Tearing Away the Fourth Wall (of your heart ♥)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2024
- Among the pantheon of big boy Playstation exclusives you often find the same ones being talked about. Big cinematic blockbusters and sad dad simulators are usually on the menu. Less time and thought is given to the small and quaint, the games that don't quite fit the mold. One such game is Tearaway, a beloved PSVita title turned PS4 masterpiece. A game with a profound and meaningful message, just for you!
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@TBSkyen and @iamerror
00:00 Opening
04:15 Introducing Tearaway (Parts 1 & 2)
12:50 The Messenger: A Peculiar Avatar
20:39 Valleyfold Jig
29:25 Sogport Blues
45:30 Grand Tear Improv
55:39 Chapter 4
1:11:34 The Message
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#tearaway #playstation #papercraft #tearawayunfolded #mediamolecule #videogames #sony #littlebigplanet #psvita #fourthwall #nintendo #ps4 #explained #videoessay #undertale
BONUS MEME!
There is so much stuff we wanted to say about this game that we couldn't without the video turning into a 5 hour mess. With that in mind, I find it so strange that more people don't talk about it. Everything from art design to narrative is filled to the brim with stuff to talk about. If I had the opportunity I would add a segment that is basically just a bunch of vistas with the background sounds for ambience, because the atmosphere in this game is so freaking good! The best even! Makes me feel like I am back home by the country side on a nice, warm summers day. Delightful. The Messenger is clearly cooler than Sackboy. Instead people talk about God of War Ragnarök or Horizon: Way Out West. I saw parts of the Game Awards this year and God of War is everything apparently. So no love for Tearaway. Sad times. Honestly Tearaway Unfolded should've just gotten game of the year 2022, and preferably every year after that and retroactively every year before that. That's only fair. If you read all of this junk you should leave a comment that involves the sentence "I love paper because it makes my hands feel glutinous" or something. Tell us what paper makes your hands feel like. Only nice things though, nothing rude or mean. Because then you'll make Atoi cry, you monster. - เกม
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Even if they will never know it, the creators of Terraway finally got their story told in a way it truly deserved. It’s such a bittersweet sentiment that stories can only ever exist if they’re told, and more importantly heard. But even if the amount of people who truly hear it is low, lower than it should be, it’s heartwarming to know that there will always be passionate people who will make something as beautiful as this to make sure that the best stories aren’t forgotten.
Who knows? Our video might just be the beginning. If we're lucky other people will be inspired and talk about it themselves. That's what I would wish for more than anything really.
Wow... That ending was so incredibly cute that it had me tearing up.
You and me both.
Me too. I don't cry often, but I'm not ashamed to add this to the list. Most 4th wall breaks come off as expected and kinda flat, somehow the paper based one was anything but flat.
+1
The actual papercraft is an utterly brilliant ending. Both for the game and the video.
Thank you! We had it planned for a long time. It was basically the first thing that we decided upon waaaay before anything was even written. You can see that the outside shots are taken during the summer too, so we've been sitting on that footage for a good few months, haha. It's been a project in the making basically.
Tearaway is the only game for the Vita. It's true.
And Gravity Rush.
Hey! Wipeout 2048 was pretty good!
1. Papercraft opening
2. Rhyming
3. Wario homage
4. Breaking the fourth wall in a video about breaking (excuse me, tearing away) the fourth wall
5. Pulling off a beret (I’m jealous)
This video is awesome!
Also, please stop introducing me to overlooked gems, I’m running out of space. But seriously, your videos are so singular and inspiring. No one makes videos like Transparency!
Slotting Tearaway into the top spot of that overlooked gems list is the right thing to do. 😎
(Also, you can pull off a beret, I believe in you!)
This all reminds me of when i played little big planet as a kid. I think the games influenced me more than i realize. I’m remembering now, at some point, i kept trying to search on the internet how to *make* sackboy. I wanted to make my own little characters that i had created in the game, frustrated at the fact that the most solid tutorial was on how to knit it. I don’t know how to knit! I’m 8 years old!
That's a neat story, very familiar. I was older at the time, but LittleBigPlanet was somewhat of an obsession for me for a little while. I even got one of those early copies that had to be recalled because a song included some lyrics that needed to be scrubbed out. So I had it a week before everyone else did, haha. Had the platinum collected within that week, and I did all the co-op challenges alone with several controllers. Ridiculous.
Waaa! The ending made me cry so hard. And I can't help but admire your ability to NOT immediately put your little messenger in every shot, so you didn't spoil the ending. Aaaaa, so beautiful!!
We've had her here since August, and let me tell you it's been hard to keep a secret, haha. She is just so precious. Totally worth it in the end though just to see the reaction to the ending!
Tearaway was one of the first games I played on my Vita.
I had seen some gameplay of the PS4 version but never thought much of it. When I got my Vita and discovered that it was the original version and that it used all of the Vita features I decided to play it to see how it used the console's gimmicks to their full potential.
I didn't expect the wonderful journey this game would take me into. The message at the end almost made me cry.
Now every time I mention the Vita or show it off to a friend or familiar I have the urge to just put the console in their hands and start this game.
I'm happy that so many people remember this story so fondly and I hope that in the future it will get the recognition it deserves.
This video reminded me of all the emotions I felt on that journey. And the ending reminded me that, while I have created many things since I finished playing, I still have to bring my Iota to my world.
Do it for Iota!
Aaaaaaaaaaaa the ending got me really emotional. I really liked this video and should check out this game. It's interesting to see its (lack of) response at release. I imagine that part of the reason it was kind of ignored was that there was an impression that it was a 'tech demo' game. It's also interesting that its contemporaries were Super Mario 3D World and MGSV, and which game specifically it was compared to in reviews, given how the game's de facto approach to the fourth wall and its existence as a game seems really similar to the "turn the game console off right now!" moments in MGS2. I'm also glad that the video analyzed and contextualized the ways the game used its meta aspects. I feel like often discussions of fourth wall breaking kind of stop at "isn't this cool" or "isn't this lame" and never really break into what it's doing beyond its value as like, shock value? The way that this game weaves both its tactile papercraft and its acknowledgement of itself as a video game into the central theme looks really neat and I'm glad that the video highlighted it.
Thank you! This is the best comment we could have ever hoped for! I am so glad you wrote it, you have no idea. It honestly makes me a bit emotional too, haha. Feel like I can finally rest and be content with what we made here. Thank you.
Oh, and also, your keen observation about the MGS games is spot on. Even MGS5 has strong fourth wall breaking moments, especially by the end. It's a bit funny that no one really seemed to caught onto those similarities and instead just went 'little man jump'.
Why am I sobbing my eyes out over a game I literally just heard of today, in this video?
That's how powerful and great the game is, I am telling you, haha. It's THAT good!
What a lovely sequel to the Hard Aesthetics video!💜
Very happy that someone else connected the two, because the production really did feel like Hard Aesthetics 2: Atoi Boogaloo.
This is a wonderful video. I never played Tearaway, much less knew what it was about, but that ending bit almost made me cry.
I do think Undertale (unfortunately) completely overshadowed Tearaway because of, at least in part, platform accessibility. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed Undertale, but I get the impression that it could not reach the same heights of Tearaway due to the relatively simplistic controls and its delivery method. I would have loved to play this when it came out, but I had no PS4 and certainly no Vita. I still don't, and it frustrates me a bit that I will never have this eye-opening experience of a first-time playthrough. I really wish I could imagine a more accessible way for this story to be told, but sadly I don't think it's possible.
That being said, thank you for producing this fantastic analysis!
Thanks for the kind words! I hope you get a chance to play Tearaway eventually, because I really believe that it is worth playing for yourself even if you know the ending. In fact, it might even enhance your experience.
its amazing to finally see someone talking about tearaway! such a criminally underrated game that's been really important to me for a long time
Someone had to do it right? It's an important little game, and it has stuck with me ever since I played it when it released on Vita. This was a long time coming 🧡
Once again utterly floored by the attention to detail in the editing. So many little gags and goofs, so much extremely poignant footage relating to the words. Just wild shit.
You're wild~ 🧡
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@@nichtschwert3307 😏🧡
Chapter 4 is interesting. I wonder if there's a bit of gender at play. I feel some male reviewers/players may not really want to admit to like such a peaceful message ("too cheesy"). The kindergarten comparison of the activities one review makes is striking, too, the idea that paperwork and crafting things is only for children seems to very much fit into that idea. Might be personal bias, though. After all, I love paperwork. Paper feels nice (I've got several little artworks made of folded paper here with me in my room, colorful origami birds and a few rainbow wireframe cubes, some stars). Hands feels nice to work that material, it's very soft!
Haven't ever met many guys that do such things, the general impression such hobbies have is very much feminine over here.
Thank you for the review, it was lovely to watch!
We talked about it a bit during writing. One particular note of interest is how the original Tearaway was marketed with Iota, while Unfolded shifted HARD to plastering Atoi front and center. The press kit didn't even include any renders of Iota anymore. What this means is of course not clear cut, but we have a slight suspicion they might've tried appealing more to girls with the Playstation 4 version based on this.
In the end it's just vague speculation, but it's definitely not too far fetched.
@@Transparencyboo Speculation is fun though. But I didn't mean to take away from the actual point of your video, which was very well stated. That final papercraft shot in the forest was really sweet.
@@fy8798 Oh no, not at all. We didn't assume you were trying to take away from the point, haha. Don't worry. We're just having a conversation :)
@@Transparencyboo Phew. :)
20 minutes in I wanted to immediately comment about how much I love the intimacy and closeness the game brings you with your messenger, and now at the end, my super sentimental heart is like "bwaaaaaghhhhhhhhhhh send comment"
thank you for the wonderful video showing off a truly meaningful game!!
Hehe, that's great to hear. I was worried we weren't thorough enough at some points, but I am glad that people seem to have really gotten it and felt the things we were trying to communicate. Feels really good.
this was so fantastic... that ending really, really got to me :") here's hoping they'll give this game a rerelease on more platforms for its 10th anniversary or something, because i'd absolutely love to play it someday! regardless, i'm happy i at least know it exists now and that i got to experience it on some level, even if it was just through this video. what a wonderful little story!
I am really happy to hear that the ending of the video resonated with a lot of people! Makes us so happy 🧡 I hope you get to play it eventually, it's totally worth it.
What an absolutely poignant and profound piece.
Thank you for sharing your and Atoi's story with us.
Our pleasure 🧡 thank you for enjoying it!
Awwwwwwwwww. A story's only a story if it's shared. That's really beautiful. Every time you're inspired by something, you're continuing that story!
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I love Tearaway so much- me and my little brother both played Unfolded, and I still go back and replay it every once in a while. I’m so glad to see it recognized!
Glad you both liked it so much 🧡
I cried I cried so genuinely and so hard thank you both for sharing this journey and this story and just aaaaa
Thank you too for giving it a chance. We are very happy to finally be able to share this one after so much work 🧡
Tearaway, particularly for the vita, is one of the best games of all time and people never believe me. LOVE this game
People should really get on it, because gosh darn is it spectacular. They're really missing out
I've watched this about 3 times now, and each time I start crying at the end. What a beautiful game and what a beautiful essay
Thank you so much, glad you liked it!
i wanna make a comic, a story, and watching this review without before knowing Tearaway made me cry - my financial situation might not let me to play Tearaway, but i might properly check it out in videos! what a great essay
Thank you! We wish you much luck with the comic and your stories!
Such an adorable ending. I love when i get emotional for content i Never consumed myself but empathise With the creators intention so much that it makes care for it too
We're so glad we could share it with you! 🧡
As a creative individual and an artist since birth, this game strikes a cord like few do. The joy of creation is as intimate as it can get, and this game knows it and builds its very premise from it, trully a love letter to artists, as well as a very convincing message for the outsiders. Thank you so very much for this essay, your words feel so meticulously crafted as the tearaway world looks
This game has such beautiful artwork. I can't believe I never knew it even existed until today. Thank you!
It truly is gorgeous!
Well. That was heartbreaking. As someone honestly trying to become a writer, this hit me in about dozen different ways.
Thank you for making this video.
Let yourself be inspired, you can do this!
@Transparency
Honestly, I'm plenty inspired. I need to be advertised. I was hit extra hard by the Lost Messager's story. I recently posted a novella expecting only a few people to see it, only to get zero.
A "this sux" would have been better than the silence I got.
@@EllipsisMark Oh yeah, I feel you. It's harsh out there, and creating things always comes with the worry that no one will see it I think. Especially when you've put a lot of effort into it. I am sorry about that.
@Transparency
Thank you for that. I realized re-reading my last comment it may have sounded like I was trying to weasel an endorsement. Sorry about that.
Though I guess it can't hurt to ask: Can I share my work with you?
And if so, through what contact?
@@EllipsisMark Can you throw a link my way too? I'm curious now.
This made me cry, I was one of those people who hadn't played Tearaway and just assumed it was another cutesy platformer, I had no idea it was so complex and thoughtful! Thank you for telling it's story and Atoi's and The You's story!
Excuse my homestuck avatar and the fact I haven't commented much on anything, but Thank you for showing us a window into this game. I wish I could type out everything I've got here emotionally, instead I'm just crying over a sweet ending of a game I haven't played. I will play it soon, I promise. Please continue making videos! it was beautiful! and thank you for making this one!
It's our pleasure really. We've been having this video floating around as an idea since we started the channel, so it feels really nice to finally have it out here and share our feelings with you all. We'll do our best to keep the videos coming. Thank you for your kind support! :)
Your video, mixed with my own interpretation and experiences with not just Tearaway Unfolded but also TUNIC and Astro's Playroom, has helped me see Tearaway in a whole new light! Thank you!😄💖
I randomly started thinking about this game at work one evening, and with my experiences with games like Astro's Playroom and TUNIC, I started interpreting playing Tearaway Unfolded on PS5 as a form of technological nostalgia: of how its self-awareness as a PS4 game with its ephemeral atmosphere and childlike sense of wonder giving off a sense of abstract nostalgia to me personally like what the Persona series does. Then I started rewatching your video with my interpretation in mind... and suddenly, a lot of what you said made a lot more sense than before. Nostalgia can come in many forms, whether it be through technology or through more abstractly ephemeral means. So thank you for making this video and sharing the story of you and your Messanger.😊💖😄
Okay, I can't decide between a Spec Ops: The Lined Paper joke or a "the medium is the message" joke.
So, I'll just drop both of them here.
I adore the videos you two make. Digging into the themes of games that are otherwise discarded or ignored giving them the close examinations and highlights that they deserve. As a writer who often feels ignored, it gives me hope.
Spec Ops: The Lined Paper has strong dad joke energy, and I wish we would've come up with it, haha.
Anyway, we're glad we could inspire some hope.
@@Transparencyboo as a script editor, I also suggest good jokes, as a free additional service. 😆
As video games are one of, if not the most, heavily commercialized forms of art that exist... It can genuinely feel painful to me to realize just how much other people do not engage with stories in that way, are encouraged not to, or worse... physically or otherwise can't
Especially as I've gotten older, and my life has been occupied more by physical labor, I've found myself often not being able to take the time I want/need to think about what I enjoy in these ways. I've been trying to, more recently, to some very inspiring success, and I am writing my own story, and thinking a lot about it... but the general, seemingly more pervasive pattern is so saddening
But then... a video like this comes along.
And regardless of whether or not it is a popular video... it does something that I *need* more of.
Regardless of how one sided such an engagement may be... and regardless of how sappy, or *cliche it may be... Thank you for this video.
You're very welcome, and thank you for your comment. It was a very nice read, I wish you all the success with your writing! 🧡
Your video has shown me that it's not just nostalgia talking, but that it's about living life and making the most of the time you have😄💖😊
I sold my copy of Tearaway when I was purging stuff from my collection a while ago, I obviously hadn't given it enough of a chance, ignorant of what was in store. I'll have to grab it again!
It's totally worth getting a second time, luckily 🧡
I just cried my heart out to that ending
You really are my favorite channel on youtube and this one is one of your best. I loved it. I'd never heard of this game before. Thank you so much.
Aw, thank you! Gosh, we try so damn hard you have no idea. So it's really nice to hear that. Thank you, thank you!
I've always been super intrigued by Tearaway but have simply never had the chance to play it. Now I'm realizing what a beautiful experience I need to check out. Excellent video.
Thank you! Just see playing it as a favour to yourself, haha 🧡
I finished Tearaway Unfolded today a couple of hours ago and I enjoyed it, truly a game that needs more spotlight. Extremely well done video, your love for the game shined through and it was a visual feast!
This is not fair. You're making me want to buy a system just to experience this game myself.
Watching Transparency is an expensive hobby, I guess. 😞
(Luckily for you, the game itself is pretty cheap!)
Who said you could make me cry!?
Thank you.
You're welcome! We're so glad it resonated with people!
I'm so glad I watched this. What a cute little game. Thank you for being, presumably, the only people to give this game the attention it deserves.
Thank you. If there is anything I wish that we inspire people to do with this video is play it for themselves and that it makes more people interested in talking about it. :)
I'd never even heard of this game before, but it sounds like the sort of game that goes beyond just being an adventure-simulator. Thanks for sharing about it!
Glad to share a classic!
Oh no, I wasn't ready to cry. Why wasn't I ready to cry? This was lovely
We even had the entire 4th chapter for you to prepare, haha. Glad you liked it 🧡
As an UnderTale fan who only has a Mac and a Switch to play games on, I really appreciate this video for telling me about a game I never heard of but sounds so, so incredible!!! I'm def gonna look up a full let's play for it (even if that clearly won't be getting across everything playing it myself would). I hope this vid gets a whole lot more people to hear about this game.
(While I'm here, I dunno if you've heard of the game OneShot? But it does some similar stuff with canonizing the player as an entity and having the emotional core of its story be the relationship between the player and the character you control. It does a lot of neat stuff that I'm forcing myself not to spoil.)
I think Tearaway is a wonderful recommendation for any fan of Undertale's more meta aspects, we love both games equally, and have been meaning to play One Shot for embarrassingly long. We're definitely gonna get to it now.
The ending was very cute and got me tearing up💖
Glad you liked it 🧡
So much love and care and effort went into this video, shining a well deserved light on a game I had never heard of before. Thank you so much for this experience, and the reminder that genre and theme are two very different things. Man this was a fun and eye opening thing to sit though.
Goddess...
Thank you so much for making this lovely video.
You clearly put your heart and soul into it.
I couldn't help but cry at the end.
Thank you,
I feel like this could be really good for someone's first video game too
It's probably a cozy game to play together with your kids. The companion app doesn't seem to quite work on PS5 (and I am not sure it still does on PS4) but having a kid on an iPad drawing things and throwing them into the game would probably be a neat experience.
@@Transparencyboo I was also thinking in more of a "showing your parent the wonders of gaming" sort of way
This is your best video. What an incredibly touching game. I hope I'll get the chance to play it one day.
Glad you liked it so much, your messenger will be waiting for you!
sorry i was a bit late to watching this,
but oh my gosh i didnt think that i would be needing tissues for this, i dont think i have ever cried this hard over a youtube video before. this hit me so hard just as an artist and gamer and lover of these sorts of little imaginary worlds. i hope that maybe some day ill get a chance to play this one!
absolutely phenomenal and heart wrenchingly beautiful video
Beautiful video! :D
Bought this game couple years ago on a sale on a whim on ps4 because I heard it's one of the best vita games, was expecting a typical 3D platformer but was blown away! One of the most creative games I've ever played easily and this video is a beautiful tribute and analysis of it.
To answer the question of why there aren't more analysis I assume because maybe there weren't many kids who had a vita, personally I knew more people who had 3DS mostly because of Pokemon but this game is perfect for children so I wonder if more kids got to play it on ps4 instead.
Thank you! I think it's pretty amazing that this game keeps going up on sale for around 5 bucks. And for a game like this that's and absolute steal!
Beautiful work :) I think if there was any video I would want to be seen by its subject's creator it would be this one.
Thank you! 🧡
The best in the game at it again!
That's right, the best in the game (i am error) at it again doing guest voices!
What a great video!! The ending made me cry but thank you for making this video!! ❤️ ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘
You're more than welcome. Thank you for taking the time to watch our little video 🧡
oh my god the lasagna footage, NO
oh NO
Mm, lasagna.
I've been really enjoying watching all of your videos, but this is the first one that's actually made me cry. Maybe someday I'll be able to get a PS4/PS5 and try this out.
A video essay has never ever made me cry like I'm crying now. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
A fully-realised version of "Drawn to Life"? Now I'm convinced I have to find a way to play this game… and now I'm crying at the ending… This is such beautiful analysis of what must be such a beautiful experience. I remember seeing ads for Tearaway when it came out and being at least a little intrigued, but I never knew it was hiding all of this. I wish all big-budget games were like this instead of feeling technically impressive but creatively lacking. Maybe that's harsh, but these days I feel like I'm even losing interest in Nintendo games. It's just all a little empty. But there are still great things out there.
And now I have so many ideas, I have to write something! I'm not sure what paper makes me feel like, but I find I'm more creative when I use it. I think I will keep thinking about this video for a long time.
(This comment may be a little disjointed, but I felt like I had to write something at least as some kind of thank you!)
Aw, thank you too, we're really happy we could share it with you. 🧡
Liking it to watch later. Your videos are always awesome.
Thank you~
This was a lovely video. Thanks for making it
And thank you for enjoying it! 🧡
Loved the video and the care you give this game. Based on your feelings, I think you would really enjoy the Wii game, Little King's Story.
Little King's Story is lovely from what I remember! Never finished it though sadly. Had it for the Vita too once, but I don't have any of them anymore sadly.
One of your best videos yet! I loved the callbacks to hard aesthetics and the celeste video, and the editing was excellent! I'm glad I waited to see it now instead of watching it yesterday before bed, this video truly deserves your full attention
Thank you, that means a lot! Glad you liked it so much! :) It is basically Hard Aesthetics 2, haha. We even talked about Tearaway at the end of that one very briefly, as sort of a hint that we would talk about it sometime. And now we are finally here. What a journey.
I cried so hard on the ending man
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As a big fan of LittleBigPlanet, I can't believe the only time I've seen this game referenced was in Astro's Playroom! I spent upwards of hundreds of hours adapting games that I liked into lbp levels so if child me had gotten their hands on this game, I have no doubt that I would've spent a few hundred hours more. Maybe I would've tried recreating it irl too since I love paper because it makes my hands feel mucilaginous!
All of this is true, perfect comment.
Aww, that ending is so sweet! Shame if I played this game and made Atoi, she'd be in B&W since I have a laser printer. But man, this game is a lot more heartwarming and beautiful than I thought.
Actually! When we made ours she was mostly made out of some harder craft paper, so we basically just cut out the parts and used the blueprints as a guide to cut out new pieces in the colours we wanted. So I think you could still do it, after all you would probably want to change a few things anyway to make her truly yours 🧡
Also, glad we could finally share this gem with everyone and really shed light on WHY it is so special beyond the paper aesthetics. I feel like a burden has been lifted from me honestly, feels like we did good for the game here.
Crying my eyes out, wish any on the devices were cheaper so I could play it. Loved the video
Glad you liked it 🧡 if you ever get the chance I'd say go with the PS4. It still has some life left in it and has a really robust library, some are even previous Vita titles, like Gravity Rush. So can't go wrong with that one 🧡
Great analysis delivered with a lot of positive energy as usual, this channel is really great please keep up the good work !
I'm at a loss of words, this was wonderful
Glad you liked it 🧡
@@Transparencyboo Puppet Alicia is such a good concept, it comes full circle with us the watchers entering your world and Alicia telling the story becoming the narrator and part of this world, making us feel like we could make content of our own too, our story
OH to see arts and crafts happening and start crying
Beautiful really 🥲
thank you for making this video
Thank you for watching it :)
Amazing video! Very touching :')
(Ni är bäst 💖)
I didn’t expect to find myself crying but here I am- the sheer amount of effort and time and love that you two put into these videos is phenomenal. It’s not always that I feel that I get to learn something new from watching TH-cam but watching your videos always gives me something to think about and appreciate the mediums and the stories that we have the privilege of experiencing in our lives. Thank you once again for a marvellous video 💖
(Tack så mycket! 🧡)
We're really glad this one resonated with people despite it not doing the numbers. I think the most important thing is that everyone can see the effort, time and love that go into them, that there is a lot of elaborate shots and ideas that we do to make the videos uniquely ours. So I am very happy to see someone articulate that from time to time, really makes it all worth it in the end 🧡
@@Transparencyboo it truly is a big shame, I really wish you could get millions and millions of views cause what you do is truly special and golden! Every friend that I have I’ve introduced them to your channel💖 you rock!💖
@@dhorinfireheart99 Thank you! We really appreciate all the buzz and sharing we can get. It really helps us in the end. The most important thing is not necessarily a lot of views either, but rather quality views. As in more views from people who will stick with us and watch mostly anything we make, and if we are lucky even support us on Patreon. As long as we see good growth when it comes to that I think we're getting somewhere :)
From a spoiler averse person, I love this video. All your videos really, I feel a better understanding and interest in a game I'd never considered. Presented so well, and with care not to "spoil" anything. I feel I'll still play one day, and enjoy all the more after watching. Ye are great. I'll comfortably watch some other videos I've held off thinking spoilers. Just denying myself really. I can watch, and still play later!
Experiencing something for yourself is a completely different thing after all. Sometimes having prior knowledge can even make that experience even better sometimes. Gotta take that bullet sometimes and just dive in, hehe
Another masterpiece video about a masterpiece game, you two really knock it out of the park every time
It's all thanks to hard work and lovely people cheering us on! Thanks, friend!
YESSSS!!!!!! TEARAWAY GETTING APPRECIATION!!!! WOOOOO!!!
You're welcome fellow Tearaway enjoyer!
Well, this video got me to look for and buy a copy of the game (apparently the last one the retailer had) so if it’s worth anything you absolutely did help a lost Messenger find their way to their You
That's extremely heart warming, thank you 🧡
ngl, I wish I had a PS4 now to play this game. I'm tearing up like after finishing the golden ending for Undertale.
Hope you get to play it sometime, the more people that do the better. I am really glad that we managed to make an ending that resonated.
Beautiful video!
You're beautiful! 🧡
I'm not crying you're crying
I am DEFINITELY crying every time!
wow, I cryed at the end, incredible video :,)
Glad you liked it 🧡
@@Transparencyboo Im literally buying the game next month haha
@@MakoCabbit that's awesome, which version? :)
@@Transparencyboo ps4, I don't have a vita 😭
@@MakoCabbit The PS4 one is great, I'd even go so far to say that it is my personal favorite of the two. Can't go wrong with that one.
Its not input lag, the playable character just has a slow reaction speed
A lot of people are saying this.
This video is so goddamn amazing.
You're amazing!
I dont have much motivation to really explain, but i think you actually missed part of the message.
that, or I've found another message in the story.
Tearaway's message is about stories nobody bothers to see or tell, how those stories come to be, the characters in them, and the inspiration for making them.
I most deeply resonate with the idea of messages that miss their "yous"; messages that fall on deaf ears no matter how sincere, and that slowly become worthless.
32:16 This bit is very satisfying
_Heh_
Haha, thanks. Glad you liked it. I really had a fun time coming up with what to put there for emphasis.
This game looks so cute!
And its amazing too!
You did it.
You made her real.
Truly blessed 🥲
If I had known this game was more closely related to Undertale (or in some ways Nier: Automata) I might have picked it up way earlier (might since with my ADHD brain could have gotten in the way)
You won't be disappointed if you get it! The PS4 version is readily available and often goes for cheap on the PSN store. 🧡
Fascinating game and fascinating video. Couldn't watch further than the "unexpected twist" part, because... well it's just sad to have the story of a beautiful story like this one looks, spoiled, sadder because I don't think I'll be able to play this game in the foreseeable future (not just because its a PS exclusive, but I don't have a PC capable of playing/emulating it either). Maybe one day, then I'll get back to this. Thx for the video! =8)-DX
good vid thx for sharing
And thank you for watching 🧡
I'm about an hour in to the video and I'd love to play Tearaway to see the ending in context, but I only have a PC, a Vita TV, PS4 controller, and PS3, which doesn't seem to be enough to play. :(
Sadly no. The Vita TV can't play Tearaway, which was always a huge bummer for me about that system. Best thing you can do is honestly to get a PS4 to play it. It has a lot of other worthwhile games and still has plenty new releases coming to it. I can see why getting another console just for this game is a hard sell, but that is unfortunately the best option.
"... the best game -"
"- that ever graced the platform..."
AAAAAAAAAH SHE SAID IT
SHE SAID THE THING
@@Furore2323 Hehe, kept you waiting, huh?
@@Transparencyboo Going to pretend it was just for me lol.
@@Furore2323 We'll let you have it!
The bit about the reviewers not understanding how Tearaway is more than just "mario 3D world but paper lol" reminds me of how, yesterday, I read some reviews of the Klonoa Phantasy Reverie collection (I was considering it as a gift idea for some family members). A review from one website called the games "cutesy and with a barely comprehensible story." If you played Klonoa 1 or 2, then you're probably lost your shit reading that review. The stories of those games are so incredibly simple for children to understand, contain incredibly obvious added depth for non-children to "get", and touch on a lot of extremely obvious and well forecasted themes (i.e. the cutscene that plays before the track "untamed hearts" does this so clearly. If you know, you know.) that you'd have to skip every cutscene to not get it... which the reviewer alluded to doing.
To be clear, I'm not doing a "lmao le epic gamergate I hate game journalists!!1! (read: i hate women)" type analysis. I think the main culprit of this incredible brain rot is consumerism and contemporary "gaming culture," which treats games as mere products to be consumed as time wasters rather than engaged with on a deeper level. The first time this dawned on me was when I got a PC copy of Prince of Persia '08 for dirt cheap (like, no more than 6 dollars) and wanted to see what critics thought before I tried it myself. I got scared I was going to have a bad time, but then I actually got around to playing it a year or so later. The vast gulf between what reviewers thought and my experience was genuinely world shattering to my tiny 15 or so year old brain. I felt like I was playing a game about the growing relationship between two quirky and interesting characters; several reviewers described their experience as "lol why can't I die!!1! The old ones on the Gamecube were cooler. Also, all you do is platform around and talk, 5.8/10 not enough action."
Amazing video btw
I hearby redact that this was just an amazing video. I wrote this comment before watching the final chapter, and now I'm nearly about to cry. thanks for making this, now I'm actually, seriously going to look into buying a vita, buying the game, playing it, and then making my partner play it
Yeah, like, obviously nothing against games journalists as an entire professional group, but sometimes it is a bit funny (and frustrating) when you find someone in the mix that is so completely out of it that you can barely comprehend it. The whole idea about how these basic ass stories for kids are described as incomprehensible is something we touched upon in the Balan video, and it is clear that sometimes people just don't care enough to pay attention and engage. Which in turn makes them frankly look a bit silly for not even trying.
We're working on a big Klonoa: Door to Phantomile video at the moment and we'll probably not talk too much about the reviews (although now that you say this maybe we should fit it in somewhere), but hearing that grown adults claim to not get it is just sad, but not surprising. Like you say, it's that consumerist angle, seeing games as only products to consume rather than something to engage with. Klonoa is simple, and the creators clearly wanted to bring a story that both kids and adults could enjoy on different levels. The least a reviewer could do is to not skip the cutscenes and try to freaking understand what is happening. Else it's a flaw on their part, not the game.
And boy howdy, you're just going in on all of our recent thoughts now. Wrote some tweets about Prince 08 a few days ago, and yeah, it kind of strikes me as odd how much people disliked not dying in that one for no apparent reason other than the fact that you should be able to die in a video game. Which is just silly. Maybe we'll make a video about that one too, because I think the ending is a bit cool, haha.
Oh and thanks for saying the video is good, haha.
@@Transparencyboo Yeah, the thing is, there's lots of great games journalists out there (I mean, obviously two journalists know this), it's just that the overwhelming majority of this whole "writing about games" industry is dominated by voices that are basically tailor made to spout corporate propaganda or boost game sales. I don't think this happens in some sort of goofy, MI6 James Bond conspiracy type of way, but moreso that it's the impact of companies cultivating a fanbase that serves the interest of industry, and then media outlets hiring from said fanbase. So, basically, you get a bunch of folks in this games journalism industry who see games as products and not art, so they, consciously or not, don't engage with them on any meaningful level. I'd like to write on games myself, just to scratch a sort of analytical itch I get when I play certain games, but this whole phenomenon kind of deters me from doing so.
It actually breaks my heart how many people lack a basic level of media literacy. Like holy shit, if you didn't get a baby game like Door to Phantomile, how do you navigate a world where, everyday, we're bombarded with media trying to get us to think a certain thing all the time? You'd have to be blown around by the winds of whatever media outlets you regularly consume want you to think, and that's a little worrying.
@@lesbianesti I suppose it's also easy for people to make mistakes sometimes. They take a look at a game like Klonoa, see a cute animal character in a platforming game from the 90's and probably don't think more about it. Then they don't pay attention and THINK that they have a point about the story even though it's just them not doing their due diligence. It happens. But yeah, much lack of media literacy is a problem too, way more than we'd like. Although, luckily a lot of people writing about games have a lot stronger understanding of video games than the average player, so I'd say we're in a better place now than we were in the 90s. Thank god, otherwise we would really be screwed, haha.
@@Transparencyboo that honestly makes a lot more sense. It's probably best to have a more charitable interpretation, since, really, it's gonna be a lot less likely that someone just doesn't ever demonstrate any form of media literacy. At least in my interactions with friends and the like, it's more usual to see someone dismiss a category of things as not needing critique at all rather than just not having the skill of being able to analyze something if needed.
Honestly, the way you describe this game reminds me of Drawn To Life. A Nintendo DS game where the player could use their stylus to draw several in-game assets, including the protagonist.
Drawn To Life 2 has this cynical, nihilistic ending, where it turns out the events of the game were all the dream of a dying child. It's yanno "top 10 darkest endings in gaming of all time messed up nintendo games", but it's honestly not anything but a shock ending.
Also, the assets the player could draw in Drawn To Life didn't match the rest of the assets in game. The developer-made assets are all pixel art, whereas the tools for the player to use encourage drawing bold, wonky oekaki.
I thought Drawn To Life was more gimmick than game when I played it like... damn 15-20 years ago geeze. im also old what da heck.
This description of Tearaway makes it sound like a better riff on a game about player creativity. I've had Tearaway (PSVita) for a while, but didn't play it much. Might finish it now.
Oh boy, haven't thought about Drawn to Life for a million years it feels like. I don't think I even ever played it, but I do know about it. It was one of those games I saw several times when I was younger, and kind of always mixed up with Scribblenauts for some reason.
@@Transparencyboo Both were Nintendo DS games with an emphasis on player creativity. I can understand getting them mixed up.
Fake edit: Just looked it up and its the same dev team for Drawn to Life and Scribblenauts. That explains it.
ps: sorry for the spoilers I guess.
@@WannabeMarysue lol, that makes so much sense.
Thank you for the review of One Piece Film Red.
I've had Tearaway on Vita since forever. Will this video actually get me to play it? Let's find out next year!
You're welcome, and I do certainly hope you get to playing it 😈
big pukka fan here
Our baby friend!
WTF WHY AM I CRYING!
It's just that powerful 🧡
1:02:24 "TEARAWAY: LESBIAN MUMMETTE KISS" *YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH*
the description on it is "I just had to draw this🥰 I love Lesbians so much🥰💖💗 Also love seeing them kiss💖💕" this is profoundly based and I hope the writer gets so many FUCKING smooches
We hadn't even noticed that, haha. Great stuff!