action button reviews boku no natsuyasumi
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eye-bright and fun-hungry, how big-of-head a waddler today toddles toward wonder?
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INTERMISSION - 5:15:21
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"summer will come again, with or without me, and i will do it right. should i live to see another of these fleeted seasons, i will live it well, and with truth to my ancient wishes."
The absolute, raw thrill of beginning an Action Button video whilst unaware of its length.
*Edit* This comment is from the upload/livestream; that's why I didn't know it was a six hour punch in the feels. Thought I'd explain b/c I didn't know this would get so many likes!
this mfer is STILL PREMIERING WE ARE BLESSED
It's 2:46am at my place and the video is still not over oh god
@@benisser Don't look at the video description :)
@@Maldito011316 why would you kill me like that!? haha
The cackling giddiness when it's over 4 hours & you don't even know how to pronnounce the game's name.
My part of this project entailed marking and notating raw gameplay footage so that Tim could use it for editing. I saw this game played through both times, but could only guess what was happening in the story until this final product was released.
My favorite revelation (at this moment) is the significance of Boku’s older cousin playing “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” on her clarinet. She’s crying out for a faraway lover.
Alex, that's amazing. Thank you for your hard work and for that insight!
Bro what a trip that must have been haha. Thanks for your efforts!
Came for Tim, stayed for Jaffe!
I know that was probably tedious, but my god, what an honour to have been involved in this work of art. You're so fortunate.
the legendary alex "gorblax" jaffe
I was wondering, "how can a game review be 6 hours long?" After watching this, I wish there were more 6 hour game reviews that incorporated our shared existential dilemmas.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Awesome! Thanks will do
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318Thorhighheels was a fairly recent guest on the Insert Credit podcast, which is hosted by Tim Rogers and one of the contributors credited on this.
how CAN'T a game review be 6 hours long?
The channel "I Finished A Video Game" has some good lengthy retrospective/reviews
I heard a statement recently that went something like “You can’t make a masterpiece without making yourself vulnerable to those who interact with it” and this, with full sincerity, is a masterpiece. Better than most movies I’ve watched
Couldn't have said it better myself. Off topic, but your current pfp was my pfp earlier this year. lol
@@SundreeOFFICIAL hell yeah, fucking love Famicom Detective Club
Looked into your profile for fun ayyy smt music
Unfortunately you can't make a piece of shit without making yourself vulnerable to people who interact with it, either. 😑
😢 omg yes
Wow. Season 2 of Tim Roger’s Action Button’s reviews has come a long way since PAC-MAN
There are seasons??
He is here to talk to us monsters
@@lunarbound9975 Yeah, season 1 was about video games and cyberpunk and their history.
i know, and it's not just another DOOM clone!
⚰️⚰️⚰️
“Places don’t remember us, and if they do- we’re dead.”
this video was tim’s best work yet. so thorough, emotional, and thought provoking. i cant wait to see whats next.
💯
Next is LA Noir. He said so back in the tokimeki memorial review. I wonder what he will find, and the journey he'll take us on :D
While I put the Tokimeki Memorial review on a very, VERY high standard for the sheer entertainment value and mind blowing video editing, this one felt quite a bit more intimate and emotional and has definitely left a much stronger mark on me. I was quite emotional myself during the last segment when Tim recalls his trip back to his childhood town and school. I had a feeling an Action Button review around a game like Boku no natsuyasumi would be quite the masterpiece, I was right. It tangents on very philosophical topics revolving around memory, nostalgia, self-definition and much more. I feel sorry for Tim for missing the chance to reach out to his most influential childhood teacher.
Read just like hamburger, exactly like hamburger, it's a cousin novella of this essay, especially the part 5.
@@zatchi7811 I second this. His work "a friendly letter to everyone" also ties in well.
There is still so much to enjoy in this video. Thanks, tim.
I find myself coming back to this and the Tokimeki Memorial video and watching them in their entirety over and over. It's obvious this guy has other things going on in his life and making videos for CZcams isn't a priority, but man, I wish he would make regular video essays. These videos are are just the best. Tim Rogers is a fantastic writer.
I was just hoping he'd dropped another one honestly.
The videos are high priority. He actually spends like 12 hours a day every day on these youtube videos, they just take forever to make. A hurculean effort! but the finished videos are my all time favourites :)
@@yonanovack4140 Yea, masterpieces through and through.
He streams once a week on Twitch, from time to time I check that to see if he is still kicking, if you want news about his videos you should go there.
@@briansilva3765 I will! Thank you.
After this sat in my "watch later" list for 3 months, I clicked on it thinking "I'll just watch a few minutes to confirm that I don't want to watch a 6 hour review of a game I never heard of". Instead, like I had crossed the event horizon of a black hole, I couldn't stop watching, and every second, I was getting sucked in faster and faster.
This is one of the most amazing videos I've ever seen. Like an amazing book, I'm tempted to start it again right away, to experience it again and see what I missed. If 3 times is too many times to play "boku no natsuyasumi", how many times can I watch this "review" before it's too many?
Lol just thinking same shit I’ve been watching on my phone for the past 4 days lol.
FYI I first found him last week from a dragon quest 11 review… I hated him so much I researched him…. Now I can’t get enough..
@@PixelGod240 I originally saw some random video of his on Kotaku. Hated it. At a later point saw he had his own channel. Attempted the final fantasy video. Wasn't my vibe. About a year later I ran out of stuff on CZcams and his pacman video got recommended. It bore a hole into my brain and I have since listened to all of his videos many many times over. Love his writing so much
@@leftovernoise
Going on Kotaku was your first mistake.
😮😮😮
i love how tim rogers' verbose vocabulary rubs off on anyone who has the pleasure of experiencing his work
As someone named Alyssa who definitely DOES NOT hate you and who ALSO happens to be from Kansas this episode was quite a trip for me.
did you attend minneha elementary in wichita kansas between 1985 and 1990 lmao
@@ActionButton Unfortunately no. I'm from another part of Kansas (near Topeka actually) and was born later. Still a heck of a coincidence though!
I like your use of capitalisation in this comment which allows us to read it in the classic Tim Rogers cadence.
@@MintyDragonfly 😂 exactly what I did.
Topeka, Kansan here too! 👋
Tim Rogers, much like a wizard, is neither late nor early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
Underrated comment
👏👏
Unless we die before the next installment :/…. That happens you know….
@@Puppy_Puppington Even those born unwise need not to perish empty.
Whaddya mean LIKE a wizard?
My oldest son is 7. Very much still a boku. He grew up in Southern California and is certainly not Japanese. He does the head thing you described from your date all the time. When he does this head tilt, it is usually accompanied by a statement in the form of a question. It goes something like this, "I'm going to school tomorrow?" Or perhaps, "I can't have more cheezits?" I often joke about this with my wife, but your story gave me a moment to contemplate his mannerisms. I have often asked if this is a learned behavior. I don't care where it came from. I just am glad that I've spent that extra moment to appreciate it. There are many small moments that flow past as time moves on. I've forgotten some of my children's silly younger habits that used to amuse my wife and I. Thanks to this moment of reflection, I don't think I will forget Jack's head tilt.
my mom died yesterday. She had parkinsons and dementia. Even before she died, I kept going back here. I took care of her for 3 years. I keep thinking about this. Its the most beautiful line, a shattering animal. Ive never heard it explained so well. Thank you so much for that.All of what we are is animal, not just our memories.
Before watching this video, I’d never heard of Boko No Natsuyasumi nor Tim Rogers. And yet, I’ve just watched six hours of this stranger talk
about a game that I didn’t even know existed when I started the video. This is truly one of the greatest videos I’ve ever watched on this site, and it’s most definitely the most thought-provoking and eye-opening video game review I’ve ever seen. Thank you everyone involved for making this, you have truly made an incredible piece of art.
You should watch his tokimeki memorial review.
You should check out the rest of his work including his kotaku videos
highly recommend the doom and Pac-Man videos.
Tim’s videos are unlike anything else on CZcams. He is the Final Boss of video game journalism. He is the Beginning . He is the End. He is Action Button.
my brother showed me him one day long ago and i have been eating his content ever since. He's never missed.
Shout out to Karl Zitterkopf, dropped his shoe into a hole and ate an entire pizza, did not get his 5 dollars. Legend.
He’s not allowed to invite that boy over ever again
Should have just showed up at his house and handed him one shoe.
😂
@@swarmland don't do that
Knock it off kiddos
Hey I unexpectedly burst into tears three times watching this and embarrassed myself in front of the warhammer models I was painting
its all right man
@@Rachel-Pham oh it was more than alright
@@brandontone7430 they understand
i'm also watchin this painting my warhammer models haha
This is why I only paint inanimate objects.
I was so surprised and delighted to see a foreign CZcamsr review this game in such detail. This game is truly my all-time favorite. I've lost count of how many times I've cried while playing and watching it. While more recent games may have better graphics, nothing is more nostalgic for me than this game. The adventure, scenery, sounds, and overall experience always remind me of my childhood memories of summer vacation in elementary school. As a Japanese fan, I sincerely hope that more people around the world get to know and play this game because the content is truly touching and interesting. If you understand the conversations in this game, I guarantee that you will fall in love with it immediately. Even after more than 20 years since its release, many Japanese game streamers still play this game.
The fact that a fan translator announced that he was working on a translation of BokuNatsu 2 actually made the news a couple months ago.
I'm pretty excited to get the chance to play it for myself.
I started playing it to learn Japanese and now I really want to go to the Japanese inaka and get the full bokunatsu experience. I wonder if they'll find it weird to see a grown-ass man with a bug net and a kite
@@nisnastjust to let ya know, if you haven't heard already - it's out, and it works :)
Hour one: _This is so chill heck yeah_
Hour three: _Oh, wow this game I never really knew much about truly is fascinating! I love learning!_
Hour five: _I am bawling my eyes out and reconsidering the way I think about existing and memory and nostalgia and what it is to Be._
I never thought i’d be ending a shift at work weeping at the existentialism and human-ness in this “game review”
oh hey, i know how to play that Glocca Morra song because of your tabs. hi!
Tam this bangs
I knew this was gonna happen with how the cyberpunk review talked, and then the opening. It was worth the wait!
I’m not crying
Can't wait to spend 6 hours watching a detailed breakdown of a game I've never heard of. My body is ready.
This. I’m so ready.
Wait till you discover "what game?"
i just saw clicked here for the first time and Its 5 hours and 57 minutes in, so you nailed it
Good guess lol
i got 10 minutes in and couldnt deal with it any more, good luck
I genuinely mean it when I say that this video has literally changed my life. Thank you Mr. Button.
where the fuck is he?
The man is a literary genius, and a regular genius
how did this video change your life? I'm genuinely curious lol
@@SqueakyJpnidk before this video he hadn’t seen the video
I must have seen it 6 times already. I just love it. I am way more appreciative of my past, of the experiences I lived, the ones I did not, and I am content with who I am. While this video is not the only reason for this, it certainly played a big part. I need to contact one of my teacher until it's too late!
Just wanted to quickly say something to Tim. This video came out right at the beginning of one of the most difficult chapters of my life. Actually have PTSD now, and I'm talking to someone about it, the worst of it is finally starting to subside. I am finally at a point where the worst of it has passed, and this chapter is coming to a close.
When I was having frequent panic attacks, I'd put this video on. The relaxing summer sounds of the crickets, the wind blowing through the trees, the way my dark bedroom would glow yellow from the sea of sunflowers. It helped me get past it. This game that I've never heard of prior to the patreon post about it, that I'll almost certainly never play, you transformed it into a whole, beautiful world that I could escape to when things got too hard.
Thanks, man.
Glad you're making it through it friend. Good luck with the recovery. Try to remember to keep healing even when things feel easy, and take every opportunity for joy.
Those are cicadas, god I feel like a dick saying that. But they're cicadas and katydids
@@Yixdy my friend, there are _also_ a significant number of instances in which crickets can be heard in this video. Sure, the cicadas are more prevalent. But there isn't anything necessarily wrong with their comment.
love when people put a whole sob story in the comments of a youtube video, buy a diary
This is the beautiful thing about art. I hope you’re doing well.
Tim Rogers is honest to God my favorite reviewer of all time. I think there's a magic that's brought to his reviews just by virtue of the way he abandons a neutral voice and tries to explain rather than how "good" or "bad" a game is, just explaining his connection to a work, the way his life enhanced and helped him understand his connection to the work. It makes his reviews so much more meaningful and impactful and resonant than a straight up numbered out of ten review of a game. His reviews are an essay, an op-ed, a history not just of the game but of Tim himself, and it becomes a significant and interesting piece of art in and of itself. I just think it's neat.
Damn well said
Replying to bump this higher on CZcams's comment system
Tim Rogers pioneered the Gonzo Video Essay and honestly, I stan
I recently learned that there's a word for the style you're describing: Autoethnographic
He truly is creating art and I can only watch in awe
My Roommate: "What are you watching?"
Me: "It's this 6 hour long video game review of an old Japanese game, I'm two hours into it already"
My Roommate: "Damn, what's the game about?"
Me: "Uhm... I don't actually know yet... but the menus are cool!"
This is the true Tim Rogers experience.
it's about a kid name boku and his summer vacation, he probably mentions that in the first 30 minutes with 15 of those being the boku triple meaning
@@AntonioCardenasT I'm still weirded out about the kid's actual name being Boku. It's like Master Chief's real name being John Halo.
@@nedinnis6752 More like if Masterchief's true name was "I am Halo"
I hereby demand Tim Rogers to come back and make more bangers
These videos are timeless
swear, he cooks everytime
It’s been too long. I need this 8 hour long L.A. Noir video to hurry up and be finished! 😂
He streams every friday on Twitch, just in case you weren't aware. And there are archives of at least a lot of those streams. They're not the same as his videos but they're definitely on par with anything I'd want to watch/listen to him talk about or play games about. I'd personally refer to them streams as bangers, as well as his top tier videos.
Two of my friends (those being two of the people I know whose opinions on art I value the most) suggested I watch this video, and thank god they did because this might be one of the best things I've ever seen online. The emotional gamut I've just been run through was indescribable and enlightening, heart-wrenching and inspiring. Thank you! Just thank you.
By the way, when you started talking about your memory condition I was so struck because my memory is VERY similar and oh my GOD does it suck! I agree that photographic/eidetic isn't the right term, so I've taken to calling it an "archival" memory. People in my life make fun of me for it often, in a good-hearted way. Once my sister called me after therapy and asked me to tell her about her own childhood because she knew I'd remember it better than she would. It's... neat in its own way, but also mortifying because everything that has ever happened (including terrible things!) feels so close all the time, ya know? I often feel like nostalgia and all the powerful memories of things that are gone forever might swallow me whole. So... yeah, I exist as a comrade in this very particular type of suffering.
tell your friends i said hi
also, your experience with "good" memory differs from mine in one key area: no one in my family dares consult my recollections lmao. they'll argue about such and such tiny detail of some long-past nonsense in my (admittedly seldom!) presence, micro-glaring at me out of the sides of their eyes all the while, fearful perhaps that i'm about to stand up and yell "WRONG!!!" i just kind of let them sit around and hive-lie about and to one another in vicious spirals during any and all family gatherings. maybe that's a subject for a later essay . . . . . .
@@ActionButton Absolutely will do!
Mm, I can definitely imagine how that energy would come about. I also try not to get too into it with people like that. Arguing (or clarifying) about details of past situations or conversations always makes me paranoid I'm going to sound like BBC Sherlock or something. Like, someone could say "I never said that" and I could retort with exactly what they said, and when, and where we were, and what the room looked like, and WHERE in the room we were standing, etc. but not only is that pedantic as hell, I'm also hyper-aware that sometimes it probably sounds like I'm just making shit up. Like when I'm telling people stories about my childhood and including these incredibly mundane details, their vibes and expressions are often along the lines of "riiiiiiight." And I guess what else would they be?
But I think a lot of the people closest to me (including my immediate family) also know I've got all of our shared memories on tap for whenever they want or need them, and that's nice for them. I feel like the curator of a vast library that is usually also only patronized by myself, but others can come and go. And maybe some of them are like "Why do you even HAVE this library?" Anyway, I'll look forward to that essay!
Hey Tim, I know it must be hard, or at least tiring, to bare your heart in these videos, but I'm really glad you do. Your scripts make me reflect on my own writing and they're very emotional. I'd say you even managed to make me feel nostalgic for the nostalgia you felt for Topeka even though I've never been there. Thank you for this series, for introducing me to this game, and to being here.
There's only one problem - "inverted" vertical controls should be viewed as "normal," as they're the natural way to use vertical movement with a stick. Anything else is simply wrong. As much as I respect Tim, he dropped the ball on this with his personal opinion that is clearly a matter of individual preference.
@@RabidDogma how do you mean the "natural" way?
@@AnarchoLoserist I'm pretty sure it's a joke. Only a *weirdo freak* would think there's anything natural about a joystick.
@@AnarchoLoserist because irl you pull your head back to look up
@@rosaistired bingo
Hearing Hbomb pop in right as I was finishing starting to tear up was just the juxtaposition I needed, thank you
I just sat in disbelief thinking "No way that's hbomberguy." and then said out loud "Oh my god. That's hbomberguy."
I literally had to put down the dishes I was washing to grab the sink and cry and then I didn't know wheter to laugh or cry. Well played.
@@solomon9655 He also narrated a hilariously bad review from an old game magazine in Action Button's review of Doom
@@jamesmoore3879 the famous “talk to those creatures” review?!
I’ve watched this three times over the last year. Every time the story of Jerri just leaves me an absolute wreck. Just ugly crying.
Call up your teachers, tell your mom you love her, let someone who moved you know they’ve done it. Tim moved me with this essay. You’ve moved someone in your life. Our relationships are the threads that bind us to this world, they are the heart of our very souls.
I've watched it a few times myself, love his work..... he's been quite the whole year now... wonder what he is up to?
@@genomstudios2159 He has social media and a Twitch channel. He's currently working on Action Button Season 2 Episode 1: L.A. Noire.
@@willuigi64 much appreciated man.. I dont use twitch and have looked at his twitter but that seened dead... Thank you, I will check that out
A friend recommended this video to me, Ive spent the last few nights viewing as I prepared dinner for my family. I'm not confident I've ever witnessed a more masterful piece of cinema. This video had me staring into the distance like a jerk in headlights, unlocking memories i havent opened up in a decade. Thank you
I love whenever Tim talks about a conversation held in Japan, and sometimes, usually for a negative response, says it entirely in Japanese, untranslated in any form, and I then have to either understand some of the words or intuit what was said from what Tim says later in the review. These little things are actually fun to notice.
I'm not exaggerating, or being hyperbolic here; I've been watching CZcams since 2007 and I actually think this is the most genuine, thought provoking, and simply best thing I've seen on it.
Thank you for sharing, Tim.
On the contrary I have no fucking clue what he’s talking about. Something about games. Maybe it’s the cadence that throws me off putting words in one ear and out the other
this is ear candy for weebs like us.
Tim is an artist of his field. Most video game journalists can’t come close to what he does, honestly.
I don't know about CZcams in general, but for video game related CZcams videos this is probably the best I've ever seen.
yes, I wholeheartedly agree, it hit me and changed everything
the transition from 5 to intermission literally had me crying and confused because "wtf is hbomberguy doing here while mortality is squeezing the tears out through my throat?"
Beautifully worded 🙏🏾
Best. Ad. Ever.
Hbomberguy is not a good person.
@@mattymclaughlin5900 what did he do (honest question i have no idea)
@@PokPau Literally nothing. I think they're just fishing for reactions.
This is going to feel like a strange comment amidst the jokes and general appreciation for this review, but it feels necessary to share here. I live in Lewiston Maine, last night a man shot dozens of people with 18 confirmed deaths and my town is in lockdown while a manhunt is ongoing. I woke up this morning at 4:30 am with a text from my manager confirming that our store would not be opening today. I started rewatching this video because I suddenly found myself with a long day inside the house that would, without distraction, become fraught with stress.
I have watched the video in chunks in between ritually checking the news and updating friends and family that yes, I am safe. I just finished part 5 and I've found myself intensely overwhelmed by the knowledge that this event is going to become The Thing that the city I live in will be known for. I will get older and I will continue to live in Lewiston and it will become The Maine Town With The Bowling Alley Shooting. If I live to fifty, sixty, seventy, my nostalgia will become of this event. I will try to carve out a life that feels worthwhile amidst streets that will become internationally synonymous with The Gun Control Debate. I and my wife are unharmed and my friends are, thankfully, blessedly, safe, but we are in the fulcrum of a traumatic event and I feel like part 5 of this video understands what I am going through, despite my situations being so separated from the reason Tim decided to create this video.
I will venture on and watch part 6 to completion so that I can say I spent the first and hopefully only day in lockdown absorbing this video as a way of embracing another's experience across decades. I think I will remember this day vividly. This review's empathy comes in unusual ways from oblique angles, and the genre of pain I've been feeling today, in spite of its specificity, has felt appropriate to the emotions Tim wanted to put forward. So I wanted to say thank you, Tim, for sharing this and yourself with us
Good post. I know this feeling all too well, having grown up in Colorado, near where the climbing shooting happened, I went to highschool with and my sister was friends with one of the September gay suicides children (rest in peace Harrison, and all the rest,) an unsolved bowling alley shooting in Littleton, the shooting at the movie theater in Aurora during the Dark Knight rises, etc. After this is when I started seeing shootings become popular across the country, not just a few miles from my home, it really seemed like for the first half of my life that these things only happened in Colorado for some reason. But there were always more shootings in my area, somehow they seemed to catch national news a little bit harder and stock around a bit longer than some, at least when you morbidly compare tragedies. . .
Anyways, your town likely won't be remembered for the shooting, speaking from my personal experience here, this is rather unfortunate I think actually, as it generally means nothing will actually change.
Thanks for putting guns before lives Republicans.
America moment
I'm in absolute stitches listening to the story about Tim's cool older co-workers arguing over whether or not he should play boku no yasuasemi. He sounds so worshiping of how cool they are, it's great.
Natsuasemi
@@WearWolfeAssassin nailed it
Book of nasal passagey
Right!? My gf and I had a bet and she got pretty close!
Does anyone have a translation for that anecdote? I know Tim summed it up later that the crew chief was expressing that he felt it was creepy when foreigners engage in Japanese culture, but there seemed to be some crucial nuances in the delivery. Really wish Tim had at least subtitled that part.
POV: it's 1995 and you went to an Oasis concert. By some struck of luck you managed to get a backstage pass and a chance to meet the band. When Liam and Noel start arguing you meet a third Gallagher brother (Normal Gallagher is his name) who pulls you aside and starts talking with you about an obscure japanese videogame for over 6 hours
gd that gave me a very good laugh, thanks
I'm a big Oasis fan. If only they have half the talent tim has they would be bigger than the beatles
Yer gunna 'ave ta give this wicked Boku no Natsuyasumi a look 'ere our kid.
the hair really does make him look like a sibling lmao
god damn, man. i love the visual. like i was really there. thank you.
That final monologue concerning the dead friend really got me. Such a beautifully written meditation on death and reality. Thank you for being so vulnerable on camera Tim.
This will always be my favorite...thing on CZcams. Unless Tim tops himself again. Probably rewatched this 10 times already and every time it's just as incredible.
Its 6 hours
Me, a British: uh when he *whats* again?
Hearing about Jerrlea "Dunn" Johnson Puntch actually brought me to tears. That was a beautiful monologue.
Seriously, same here.
To quote the late, great Terry Pratchett, “No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.”
Tim Rogers brought Jerrlea "Dunn" Johnson Puntch back to life, in a way, by sharing her with us through this video.
The reflection on Eichii Ohtaki really got me in my feels
@@TheUtterChrisp This all inspired me to contact an art teacher I had 20 years ago. One of the most passionate teachers I ever had. He just LOVED this.
I'm about to enter into a new career, as an artist, and I am totally going to connect with that person that may totally not remember me, just to thank him. I remember his classes a lot and it may very well have led me, 20 years later, to actually act on this and stop my boring job. We are the sum of all the experiences we lived, and even if it seems small compared to all of them, it still counts!
It must be amazing to know that you had such an effect on someone else in their formative years. I wish Tim had closure with Jerrlea, but this video really honored her memory, it's amazing.
"Even those born unwise need not resign to perish empty." gonna stick with me forever.
"I was born stupid, but i will not die hungry!" In a more somber tone. Once again, very well played by Mr. Rogers.
I know he will never see this comment but this dude has really changed the way I think about life. In one of his reviews, he talks about maybe inspiring someone who inspires someone who does something great. I believe these silly game reviews are actually historically consequential in this way. Modern age does not create much of a forum for philosophy or actual free exchange of ideas. He has taken an unguarded corner of the modern media landscape and planted a theoretically permanent flag for simply slowing down and thinking. Much appreciated
Well said.
genuinely think this is the greatest video on the platform
This was lovely. As a Wichita local, and someone who grew up in and around Kansas City, that whole segment affected me more personally than I imagine it was written to. I remembered the meeting I had and the meal I ate in that Towne East Mall food court with a friend that I made through your work. I remembered my father driving me around his home in Hayesville on our first visit here, the day I was to move in to my dorm room. He talked often and passionately about the memories he had, the streets he ran down, the ways that people treated him in his classrooms there. He left when he was six, and it still matters to him more than anything that I did before I was that age. I am not him, and I am not you, but that cordline connection between those stories moved me in ways that I couldn't expect. Thank you.
i'll let you know next time i'm in town for a tico
@@ActionButton if it were any other content creator I'd take that as a joke. But I fully believe you will dm this person the next time you are in town.
@@janefkrbtt thats the thing with Tim... most of the time u cant tell if hes kidding or super serious or sarcastic.
And thats also what makes him very unique haha
yeah as another native kansan, that whole section blasted me. it's nice to see our unassuming state play so important a role in soemething.
Was born in Wichita. Though I was very young and have moved a lot in my life (I’m Tim’s age), the visual imprint that Kansas left on me will always be there. Like you, the sequence affected me in unexpected ways. Even the Taco Tico love was a sort of rush. I never expected it survived the last 30+ years that I’ve been gone.
genuinely tearing up. s1 kept me going for the long brutal years of 2020-21. thank you, tim
I honestly wish there was a leader board to see who has re-watched s1 the most times
@@leftovernoise I've watched every S1 Action Button review at *least* 3 times.
Except cyberpunk. I've only done a completion run of that one *once*. And trust me, for a video of that magnitude, once is plenty.
(How'd you like my impression of Tim Rogers's voice)
@@imnotimportant6831 haha, definitely read that in Tim's voice. I've run through the cyberpunk videos at least 3 or 4 times, and many more for the rest, but, I have 12 hours a day at work to listen to something in my right ear bud, and when I'm out of new things I listen to some of my favorites over again
@@imnotimportant6831 you can really hear the at least, nice
@@imnotimportant6831 guess what, buddy?? I've ALSO watched s1 in its entirety AT LEAST 3 times. In fact, I'm STILL watching it right today in September 25th 2022 at 19:37 in my imagination while I watch this premiere of s2e1 in a hotel while covering myself with the greasy residue of the things I've never never experienced at least 3 times!!!
... I guess that basically makes at least 2 or more of us, kinda...
I dont know who you are, snd this vid just got pushed to me.
I sat and watched the whole thing. All six hours.
Yoire an incredible story teller. Im all tears at the end of this story.
I never thought I'd shed a tear for a man starting at a bucket of caramel popcorn like i did at 4:08:26 . Damn it Tim, write a book already 😭
He has, he just won’t let us read them
"Before David Cage found his paper crown in a bin behind a burnt-down Burger King" is gonna stick with me for a while, what a phrase.
Sometimes you're like "Tim Rogers can find the depth and love in anything, he hates nothing", and then other times he'll wrathfully smite a fool with a perfect 16-word burn.
@@brandoncarbaugh7994 yeah this is like the most negative ive seen him
@@brandoncarbaugh7994 Tim Rogers can find the depth and love in anything, he hates a fool with a perfect 16-word burn.
I ⏪ at least 3 times every time I get to that point in the video. ♥️
RIP David "Rusty" Cage
Your games were never good, you just had Sony's cake.....
As a French speaking dad, I revelled in the joke: “mercy boku”
Me too.
A common "Not-French-speaking anything".
Thank you for explaining the joke
🥁
@@lemfandango right?
As a native French speaker myself, I'm ashamed to say it took until Tim's amused smile before I realized the pun.
This is a very special piece of media and art you have created here. Nothing would inspire me lately and I felt empty. I see sunflowers in a different way now and I will cherish it.
This IS the best video game review of all time.
primary takeaway from this video is that im fucking jealous that you saw number girl live twice
they were so good
@@ActionButton Did you see any Zazen Boys?
@@admiraloregano4535 you missed the action button QTE
Wow. Meditations on memory sure have come a long way since Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.
A+ comment
I'm not a particularly superstitious person, yet I can't shake the feeling that this video appeared in my life at the exact moment I needed it to. I'm normally turned off by super long videos, but I kept this one in my Watch Later playlist for a couple days since it had so many views and there was so much glowing praise in the comments. I checked it out for a few minutes to see if I would even enjoy a 6-hour video on a game I've never heard of, from a guy I've never heard of. Initially, I was expecting it to be a pretty good review that would open my eyes to a hidden gem that I should consider checking out, even if it ended up being a bit too long for my tastes. What I wasn't expecting was to resonate so heavily with both the themes of this game and the reviewer's experiences surrounding it, and to be enamored with every passing minute.
Currently, I'm at a crossroad in my life, though it feels more akin to sleep paralysis. It's like my life is happening around me the same way over and over again, and I'm helpless to do anything about it. I recently graduated college, but "recent" is becoming less and less of an accurate descriptor as I'd like it to be. I spent four years wandering aimlessly through college, two of those years spent under quarantine, having plans on turning around my life, but then graduating with the feeling that I blew every opportunity I was given. I have a degree that I'm not sure I want. I didn't make the connections with people I had hoped to. I can blame the pandemic as much as I wish, but the truth is a large part of how things turned out are a result of my own failures. After college, I tried to find a job with my degree, and it took me a solid 6 months for that to happen. In the meantime, I did a whole bunch of nothing. As the new year approaches, and as I prepare to start my first job out of school, I shudder to think how it's possible for 2023 to both feel like one of the worst years of my life, and yet I struggle to find many distinct memories to anchor that feeling onto.
With all that said, there was something in this video that was particularly sobering to me: the idea of "everyone doing childhood wrong." It's easy to get caught up in everything I've done wrong, remembering chances I didn't take, mistakes I made, moments where my life's trajectory could've turned out completely different had I made the "correct" choice. It's refreshing to see a game where the most satisfying of alternate endings comes not from the rote pursuit of pure, completionist perfection, but rather by just being willing to meet the game on its terms, being curious and enthusiastic about what it has to offer, but not becoming so wrapped up in "not missing out" that you neglect to enjoy what you are able to experience in a finite amount of time.
It's truly beautiful how a man I've never met talking about a game I've never played could have such a profound impact on me. I apologize for my meandering, verbose, self-indulgent comment, but I suppose meandering, verbose, self-indulgence is one of the many things that makes this review so great. I'm eager to see what else Action Button has to offer.
thank you sharing your experience
@@funployee thank you for reading! I honestly wasn't expecting anyone to see this lol
Is this how the British public felt in 1972 when the BBC broadcast John Berger's Ways of Seeing series? I do not play video games. I do not watch people playing video games. But I just watched a 6 hour contextual critique of a video game and I feel so aware of how, like Berger theorized, Tim's perception of this game tells him more about himself than the work itself. “We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.” Ways of Seeing had a companion book; I would read a companion book to this video.
Reviews are ways we try to talk about works of interactive art, but always end up talking about ourselves instead.
I'm kinda shocked at how much I cried during this video. I'm also someone in Wichita (right now actually) with childhood memories that constantly replay, and other memories for that matter. I have PTSD, and had always thought myself a person with a terrible memory, much like the rest of my family. I now know that my family never really forgets anything, and that trauma locks away entire passages of our lives because we can't simply forget the Bad Times like our minds ought to. I went through a lot of therapy and learned, rather out of the blue, after accessing some of the other awful moments of my memory: there it was, everything else, too.
I watched this video, I heard about Rohit and Rahej; I remembered Nazim and Deepak, whose father owned an Indian restaurant where I have formative memories. I remember the restaurant, and also whenever I remembered the restaurant, I remembered that too. I looked him up; maybe it's time to go home again, now that I remember why I felt like I missed it, but couldn't place why. Thank you, Tim.
Love this comment. Hope you're doing well.
@@maria_remedios
Beautiful comment
And that's the beauty of this video. The game review is just a jumping off point for so much more. Boku no natsuyasumi forced Tim to go home and revisit his memories directly. And provided catharsis for so many people along the way for so many reasons. Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Tim.... Thank you for having HBomberguy lighten the mood after you hit me with that philosophical, emotional giant bag of bricks. In all seriousness, part 5 of this review can stand on it's own as a masterfully written and delivered memoir. It speaks to the soul and all that it means to be alive and human. I appreciate you showing this genuine and vulnerable side of yourself. I know it's much harder to do in this sort of medium, as opposed to simply writing. This is so much more than a review of boku no natsuyasumi. This was truly thought-provoking and inspirational to me, and I won't forget it.
Damn dude, this hit hard. I watch your reviews in chunks and started this before my best friend died, he was also a fan of yours.
I just recently finished it.
This study on nostalgia, youth, and loss is brutal but what I needed to hear at this time. Thank you.
I finished this review like weeks ago, but I still keep coming back to chapter 5. Tim, I think you've permanently altered my being, as a writer, and as a person. Thank you.
4:58:59
Thought I'd translate the little bit at 50:28 because it's utterly hilarious and charming:
"The idea of a foreigner playin' Boku-Natsu--it's just creepy!"
"'Creepy'...?"
"...It's like you're reading every page of my diary...
...Just, no."
Thanks! I needed that!
Thank you very much!
Cheers for that. Added a little something.
Thank you, through being a weeb I had half understood what was being said but I needed the confirmation that I had understood well.
The delivery of that "Kimochi warui tte...!?" was sending me regardless
Tim translates these lines as a reveal for non-Japanese speakers like...a couple minutes later in the video itself
I absolutely love the idea of a game whose best ending is achieved by scoring like 60-70% on the game.
I know, sounds like my kinda game
Yeah, I agree. It's a good rule that the most challenging way to experience the game should be optional
Final Fantasy X-2 has the main character move past an old romance that's ended if you get the 70-99% ending but becomes permanently obsessed with rekindling it despite it being impossible in the 100% ending
@@vfxninja5503 underrated comment. ty for this insight
@@vfxninja5503 my favorite part is that the 100% ending is fucking insane and requires you to mash the fuck out of x during two specific parts of the game, get specific cutscenes to randomly trigger, has no way to know if you fucked it up, and even with a walk-through it sometimes just doesn't work. it's a really cool way of making its point clear imo
On my third viewing of this video, finally signed up for the patreon, currently in the Kansas (literally where I grew up), in summer, sitting on a hammock with a lukewarm beer in the woods listening to cicadas, crickets and watching evening slowly descend with sporadic fireflies. Have spent last 3 weeks doing this and fishing with my 11yr old cousin in the creek back here and generally doing nothing. Just finished medical residency 3 weeks ago and have another 3 weeks before I start my first job as an attending physician back in the Boston area where I have been the last decade. I lived in Osaka for 2 years before and during medical school doing medical research. The summer vibes I got in Japan and the ones I experienced as a child in the USA in the midwest, and now the nostalgia I am living for these few weeks as someone in their early 30s make this vid, in particular, hit hard. So well done and comforting on like some primordial level. This video, more immediately, also has made me be more willing to sweat my nuts off in this humidity and keep going out to go fishing and play catch with my lil cousin these few weeks as you have made me realize how these could be core memories forming for him just as they are sort of nostalgic tourism for myself.
I watched this 20 minutes at a time during the most difficult time of my life. 6 months later I want to live in it again.
Tim Rogers has to think about his entire life before he reviews a game
Just like Dewey cox has to think about his whole life before he plays.
Suggesting, then, that some of the greatest video games can inspire in us various permutations of existential musing. I would tend to agree with him, if that is indeed how he thinks.
making a pie from scratch
@@felix5287 I think we first have to invent the universe, do we not?
@@garydiamondguitarist He is basiclly asking and answering that question in each of these reviews.
“Nostalgia resounds loudest when we feel a feeling that forces from us a declaration of ‘I didn’t keep this’”- Tim Rogers 2022. I Will remember this quote forever
Great comment, excellent quote.
It's also profound to think that one span of 30 days in Boku's life can lead him to 5 drastically different futures.
A single moment can drastically lead to different paths in life. Not surprising!
5 hours into a game review and I am crying.
The voice, like butter. The drip, immaculate. The content, spectacular.
The comments, sublime. Honestly I have yet to read a bad one. He's the video game reviewer connoisseurs of the form come to see, I swear. Those who have believed that for the longest time, video games can be art, but more than that, they can be an amalgamation of several forms of art.
@@garydiamondguitarist Yes, the comments are sublime, including these two 👌🏻❤️!
The hair, mid-2000s teen boy.
like gravel more like
2 hours in and praying that he clears his throat soon
This is a genuine masterpiece and I implore anyone who makes it here to watch it to completion no matter how long it takes you
Should only take about 6 hours and 12 minutes.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 No.
6 hours and 12 minutes.
@@minty9245holy shit this comment is funny
2 months in currently. Keeps getting better and better. Just wrapped up part 5.
Thank you for making this. It’s really something special
I just found your channel not too long ago, but I have to say this review is some of the peak game reviews I've seen. If there's a conversation about games as art, there should be a conversation about game reviews as art. My girlfriend and I watched your Boku No Natsuyasumi review, a couple times now, and there are just so many notable parts. Your delivery is perfect. The humor is spot on. You hit me in the feelings, you taught me something new, you shared stories with me that I won't soon forget. Thank you for letting us into your life, and sharing with us your very soul. You may not have felt it, but you received a little part of mine too. This will be a review, that I - now in my forties - will likely remember until my memory fades. And thanks to you - I can now say "Boku No Natsuyasumi" 10 times fast. :)
I think Boku's day beginning at 9, and being called in by his uncle at 5 was intentional to mirror a typical 9-5 work day. Each day begins with calisthenics, an old Japanese workplace tradition. After his morning exercises are complete, Boku is sent off to his summer day job of exploring, catching fish and bugs, or not doing nothin' until called in by his uncle as if to inform him his shift is over.
In adulthood we often see our 9-5 jobs as a time of stress and look forward to evenings and weekends to relax and unwind. In contrast Boku's only job was to relax.
"Only freaks and liars do childhood right"
I felt that
I cannot imagine how profound and intense creating and uploading this was, nor the pressure one might feel afterward regarding any possible future releases, but...
...please make more. These are true works of art. You have no idea what these videos do for me and countless others. I think I speak for many when I say we miss you.
I love your reviews, they're so enlightening. I do not get tired of watching them.
it might be impossible for me to express how meaningful part 5 is to me. i can only say thank you, and that you’ve earned a weird, pivotal piece of the rest of my life. if all works of art are such odd time capsules of the selves we can’t always carry, i guess know, for what it’s worth, i’ll carry this piece of you.
I agree. Part 5 was simply incredible.
Agreed. Part 5 was my favorite Tim Rogers thus far.
Tim is one of the most thoughtful and vulnerable speakers that exist
I think it's testament to the quality of Tim's work that this is probably the only CZcams comment I've ever seen which I have considered writing down. The video is amazing, and so is your comment!
As someone for whom memories are extremely vague, more like themes and general periods but lacking in much definition, specifics, or detail, nostalgia has always seemed to me to lack much appeal. I have not often felt it, because my brain forces me to live in the now while reflecting on the past feels like grasping at air that slips through my fingers. But with Tim's raw emotion, I've been able to understand so much better and even dredge up a few things I thought had been lost in the dark corridors of memory. Thank you, Tim. In many ways I feel like my life has been the opposite of yours, but rhymes in interesting ways that I can't help but notice. Thank you for letting us in, and inviting us to reflect on ourselves.
That was a wonderful comment. Tim has touched your heart I see.
@Dimir Doppelganger Beautifully said, beautiful sentiment ❤.
This is me 100%. Put better than I could myself. Well said!
This was the first Action Button review I watched all of the way thru, and now I’m watching it again having finished season one. What a wonderful encapsulation of all of the stories in season one while also perfectly creating nostalgic feelings.
This video introduced me to your channel, and im so glad I found it! I've watched all your videos so much. cant explain it exactly, but they've been helping me through a stressful time in my life. this video in particular really reached into my heart and stirred it all up. Can't wait to see the rest of season 2
Have you ever went so long without realizing you needed something so bad?
Oh. I knew I needed this.
@@mibo1065 haha well said MI BO. Respect the legends
Yeah. Specifically the return of Tim
Therapy and Lexapro, but this is good too.
yes, true love
I really believed him when he said it wouldn't be 5 hours long.
You should know, by now, if he says it won't be 5 hours long, it is because it will in fact be 6.
I remember him saying that the Cyberpunk 2077 review would be 8 hours.
@@DracoSuave I've learned my lesson today.
@@tkyooh I think we all learned a 6 hour lesson today.
Ya new here kid?
This video is the best work of art I have seen this year. Or more. I am rendered speechless with amazement.
im honestly glad you take the time you do between videos because it actually takes me that long to watch them fully and appreciate them fully. never stop never stopping tim.
For anyone who clicked on this video, got intimidated by the length, and stopped to read the comments…I implore you to watch this in chunks over time. These reviews are more akin to enjoying a good book. So take your time and enjoy. It’ll be worth it. I watched this entire video over the course of a week and I’m glad I did.
Yes!! No more than one chapter a day, that’s how I’ve been doing it :)
Only watched it mostly listen to bcs I was midely sick, stuck in bed for 12 hours and couldnt get up to turn it off... Otherwise no thanks. Most of it, it's rambling and repeating things, feels like he had a stroke or something... this video shouldn't be 6 hours long. One hour maximum if even that much. It's ok to review something and throw in your life experiences but when you drag it out to 6 hours with repeating and rambling nonsense then my dude you need to get a life instead of putting together such videos ... But I guess this is typical content for him since this is the type of community he created here (subs)
The overall message about the game is ok at best. He didn't invented hot water after all, nothing groundbreaking at all...
Another thing that stood out and I remember him wishing that more games be like this when most indie games are pretty much just like this and even free or dirt cheap ... So not sure wtf is this dude rambling over that much ... If you want to play some normal games dig for them, if you cannot be bothered then just stop playing games billions of people including myself stopped gaming, you can do it too. Plenty of places and activities in life to replace it with.
Besides he said his favorite game is a Mario game, that is something a washed up hipster would say so with that said cannot take him seriously even slightest for the other things too. Of all the games out there and alegedly you playing them when you say you like Zelda or Mario games you lost all credit. It's been a hipster fad for some time now and it's really sickening. So not sure if he throws in these as hipster credits or wtf is his agenda but seems like the dude have issues trying hard to fit in the ''cool'' zone but still mixes it with some sob stories like it means a damn thing.
You can't make me not watch the whole video in a day, this video is my entire personality now 🤣
I watched this in chunks over weeks and months. Only just finished, but happy I did. I was happy to let each part marinate before continuing. Perfect.
Should I play the game before watching?
The "western release" box art is absolutely priceless
i have 1h left of this video to watch and i know i'll be sad when i finish it. i never knew about you until i randomly got this video recommended and it instantly hooked me, i've been taking my time watching each section whenever i could, just, thank you for making this. i love it
My favorite CZcams video of all time. Thank you, Tim.
I think I'm going to remember "I am all of the places I have ever been, all of the time" and "places don't remember us" for the rest of my life. Thank you for making this. And thank you for part 5.
This is one of the most human things I've seen. Thank you, Tim.
Honestly one of the best CZcams videos I've ever watched. Maybe the best? This was amazing.
This is seriously one of the greatest youtube videos ever and must be the best about a videogame. This was very emotional to me having a rough childhood and videogames have been such a positive force of escape. Thank you ever so much for making this video. I will be watching much much more of your channel.
"Jet Moto does NOT predate Waveracer but you gotta admit. It LOOKS like it does."
This will be the thing I point out in the comments here.
This was a joy to watch and listen to, thank you once again.
Tim is the GOAT of video game reviews. Proving critique is in itself art.
Noah is GOAT. Tim is second for sure though.
@@themanwithnoname5310 Who is Noah?
@@aaronburns9538 Noah Caldwell
I just wanted to say I just discovered your videos and while I found the first one I saw hilarious, this one gave me some much needed reflection. I won’t post a huge essay about how i personally connected with a lot of what you said in part 5, but I did. And it came at a time when I needed it most. I lost my mother very suddenly last year and it all just hit me, right where I needed it to.
Thank you.
I come to this video, in an hour of need. Tim's wit and soothing voice calms the suicidal voices running through my head. Thank you Tim. Waiting for your next video is keeping me alive at the moment.
“It’s a me, Alan Wake” delivered in that dead tone had me in stitches 😂
I know right? Attaching a Mario reference to such a po-facedly serious game like Alan Wake was brilliance incarnate.
The transition from crying over your last words (of section 5) into the bedtime island section was sublime emotional whiplash. Thank you.
I watched this in one sitting; purely amazing Tim. Thank you.
Your videos are endlessly fascinating. I listened to it at work today and I'm still pondering what I just experienced. Keep up the great work man.
This comment was outdated the moment I wrote it. I've never watched a kotaku video, Tim Rogers has been producing insanely good content for a long time now.
I was the "rochelle" of my class. People found a reason to make fun of me even though I was alright. Very middle. Nothing noteworthy. But I rubbed a kid the wrong way and soon I became the target of mockery, with kids reaching far to find a way to twist my name into disgust. Like Rochelle I was smart enough not to fight it; that would be pointless. I used that opportunity to make new friends. Associate with new people. From that year on I only associated with the "different" kids for the rest of my school. The only friends I made were troublemakers or quiet kids. We shared laughs and scowls. It's good to know these people. But becoming "outcast" damaged me permanently, I realize now. I don't know if I would change anything, having shared secrets and confidence with other outcast kids. But I am damaged, still. Rochelle undoubted is too. My sympathy is with her.
Um it’s dawn now
Feel like this game fit your review style even better than even Tokimeki Memorial, which was my previous favorite episode. As always, I love the obsession with always putting relevant footage in the background, even going so far as grabbing footage from other games. That Metal Wolf Chaos shot over your "I did hate my home country and I think everyone should give it a shot" was perfect.
Es überrascht mich überhaupt nicht, dich hier zu sehen :D
The Tokimeki Memorial episode is the first time a video game review made me genuinely emotional.
Edit: And this is the first video game review that made me openly weep.
So grateful for your incredibly long videos. Not only are your features highly detailed, well researched and every point being served with perfect context, the smooth and consistent tone of your lecture prose is one of the best sleep aids I’ve discovered in years.
Thank you Tim.
thank you for this thorough, gorgeous and thoughtful experience!!!