Video Essay Recommendations

Very good series of shows. This one in particular clearly had a lot of love put into it.

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I kinda like this channel

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New bois doc is great

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i like this guy, heā€™s got good vids (pretty sure i posted his gamefan series before)

never cared about dissidia, but this video makes me want to explore the psp.

but thatā€™s something for the next life iā€™m afraidā€¦

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The first-ever good video on Mega Man has finally dropped

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Hereā€™s a little shorty breaking down the adaptive music systems of Pikmin 3 and 4!

This video does such a great job illustrating the design of these systems ā€” Theyā€™re so clever!

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The night air is getting coldā€¦ thereā€™s frost on the grass in the morningā€¦ I am starting to think about no longer wearing shortsā€¦ yepā€¦ itā€™s that time of year once againā€¦ Hbomberguy is going to release another video soon

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Shamelessly shouting out myself and Alicia here. Our latest video is a two and a half hour long deep dive into the funky Playstation gem Aquanautā€™s Holiday. I think people on this site will have a blast with this one!

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Would it be gauche to share my own work in this thread lol

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not at all (especially considering @Kiki did it right above you lol).

we also have the Show me things you made. thread, but i think cross-posting is also okay.

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This is one I made recently. Itā€™s about Sonic the Hedgehog and trans joy.
enjoy!

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I laughed

good work, @Kiki & @Alicia

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This seems interesting! Iā€™ll continue watching later but so far I want to say I love that you also included non-english reviews as examples for the reviewersā€™ bewilderment at the time.

I feel a lot of video essays could benefit from acknowledging that there are more places in the world than the USA and Japan (and occasionally the UK).

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Thanks, I had a lot of fun trying to find as many magazine excerpts as I could. I actually had quotes from even more languages, but sadly had no native speaking guests to read them. Oops!

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I appreciated that touch of having native-speakers read the reviews ā€“ I certainly noticed that the Hyper review was read by an Australian!

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Iā€™m so glad at least one person noticed that touch!

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do i have to be goth, trans, and a dork to watch your videos? because only one (ā€¦for certainā€¦) of those adjectives describe me, and i still got something out of that video.

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normally Iā€™m like, super mario bros has been dissected and discussed to death, and the thumbnail is the exact kind of clickbaity crap I hate, but Iā€™m really enjoying this one about smbā€™s hitboxes, collision, physics, and overall game feel. sometimes this kind of video gets real technical and just kinda goes thru assembly code line by line or whatever, but this is pretty digestible and makes me appreciate the craft of the game more. and like yeah itā€™s a classic for a reason but I just found another reason. maybe not huge news to like, actual game devs but as a hobbyist this was real educational

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now youā€™re speaking my language! Gonna watch this in the morning

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itā€™s honestly pretty dang good, and the narrators donā€™t try and get all cute and youtube-wacky which I love lol. itā€™s pretty straightforward and the humor when they include it is light

anyway the more I learn about super mario bros the more I am astounded with what they were able to pack into that game, on a default, standard, vanilla cart, with no additional memory mappers! I think I heard that the crew intended for it to be a showcase of what the famicom could do with like, stock hardware etc and itā€™s bananas how much juice they squoze out of that fruit

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