The Arcanist

Ok so
Good news: finally starting to see some actual progress with the Mario & Luigi Brothership script. I have a concrete idea whre I want tthe video to go and have written at least something for like for most sections.
Bad news: there's still a decent way to go.

Keep in mind BiS is in my top 3 Mario RPGs, I can roast it as much as I want to.

Can't believe the hottest take in this damn Mario RPG video is that BIS is lowkey carried by Bowser and Fawful being as execellently handled as they were, and the game wouldn't be in competition for the title of best Mario RPG if it wasn't for that.

I aspire to bee the latter tbh.

I like he game a lot, but I just don't think I have much to add.

2,5 to 3 hour still goes but anything longer than that easily takes me out unless its either by a channel that has really good stuff or its ttopic seems interesting enough.

Hot take: the ideal length for a video essay is anywhere between 45 min and two hours long.

There are two types of video essayists: you either make a video about Hollow Knight or you have ton o f allusions of Hollow knightt but never make a video about hollow knightt

Man this was really hard. The first two was extremely easy to figure out given they're pretty much my main inspirations (Skyehoppers especially, probably my favorite videogame analysis youtuber who I admire both structure, content and production wise) but beyond that it was difficult to narrow down.

One of these things is not like the others.

Fellow YouTubers, name the four biggest inspirations for your channel (alt text has channel names)

me: wow, truly nothing actually matters. why bother?

japanese bunny account: mimi-chan is very fat and slept all day. let's do our best, mikata!

me, tearing up: let's do our best, mimi-chan.

Like it kinda went to tthe point where I feltt I wasn't able to make videos unless they fit to the larger "story arc" and "themes" I wanted to do so I just kinda gave up on it.

Honestly at one point I wanted to have deep lore on my channel (or at the very least having a sort of kayfabe where my video essayistt "sona" was her own character instead of being just an extension of me) but I realized that would kinda pidgeon hole my content so I kinda gave up on that.

This will mean that sadly I have to postpone the brothership video again 😔
is just such an ambtious beast of an video and given how much of a struggle it is (not to mention how busy i am) I need to take a break.

I will def at least trying to play the game(s) to see if I end up enjoying them enough to talk about it.

Heck I may combine it with another game or two to talk about the Larger Thesis I want to bring up in thatt video but hm.

That said I do think it is feasable given the game(s) I'd cover are relatively short. That said I haven't played either of the games so I wonder if they'd fit my larger point or if I even like or end up having that much to say about them after everything is said and done.

I do have One Idea I could do for halloween but it'd require me to play a game and while I am not opposed to that I tend to be ratther slow iwth games so. hm.

I feel opinion pieces are the easiest to make but also I don't like making opinon pieces that much.

I'm the kind of obnoxious video essayist who needs everything to have a PointTM soo.

ngl with all the big projects I'm working on I kinda want to do a smaller project to keep both myself and you, dear viewers satisfied while I chip these behemoths.

The question raises though, what?

Been messing around with the idea of rendering out a full play-through of Kid Icarus Uprising with the portraits and text edited onto the top screen so it can be enjoyed as a single screen experience.
It would take forever and my channel isn't monetized so not really sure tho...

The videos TLDR: Im excied for he game it looks interesting and im tired that people are going to bitch on it for the sole fact its set in the same universe as fe3h (as if that wasn't a good thing lol)

It will come ASAP I am so annoying

yes i plan to make a video on Fortunes Weave ASAP. I know I should upload the web of shadows video first (and I probably will) but you guysss do not understand how excited i am about htis.

Anyways h. How about the new . uh nintendo direct uh .

Understandable that Steam crashed when there are so many rabid fans of Everybody's Golf

That said IF I watch this I have to do research by watching a bunch of shows belonging to a genre I'm not exactly a big fan of so, that will be fun.

Like there have been so many times when I looked at a game, went "oh i bet someone has made a quirky little video essay or retrospective of this thing" only to find out thatt they haven't

The other problem is once again my fear that someone has already made a retrospective on this series. Wouldn't be surprised since it's such a "video essay retrospective bait" topic but at the same time such topics may not always have videos soo.

YouTube video by Cybershell YO HOMIE, PEEP THIS!!!

Come listen to me talk about Tempo

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