Channel update #2 (April) – The Final Fantasy (Patreon)

Progress on the Dragon Age video is going okay. I’ve finished Origins and Awakenings, meaning I think I’m on schedule for finishing the video in May, and I’m starting to see the pieces of the script come together in my head. I hope it turns out well.

Bannerlord has also released. It looks great... and I haven’t played it. Which is because I’ve been busy with other games and I’ve never been much of a fan of jumping into early access titles straight away when I could wait a few patches (or years) to play a better game later. So I can’t wait to play it… one day, but I’m in no rush. Just wanted to mention this so no one expects a bannerlord video from me.

As for what I’ve been playing instead, well I thought I may as well talk about that a bit.

In preparation for the release of Final Fantasy 7 Remake I’ve been playing through the original and then remake itself, which I finished yesterday. And oh boy, what a strange ride it’s been. Something I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned is that I’m a huge final fantasy fan. Not like one of those fans who buys moogle plushies and sephiroth figurines or writes zack x cloud fanfics in their spare time or anything. More like one of those fans who grew up playing the ps1 final fantasy’s and then continued to replay those games throughout my teenage and adult years, as well as playing almost every other important FF game at some point. Suffice to say it’s a series that I have a huge amount of love and respect for while also being a series that I feel hugely critical of.

And honestly, I don’t think there’s any series in all of gaming I would like to talk about in a youtube video as much as Final Fantasy.

So one day that’s going to have to happen, and I thought I may as well warn you lovely people, who have so kindly decided to support me, about it now… because when it does its going to take up months of my video producing life. I’m thinking there are at least 18 games I want to include, none of them short. Two of them I already have footage of (ff7 and ff7r) but all the others I’ll need to do a full playthrough for collecting footage as well as making notes and refreshing my memory. I envision the end product as being four parts, each 1.5-2 hours long, so probably at least 7 hours total, which means I reckon the project will take me at least 6 months to do properly, and I really do want to do it properly. 

So the problem is that would mean a long gap in uploading, as well as a period where there’s nothing but final fantasy videos, and honestly there’s no guarantee my subscribers (or patrons) even give a fuck about final fantasy in the first place. It’s not exactly a series related to anything I’ve covered so far. I’m also not sure how well making one mega video that’s split into parts will work with youtubes algorithm, so it may not be a very good financial decision either. And, really, I’m not even sure how well some of my opinions will go down with a modern final fantasy fanbase anyway. I feel like wrpg fans tend to be quite jaded and cynical, meaning I can get away with being jaded and cynical myself without worrying too much, but I’ve always thought of FF fans as being a little… different however. 

So in almost all ways, taking months to make a massive final fantasy video is a bad idea. 

But it’ll happen anyway... one day... when the time is right. And may God (and more importantly my patrons) have mercy on my soul when it does because it will take a while.

And in the mean time the next video will be on FF7 remake. Fuck knows what I’ll say because, for the first time since I have started this youtube channel, I genuinely don’t know how to feel about something I’ve played. But I’ll try to say it all the same.

Stay safe everyone. Take care of yourselves. And play some good games for me if you’re in lockdown mode right now.