Age of Barbarian Franchise (2012-Current?)
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 11:50 pm
For a little something different... I've been trying to work my way through some of the video games that I buy and then never play. I'm a big fan of the Age of Barbarian franchise by Crian Soft and since I've finally put some time into going through them and recording gameplay, I figured I'd share some stuff from the games, in this topic.
Not really spanking (though, the first part could be up for debate) During the last of 3 chapters of The Slave Fortress DLC from Age of Barbarian: Extended Cut, when you enter a particular room, you get to see an animation of a slave being whipped by a deformed creature. Then in ARENA: An Age of Barbarians Story, before you get to the final stage, you're defeated by the main villain's henchman and in the next scene you're character is stuck in a whipping animation until you kick your captor enough times. I let all of these scenes play for a generous amount of time with 3 different characters...
Clip: https://mega.nz/file/nVBRhQ5K#CST4MeDJc ... 0DrduPbhEI
Now... even though I did let them play for a generous amount of time... I kinda did just let it play all the way through (for about 40 minutes!!!) just to see if running out of time triggered any scenes of interest (for us very "dedicated" players
) it didn't trigger anything all that interesting, just a standard fail cutscene, but I recorded the whole thing so I might as well share it on the off-chance anyone actually wants to see that.
https://mega.nz/file/Cc5D2ByZ#WcmroDBVm ... vSrIFajYmc
As an extra bonus, in Age of Barbarian: Extended Cut, one of the fan favorite features of the game are cutscenes, where if you fail, the character you're playing as (Sheyna, in this case) is subjected to some form of a peril cutscene. These are available on youtube, but I wanted to make my own cut and add some slow-mo to the montage at the end.
Clip: https://mega.nz/file/nYIWzDhA#e2DnJAgmV ... Ru9sG5cimY
There was an Age of Barbarian: Chronicles in the works, but Crian Soft seem to have shifted focus to a comic series, hopefully that game will get released some time in the future so that I can add on to this entry.
Not really spanking (though, the first part could be up for debate) During the last of 3 chapters of The Slave Fortress DLC from Age of Barbarian: Extended Cut, when you enter a particular room, you get to see an animation of a slave being whipped by a deformed creature. Then in ARENA: An Age of Barbarians Story, before you get to the final stage, you're defeated by the main villain's henchman and in the next scene you're character is stuck in a whipping animation until you kick your captor enough times. I let all of these scenes play for a generous amount of time with 3 different characters...
Clip: https://mega.nz/file/nVBRhQ5K#CST4MeDJc ... 0DrduPbhEI
Now... even though I did let them play for a generous amount of time... I kinda did just let it play all the way through (for about 40 minutes!!!) just to see if running out of time triggered any scenes of interest (for us very "dedicated" players
) it didn't trigger anything all that interesting, just a standard fail cutscene, but I recorded the whole thing so I might as well share it on the off-chance anyone actually wants to see that.https://mega.nz/file/Cc5D2ByZ#WcmroDBVm ... vSrIFajYmc
As an extra bonus, in Age of Barbarian: Extended Cut, one of the fan favorite features of the game are cutscenes, where if you fail, the character you're playing as (Sheyna, in this case) is subjected to some form of a peril cutscene. These are available on youtube, but I wanted to make my own cut and add some slow-mo to the montage at the end.
Clip: https://mega.nz/file/nYIWzDhA#e2DnJAgmV ... Ru9sG5cimY
There was an Age of Barbarian: Chronicles in the works, but Crian Soft seem to have shifted focus to a comic series, hopefully that game will get released some time in the future so that I can add on to this entry.