Video Essay Recommendations

I kinda like this channel

2 Likes

New bois doc is great

4 Likes

i like this guy, he’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 that’s something for the next life i’m afraid…

2 Likes

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

1 Like

Here’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 — They’re so clever!

3 Likes

The night air is getting cold… there’s frost on the grass in the morning… I am starting to think about no longer wearing shorts… yep… it’s that time of year once again… Hbomberguy is going to release another video soon

7 Likes

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 Aquanaut’s Holiday. I think people on this site will have a blast with this one!

20 Likes

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

7 Likes

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.

4 Likes

This is one I made recently. It’s about Sonic the Hedgehog and trans joy.
enjoy!

12 Likes


I laughed

good work, @Kiki & @Alicia

8 Likes

This seems interesting! I’ll continue watching later but so far I want to say I love that you also included non-english reviews as examples for the reviewers’ 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).

7 Likes

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!

6 Likes

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

6 Likes

I’m so glad at least one person noticed that touch!

2 Likes

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

5 Likes

normally I’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 I’m really enjoying this one about smb’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 it’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

2 Likes

now you’re speaking my language! Gonna watch this in the morning

2 Likes

it’s honestly pretty dang good, and the narrators don’t try and get all cute and youtube-wacky which I love lol. it’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 it’s bananas how much juice they squoze out of that fruit

2 Likes

Yeah, it’s wild. I actually never realized how much I loved Super Mario until I played all the 2D ones in the same year with my then two year old son. Since then I’ve become somewhat obsessed with Mario.

I’ve even been planning on writing a level by level analysis of some of the games. And I was just talking to my brother the other day about how basically no game has surpassed what Mario 3 did, which feels bonkers.

So, yeah, very excited to watch this.

3 Likes