Games I Played in February

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Audio Edited by ‪@HeavyEyed‬
Games Talked About
Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior, Chants of Sennaar, Penny's Big Breakaway
Music Used
Heights of the Cult by Thomas Lanza (Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior), The Call by Thomas Brunet (Chants of Sennaar), Call Me the Yotagonist by Tee Lopes (Penny's Big Breakaway)

[@braninikolov3600]

It's february already!? Wow time flies by fast ig

[@RTX4050Games]

What are u smoking , it's may

[@jacccs]

@@RTX4050Games no it's not??

[@yarensenalp5341]

​@@RTX4050Gameslmao are you serious? Its february!?!?

[@celestialkitsune]

​@@RTX4050Games Clearly didn't get the joke

[@Lauora]

@@RTX4050Games broooo

[@Caluben]

It wasn't until the "thank you for your patience" at the end when I realized we're not in March... Man I need rest.

[@JeremiahPM]

Nah fr 😭

[@natedgreat1298]

I've come to sing Chants of Sennaar's praises, one of the best indie games I played last year. Welcome back Raz 🗿

[@Izandaia]

Infants are notoriously finicky bosses, prone to dumping piles of extra tasks on you with no warning and being occasionally being dissatisfied with the quality of your work no matter how much effort you put in. When you do get a positive performance review though, it makes it all worthwhile.

[@lucaslourenco8918]

I'm surprised to hear no mention of Chants of Senaar's stealth sections. It's an amazing games, but the stealth parts basically disrupt the gameplay... I wanted a puzzle gaming where I'd translate languages, exploring chambers and talking to people to see what pieces I can add to the puzzle, not actively avoid some of them just to get past a chamber. Other than that, solid video, fewer games but a good analysis on them; I hope Raz's baby can let him and the Lady he lives with sleep full nights, by now.

[@amee4231]

Chants of Sennaar was my GOTY last year. It just hit all the right notes for me. Amazing game

[@milesbon1]

When the games I played in February line up with yours, these videos feel tailor made for me and I love it.

[@ctranpeggy]

A wild perfect person appears

[@AurumVG]

my bad on the boss health drops lol

[@razbutwo]

LOL in fairness, I just should’ve gotten good and not got hit in the first place

[@chibiraptor]

My girlfriend loved Obra Dinn and golden Idol, so I recommended senaar for her. The stealth gameplay ended up making her give up on it, even though she thought the language puzzles were interesting.

[@thatcat_]

Glad to see this series back

[@sophie1513]

Thank you Raz for pointing me to Chants of Sennaar. Such a great game.

[@killuaviado]

i never miss a raz's monthly played games video 🙏

[@Evanz111]

“Unless I decide to stop doing this” D:

[@hounddog5]

I just wanted to pop in and say "thank you" for making these videos. I find that my gaming interests heavily overlap with yours, so these videos are a great for discovering new things to add to my wishlist. I've had my eye on Penny since Sonic Mania, but the other two are fast adds for me, thanks!

[@guusbaeten2195]

Please don't decide to stop doing this yet! Greatly enjoy this format, even if its not from the current month

[@kumailwastaken]

a video about games played in february uploaded in may just for me to watch in june, how cool.

[@masterofdoom5000]

Definitely understand the being more critical on things you like stuff, a bad game is just a ton of blemishes but a good game not reaching it's full potential is 1 or 2 blemishes that are THAT much more noticeable on an otherwise very enjoyable game. The amount of games that are scratching at a 9/10 but have lots of little issues is sadly too many.

[@aws-107]

In 2023, the fantastic year for video games, my favorite game was chants of sennaar. It was that good for me

[@roramdin]

So glad to see a new installment :-)

[@qwfp]

I've been on the fence about trying out Chants of Senaar, but after this very personal recommendation (at 6:00), I've gone and added it to my (evergrowing) list

[@user-pe6os5yz7x]

Pennys big breakaway looks amazing

[@hakankeremtamirci7538]

I love this series, it almost always makes me see cool games that I never even heard of before. I'm glad it's back.

[@Draconis_Eltanin]

Happy March, Raz! As always, thank you for sharing :D

[@stardude6708]

The king is back

[@EmyN]

We love this series Raz ❤

[@almtzd]

LOVED chants of sennar (tho my main complaint is the same! on top of the stealth sections) really solid list

[@zacharywong483]

Very nice reviews, as always!

[@LonelyGallifreyan]

I loved Chants of Senaar so so so so much. I wish there were more games like it

[@EmyN]

Isn’t it a knowledge based game? I heard of Tunic and Heaven’s Vault

[@ReuvelMusic]

Welcome back Raz!

[@leesl822]

I love this series!

[@tahkaimartin8050]

Raz back in the grind‼️

[@alanduae7986]

You made it, you've come full circle.

[@lucdemonchy4412]

you should play another crabs treasure it’s a souls like that just came out but is only about 13 hours but is still a bunch of fun and a really different take on the genre but it is still very hard

[@diogo.neto1434]

Love this videos

[@kunairuto]

Can't wait for March!!

[@izzyr3231]

"haha he forgot to change the month, clearly this is April's".... Oh. I see

[@krissa9664]

Really looking forward to animal well featuring here when 2027 rolls around

[@deadlyvphantom1160]

HES BACK

[@drgonzo123]

I highly recommend Pepper Grinder

[@deshelledturtle355]

I see Chants of Sennaar, I click. One of my favorite games

[@amyb2589]

Didnt get notified of this for some reason but my periodic "huh i wonder if Raz has posted" itch came back and i was pleasantly surprised ❤ hope baby life is treating you as well as possible!

[@Till27_Spence]

HES BACKKKKKKKKKKK

[@LethalLuggage]

That first game looked really interesting up until we went into the hard stuff. It was so close to being great!

[@Andrew-cn6hh]

Thought he finally was gonna do what he says at the end of each episode and stopped lmao

[@arrow3709]

congrats on the child(s)! godspeed, I can only nightmare what having two under two is like. also, on the whole "being harder on games than how bad they are" point, I've had this experience with games I thought I would universally love and come to the conclusion that I'm critical of their flaws because I care and do enjoy them. If they just sucked, I'd put them down. Because they were actually good, I noticed what wasn't perfect and I also just thought about them more in general because they were more engaging and held my interest more. I'd say that having specific criticism is actually something creators prefer, too. Like, if I said I didn't like Raz videos, that would be... unhelpful, but if I pointed out some specific trait that felt like a friction point for me, that would probably help you, or at least show you a difference of opinion or priority that a fan might have compared to your process. Anyways, I'm basically of the opinion that if you care enough to have specific criticism of parts of a game (or any work of art!) that's evidence that you cared more about it than average, and that's a good thing.

[@arrow3709]

Also, on the topic of brain-tickler puzzle games like CoS, Animal Well just dropped and it is conSUMING me

[@Adventium_]

Chants of Sennaar sits in a weird place for me. I played the game without using the journal pictures (I still used the part where i could write guesses) which made it a very enjoyable experience for me. Without a confirmation that you're correct, it really feels like you're constantly updating your understanding of each language, going back and refining each guess as more context comes up. If the game had ended one area earlier, I would've loved it. But the last area felt so bland and uninspired from a language solving perspective and it really put a damper on my experience. I'm not sure how the language solving feels when you do use the journal, but without the journal, the way you solve the language feels like it has no connection to the rest of the game at all. Overall I enjoyed my time with Chants of Sennaar, I just wish that the worst part of the game wasn't also the last area.

[@lucaslourenco8918]

Yeah, the last area does feel like an afterthought, from a gameplay perspective; it's important and necessary for the story, but all other areas are rich and full of little secrets that you have to unveil, the last part is just puzzles for puzzle sake, and you don't even have to delve deep into the writing system's gimmick, just one table to compare shapes. I really liked the first level, where you have no idea of what's going on, and you start to decipher that "maybe this means negative", "does it mean plural?", "this is related to people because of these lines." That being said, as a language nerd (and a professional translator), it's one of my favorite games, which I wish I could experience for the first time again. Except for the stealth parts. I still don't understand the inputs for walking stealthily or jumping to the next location, and i don't really care that much, I just wish that wasn't a thing.

[@makker1236]

have you considered playig a game from Project Moon?

[@Somnifuge]

The timed events in Penny's seems like it would be an easy fix with an option to pause the game when the dialogue box pops up. Seems like a strange choice to (I assume) prioritize the movement being uninterrupted all the time.

[@renaigh]

Happy 29th

[@vedaryan334]

thanks to you this past month i played and finished both outer wilds and shadow of the colossus , so I hold your opinion in high regard. With that in mind what game would you recommend ? Except Zelda since i don't have a switch . Anything would do as long as its not a visual novel or something like god of war or uncharted since i already played those.

[@razbutwo]

Hollow Knight

[@vedaryan334]

@@razbutwo guess i'll finally go around to beat it . i played it for a while and liked it but then got stuck somewhere and accidentally fucked up the save

[@Adam-oy6nc]

@@vedaryan334I say this with 100% seriousness, every single hollow knight fan first quits the game and then comes back later and loves it.

[@razbutwo]

This is my experience lol

[@jairdinh7563]

Can't wait for Raz to wait another 3 years to play the dlc for rain world just kidding great vid.

[@destinyhntr]

I also loved the translating part of the Chants game but the gameplay itself (having to run around, stealth, slow movement) just took away the enjoyment for me. I would have preferred the game solely focusing on the language aspect (though understand why they didn't do that).

[@boyblob]

Totally get if you do stop this series, but I gotta say that I do enjoy these vids a lot.

[@Zylefer]

8:35 Not willing to get carpel tunnel to get a world record for a child's game? Not a real speedrunner 😜

[@fretfulfirefighter7130]

ok

[@WIImotionmasher]

My february: Forza Motorsport

[@elkantan2570]

wth thats hades 2

[@trickynumber7]

Well, now that we're half way through the season... Day one picks: I picked hunter (yeah I know guys like him don't win anymore but he did okay until he didn't) and my wife picked Tiff, so no luck for us as is usual. How are you liking this season? We started letting our 4 year old watch an episode after the baby goes to bed on occasion. He's really enjoying survivor nights. He's obsessed with Jeff Probsy.

[@Appleloucious]

Why start with God of War spoilers?! : ((

[@razbutwo]

Because it is a father holding a baby. I also don’t really think it spoils anything

[@Appleloucious]

​@@razbutwo Many thanks Raz for taking the time to reply! ( : I am really sensitive regarding spoilers. I always try to go in as blind as possible. I watch no trailers, especially no story trailers and really try to skip anything about games I am still looking forward to play on PC, but have not yet been able to due to many reasons. Anyways many thanks for all your content! Wishing each and everyone most health, peace, love and happiness! One Love! Always forward, never ever backward!! ☀☀☀ 💚💛❤ 🙏🏿🙏🙏🏼