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"anime mech playing a version of crossfire" Yeah that's what they are

This was an absolutely brilliant video. Great analysis of the story which is already so brilliantly subtle. Hats off to you! Just great stuff!

Excellent video.

I like how when you started talking about the games music you had basically the best track in the ost pkayong in the background nice move 👌

this goes crazily hard

cool

yoppi = goat

<3

Oh yeah im groovin

I'll be honest. While i haven't seen the entire playthrough or played this, i know there ARE heavy topics and ik this is in Young's subconscious. This aspect and the pixel art Zelda-y vibe along with the music, makes me wanna play it. The heavy emotional themes kinda scare me a tad because of how relatable they sound, but the final message you gave about The Briar makes me wanna play it again. We -- myself included -- can and should learm a lot from this game and from Young, as i myself am a somewhat socially inept gamer and a fan of RPGs, heroic legends, and escapist fantasy.

So good damn

I love yoppi

It's a great game dude

I've been a huge fan of both Kenji Eno and Fumito Ueda for years. Here's a cool fact: when it came to hiring Ueda, Kenji Eno had this to say about him: "at the beginning, he didn't pass the application process at WARP, but I still remember the work he submitted: it was about a dog running in the rain. His ideas and his concepts really struck me, so even though he wasn't initially even on the hiring list, I hand-picked him because I saw his potential."

Corwin Mall

Im like 13 years late and so fucking invested in how these games connect and there is no answers anywhere but so many hints i feel like im going crazy

I really love to see such strong analysis of one of my favorite games! I really agree with most of your interpretation-- over my many replays, I've come to notice a lot of thematic significance. Some of the comments have added some ideas, like themes of discomfort with gender, that I also see in Anodyne, but one lens I haven't seen mentioned is one I believe is important: Young probably has a loved one (Briar) with a mood or personality disorder. The last two areas, Blue and Happy, the ice land full of depressed snowpeople and the fire city full of manic sex-obsessed clubgoers before the ice-and-fire final boss, always really struck me as a loved-one-struggling-with-bipolar metaphor. Sage and Mitra then represent different reactions Young has seen to a sibling or friend's emotional distress. Anyway, it's a sign of a great game that so many themes fit over its story and layer together. Love the channel, great video!

Crooks Lodge

They keep complaining it's slow, but that's how tactics are, you need patience. I finished this once, I hade the CD but I don't know where it is now. It's an underrated gem.

Peach 💯

ICO has one of my favorite, if not my absolute favorite, relationships in gaming. The fact that Ico and Yorda are separated by a language barrier but still have complete trust in each other is just beautiful, man.

Thanks, but short is like 1 or 3 volumes, not 20 😭

Rae Shoal

I love Sephonie and I love this video! One thing I think you missed is that the story actually takes place in 2049, and the epilogue in 2099ish, so some of the specifics about the timing of laws and the stage of climate crisis are a little different than in your analysis. That aside, you really breathed life into this perspective on Sephonie's story! The themes of connection and borders were so striking on my first playthrough, and subsequent playthroughs have only made me see even more beauty in the writing and like every element of the design even more. Every Analgesic game is fantastic, but Sephonie is a proper masterpiece imo.

Lovely

Summer Green

Great video. I love this game and wish they’d remake it or make a PC port

great analysis on one of my fav gamesssssss

YOOOOO, i have Conflict: Desert Storm lol. I thought it was cool that i could listen to the downloaded music on the XBOX in-game lol

I actually purchased the cover he didn't like at the beginning.

Came here through your Ico video. I'm always after something like Ico, like Journey, like Abzû to enjoy, but it is very rare to find recommendations that understand what make some of those works shine (and that I haven't been through already). And this unassuming video, unrelated to the other, gave me so many gems!! About to binge watch the other six manga rec videos :DD

hey! found this game kinda randomly so decided to watch a review ... sooo thank you for convincing me to try it out

I'm so disappointed and upset because one of our favorite High School Musical manga from Japan is currently not officially licensed in English in America at all. <:(

Implying that Mars and SpaceX is a plan to save the elite from global warming? Damn dude

I felt so bad for the geomes. If only the protagonist knew…

found this way later but good video!

mah i don't know... is very basic. The class unlockings are basically impossible to figure out without a guide and the only way to level up decently are those "random" dungeon. Not terrible but there tons of more refined ones that do the same

Hey, tell me if I'm wrong but did the Queen literally not say that when she wakes up again it will not be her anymore😰

Never beat this game, but I randomly remembered Viper's dreadful voice acting yesterday and that got me thinking about it again. Then this video pops up so how's that for timing. And this video also reminded me I never beat Hoshigami either. I really had a hard time finishing any TRPG game that wasn't Final Fantasy Tactics back then and it's interesting to know Stella Deus had all this waiting for me if I would've kept playing it.

Wtf is wrong with Americans? Referring to Ueda as "they" repeatedly. Enough insanity.

Really? Stella Deus and Shadow of the Colossus? Its Just comparing apples to shit.

BANGERS

Its the way that i don't know if you actually don't know the E in Internet Explorer stands for Explorer or were making a joke.

I love it 💖🖤

I love this album! Nice work doc

Hella specific vibe from this. Feels like im laying on the floor while Donnie Darko plays on the dvd tv combo in the background repeatedly. solid work. 💝

Just walked my dog to this goodness. I love all your stuff!

Really nice work, it has such a cool crisp sound to it! I especially like takhi 68.

A goat game on the xbox along with JSRF

Really talented at what you do, love the video essay’s and looking forward to upcoming indie games 2024