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bro robot representation is actually a huge deal to me

Another thing about leshy, is, that he's an asshole. But he never insults you. He expressed disappointment, and wants you to do better. When losing I candle he says he expected more of you. He pushes you to do better by expressing disappointment. You want to do better so he no longer feels disappointment in you.

Ive returned from playing the Hex, thank you for the suggestion, good game

"The hex: actual best game of daniel" I.....ok, sure, so far in the video you had earned my respect, I'll leave the vid here and download Hex. I'll be back. Im very curious as to how that 3d fps clip you showed and that computer connect with the fighting game. That game better have a first person section or Im getting mad./j Edit: .....well.... it apparently has a first person perspective at least Edit2: played it, good game

"Theyre not good people" He's leaf granpa be nice to him!!!! 😭 --- Great vid so far, I love the analysis and its getting me emotional already at 11 mins lol

The game education parts have me so scared because I’m planning to transfer into a game design course once I graduate community college and go to a 4 year college. But this is a genuinely great video essay, it really gave me an appreciation for Daniel Mullins’ writing I probably would never have gained otherwise.

I'm back after several weeks. Having finally played The Hex.

I have nothing creative, thought provoking, or critical to say. Just wanted to say you did a damn good job on this video essay.

im sorry, but the person you asked to voice po3 DOES NOT FIT, its like they were told to voice mettaton instead

Your voice is the equivalent of a face made for radio.

Simply amazing. I just finished the video while working and it was astounding to listen to :3. Can’t wait to listen to the next video essay from you :3c 🩷

8:20 wait wait wait when did leshy say that dialogoue pls someone answer

i've only finished the part of the video about inscryption, but it's really good so far, and i will come back when i finish the hex.

@14:00 The fisherman is clearly one of Leshy's guys.... down vote

Was loving the video up until part 3! I agree with the initial sentiment of being just fucking frustrated with people focusing on unimportant aspects of the game itself. I'm so happy you articulated everything that has gone unsaid for so long!! Going to go play the Hex and then come back.

2:54 this hit me more cause if you actually decided to choose leshy to replace in the act before he has more dialogue about that. about how you thought of him even at the very end. about how he would have been proud to have dueled you properly in that battle. I just wanted to reach into the screen and hug him at that.

19:25 i always imagined po3 as speaking like bill cypher idk

_"But although he definitely has that attitude, the thing about Leshy is that he always plays fair. He never forces his hand"_ Game glitches, 8 bears are here now, deal with it.

6:16 Leshy always plays fair? You never got hit with a bear trap because you were playing too good did you?

I watched up to the part where you talked about the hex, stopped the video, and went to go play the game. It's got really good themes and decent story, but plays poorly and looks terrible. Which I cannot decide if that's on purpose or not. Edit to add: The reason it took so long for me to play The Hex was because of its visual style; the description wasn't real encouraging for a game that looked as it did, either.

25:11 Materwelonz mention lets goooo! It's actually funny, I didn't get far with inscryption but I know all about the Hex because I watched her lets play She's a really great lets player

I found your channel through the Inscryption video, and had to stop myself from watching this video to actually try and play Yume Niki. I love the way you present your content, your own passion shining through how you talk about things you care about. I hope you’re well!

i love being able to find creators with passion and dedication to the topics they cover practically spilling out of them as they talk. i’ve watched this video maybe 4 times now over the course of 2 days. it’s rare to find someone so passionate in explaining these things. keep at it. your passion is amazing to witness.

i got so excited when you mentioned endless empty ive never seen anyone ever talk about it!! its so cool

Will also say, what's funny about the indie game movie is that they talk about these games aren't really indie anymore and yet it never bothers to talk about Cave Story, the game that literally popularized indie games.

28:30 i appreciate the critique of risk of rain 2 and its publishing making the game much iffy-er in terms of polish, but i think the lore is the wrong thing to focus on in regards to that point. the lore of the game gives glimpses of a greater story of the world of the series, but ultimately its not necessary for the core enjoyment of the game and so, the devs prioritized it less. theres other things that are a lot more important to the game’s core gameplay and identity that could just as easily be criticized (especially the console ports, which were handled only by gearbox, it is INSANE the barely-playable state its updates were shipped in), i just dont think focusing on the lore specifically does your point justice.

I love Inscryption, I love this video, and I love your PNGtuber!!! (Cramorant design and those cute ass stylized boots?? Fantastic!)

I realised this video has stupidly become sort of a comfort for me. Without getting overly sappy and emotional on the internet, since it just feels like screaming into a void, I rewatch it and replay it whenever I need something comfy to listen to in the background and sometimes even the foreground. The visuals, the audio, the narrator's voice, everything is super cosy- and the interview section especially made me reconsider a lot of what I spending my time on and I knew it needed to change. People echoing the same things I'm feeling and the bit about your personality becoming your job and vise versa making me scared shitless. But in all this I just wanted to say thank you! This video has changed the trajectory of me for hopefully the better.

good video, also based welonz fan

I wish this channel wouldn't use such foul language. I was liking the video but then we get multiple F-bombs and religious disrespect saying 'Goddamn' and stuff like that.

I'm only halfway through this and I just have to say this is a phenomenal video. Thank you and your guests for making this.

I don't really know what to put here but I just want to leave a comment giving props to how well this vid was made. Very good job!

it honestly feels like the message halfway through this video is “white people = bad” which is an awful stance to take. Yeah, just because white guys made some good games doesn’t mean that they didn’t deserve the success. A lot of those games you mentioned are really good. I just don’t understand why this became a race issue, games aren’t made by skin color, they’re made by incredibly talented minds, which come in all kinds of bodies, and these guys were the ones to take action on it. If anyone has a counter argument to this, please talk to me. I’ll genuinely listen, i’m not trying to rage bait.

The Botopia section of this game is where I fell off and just didn't end up finishing it, glad to know it was supposed to be like.... that

commenting for engagement because everything else was interesting but the yap fest in the middle 😬

32:15 I get pissed when Jeremy Crawford tells me to just homebrew mechanics for 5e D&D. I can't imagine the incandescent rage I would feel if an alleged professor told me to "just figure out" something that was integral to my success in their course and didn't have an explicit prerequisite. That's a fundamental failure of your academic program, and teachers should be as upset about that as students if they have any pride in their tradecraft.

I actually never played the Hex cause I mixed it up with a completely different game that was some kind of puzzle game I think? Whoops!

great video

awesome finding a good video about yume nikki

So much of what you and your friends said during the Hex: Interview chapter resonated with me so hard. I've been in the industry since 2015, really since 2011 but that was my college days and I barely count that. I've done so many crunch periods, so many hard pushes that weren't necessary, all due to production not listening to our limits and trying to meet some arbitrary goals. The idea of a 'sprint' I think has overtaken the games industry in a very bad way. The pursuit of efficiency has killed so many careers. I'm really happy that at least in the jobs I've had lately, it seems like there's an effort to push back against this and give people balance. I consider myself luck that I'm not so burned out that I'm still in the industry. I'm about to hit that 10 year mark that most game devs decide to leave the industry forever for all manner of reasons. I hope that things continue to get better, I want those coming after me to have a better and happier time. Thanks for doing this video. I loved playing this game but I never really put that much thought about it in the way you analyzed it. Great work.

You mentioned Devolver for a bit as a publisher and how it kinda goes against Indie as a concept but so far theh havent truly screwed it up yet. I would like to hear more on your thoughts about this. So far, this entire vid is really good. (also, i never got to play the Hex before i played Inscryption because i played the concept game from the Jam and just had to have it. Very much a life changer it was.) Edit: The Kaycee's mod is more story building as a side thing but just a way to play the game on its own as well. IDK if that means its "losing its meaning" but I don't think there's anything entirely wrong with it.

this was a fucking phenomenal video you should be proud of your work genuinely

Hey I just got here, way too late to the party so I don't expect this comment to get read, BUT At the start of the video, I was amazed by your voice. Because it's pretty close to what I want for myself at least, it passes as any gender and I just really wanted to compliment it. Then you made the casual comment of being trans, and. Yeah, I was a bit slow on that one. You have an amazing voice and I really hope your days are good a-month-and-a-bit from the release of this video! Edit: What is this? The Hex appreciation on MY video about the metanarrative of Inscryption and the creation of games coupled a SUPER LESBIAN ANIMAL RPG MENTION????. More likely than you'd think

One more assumption we're making about Yume Nikki that I rarely see anyone question: Is she actually refusing to leave her room, or is she shaking her head because the door won't open? Maybe it's a Silent Hill 4 type thing. After playing through it the first time, my interpretation was that even her bedroom and that balcony is part of the dream, and she jumps to wake herself up. Also based on the reasons why you like the game in this video I'd recommend the game The Void to you. It's from Icepick Lodge (the same obscure Russian arthouse game devs as Pathologic) and is about playing as a lost soul in a kind of afterlife who seems to be trans or nonbinary in some way (gender is a HUGE theme, all the NPCs are divided into Brothers and Sisters and they frequently argue about which group you should belong in if any) and you have to collect colors, grow color plants, and satisfy strange women and their requests of you in order to keep from being thrown deeper into the abyss. It's an absolutely GORGEOUS game, both visually and musically, and is similarly very hard to get a definitive read on (especially since most gamers don't seem to notice the gender theming despite them slapping you in the face with it). Definitely recommend looking up the "easy mode" mod on the steam forums if you try it, its default difficulty balance is uh. Russian. lol.

I just don't think coming back to a game you enjoy over and over again is that bad of a thing.. especially when you start modding that game to turn into something else. I don't think that's a thing that should be looked down upon as being inherently lesser. Mods like Mental Omega for red alert 2 or Calamity for Terraria complete change their respective games into something else. I dont think that's something bad or lesser than just letting it be. The real issue comes when you try to hold on to that feeling long past it's death. As long as you genuinely enjoy the game, there's no issue with coming back to it. It's only when you keep coming back to it to recapture some long forgot to enjoy that just never seems to come back again that it becomes an issue. Enjoy them in the moment. Dont arbitrarily extend them or cut them short

But Kaycee's mod seems like it's own thing seprste from inscryption. So it's not really dwelling on it

*complains about people ignoring the story of a game because of the lore throughout video* 28:39 *complains about lore missing from a game as if it was the story of the game* (the story of the game is very simple but it was in the game from the start and all that was missing was flavour text from items.)

I dont know who you are or how you have so few subs but this was an amazing video essay, you have earned a new sub. also, I love your voice, very soothing to listen to

Work Cults of Late Capitalism.

do you like the beginner's guide cause i think its good but you were vaguely talking shit