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Hey guys, how is everyone this week? What's the latest game you've been playing just out of curiosity? I'm finally at the fifth and final game for this week long special coming up in a month's time. It's been fun but it's wearing on me a bit, keen to start smashing out scripts!

September) ALL of this month's content has been completed, aside from a thumbnail, the rendering of some outtakes and hopefully a trailer coming in on the final week. It feels good to be ahead but with my mind already hard focused on October, it's kind of confusing at times. I was actually fairly lucky though: in my mind, I had three weeks to get five reviews completed but looking at the calendar, I actually have FOUR. An extra week's worth of time is such a life saver and if I still need extra time, I've got wiggle room to push the project into October further if needed but I honestly don't think it will come to that. My dilemma last week about the branding and effects etc. these videos need has been semi-resolved. I've decided to remake everything from scratch, shooting myself on green screen, animating intro sequences from the ground up and all that fun stuff. It's not my strongest area but I can make it work.

October) Like I said, I'm really gunning for the first week of October and I plan on following it up immediately. When most channels do some kind of special, they're not there the following week to keep the ball rolling but I'll be sure to have most likely a Top 10 and business as usual. Having said that, the rest of the month will be a little messy. I'm going to PAX AUS again this year and the date for that is a week earlier, meaning that a Halloween review (uploaded on Halloween) will need to be done a week early so... the schedule looks like this:

Week Special
Top 10
Nothing
Halloween Review

Just so that I have time to fit everything in. From there, I'll begin work on the next series reviews: Skylanders! 

But that just about covers everything this week, there isn't a whole lot to report unfortunately. I'm just trying to work away as efficiently as possible to hopefully make this new channel event to be something people will want more of next year. So with that, thank you so much for reading and I hope you have a great fucking day. Cheers!

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Myles

Appreciate the hustle and all you do man, keep up the awesome work.

Petronious

Sounds great, mate. Keen on watching what you've got ready for us. I've been playing some crap but that'll eventually surface itself in a week or so I'm hoping! Also Skylanders ain't a bad call for you, I liked the Spyros Adventure review.

SquareEyedJak

Cool, Skylanders is both good for the channel and something I want to get through so it's a win, win really.

RadioTails

If you want to put a spin on the Top 10, you could do a Worst 10 video game titles that were changed from their American releases (or European releases in some cases). There are plenty out there, like "Kirby Squeak Squad" to "Kirby Mouse Attack", because squeak is a very offensive word I guess?. Looks like October will be a spooky month of content madness! Can't wait to see what you have produced Jak! I still find it odd they are releasing the My Little Pony: The Movie (2017 - most original title ever...) in October, but the reboot of IT in September. Sorry, went off topic for a second. I'm currently playing "Monster Tale" on the Nintendo DS (on my Flash Card because getting hold of a game that was only released in the USA areas won't be cheap). It was recommended on this website: <a href="https://thanksforyourplaying.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/top-ten-ds-hidden-gems/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://thanksforyourplaying.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/top-ten-ds-hidden-gems/</a> It plays like "Metroid" where you explore and find upgrades. You can buy upgrades like in "Castlevania SOTH". You also get a Monster called Chomp, who you can level up and send to the top or bottom screen to attack/activate stuff. It does suffer from the problem it tells you where to go, but then I guess this was designed for beginner players. That's not to say the game is easy. I have died a few times. I would also say "Puyo Puyo Tetris" on the Switch (because no Xbox One version, even know a Japan version exists). Getting my ass kicked by those crazy Japanese players online. Have a great blooming day Jak!

SquareEyedJak

That's been on my to-do list since Top 10 Pet Peeves back in early 2015 so don't worry, I plan on getting to it eventually. And yeah, that's fucking strange for those movie releases. YOU HAD ONE JOB!

Remul Lemlem

Well I have pre-ordered Metroid Samus Returns. Comes out next Friday. Be playing the shit out of it once it gets delivered to my house. Also I'm looking forward to your Skylanders series review. Enjoyed you Spyro's Adventure review. I have played it myself. It is a good game but some people just don't want to play it just because of how Spyro looks. Which I find stupid. If one character design is enough for someone to not play the game and hate the series. Then they clearly have some problems. My favorite part of that review was when you said "Fuck you! If you said any of that, shit without playing any of the games!". It was nice to see another Spyro fan, look past how Spyro looks and gave the game a chance and saw how good it actually was.

wheez

Sup Jak, new patron here! I've been playing uncharted: lost legacy. Same story for all the uncharted games for me; audio, story and characters are great, but the gameplay doesn't do much for me. Loving the patreon updates Jak. Keep up the good work mate!

SquareEyedJak

Nice, I missed Metroid myself, I should really get on that. But yeah, I'm keen to jump back in, got a lot more figures and other crap for some of the later titles. really is a shame that people got so mad over it, like I can see why but complaining over a characters appearance instead of other things like the "pay to win" model is just dumb. And to that point, I bet the people who complain about Skylanders figures being cash grabs have purchased plenty of Pokemon cards or any other variant in their lifetimes... ridiculous!

SquareEyedJak

Hey cheers mate, I've still got to play Uncharted 4 but I just haven't had the time unfortunately.

Atri

Ma boi. I see that you really doing all you can Jak. You don't stop do you? :3