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You have no idea how true it is that there are so many polished games out there on Steam that just go unnoticed because there was no marketing behind them. Even indies are somewhat divided into the true indie games to the iii indies that have way more marketing thanks to a publisher. Indie games development is not standardized at all. It is impossible for the gaming market to completely rely on indies, as good as they are and how much i love games like Cat Quest, The Plucky Squire and, especially, Crypt of the Necrodancer and Cadence of Hyrule.

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This is so true, you can see the consequences across the industry. Great video!!

great talk, timing impeccable

Great talk!

Awesome video! I love that you provide real-world examples. Thanks for sharing!

So basically' Square Enix should pull a Megaman 9/10.

I'm verry different than most gamers, but a game with a Japanese name, I'm more likely to buy.

I'm looking forward to playing it

One of the few who played both versions and enjoyed them. I agree that it’s design it’s a bit underrated and overlooked. Even if not every level makes the new parkour system effective, the levels are at least decent and fun when jumping and spin dashing doing combos. Great video btw! Hope your channel gets bigger and more people can see it! 😊

Exodus is one of my favorites. The story isnt anything crazy, but i love the emotional resonance it has and the family feel it was going for with your band of brothers traveling across the country in search of a home. I know some people felt that the game lacking an actual antagonist made it feel kind of weak, but i was fine with the direction it went. Im glad it went for something more personal and heartfelt rather than trying to take down some big bad, not that there's anything wrong with that, 2033 and last light are great narratives in their own right. But they lacked a distinctive emotional punch for me outside of a few moments here and there that i feel like exodus really nailed. My biggest gripe with Exodus was the games awkward movement. Im curious, is there any reason that the movement is the way it is? Specifically with hills, stairs and ledges, if you run too fast and go off an edge, you'll go flying, or if you try to run up stairs, sometimes you'll awkwardly slide and bounce around at weird angles. And considering the setting it was hardly a rarity. It was just an odd way to script the movement IMO. Never felt quite right. Overall i adore this game, and thank you for being apart of it. I have around 20 days in it (real time) across multiple playthroughs through the years. Im eagerly awaiting the 4th entry and Awakening

To me, this game sorta reminds me of the cancelled Sonic X-tream, but less compact in terms of level design.

While I like Sonic Lost World when the gimmicks aren’t intrusive *Looks at the 3DS Version* I’m not a big fan of its writing. I’m actually doing a challenge right now where every time I get a Chaos Emerald, I switch to a random Sonic game until I get another Emerald or that game’s equivalent. I’ve recently added Lost World to it after finding out that the Chaos Emeralds were in the game, I just never knew until last week when I watched a video on it.

i started playing metro when i was in highschool I started with metro 2033 and i fallen in love with that game series my favorite is Metro last light and now i am indie games developer and my dream job is to work on the metro series

i actually like ff 16 like really reallly like it i actually want a least another game made by square with its combat system Edit: i just want ff 16 combat system to get better I want a competitor to dmc

“Am I the only one who likes (insert controversial sonic game)?” -some sonic fans. But I appreciate sonic lost world as a game not as a sonic game. What I don’t like about sonic lost world is that it killed the boost formula because they had the perfect game engine all we needed was a game in sonic generations engine that had completely original level aethstetics. The perfected it. And then they blew it all for that. And when returning to that formula they didn’t base it off generations they based it off sonic lost world which wasn’t a boost game

After watching this video and looking at Clair Obscur Expedition 33. I feel like that game will be another big hit on turn based combat that will give a wake up call to Square Enix. Oh yeah and Metaphor Refantazio

SONIC GOAT WORLD

Fellow Lost World enjoyer 🤝 The parkour is something that needs a second chance in a more traditional Sonic game, it's a vastly underused idea even in Lost World itself since most sections that require it are skippable

I don't understand what your real points are if you don't elaborate on them (examples or analysis of a specific level example and so on). What is the level flow in Desert Ruins Zone 1? I don't feel any progression or flow in it myself because the level assets just feel scattered around without much thought, and pace gets ruined by the 2D sections. Also, you repeat yourself too often, try to script videos and edit out repetition. Also, personal opinion, Lost World has a good moveset, but the level themes and especially the tubular level design ruined it (preventing linear "hallway" design by being on a small/large tube lets the player just avoid all platforming or enemies by going elsewhere and is much faster, because platforming and enemies just slow the player down, so there's no reward by putting in more effort), and the 2D sections are too basic where nothing's going on as well. The multiplayer levels have the strongest level design because it tries its hardest there to make the game actually difficult. I would've made a mod that implements those into singleplayer but modding tools are too difficult right now. You can find a wip version of the mod on Gamebanana though. The boost games are supposed to be challenging by being fast, and asking the player to find ways to beat the game faster through repetition, that's not a game design problem. I dunno how people get motion sickness from boost games (the camera work does enough to prevent all of it from happening), I get more motion sick from Yo Noid 2's PlayStation 1 polygon warping or even just from playing Penny's Big Breakaway. I don't see the potential of Zelda Zone's first section. It looks pretty, but there's no point in doing anything in there, outside of maybe getting an additional heart container, and maybe getting rupees if you need to still grind for animals for later levels in the game... which isn't a good excuse or a fun objective. There's no platforming challenges or something fast-paced or something arcade-y like chaining tricks/combos together and rewarding the player with points and grading the player with a rank at the end to get players to replay levels over and over again (that's very essential to Modern Sonic; all Sonic games made by Sonic Team since Sonic Adventure 2 do this, even Sonic Runners).

Awesome, thank you for talking about Sonic.

Overrated*

I like Sonic Lost World, and I will sit there with you and defend it, but i'm 8 minutes into this video and it sounds like you don't even understand it from a design perspective, which is a little worrying, since that is the name of your channel. I'll continue listening to you till the end though. But So far I disagree that the game is linear and it's blocky. It's one of the most spherical 3D games and there is lots of room in the level design for open player freedom and expression. I'm sorry dude, but this is very rambley and when you try to make a point it either contradicts another point or doesn't go anywhere. 12:53 Sonic Lost World does do this! You have your more open and secret filled levels right, and then you have the ones which are more linear, and the game spreads them out! Pointing to The Ledend of Zelda Zone as the only open level is a really bad example. What does that level do which any of the other levels don't do? Are you being tricked by the tiny open field at the beginning, before the level becomes just another tube level? Levels like Windy Hill, Frozen Factory, and Sky Road have more open content than this level. Sorry if this comment seems very negative, but I watched till the end for you. I would love to talk Sonic Lost World and Video Game design with you, and would like to see you succeed as a content creator. I think you really need to work on your scripts though.

I'm sorry but Sonic is not Linear like Mario is. Sonic games live or die depending on the ability to take branching paths. Most of those branch offs either can put Sonic into a much slower platforming part of the level or can reward you with a shortcut. The other thing is I play Sonic FOR THAT MOMENTUM, not having it kills the essence of Sonic for me. I am pretty open with HOW Sega implements momentum, but it has to be there and stopping all forward progress while you are taking out a chain of badniks the wrong way and it is not even consistant as some allow you to keep going on your way and others stop you. That is and always will be horrible Sonic design to me. As far as the story, I want Sonic to have proper stakes in its story and dumbing it down to Mario is an insult to SONIC. I actually really like Frontiers story as while it is very simple there is a fair amount of depth if you care to know about the details. I think Lost World insults my intelligence with all of the one liners and self-deprecating humor. Which I share with Colors, and to a slightly lesser extent Generations and is just not "COOL" and is not what I want to see in Sonic. But I think Sonic should be harder than Mario on a base level. To me, I think Sonic should be about Medium difficult at base and go harder from there. As far as the accessible component, I think Sonic needs to inspire players to keep at it like Sonic to not give up as opposed to making the games easier. I got so many game overs as a child, but I got back on the Hedgehog again and again until I beat it. The only Sonic games I have never beaten is somewhat ironically, Sonic 2 for both Genisis and Game Gear because it takes too much time and effort to get back to what stops me. Now THAT is not something that is fun or inspiring, that is just poor design to me. I should not have to play a game for over an hour to get back to what gave me my latest game over.

I loved sonic lost world. Loved the bonus level idea and the skillset sonic had. The multi homing was buttery

Really interesting video!

I love Sonic Lost World and hope they do bring it back, Sonic’s moveset felt great

This is an awesome video

SONIC LOST WORLD! LES GOOOOO!

I liked the game cuz it was silly

Im currently beating the game using only the bastard. I'm kinda curious why it was gimped so hard in exodus?

Great video

this is so cool!! great logo too!!

This level feels super-tight. Much more than the main game. I wish you had more stuff to do here after you finish the content.

Ultimate graphics in your mind tho, in full 16K graphics with dolby surround-sound & feel ;)

I hit that thumbs up symbol on your segment. Excited to see more creations from you. Fantastic upload, The Game Design Perspective. Persist in the awesome work.

I really disliked Final Fantasy XVI. Almost felt like it was ashamed to be a part of the series with how much it threw out the window. Most everything I like about FF was discarded, I really hope this isn’t the new series direction of the series. Also I never have the numbered issue. It only takes a second to explain it’s an anthology series and you can start wherever

The whole community loves all the 3 games we just need Co-op or multiplayer for 1-3 players to play with and you guys can definitely do it and in return friends will convince other friends to buy it for co-op so future purchases without having a sale !! 😅

Y they have to put a bad ending in game tho it's stupid

Oh, Hi, glad to see you amigo! ))

Great video, Santi!

Ziplines 🤣🤣

YES :D The smile in my face when you said this is going to be a 3 part video. There's something really cozy about watching other game designers nerd out about their children (games xD). This makes me want to go back to Metro 2033, which I unfortunately never finished due to various life distraction, just so I can play Last Light and finally experience Exodus for myself. I mean, I was going to do that anyway sooner or later, but I just might do it sooner

This is actually crazy. I was literally telling a friend of mine a few hours ago how Metro Exodus was one of my all-time favorite games, and now I see this video???

I feel like A Link Between Worlds was the start of the open air 2D Zeldas. That was the start of Zelda overcorrecting Skyward Sword's aggressive linearity. Personally I'm not a big fan of the latest Zelda games, or open world games in general, but I might give Echoes a chance if it at least has dungeons on the level of ALBW. If they bring activating terminals in any order into the 2D games, or memory cutscenes, I'm out.

You might be correct that they need shorter games, with shorter production times, and more iteration, but the results that would come from that probably will not match the quality we expect. I wonder if any of us are misjudging how well they're iterating, that sequels still take as long to develop as the first parts. It's possible they are failing to cut down, and are intentionally taking the same amount of time to instead make things better than the previous parts, which might be a mistake. I have no idea. I can understand more broadly that there would be an attraction to focus more resources into sequels of previous successes, but I don't know if that's short-sighted or just sensible. Perhaps pouring more resources doesn't actually increase the potential profit, but it's justified in hind-sight (until it doesn't).

After 19 minutes, the music in this video was driving me crazy. So repetitive and not subtle.

I don't have time to watch. Is it the action combat?