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Weekly Journal (October 24th) (Patreon)

Published:
2023-10-24 16:00:08
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2023-11

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Well... this is embarrassing. I was looking back over my blooper clips I had recorded from this last video and... I don't know if I was just ridiculously efficient or what, but I only had like 3 tiny bloopers. That said, it feels kind of silly to make that short of a blooper reel, so I'll be saving them for next month to toss in with the backlog bloopers! Sorry about that, for uh... being all business this month apparently lmao. 

12 days remain for me my friends. 12 short days. That is all I have until I begin writing the backlog script and that is all the time I have to FINISH the backlog. I'll keep the details of how much I have to fit into that window to myself, but send good thoughts. Send good vibes. I'm about to be in the trenches. I might be streaming those games a bit over those 12 days, so keep an eye out :)

What I can tell you is that I accidentally started Sea of Stars this morning and it's lovely. I didn't mean to play it next, but RE4 remake hadn't finished downloading yet haha. Looks like I might be playing both at the same time!

What has me excited is that the combat is very similar to the Paper Mario/Alphadream Mario and Luigi rpgs BUT with the aesthetic and sounds of something akin to Chrono Trigger. A match made in heaven, I'm sure you've heard of this one but I like what I've played. 

Also... can you guys do me a favor? Take a look at a game called Slay The Princess. There is a free demo on Steam that should be enough for you to get a good look at it. I beat this game yesterday. It's a visual novel, decisions matter and all that. But... I don't know how to feel about it. I think it's actually kind of brilliant, but a LOT of it went over my head. I definitely had fun. I was definitely impressed with the art. I was definitely impressed with the voice acting... kinda... mostly... But idk, I just feel like I missed something here. I don't want to say much more, I'll be talking about this when the BL vid comes around.

Anyways, thank you all for the warm reception on the Reviews video! I had so much fun making it and it was a massively refreshing reset from the existential dread video. The algorithm didn't mind it either, definitely performing a little more "normal". Perhaps nature is healing after my little hiatus.

Anyways, I hope your week is off to a great start. Take care of your mind and take care of your body. Remember that the two of them are connected. Maybe what your mind needs is something physical! Maybe what your body needs is something mindful. Take care of you, if you don't who will?

Talk soon :)


Comments

Anonymous

I have now bought Slay the Princess, just simply because I'm intrigued and want the whole experience. I have just finished 100%ing Spider-Man 2 so it'll be nice to have a short (and I guess creepy) game to follow it up... or am I going to regret this? 🤣

Anonymous
>>120613607

Update: I have now completed Slay the Princess, what a ride! I thought it was going to end as ambiguously as it started but I'm glad it didn't. I'll reframe from saying anymore to avoid spoilers, but I'm very interested to hear more of your time with it Daryl 😁

Max Goldstein

[SPOILERS] Okay, Slay the Princess. Just finished it. This is a game about literally everything and a some of it seemed to be big words for the sake of big words. We are asked to care about saving a world that we never actually see. It reminded me of Immortality for... spoilerly reasons... but that game was a little more grounded about what its protagonists actually represented and cared about. Both games hide a lot of their content, rewarding diligent players but... I'm in my thirties, I've got plenty of other things to do in my precious spare time than reverse engineer the game by diagramming out the decision tree. Not to mention that doing so would destroy the awe of the experience and the ambiguity of what exactly is the good ending, even though the game apparently has one in mind. (I actually think The Forgotten City did this well, there's a clear good, canon ending that you have to work for but is achievable. And you actually get to know the people you are tasked with saving.) All told, there's a very small concrete pedestal tasked with holding up a massive conceptual sculpture and I don't think the proportions quite work. Also, if you liked the male narrator, he's the voice and lead writer behind The Magnus Archives podcast, one of the best works of horror of the past few years.

Max Goldstein
>>120940314

So, I played through it again, using the save system this time to see more content, and... I think I get it a little bit more? Eventually all the horror, all the over-the-top philosophy, falls away. And it's about figuring out which choices are truly meaningful in a vast, but almost-graspable, web. Anyway, there are worse ways to spend a Sunday. Thanks Daryl.