New Video! My Game of the Year List for 2022 (entries 5-2) (Patreon)

Hey everyone,

Hope you've had a great festive period so far, and are going to have a fun/safe New Year too. For me it was a case of "trying to get as many spots of relaxation as I could in amongst managing all sorts of other stuff," which is better than it has been some years.

I just wanted to give you all a quick update - I've been frantically working to try and get the GotY video finished before year's end, but it's just not going to happen. It's ended up 50 minutes long, so it's taken way more time to put together than I was anticipating. It's super annoying, because there's part of me that likes getting the GotY vid out within the year it's talking about, but that just isn't going to happen this year unfortunately. Super sorry about that.

That said, it's mostly done, so I'm giving you a sneak peek now before it goes up for everyone else in the next couple of days (as always, don't worry—because I'm charging for this post, the full video won't be put through as a Patreon paid post. Essentially, you won't be charged twice).

I say sneak peek, but said peek is about half the video—entries 5 through 2 on my game of the year list. The full thing will include a whole lot of honourable mentions and, of course, my number one game of 2022.

As you can tell by the video length, I go in depth with these games—most of these entries could probably constitute their own video normally, so of course I said to myself "I'll just do five of the things at once with a bunch of honourable mentions to boot."

Anyway, I sincerely hope you enjoy this retrospective look at the games of what is soon to be Last Year (wild, I know). Despite all the work that goes into them, I always enjoy doing these year-end round-ups. For some reason they feel way less stressful than the regular videos.

Anyway, once I've got the final edit for this GotY vid done and uploaded, the next video is pretty much written and will be a patron exclusive on a film of all things! Don't worry, it's pretty heavily related to video games and how we define genre as well.

As I talk about in the video, it's been a weird year, but one I'm at least OK with. A massive portion of that is down to you—your support improving my mindset with all this stuff in a way that has directly impacted the quality of work I've been able to put out. I cannot thank you enough for that. The channel wouldn't be here without you. You're the best.

Hope you enjoy the video and once again, have a happy/safe New Year!

Thanks,

Hamish

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