Oddly, something that has always haunted me is not a physical object. It's a name. When I was in Kintergarten, I was friends with a boy by the name of Jacob. He was incredibly inpactful in my life, despite moving away before the year ended. Since then, I have met two other Jacobs. One was the older brother of an ex-friend, and the latter is a current permanent fixation in my life who helped me flesh out parts of my identity and has been a rock for me in hard times of transition.
"The art is personal, and wants to be personal with it's viewer; it craves interaction and over time has learned to demand that." What a gorgeous look at art in a medium that is allowed to make those demands, in a game that can crave and keep a viewer's attention so actively and intimately through surrendering control to the person appreciating it, in a medium that has only become ever more so since Ib's release. This essay is lovely and super heartfelt, I love it !
Haunted art galleries are an amazing location for a psychological horror game, especially when art is so subjective. I've not played Ib, but now I really want to!
I really want to write something based around a gallery! One day I'll get around to it....if I manage to stop getting distracted by other shiny project ideas. But yeah, I left a link to the download page for the game and there's several mirrors on there too if the original isn't working. Have fun!
Are you just going to talk about every game that shaped my teenage years? Ib was my very first RPGmaker horror experience, so it will always have a soft spot in my heart.
Niche horror teen yeaaaaaars! You must have good taste ^.^ I used to see loads of people actively talking about and making art of RPGmaker stuff online but I never found anyone irl into it but my best friend listened to me ramble a lot hahaha. She even made me a painting of Ib's rose once for my birthday!
Hell yeah saame! I even wrote a whole essay on Yume Nikki once, and it didn't go too well. Also technically I think I found of .flow before Ib, but that was just a tvtropes page that I couldn't find again until I found out that Yume Nikki also was a game.
i have an entire picnic box committed to my haunted objects. all of my broken glasses, a silvery bouncy ball that has degraded, and several other things.
My family has many hauntings, usually from daily items. People had favorite cutlery or hated ones, favorite plates and each seat at the table almost has a name tag. I'm sure I'll also have my hauntings in the forms of the colorful towels I like to use. Many times a haunting isn't even an item, but behaviors. Every time I make noodles I think of two different friends of mine, one who taught me how to make noodles and the other who gave me countless noodle recipes to eat when there's not much available. I am a puzzle of a person, compromised of behaviors taught from friends and foes alike. I love that
That's wonderful! I'm similar with the recipes as a friend taught me to cook so the smell of chorizo frying always reminds me of them. Also I love when you start hanging out with someone new and you pass on little bits of body language or phrases to each other. I couldn't have phrased the "puzzle of a person" better myself 💛
Man your choice of soundtrack to accentuate certain parts of the essay were really smart. I mean there's a lot to say I just. MAN. The umineko bit....so much of it.... I think something that this essay really speaks to is just....the idea of the artist wanting to be remembered as a human, not a legend. In many ways art is eternal, but it doesn't necessarily stick around in the minds of many who see it, even famous works of art. It might move some, but it never really exists beyond that. The gallery is fucking haunted. It's desperate to make an impact, desperate to leave behind a legacy in the way only a human can. It wants to become human to recapture what was lost, only for its desperate pleas to be largely forgotten, wiped out, as soon as they've left its clutches. The only glimpse of Guertena one can get is in the bonus dungeon with his self portrait, which is of him painting, even though he made no self-portraits in life. All that there is of him is the works he's left behind. All that's left of him is his repertoire, his reputation as the artist, desperate to be remembered as the man who created them. All in all I kinda think its a neat way of illustrating the conflict an artist may have with creation. You want to make art, you want it to be remembered, but you also hope that in some way, you the artist have connected with the people who view it, a dream that's kinda eternally fruitless. Deeply sorry for going off on your essay I just really liked it
Definitely don't apologise! I'm really really happy you liked it! Sakutaro definitely has a fan club here ^.^ I was considering not putting that in because it felt so self-indulgent but I couldn't resist after my magic tangent- glad I did! The idea that art just inevitably gets lost to time always makes me sad. I mean, sure these days you can google a particular piece you want to see rather than gallery hunting but that's only for famous pieces that you already know to look for. My favourite things are the ones that surprise me by doing something I'd never have thought to look for but that I'll always search for after experiencing them I think. That sounds kinda pretentious but it's true hahaha. How do you find something you've never even realised could be? Ooh! Also the fact that people have always been, and will always be people. Sure we have loads of preserved art and literature and science but we also have little bits of graffiti saying things like "Aufidius was here" or paw prints in pottery and tiles from helpful pets that, heck, we fired and used anyway because it was cute. People always leave traces of themselves in the way they live their lives, the habits they spread, the stories they share...and the graffiti they scribble on the brothels in Pompeii. I just love that. We want to remember and be remembered and circle through time.
@@HoneyBat Yeah! I think people always try to hard to be remembered as themselves, and Ib really just kinda illustrates the tragedy of that. Even legends we still study and talk about, those who are famous, are like deified. They're displayed and examined like the artwork, as an extension of it. With this kind of context it becomes really SAD that the only way the gallery can recreate Guertena as a person is by making a featureless man without a face holding a paintbrush, like he'll never be anything beyond what he's made, regardless of how desperately the gallery tries to remake itself into a human. Man creates art and art struggles to recreate the man.
Just came across this video while doing my regular search for new Yume Nikki content, and boy am I glad I did! This is fantastic. I just went back and watched your Cat Lady video as well (though I never did get around to finishing that game, actually). Your writing, voice over, and editing are excellent, and your work deserves more eyes on it. Yume Nikki, Ao Oni, and The Witch's House were more my speed back in the day but the depth and art of Ib have always fascinated me. This essay is so thoughtful and well fleshed-out in how it explores that depth. Please keep up the good work - it's a very welcome breath of fresh air!
Hi hi! Wow, thank you so much for your kind words!! I'm not the most technically minded person but I hope the ideas in the video make up for it somewhat haha. I LOVED The Witch's House and Yume Nikki too but I never actually got around to Ao Oni. I remember staying up half the night back in school trying to get a no save run on TWH to get the true end, armed with only coffee and determination. .flow will always be my baby though, it's a peak comfort game to me. A nice homey void ^.^
@@HoneyBat Most definitely. Thank you for the quality analysis and video! I really look forward to anything else you have in the works! Oh, you're way braver than me trying to finish TWH like that. Haha. That must have been tough. Ao Oni is a strange one, given that it feels kind of like the odd game out (since all the others we both mentioned are more atmospheric and less...murder-y?). .flow is great too, though admittedly I was playing that one when Rust was still updating it. As a result, I never actually finished it. Oops. Haha. Thanks again! Keep up the good work!
I am first a guitar player and so i spend a lot of time with the few i own. I have played them so much that if anyone else picks them up or plays them, they dont look right. I never had a hand in any of the creations of the guitars i play, but they have become so much of a part of me, that itd be nearly impossible to have anyone else try to own them. Similarly, i also wear a necklace that i made myself that haunts me. For it carries charms that represent big parts of my life. Ill have it till the day i die, no matter how many times i have to repair it or get new charms to replace the old ones. Itll always be with me, just like instruments
So I'm not finished this video yet (but I am loving it so far) and I appreciate the use of umineko music and the sakutaro plush when talking about "magic" it's a nice touch!
Thank you!! I was thinking about Maria and Erika's fights over magic candy when I was writing that section so it felt natural to use umineko music. I am DEFINITELY due a reread mind you as it's been maybe 9 years? oof, the passage of time... so many people that have found my content seem to also be fans of umineko as well?! I've never been very interactive in any sort of fandom spaces, I'm a happy lurker, so I didn't really expect this many people to notice as I have no gauge on how big the fan community is hahaha. I put in a bunch of music from things I happen to like that fit the mood or remind me of bits from those other games but it's always so cool seeing people go hey! I recognise the thing! I love finding little bits and pieces in other people's work so it's cool seeing that happen in mine now ^.^
I only played this recently, but I felt sure it would stick with me and I wasn't sure why. You have a wonderful way with words, and have managed to articulate it perfectly. Thank you!
That's really kind of you to say, thank you! This one's been rattling around my head for a decade now. I kind of want to make a plushie of the little blue dolls? I swear I saw a pattern someone had made on tumblr a few years ago!
I really love games that put you into the shoes of the character you are playing, and I really appreciated your commentary on the game and characters. While I am probably a bit too afraid to play the game myself, I find that as a person who tends to have trouble reading certain cues while other things are immediately apparent to me that are not to most others, it is truly a treat to be able to play a game that allows you to view different points of views as you play different characters.
I love that you can only read what information Ib can, it's such a good way to set up her perspective and obscure information from the audience in a believable way! Anything with an unreliable narrator is like my catnip but with Ib it's far more you're just a kid, you don't know what the complicated art titles mean and it's just great! I love RPGs that encourage you to look at things differently without, idk, hamfisting it. Also Ib's a really good way in to horror! It was one of my first (I have always been a scaredy cat but fascinated by horror anyways) but Ib's largely dependent on atmosphere and is only about 3 hours long and it's free so if you don't like it there's nothing lost haha
Hiii! I found your channel after looking for blood borne analyses and now that my schedule has cleared up, I’ve queued up a bunch of your other vids. They’re so well made and I thoroughly enjoyed listening :) Lovely to get to see some of my favorite older games also get some appreciation
It's also interesting that most of what we see in the game is not in the real gallery. Maybe it's locked in an storage somewhere, gathering dust. Or it's been lodt to time. Including Mary of course.
I know this is a pretty old video, but I just wanted to let you know that I’m very surprised that you managed to put three of my fave medias ever into one video (Ib, Umineko, Haunting off hill house). I think this is by far one of my fave analysises on Ib that I’ve seen and I’m so happy that you talked about the gallery as an entity and went in depth with analysing it!! The section on the line between reality and fantasy was particluary well done and the comparison to Umineko was one I’ve never considered for this game Once again, I know it’s an older video lmao but if you ever end up making a video on Umineko I would love to see it!! ^^
Hey there I discovered your channel today and I'm really impressed. Not too familiar with Ib but The Cat Lady is one of my favorite games too! I hope you keep making more videos. I wanted to ask in both the TCL and this I think I noticed certain music tracks from a game called umineko, are you familiar with it? edit: WAIT i JUST saw the sakutaro plush I guess that answers that lmao.
Hi hi! Yep, I love Umineko! After much rambling about it to my friends I've actually convinced a couple of them to read it, two of us are semi watching another read it for the first time and it's been really fun seeing their thoughts form ^.^ though, I'm probably due a reread as I actually read the whole thing maybe 9 years ago now? Since then I've reread bits and pieces but I think it's about time to go back through it as I've probably changed a lot as a person too. Also Maria hurts my soul and I would die for her, also Sakutaro, Dlanor and Ange are my particular faves ^.^
@@HoneyBat Awesome , I reread it after around 9 years myself. I was a young teen back then and it definitely gives you a new perspective I think it's a story that you can always pick out something new from. Glad to stumble across an umi fan, I'm excited to see your channel grow. The 3 videos you have right now are some of the best video game video essays I've watched!
There are 2 mugs in my house that I am kind of jelous of. One was gave to me by may best friend an year before high school (her and I are about 25 years old now) we still have contact, but less the everyday one in school. The other I gave to my father at fathers day, when my family move countrys I stayed to finish university (I am getting my degree next mounth, but I was at the secund year when they left), he forgot the mug when they were packing their things. I don't think I could trought those way. (Sorry for any bad spelling, english is not my first language)
Oh you have NO IDEA how deep my love for Rule of Runs runs. It's been a special interest of mine for over a decade now. I do want to do something on it for sure but I have no idea how to do that without dumping like a 6 hour video (and I would do this with enthusiasm too, it would eat my life for months). Maybe when I've found a good focus for it and the channel has grown a bit. Anything filled with fairy tale motifs, wonky time, unreliable narrators, tragedy, chaotic orphans, power games... it's my catnip.
I'll get around to watching this eventually. I love RPG Maker games, and I have played almost all of the big ones. But, Ib is one of the few that I haven't gotten around to playing yet. But, I'm sure you say very thoughtful things about it, but I'll be interested to hear your thoughts without spoilers
Be warned this video is full of spoilers!! Honestly can't remember if I put a warning but if not I'm gonna add it to the desc now! It only takes about 3 hours to play and it's definitely well worth it ^.^ I've gotta check out some of the more recent rpg maker things tbh, I have a list and then forget I have a list but Ib's one of my favourites! Comes a close second to .flow but that doesn't exactly have a plot.... Spent hours vibing with that one ^.^
@@HoneyBat Yeah, I figured it would be. I guess I could have been clearer, that I am going to wait on watching this video for now until I get the chance to play the game and then I will be coming back to it
Phew, I thought that's what you meant but wasn't totally sure so thought I'd better make sure you knew! But yeah this'll be here whenever, and you get to enjoy a whole new game, what's not to like? ^.^
Oddly, something that has always haunted me is not a physical object. It's a name. When I was in Kintergarten, I was friends with a boy by the name of Jacob. He was incredibly inpactful in my life, despite moving away before the year ended. Since then, I have met two other Jacobs. One was the older brother of an ex-friend, and the latter is a current permanent fixation in my life who helped me flesh out parts of my identity and has been a rock for me in hard times of transition.
That's so lovely!! I'm glad you've always got a Jacob looking out for you 💛
"The art is personal, and wants to be personal with it's viewer; it craves interaction and over time has learned to demand that."
What a gorgeous look at art in a medium that is allowed to make those demands, in a game that can crave and keep a viewer's attention so actively and intimately through surrendering control to the person appreciating it, in a medium that has only become ever more so since Ib's release. This essay is lovely and super heartfelt, I love it !
Haunted art galleries are an amazing location for a psychological horror game, especially when art is so subjective. I've not played Ib, but now I really want to!
I really want to write something based around a gallery! One day I'll get around to it....if I manage to stop getting distracted by other shiny project ideas. But yeah, I left a link to the download page for the game and there's several mirrors on there too if the original isn't working. Have fun!
Are you just going to talk about every game that shaped my teenage years? Ib was my very first RPGmaker horror experience, so it will always have a soft spot in my heart.
Niche horror teen yeaaaaaars! You must have good taste ^.^ I used to see loads of people actively talking about and making art of RPGmaker stuff online but I never found anyone irl into it but my best friend listened to me ramble a lot hahaha. She even made me a painting of Ib's rose once for my birthday!
Hell yeah saame! I even wrote a whole essay on Yume Nikki once, and it didn't go too well.
Also technically I think I found of .flow before Ib, but that was just a tvtropes page that I couldn't find again until I found out that Yume Nikki also was a game.
i have an entire picnic box committed to my haunted objects. all of my broken glasses, a silvery bouncy ball that has degraded, and several other things.
My family has many hauntings, usually from daily items. People had favorite cutlery or hated ones, favorite plates and each seat at the table almost has a name tag. I'm sure I'll also have my hauntings in the forms of the colorful towels I like to use. Many times a haunting isn't even an item, but behaviors. Every time I make noodles I think of two different friends of mine, one who taught me how to make noodles and the other who gave me countless noodle recipes to eat when there's not much available. I am a puzzle of a person, compromised of behaviors taught from friends and foes alike. I love that
That's wonderful! I'm similar with the recipes as a friend taught me to cook so the smell of chorizo frying always reminds me of them. Also I love when you start hanging out with someone new and you pass on little bits of body language or phrases to each other. I couldn't have phrased the "puzzle of a person" better myself 💛
Ib holds a dear place in my heart. You did an excellent job at capturing its essence!!
Man your choice of soundtrack to accentuate certain parts of the essay were really smart. I mean there's a lot to say I just. MAN. The umineko bit....so much of it....
I think something that this essay really speaks to is just....the idea of the artist wanting to be remembered as a human, not a legend. In many ways art is eternal, but it doesn't necessarily stick around in the minds of many who see it, even famous works of art. It might move some, but it never really exists beyond that. The gallery is fucking haunted. It's desperate to make an impact, desperate to leave behind a legacy in the way only a human can. It wants to become human to recapture what was lost, only for its desperate pleas to be largely forgotten, wiped out, as soon as they've left its clutches.
The only glimpse of Guertena one can get is in the bonus dungeon with his self portrait, which is of him painting, even though he made no self-portraits in life. All that there is of him is the works he's left behind. All that's left of him is his repertoire, his reputation as the artist, desperate to be remembered as the man who created them.
All in all I kinda think its a neat way of illustrating the conflict an artist may have with creation. You want to make art, you want it to be remembered, but you also hope that in some way, you the artist have connected with the people who view it, a dream that's kinda eternally fruitless.
Deeply sorry for going off on your essay I just really liked it
Definitely don't apologise! I'm really really happy you liked it! Sakutaro definitely has a fan club here ^.^ I was considering not putting that in because it felt so self-indulgent but I couldn't resist after my magic tangent- glad I did!
The idea that art just inevitably gets lost to time always makes me sad. I mean, sure these days you can google a particular piece you want to see rather than gallery hunting but that's only for famous pieces that you already know to look for. My favourite things are the ones that surprise me by doing something I'd never have thought to look for but that I'll always search for after experiencing them I think. That sounds kinda pretentious but it's true hahaha. How do you find something you've never even realised could be?
Ooh! Also the fact that people have always been, and will always be people. Sure we have loads of preserved art and literature and science but we also have little bits of graffiti saying things like "Aufidius was here" or paw prints in pottery and tiles from helpful pets that, heck, we fired and used anyway because it was cute. People always leave traces of themselves in the way they live their lives, the habits they spread, the stories they share...and the graffiti they scribble on the brothels in Pompeii. I just love that. We want to remember and be remembered and circle through time.
@@HoneyBat Yeah! I think people always try to hard to be remembered as themselves, and Ib really just kinda illustrates the tragedy of that. Even legends we still study and talk about, those who are famous, are like deified. They're displayed and examined like the artwork, as an extension of it. With this kind of context it becomes really SAD that the only way the gallery can recreate Guertena as a person is by making a featureless man without a face holding a paintbrush, like he'll never be anything beyond what he's made, regardless of how desperately the gallery tries to remake itself into a human. Man creates art and art struggles to recreate the man.
Your voice is so soothing!! thank you for this video!!
Thank you!! That's really sweet of you, I'm glad you enjoyed it ^.^
Just came across this video while doing my regular search for new Yume Nikki content, and boy am I glad I did! This is fantastic. I just went back and watched your Cat Lady video as well (though I never did get around to finishing that game, actually). Your writing, voice over, and editing are excellent, and your work deserves more eyes on it.
Yume Nikki, Ao Oni, and The Witch's House were more my speed back in the day but the depth and art of Ib have always fascinated me. This essay is so thoughtful and well fleshed-out in how it explores that depth. Please keep up the good work - it's a very welcome breath of fresh air!
Hi hi! Wow, thank you so much for your kind words!! I'm not the most technically minded person but I hope the ideas in the video make up for it somewhat haha.
I LOVED The Witch's House and Yume Nikki too but I never actually got around to Ao Oni. I remember staying up half the night back in school trying to get a no save run on TWH to get the true end, armed with only coffee and determination. .flow will always be my baby though, it's a peak comfort game to me. A nice homey void ^.^
@@HoneyBat Most definitely. Thank you for the quality analysis and video! I really look forward to anything else you have in the works!
Oh, you're way braver than me trying to finish TWH like that. Haha. That must have been tough. Ao Oni is a strange one, given that it feels kind of like the odd game out (since all the others we both mentioned are more atmospheric and less...murder-y?). .flow is great too, though admittedly I was playing that one when Rust was still updating it. As a result, I never actually finished it. Oops. Haha.
Thanks again! Keep up the good work!
I am first a guitar player and so i spend a lot of time with the few i own. I have played them so much that if anyone else picks them up or plays them, they dont look right. I never had a hand in any of the creations of the guitars i play, but they have become so much of a part of me, that itd be nearly impossible to have anyone else try to own them. Similarly, i also wear a necklace that i made myself that haunts me. For it carries charms that represent big parts of my life. Ill have it till the day i die, no matter how many times i have to repair it or get new charms to replace the old ones. Itll always be with me, just like instruments
So I'm not finished this video yet (but I am loving it so far) and I appreciate the use of umineko music and the sakutaro plush when talking about "magic" it's a nice touch!
Thank you!! I was thinking about Maria and Erika's fights over magic candy when I was writing that section so it felt natural to use umineko music. I am DEFINITELY due a reread mind you as it's been maybe 9 years? oof, the passage of time...
so many people that have found my content seem to also be fans of umineko as well?! I've never been very interactive in any sort of fandom spaces, I'm a happy lurker, so I didn't really expect this many people to notice as I have no gauge on how big the fan community is hahaha. I put in a bunch of music from things I happen to like that fit the mood or remind me of bits from those other games but it's always so cool seeing people go hey! I recognise the thing! I love finding little bits and pieces in other people's work so it's cool seeing that happen in mine now ^.^
I only played this recently, but I felt sure it would stick with me and I wasn't sure why. You have a wonderful way with words, and have managed to articulate it perfectly. Thank you!
That's really kind of you to say, thank you! This one's been rattling around my head for a decade now. I kind of want to make a plushie of the little blue dolls? I swear I saw a pattern someone had made on tumblr a few years ago!
Umineko references give me life
I really love games that put you into the shoes of the character you are playing, and I really appreciated your commentary on the game and characters. While I am probably a bit too afraid to play the game myself, I find that as a person who tends to have trouble reading certain cues while other things are immediately apparent to me that are not to most others, it is truly a treat to be able to play a game that allows you to view different points of views as you play different characters.
I love that you can only read what information Ib can, it's such a good way to set up her perspective and obscure information from the audience in a believable way! Anything with an unreliable narrator is like my catnip but with Ib it's far more you're just a kid, you don't know what the complicated art titles mean and it's just great! I love RPGs that encourage you to look at things differently without, idk, hamfisting it.
Also Ib's a really good way in to horror! It was one of my first (I have always been a scaredy cat but fascinated by horror anyways) but Ib's largely dependent on atmosphere and is only about 3 hours long and it's free so if you don't like it there's nothing lost haha
Hiii! I found your channel after looking for blood borne analyses and now that my schedule has cleared up, I’ve queued up a bunch of your other vids.
They’re so well made and I thoroughly enjoyed listening :)
Lovely to get to see some of my favorite older games also get some appreciation
It's also interesting that most of what we see in the game is not in the real gallery. Maybe it's locked in an storage somewhere, gathering dust. Or it's been lodt to time. Including Mary of course.
playing the umineko music while talking about magic was BARBARIC
Nice i loved ib when i played back then and the cat lady is one of my favorite games. i wonder what game you will make a video next
keep the good job!
Thank you! I'm mulling over a few things right now but it's most likely gonna be horror hahaha. I'm glad you enjoyed it ^.^
I know this is a pretty old video, but I just wanted to let you know that I’m very surprised that you managed to put three of my fave medias ever into one video (Ib, Umineko, Haunting off hill house). I think this is by far one of my fave analysises on Ib that I’ve seen and I’m so happy that you talked about the gallery as an entity and went in depth with analysing it!! The section on the line between reality and fantasy was particluary well done and the comparison to Umineko was one I’ve never considered for this game
Once again, I know it’s an older video lmao but if you ever end up making a video on Umineko I would love to see it!! ^^
You hooked me with that Rule of Rose soundtrack
6:23 sakutarou 🥺
He's baby ✨🦁✨
Hey there I discovered your channel today and I'm really impressed. Not too familiar with Ib but The Cat Lady is one of my favorite games too! I hope you keep making more videos. I wanted to ask in both the TCL and this I think I noticed certain music tracks from a game called umineko, are you familiar with it?
edit: WAIT i JUST saw the sakutaro plush I guess that answers that lmao.
Hi hi! Yep, I love Umineko! After much rambling about it to my friends I've actually convinced a couple of them to read it, two of us are semi watching another read it for the first time and it's been really fun seeing their thoughts form ^.^ though, I'm probably due a reread as I actually read the whole thing maybe 9 years ago now? Since then I've reread bits and pieces but I think it's about time to go back through it as I've probably changed a lot as a person too. Also Maria hurts my soul and I would die for her, also Sakutaro, Dlanor and Ange are my particular faves ^.^
@@HoneyBat Awesome , I reread it after around 9 years myself. I was a young teen back then and it definitely gives you a new perspective I think it's a story that you can always pick out something new from. Glad to stumble across an umi fan, I'm excited to see your channel grow. The 3 videos you have right now are some of the best video game video essays I've watched!
There are 2 mugs in my house that I am kind of jelous of. One was gave to me by may best friend an year before high school (her and I are about 25 years old now) we still have contact, but less the everyday one in school. The other I gave to my father at fathers day, when my family move countrys I stayed to finish university (I am getting my degree next mounth, but I was at the secund year when they left), he forgot the mug when they were packing their things. I don't think I could trought those way.
(Sorry for any bad spelling, english is not my first language)
That's really nice ^.^ Just having those bits of past relationships to hold on to in the house that you can actually pick up and hold!
This video is a gem
Thanks!! Ib has been firmly stuck in my head for over a decade now, it's such an interesting little game ^.^
I recognize some of the music... Are you going to talk about Rule of Rose at some point?
Oh you have NO IDEA how deep my love for Rule of Runs runs. It's been a special interest of mine for over a decade now. I do want to do something on it for sure but I have no idea how to do that without dumping like a 6 hour video (and I would do this with enthusiasm too, it would eat my life for months).
Maybe when I've found a good focus for it and the channel has grown a bit. Anything filled with fairy tale motifs, wonky time, unreliable narrators, tragedy, chaotic orphans, power games... it's my catnip.
.flow liker immediate subscribe . i need that shirt
I'll get around to watching this eventually. I love RPG Maker games, and I have played almost all of the big ones. But, Ib is one of the few that I haven't gotten around to playing yet. But, I'm sure you say very thoughtful things about it, but I'll be interested to hear your thoughts without spoilers
Be warned this video is full of spoilers!! Honestly can't remember if I put a warning but if not I'm gonna add it to the desc now! It only takes about 3 hours to play and it's definitely well worth it ^.^
I've gotta check out some of the more recent rpg maker things tbh, I have a list and then forget I have a list but Ib's one of my favourites! Comes a close second to .flow but that doesn't exactly have a plot.... Spent hours vibing with that one ^.^
@@HoneyBat Yeah, I figured it would be. I guess I could have been clearer, that I am going to wait on watching this video for now until I get the chance to play the game and then I will be coming back to it
Phew, I thought that's what you meant but wasn't totally sure so thought I'd better make sure you knew! But yeah this'll be here whenever, and you get to enjoy a whole new game, what's not to like? ^.^
Does encountering your own ghost count?
Great video.
more content pls
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