New Video! A Spiralling Examination of IMMORTALITY (ad-free!) (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

Just to let you know that the new video is now available for patrons! Sam Barlow's latest postmodern FMV mystery game might be his hardest to write about yet—serving as a messy but honest meditation on the artistic process, and the pain that can be caused in its wake—but by god am I going to try, providing you my interpretation of one of the wildest, most densely packed games I have played in years. Immortality has me asking questions of art that very few artistic works have ever gotten me to ask—if that's not high praise, I don't know what is. 

As I say in the video, I tried to make it so that this video wouldn't ruin your eventual enjoyment of the game if you haven't played it. That said, Immortality is on Game Pass, short, amazing and best experienced blind. I happen to think, without wishing to get too self-congratulatory, that this video represents some of my best writing in a while, but I would also say that you owe it to yourself to play this game. 

Given that Her Story was the game that started the channel back in 2015, it always feels nice to give my thoughts on a new Sam Barlow joint, even if doing so always proves remarkably difficult given how densely packed and intertextual these games are. 

I'm really sorry I wasn't able to get this done in time to get early access to people at that tier level—it was my intention to, but then a bad night was followed by an unexpected chest x-ray which disrupted things a fair bit (touchwood I seem to be OK though, don't worry lol). 

This video will be going up on the main channel tomorrow, and now this behemoth is out of my way, I can get back to the many, many other projects you'll be seeing very soon.

I cannot thank you enough for your continued support. Times are tough for sure, and so I truly appreciate every pledge—without you, I would have had to stop doing this whole channel thing long ago. You make this happen. Thank you.

See you very soon and hope you enjoy the new video!

Hamish

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