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The Yakuza 2 Review is finally up early for Contributors and above!

Okay, so after a very distracting week and almost a full day of rendering issues, the Yakuza 2 video is finally up and ready to go! I didn't mean for this one to go into early access so late again, but I swear to you guys, every time I opened up Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero it was like I time skipped to 3 hours in the future...

Anyway, I'm really happy with how this one came out, so giving it the extra week in the oven was definitely the right call. Luckily I have a much smaller project s...

Update on the Yakuza 2 Review:

I've been plugging away at the new video at a pretty good pace despite the numerous things in my life trying to distract me... (Heihachi releasing for Tekken 8, Silent Hill 2 Remake, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO releasing later today 😂)

Since I last updated, I've finished the game, written and recorded the script, and started editing things. The timeline in the attached picture may not look very big, but that's just because I haven't spliced the whole voiceover yet. I had a lot more t...

Update on the next review:

So far this week, I've been working on just grinding through the next game we're covering on the channel, which is Yakuza 2!

I've already sunk roughly 15 hours into the game, but I still have about a third of the game left to go, so it's going to be a bit longer before I even finish it. As such, the Yakuza 2 video will almost certainly not be ready for Monday the 7th, and will likely go up on Monday the 14th instead. This probably isn't the only time that a Yakuza video will get delayed...

The Yakuza Review is up early for Contributors and above!

Way closer to the deadline than I would've liked, the Yakuza review is finally ready to go!

This one was definitely more of an undertaking than I was expecting it to be, as I ended up having way more to say about this one than I thought I would. I was already excited to get this series started, but now I'm even more excited by the thought of continuing it!

As always, the public release will be on Monday morning, so any support on that would be greatly appreciated. I'll try to give...

Update on the next review:

Alright so progress has been slower than usual thanks to a longer game playthrough and some busy life stuff, but we should still be on track for a Monday release! The script is finalized and recorded, and I've been taking the editing one chunk at a time to make sure that I nailed down the tone of the video early on.

I've currently got about 5 minutes of the video fully edited, and the whole thing should be around 25 minutes long. Like I said, we're still looking at a Monday release, but...

What's up next on the channel?

Okay so I don't have much to show off just yet, but I wanted to get this out there so that I don't end up blindsiding you guys later in the week 😂

The next video I'm working on is for Yakuza! This has been planned since the end of the Metal Gear series, but I wanted to give Resident Evil a good few videos to really get the ball rolling on that series. And I have to admit, the added surprise of waiting 6 weeks before announcing that we're doing more than one series again is a nice bon...

The "Resident Evil Survivor 2 - Code: Veronica" Review is up early for Contributors and above!

Okay, so after some delays because of real life stuff, the Survivor 2 video is ready to go! I know that I say this sort of thing a lot, but this one really is interesting in terms of both the history of the game's development as well as just the gameplay itself. It was nothing like what I expected it would be, and I'm really excited to share what the game is like as well as my opinions on it with you guys!

As always, the public release is on Monday, so any additional support on that is ...

What's up next on the Resident Evil Retrospective?

Alright, so we've got another interesting one this week. The next game to cover after "Resident Evil - Code: Veronica" is... "Resident Evil Survivor 2 - Code: Veronica".

This one is an incredibly interesting game to cover, and progress has been a little slow up to this point because I wanted to take some extra time to be sure that I get the script for this one right. To give you a small tease of just how interesting it is: Even though it was released for the PS2, it was never actually s...

The "Resident Evil - Code: Veronica" Review is up early for Contributors and above!

The Code Veronica review is done!

This one did get wrapped up a little bit later than expected thanks to some audio issues (please let me know if anything is still wrong btw), but thankfully it didn't delay things by too much. This is a particularly interesting one, as Code Veronica is one of the most important Resident Evil games, yet it's also one that's frequently overlooked in discussions about the franchise. I have a lot of opinions to share on it, so I'm excited to finally be able...

Update on the next video:

Okay so I was planning on updating you guys on Monday night, but I forgot... oh well.

The next project in the works is a review of "Resident Evil - Code: Veronica", and it's coming along at a good pace. I currently have the script finalized and recorded, and am just getting started on the editing this morning. Judging by the length of the script, the video will probably be somewhere around 18-21 minutes long, so a fairly average length for the RE videos. Code Veronica is the last mainli...

The Resident Evil Survivor Review is up early for Contributors and above!

The Resident Evil Survivor video is here! This was a particularly exciting project, as Survivor was the first official spin-off the Resident Evil franchise ever produced! It's also the first game in this review series that I had never played before, so I wasn't exactly sure what I was getting into when I sat down to start working on this one. What I found was uh... well it was certainly interesting.

As always, the public release will be on Monday, so any sort of support on that would be...

Update on the Resident Evil Survivor Review:

Things are coming along pretty smoothly for the Resident Evil Survivor video, and it shouldn't be much longer until it's finished! Honestly, the biggest challenge with editing this one has been trying to avoid using certain clips over and over. The game is less than two hours long, so finding clips to fill out 18 minutes of video without reusing them is pretty tricky.

I should have this one finished up and available in Early Access by tomorrow night, as there's only a few more minutes w...

What's up next for the Resident Evil Retrospective?

Alright, so I'm a couple days into working on the next video in the Resident Evil Series, and figured this would be a good time to share an update. The next game is "Resident Evil Survivor", which was the first Resident Evil spinoff ever produced. There were a ton of RE side projects developed between roughly 2000-2012, so for the near future of the RE Retrospective, it's going to be a solid balance of mainline entries and spinoffs.

As far as the Survivor video itself, I've already com...

The Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Review is up early for Contributors and above!

Alright, so the Resident Evil 3 Review is good to go! I hadn't played this one in years, so this revisit essentially felt like I was playing RE3 for the first time again. I always remembered this as being the weak link in the trilogy, but after revisiting it for the first time in so long... I may have been too hard on this one.

Anyway, I'm really happy with how this one came out, and I hope you guys enjoy! Next week will definitely be an interesting one, so I'll have updates in the day...

Resident Evil 3 Review: Update #2

Okay, so I did have a couple unexpected delays pop up this week, but things are going pretty well regardless. A little over 6 minutes of the video are fully edited at this point, and the total video should be around 21-22 minutes long (I haven't cut up the outro yet so I'm not 100% certain).

Those of you who keep up with the updates regularly will already know, but even though it might not look like the video is close to done, it will more than likely be up in early access by the end o...

Update on the "Resident Evil 3: Nemesis" Review:

Alright, we're off to a good start with getting things back on schedule! I finished playing through Resident Evil 3 this morning, and will start writing the script later today. I've also fully recovered from the COVID at this point, so I'm back at full capacity and actually able to grind things out! Assuming everything goes as planned, I should be able to get the script written by roughly this time tomorrow, get some voice work done tomorrow night, and have the video ready to go by the weeken...

The Resident Evil 2 Review is up early for Contributors and above!

Alright, The Resident Evil 2 Review is ready just in time for the Monday release! I didn't expect it to take this long, but then again, I don't think anyone necessarily expects to randomly get sick for a whole week 😅

Like I said in the update from yesterday, I don't like how short the early access window is for you guys, but the algorithm demands content. I'm glad to at least have it out a full day early for y'all, and I hope that you enjoy it!

And now that you guys have it, I...

Resident Evil 2 Review: Update #2

Okay, so I still haven't quite shaken this case of COVID, but good progress is being made regardless. The video is currently in the clipping stage of the edit, and while the timeline in the attached image might make it look like it's not even close to done, I don't expect it to take more than a day to get finished up. The video is only 24 minutes long, so finishing up the clipping won't be too much work, and the music mixing never takes long either.

I'll be wrapping it up and getting it...

Update on the Resident Evil 2 Review:

Alright, so progress has been slow so far. I just finished up recording all the footage earlier today, which took longer than usual thanks to RE2 splitting its full story across 4 separate playthroughs of the game. To add onto that... I've been fighting off a particularly rough case of COVID over the last few days, so I haven't really been able to sit at my desk and work for very long periods of time.

I'm going to start on the script tonight, and assuming I get better relatively soon, I...

The Resident Evil Review is up early for Contributors and above!

A video done in under a week AND it's less than 30 minutes long?? It really is like a whole new chapter for the channel 😂

The Resident Evil Review is ready to go nice and early! This was probably the most intimidating video I've ever had to make just because of my connection to the game, but I'm really happy with how it ultimately came out! Whether you're familiar with the game already or not, I hope that you all enjoy the video and that it ideally gets you excited for the rest of th...

Update on the Resident Evil Review:

Okay so things have been moving pretty fast with this one.

Since the last post, I've finished recording my footage, written the entire script, recorded and spliced the entire voiceover, and am currently a little over halfway done with the clipping. I've been kind of obsessively working on this one over the last few days, and finally having a shorter project definitely helps with a faster production timeline.

The video is currently sitting at 29 minutes, but there's one section tha...

The Next Review Series Is In The Works...

Okay, after struggling to keep this a secret for the last couple days, and after coming dangerously close to accidentally leaking it on stream yesterday, I can finally share the plans for the next series with you guys!

We'll be diving deep into Resident Evil next! I've mentioned a few times in videos that this is actually my favorite gaming franchise of all time, so when it ended up getting more votes than any other franchise on the polling, to say I was excited would be a bit of an und...

The Metal Gear Survive Review is up early for Contributors and above!

The finale (at least for now) of the Metal Gear Review Series is finally done!

I'm really excited for this one as I know that there are a lot of Metal Gear fans who haven't played the game for themselves, meaning I had an even bigger opportunity here to help people learn more about a game they haven't played than I usually do. And obviously, with this being the last in the Metal Gear series until the release of MGS Delta, having this finished up and out to you guys feels like a massive ...

Metal Gear Survive Review: Update #3

Alright, so the Metal Gear Survive video is still in the editing stage, but we're getting pretty close to the end of it. The video is weighing in at about an hour and 5 minutes long, and I currently have 45 minutes of it edited and ready to go. The remaining 19 minutes will be wrapped up over the next couple days, and once that's done, it will go into Early Access for Contributors and above!

The more exciting part of this update though is that I've locked in my plans for what we're doin...

Metal Gear Survive Review Update:

Okay, so I was SUPER overambitious with trying to get the video done in time for a Monday release. 😂

The game was longer than I had expected it would be, and there's also lot more that I wanted to share than I thought there would be. As of right now, I've finished the script and am in the early stages of doing the voice work. The video is probably going to be about an hour long, but that's assuming I don't make any sort of major cuts or additions.

Based on my current pace, I sh...

The Day Has Finally Come.

Not a whole lot to report just yet, but wanted to pop in and let you guys know what's been going on since I finished the MGSV Review. I've been grinding out Metal Gear Survive for the grand finale of the Metal Gear series, and currently have a little over 23 hours clocked in the game. I've just finished up Chapter 20 of the single player campaign, and from what I've found online, it seems like there's 22 chapters in the main campaign with 3 to 4 post-game chapters to unlock new stuff.

O...

The Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Review is up early for Contributors and above!

It's been 9 years... or at least it feels like it.

The whopping 2-hour monster is finally complete! Well, it was actually finished up on Wednesday morning, but thanks to some issues with both rendering out the video and the processing on YT's end, I wasn't able to actually get it out to you guys until now :/

This is by far the largest review I've ever done, and will likely hold that title for a very long time. I actually got pretty close to dropping the story summary parts of the ...

MGSV Review: Update #4

Alright, I've got way more to show this week in terms of visible progress! All of the voice work for the video is done, and after making some more additions to the script, the total runtime is coming out at 2 hours and 5 minutes currently. Since getting that done, I've been working on getting everything clipped out, and we're sitting at 1 hour and 33 minutes of completed video on that front.

So what's left to do is another 32 minutes worth of clipping (which does take a little longer th...

MGSV Review: Update #3

Okay, another week has gone by, and while I still don't have much that's all that flashy to show, a lot of progress has been made. I'm currently wrapping up the voice work for the video, which is always the biggest obstacle for me on these larger projects thanks to a vocal hemorrhage I had a while back.

Despite what I said in the original post about this video, I currently have a little over an hour and 25 minutes of voiceover fully edited. The final product will be somewhere around an ...

MGSV Review: Update #2

Okay, so I finally finished up my playthrough a couple nights ago with it ultimately weighing in at a whopping 84 hours in total. I didn't expect it to take so long, but I also wasn't prepared for there to be a Chapter 2 😅

I'm currently in the process of writing the script and uh... yeah, this one's going to be over an hour long. The story really did pick up in the later half, so there's a ton to talk about there on top of the already plentiful gameplay discussion.

I don't cur...