Potions! We’ve been drinking them for years. In games I mean! I hope you haven’t been knocking them back in real-life, they’re bad for you. Imagine drinking something which alters your behaviour – how ridiculous! But potions we’ve been drinking for years. Red ones, blue ones… They’re so common they’ve become a universal language. We don’t even really see them any more. We just slosh them back when needed. Gulp!
But every so often, we do see them. Once in a while, a memorable potion pops up. Maybe it was a potion which typified a game for you – the port-key to remembering an adventure. A tonic from BioShock, perhaps. Or maybe it was one which made a character drastically more capable, or one which changed who – or what – we were. Can you think of any now? Good – hold onto that! Because I want your input below.
My choices are seen through heavily tinted glasses unique to the kind of games I play and remember, and I am by no means an encyclopedia. I was telling a friend about my idea for this piece yesterday, for example, and he immediately started telling me of a potion he remembers brewing in a Mickey Mouse game for the SEGA Master System. I would never have thought of that! Then he mentioned V-Jolt Solution from Resident Evil and the Murder of Crows Vigor from BioShock Infinite. They’re both great shouts! And now I feel very inadequate about the potions I’ve chosen, so thanks Alan, thanks a lot.
So here’s to potions, and here are Five of the Best, according to me. But what do you think? Please sound off below. Corks out, bottoms up – cheers!
Oh good one, Bertie, start with something which isn’t even technically a potion! But bear with me here, it’s made with mushrooms from a recipe, so… Although how the hell mushrooms make a jar of bees I do not know.