Professor Bopper

Sadly, in June, I’ll still be unemployed but even more broke

So mad and sad I’m not playing Resident Evil 9 right now, but that’s okay, because I’ll have $70 in about 3 years

Fact: The hobby of most gamers is opinion having, not playing games

Cult of Takumi Route Finale — The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy ft. @SpeedyHawk Part 21 YouTube video by Professor Bopper

Finishing up the CoT route in The Hundred Line tonight! www.youtube.com/live/p8H46Fk...

That game begins and ends at Chris Redfield crashing a Black Ford Raptor truck through Ethan Winter’s front door

Is Dragon Quest III the Best Chunsoft Game? Part 3 YouTube video by Professor Bopper

Finally getting back to Dragon Quest III! youtube.com/live/Jt1xeqT...

Working on the Ultra Despair Girls video!

Do they use GenAI on Google Docs now because the blue squiggly line suggestions have gotten so unbelievably bad. The computer now insists that you break subject-verb agreement, tense, or to include nonsense phrases

YouTube video by Writing on Games The Forgotten Insanity of Downhill Domination

NEW VIDEO! Downhill Domination (PS2) feels, at times, like the Californication music video if it were made by Conner O'Malley. It's also a shockingly good, genuinely overlooked extreme sports game. Let's talk about it!

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Doin it right

Don't have a title set yet, but the 13 Sentinels video is about to come out on Patreon and YouTube Members!

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy ft. @SpeedyHawk Part 20 YouTube video by Professor Bopper

I'm playing some route of Hundred Line where Takumi has taken the aphrodisiac. Come watch! youtube.com/live/Xcn6ErM...

I hate this article title because it’s bait for me specifically as the guy who thinks Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour is not only the best Mario sports game but the best Mario game period

YouTube video by Professor Bopper What the Original Yakuza Games Do Better — Yakuza Retrospective Part 1

Brand new video is out! The first part of the Yakuza main series retrsoepctive is out now on YouTube! It covers the first two titles in the series! youtu.be/rLzDZ7oe4fE?...

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This post is so 2016. YouTubers get their opinions from YouTubers who got their opinions from YouTubers now. Get with the program

On its own, it’s probably my favorite Kiryu story, so much so that I want to put it above 0. But 0 really was that good and was the perfect Yakzua game

Yakuza 6 beaten

It’s honestly performing where I expected it to since it wasn’t pre-greased like Danganronpa in the algorithm, and it is providing good algo testing for the eventual supercut. But still! Can I have 1 million views in exchange for mid please?

Also because it's pretty challenging to keep motivation up for a long term project like the Yakuza Retrospective when you know the only version that has a chance to do well is the final 6 hour supercut that won't be up for a year

It sucks to see a video do poorly even when you know it's gonna do poorly because there's always that little part of your brain that thinks "what if this time?"

YouTube video by Writing on Games The Actual Best Games of 2025 Aren't What You Think

NEW VIDEO! Super timely bumper video on my favourite games of 2025. Only one of the games in the thumbnail makes the main list. A lot of talk of living a good life.

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I would love to see that video! It’s such a deep topic, and a lot of the real nitty gritty stuff is outside the scope of my retrospective. Make it!

Maybe haven't been looking hard enough, but I've seen shockingly few people actually dig into the cinematic influences the series draws from, which Bopper handily does here. Excellent watch as always.

Per point 3: YK3 released today. Any evaluation of the game’s quality is definitionally going to be bad, conclusory, reactionary, or just plain plagiarized from reviewers. The weakest possible approach to criticism is to criticize a game you haven’t played

Per 1 and 2: it was addressed in my third post; I think these are serious problems, but I do consider them separate from an evaluation of K3. Scummy industry behavior is always a concern, but it’s difficult to apply it to individual works as these are systemic problems, not the problems of YK3

For clarity: the Hamazaki casting and the delisting of the original are industry issues that are separate from any analysis of a game’s quality as a stand alone work

Ultimately, I suspect that the only long-lasting effect of criticizing the Hamazaki casting is that it reinforces the gamer desire to Complain and to find serious issues to justify the need to post. The overnight about face wrt the quality of the original Yakuza 3 is remarkable

The way people are talking about Kiwami 3, as in the game itself, on your screen, reinforces that developers should never take gameplay or story feedback from regular players and that remakes continue, almost axiomatically, to be bad for the medium, its players, and developers

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