nice review man
anyways in my opinion the game is just fine but damn i agree fuck that motion sickness
Art returns from a 2 year nap and takes a look at Pac-man World 2. Is it as good as he remembers? Probably not, but that's a spoiler!
OH GOD I STARTED THIS IN 2016. And it's finally done, and it's 27.5 minutes long. Fun.
Also here's a fun drinking game: take a shot every time I say "nice change of pace"
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Man oh man has it been a long time since I've done one of these. Two years, jesus. I knew I said I was going to take a break from AU Reviews, but it was never meant to be that long. I started writing this one in December of 2016, but it was never meant to be part of season 1, but then it became part of it after I changed things up, and since it was so long I thought it would be the perfect one to return with. I've got 3 or 4 more that I started in 2016 that have a bit of work done on them already, and one from 2017, and they'll all be out before the end of the year. This time I'm serious. Unless something awful happens that keeps me from working, but that's only a slight possibility.
So the production process behind this one was interesting. I tried a different writing process than I used for the other reviews. Before, I would record the footage, and then write the script as I watched the footage back, but this time, I wrote the script as I was playing, or rather, I wrote down my thoughts on each level after playing them (and during) and then I converted those notes into a script, and that made it be more in-depth, and thus, it became 27.5 minutes long. Would've been longer but I cut some lines out.
Anyways, this method was interesting. Idk if I'll continue to use it, I'd prefer these videos to be around 10-15 minutes, this is way too long for a regular episode lol. Also, the writing method also lead to a more spontaneous feel to a lot of this. The other reviews kinda had that too, but it's way more evident here. Another thing, hardly any of the script was changed after my initial thoughts, so it's mostly just first impressions, unlike the other reviews, where I had more time to reflect on how I felt, and although this lead to some great reactions, it does mean that I don't entirely agree with some of the points I made, upon reflection. Ultimately though I don't think it matters since this is moreso for entertainment purposes than actually trying to be a legitimate critique, and I definitely think the video is entertaining, despite its length.
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Written, Animated, edited, and Voiced by ME
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"Ambler" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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nice review man
anyways in my opinion the game is just fine but damn i agree fuck that motion sickness
Motion sickness bad
Nice
So the visuals are nice but I get what your saying about how crazy it could be you show how bad, I think some subtitles would work really well this since there is a lot of talking going on, but I will say that this was a nice experience learning about this.
~~SUGGESTED IDEAS~~
Maybe just some subtitles
~X~
Man I get a whiff of that motion sickness just watching this video. XD Those early days of 3D huh... I ran into those problems with pretty much all the early FPS games too, including DOOM, but usually it didn't really kick in quite this fast. A bit more bobbing here with all those jumps. Don't think I've ever played any of the 3D games with this franchise but just the style brings back memories. XD N64 era FTW! As for Pacman: my best memories are probably the big Google Pacman binge a few years back... when they had it in their logo. Even managed to extract the script so I could play it offline when they took it down. Good times.
Anyway this was a thorough review! I pretty much like the spontaneous approach to the script, it feels natural but elaborate, with a lot of focus on technical aspects as well as personal impressions, and a solid conclusion at the end of it. You move between game footage and animation at a stable pace too! Grand end and all. XD And intro. And everything. I wouldn't mind more 30 minute episodes but yeah, 10-15 seems like a more moderate amount! The more the better for those monetary purposes though?
Nice work with this one anyway, and looking forward to the third! Great music too @MistyEntertainment !
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Oh man if you can feel the motion sickness just from the edited footage then I can't imagine how bad it would be for you actually playing it! I used to get motion sickness a lot more as a kid, but I don't remember getting it for this, but it happened every time I tried to play it when making this review lol. It wasn't the only thing giving me motion sickness though, but it did have the worst effect. It really is that camera bobbing.
Yeah, I haven't played any of the other 3D pacman games except for this one, and I guess Pacman Fever, which doesn't really count since it's a party game, but I've heard good things about the other Pacman World games so I'll definitely give 'em a shot at some point, and maybe even review them since I already did this one ;3
The N64 era of 3D platformers was great, but they certainly have their fair share of problems, I think Yooka-Laylee is a good modern example of that, at least from what people have said, I haven't actually played it yet, but there's been so many improvements on the genre since its inception and apparently it had none of them. It's still probably my favorite genre of video games though, mostly for the nostalgia lol. I remember that Google Pacman, it's always interesting when google does that sort of interactive logo thing. You extracted the script to play it off line? lol man that's crazy.
I'm glad you like the spontaneous approach. The more of these I write, the more spontaneous they get. I figured it would be a good style to separate it from other video game reviewers, that and it being animated. I wanted to give these a sorta shitpost feel with how crazy the editing can get, plus the awful jokes X3
Natural but elaborate, that's a good way of describing it. Probably the hardest part of making these is bringing it all together for the conclusion and making it flow well, so I'm glad you thought the conclusion was solid!
Also good to hear the animated bits are paced well between the gameplay, that's always a worry of mine, especially when posting these on Newgrounds. idk how many more 30 minute episodes there will be, this one just kinda happened because I took a different approach to writing it, and I kinda wanna experiment with other methods to see which I like most. Most of them will be 10-15 minutes, but I'm pretty sure I wrote one that's like 40 minutes so I'm not entirely looking forward to how long that's gonna take to make lol. A longer length is definitely better for youtube, since the algorithm favors watch time, but it seems to be that if a video is at least 10 minutes long then it doesn't matter the length, it'll get the same level of favoritism as the other videos that are over 10 minutes long, so it probably makes most sense to just stick to around that length so it's less work! That would imply that I'm actually capable of writing consistently-lengthed reviews though, which I'm not lol.
There's plenty more reviews to come, it's just gonna be a while. I probably should try to focus on them more though since the length and subject makes them more likely to gain traction on youtube than a cartoon, plus they take less time to make!
And yeah, Chris' music is pretty great ;3
Loved it!! Glad to see your review style of video with animation cause I was question if something like this would do well on this platform. I might make my own! So thanks for the inspiration. Loved your video!
Thanks! Yeah, originally I was gonna do this series with live action instead of animation, but I had no way of filming at the time so I decided to do animated bits instead and because animation is limitless, it opened up a lot of possibilities, plus it means I can put it on newgrounds and not feel too bad. I was still a bit hesitant uploading these here, but I figured it was fine since there was 1-3 minutes of animation in the episodes, and some of it isn't reused. With the way I do the animation in these too, it's pretty quick to make, so it's easy to get these out frequently when I actually try.
I'm glad I could inspire you!