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Hi do you still make videos

It's a good video, but one thing I would like to add. If you kill something with an ET they pay out 3x their normal amount, and if you kill something with a UT you get 7x the normal reward. Absorbing yellow essence rewards you with more essence as long as you score a kill. Also, on higher difficulties the new enemies just drop insane amounts of money, upgrading the UF in anything about normal isnt very hard, while in normal I find myself farming UTs to get that bit of extra cash.

you should really mod your xbox, the yellow light is cooler and the ninja gaiden servers are restored now so you can show the whole world how much you suck and also play the hurricane packs. It's really fun, actually.

Watching the gameplay on this type of TV is weirdly enthralling

Thank you for the video man, I love how in-depth your analysis is, we don't have enough people talking about how cool and unique the NG gaiden games are and how they differentiate themselves from games like say DMC

excellent video. keep this format of recording your screen it's charming

Imagine me thinking this video was going to teach me how to suck less at this game...

best video on ninja gaiden black simply bc of the setup

really appreciate your work! i struggle to read dense stuff after a seizure- so insightful, informed essays like this are what i can manage to consume beyond audiobooks. I doubt I'll be able to break into game studies or the spaces surrounding now, but it's really nice to still be able to engage with this facet of my life beyond the surface level analysis offered by most channels. cheers!

What the hell??? Falling on 😭 here! NG running on CRT tv, from an X1 with a PS2 (I'd put a Game Cube but that's me) on the other side! This is the most BAD ASS ninja gaiden video frame ever thought of!

great video

Tfw you're looking for Ornette Coleman's "Video Games" but find a cool video essay. Thanks! Also, check out Jaco Pastorius's "Crisis" from 3 Views of a Secret, which is all the musicians improvising to a constant 16th(?) note bassline without hearing the others parts. It feels very anxious and creative, and it's weird how it came together so well.

It's funny to me how often people complain about RNG likelihood of enemies getting stunned for melee, because that's one of the best changes in the remake. One headshot for melee is just too exploitable. It's just too easy to repeatedly headshot one guy once and then melee a huge group. Same with the lack of laser sights and random spread for weapons - it's just better balance to have some handguns be less accurate at long range, but do much more damage. You want pin-point accuracy? You can have that, but your potential DPS will suffer. It also makes the sniper rifle more unique and useful, since you can't always rely on the pistol.

Glad to see your channel back, love this for putting me onto this game

Game seems humble? Blah still the best action game. The movement in this game makes you feel so fluid when you good at it. Literally unsurpassed in that regard. Nice vid

What model is your tv?

this is an amazing mod i was getting bored of prime difficulty being the hardest option this makes the game feel fresh again

you are cooking, great video essay

This is a really good essay! Congratulations

Thanks for the talk, man. Really appreciate it

Bro, is it a utube bug? I checked the list of your video and it says that absolutely each of them uploaded 8 months ago

its somewhat funny how you just come in full force without any introduction, pretense or stating something.

Been watching a ton of psych-driven game design essays recently and thought of this vid again - honestly a banger. It's rare to see anti-psychological thinking in game design circles, I love your vids for it. The flow state is psychologists doing what they do best - conflate, reduce & reverse engineer their way into a bullshit model, then weaponize that model to sap the joy out of the rich varied experiences that inspired it. This is the field that held consumerism as a great enriching ideology back in the day, after all. That said while you approach it from a player perspective I'm gonna say fuck the player and their expression :D Focusing so much on how to trick the player into expressing themselves is really the same type of trap as flowheads fall into. Instead I wanna see devs focus on what they want to do instead of worrying about how to manipulate the player for x and y purpose. If they end up with the most stoic, least expressive game on the planet like a rhythm game then awesome, I respect that a whole lot better than games which are engineered to be about expression based on market trends & statistical analysis. Psychology-based design is formalized risk aversion, a poison to games as an artform.

Excellent video and agreed. If you look at Matthew's Video, all his footage seems to be from the DX versions. I disagreed with his conclusions, and using that version of the game may have been what led him astray. This game solved the original's problems better than Ms. Pac-Man as well. Ms. Pac-Man had randomized ghost movement for two ghosts in the beginning of each maze. This just made the first couple of seconds annoying. If you look at top players, they mostly camp out while they group all of the ghosts and then eat them. This is pretty boring to watch & play. That's why the timer is so important in this game. You can't camp anymore.

I don't know how you got recommended to me, but after two videos you might be my favorite videogame channel at the moment.

This is a great guide! I really hope you have a Part 2. The game had an update or two since launch, and you're the only person I've seen make a video on the most recent build.

Wonder how your doing

Thought I'd comment this on your most recent video -- but I absolutely love all of your videos, you are a phenomenal writer.

Interesting view of the game.

I personally feel attacked I'm pretty garbage at this game. Still a great game and great video tho

YES FINALLY A SONIC CD ENJOYER YAY

I came here from ovandal's "youtube bad" vid. Wanted to say i really like your writing and editing. This was a banger vid can't wait to see more

This shit rocks

as a game design student i have to say this was a great refresher on roger caillois' work (also gave me war flashbacks on having to write essays about him). loved the vid! i'm excited for your next work :D

3 months late to rediscovering this channel but I'm so glad I did. Very happy your videos are back, they're some of my favorites on this platform. Gonna have a fun time rewatching them

dead channel, not suprised

was your original channel taken down?

That seems like it changes EVERYTHING about the game, making it harder in a fair way.

Well, really it only shows one ideology; statism. That's the biggest framework in the game. Nice video, it is indeed, a very interesting game.

It is confirmed that u3 might be a boss in the separate ways dlc

I dont know how i got here but this is a great video👍🏽

holy shit, this video feels like a sequence of precisely calculated blows that hit and hit and hit again. Fucking Fantastic video

Yikes, that’s the first time I’ve been kicked down to 144p 😂

I disliked the remake mainly for three reasons (from less to more important to me): 1. The original looks and plays well enough for me. 2. If you don't have a powerful PC (GTX 1650 is not enough), due to the lower resolution of textures and the upscale, the remake arguably looks worse than the original. That has happened to me before, that a remake in low quality looks worse than the original in high quality and I don't think that should be a thing. I think when that happens the remake isn't really "necessary", but most people may disagree. 3. The spanish voices. I, as a native spanish speaker, loved the voices of the original. In particular the "Detrás de tí imbécil". It sounded so goofy and funny and Ioved it. In the remake, it's just generic spanish which is kinda boring to hear. I think the remake is pretty well made but I cannot really feel like playing it.

Thank you sooo much for reuploading your vids, love referring back to this one and the Bangai-O spirits vids in particular when discussing game design stuff :).

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