I make videos about things I'm passionate about, which comes down to video games and watching people play video games. And recently, early Homestuck. Whoops. Surely, there's someone else who cares about video games out there. Surely.
Anyway, this is a rebooted channel that focuses on more high quality content than my previous one. All of my work is still on ru-vid.com/show-UCVCIIBVxYdQ_WUZS9Py7EQA to watch. It's a very mixed bag, but the last video about the channel change should explain everything. Hopefully you'll stick along. I know I will.
Semi-sprite is definitely the artsyle I associate most with Homestuck. I like the "newer" and HS2 styles but it doesn't help hold the same charm to me.
this is just insufferably long droning, a very tedious and meticulous description of literally every minutiae in the game, not an analysis. learn from the game and be more concise - it's a sign of a sharp mind.
12:16 Look, in general I think the art in Act 6 is pretty good, especially when Andrew Hussie really shows a good effort in some panels that are more polished. However, something I would say that I think is kind of bad is some panels where you can clearly see that he was too lazy to reuse an asset or to really put effort into the art, which is strange because he had a lot of time. An example of a panel that I would say that I noticed this is in some panels in the final stretch where some characters are very, very pixelated. Example: page 7461 and page 7465 Which in themselves are literally the same page, but the problem is not that they are the same page it is the fact of the lack of explicit effort in the art. There are several examples of pages that contain questionable quality, sometimes even in the background where it looks like it needed more effort. Sometimes some backgrounds that use more realistic things end up looking very strange next to some of the characters they are drawing.
I love the “right door” joke. I always understood it as “will taking the right (correct) door lead us to our destination? Yes! So the door on the right must be the correct one.”
I mean when I played the very first ending I got was the Freedom Ending, I guess I’m different from a lot of gamers cos my instinct is to start by following the rules of a game to see what experience the developers intended before starting to fuck around and push the boundaries
Did the music actually play forever in the original game? I ask, because in the Ultra Deluxe Version, the music keeps playing for about 1 minute 46 seconds, before stopping, as if the motor of a record player stopped working. If the music really doesn’t stop in the original version of the game, we really have a difference, how the endings are viewed between the two versions of this game.
In the segment you're talking about, I'm playing around with a custom keybind for lockpicking and opening any door object in the no matter if it's set as locked or what way im trying to open it from thestanleyparable.fandom.com/wiki/Console_commands#ent_fire_commands
He most probably did, all the loops and callbacks were definitely planned out. He probably made like, a skeleton of what the story would be and just fleshed it out along the way.
I was listening to Tally Hall in the background while watching this so when Spring and a Storm started playing I was seriously wondering why my playlist was suddenly out of order. Anyway, the spriting process and analysis of why fan adventures fail was really interesting and I'm probably gonna check out the comic now.
I agree with a lot of your ideas relating to this comic, but I have to disagree with the opinion that act 1 is boring (and therefore should be skipped). It's not that it's my favorite part, but I still like the process of getting to know the characters. The context of how these people act before the game changes them is important; for a *spoilery* example, watching Delire make their way up the RNG tower was a huge moment of character development, but seeing them in the intro behaving normally can do a lot to set up that impact and deepen its effect. The real reason I have to disagree with it, though-- the assumption of disinterest. I think I am safe in assuming that there are many mspfa readers who enjoyed homestuck, and are here specifically because they have interest in how someone else might take the prompt and rewrite or reinterpret it, with new characters and new ideas, just with a familiar prompt. I'm not saying it's wrong to dislike certain parts, and to choose to spend more time on the parts you liked; ultimately, you still worked it into a unique prompt as a sort of wordless quip on the slow pacing of act 1. But it's not like it was unenjoyable or unnecessary. I understand the structural reasons to try and get the project running before it can fall flat, but I feel like it's a bad mindset to assume the reader wouldn't enjoy what you might write there, even if it's mostly a re-tread. I don't know if that makes sense. Or if even made a correct interpretation on what you were saying. But it just sort of struck a sour note in me to hear someone dislike their writing before they even got a chance to write it.
holy crap, i feel like i'm almost woefully undeserving to watch this video. all the amazing advice and information you've given in here is AMAZING, this feels like it should be the documentary feature hidden behind purchasing the whole comic on DVD or something!! EXCELLENT video, I'm gonna go out and read your comic now!! you explain your decisions so transparently and honestly that it's extremely refreshing, really showing just how doable yet difficult it is to make something like Homestuck. i loved your breakdown of the Rose panel in the middle section, going to save that for my own use one day haha you are an excellent person and you deserve the world; putting your own comic out for the wide world to read entirely for free is already doing an incredible service, but being so helpful alongside is just... seriously. SO far above the pay grade. thank you so much <3 YOUR DAD IS THE OG BTW
I felt like semi-sprites in act 6 had the same amount of badness as before it,m in a different way though. I also don't mind hero mode being used less sparingly. Yes, it became less special to see a panel with it, but to me that's okay since it just symbolises a gradual shift in the comic's vibe, which I don't fault it for good video still, i like people exploring niche stuff like this
yo,,, where is that groovin synthwave savior of the waking world remix from,,, i need that actually all of this background music is a boogie can you share the links
I had so much more fun reading your comic than I had reading homestuck^2. It made me feel such joy that I felt reading since the epilogue. Genuinely well made and interesting, looks fantastic, all the gifs and sound pages were a treat. I would have loved to see a finished version just to see more of the characters I grew to adore, but this was good enough at least.
7:47 the reason time and space players are needed is because time players planets have the scratch, in case anything goes wrong, I suppose not applicable here where they’re destined to win. Space players are needed because their planet contains the forge, necessary for breeding the genesis frog.
Time players also seem to be integral for stoking the Forge. Dave had to reach out to Hephaestus in order to get the Forge on LOFAF working. This is, iirc, the only time we hear of cross-planetary quest stuff like this, except for Echidna's quills being the intended tool for initiating the Scratch. Even if you don't need to reset, both aspects seem to be required in order for a session to be won the 'correct' way. Who knows though; Bro's Unbreakable Katana began the Scratch on LOHAC, so maybe there's some backdoor method to igniting the Forge in the event that you're missing a time player.
@@alexanderleonardi3625because scouring a whole planet for the perfect frogs is nearly impossible without time travel. Even the trolls didnt do it in time and they had weeks.
This is an excellent video and I really agree with everything you're saying. I fused stuff to my shields, sure, but it was really only the Zonai stuff. And only *then* did they even start breaking at what feels like should be the normal, actual rate. Anyway, yeah. Re: UI stuff -- wonder what your pitch would be w/r/t the Sage powers. Would you add another menu, or do you like it being in the open?
I have no idea how they champion powers could be better with the rest of the control scheme unchanged, and I think they're horrendously poorly implemented now with how you need to walk over to them praying the prompt will respond in time. Like, if there was a spare trigger, maybe those fancy back-pedals that Xbox has, it could be like that: Pull on the Champion Pedal to activate context sensitive promos. Have a bow drawn? Gerudo lightning shot. Have a shield up? Zora wave. Have a sword up/ operating a vehicle? Goron blast. Paragliding? Rito boost. The terrible mech ability can move to an ability on the wheel which instantly mounts you on it, or stay as is, since it's the only one that makes sense to require link to Walk up to to engage with. Or be taken out of the game because it sucks lmao
I was origionally going to disagree with most of what was said here, but you actully made many very solid a good points that I feel as though would make really good additions to the game. One issue I sould see here is by adding more ways to "fuse" it could make the game a little more complex than it needs to be for newer players, I personally belive that the game in it's current state is in a really good spot for new and old players alike to discover and learn new things too. Additionally id like to add that your ideas were likely thought of during development of tears but due to time constrains they may have been cut which would be a shame if true. Either way man this was a really good video, keep it up! and try to improve little by little I could see you being super big one day lol.
Glad to see you back! I kind of agree but at the same time there's already interesting shield fusions (most zonai devices, bombs, the elemental gemstones, frozen meat, heck the spiky armor bits from the armored lynels...) and bow fusions aren't a thing because there's already a lot of arrow fusions and bows already have a few standout things like the zoom, multishot, faster draw speed, max hearts damage bonus... But yeah the pausing during combat thing is dumb and while I don't want the thing to be in real-time like Dark Souls I still need an excuse not to eat a meal after every big enemy attack.
I've been looking for good, long homestuck media essays to consume along with a sopor slime pie using the recipe from the requiem event. This is gonna be good.
About time players. They have a lil something in their planet called "scratch construct" which basically can hard reset the universe in case things go south which happened in homestuck
A certain Nerd recommended SBURB TAS to me as a good (though incomplete) MSPFA, and I was pleasantly surprised to find this video at the end! I'm glad to hear you had a good time making SBURB TAS, and I'm glad you were able to see it finalized in a way with this video. Reading through the comic was fun, and learning about your process of creation here was fascinating. As someone who got into homestuck recently, I'm continually amazed by how much creativity it's inspired. Good video, good fancomic, good times.
With the advent of A.I the possibility for an infinite game that will generate new never before seen content completely narrated will destroy everything we understand about conventional story telling.
