annapurna's decision to venture into videogame publishing, animation, and theatre has shown why they are one of the few movie studios who people seem to like right now
Last weekend I played Last Stop and loved it. After realizing it was an Annapurna game, I decided to look at a list of Annapurna games and realized there were a lot of games that I didn’t know they made. I’ve been working my way through some of the ones I hadn’t played it and decided I should look up a tier list and found this video. You did a great job describing each game.
Thank you so much for saying so! It really was a great pleasure playing all of the games in their catalog. If you'd like, there is a tierlist template at the bottom of the description if you'd like to rank the games yourself! It doesn't have any of the releases from this year, but I'll fix that with another video in December
I absolutely adore this video, you simply just describing the game's heartfelt moments was enough to feel like I played them too. I saved the video in a playlist! so hopefully in a few months, I'll be able to enjoy the games too. :) tysm for this fire video
Thank you so much for watching! I tried not to spoil too much of the games I really liked in the hopes that people could still get a special experience if they wanted to play for themselves. I hope that'll be true for you as well!
Thank you very much! I briefly thought about it, but in that case, a majority of my videos would be oversaturated by a bunch of gaming reviews. I'm happy with putting them all into the one video, but I was considering doing a one-off upload of my Kentucky Route Zero thoughts, because that was one of my favourites.
I liked this video very much. Got Journey for my non-gamer partner to play due to this video. I figured I wouldn't have been mind-blown by the co-op since I was spoiled, but now I lead my partner to a treasure I cannot possess. She thoroughly enjoyed the game. But I digress, I just wanted to comment to increase the engagement on this video. Thanks for the recommendation!
I'm super happy to hear that! I'm glad this video helped inspire you to give that experience to someone else! Thank you for watching and it's great to hear they enjoyed the game too!
An excellent video. I started going through the whole psn library this year. I am halfway done, but i did beat Ashen. Hopefully there is a followup as more have been released and a whole slew still just announced
Which of these games was your favorite? For me it was definitely What Remained of Edith Finch and Saynara Wild Hearts. I've never played any game like those, I love them
I included a full tier list for every game I played at the end, but my personal favourites were Outer Wilds (DLC included), Sayonara Wild Hearts, and The Pathless. This video added a majority to my total number of games played in life, so I got a lot of amazing experiences! Edith Finch was really cool as well. I'm excited to see what Giant Sparrow come out with next!
@@Jexonite What would you say is the overall Vibe of Anaperna games ? What are themes and ideas that they attract and go for? I've only played two or three but based on your recaps it seems like they like games that value unique gameplay and personal introspective ideas.
That's a tricky question, because while I do believe they publish games based on unique gameplay mechanics and intriguing premises, I find a through-thread of emotionality at the forefront of a lot of their picks. They're consistent in delivering fun games to play but also less intense ones for emotional exploration. They've got a game coming out next year about surviving in the wilds with DINOSAURS, and a fighting game about confronting ex lovers, but also a game about a mother and daughter taking a road trip to uncover a mysterious past. Games are made by their respective developers, all of who have different stories they want to tell, and so the accumulation of Annapurna's catalog is rich with diversity, but a commonality between them all seems to be plights of the human condition. Outer Wilds tapped into existential dread, Sayonara Wild Hearts also reflected on love, Kentucky Route Zero was about a whole bunch of stuff, but there’s also Neon White which is just a really fun speedrunning game, and Stray which is more or less just a cute cat game. In my opinion, what makes AI’s catalog so special is the eclectic range of emotional resonance mixed in with unique and intriguing gameplay mechanics and presentations! I apologize for the long response, but like I said, it’s a tricky question! I hope this somewhat answered it!
@@Jexonite That's cool I agree with you. I just looked up annapurna's Wikipedia and they said and they aim to publish games that are Original, Emotional, and Personal. So there you go 😉 overall I think it's good that they encourage development of games like those. More variety to the industry and less generic games that casual people will think of and more of ones that make you think
Solar Ash was a painful and arduous journey for me. It's not a bad game at all, but I struggled with the camera and the slippery motion of the character...So many instances of the camera moving to an unhelpful angle, hiding things from my view...seriously annoying. And since it's a "racing game", I couldn't fix the camera while racing against the clock.
i’m a little late to this, but i’m in the middle of attempting to unlock 100% of achievements in every Annapurna game, and this was super interesting to watch as a precursor to that! i’m currently at 8 done with another 4 in my library, hoping what happened to you with that last achievement in The Pathless won’t also happen to me😅
That sounds like quite the endeavour, but also a lot of fun! My advice would be to get every achievement on the same save file in The Pathless without reverting back to a previous save. For the final achievement, I'm guessing it doesn't activate through steam, but instead the game verifies it when everything has been completed on the same save. Question for YOU though: What's been your favourite game so far in that list to 100%?
@@Jexonite got it, thanks for the tip. my favorite so far has been Neon White (it’s my favorite game of all time lol), but i’ve been pleasantly surprised by most of these games which is why i decided to 100% all of them haha. Sayonara Wild Hearts and Solar Ash were also really really good
@@pmLite_ Great pick! I don't really have the gamer tenacity to complete Neon White's gauntlet of achievements, but I did get the true ending and got ace medals on about half the courses. Really fun game! I also really like how SWH does its achievement system, even though I did just end up googling what some of the answers were.
@@Jexonite very fair, i spent about a month playing nothing but Neon White when it first came out so i ended up getting the achievements pretty quickly and at one point actually had a (very short-lived) world record on one stage! and i agree, the SWH achievement “clues” are cool too
I tried outer wilds and somehow I didn't like it. I'll give it another try then.. Abzu is not on the list? oh right it's on 505. Ashen for me should be at least A tier because I love dark souls series the only let down for ashen is the last boss, cheesed her because it's too unfair. I'm currently playing pathless and my jaw keep dropping because of the view, truly an S tier!
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annapurna's decision to venture into videogame publishing, animation, and theatre has shown why they are one of the few movie studios who people seem to like right now
Last weekend I played Last Stop and loved it. After realizing it was an Annapurna game, I decided to look at a list of Annapurna games and realized there were a lot of games that I didn’t know they made. I’ve been working my way through some of the ones I hadn’t played it and decided I should look up a tier list and found this video. You did a great job describing each game.
Thank you so much for saying so! It really was a great pleasure playing all of the games in their catalog. If you'd like, there is a tierlist template at the bottom of the description if you'd like to rank the games yourself! It doesn't have any of the releases from this year, but I'll fix that with another video in December
Holy crap man, almost 3 hours? Looking forward to it! Thanks for breaking it up with timestamps, will make it easier to watch in chunks.
Thanks so much! I really love the timestamps feature. It almost encourages me to make longer videos like this!
@@Jexonite I finished it today! Watched it over a few days. Really enjoyable, your writing and editing is impeccable.
Ayyy!!! Thank you so much for sticking through to the end! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the kind words as well!
I can EASILY say this is my favorite video about indie games of this year, nothing else comes close, amazing job! 🎉
Thank you so much! I think Annapurna has such a good diverse catalog of games, and I'm really excited to see what they put out going forward.
This video is phenomenal and I hope it gains some semblance of traction.
Thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words!
So far any Annapurna games i bought, i was never disappointed
This video is perfect for choosing games to give to friends, and what good timing now that it's Christmas! Much love and take care!
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching!
Edith Finch is S tier 10/10 game, Gone Home could be in A
Goated publisher
your segment on outer wilds is beautiful
Thank you so much! Such a wonderful game!
It IS! Not much of a gamer but tried this one and the review is as beautiful as I found the game
I absolutely adore this video, you simply just describing the game's heartfelt moments was enough to feel like I played them too. I saved the video in a playlist! so hopefully in a few months, I'll be able to enjoy the games too. :) tysm for this fire video
Thank you so much for watching! I tried not to spoil too much of the games I really liked in the hopes that people could still get a special experience if they wanted to play for themselves. I hope that'll be true for you as well!
Wow you compiled lots of great video essays, wish this had more views
You could republish all of these videos separately, these must’ve been so much work that it deseves more recognition.
Thank you very much! I briefly thought about it, but in that case, a majority of my videos would be oversaturated by a bunch of gaming reviews. I'm happy with putting them all into the one video, but I was considering doing a one-off upload of my Kentucky Route Zero thoughts, because that was one of my favourites.
Ah, my favorite long haired white man thank you for your service and merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
At your service!
my good sir, huge fan of the video (especially the edith finch and outer wilds sections
I liked this video very much.
Got Journey for my non-gamer partner to play due to this video. I figured I wouldn't have been mind-blown by the co-op since I was spoiled, but now I lead my partner to a treasure I cannot possess. She thoroughly enjoyed the game.
But I digress, I just wanted to comment to increase the engagement on this video.
Thanks for the recommendation!
I'm super happy to hear that! I'm glad this video helped inspire you to give that experience to someone else! Thank you for watching and it's great to hear they enjoyed the game too!
HOW DOES THIS HAVE SO FEW LIKES??? You, my friend, are mysteriously slipping past the algorithm and I will not allow this to continue >:(.
this is my comfort video essay
Thank you so much for saying so! That's kind of what I wanted it to be from the beginning
If you’re into Journey, the same company made a game called Sky that you should check out! I was obsessed with it during the pandemic lol.
An excellent video. I started going through the whole psn library this year. I am halfway done, but i did beat Ashen. Hopefully there is a followup as more have been released and a whole slew still just announced
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Stray is the best game of all time.
Which of these games was your favorite? For me it was definitely What Remained of Edith Finch and Saynara Wild Hearts. I've never played any game like those, I love them
I included a full tier list for every game I played at the end, but my personal favourites were Outer Wilds (DLC included), Sayonara Wild Hearts, and The Pathless. This video added a majority to my total number of games played in life, so I got a lot of amazing experiences! Edith Finch was really cool as well. I'm excited to see what Giant Sparrow come out with next!
@@Jexonite What would you say is the overall Vibe of Anaperna games ? What are themes and ideas that they attract and go for? I've only played two or three but based on your recaps it seems like they like games that value unique gameplay and personal introspective ideas.
That's a tricky question, because while I do believe they publish games based on unique gameplay mechanics and intriguing premises, I find a through-thread of emotionality at the forefront of a lot of their picks. They're consistent in delivering fun games to play but also less intense ones for emotional exploration. They've got a game coming out next year about surviving in the wilds with DINOSAURS, and a fighting game about confronting ex lovers, but also a game about a mother and daughter taking a road trip to uncover a mysterious past. Games are made by their respective developers, all of who have different stories they want to tell, and so the accumulation of Annapurna's catalog is rich with diversity, but a commonality between them all seems to be plights of the human condition. Outer Wilds tapped into existential dread, Sayonara Wild Hearts also reflected on love, Kentucky Route Zero was about a whole bunch of stuff, but there’s also Neon White which is just a really fun speedrunning game, and Stray which is more or less just a cute cat game.
In my opinion, what makes AI’s catalog so special is the eclectic range of emotional resonance mixed in with unique and intriguing gameplay mechanics and presentations!
I apologize for the long response, but like I said, it’s a tricky question! I hope this somewhat answered it!
@@Jexonite That's cool I agree with you. I just looked up annapurna's Wikipedia and they said and they aim to publish games that are Original, Emotional, and Personal. So there you go 😉 overall I think it's good that they encourage development of games like those. More variety to the industry and less generic games that casual people will think of and more of ones that make you think
Solar Ash was a painful and arduous journey for me. It's not a bad game at all, but I struggled with the camera and the slippery motion of the character...So many instances of the camera moving to an unhelpful angle, hiding things from my view...seriously annoying. And since it's a "racing game", I couldn't fix the camera while racing against the clock.
i’m a little late to this, but i’m in the middle of attempting to unlock 100% of achievements in every Annapurna game, and this was super interesting to watch as a precursor to that! i’m currently at 8 done with another 4 in my library, hoping what happened to you with that last achievement in The Pathless won’t also happen to me😅
That sounds like quite the endeavour, but also a lot of fun! My advice would be to get every achievement on the same save file in The Pathless without reverting back to a previous save. For the final achievement, I'm guessing it doesn't activate through steam, but instead the game verifies it when everything has been completed on the same save.
Question for YOU though: What's been your favourite game so far in that list to 100%?
@@Jexonite got it, thanks for the tip.
my favorite so far has been Neon White (it’s my favorite game of all time lol), but i’ve been pleasantly surprised by most of these games which is why i decided to 100% all of them haha. Sayonara Wild Hearts and Solar Ash were also really really good
@@pmLite_ Great pick! I don't really have the gamer tenacity to complete Neon White's gauntlet of achievements, but I did get the true ending and got ace medals on about half the courses. Really fun game!
I also really like how SWH does its achievement system, even though I did just end up googling what some of the answers were.
@@Jexonite very fair, i spent about a month playing nothing but Neon White when it first came out so i ended up getting the achievements pretty quickly and at one point actually had a (very short-lived) world record on one stage! and i agree, the SWH achievement “clues” are cool too
I tried outer wilds and somehow I didn't like it. I'll give it another try then.. Abzu is not on the list? oh right it's on 505. Ashen for me should be at least A tier because I love dark souls series the only let down for ashen is the last boss, cheesed her because it's too unfair. I'm currently playing pathless and my jaw keep dropping because of the view, truly an S tier!
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