So the Owlks are now going to be "the Hoot Hoot Men" to me forever, thankyou for that 🤣 What a complete and detailed retrospective, as someone who came to the game late and has devoured every other scrap of essay content on this game that KZbin has to offer, you've made my Christmas 💖

Absolutely fantastic video. Really. When you stumble across a video essay with 400 views and a channel with 1k subscribers, you normally don't expect much, if nothing else just because the editing is usually so-so. Which is understandable - editing is hard and takes time, effort, and skill many small creators don't have. But this was a phenomenal video, by any standard. Over an hour of video essay with b-roll at every step. That's really impressive. And of course the analysis was great. What you said for outer wilds applies for this too - you can really see in all the details that this is a labor of love. A lot of channels don't have that. Kudos for this fantastic video. (Sorry if that was a bit much :P I just really want to encourage someone doing something so cool!)

Great review and analyses!!! ::)) And yes, it is a Masterpiece game in many aspects. About DLC "flaws" - not all puzzles are built in lore, but I found to myself some explanations for them. Maybe existed 2 factions: followers of the Prisoner (or Society of Burned Reels) and Secret Police. And followers tried several times to escape the Prisoner, but Police always prevented to finish that. 1st try - followers found were codes are in Real World and remain a vision how to find them. Police destroy real copies of the codes. 2nd try - followers found "body-cam" memories of how secret police hides digital copies of codes and put reels in Real World. Police convert this places to deadly traps and destroy digital codes. 3rd try - followers remain in Glitches reels and code to Signal Blocker Control. Police destroy all Controls on a Stranger or disable them.

Awesome video man, I'm seriously surprised you don't have more subscribers. Silly jokes, interesting topic and analysis, a JoJo reference. This video truly does it all.

Fantastic video! I can tell a whole lot of time went into editing this together, great job! Thanks for including me in it, and you definitely deserve a ton more subscribers with this quality, I hope you get there! ::D

Anyone getting upset over an NPC death can just go back to Skyrim. The whole point of this game is realistic world responses. You watched someone die, they’re dead. No more merchant, no more quests no more dialogue. I just wish it was done more and better in other areas of the game

Thank you SO MUCH for getting the Hearthians' genders/pronouns (mostly) correct. ❤ An often overlooked and vital aspect to the game is that the Hearthians are all non-binary. They understand the concept of gender, and may even have different sexes, but as a society they've moved beyond gender as being a defining part of oneself. This is such an important thing that the developers went to great lengths to ensure that this aspect was present in every language the game was translated into (which isn't easy!) What I find amusing is that, even though the Hearthians exclusively use they/them pronouns in speech, people seem to be blind to that and impose their own ideas of gender onto the characters. :O Going through the game an additional time with this understanding adds a whole new layer of depth and understanding and nuance to everything. :D Edit: It's nearly impossible to find a video that discusses this game or that's a playthrough of it that actually notices this. :O

I’m about 30 hours in. There’s micro transactions? I got it on sale on suggestion from a friend that loved the first. While it has some of the worst dialogue writing and voice acting I’ve heard in my entire life (with amazing performances mixed in) and the single worst story I’ve ever seen in my life but gameplay that is easily worth dealing with the rest.

Holy cow this was an amazing video!! I expected at least some rough edges from a 1k sub channel but nah, crazy quality. Also surprisingly hilarious lol. Thanks for giving me one more great Outer Wilds video essay! My favorite game ever made

Wonderful video! ❤ Outer Wilds is one the best games, (if not the best) I have ever played. Unfortunately we will never be able to experience it for the first time again. So the next best thing: Watching other people analyze and play the game. 😊

Can you make a video on Void Stranger sometime soon? It’s a niche indie and I think you might like it.

Why was alpha giants deep so terrifying

Never to early to appreciate an Outer Wilds video

My problem was on how batman died, he should have died in a heroic way, like a sacrifice or something, not that cheap way

This game was unjustifiably torn down

Before I have watched the video, after having played and platinumed this game I can absolutely say yes, can it be obtuse yes, is some of the design a little assinying yes, but the moment you shoot a griffon out of the air with a blast arrow with meteor shot, you just know your playing something truly special, I prefer the first game over the second

Half of the issues people have are either there own fault or they didn’t pay attention to the marketing or dev statements. I’ve seen so many people say they don’t like it cuz it’s too similar to the first game. The devs litterally said it wasn’t a sequel. It’s the version of the first game they WANTED to make. And it’s such an improvement over the first game in litterally every single way. Anyone saying otherwise is looking at the first through rose tinted glasses. The first was great but in modern day it’s got some serious issues. The story is DD2 isn’t bad or rushed at all. It FEELS that way if you just rush through the main story but that’s not the correct way to play the game. You’re supposed to really immerse yourself in the world and if you do there are no other games that do what DD2 does. A lot of people complain about things like the fast travel and if that’s a deal breaker for you then simply put this isn’t the game for you. This game isn’t an immersive sim but it’s extremely similar. The first game also had some crazy balancing issues with some vocations being hot trash and some being the unofficial one easy mode. DD2 vocations are ALL viable even solo.

All roads lead to Gran Soren

Do you still have to fuckin play the game to end with a vocation you need to make the other vocation actually usefull, or can I start the game and switch without all the beat the game on a class you really don't want.

So in regard to magic ult spells your a mage not close range first of all. Second the big spells have a unique mechanic where if 1 person is casting the spell other sorcers if they start casting start casting at the first persons completion rate

Performance wise the game is in a way better state at the moment. Just did a playthrough and had no issues on PC. Overall this game i pretty good, but I can´t help but feel that many of the quests very rushed, wich is a shame because it had the bones of a really great RPG.

If it’s on sale is it worth it?

I'm sorry, but if anything your review is soulless

I’m sorry how could you only have a thousand subscribers?

yes

so it's all basically this: in the end of DD1 we killed ourself as seneschal, leaving the throne empty. one day, an arisen named Rothais came, found no one. He became seneschal. But since no one there to guide him (like Savan did to us), he doesn't understand what being seneschal means to do. So Rothais left the throne, went back to earth and became king. Pathfinder saw that the position of seneschal is not empty, BUT THERES NOBODY IN THE SENESCHAL THRONE! despite the seneschal status has been filled with somebody. So, Pathfinder tried to take the seneschal's job and created the world. Unfortunately, he created a messed up world which is DD2. Pathfinder then tryna to erase the world (like the situation we see in post game DD2) But Pathfinder was already looking for someone with a will big enough to stop the erasing, which is us player of DD2. Pathfinder tested us thru the "normal" world if we are ready to face THE TRUTH. And thats it, the tragic story of Dragon's Dogma. Anyone below The Watcher are just A PAWN. 1. The Great Will (Maker of Universes) 2. The Wathcer 3. The Pathfinder 4. Seneschal 5. Arisen 6. Pawn 7. Regular human 8. Human's artificial intelegence/robot. Robot is pawn to human, Pawn is pawn to Arisen, Arisen and human are pawn to seneschal, seneschal is pawn to pathfinder, pathfinder is pawn to The Watcher, The Watcher is pawn to THE GREAT WILL.

wait what?, i got my mystic spear on early game on herve , meet the npc fight saurian then i got my mystical spear

Y'all are stupid if you ever thought this game was bad

This game is UTTERLY GARBAGE and it represents the state Ubiwank is currently in perfectly!

The woke thing. I feel like there are people in the industry that push their agendas but i really don't think it's as many as some call out. I mean i notice if anything has a gay character, black woman or latino as a playable character or even an important NPC it gets called out for being woke. Which i personally don't consider that to qualify as agenda pushing. Now if the game was beating you over the head that straight people or white people are absolutely evil and being gay makes you more special than everyone than yeah that's pretty woke not to mention stupid af as a business move. Just alienate most your audience for your personal beliefs and get mad when hardly buys your game, they just made their bed but don't want to sleep in it which says more about their mental state than it does we the people. I'm glad you're not one of them that tried to cancel this game! This was a good video! Great job! Glad it doesn't have an egregious amount of mini games! Idc. They are. Not. Fun. We are not having. Fun. Nomura! Lol

I think the general feeling of DD2 is that isn't bad but could have been something way better

Unfortunately the only way I found joy playing sorcerer in the endgame (mostly BBI) was to be one alongside another pawn (usually my main), so we could have that symbiotic casting, and that was fun.

I give this game 7 out of 10. Not perfect but enjoyable

I understand a lot of criticism but i honestly think the backlash to this game is way out of line, its a beautiful game with a lot of things to explore and do, there is nothing wrong with the game just because its not an out of the park home run, teams of people spent years to make this artitstic masterpiece of a star wars game(my opinion, stfu), and we need to recognize the efforr put into games more instead of "oh no, the big game company made a game and it doesnt play the way i wanted it to" honestly if you guys are that salty just make it yourself

Even gollum is a better stealth game.

The streamlining of the vocations and the streamlining of the armor system very much harm the game imo. Honestly, I would go without the new vocations if we kept all the old vocations and weapon combos. I remember being excited to have all the old vocations plus some new ones for the things that were missing. But instead they cut down the vocations while adding some new ones that I don't want to use. You also have less skill slots you can equip. And not giving you access to all the vocations in the beginning sucks.. their reason for streamlining the armors is to add more variation in looks.. but instead there are far less options due to the limitations.

I would like if vocation determined your main story companions quests and some gear.

The world needed more anti-Star Wars grifters. Thanks for your service, little CHUD.

i see a lot of thumbnails with woke in it...but this is woke just because she's flat chested? sheesh

Homosexuality's literally the worst form of sexism, so it makes sense you hate this game.

Boring female character. There's a reason female games are made to be hot. It helps sell a game. They can be over the top like Quiet who's only reason in the game was to run around half naked. Or they could be a girl next door look Aloy hot but not over the top. Lara Croft. There was a reason she got hotter with each game. It helped sell the game. This character has zero of anything. Trying to make her a character that no even a guy who been in prison for 50 years and got out would want to f*ck was a mistake. Sex sells. Whether people like it or not. They made this character as a nothing and it shows no one cares or wants to play it.

Omg I thought he was hot too 😂😂😂😂Lol

I gave up on EA and Ubisoft over a decade ago. I couldn't believe it took everyone this long to notice. As soon as those tier pricing went up, I quit.

It's funny, for as much shit as EA gets (and it's all warranted) they've given us the best star wars games since Disney destroy...I mean bought Star wars. Never would I have thought EA would actually be the best home for the IP.

Damn you don't say there's issues whoa holy shit it's like we've never experienced this before😂

Wow I'm so sorry you had such a bad experience I haven't I've had a really good one I guess your luck suck shit

25:57 No way you're actually Dutch? I'm really sorry but you got some sort of Balkan accent, I never expected that lol Of je kan Belgisch zijn... Ik heb geen flauw idee hoe een Belgisch accent in het Engels klinkt x3

Nope it's Brilliant ... totally disagree stop spreading the poison just for views! 🤪

Thank you for listing the music you used