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Absolutely amazing content! I can't stop watching these videos, so helpful for any developer. Thanks for the great content!

One great thing about both modern DKC games is that their difficulty curve is just incredibly persistent. There aren't that many sudden spikes (especially in TF, Returns definitely has a few) it just keeps steadly getting harder and harder and you almost don't even realize how much better you've gotten as the game goes on

You call Tropical Freeze perfect yet use an image from Returns for the thumbnail. Fascinating.

DKTF is the best 2d platformer ever! It isn’t debatable!

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The quality really improved! Nice job!

For a second there I thought: "Ugh how cringy to name your cat Zelda." But then I realized that I also named my cat Zelda😂

SO surprised to see only 500 subs? INCREDIBLE content, and this was so in depth and I learned a ton. Please keeping making more videos!

Damn, I can see how this channel grows exponentially in the next 3 months!!

Great insights!

Cool video dude!

Great video, awesome quality as always! Keep it up!

This channel is criminally underrated! I can definitely see you getting huge. Awesome video, too.

fantastic video man!

In 25 years of gaming I've played lots of platformers, and tons of Mario, and I will say DKCR and especially DKTF is by far one of the ( if not ) best games I've ever played. Games like Kirby or the majority of Mario never quite felt as fantastic. Something about tropical freeze checked all boxes for me. A gorgeous overworld, fantastic unique bosses, truly amazing soundtrack and as you've mentioned perfect and memorable level design. I read through other comments on this game that apparently the dev team kept challenging each other through each level, which shows why every level is so unique and so perfect, nothing is ever repeated unlike Kirby.. mario or other platformers. I could honestly go on for ages as I truly find this one of the best platformers out there and hope more will find out; fantastic video!! :D Any favorite level? I couldn't easily pick one, it's all so good!

See I love all the donkey kong country games and I played dk returns on my 3ds from when I was about 4 until I was about 9. I played it so many times and I loved it. When I was 10 I played dk tropical freeze on switch on funky mode and it was fairly challegeing. But within thepast 2 years I played the og donkey kong games and I found them very hard and I replayed dk returns and dk tropcial feeze (on classic mode) and they were really easy. I don't know if its because I played dk country returns so many times but does anyone else feel as if this game is easy?

How could you possibly have 500 subs? This is amazing work, one of the best level design videos on UA-cam and it’s by a creator this small? I’ve seriously watched a ridiculous amount of game design videos and this is awesome

Another great video. Can really see the evolution in your content in the few videos you have created. That said, some of the parts about your child hood ran a little long in my opinion

Awesome video as always man! Keep up the great work. Excited to see your channel grow in the near future. Don’t give up, keep pushing, keep pumping out amazing content, and the world will find you.

Fantastic video! I love the way you tell narratives through your videos to help you prove a point, it's enjoyable every step of the way!

Another awesome video!

Turn Based games will never be my favorite, but I can enjoy games like Baten Kaitos, Ar Tonelico 2, Valkyrie Profile 2 because I can take action no matter whose turn it is. If it's just a numbers game to get the win then I will mentality check out. It's not worth my time playing the game. I need to be proactive. That's why active combat or real time combat will always be my favorite, but those games I mentioned are fine too and I can play them. Good video dude. :)

This dude will be big someday

Here before 1k subs. Seriously man, you're gonna blow up-- the quality and effort you put into your videos is something to be admired.

fantastic video, keep it up !

for me RPG's are also my least favorite genre but thats because i grew up with Mario & Luigi Dream Team and Paper Jam when i played Xenoblade 1 & 2 they just didn't click because it felt like i could just mindlessly push buttons to win and since then i view the RPG genre as my least favorite because winning feels like RNG most of the time and also you're not in control of damage you take (which i feel is a big missed oppertunity for Xenoblade)

hey, i hate turn base RPG, but i love pokemon first generation! go figure... stories like yours always impress me, you have the privilege of being part of a gamer family! great video!

Great video!

your grandma is cool <33

What a superbly well crafted video. Fantastic visuals and audio, not abusing jump-cuts, and a really great journey through why nostalgia hits me the way it does. I hope your channel picks up as it deserves buddy. Thanks for making and sharing this!

Great video. It would be cool if you could add the games names to your b roll though.

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With less complex music sure but to me I remember music patterns well. Some simple, some complex little details inbetween. I repeat them to myself the drum patterns changing little by little in a csonf, any progression focus ones too then a more basic format and electronic elements. Some multigenre. Depends as I seek out that sort of stuff most people aren't seeking sound design complexity like I am people want something to listen to, many with lyrics too while I seek different things of course. XD We have what we seek out of course of familiar or exciting and different or whatever the case and that's totally fine neither are a wrong answer but they can be bland, overplayed and milked or disappointing with no spin on it either. It depends.

Good video/points. Hardware of buttons but look at menus new and old hmm. Limitations yes but ways around them of menus, level design, art of sprites, etc. Goes either way. Devs do it, dand may want it but when fans seek new & are an old fan that audience aka myself goes welp were very much a minority then the 'do the past thing' audience. Neither are wrong but one becomes less exciting over time then wanting more and more and not much change or evolution just other details focused on. Some possibilities let go for good others not. Familiar as easy to sell/not relearning, trends of what works. I don't mind different but it depends. Some can be complicated of course and some have better balance or ideas communication to players. Real or fictional ideas, controllers then using your hands to pretend a gun or a maraca or a racing wheel or whatever/a spin on it. Sandboxes offer a lot of goals and rules while being open ended and a different direction then RPGs/usual open worlds. Safe as in activity centres or challenge. Some.games balance gameplay emotions (hard or easy), artstyle, the games inspiration, the music, and more. Cuphead is a great example though. I got into many games like rail shooters after a while. Hack n slashes, visual novels and more. I leanr them not them babying us. But I understand them better and well for consoles I researched consoles so out of my research but like you said nostalgic. Yet for me the concepts are clear, enjoyable, old but different. Then new different then new familiar in a good way then bad or less exciting. To me.gameplay is exciting. Then graphics. Music decisions as well of electronic/instrumental or no interest in orchestral because oh big deal quality but I feel nothing there then I do electronic (theromine, or sampled) and good music whether for a radio situation or just in general. Old games and Indies is one thing but I find other games are more exciting. Viewfinder made me go oh cool a perspective puzzle game like Echochrone. Both completely different style of art and gameplay. Yet impressed me. I got to Echochrone late yet I could say nostalgia but also a direction that's exciting. :) Whether references, tone, gameplay, casualified/hardcore, tweaks, story writing, marketing, whatever. Current and old gaming has its noticeable games & ideas left behind & trends these days. Aka I take out old & new games for mechanics while other people do writing, or likeable characters or whatever. Casuals can play party games or anything approachable enough while other times hardcore can be well scaled to impossible to play. That and Dark Souls as hard when many arcade, old console or inbetween any genre even computer RPGs elements that Dark Souls has that say Elder Scrolls differs in (Prinny I wanna be the Hero platforming design/enemy placement, bosses, Resistance series due to bad enemy AI, Pursuit Force missions and other game design due to games being short or ended hard or unbalanced or whatever or others exist to have their hard factors). But I can research 1000s of games with cool elements and it won't change anything business wise. Sometimes I see potential game mechanics and the devs do not care to push them they will be following their trends, their safe audience appealing angle of the product. That was my issue with Rift Apart it was caught between audiences to deboot back like Devil May Cry 5. I at least wanted progress of Crack in Time in Rift Apart and with such marketing you can see why (I don't take marketing seriously but when the mechanics of the past can be improved and I know how I do get disappointed) but they played it safe. Is it the entry for me to expect change probably not ans the next one is but Resistance 2 was so safe and 3 was more their DNA, I feel the same with Sunset Overdrive their spun on an open world and less of the tropes, bur Spiderman has more of the tropes. It's why I preferred Sunset Overdrive's open world design (that studio's DNA and also their less following the industry moment games cough) as someone not into open worlds because the gameplay was different. I enjoy Infamous Second Son 's side missions being very particular, formulaic yes but still fun then other games at least to me. Platforming or just small minigames I'm uses to so those were more appealing. I play all genres but at the same time open qorlds action adventure and shoorer elements to an open space never appealing to me then the tivhter linear design obstacle course, puzzle, varied weapon moments, enemy types ans well no skill trees pushing for thwm to be a menu to pace things at least that's why I don't like skill trees. The world's and quests are so large and plentiful skill trees were put in to deal with them then more additions to the world as it's already filled with stuff and a menu can be easily tweaked for development time. That's how I see them at least. Back on Ratchet Rift Apart. But I also see how much Tools of Destruction it has in it, aka what Tools of Destruction did of 2&3 combined but a vir new. They keep trying to appeal and not pushing the games further in areas that would be nice. Also the cinematic angle Sony wants is why I gave up. They aren't for me those IPs so I went my own direction for the type of experiences I look for. I agree nostalgia or safeness happens in modern Nintendo also has IPs pushed ma y ways nostalgic but sometimes a fair spin. Soby used to do rhat but qent their own angle now for financial reasona. Ira why I cared more for Japan Studio games more over time or Media Molecule. But when old games or Indies or those veterans are willing to be Independent and make their own games and continuations of their old IPs there is the difference in those that wish to push ideas and those that push ttends to milk them dry, push nostalgic money makers back aka Guitar Hero returning maybe again. For money not out of bringing much to the table. Me wanting to see racing games ideas of old reattempted not become pathetic. I research old games ideas for a reason to see what had been done in the racing, shoorer and hack n slash space the past few years and been surprised. The RPG mechanics in an Alfa Romeo Racing game are more compelling then Forza Motorsport 8. Foeza 8 gave me Ratchet weapon level up vibes bur worse then again Forza Motorsport 6 had bad roulettes and GT7 has worse of that and GT5, what learning to make ir more tedious, more dull ans less fun or mechanically interesting to waste our time on purpose. XD Part 1

DKCTF climbed its way to being one of my favorite games ever through its level design alone. This is how you merge gameplay and presentation.

im so glad to see someone else express the same random love for retro games that i have despite them never being part of my childhood, i was a wii and wii u generation kid and i got so hyped to play the original super mario bros on an actual nes at someone's house literally only once, i feel like i just like old stuff for no reason, and i felt the exact same with cuphead but i feel like that ties into watching old cartoons on an old vhs when i was young, so glad i clicked on this video and not someone else's, keep up the amazing vids ;)

Hands down the next MatPat formula or easily take over for Digressing and Sidequesting. I wish someone paved the way after he passed.

I wish I had that nostalgia very often 💀

Don't blow into the cartridges 4:05.

First few seconds in and it feels like a professionally constructed and edited video- insane dude

Wait what - 200 after 1 week- ? I thought I read your sub count as 370k- damn dude, keep it goin i also thought this video had 3.8M views, not 3.8k sometimes i really think smaller more passionate creators are so much better than content pumping teams of people managing 1 big brand

Dude, your channel is gonna be huge soon! :P Such high quality videos, especially considering that you're a relatively new channel. :)

When it comes to what era is better i tend to draw a line in thebsand at the wii/360/ps3 generation. Due to the PS2s popularity and ability to get more normies into gaming the next generation started a trend where the traditional gaming audience wasnt the focal point of gaming anymore. Gaming started being introduced to normies. Largely mobile gaming. But its less morenold games are better and less new games are. But more for who the audience and medium was catered to. When i was in elementary school almost NO ONE else played video games. No atleast more than 50 percent of kids in total game. Thats wild for being in school in the 90s and early 00s. Thats wild. But with any artform when popularity gets injected, it takes a lot of force to keep the product the same.

Unlike most people here I was actually looking forward to watching you tear this game apart. I’m a zoomer who started gaming during the PS2/GameCube era, and this game goes against basically everything I’ve been accustomed to as a child. And because of this, I’ve gotten into one too many arguments with nostalgic zelda fans who *were* accustomed to it and felt the need to defend it. Sorry, but it’s not my fault I was born in the stupid generation. I can’t just magically grow the same nostalgia everyone else has.

I may be the outlier in this, but I feel that BotW/TotK rely heavily on nostalgia-bait. Musical references to previous games, visual similarities to OoT and Skyward Sword, the return of Ganondorf, even naming a new character Rauru. All this stuff feels empty and bait-y to me though because those games only pay lip service to that stuff, the references aren’t meaningful beyond making you remember a past game