Progress Report and What to Not Expect (Patreon)

Hi All,

You're probably all aware of this by now but the hiatus ended a little while back, hopefully you enjoyed that Breath of the Wild review. It took a long time to come together but I have several other videos in the works as well. Assuming my plans come to fruition, there'll be less videos than last year but more minutes. In other words a longer average runtime. I can't say whether or not you'll like which games I choose to talk about but I'd like to share some more info so you can manage your expectations appropriately.

Keeping upcoming videos as a surprise keeps me motivated so I won't say what I'm working on but I will say what I'm not working on.

There is no MGS5, Dark Souls 3 or Bloodborne video. There are some thoughts about Bloodborne in The Lost Soul Arts of Demon's Souls and Mega Microvideos if you haven't watched those.

Sekiro looks promising but there will almost certainly be a DLC expansion so that's off the table too, at least for now.

I have some notes scribbled about The Last Guardian and Exapunks but both are low priority and may never happen.

DMC5 is tempting but a DLC is possible. I'd also really need to replay 3/4, spend more time with 5 and maybe even play DmC before I got around to it so it's not the most appealing use of time right now. I'm not ruling it out but please don't get your hopes up.

Of the most requested games, Mario Odyssey is the only one I'm really working on and even then it's in the very early stages. If we're lucky that'll be out by the end of the year but if I can't write something I'm happy with then I won't release it.

Hopefully you're not too disappointed by this news but either way I'd like to be clear about one thing: Ideally I'd like to do all of the above. If you're a patron here I assume you're relatively familiar with how I operate but I'm sure even some of my most diehard followers would love for me to cover a bunch of popular and contemporary games you're more likely to have played and care about. I don't delight in letting you down, I just want to make sure that every video has something worthwhile to say. I want you to know when you click one of my videos you'll get something quality that gives you something to think about.

Honestly I sometimes feel I have as much control over what gets made as you do. There have been games I've wanted to discuss that I wasn't able to and I'd really love to have another comparison video this year but nothing has worked out on that front so far.

Like I said, I don't know how much you'll enjoy what I have in the pipeline for this year. It's definitely less niche than last year but then again it'd be hard to top five consecutive Zachtronics reviews on the niche scale. If you're concerned about all this then I have no hard feelings about any pulled pledges.

Anyway, apologies if this bored you but it seemed only fair I keep you all reasonably informed. I'll be back in a couple weeks with a short review and then I hope to do something a little longer. See you then.