New Video! Tears of the Breath of Nostalgia (Patreon exclusive!) (Patreon)

Hey everyone! 

Just letting you know the new, Patreon exclusive video is now available! The recent gameplay showcase for the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom got me incredibly excited with all the new features and systems being introduced, but more than that, it hit me with such nostalgia for its predecessor that I actually had to stop for a minute and really examine the very notion of nostalgia as a concept—analysing the context of how I first experienced 2017's Breath of the Wild and its relationship to the channel's growth at the time, to showcase how nostalgia can only ever provide a small piece of the larger picture. Let's talk about all of this stuff in one of my most personal videos in a while!

(just a reminder that you can find all the other Patreon exclusive videos in an unlisted playlist found here - please don't share the link around!)

So yeah, surprise I guess! Wasn't expecting to get a video out so soon after the AC vid but here we are. Despite getting personal in a way I rarely do nowadays, this was a really fun video to make and I'm very happy with how it came out—in my own view, for what it's worth, I feel like it's one of my best videos in a while. 

Can't tell you how good it felt to follow up that mammoth Armoured Core video with something comparatively bitesize like this. Could have gone on for a lot longer on this topic but it was nice to go from 15000 words, to really challenging myself to stay within a certain limit. It was also nice to not only reflect on the time period in question, but to analyse where I am now. 

Might end up shifting some stuff about here and putting the video out publicly closer to Tears of the Kingdom's release in May, but for now I still love how the Patreon exclusive videos give me the opportunity to experiment a bit with weirder projects that I don't know would do so well on the main channel. 

It's your continued support that allows me to keep making videos and working on the channel in an increasingly healthy, sustainable way, and I will never be able to thank you enough for that. You are all the best, and there are a lot more videos to come in the near future. Hope you're as excited as I am!

Thanks again,

Hamish

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