Yeah...long time on my list and still never played

That would be sick

It ended just fine

Would love to see another with a whole different crew

I enjoyed it, but it's not a favorite. I did love learning a bit about Strange Academy, though.

Ok well this one is good

Lol yeah

See I do like that stuff and wanted more of it here

Tell your friends!

Literally never met a soul who has been there, but I know they're successful! I went shortly after they opened, and it was also my first escape room. We got stuck on literally the last puzzle or we would have had record time. It was incredible. Really spoiled myself.

I think you'll really enjoy Tunic, honestly. Its puzzles worked more for me and the navigation of that world was not frustrating to me. I know a lot of people disliked that it required combat to get through but that was not an issue for me.

Or they're sometimes a way to enjoy a game. Thinking of a video game as a financial transaction is a really reductive way to view a piece of art.

@@MattHorton It can be both at the same time. Would you buy a piece of art and then let someone else tell you what it looked like instead of finding out for yourself? Guides take away the sense of wonder and accomplishment I get from games. I would never disparage another person for using a guide, but I would also never use one myself unless I was the one that made the guide in a previous playthrough.

@@jaymo7703 "Would you buy a piece of art and then let someone else tell you what it looked like" - this isn't an equivalent comparison. Trying a video game for a while, realizing you aren't enjoying certain significant aspects of it, and pivoting to a guide to help enjoy it more is more like...seeing a film that was critically praised, but you didn't really get what it was all about. So you then go online and look up analytical pieces about that film. As you watch/read/listen to others explain what the art meant to them, what they think the art was trying to say, and so forth, you may find yourself growing to appreciate the film more in hindsight. Maybe you'll even be willing to give it another viewing, and maybe you'll even find that your opinion of it has shifted in a positive direction thanks to your willingness to see what other people had to say about it. I agree that buying a game and then relying on a guide literally as soon as you start engaging with it is a very strange way to engage with it as a piece of art. But I don't think people do that. At least I don't think the vast majority of people do that.

This is a very strange argument... I used a guide to find the last 2 eggs because it turns out I had already visited the area for one of them and just never actually opened a chest, so there were no "unexplored" areas to look for in the map, nor any remaining puzzles to solve. It was literally hunt the entire map not knowing what I was looking for, and that was not enjoyable. Using the guide to get the last egg let me move on to see the bunny content which in fact increased the value proposition for the time I was spending. Like if we compare the value of a game to say going to see a movie, in a lot of cases I've already technically got my moneys worth out of a game in the first 3 hours, so why would using a guide reduce that value? OR if we're talking about maximizing a games per hour value for money, if I spend hours being lost or doing unenjoyable things in the game, am I not, in fact, reducing the value i'm getting out of the money I've spent? Don't get me wrong, this is a very nuanced conversation to be had. I understand a great deal of this game's appeal comes from having those "AHA" moments, and if you're using a guide to deprive yourself of arriving at those moments, then yes it's arguable you're reducing the value that you could have gotten out of this game. And I do also feel the game is made well enough that I felt like I was led to find a good ~40 of the eggs, and then the other ~24 or so were sign posted if you're observant. But if you happen to miss a sign, it could be hours before you're in the area to see it again. And for people who have other things to do in life, using a guide to skip the tedium of retracing every step makes sense if we talk about money's worth.

@@myclamish Wow. I'm sorry for making such a long post, but here it is: To be clear, no one I know agrees with me on this. I know I am in the extreme minority with this opinion. Ironically enough, have written and posted guides before, though I would never use a guide. I am suggesting I would rather play the game my way than read spoilers and play the game as instructed by someone else, even if that means it takes me way longer to finish it (or maybe I never finish it at all). I feel like I get more value out of games that way. That was a big deal to me when I was young because I was really poor back then and I was rarely able to get a game that wasn't rented. I just never grew out of it. A lot of people I know get a sense of wonder from my video game accomplishments just knowing what all I found/figured out without a guide. A lot of people still like to watch me play games rather than playing themselves. Tetris Effect and Mario Maker 2 have become something of a specialty for me and I play those in front of groups of people quite frequently. That also gives me positive feels and a sense of accomplishment. I played Chronotrigger multiple times over a period of 10 years before I got the "complete" ending. I'm still collecting Korok seeds in BotW. After obtaining the korok mask, by total went from ~500 to 733 in about 2 months. That is a lot of fun to me and I will feel extremely accomplished if I ever finish collecting them. Some of my most memorable accomplishments with no guide: I beat Karate Kid on NES when I was 7. That was the first video game I ever beat. I found equipment combos in Final Fantasy III that made me impossible to hit. Admittedly, someone told me about the bug that where the evade stat doesn't work and evasion is based on Magic Evasion. 100% completion on Super Metroid Got the good ending in Chronotrigger. I got Don Corneo to pick Cloud for his date in FFVII. I have finished all Assassins Creed games to 100% completion (Except for Valhalla, I just can't find all the fish). Those are actually kind of easy. I was part of a team that found an exploit to beat Absolute virtue in FFXI. The Devs stopped us before we got it killed and patched the exploit soon after, but that was still a cool experience. I made a full map of Castlevania: SoTN, though there is a room near the start that I can't figure out how to open up, though it is open on 1 of my save files, but only in the upside down castle. 100% finished THPS 1-4 with no guides. I upgraded my Master sword 3 times in BoTW on Master Mode. None of that would have given me the overwhelming happiness it gave me if I had used a guide. Yeah, many of those are old or very old games, but I'm getting old. What can I say? Work takes precedence now. But I'm having a lot of fun with Baulder's Gate 3 these days. I'm gonna play through that one a bunch of times. With no guide, of course ;-)

please do!

Glad you liked it!

"And as long as you arent hurting anyone" Sadists and masochists: 😔

Exactly

@@vlc-cosplayer as long as you aren't *harming* anyone ;)

Yeah. I very much do not want to engage with the greater Animal Well community. I'm sure there's lots of good people, but gamer culture has so many gross aspects and one of my least favorite is "get good."

Thanks! I know I would love Outer Wilds, but it gives me wicked motion sickness. The first time I puked in 10 years was because of that game.

It's starting to!

Yeah. It's still not my favorite thing. But I went from being really mad to having a pretty good time Not tunic good though 😭

Thanks! Appreciate your support!

I literally just finished a video of the final puzzle and lol I would never have gotten that. But it IS the kind of thing I enjoy. Just wish it was in a more fun game.

@@MattHorton dunkey is a marketing genius, and billy basso deserves more credit. Literally a game of the year contender but no one is ready for that take

@@jtshmo it's literally all I see when I read about this game. I think it's overhyped honestly

@@MattHorton I think it deserves a lot of the hype. If you're more into platforming (I wouldn't really call this game precision platforming as it's pretty generous with making mistakes compared to a lot of other platformers I've played) and exploration and less into souls-like combat, then this scratches a pretty similar itch to Tunic. Like obviously I have different tastes because I found this much more fun to play than Tunic, which is maybe where the hype is lost for you. Is it perfect? Nah. It especially falls apart a bit with the UV light, which doesn't do anything but force you to run around the entire map again with the thing on hoping you can find messages that were not like a "oh I've seen this before, now I can actually interact with it!" thing, but a "well, how was I supposed to know there were hidden messages here" kinda thing

Also I'm definitely looking up some games by the Lorelei developer, they sound great

Simogo is a long time fav

Yeah I didn't outline everything that happens but I know all that

@@MattHorton Oh good. Hopefully you make a video on the second one when it comes out.

@@Drag0n647 honestly I want to!

@@MattHorton SAME

I'll take it! Thanks for watching

It's much easier in digital environments that don't rely on false scarcity

Yeah!

Nice!

that's so cool :0

Hope the feeling stays!