Pause Menus Shouldn't Be This Good

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  • čas přidán 12. 03. 2024
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Komentáře • 514

  • @hamzahkhan4067
    @hamzahkhan4067 Před měsícem +2938

    Oh god, he's back on the menu design, someone call ATLUS and see if there are any survivors in their UI department

  • @ahchurro111
    @ahchurro111 Před měsícem +1822

    What’s on the menu tonight, Alax? Menus? Ah, good.

    • @eyy_man1162
      @eyy_man1162 Před měsícem +3

      nice pfp :)

    • @ndimensional15
      @ndimensional15 Před 8 dny

      wait holy crap I didn’t know you watched alax small world innit

  • @dekucake4395
    @dekucake4395 Před měsícem +827

    7:39 Are we just gonna ignore the fact that he named his character "Shrek 2 DVD"?

    • @divinerose7193
      @divinerose7193 Před měsícem +94

      Even better thats where the name of your group goes so instead of “the phantom thieves” they are “shrek 2 dvd”

    • @dekucake4395
      @dekucake4395 Před měsícem +13

      @@divinerose7193 oh, shit, you right lol

  • @ZeeMid
    @ZeeMid Před měsícem +1306

    My boyfriend convinced me to play P3R, and every damn time I see the UI it blows me away. It’s fuckin wild

    • @prplbowtie
      @prplbowtie Před měsícem +82

      tell your bf he's a good man

    • @ZeeMid
      @ZeeMid Před měsícem +50

      i do! he can't go an day without it :3

    • @BelBelle468
      @BelBelle468 Před měsícem +17

      I really didn’t expect to like the new UI as much since the original was themed around “circles”, but I think reload mixes both circles and water themes together really nicely.
      The UI especially stands out the further into the game you go. It’s one of those amazing design decisions that pop out especially after the game finishes (like a lot of the dialogue and other design choices do). I hope you enjoy reload!

    • @elicenyne
      @elicenyne Před měsícem +14

      welcome to the persona fandom! *you will never escape.*

    • @ZeeMid
      @ZeeMid Před měsícem +3

      ​@@BelBelle468the water motif completely enamored me haha

  • @andreio_
    @andreio_ Před měsícem +958

    7:13 "he even kills himself, so relatable."

  • @crimsonchaos7224
    @crimsonchaos7224 Před měsícem +366

    Now it's my turn to sound like I'm smart, specifically for P3P: You've played the original P3, and you've gotten so used to the ever present tint of blue that, at times, you completely forget about it. Then, later on, you're getting ready to play P3P, but as you start up you see something... new. Something different. A choice. A force convinces you to select the new option, whether it be curiosity, preference, or hunger for a new experience. Either way, the game starts, and all of the menus are just as you remember them... except that the blue you've grown so accustomed to has vanished. In its place, all of the menus, from the calendar to the battles, have been dyed a gentle pink. For you see, like the menus, the game itself remains virtually unchanged. However, the pink reminds you that playing through the game as FeMC presents an important change that shall follow you throughout the whole game.

    • @OneNamelessHero
      @OneNamelessHero Před měsícem +22

      Well said! It's a small change, yet everlasting. Even manages to change the game's tone

    • @topasu9454
      @topasu9454 Před měsícem +2

      yikes

  • @JustsomeKid93
    @JustsomeKid93 Před měsícem +27

    Joker in p5 menu: I’m smashing the corrupt constructs of society!
    Makoto in p3r menu: “help me, I am under de water”

  • @bearfaery737
    @bearfaery737 Před měsícem +411

    1:44 Still more than most fans

    • @Orpheus3896
      @Orpheus3896 Před měsícem +4

      Wdym still more

    • @kkkggg19
      @kkkggg19 Před měsícem +48

      ​@@Orpheus3896The average fan hasn't played even one.

    • @Orpheus3896
      @Orpheus3896 Před měsícem

      @@kkkggg19 I must agree but I’ve completed persona 5 royal 5 or 7 times beat portable and reload my gamer card is OPK11 and you see my achievements for persona 3 reload and 5 royal and portable aswell I didn’t really like golden unfortunately but arena and blazblue are great

    • @aregularfan7506
      @aregularfan7506 Před měsícem +12

      @@kkkggg19 I'm glad that playing the Persona games, starting with 5, has even led me to play the mainline SMT games then lol

    • @oniuserjh
      @oniuserjh Před měsícem +3

      @@kkkggg19 ill have you know, ive played 5 of them(3 if you aren't counting spin-offs) and have finished 2(1 if you aren't counting my rage quit of p3 fes, after a 30 minute loss to Nyx due to night queen into heal the boss shenanigans )

  • @poiri
    @poiri Před měsícem +380

    1:44 confirmed not a real persona fan

    • @Orpheus3896
      @Orpheus3896 Před měsícem +7

      Wow fr I used to be like you he’s not a real persona fan but that’s not true

    • @10pitate
      @10pitate Před měsícem +6

      at least he plays the game(and not on youtube)

    • @Orpheus3896
      @Orpheus3896 Před měsícem

      @@10pitate fr

    • @togz813
      @togz813 Před měsícem +27

      Nahhh... If you play 0 to 1 you are a Persona fan. Any number above you become a Megami Tensei fan (not to be confused with a Shin Megami Tensei fan)

    • @mangaprofilepicture5820
      @mangaprofilepicture5820 Před měsícem +7

      Not literally everybody in these replies missing the joke

  • @KingK1421
    @KingK1421 Před měsícem +508

    You’ll end up making this type of video every time a persona game comes out lol

    • @relaxalax
      @relaxalax  Před měsícem +362

      so once every ten years!

    • @theshaggs4023
      @theshaggs4023 Před měsícem +22

      ​@relaxalax if only smt had this design, like smt V ui is so bad, I hope vengeance makes it better.

    • @youdontneedtoknow7548
      @youdontneedtoknow7548 Před měsícem +16

      ​@@relaxalax As a Pikman fan that's relatable.

    • @anotheramber7074
      @anotheramber7074 Před měsícem +12

      ​@theshaggs4023 at least re fantazio is going to have some beautiful menus! (I really hope they touch up the UI for SMTVV)

    • @eyalamit5120
      @eyalamit5120 Před měsícem +3

      ​@@theshaggs4023 Nah it was more than serviceable. It was just nothing mind-blowing.

  • @Ozzymandius1
    @Ozzymandius1 Před měsícem +79

    “Continue, restart, exit.” - Siddhartha Gautama (525 BCE)

  • @nazareth._.
    @nazareth._. Před měsícem +84

    Those UI are so good that I used it a lot of times in school art projects

  • @milksoup3575
    @milksoup3575 Před měsícem +96

    The world ends with you and Neo: the world ends with you have some of my favorite Ui and music ever, along side Persona

    • @F1nicky
      @F1nicky Před měsícem +8

      someone besides me actually played NEO:TWEWY, thats surprising

    • @Braiden__
      @Braiden__ Před měsícem +4

      Such an underrated gem. I would kill for a remake of TWEWY

    • @enkephalin.
      @enkephalin. Před měsícem +1

      SO ZETTA SLOW!@@F1nicky

  • @Exeggutorking
    @Exeggutorking Před měsícem +89

    Mother 3 changes the music to really calm when you open the pause screen. The most serious moment just happens and you open up the menu screen to hear elevator music. This is hilarious

    • @coleabraham4350
      @coleabraham4350 Před měsícem +2

      Just noticed that, i am playin it a second time in ages bro.

    • @Exeggutorking
      @Exeggutorking Před měsícem +1

      Hinawa just died and flint went to jail. You open the menu and relaxing elevator music plays. Or theirs a huge robotic pig mech is in front of you and you open the menu to restore someone’s hp and the relaxing elevator music starts playing

    • @TheSteelDialga
      @TheSteelDialga Před 17 dny +1

      Hell yeah, that menu song is sooo good

    • @Exeggutorking
      @Exeggutorking Před 17 dny

      @@TheSteelDialga so relaxing I wish everyone else had the ability to hear it, ITS BEEN 18 YEARS AND 3 DAYS AND YOU. STILL HAVENT LOCALIZED IT NINTENDO. Sorry. But it’s so relaxing

    • @selassieaspen9940
      @selassieaspen9940 Před 8 dny +1

      They did say they're not localising it. ​@@Exeggutorking

  • @hannes143
    @hannes143 Před měsícem +11

    "Persona is one of my favourites"
    "I haven't finished Persona 3 yet"
    Every Persona fan, amazing

  • @JoKeRs_Kidol
    @JoKeRs_Kidol Před měsícem +105

    "Joker and his property damage" lmao

  • @tokka9150
    @tokka9150 Před měsícem +8

    Your enthusiasm is contagious bro could talk about shoes and I'd be excited

  • @arthurpprado
    @arthurpprado Před měsícem +8

    One game with pause menus that I really enjoy is Astral Chain, because of how diegetic it is. You are not freezing the game in its tracks to look up information about the game or make adjustments, it's the protagonist checking their own mobile device for the items they're carrying, information about the current case that they've been cataloguing, the state of maintenance and upgrades of their legions.
    The protagonist doesn't even leave the screen during the pause, the camera just moves until they are on the left corner and the menu is visible to the player.
    It also helps that the save menu is separate from the pause menu, contextualized as a PC at NEURON HQ, where it makes sense to make a more complete report of the current events and keep all that information saved.
    Those things really help keep you immersed in the game, since you're not broken out of the game setting when you need to pause

  • @mario_co1290
    @mario_co1290 Před měsícem +4

    love your editing style and the type of content that you make alax, at the moment you are like one of my favourite creator don't worry about the time that a video need and don't feel obligated to put a schedule on you, relax we will wait❤

  • @DeaNarSon
    @DeaNarSon Před měsícem +9

    10:07
    We need a clean rip of this remix that should be named “Soup and Soda” 😂🤣 the unofficial new theme for RelaxAlax

  • @gamingwithahandicapreviews
    @gamingwithahandicapreviews Před měsícem +25

    One of my favorite pause screens is in Tak 2 the Staff of Dreams I love it so simple but great!

  • @PSIUser658
    @PSIUser658 Před měsícem +11

    Awesome vid!
    Very happy to see you talk about Persona again after so long!
    As for other UI topics, how about UIs on Visual Novel games like 999, Danganronpa, Persona 3 Portable nyeh, Famicom Detective Club?
    Perhaps talking about structure and functionality of them?

  • @Shadow2237
    @Shadow2237 Před měsícem +18

    Persona 4 Rerun UI bouta be godly I can already tell

    • @MrRim91
      @MrRim91 Před měsícem

      i would love for it to be in a comic book art style

    • @generalgarchomp333
      @generalgarchomp333 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@MrRim91more likely to be early anime themed considering the whole TV theming.

    • @absentooo
      @absentooo Před měsícem

      i can feel it in my soul

    • @ScorbunGame
      @ScorbunGame Před měsícem

      I can actually see that being the title if they do a P4 remake.

  • @Rojo7500
    @Rojo7500 Před měsícem +18

    Menus are very cool I like them
    10:07 Cool Dk sound

    • @Rojo7500
      @Rojo7500 Před měsícem +1

      Rivals of Aether has a cool menu if you wanna look at it
      rivals of aether is cool in general

  • @Tails_The_Fox92
    @Tails_The_Fox92 Před měsícem +12

    His voice when he said "A BLUE CLUE" sounded so much like Josh from the show. It's uncanny.

  • @thecollinscott
    @thecollinscott Před měsícem +4

    I became a fan of Persona soon after Reload came out so seeing one of my new favorite youtubers cover it makes me so happy. Alax, if you see this, I’ve been watching video game YT for over 12 years since i was 9. Seeing where you’ve gotten your inspiration from others and watching you turn it into your own special thing has been a blast! Here’s to more years of silly video game videos :)

  • @celestialwaffle1491
    @celestialwaffle1491 Před měsícem +16

    I just realised you are Scott the Woz for people with brain rot. Keep it up gamer.

  • @angelopotenza9180
    @angelopotenza9180 Před měsícem +2

    Bro this is one of the most hilarious video I've ever seen, you deserved a new subscriber

  • @NSTT
    @NSTT Před měsícem +1

    What a crazy well built video. Subbed!

  • @ScorbunGame
    @ScorbunGame Před měsícem +3

    Another thing about P4's UI, notice how the battle screen has a rounded black border resembling a TV set when irs a characters turn. This both ties into the TV world itself and one of the games central themes of "people only see what they want to see."

  • @Krischenn
    @Krischenn Před měsícem +1

    So good to see that mug again! Hope you're doing well, Alax!

  • @TheMoonPersonTV
    @TheMoonPersonTV Před měsícem +3

    you fr been filling out your frame bro you look great

  • @Azure1013
    @Azure1013 Před měsícem +3

    Congrats, you found your way back into our recommendations!

  • @blueskullz95
    @blueskullz95 Před měsícem

    I may not be able to watch your videos day 1, but I do make note when you do and get to it when I can. Your videos are always so fun to watch.

  • @GianlucaSmash
    @GianlucaSmash Před měsícem +3

    your videos are special alax.
    i really, really enjoyed your videos and still do.

  • @HaythamFadhil
    @HaythamFadhil Před měsícem +2

    I've actually been trying to break down and recreate the P3R UI and MAN OH MAN, the timing and layers and masks/mattes, they really did God's work on that UI design, and all I've done is the pause menu and All Out Attack splash screen!

  • @chromefacedkarma
    @chromefacedkarma Před měsícem

    Man, I love your videos. Keep up the good work, man.

  • @thomasburns6289
    @thomasburns6289 Před měsícem +12

    Great video, I enjoyed the entire thing before commenting

  • @frankie8969
    @frankie8969 Před měsícem +1

    I’ve been waiting for this video

  • @Green-su1mo
    @Green-su1mo Před měsícem

    I really respect this new sponsor, it’s not intrusive and it helps you channel out a ton! Ontop of that, you got a damn good website builder! Also great video!

  • @davidpt
    @davidpt Před měsícem +3

    Fuck, this is my time watching you but you're so fucking funny and the editing is so good

  • @MillyKKitty
    @MillyKKitty Před měsícem +1

    This is just a good, entertaining and educational video about different UI designs.
    I also absolutely adore Persona 3's new UI. It feels so soothing and hopeless, fitting the themes so well

  • @Poppybe
    @Poppybe Před měsícem +4

    I also feel like the main colours of the uis reflect our main characters.
    The persona 3 protagonist is depicted in media as melancholic, sort of somber, struggling to truly enjoy things in life - so the colour blue as the colour of "sadness", but also "calmness" fits him.
    The red of persona 5 is bold, almost agressively. This, I think, represents how bold in his goals the p5 protag is, trying to change the whole world for the better, while also showing how passionate he is about everything.
    Yellow is the colour of happiness and warmth. Which might fit how Yu appears to be the source of happiness for a lot of people around him??? Idk I haven't played most of persona 4 yet tbh so I don't have a good idea of the mc (I was gonna write about how the social links in 4 feel more deeply connected to the mc than in 3 but idk if that fits my previous writing well.)
    Sorry for the long comment!!

  • @darrenchao5902
    @darrenchao5902 Před měsícem

    i ADORE the editing and the fakeout in the beginning, i was so ready to skip forward LOL

  • @ai_dan50cal73
    @ai_dan50cal73 Před měsícem +1

    this was a rollercoaster of emotions.

  • @_MYSTICWOLF
    @_MYSTICWOLF Před měsícem +1

    thank you for thisss, i LOVE THE persona menus to deathh. they are soo aesthetically addicting, and nice on the eyess.

  • @ichi_san
    @ichi_san Před měsícem +1

    this video had me cackling, this was genuinely entertaining to watch

  • @ozzie506
    @ozzie506 Před měsícem +4

    I will admit I have a problem where I pause P3R just to look at the menu and forget to play. It’s literally beautiful.

  • @bashy241
    @bashy241 Před měsícem

    You've gained a subscriber bro. You are funny as hell, and concise with your video topics. Keep up the great work man!

  • @LopousLIVE
    @LopousLIVE Před měsícem

    Great video as always Alax

  • @tkOzeki
    @tkOzeki Před měsícem

    This is the first video of yours I’ve seen, loved every minute of it. P3 Reload has the best pause menu of all time and I’ll die on this hill

  • @b2j135
    @b2j135 Před měsícem +1

    I quite enjoyed this video lol VERY creative alax 🥰🥰

  • @sirsqueeko
    @sirsqueeko Před měsícem +2

    Thank you for the Ice Climber menu, best theme imo. :)

  • @Thinepickles
    @Thinepickles Před měsícem

    How have I not discovered this gem of a channel until now

  • @Anuca
    @Anuca Před měsícem

    I love the p3r menu, everytime I pause it's just so clean.

  • @desh206
    @desh206 Před měsícem +4

    He made a 14 minute video about just a menu,great job Alax

  • @adamkampen
    @adamkampen Před měsícem

    You felt very comfortable talking about this and it was very enjoyable

  • @wolfdogdav
    @wolfdogdav Před měsícem

    i knew you would and im so happy you did

  • @parasyte_exe
    @parasyte_exe Před měsícem

    Looking Cool, Alax

  • @axelsgf
    @axelsgf Před měsícem +2

    This persona 3 reload pause menu is so good im pretty sure i spend hoursss on just looking around each different design while the fire ahh music plays in the background.

  • @stupidnerd4427
    @stupidnerd4427 Před měsícem

    you look like youve been working out? your arms are getting massive. looking good man, keep up the hilarious vids and sick editing

  • @anhquantran1934
    @anhquantran1934 Před měsícem +5

    10:08 cool dk sound effect

  • @Wo_Chien
    @Wo_Chien Před měsícem

    Was hoping Alax would hit P3R. Great video as always!

  • @rvegeta
    @rvegeta Před měsícem +2

    Man, I would love to see your reaction to the ending of P3R, that or a review of the game, it's nothing like the other persona games

  • @minit9999
    @minit9999 Před měsícem

    That argument at the end was A Tier acting, really impressive how you pulled that off on your own

  • @andypeoples7175
    @andypeoples7175 Před měsícem

    Yes, love Alax ui videos

  • @djdarkprime
    @djdarkprime Před měsícem

    Absolutely killed it on this video. Didn’t realize how much I liked the UI in multiple games until you pointed it out. Loved the Sonic moment “Continue, Restart, Exit.”

  • @bureddo
    @bureddo Před měsícem

    when i bought persona 5 royal over christmas break (it was on sale) and first started playing, i’d just interact with the menu to see how smooth the transition between screens were. it was crazy.

  • @CyberYeast75
    @CyberYeast75 Před měsícem +4

    Okay but WHEN DO WE GET A FULL COVER OF "Murder Murder Kill" FROM THE 64 DS VIDEO?!

  • @huh5950
    @huh5950 Před měsícem +1

    THANK YOU. I can pause the game but I can't close it because when I get to the menu I stay there looking at it

  • @Fanatic17
    @Fanatic17 Před měsícem

    just found this channel I just wanted to say I love you

  • @LostSoulSilver
    @LostSoulSilver Před měsícem +1

    Alax played Persona 3? YES!!!

  • @SpaceFlamingo07
    @SpaceFlamingo07 Před 6 dny

    I really love the P4G and P3R day transitions

  • @luigiboi4244
    @luigiboi4244 Před měsícem

    Alax’s intros always either make me smile or make me laugh. They’re always so goofy and charming, and you’ll never know what next videos intro will be! Will he pull a Scott Pilgrim and jump through the window? Will he animorph from one of the cats into his character? You’ll never know, and that’s the fun of it!

  • @skyvenger7724
    @skyvenger7724 Před měsícem

    Even though the thumbnail is basically P3reload, I knew immediately that it was a relax alax video

  • @frostysoulz1449
    @frostysoulz1449 Před měsícem

    10:07 This is what I come for in every video now. Just waiting for this because I swear its funny every time.

  • @derblaue
    @derblaue Před měsícem

    just navigating the menus from p5 and p3r feels so good and smooth. Just like the baton passes in P5R.

  • @RyoshusShitposts
    @RyoshusShitposts Před měsícem

    I have had P3R menu as my live wallpaper since the moment the trailer came out. I love it. A lot. Too much.

  • @Edbound
    @Edbound Před měsícem

    why does youtube feel so much less stable now ?

  • @BraydenDarrell
    @BraydenDarrell Před měsícem

    I don't think I've laughed this much at a video in a LONG time!

  • @justjames4
    @justjames4 Před měsícem

    The pause menus in the modern Persona games are indeed very well done. Great video. 👍

  • @HDGamerofficial
    @HDGamerofficial Před měsícem

    Alax + menus = *perfection*

  • @ChimeraLotietheBunny
    @ChimeraLotietheBunny Před měsícem +1

    Always love Altus menu design especially on persona

  • @CharlesCheese-kc7en
    @CharlesCheese-kc7en Před měsícem +7

    The men i pause are none of your business

  • @saxpro1055
    @saxpro1055 Před měsícem

    I saw the shrek dvd in the P5 menu! You can’t trick me Alax! 🤣

  • @kadz6421
    @kadz6421 Před měsícem

    Alax, you are a good man

  • @dre_rona
    @dre_rona Před měsícem +2

    Dammit, the first Relax Alax video I see right when it publishes and I can't watch it cause I haven't played Persona reload -_-. Ok imma just like and leave the video on in the background so the algorithm likes it

    • @anotheramber7074
      @anotheramber7074 Před měsícem +3

      this video doesnt have spoilers for reload, just the visuals for the UI and a few very out of context scenes. alax even says in the video that he hasnt finished the game either

    • @dre_rona
      @dre_rona Před měsícem

      @@anotheramber7074 Yeah but I like to go into games so blind that I don't even look at screenshots of the game. I wanna be amazed by the UI while scrolling through it myself

  • @Gurteji
    @Gurteji Před měsícem

    These intros are amazing

  • @WeebT
    @WeebT Před měsícem

    this guy actually got me to play persona and now it is my entire life

  • @nazeres1
    @nazeres1 Před měsícem +13

    you should definitely check out killer instincts menu because with every direction you press, you start playing the theme
    MAGIC

  • @BnanaDuk
    @BnanaDuk Před 26 dny

    i love this kind of content

  • @Venkitty
    @Venkitty Před měsícem

    my boy was acc spittin 😭

  • @MacSoSteezy
    @MacSoSteezy Před měsícem

    How do you not have 1mil+ subs yet? Your funny af my boi haha

  • @UzawaReisa69
    @UzawaReisa69 Před měsícem +1

    11:35 bro got his own p4 arc

  • @Nimi856
    @Nimi856 Před měsícem

    Amazing creator

  • @saxeladude
    @saxeladude Před měsícem

    7:54 I know this is smash 64 but I do feel a wonderment looking at melee's menus and stages. I also feel the same way watching the prime trilogy collection loading the title screen, ps1 loading, beneath the waterfall in mario 64, and even entering the dojo in mario color splash

  • @sRtAoIrNm
    @sRtAoIrNm Před měsícem

    This shit was so accurate and so hilarious, man, this is one of your best bideos

  • @eliasfalcon721
    @eliasfalcon721 Před měsícem +1

    If only Alax knew how the ending of the game also ties into the water theme in the menu…

  • @CaptainFalcon333
    @CaptainFalcon333 Před měsícem

    I'm grateful that you're trying to make a point about niche subjects while making us laugh in the process.

  • @makotoniijima9211
    @makotoniijima9211 Před měsícem

    this was sickkkk