that would have caused the deaths of millions, Orcus chose an even more extreme path. Believing he could commune directly with the theoretical consciousness of biomolecular aggression, Orcus asked Crogenitor Xylan to transfect his brain so he could communicate in what he called "genetic language."
 

No one knows whether Orcus achieved his goal. But he gained a host of terrifying powers he unleashed during the Mutation Wars. Chief among those powers is the ability to contain and expel pathogens in a "breath of death." Yet even with such lethal capacities, in physical combat, Orcus is a nearly matchless engine of destruction.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 3-3: Fertile Strand

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 3-3: Fertile Strand

Verdanth is under attack!
Time to return to it and kick some ass in Fertile Strand region!

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 3-2: Frigid Caverns

 
Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 3-2: Frigid Caverns
 Still on Cryos, but now in Frigid Caverns region.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 3-1: Frozen Precipice

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 3-1: Frozen Precipice

In the beginning of the third chapter of the game our heroes
will travel to a new planet - Cryos and arrive at Frozen Precipice region.
Which is full of Darkspore.
 

Planet Info:
 

Cryos is a planet that served as the source of Plasmagenesis. It suffered from an ice age for centuries, extinguishing many species. The Crogenitors tried to reignite the planet's core by generating a white hole there, but the seemingly unlimited heat source only caused more problems on the planet surface. The Crogenitors have hidden some of their ancient technology somewhere on Cryos, which could pave the way towards the Darkspore's downfall, and the galaxy's freedom. Inhabitants from Cryos are commonly called "Cryosi". The names of Zrin's, Char's and Lumin's races are unknown. However, Blitz was once an non-sentient member of a species called the Reptiloid, while Krel's species is extinct, making Krel the last of his race.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 2-4: Chaos Fields / Polaris (Boss)

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 2-4: Chaos Fields / Polaris (Boss)

Time for a second boss battle! This time our heroes will fight Polaris, The Gravity Manipulator on Zelem's Nexus, in Chaos Fields region.
 

Boss Info:
 

Polaris, The Gravity Manipulator is a Quantum Destructor from Darkspore. His name was leaked by people who attended the PAX Expo, and were given the opportunity to play Darkspore. He is fought on Zelem's Nexus.
 

Having been physically weak his entire life, Polaris was fascinated by powerful cosmic forces, and how to apply such energies towards destruction.
 

At the same facility pioneering E-DNA research, Polaris was designing a prototype combat exoskeleton. When E-DNA mutants slaughtered the scientists who gave them life, Polaris piloted his own combat suit, suppressing the uprising. But that emergency experiment came at cost: the Darkspore destroyed the war suit, and Polaris suffered terrible injuries.
 

Convalescing for years, Polaris obsessed over the flaws of his design and the fact that flesh creatures could crush his combat mechanism. Eventually Polaris sought Crogenitor Xylan, who convinced him to fuse his own research with Xylan's, so he would never be vulnerable again.
 

And so Polaris joined Xylan in a pact that ultimately caused the downfall of the galaxy.

Xylan transfected Polaris into a gigantic, relentless smasher with terrifying gravitic powers. He could deploy multiple miniature black holes to attract and crush projectiles and hostiles, and unstable singularities functioning as time-bombs. He also could overpower his victims via gravitic projection.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 2-3: Outer Rings

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 2-3: Outer Rings

In this part of the game our heroes returns
to Zelem's Nexus to protect Outer Rings region from Darkspore.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 2-2: Deathly Everglades

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 2-2: Deathly Everglades

Still on Verdanth, but now in Deathly Everglades region.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 2-1: Whispering Forest

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 2-1: Whispering Forest
 

Welcome to a planet Verdanth, to Whispering Forest region!
The place is sure beautiful, but there’s a lot of Darkspore in there.
 

Planet Info:
 

Verdanth is a planet from Darkspore. It is the third planet visited in the game, and is certainly a lush, green planet. Certain sectors of the planet are covered in ruins and ancient temple-like buildings from when the Verdanthi species still thrived on the planet. Necro enemies may lurk within these sectors. But some Cyber enemies, and even a few Quantum enemies have been seen on Verdanth.
 

A living emerald of a world, Verdanth is a mixture of indigenous life and life forms that originated... somewhere else. Barely visible even from the surface, the crumbled ruins of ancient temples and towers are preserved beneath an organic sheath of lichens, fungi and plunder-grasses. From orbit, only Verdanth’s forests, teeming with trees tall enough to cleave the planet's cloudscape, are visible.
 

The indigenous civilization of hyper-intelligent mobile plants is directly plugged into the global biosphere. Its central phyto-intelligence is the Ikuyu, or the “Gods of the Infinite Green,” a network of the 600 most ecopathically advanced Verdanthi who employ the planet's giant trees as antennae fo their ecopathic communications.
 

Hidden inside the planet's massive forests is a mysterious geographical feature: an impact crater, deep enough to hide an asteroid. That geological womb has driven Verdanthi religious and scientific speculation for ten thousand generations. Was the Wound caused by demons? By a comet strike? Or by the crash of a world-ship?
 

Whatever the origin of the Wound, for centuries, Verdanth was the ideal Crogenitor laboratory for bio-genetic engineering, supplying life in greater diversity and abundance than any planet in the galaxy.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 1-4: Shadowglades / Nashira (Boss)

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 1-4: Shadowglades / Nashira (Boss)
 

It’s time to fight with a first boss! Our heroes is still on Nocturna
and ready to fight Nashira, The Shadow Void!
 

Boss Info:
 

Nashira, The Shadow Void is a Necro Destructor from the game Darkspore, whose name was revealed on the Darkspore forum by MaxisYegg upon request. She is seen fighting Arakna at the beginning of both the Dev Diary videos. She is faced at the end of the first mission to Nocturna. In battle she appears to call on the help of Blasting Fiends.
 

Crogenitor Nashira had always taken death very personally—whether the death of an individual, or of a species. Indeed, Nashira had probed the most shadowy regions of the galaxy for centuries, dissecting what had caused the mass-extinctions that had turned whole planets into graveyards: comet strikes, magnetic field shifts, or explosions of neutron stars. While Nashira was able to transplant hundreds of threatened species to living worlds, the resurrection of entire ecosystems eluded her and all other Crogenitors.
 

And finally facing that failure, Nashira abandoned biogenetic research forever, and instead turned to death.

Obsessively investigating the hyperdimensional realms of anti-life, Nashira concluded that every biosphere lost to galactic history could be recreated inversely--as a necrosphere. But she needed power, resources, and allies.
 

Dismissed as dangerous and even insane by her peers, Nashira finally turned to Crogenitor Xylan, who promised her the E-DNA to drive her necrogenesis. Transfecting herself first, Nashira gained the ability to create void-zones, which she theorized could be expanded to encompass entire planets. But during the Mutation Wars, she used them to devastating effect on the battlefields of a dozen worlds.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 1-3: Twilight Summit

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 1-3: Twilight Summit

Our heroes arrived at Nocturna, the planed with four moons,
in Twilight Summit region to fight some Darkspore.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 1-2: Gnarled Plateau

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 1-2: Gnarled Plateau
 We’re still on Zelem's Nexus, but now in Gnarled Plateau.
Same goal as before.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 1-1: Floating Islands

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 1-1: Floating Islands
 

In Part 1-1 we should destroy some Darkspore in Floating Islands on Zelem's Nexus, the ruins of planet Nakto. It’s a very first level in the game and it’s designed for low level heroes.
 

Planet Info:
 

Zelem's Nexus is the name given to the ruins of the once a peaceful planet called Nakto. When it's star, Zee-Nakto collapsed, Crogenitor Zelem spent the rest of his life building a massive planet-size cylindrical ring that holds all the planet's fragments. The Black Hole that Zelem's Nexus orbits around is called Wha Nakto. Although going unnoticed by most other civilizations, the battle between The Darkspore and The Crogenitors that took place there was later called The Nexus Massacre.
 

The Nexus is contained within a gigantic cylindrical ring covered in thousands of small hexagon-shaped windows that continuously pulsate a blue light. The Nexus is now littered with the debris planet fragments, ancient fossils, crashed space vessels, and ruins of buildings. Many of the isles are connected by the energy bridges seen above, with one particularly long bridge, which allows players to see Wha Nakto clearly through a relatively small breach in the shield.
 

Crogenitor Merak accidently caused billions of deaths when he was working alongside Zelem. He accidentally shattered some of the shields that held in the islands' atmosphere, causing tons and tons of Zelemi, as well as their home isles, to be sucked into the vaccum of space and/or into Wha Nakto.

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough - Part 0: Tutorial

Darkspore: Complete Story Playthrough
Part 0: Tutorial

Welcome to tutorial!~ In this part HELIX AI will lead us through a short simulation and teach us how the game works. Unlike the other levels in the game, you can’t replay this one later.
 

Technical notes:
 

This is a story mode playthrough of Darkspore, the multiplayer ARPG from the SPORE series, created by MAXIS and published by EA. It starts from the tutorial and ends after the final battle. During this videos I’ll play this game for my very first time and, therefore, I’ll be noobish like hell. A lot of things in this game isn’t intuitive (for example it took me some time to understand that item levels is much more important than item bonuses, no matter how cool those bonuses looks) and it looks like a made every possible mistake on my first try. So, if this videos looks noobish, it’s because I was a complete noob back then.
 

Why did I recorded my first playthrough then? Because there’s no chance for the second one in this game. That’s it, there’s no option to start a new game from very beginning, or to delete your account and create another one. The only way to start a new game in Darkspore is to buy a new copy. Believe it, or not. There’s no end in this game and you can play through the game again and again and again, but only during your first time you’ll get a story comments on your journey from HELIX AI. Even if you’ll replay the same levels later, there’ll be no story info in them. Therefore, your very first run through the game is the only way to learn the story and you can’t return to it again. You can enjoy story in Darkspore only once during your lifetime (if you’re not crazy enough to buy another box, or digital copy) and that’s why I decided to record it.

So, this videos are not about the skill, but about the story. If you want to see skills, look elsewhere, but if you want to re-watch the story events, here’s your chance.
  

Videos recorded with FRAPS, in-game graphics settings is on max.
Playthrough splitted in chapters. Once level - one video.