August Update (Patreon)

Hey everyone! I thought it might be a good idea to give all of you objectively awesome people a quick overview over what’s to come and what I’ve planned going forward.

So first things first! A huge thank you to every single one of you! I started this Patreon thingy without any real expectations and more like a thing to slowly grow over the years to come and it is already a massive help!

Honestly, I can’t thank all of you enough! You are amazing and I am eternally grateful!

So what do I have planned going forward?

The next thing we’ll do is take a look at discoveries the Mario Maker 2 community made over the last couple of years on the Gaming channel. This video however is only going to be 2/3rds about SMM2 because we’ll chat about Game Maker Garage as well - the other user generated content game Nintendo released. There has been a lot going on in this community over the last couple of months and the community desperately needs someone with a bit of a reach to tell people about it.

Afterwards I want to start with the Zelda series on the Perspective channel, starting with Majoras Mask. I’m still conceptualizing (which is a fancy word for I still have no idea) how exactly I want to cover those games. My current plan is to make those videos a bit shorter (I’m aiming for about 45 minutes per game) and to not only cover the games - but to also tell the tale of Nintendo’s home consoles since the N64, because there are some aspects to this story that seldom get discussed. We’ll probably talk about Phillips and Fidget Spinners and Final Fantasy 7 and DVD players. It’s going to be great (or a total mess)!

In between we’ll discuss Outer Wilds - one of my favorite games ever created. I’m really looking forward to it! At around this time Super Mario Bros. Wonder will release and we will certainly cover that as well - though I have honestly no idea on what we’ll do with it - since I obviously haven’t played it yet.

Finally, I thought I’d share a couple of thoughts on the Perspective channel, what to expect around there in the future and how I try to approach those videos. So first things first. I got a lot of feedback on the analytical videos that we did before the break, that the content is becoming very negative - and I understand where this is coming from.
It was never my intention to make negative content (a lot of it was honestly just a result of YouTubes algorithm pushing me into a certain direction) and it’s something I hope to avoid going forward. While there will always be things to criticize and negativity is something that is impossible to avoid entirely, I want the videos to be something that is overall more positive than negative. For this reason I plan to only cover games that I overall really enjoy. There’s also a second layer to this. Producing those videos takes hundreds of hours of work. I’m not super hot on spending hundreds of hours of my life working on something that I don’t enjoy just to tell all of you how unenjoyable it has been.

So when we’ll talk about older games, I’ll only cover stuff I overall enjoy to avoid the content from becoming too negative going forward. The only exception that I want to make to this, is when it concerns new developments or things that are of relevance right now. You know, if Microsoft ends up buying Capcom, or if Nintendo plasters the next Mario game with loot boxes, then we’ll have a discussion about it that ain’t going to be nice - but otherwise I actively try to avoid this.

Finally, finally. I thought I’d give you an overview on what games I plan to discuss on the perspective channel alongside the Zelda series. Not all of those games will get their own video but they are all games that do something interesting and that I enjoyed a lot.  It’s “Inscription”, “Subnautica”, “Supralands”, “Fez”, “Shovel Knight”, “Tunic”, “A Hat in Time”, “Bug Fables”, “Celeste”, “Braid”, “Portal”, “The Witness” and  “Psychonauts” alongside the more commonly known games, like the Souls series, the open world bethesda games and this weird Nintendo series about this guy plumbing things alongside the other twenty two games that I forgot. If you are looking for something to play and have missed some of those games: The games above are all games that I one hundred percent can recommend to anyone.

Actually finally this time for real. A huge thank you to all of you again. Content like the one I’m doing has a really hard time surviving on YouTube and you wonderful ladies and gentleman are all making a real difference in making sure that those videos can exist.

May your days be fuzzyfull!

Ceave