This is How You Design a Video Game

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If you want to start with the gameplay and the story, check out ‪@ExcrucioV33‬ !
This is my deep dive into our video game title for January 2024: Sayonara Wild Hearts. It's a short game with little exposition/narration, but there's so, SO much richness to unpack and analyse! The landscapes, the colours, the villains, the lyrics to the soundtrack, the themes... This is truly a masterful example of cohesive and effective design and storytelling done right, in the best of ways. I hope that my take and video essay on the game either enhance your own appreciation of it, or at least entertain you, even if you disagree with my video essay on everything.
Oh, and sorry for the audio inconsistencies throughout (e.g. microphone spikes) -- tried to even them out as much as possible, but this should get better in the future.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Disclaimer and Introduction
05:29 Opening
09:27 Dancing Devils
13:25 Howling Moons
18:41 Stereo Lovers
31:12 Hermit 64
37:36 Little Death
45:00 The Eye and the End
51:20 Singer Theory
52:19 Tarot, Extras and February Teaser
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@ExcrucioVII 9 месяцев назад

A sentence gets abruptly cut off and followed up with the next audio clip a bit early. My bad! Not sure how this happened, so you're missing the following audio between 47:24 and 47:28 : "And your icon has been replaced as well, with, well... You.." For mobile users: CHAPTERS 00:00 Disclaimer and Introduction 05:29 Opening 09:27 Dancing Devils 13:25 Howling Moons 18:41 Stereo Lovers 31:12 Hermit 64 37:36 Little Death 45:00 The Eye and the End 51:20 Singer Theory 52:19 Tarot, Extras and February Teaser

@ItsAllNunya 5 месяцев назад

The World card is actually first in The World We Knew! Its not very easy to spot. Right at the beginning of the song, low on design elements. Just a globe. I keep recommending this video to everybody, dice roll whether they watch it but i love it so much. Hope the channel grows. :o)

@ExcrucioVII 5 месяцев назад

WHAT :o I'll have to replay the level ASAP! Nice find, thank you for sharing!!! And thank you very much! That's extremely sweet of you, I really appreciate it! It's pretty much a dice roll whether my friends and coworkers watch my stuff, too, haha. The length alone must be pretty daunting. I'm glad you love it! I'm still figuring out the algorithm and stuff, but it's growing slowly and steadily :) How do you feel about the other videos?

@ItsAllNunya 5 месяцев назад

@@ExcrucioVII I can't watch the nier video because I want to play it without spoilers(shitty pc and no console that can manage it still), but nothing stopping me from watching the other one right now! Let me get back to you in those comments :oD

@ExcrucioVII 5 месяцев назад

@@ItsAllNunya That's all right, there's no rush to play it. All in due time! :D Solid choice, waiting to play the game beforehand -- personally, I loved it, so I do hope Nier resonates with you as well! And thank you very much for taking the time to watch the Furi video, it's much appreciated

@ItsAllNunya 5 месяцев назад

@@ExcrucioVIIyou asked so nicely, how could I say no when this video was so good! Apparently I forgot to subscribe so I gotta fix that lol. Looking forward to what you put out next. :oD

@pokkiheart 2 месяца назад

Throwing an outer wilds meme in a SWH video, this is exactly my thing

@ExcrucioVII 2 месяца назад

Glad to hear it! I get the feeling you're also going to enjoy one of my upcoming videos (hopefully).

@hhsaez 8 месяцев назад

I love this game and your analysis! Looking forward for the next one. Thanks for sharing this!

@ExcrucioVII 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, it really means a lot to me! I hope to see you around for the next ones ☺️

@dawnshadow16 9 месяцев назад

You really went above and beyond with this analysis. The amount of work you put into this really shines through, with a lot of really cool details a dummy like me never would've noticed. Looking forward to your next one and keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

@ExcrucioVII 9 месяцев назад

Thank you very, very much! 😁😁 (And you're not a dummy.)

@firebreathing16 2 месяца назад

Huh, I didn't know that about the boat that is The Star. In any case, while it's a bit unorthodox in being before the end of The Fool's journey, The World can be seen at the start of Reverie, used by Hermit 64 to transform The Fool into a Gameboy cartridge (an original one, even, rather than a Gameboy Color, you can tell by the notch on the corner). That said, I can't say I know the meanings well enough (or hardly at all) to know what it means here.

@ExcrucioVII 2 месяца назад

Sorry for the late reply! You're right. Another commenter, @ItsAllNunya, also brought up The World card. It's the only version of The World card I can think of that portrays a globe (a literal world) and deviates from the standard depictions of zodiac signs, so that kind of puts me on the spot... The World usually represents completeness, success and a journey, but when it's reversed, its meaning is usually stagnation, inertia. During the course of her recovery, the heroine likely went through a phase like Hermit 64's, alone, binging video games; maybe The World (the "completed journey") zaps The Fool in order to force her into this stagnant state and make her overcome this phase herself, through none other than playing the games as the real-world heroine had to. In other words, an imposed character development arc, haha. As for the cartridge, I'm pretty sure Gameboy and Gameboy Color cartridges were the same except for their colour... Some were gray, some were black, some were transparent, and others had fancier colours. I think they both had the notch on the top-right corner (and not on both corners like the cartridge here), but maybe I'm just old and forgetful by now.