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for anyone who hasn't tried this game; go try it! While it's fanbase has sadly turned somewhat sour the last few years, probably due to content vanishing, the game itself still holds up imo.

Great analysis. Perfect moba-like for me.

My problem with Hots and why I bounced of was gold and last hits that to me makes those games function on such a base level to me taking it out ment I was going to play almost none of it

HotS my absolute favorite Moba. Faster and easier than Dota, Slower and more complex than League. Such a shame that Blizzard executed their own game.

Great video, though I wish you would've gone a bit more in depth in which made HotS unique from it's peers. I'd argue the leveling system with choosing upgrades was genius and very refreshing. Despite this, having shared XP removed the ability for a single player to have a big enough impact to win the game. The amount of bots and AFKs in this game was also far worse than in any other MOBAs because nobody really cared about winning in this game. Locking in certain units and having to play on a map in which they aren't very effective at was also a dealbreaker for many players, for good reason of course. I applaud Blizzard for trying something unique and sticking with it, and for all I care they totally succeeded on that vision.

Nice video man, All support for hots videos <3

Good Video mate :) High quality considering your amount of subs/views ! Keep it up, wish you the best.

i didn't see the video yet but, all hail hots, love from brazil my man

venia por mas videos de programacion pero ok

you should talk faster, this is too slow

Great Video. You made a really good point about the linear exploration and uninspired level design in the end of one of my favorite games. My biggest "problem" with Blasphemous 2 is the comic look, though. Yeah of course, the levels look absolutely great most of the time - especially compared to the early first game - but there are some details which really undermine the overall immersion into that dark and depressing world. Radames for example doesn't seem to fit in the game at all, just because of his comic-like look. Same for the cinematics - which are quite nice to have - but hey're just waaay to clean. I would have preferred less cinematics, in favor of in game events like in Blasphemous 1. Remember the entry of the warden, the first boss in the first game? Remember how Ten Piedad "introduced" itself to the player? That's what I want! Another "downside" is the music, which - again - is actually great aswell, but sometimes feels a little out of place. I think Part 1 just hit the spot perfectly with more quiet, calm and atmospheric parts. All in all it's complaining at a very high level. I absolutely love both Blasphemous games and I'm really looking forward to the upcoming expansion and DLC.

I've considered playing this at some points in time but every time I try to convince myself to try it, something about it puts me off from actually purchasing it, not sure why. Feels like a Metroid + megaman + untitled story game which is pretty appealing to me so not sure why I refuse to buy it esp since it's fairly cheap comparatively

Seems like the this game isn't too well known since it's such a small and quick title though. Still though I think if you're ever on the fence about trying out any Metroidvania, I think this is definitely one of the games you should start out with

"featuring the most upside down gameplay ever" may i introduce you to geometry dash

I LOVED this game! It made me feel like such a skilled gamer when I beat it. I grew up with (challenging) 2D platformers as the AAA games of my day--not FPS. So its (visually) simple and straightforward platforming and bare-bones graphics was a breath of fresh air, after having been bombared by the ridiculously convoluted microtransaction menus in mobile games and FPS HUD menus for years. I noticed you incorrectly said "VVVVV" (x5 V's instead of x6 V's) in your video card. I also made the same exact mistake the entire time I played it--It's confusing because "V" in Roman Numerals is "5"...but there are actually 6 V's. It wasn't until I talked to my nerdy coworkers about the game that I was corrected. Wow didn't know it had a level editor. That'd be overwhelming. I played it on iPhone like 5 years ago--don't remember if they had a level editor/community levels on the iPhone

Love the heck outta this game. Great video!

Wait why is your DFS skipping lines here at 1:33, why is it not visiting yellow cells?

Love METAL SLUG!!! Awesome video!

Am I the only one who thinks video is fast fowarded?

I've never seen it written "AStar" instead of "A*" before. Has something changed?

In grid, dijkstra IS bfs, because distance between every grid cell is 1. When you have distances though, dijkstra is going to find the optimal path and bfs is just going to find the path with the smallest number of road

Pretty major flaws in the comparison. The red dot always being in a corner mitigates some of the flaws of poor path finding algorithms. Also, having only 1 possible path eliminates some flaws of poor pathfinding algorithms.

This was amazing, dfs performance was a surprise too

Green means stop, Red means go, got it. Also, this irrationally infuriates me.

Thank you

All one take, eh?

would be cool to see a version of this with more relevant modern algorithms like ANYA, Block A*, Sub-TL, Lazy Theta* w/ Optimizations, etc.

The modern sequel is a pay2win mobile game garbage, it's really sad and disheartening to see one of my favorite childhood IP being violated like that.

Playing Metal Slug in an arcade cabinet in Mexico will always be one of my fondest memories. :D

I bet that Japanese arcade doubled in profit that day that we played cause I died every 3 seconds

Sorry for the later half of the video but I had a bit of a busy month with some IRL stuff and wanted to still post this month, but I should be good and back with a slightly changed up style of video for April

There is also a much simpler and faster algorithm which was used in early RTS games like Dune 2, Warcraft and Doom. It involved casting a ray into the direction of the goal, and if the ray hits an obstacle, they the algorithm either uses a right-hand side rule to go around it or shots a ray into random direction. It isn't guarantee to find the shortest path, but has constant memory usage and usually finds the path faster. You can also run it in parallel by shooting several rays. It also works when you have to navigate an actual drone without a pre-made map.

The heuristic used in A* doesn't necessarily need to be the Manhattan distance. It works well with regular grid-placed nodes but in real life geometric scenarios the Euclidean distance would be the preferred choice.

One of the games I hold with the highest regard in terms of both fun and variety, really hoping that Path of Exile 2 lives up to the same hype as it's predecessor!

Add loops to the maze!

This is such a good video and such a relatable topic. I used to love seeing box art of all the games my mother and father bought when they would go out. Thanks for doing this video.😊😊😊

The last video essay of the year! I'll be back next year with some more videos like these, but in the mean time I'll be uploading a recap of this year coming sometime in December

Great video but 3:11 “Hueristic is Manhanntan” triggers me. 😂

Too bad you didn't try bidirectional search. That is the only one I thought would have some chance of beating A*

3:44 "on average" cool cool, but where's the average?

good vid man :)

A second video in more a video review fashion this time talking about a more popular game that I've been playing a lot recently. I've been getting a lot more used to the format/style of these types of videos so hopefully better edited ones coming soon! Two days after this Valve added back community maps so nice

Bro, its very hard to understand what youre saying. Try to speak slower, not "swallowing" words.

Could you make a video on heuristics soon?

Dijkstra is bad for graphs with unweighted edges.

i like your editing style it’s very pleasant and chill

don't use top-left use bottom right instead and make texts a bit smaller (and you dont have to write the developers)

Dusting off a game I've had on the backlog for a while, hoping to review some more games down the line too