Patreon Update: What I'm Currently Working On (Patreon)

Hey everyone I haven't really done one of these updates in a while so I thought now would be a good time to do one.  

What have I been working on?:  Right now I am editing the Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart Review.  I hope to have it out in the coming week unless I think of some really cool but time consuming edits to make.

When the game was revealed I wanted to do a series marathon of reviews leading up to Rift Apart's release but since the game ended up coming out later than I thought and it became incredibly hard to get your hands on a ps5 due to covid and shit and I only managed recently to get one by pure chance a luck that idea was scrapped.  After I played the game it really energized me to replay the series so I then planned to do that original idea and release them in order with the final one being the Rift Apart Review.  I replayed through the first two games and got halfway through Up Your Arsenal even though i didn't plan to talk about these 3 then sat down and thought a lot about how long this marathon would take.  If I was to do it, just playing every single game in the series alone (while spending only about 10ish hours give or take on each game) would be another 94 hours.  That's without even taking notes, writing the videos, voicing the script and editing everything. 

 If you follow me at all or listen to the end of video credit sections I always talk about how many video ideas I have.  There is so much stuff I want to do and cover and there's simply not enough time to do it all.  I wanted to have the Yakuza 2 and Drakengard 1 Retrospectives out already but that clearly didn't happen.  Along with all the new games coming this year I want to cover like Lost Judgment and No More Heroes 3, not to mention all the Kill the Past games leading up to NMH3.   Plus the mountain of ps2 games I want to gush about and all other random shit that peaks my interests.  And of course the video I've been talking about since 2019, The Berserk Retrospective.  I am very eclectic which is why the subjects of my video uploads seem to be picked via dart board and often I jump from one video idea to another which is why sometimes videos I mention at the end of other videos or on twitter never came out.  I still want to do most of them but sometimes something else just really captivates me and I just have to make a video about it right away so those original plans get put on the back burner.

So what's next?: After the rift apart video its finally time for Yakuza 2 to have my full, undivided attention.  This will take a lot of time to make (hopefully only 2 months max but it will probably end up being more) since I will be covering the original Yakuza 2 on the ps2 plus Kiwami 2.  But it doesn't stop there because I plan to play Kiwami 2 on both the ps4 for the original release experience of the game with 30fps and all its other issues.  Then play the pc release of the game with a bunch of mods like combat fixes, music restorations, filter removal and any other funny things I come across.  Hopefully this video will end up being even better than the first one.  I think it will, I have some really cool ideas for it.

The Berserk Retrospective:  So I feel like I've been doing nothing but hyping this video up for 2 years now.  This isn't exactly false but the reason its been put off for so long is because I want this video to be my magnum opus, something I could happily put out and say "this is the greatest thing I have ever made I am so proud of the final product."  Something genuinely impressive that will wow everyone.  Because of that I keep pushing it back because I "don't feel like I am ready."  I'd rather wait and do it when I felt I was completely confident in my own skills to make something of this level.  I've been learning how to do new things that I plan to implement in the video like adobe after effects with the help of my friend Stache for animating manga panels and other cool shit.  I have two parts of this video plotted out and really happy with them, the current issue is figuring out how I want to structure the overall video and how those two parts will fit into it.  Berserk is incredibly important to me so this has to be perfect, anything less is unacceptable. 

Where is Everything Wrong with Yugioh?:  I'll be completely honest I have zero desire to make any more of these.  I got really burnt out on making them because its basically doing the same exact song and dance every time and it got old.  There is so much different stuff right now I would rather focus on and try to make.  I'm sorry if that's the only content that I make that interests you. I won't say that I'll never make one again but don't expect a new one for GX season 3 anytime soon.   Thank you for your understanding ❤

New Patreon Tier: I went and made a 3rd tier for $7.  As of right now the idea for it is to give people some more behind the scenes progress updates.  For now I want to experiment with putting out rough cuts of videos.  These will be of varying lengths and will be incomplete versions of eventual videos.  Stuff that would be missing is completed effects for an edit, missing footage, etc.  In some cases stuff in these rough cuts might not even make it to the final video as I decide it doesn't fit for whatever other reason.  I want to start with this for now since its a way for people to see stuff early and behind the scenes without really gating content for those who can't afford.  Other ideas I have for this that I might implement at some point are publish the scripts/notes for videos, video polls, maybe do a vlog of some kind once a month.  Maybe they could be video forums of a post like this.

Either way, if you've read this far, support me on patreon or just like my content thanks so much you've given me a once in a life time opportunity and I am grateful for that