4:08 I fully agree with this sentiment on that achievement. I spent a whole two days replaying this chase scene so many times! IT’S THE ONLY THING PREVENTING ME FROM GETTING THE PLATINUM TROPHY FOR THE GAME!!! *cough* Yeah I have… feelings against this achievement and whoever conceived it.
I always pictured re4 mercenaries Luis as him taking a final stand, he was just perfectly weak to the point where you were always on the edge during the fight
i love that this game has so much narrative but isn’t a super long play, i managed to finish the whole game in a few days and even though it was short it was still so full of interesting details
i played and loved this game, but i didnt do the postgame (aka the restoration thing) thank you for covering it! i had no idea there was so much more lore there also, dylan creating an accidental malicious code is the same thing that happened with the mindcrash its quite poetic that both of them wanted to do nice things, but messed with code beyond their knowledge
Just to clear something up I want micheal to be dead it doesn’t make sense for him to live I’m just saying steel wool gonna do what steel wools gonna do
Thanks for this video. For my media class the teacher gave us homework over the holidays where you talk about the story structure of a piece of media in a 2 minute short form style video, and inside was one of the option for what you could do a video about. I was having a lot of trouble on how to describe the narrative structure, but after this video I was able to make it much more concise. Just wanted to thank you for this and I will probably watch more videos from you as I really liked the way you described this fantastic game.
You’d probably like Jacob Geller! I take a lot of my writing style from him and Pyrocynicals main channel videos. Just gotta practice! Thanks for watching!
*I was looking through my Xbox achievements and saw that I only had 2 achievements for this game and it BAFFLED ME because I know I beat it in 2017. reinstalled it today and played it on my 32 inch HD flat and My God this game is amazing. the eerie vibe, the dynamic backgrounds, the sound effects, the music cues....even how obscure the achievements are....like you could literally play this game 1000 times and never find some of these achievements, they're SO hidden. idk man...heavy consideration in my top 10 GOAT list* 🕵
Did you know that the puppet people actually have an official name? They’re known as “albinos”, I inferred this after looking at the soundtrack and noticing that the track that plays during the first mind control puzzle in titles “albinos”. Pretty interesting.
Stray is one of those absolutely unnecessary (BUT neccesary at the same time) games that you adore with your life. Why would someone want to play a game as a cat? And what kind of story can such game tell us? The tale of human extinction and what remains after can only be told by someone (something?) that elicits empathy, care and respect. What better way to do it than making an animal, one that is beloved as a pet nowadays, to take on that role and show us what life could be after we're gone? Stray is one of my favorite games, one I didn't know I wanted until I first saw it, having cats myself and loving them. I grew so connected to this little fellow that I still tear up when I remember the things that happened along the way. We care about so many things, so many living beings, so many memories, so much knowledge, properties, relationships. But once we're gone, who's gonna remember all of it for us? And does it even really matter if there's no one to remember the things we did? I loved how we got to see a developing digital society, how they adjusted to their own environment and grew as a new species, but with traces and traits of the one that came before. Also, the fact that animals survive beyond ourselves is what I believe to be the natural order, even though I can't tell the future. To close, if you haven't played Stray yet, please do. And if you haven't because you only got a Nintendo Switch, well, it's our lucky year, as we're getting it later this year Hey, Sm0ke, thanks for this awesome video!
I found your videos through your stellar Inside analysis, and I've been watching the rest one by one as a result. You've absolutely earned this subscription! I'd 100% love to see you dive deeper into the specific games you cover more often! Huge "Spoilers ahead" warnings with everything before it being almost a pitch for why you should try a piece like the Bugsnax video seems to afford you enough room to really express WHY you love the things you do in an infectious way!
