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Halo 3 ODST. In regular Halo 3 (and other Halo games) you play as a genetically modified Spartan supersoldier saving the literal world trough epic tasks. In ODST you play as regular human soldier fighting in the ruins of a battleground the character of the mainline games already left behind. Enemies you slaughtered in the regular games are now so difficult you sometimes have to run away from a fight.

all things considered (date, hardware etc) , Super Metroid is pretty much the best game ever made to this date

Wow I’ve never played TTYD but I’ve seen let’s plays of it, I never put together the way it evokes old stories like that 😭 embarrassing… such a cool game

I just beat the game in June and absolutely adored everything about it. There was some emotion that I felt I couldn’t figure out - almost like a sense of nostalgia - and I think this video perfectly explained it. Thank you. You did a great job with this video.

Valiant Hearts is a game like this. You just play as regular soldiers in WWI hoping to make it back home alive. Though you solve many problems other people couldn't solve, you are still not that different to other people

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly is a great example. you are not the main character.

Fear & hunger : out of the four playable characters, the man all the characters came here for is the only one of them to get their best ending.

Bruh, what didn’t you talk about THE game that doesn’t care about you the slightest. You are only part of an ecosystem, barely, only reason you are part of it, is bc you die often, which means you become their food. I’m talking about rain world.

It felt so good figuring this out without a guide. I was wandering around and then reached the tube and said "Why did they add this glass tube? there's literally nothing here and it takes sometime just to load it" so I just put a power bomb and was surprised when it worked. I really love how many "wait, I can do that?!" moments are in this game.

I’ve played stray YOU ARE THE MAIN CHARACTER

great video

no dragon quest 5? thats like, pinnacle of games where you arent the hero

As someone who thinks TTYD is just decent, I find several of these layers (particularly the third and fourth) seem to be made of Swiss cheese. I think the pacing may have diminished them by placing the moments too far apart for me.

honestly i love everything ttyd does with its story, but it doesnt change my opinion that the game is incredibly tedious to play, battles become repetitive and the only incentive is a slight xp boost, almost every world is filled with nothing but a bunch of hallways, and honestly i had a better time with origami king and 64, which i played around the same time as the remakes release. (great video btw, i loved the sections with the drawings!)

Clicked for Metroid, stayed for a good little video essay.

Your love for the game really shines through, as your sincerity does in all your videos. Another great one!

He’s still redundant though lol I still get him levels but until the end game where people share skills he’s just a great value version of someone else

I think you should talk about Braid, its a good game that could have fit in the video

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Make an Animal Well video next!

Funnily enough, this game does pull a lot from stuff that might make you nostalgic indeed… like a ton of paper mario 64. And paper mario 64 was, to me, a better experience, better execution of its ideas. So it made me nostalgic for a game I enjoyed more, and now I remember 64 much better because I liked it more than I thought I did. The ending of ttyd was decidedly epic though. I see the points made make sense, but in a funny way, it made me nostalgic for paper mario 64, and made me enjoy ttyd’s story less, for being reminded of a game that did some of its concepts better. I can see this game means a lot to people, but I wonder how that rests on them not having played 64 before that, on it being nostalgic because it was their first exposure to this kind of game.

is this the paper version? it looks great

Oh boy I love feeling like a background character. Oh, I also like these kinds of games too lol

This video really just helps me appreciate how amazing each and every chapter of this game is.

Final Fantasy X is a great example of the "deuteragonist" archetype as well. Tidus is the vehicle by which the player learns about the world of Spira, but Yuna is absolutely, 100% the actual main character.

I have disagree with the Hi Fi Rush part and sort of the stray. Both Peperment and Chai are both the protagonist. Both need each other to reach their goals you can even call them dualagonist (i know that not a word but whatever).

If we ever get a true sequel to TTYD, I'd like to see it implement stories that relate to real life history and the past but demonstrated in a Mario style. Perhaps every world has its own bit of lore and that is when the game makes an allusion to that piece of history. If they wanted to flesh out the whole time travel aspect, they could make it a core part of the gameplay; they could make the game about time travel where Mario's past actions in a world effect the present, as Mario makes history. I am imagining something like "The Revolutionary War" where you befriend a George Washington-like mayor partner. And, of course, there is a lot of creative inspiration one can gather by reminiscing on past human history. Maybe a Steampunk, Postmodern, or Rennaissance inspired world.

After watching this video, I played Wander Song and... wowzers.. that game is undertale level of great to me. In it's own way ofcourse but, it was a fantastic game. I went into it with the only spoilers being from this video. Great game! I recommend it to everyone who finds this comment!

I had a similar problem as stated in the last bit of the video. I spent so much time with the characters that gave you gameplay improvements(mishima/takemi/chiriho/yoshida that I didn’t get to spend time with the characters I liked the best (Yusuke/Ryuji). I have considered starting a new game + and doing everything over again just to fix this, but I’m hesitant since it’s such a long game.

what about hollow knight though

I never thought about ttyd like that before

Paper Mario TTYD was my first RPG as well. I never was able to get ahold of the first one, but this series is probably one of the things that cemented my love of this genere. And as we all now know, without partners the Paper Mario story falls apart.

Paper Mario TTYD my beloved!

Delightful as always!! Thought provoking, and interesting. I love how you present your points and edit these together. It’s always felt like an instant classic. As a child, the general white quest never bothered me. I don’t think I ever really fully caught how we plan and pay off with chapter 8, but being GRIPPED by the intrigue and everything finally coming to ahead. 📖 long live the original paper Mario trilogy and their delightful story telling.

I think you really got to the heart of why so many of us love TTYD as much as we do. Besides the great battle system, you did such a great job of breaking down what makes the game's characters and story so memorable besides it's fantastic writing. The layers of nostalgia make you grow even more attached to the game by the time you complete it and on the ensuing playthroughs. Well done 👍

I love how you pointed out all those references. I noticed a lot of them when I played the remake. One is of them is in chapter four. While on the path to the Creepy Steeple, you have to blow away a big pile of hay with Flurrie. You know, like the wolf in "The Three Little Pigs"?

The way I see it, the entire game had spent the time preparing you for that moment.

They advertised powerbombing the glass tube on the Super Metroid television commercial. th-cam.com/video/wxrACWQvzHw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pFEf9b0loA_s8cei&t=19

I rememver playing and discovering this originaly on the snes back in the days. Completely agree. For a moment, everything was possible. And that made the world so much bigger.

Now that you brought it to the forefront (and this is coming from someone who’s never played much of this series so far), I think TTYD’s theme of nostalgia is a big reason why its the frontrunner for the best Paper Mario game. There might be parts of Paper Mario (N64), Super, Colour Splash, and Origami King that may be better, but TTYD is explicitly designed to be remembered (helps that it's a great game). Combine that with the fact that the people who grew up with the Gamecube are now old enough to BE nostalgic for it, and it's no wonder the internet is so head over heals for it. Fantastic video. One of my new favorite channels.

It's a game that i completely missed when it came out but the Metroid series has become one of my absolute favourites. Super Metroid is absolutely timeless.

The one moment that spoke to me with awe was finding that one dead soldier before entering Kraid's lair. For months I fret over who that was, could I have saved them? Was I too late. And apparently no one really knows who they were to this day.

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

I would’ve never thought of the concept you’ve explained in the video. It makes this game all the more enjoyable

I just want to say that your essays are my favourite gaming content on TH-cam.

kinda funny that this is the only Mario game I have played, just to find that it wasn't even as big as other titles but still loved alot and now there is a remake (guess i have even more of an excuse to get a switch)

what a lovely video.

Hello! I just found this channel today and wanted to tell you how lovely all your videos have been so far. Your narration is amazing, your video quality is excellent, and your points are thorough and poignant. I was absolutely enthralled when you referred to one part of the game as "a common fantasy married to a universal pain". Beautifully written and thoughtfully made, you deserve many more subscribers. <3

There's a somewhat older indie game titled Recettear in a fantasy setting where you are not the hero trying to save the world, but a shopkeeper trying to make ends meet.

Exactly. After doing a couple of gameplays of Stray I realized that the game wasn't about a cat. Sure you play as a cat and can do cat stuff which is dope but the main premise of the game was to see and explore the world that was within Walled City 99. It makes you see the whole city from the perspective of a cat. Stray is definitely in my top 3 games off all time.