Reviewer Brain | A Helpful Guide for Mutual Video Essayists (and ourselves)
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2021
- After having contemplated our writing, we've weeded out a problem that we'd like to share with our friends and strangers alike. What's the line between an essay and a review, and when will the norms of one obstruct the other? Are the things we write truly our own thoughts that we value, or is it a mitigation to appease an imagined crowd? Follow along as we attempt to liberate your writing methods!
Big thanks to our friends for looking over the script:
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#review #essay #bubsy3d
Bonus meme:
Yes, we put Doug Walker from the esteemed Channel Awesome show the Nostalgia Critic (and also Demo Reel) in the thumbnail, even though he shows up unmentioned like once in the video. But you know what? This is how you game the UA-cam system, this is pure clickbait, baby! Like half of the people clicking this will do so because they thought we'd be commenting on something goofy pertaining to Doug's brain, or whatever. How many of you even noticed Count Orlok from Nosferatu standing behind him? That was a funny element to include for the halloween season, right? Public domain is fucking great, I sure wish we had more of it, but you know. Disney gotta have Mickey Mouse, I guess. Anyway, if you read all of this, go comment "God is dead, Donkey is Kong" or something. - Ігри
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this is why i keep a loaded gun in my desk drawer at all times, so whenever i write about a video game's graphics in a script i can shoot my keyboard into tiny pieces as quickly as possible 😎
This is a bit excessive, but we think it might be necessary.
The thing that sucks is that we could actually be having really good conversations about graphics. The visual element is a massive part of games and is a key part of what causes people to feel emotions while playing something, but instead of really thinking about that and experimenting around with different ideas of what constitutes "good graphics" we're stuck in this late 90's console war mentality where more polygons = better
I thought this comment was going to end very differently
I've for sure been noticing lately that essayists seem to get self conscious over coming off as too positive toward a game people don't like or would usually brush off. It's safe to praise a Mario game without talking about what you don't like, but if you're gushing about Sonic, there's the whole stigma of the "weird sonic fan" weighing over you, and I think there's a desire to distance oneself from that kind of thing by taking the aspects of something you don't like and playing up just *how* much you don't like them
This is a very insightful comment, thank you!
Okay but like, this animation is really hecking cute?
Just wanted to put that out there.
Thank you! Kiki put a lot of effort into the drawings and Alicia made them come to life. Glad you liked it! :)
Seconded!
"It's basically about anticipating incoming comments"
"It's exhausting"
how dare you come for my entire brain like this
(mandatory gong is kong dead is dod comment)
Just gotta speak the truth!
Very much a result of 80's, 90's, 00's tech culture, from out of globalizing neoliberalizing NASDAC cyberspace evangelism, before tech development definitively stalled in the 10's (and regressed in a bunch of ways). Technical capacity to do cool games (and office tools and movie special effects) kept noticeably increasing season by season, and companies were competing over that, so it popularized a culture of proclaiming every media object as either better that it's ever been or woefully outdated, based on a balance of objectively measurable increases in: computer graphics processing capacity, sound, control complexity, plot-theatricality, simulational complexity and system speeds/stability.
I think all of mainstream pop nerd culture is still stuck in that frame of mind, comparing technological merits and thinking cultural history has to be an arrow pointing forward and upward. I mean I can hardly get through a normal discussion of what I've been playing without calling some game better than another, while referencing none of the actual messaging or content of either game. I have to actively stop myself doing it.
Early radio electronic and mechanical pop media, and their critical landscapes, were likely the same back when recorded music, film, instrumental performances or popular theatre were in more of a high stakes tech race period. But right now this having to judge all things "objectively", so not interpretively, in order to be a credible critic, seems to stem from the videogame tech race that ended a decade back.
That said, since we can't have nice things, the cultural essayist critical theory writing that rose to prominence in the 10's, hampered as it still is by that old objective reviewer salespitch virus, is itself also largely just a "marketplace of ideas" type pseudo-academic discourse, that generally cheapens and distracts from whatever it's actually trying to address, and cheapening whatever concepts it uses to do so; slacktivism style. So another type of problematic. Games don't need to mean something, not even by meaning nothing, nor do they need us doing essays, in order to still resonate with, and influence, society. But video essays do tickle the brain nicer than the old games review style, and they do spread media literacy and philosophy by applied example.
Sorry for the full comment essay. One of those tiring comment types that's also inevitable when doing youtube video production, I'm sure
: P
As a content creator myself and have been making videos for 7 years on, I've just recently become disillusioned with reviewing games. I still want to talk about video games and why I love or hate them, but I don't wanna "review" them because I'm just a guy who loves video games. This video, I'll probably rewatch so I can rethink my approach and contemplate what my next step should be.
Hey, thanks! Glad you liked it, and we're always excited about getting people to think for a bit.
I appreciate your analysis of this video landscape. This has been something I have been especially thinking about as I put more of my own writing out there.
It is interesting that despite the ways the genre has evolved and innovated in the past 5 years, we’re still operating with conventions from the 2010s. Not that this is a bad thing, but it is illustrative of how UA-cam’s systems helps to propagate this kind of culture and expectations within the audience. I for one would love to see other essayist take a similarly introspective approach to the genre.
God is dead, Donkey is Kong
It's neat to think about if nothing else, and by doing so we might actually be able to move in another direction if we so please. We think that there are a lot of ground to cover when it comes to treating pop culture like video games as art, rather than just stating that they are so. And that is pretty rad and exciting actually, we should see it as an opportunity!
And thank you, that monkey really has a lot coming.
This video is unintentionally about how all types of criticism are reduced to **CONTENT**.
It's nice knowing that product reviews and critiques can coexist if we let them, even if there's a segment of the community that tends to gravitate towards one or the other. I like knowing if a game is worth my time and money, that's obviously very important for the culture and industry. But it's good being aware that these pieces of media can be studied outside of that perspective too. You honestly were very balanced in this video, explaining that both types of content can (and should) coexist and that writing a script doesn't need to be all-encompassing to satisfy a public that may only care about what you DON'T say rather than what you DO say. So yeah, that's my own long-winded way of saying, "big thumbs-up."
Thank you for adding your thoughts here! Glad you enjoyed what we had to say! :)
God is Kong, Donkey is dead.
Thank you!
I loved this! This has definitely seeped into my writing more lately.
And it's tough cause some of those little asides are important sometimes but it can be easy to default to way too many or feeling I must cover more than just the specific analysis or point I really want to talk about.
Yes, absolutely, sometimes it's really important. It shouldn't be cut out if it's actually necessary to the point you're making, but we think it might be good to be aware when we are 'going to far', for lack of better words, haha. It's worth keeping in mind at the very least :)
For a longest time I've wanted to write reviews in some form about something, but then I think about those naysayers who always pop up form somewhere and not wanting to deal with them XD
You should just write reviews on websites where no one comments, that's the secret! ;)
God is dead, Donkey is Kong.
True.
And Baba is You
@@Radar_of_the_Stars HELL YEAH!!
Absolutely love the little caricatures of you two, it's absolutely adorable i hope you keep using them down the line
We miiiight do it again. But usually we just don't want to get stuck with a certain look to be honest, haha. We want to be ever changing, always having something new. That's why when you see drawings in our videos they are never really exactly in the same 'style' I suppose you could say. We could probably get back to the idea though, at some point. They are very cute, hehe.
@@Transparencyboo That's a perfectly understandable thing to go for, whatever you do im sure it'll be great!
@@Planet_R.M. Hehe, at least we hope so. Thank you for believing in us
Wow, what a great review of gaming culture
>:(
I think the advice to "be personal" in your reviews is great! What drives my interest in this channel is that personal touch.
We appreciate that, thank you
At some point, I started to stop watching reviews and moved over to video essays.
Gotta get your daily dose of IGN!
Thanks.Ive watched this video twice and now I'm going to rewrite the two videos I'm working on. AGAIN.
You can do it! Just don't overwork yourself :)
Indeed. Whatever it is you're trying to do with your writing, it will be better if you're deliberate about it. Keep in mind what it is trying to do, and what it isn't concerned with. It's good advice in general and in the specific case here. ...Also, the whole idea of not trying to appease bad-faith comments is definitely something that I find helpful to hear, even though I already know it. Maybe some day I'll even feel comfortable putting more of my writing than simple internet comments out there if I can actually internalize some of that.
It's hard even if you know it, haha. Sometimes you just see those comments and get a bit heated. And if you want to put more of your writing out there, we believe in you! You can do it!
@@Transparencyboo Thanks so much for the vote of confidence.
"God is dead, Donkey is Kong" or something.
This is really valuable advice, thank you for making it :) I have often felt the same sort of pressure in my writing. It does feel like any piece will be perceived as incomplete if it doesnt include a value judgment, which is of course frustrating. At the same time though I always (so far) want my audience to feel interested in playing the game for themselves and not just taking my video as the end of the discussion, even though I decidedly do not make reviews. For me at least where this settles is not declaring good or bad but rather communicating that the experience is interesting through other ways, like using the original soundtrack and making sure to include clips of the most visually captivating parts of it. There is so much depth and potential to video essays and it really feels to me that as a community we are still only scratching the surface of what the medium can do.
On my 5th time sending this to people like "Don't make me tap the sign."
Having seen a couple of video essays using review brains to defend video games currently bashed by GamerTM culture (as well as criticizing well-liked video games) by going into deep, political understandings of those games' themes and characters, it can take a heavy toll on your mental health and create a debate on what merits a good video game.
I think it is pretty neat that people are going into games/movies that are considered to be bad and looking at things that make them worth while to them anyway. Like sometimes it doesn't actually matter if it's necessarily good or bad, the interesting part can be that there is more to it than just that binary :9
The use of Nosferatu was nothing but excellent.
Bless the public domain!
This helped a lot. I wrote my first few pages of my first video essay today (Hilariously, about Sonic), and I was finding it hard to not add a bunch of caveats and disqualifiers.
Yet, I want it to be unabashedly good faith and kind. The thesis of this video just illuminated the issue.
Glad we could help! :)
if anything, you could have a small part at the beginning saying "this isn't a review, but a thematic analysis/video essay about our thoughts on X. whatever we think about the quality of the examined media is not relevant to the point of this video" and thats it. thats how you get to avoid entering review brain AND prompt people to treat it as a video essay, not a review - so you can avoid SOME of the annoying comments without having to appeal to them with unrelated points on gameplay or whatever.
i dunno, just an idea i had
I've been struggling to write an analysis of a Pixar film for months now because I'm uncomfortable with how critical my perspective is, and this video has gotten me at least a little bit out of my head and I majorly appreciate that
You're welcome
I mean I think a big reason people consider video essay's to be reviews is because for most art mediums the artist reading is the review. A movie doesn't need to worry about gameplay the review is the art. A reading is a new way to engage the art to enjoy the art. Where a video game can simply be impossible to experience for particular people due to bad design, how hard the game is, lack of accessibility features, etc. The game is an important part of the way the arts experienced.
Big mood on this one and i love the "Extra Credits" aesthetic of the video. I think whoever makes critical videos of media have fallen into every trap in this video, I know i have!
Finally this exists in video form and it came out very well! Extremely cute art, too. Gonna use that final frame as my desktop background
An honor!
If you're like me and you have to figure out all the little hidden things in a video and are trying to figure out what game is in the trash at 2:47, it's Balan Wonderworld. I hope that saves you having to rewatch the shot twice before remembering you can do it in slow motion.
man the last couple frames of the video killed me
Haha, glad you liked it!
transparency in subscription box: i click :3
but also: animated ff13 hover-thumbnail: i click :3
edit: this is a really good video as ever!!! only a third through but the alignments of clips to the script is done SO well (and the reading is of course as lovely as it always is :D)
edit edit: yessss i love this video so much. this is true for all your videos but i want to extra point it out: this is a very good work and message you are sharing with people and putting out into the world
Thank you, thank you. Glad you like our editing, a lot (probably too much) of thought goes into into. It's fun to just have footage represent things that we say, just a blast, haha. Oh, and have been slowly playing through FF13 again, and I am really trying to enjoy myself a lot more this time - and with the right mindset I really, really do!
I haven't noticed this pattern of behavior yet. Not entirely relevant to me, I suppose, but I do have a close friend who's eager to break into making video essays and is concerned about making himself, y'know, more than just another [angry] voice in the void. This ought to be good food for thought, so I'll pass it on.
Thank you! I hope they enjoy it too :)
This was a great review!
In all seriousness, I found this super interesting and revealing. It makes me think that I’d rather see creators “covering their bases” by considering/replying to objections to their central arguments than by going into reviewer brain mode. Pros and cons from a reviewer perspective can feel kind of rote and distract from point of the essay. But anticipating ways in which the audience might disagree and responding can be really interesting and strengthen the argument.
Thanks for all your great work!
That's a really great review!
Commerce and Brand Loyalty have retained such a frustratingly strong grip over games discourse to the point of inserting themselves into topics where they don't belong or didn't have verbal pretence of belonging, even in my work and the works of other people who I know for certain would reject the concepts consciously when discussing them, so it's super interesting to see this knee-jerk desire to defend ourselves and cover our bases given a tangible form, lord knows it reaffirms that I'm not crazy when the instinct hits ~
Even remotely subversive reviews of games are frequently lambasted for not being effectively an IGN derivative and not framing it purely as a buyer's guide that warns you about whether or not you should consume the thing, and more in-depth editorials that praise and criticise games in out-of-the-box ways (while not necessarily being wholly indicative of said games as consumer goods) are frequently under risk of commenters upset that the thing they like or dislike isn't being described in a straightforward binary that can be applied to staring at the box at your local retailer.
Hell, even when writing this comment, I instinctively refrained as strongly as possible from saying the word "capitalism" due to the alarm bells that set off when the word is uttered in very clearly related subjects.
Absolutely amazing work as usual
godddd this is a good video. this is such an interesting thing to notice and i feel like it applies not only to the world of youtube essayists, but pretty much anyone just. trying to make a point! and i will definetely take it as advice for myself as well. unrelated, but i actually didnt come here through video games! moomins brought me here, and then i just stayed because i really love your content.
14:50 "This doesn't change you leaving me at the altar! Oh wait, I guess it does SEE YA!"
I can't look at Sonic '06 cutscenes w/o hearing the SnapCube real time fandub in my head ghjk
It's a good problem to have, haha.
Speaking for myself in terms of the reviewer brain though, I'd say it comes out most flagrantly when I anticipate critique (an absence) of critique. It happens when my brain tells me "everyone's gonna say 'yeah well [thing] sucks' so you have to do it first and then you can add the 'buuuuuut' and the conversation can be productive"
Other times I feel it creep in more as a vent, or maybe an amused indulgence in the bad.
It's definitely a mitigation thing more often than not... but I think another side of it is that it's a wedge that opens the door. It's the "good expected opinion" to start on, so that people will ease into trusting the later perspectives.
And finally,
In the face of everything else relatable in this, I think the most relatable part for me is honestly the state of the nail polish at ~1:00
love the amount of Balan Wonderworld in this, I genuinely want to play it someday
It's great honestly :)
Thank you so much for putting the time to make subtitles :)
You're welcome 😊
This will be super handy for referring back to whenever my future writings start to veer off course. I’m so used to writing appraisals of a piece of media coming from my news writing background for my various school newspapers where I felt like the only way I could squeeze in writing about games or movies was to make a review on them. But now, venturing into the essay side of things, I’ve found it’s a lot better to let my hair down and speak to what I wanna be saying rather than what others wanna hear. Thank you two for always hitting it out of the park with every new upload!
Oh dang so glad i watched this one, im totally guilty of this.
This is a more blatant version of this, but ive also noticed that essayists, retrospectivists AND reviewers who feel compelled to preface their work with a disclaimer about how the following is "just their opinion" and im like, honey, obviously its your opinion, there is no objective truth.
And then i turn around and add something in my script like "but if you disagree thats totally fine and chill and i can see where you are coming from here!"
It seems like some people genuinely need to hear that kind of stuff, but then again I am not sure most of those people would keep it in mind anyway, haha.
@@Transparencyboo haha great point!
Extremely interesting take, well-crafted perspective, and enlightening share. Thank you for this.
I love love love this video. Clear, understandable, insightful. "Review writing may be the most legitimate form of games writing" FELT right
What the?! This didn't even include a single dog walker!
We're ashamed.
I really enjoy this channel and the thought-provoking essays! I was one of the pesky "you were too harsh on Metroid Prime!" commenters, so I apologize for that. Really, I love watching these videos and I shouldn't have hassled anyone about a topic that was so tangentially related to the subject at hand.
Haha, it's all good, all good. We're mostly joking of course. Glad you enjoy the stuff :)
I really needed this right now. Thank you for this video.
You are so welcome! :)
good vid! still wrapping my thoughts about this video
Since video games are interactive experiences, doesn't that mean the that Bubsy 3D's bad camera, controls, etc. make it part of the reading?
Alternatively, for essays that cover specific titles, I personally enjoy a little bit of Review Brain as an aside because it allows me play it vicariously through the essay. I get this out of essays regarding TV and Movies, too. I may never play a long RPG or watch a scary movie for varying reasons, but a 30-60 minute video essay on it or aspects on it? Yes, please!
I mean it can be, if you want. The point is moreso that there might be more interesting things to explore other than it being bad so to speak. Sometimes we should allow ourselves the thrill of not having to come to that specific conclusion I think.
Omgggggggg, the new animation is so amazing 😍😍
Thank! Kiki put a lot of effort into the drawings and Alicia did the animations :)
As someone who writes reviews on Instagram this video was TOO relatable haha. Great video. It's given me lots to think about.
Glad it was helpful! :)
I gotta say I really appreciated this video. I don't write much but when I do I often go long amonuts of time not thinking of this and then it just clicks. All of these parts here that don't add to the fact this is supposed to be a review gone. It doesn't matter how long I spent writing those parts agonizing over the thought behind it or how long it those many paragraphs would or even the fact that when sharing my thoughts with people person to person I absolutely mention these parts. They just get deleted no matter if it's minutes, hours, days, or even weeks worth of writing. I think I'll try to include more essayist styled comments in my stuff they're the bit I have most fun writing, the most psychological (which psychology is endlessly fascinating to me), and also the way my brain is thinking about the writing most of the time anyways.
Honestly and truly thank you.
P.S: I really didn't care about gramatical normalities in this so sorry if it's hard to read.
Great video, will send this to some UA-camrs I support!
3:02 mega shade thrown at balan wonderworld
Oh, there is no shade thrown at all, haha. He doesn't deserve to be there.
As someone that write many reviews or essays but never do poste them or make them into a video because I always find them bad (precisely cause I find them too unfocus about what you said), your video gave me some hope backs.
Thank you. I will need to try applying your philosophy.
it was wild watching this and expecting not to relate to it bc I don't publish video or longform content in any sense, but I really found myself being like "oh, I do that!" anyway... just as like, an artist on twitter with a couple thousand followers. I've caught myself in the pattern of not wanting to talk about anything I enjoy just bc you can only say so much without going over all aspects of a media, the pros and cons, what the writing excels or fumbles through, etc, and as such discussing or making art focusing on one aspect of something you love feels daunting bc you can often still get those comments, wondering what your intentions are or if you're properly aware that x media you love is "actually bad" even making an artform that takes a much shorter time for them to consume. weird how it works like that! this made me think a lot about how much expression of joy I hold back just bc I'm worried people will be upset by that expression. as a new subscriber, thanks for the video!
this is a pretty good review, i think i will try to get a reviewer brain when it's on a summer sale
Good luck, friend ♥️
this is not related to the video, but when y'all blow up, im definitely gonna be the hipster that brags about being around since video 3
"you're not a real transparency fan unless you've been watching since dogwhistles"
Thanks for your loyality! ❤️
Great vid! I'm not sure I completely agree, but if you'll indulge me I'll explain myself:
I've done a few Metroid vids over the years, and I always end up feeling those are my weakest ones. I'm up to my ears in love for that series, and I think I end up plastering over the cracks in my arguments with sheer passion. Which is compelling if you agree with me already, sure! But if the viewer doesn't share that passion for the series, the cracks in my argument are pretty obvious. If I instead construct my argument from the foundation up, making objective observations and then using them to inform my perspective, then even if I don't convince the absolute fucking clown that doesn't share my passion for the series I at least give them a stronger idea where I'm coming from! It also has the potential benefit of clarifying for those that share my passion why they enjoy the series as much as they do!
That having been said, yeah, I totally agree that "Reviewer Brain" can go way beyond the point of being useful. No matter how many hours you spend poring over your script, it's UA-cam. It's an eminently low-brow platform; it is a crucible of hostility. You could create the most incredible piece of writing on the platform and you're going to get a ton of bad-faith bullshit in the comments from folk that were only half-listening, or went in itching for an excuse to disagree, or just decided they hated your voice, or were looking from a cheap laugh, or for no reason at all. There is literally no reason to waste a single fucking brain cell on them when they clearly haven't extended the same courtesy.
On a slightly unrelated note, I'm taken with the delineation between "review" and "essay." People's understandings of a lot of terms are really scattered and slapdash. Critics use "satire" to describe basic parody; TikTokers use "POV" when it's a third person view. How then do we handle words like "review" when honestly I couldn't tell you specifically what a review even is? Is it a buyers' guide? Or an examination of the art? What about a "retrospective?" Is a modern perspective a necessary component of a retrospective - a retroactive perspective? "Critique?" My understanding of the word was always that it was a critical examination, one focused on negative perspectives even if the writer's actual views were overall positive, but looking it up that doesn't seem to be the case at all.
Thinking about it maybe this latter paragraph is just a me problem.
Great points about the way words lose seem to lose their meaning from people who use them incorrectly, that definitely forms issues in discourse (e.g. "objective", which people often seem to misunderstand).
Thank you for this!
Our pleasure!
I never once thought of this. I'll keep these arguments in mind when making or viewing YT content
Glad you found it helpful! :)
Great use of the Balan WonderWorld theme at the end there.
Thanks, we're quite happy with it too!
I feel this a lot. A few caveats for important topics can be useful, but it's so easy to fall into countering every possible bad faith argument against your video because you just *know* they will come up. I've been planning on discussing issues like this in a future video but I know that even those very points about bad faith arguments will *also* be taken in bad faith by some people, likely the very ones said video would be trying to reach. It's frustrating and demotivating, but ultimately I try to aim for a better balance. This all comes back to the larger issue of toxic fan behaviour surrounding media criticism, how anything you say that they disagree with is interpreted as some objectively bad attack on their character. I know a lot of people will be mad at me if/when I release my video on Sonic Frontiers, because I think the game is pretty bad. But maybe that's their problem. As long as the harassment doesn't get too extreme, at least.
I kinda forgot why I started making videos thank you
Hope you're having fun making videos
I haven't even watched this video yet but it gets a like because all your content is good, I'm going to watch it now after pressing the like button 😊👍👍👍
We appreciate that, hope you like it!
Super Play, how nostalgic.
We bought a few of the older ones, including some issues of Super Power. Really fun to just read these old magazines with a lot of hindsight, haha.
I need to look through some of my oldest issues just to see what I think of the writing today.
@@JediMB it's a bit funny at times. We have a bit of a laugh about the really early stuff. In one old Nintendo Magasinet they talked about the latest news that the Nintendo Playstation partnership went into flames, and with hindsight it's just funny to see them really confidently say that it will probably fail because who would like to work with anyone other than Nintendo now that they had their 64 bit machine in the works. Bonkers stuff, haha.
I have found the game reviews on IMDB to be equal to if not better than Metacritic. I didn't even know, until recently, that IMDB had video game reviews!!
More in keeping with the theme of this video essay, I'm personally more interested in critiques than reviews. Naturally art is subjective, a point which may make critiques and reviews often meld into one another, however I do believe that a more rigorous and critical lens will naturally lean an analysis more towards critique than review, the later acknowledges personal preferences.
So is Balan Wonderworld and Bubsy the new mascots of Transparency channel? because I would not mind :)
Hehe, we'll get to them sooner than later ;)
Good stuff!
In my recent body horror video, I cut a paragraph where I criticize the DLC chapters of The Evil Within. All that remains of it is a sentence where I say I found it frustrating. Kinda wish I had cut that too.
It's a big mood for sure, haha.
God is dead. Donkey is Kong.
Thank you!
He also said trans rights so true ^^
This was a very good review of Sonic 06
Thanks! Glad to finally give it the praise it deserves.
Get Balan out of the trash can he doesn't deserve it 😭
He has a special place on our shelf, don't worry
@@Transparencyboo Just also finished the video! Appreciate the advice as a fellow content creator. I was getting into the "reviewer brain" for one of my upcoming vids, but this kinda spread some light on that. Really enjoyed watching!
@@SonicKick Glad you found it helpful :)
10:50 hey I have that donkey kong hot wheel
Well hi there Cyder-Man, funny that my most recent subscribed channels came together today.
(Shout-outs to Adam Millard for shouting out you two, too)
Glad to have you here! :)
Bubsy 3d!
The one and only!
I enjoyed this, "review"
No, but seriously I think my similar understanding has come from my time in college (or university) I remember my professor in my Bibles class telling us not to write our papers on the Old Testament or the New Testament but to really focus on one idea. Instead of writing about Leviticus choose one chapter of Leviticus. That stuck with me from 2008 to this day.
What I like about your channel and some other essayists I watch is that the videos talk about a game like I would with a friend. The themes and what resonated with me. I don't say to my friends for example, "Wow, that new Zelda game, a real 8/10 story" Videogames are interactive and UA-cam is, in mind, personal ("You" is in the name) and yet so many game conversations are supposed to be viewed as an objective, sterile book report. This disappoints me.
Additionally I am currently writing about Metroid: Other M and while I'm currently trying to catch up on all your videos I am afraid that if I watch that video on Metroid that you did it will influence my opinion directly (or worse, indirectly) so I've avoided it for now. That's another reviewer brain issue I've seen with UA-cam (along with UA-camrs and content farms flat out stealing other people's work)
If you did a part 2 or would want to comment on that at all, I'd love to hear your opinion.
Apologies if this comment was too long/rambling
Feel free to watch the Metroid video, don't worry to much about it. We don't talk too much about Other M, its more just part of a point about the overarching lore of the series being bloated and kind of bad. The rest is mostly about how cool Fusion is. And a cool thing that we as creators can do when we have watched other people's work is that we can quote and reference each other to make our own videos even better. That's just encouraged honestly, but you have to decide that for yourself of course :)
@@Transparencyboo Thank you
is it related to posters brain?
Conclusion, yes.
:D
That was a really good review!
Loved the cute animations and video footage in this. Also, your keyboard layout confuses me, why is the A where the [ should be?! And yea, the point you make is a good one too. It's hard to have a discussion about games, media, anything, without feeling the urge to throw in some value judgements and get sidetracked talking about how ' good' a thing is. That's not to say I don't appreciate when a video essayist gives their opinion on whether they liked a game or not. That does help to know what viewpoint they're coming from. But it shouldn't be necessary when you're just trying to philosophise about motherhood and FFXIII or whatever.
5:30 what's the music being played here? I want to say one of the sonic adventure games but I can't put my finger on it.
Mystic Mansion from Sonic Heroes!
I personally can't stand it when an "essayist" gets worked up over the small negative comments they get after getting showers of positive ones.
It's easy to get bogged down by them sadly. Sometimes you might just be vulnerable for one reason or another. There are many reasons for why one would be heated about even small things basically.
Algorithm and love frennds ^^
Appreciate it
sonic heroes ost!!
Nothing but the best for our audience.
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Thank you!
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Good.
Little nerd^^
Kawaii~
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