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Miracle Resonance Episode Progress Update (and a video clip!)

So I've completely scripted and recorded the audio for the upcoming Miracle Resonance episode, but haven't begun recording footage and editing just yet. One of the central topics of the video is the question of why it doesn't work correctly in Dark Souls Remastered (spoiler alert-- no one actually knows, but I still have stuff to say about that). I've played DSR a decent amount on PS4 and a little bit on PC, and one thing I wanted to do before rushing the video was to sit down and play again ...

A scenario you've definitely never seen before.

So Miracle Resonance won the most recent episode poll, I've begun scripting and did some (very preliminary) footage gathering as well. This has no real purpose but while thinking about how rare Miracle Resonance is, I thought it'd be fun to get some documentation of a Vagrant surrounded by them. I highly doubt anyone has seen anything quite like this in the wild, this was achieved with thanks to Drift Item sending all of these to my game with hacks. So they're hacked in... but it's still semi...

First stretch goal met, and new goal added!

Thanks so much everyone for your support! Completing the 8-bit Majula theme is now on the to-do list! I'll aim to have it completed and released with the next episode of Dark Souls Dissected.

Another one has been added- a somewhat silly idea I've had for a while but it would be fun to make. 4k video "screensavers"... basically just long, relaxing videos of environmental showcases from the Souls games. Videos intended to be played in the background and without ads. I think something sim...

Making good progress into the next episode!

The episode about the prototype maps for the Gutter / Grave of Saints is coming along nicely! I'm over 12 minutes in to what is likely going to be a ~38 minute episode. There's so much cool stuff to show here. It also re-contextualizes a few things that still made it in-game; Their inclusion in the game isn't as justified as they would've been if they kept the original designs. I can't wait to get it...

Something wicked this way comes

So something really cool arrived this weekend. I was lent a PS4!

But why would I borrow one if I already own one? Well, you can probably guess what "JB" stands for!

Before anyone gets too excited, I'm not a hacker so I might run into a wall pretty quick (and will ultimately be reliant on the help of others). But this opens the possibility of at least maybe being able to mess around in Bloodborne.

Though I'm not promising a Bloodborne Dissected video soon, it was basicall...

Dark Souls 2 Dissected - Next Episode Progress

This next episode is all about early map designs for The Gutter and Grave of Saints! Yes, this area is getting its own episode entirely because there really is that much to look at! It's the area that suffered the most from cutting corners, the original concept for it was so much more interesting.

The script is currently at 8 pages and counting, which should likely be finished soon. Hopefully I'll be able to start recording and editing video for it later this coming week.

Here's s...

Significantly decreasing or outright disabling mid-roll ads.

Hey everyone, I've gotten some complaints about the excessive mid-roll ads.

YouTube has added these automatically to all of my videos, but I'll go back and fix them. Unfortunately I can't fix them while mobile, so my intention is to fix them as soon as I get home from work this evening:



I'm okay with one or maybe two of these in longer videos, but there should never be any more than t...

Episode Select Poll #2

So coming up I have another specific Dark Souls 2 episode in mind, but I'd like to get another poll going for the episode after that! This time it's all Dark Souls 1 options, to help ensure that content for those who are missing it!

Once again I'll open this poll without a specific time limit, but will close it a couple days after the next Dark Souls 2 video being completed.

Mr. Gimmick episode is coming along! Probably about 4/5ths done recording and editing!

This is coming along nicely! I was hoping to get it done this weekend but it's looking much more likely to be completed sometime later this coming week. This will be my longest video yet, I think it's likely to break an hour. Though this makes a little more sense when you consider that there's a complete, annotated playthrough of the game embedded into the middle of it (actually the bulk of the video...

The Mr. Gimmick Script is underway, but I'm also working on the next Dark Souls 2 Dissected as well!

I don't necessarily have a set way of preparing for upcoming projects, but with the amount of work that go can into a single episode I find that it's more enjoyable to take breaks and mess around with something else. So if anyone is anxious about the next episode not being about a Souls game at all (you shouldn't, it's going to be cool!), fret not because I'm doing exactly this. I've been poking around in Dark Souls 2 between some of the work going into the Gimmick episode.

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The winner of the first episode select poll is in!

And it's "Mr. Gimmick Dissected"!

If you're wondering what the heck this is and why isn't it Dark Souls, don't worry, I think it'll be interesting still. The video will be made with people who haven't played the game at all in mind.

I think I have a fascination with games that cram in weird details and lesser/ tangential/ unnecessary mechanics, and this is a game that was simply ahead of ...

Dark Souls 2 Dissected # 2 - Out of Bounds Exploration is Live!

It's still processing as it just very recently finished uploading, so it may take a while before the 4k version is accessible. Enjoy!

Almost halfway done! (and a look at the project file)

I'm a little over 13 minutes into what's shaping up to be a ~30 minute episode. I never like to promise anything being done by a certain time, since anything can happen, but I think this being finished no more than a week from now is a fairly realistic expectation.

Next Dark Souls 2 Dissected Episode [Script Finished and Recorded]

So the script has been recorded and the audio is finished being edited! I tend to script things completely in advance and try to make everything work with just one long audio file, but of course it winds up getting cut up to better-match the video clips... once I actually have them in front of me and I'm not just imagining it. 

Sometimes it takes me quite a while to prepare for episodes, but I was actually researching for this one amidst all the Soul Memory testing I was doing, so ...

Dark Souls 2 Out of Bounds (Preview 1)

Moving the camera during cutscenes can reveal some pretty funny-looking things.

Decisions decisions... (about the upcoming episode)

The poll for the episode after next is still open, I figure I'll keep that up for a bit. But the actual next episode is going to be about out of bounds content in Dark Souls 2!

Originally it was going to be both about the world design / map placement AND out of bounds content, since the two topics have some overlap and I thought it would make sense to do both at the same time.

But after w...

Soul Memory Follow-up: Another observation on the early matchmaking info.

So in the Soul Memory video, I had a part explaining how I think Bandai Namco wasn't lying when they gave us incorrect information. I can elaborate on that some more here.

Taking another look at the incorrect tier information from my inside source, which we can assume to merely be outdated-information by the time the game was released, we see something interesting in Tiers 1-9. Brackets that we...

Episode Select Poll #1

Hey there! Welcome to the first episode poll. I'd love for fans' input on what they'd like to see me talk about next! Though this won't be for the very next episode (I have another, specific Dark Souls 2 episode in mind), but the one after that.

Yes, the third option is very real.

I think the way I'm going to roll these out is that I'll probably do this for every-other episode (or at least something close to that). I think that'll strike a healthy balance of fitting in the episode...

Soul Memory Follow-up: It's a Secret to Everybody (a hidden detail in the episode)

I'll probably post this to twitter later, but a hidden detail I didn't bring attention to is the fact that the Looking Glass Knight has an alternate summoning animation when it summons another online player. The LGK slams its sword down which is pretty cool.

This is surely not an entirely-new discovery, as others have done PvP here before. But I wouldn't be too surprised if most players were distracted and didn't get to observe/ notice the difference.

Soul Memory Outtake: A Strange Encounter with the Pursuer

Here's an outtake from the Soul Memory episode. I caught some random co-op footage, and... this happened during the Pursuer encounter. I'm not sure what the cause was.

The host was cheating (I got softbanned on purpose to make testing Soul Memory easier), but I doubt anything they were running would've caused the boss to fall short like that. There was another enemy earlier in the level who refused to die and just 'stood still' after getting killed-- a not too uncommon online issue. I w...