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Alexander
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Yet another wannabe video essayist. However, not completely talentless. Channel: youtube.com/@AurumAlex64 Check out my work early: patreon.com/AurumAlex
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Nearly seven years later, Deltarune continues to be a triumph.

Equal parts clever, funny, and earnest, Deltarune is the rare game to remind us that the most worthwhile things in life lie just beyond ourselves.

I'm confident the game'll be able to stick the landing.

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DELTARUNE Is the Final DARK FOUNTAIN
YouTube video by AurumAlex
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Lillie is perhaps Pokémon's greatest achievement, a single character in games which demonstrate why this series is worth caring about.

I'm less fond of that bag she's always carrying around, though.

Sun and Moon almost manage to reconcile these two opinions.

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I Love Pokémon Sun and Moon?
YouTube video by AurumAlex
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Not that I disagree with Geller here, though!
See, I would go further and say the game is doing much worse than nostalgia parades.

The hostility with which Astro Bot paints its villains for taking Sony's IP underlines the same logic Nintendo uses to shut down fan projects or punish emulation; it is effectively an argument against public domain
I'm considering making a small, uh... not-so-nice video about the game along these lines, but it's still a solid game overall.
And the premise plays out like corporate paranoia.

The game is about thieves and pirates divesting Sony of its IPs, and you as the corporate mascot must return these IPs to their "rightful owner." It's the most cynical premise for a platformer I think I've ever seen.
I had a pretty good time with it. I think Astro Bot *itself* is my biggest hangup, actually. Like there isn't a "setting" of Astro Bot nor really a "character" of Astro Bot (in the way Spyro, or Sly Cooper, or Kirby have), and this game made me realize I value those things in my 3D platformer a lot
This was me with Astro Bot last year
I feel @aurumalex.bsky.social introduction in his Unwound Future video sum up my feelings on the mattere more or less.
I'm just inconsolable if I don't read the same information three different times before starting any video, so this is perfect for me
It can't even keep its story straight for three sentences. The game is about reuniting "fractured islands" but also about exploring "interconnected areas."

Those two things don't really go together? It's literally just PR advertising words masquerading as a summary.
The AI summaries YouTube places on my own videos are so full of nothing they couldn't possibly be useful to anyone. I'm assuming there's no way to disable this "feature."

The second one makes my Brothership video sound like a sponsored ad by Nintendo lol
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Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon turns 10 today!

It is, as of now, the most recent brand-new entry in the series! And to be truthful, I think that if it weren't for nostaliga for Explorers, Super might be my favorite entry.
I'm such a shill for the 3DS version. It has a lot of fun interpreting the visuals of the original and I love the new localization giving all the islands different accents
In DQ7, every island is isolated, blanketed in a shroud of darkness, painted by the same clouds and the same music. You try to help them out. Sometimes there's a happy ending, sometimes there isn't. You move onto the next island all the same.

I find the game almost melancholic. One of my favorites.
I'm joking, but I do also think there's an element in which DQ7 is always going to be a brutal game to get through no matter how much streamlining is done to it. It's just kinda baked into the formula of the game.

DQ7 makes rebuilding the world feel like WORK.
What's all this about "streamlining" DQ7 I'm reading? If it doesn't take 20 hours to get vocations and I'm not going through Providence's Mountaintop Tunnel five separate times, am I *really* playing DQ7?
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Nearly seven years later, Deltarune continues to be a triumph.

Equal parts clever, funny, and earnest, Deltarune is the rare game to remind us that the most worthwhile things in life lie just beyond ourselves.

I'm confident the game'll be able to stick the landing.

youtu.be/3GbJfhgCyfg
DELTARUNE Is the Final DARK FOUNTAIN
YouTube video by AurumAlex
youtu.be
Questions for those that have played Pokémon Sun and Moon: when you received Solgaleo/Lunala, what did you name it, if at all? Importantly, why?

Lastly, what did you end up doing with it?
Addendum! While playing through Brothership, there was one joke that reminded me of something else. It was the same joke, executed similarly, only I had a much different reaction. Why the difference? Is it simply because it happened in a game I wasn't fond of?

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Why Every Single Video Game Needs to Be Serious
YouTube video by AurumAlex
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Dr. Who is like the one sci-fi franchise I have had almost no engagement with, I don't really know why.

If I ever did a video on something TV, it would probably be Stargate: Atlantis. I'm definitely that show's biggest hater and it needs to be taken down a peg lol
I've thought about it, but my knowledge of both mediums is way more limited than video games, plus it's not likely to pull much viewership due to the nature of my channel.

If I do decide to do it, it won't be for a long time.
Picard became a great captain because he uses the trauma of his mother's suicide to help others, and he shouldn't have wanted this to end differently.

As much as Picard S3 pains me on principle, I have to admit there are few seasons of TV worse than the one where Picard gets run over by a Tesla.
The season revolves around an incredibly crass mystery-box wherein the reveal is that Picard saw his mother hang herself after being locked away alone in a bedroom "for her own safety" (which the show endorses!) because apparently mental health services don't exist in the utopian 24th century.

WTF.
a man sitting in a chair with the words does that bother you in any way below him
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Sometimes I remember they made an entire season of Star Trek textually about how suffering is not only inevitable, but actually a prerequisite for greatness.

To that end, nearly every single character in the show is centrally defined by a single traumatic moment.
a man with gray hair and a beard says we 're all hostages to what we love
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Though Unwound Future is far from the last Professor Layton game they would ever make, it has still retained its reputation as the series' high point within broader conversation.

Let's just say it has held onto this position for good reason.

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Why Unwound Future is Not-So-Secretly the Best Layton Game
YouTube video by AurumAlex
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Treasure Planet was one of my favorites. I also remember a chapter in Kid Icarus: Uprising that had you board a space-pirate ship, which I really liked.

If we're all in space ships, why not space pirates? (Although I think the ones in Wiz are actually not from space, but it's close enough)