Unpacking My Life With Unpacking
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- čas přidán 12. 11. 2021
- In a rare moment, I played a video game which wasn't a Dragon Quest or a Yakuza, or 80+ hours long! That's right, I played a wonderful indie game called Unpacking, made by Witchbeam, and it slammed with a reflection of my life I didn't expect to sit down and think about. Enjoy!
Special Thanks to @HeavyEyed for taking a look at the script!
Play Unpacking on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/11...
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I came to your channel for the Dragon Quest retrospectives, but I stayed for the heartfelt essays that depict the many ways the interactive medium of video games can affect us so deeply and so uniquely that no other storytelling medium can even be capable of.
*comes into your house and puts your stepstool on the top shelf*
I'm so glad someone is talking about this game. I was waiting for it to come out all this year, and I could even play the demo when it was aviable, but I can't buy it because in my currency it exceeds 1000 Pesos. Still, even in the short time i've played the demo, I understood a lot of what you said in the video! Unpacking in itself is a very specific and special moment.
In my life I've only moved twice, so I can't say i have much experience in that, but i have a similar feeling when I look at all my old drawings and art I've compiled over a decade. Some objects can transport you into memories you've forgotten and still feel all the thoughts and emotions of a different time. Sometimes it feels like your past life -- And it is bittersweet but I always tell myself "This is how far I've come"
Anyway this was a great video, i'm glad your were able to play it!
Thank you for this lovely comment! I hope you get to play it soon enough; sometimes looking back at the things we've carried alongside us over the years helps to re-contextualize where we are now. It's a reminder of our growth!
I love this game and this video so much. Crushed it my man
thank you ;v;
As someone who never has had that moving experience in their life, I can wholeheartedly say that you made me think about things in a way I hadn't before. Great work!
I'm so glad!
When I was 14, my parents moved us from California across an ocean and a continent and a half to Europe. I packed up all my stuff, some to get rid of, some to take with, a lot to stay behind in a storage unit. At 18, I tried to set out to college, to make a home there, and was there all of 6 months before COVID happened, and I had to move back to Europe to my parents, for fear of being sick without nearby support. I packed up my entire dorm and kitchen space in 3 days, and they were the most stressful three days I have ever experienced. I took what I could in suitcases, and left a lot behind in that same storage unit. Last year, I moved out again, after spending the last two years quarantining, not doing college because online classes and me don't get along, working on myself, and trying to figure out what life will look like next. I didn't move close enough to the extended family we left in charge of the storage unit to take more than a few things from there, and I left a good few boxes of things with my parents. My material history is spread out across three different locals, mostly in boxes, largely inaccessible except for what I could convince myself and family I should take with me. I've had to furnish spaces from scratch, while knowing I've already acquired these things, if only I could get them to me. I'm trying to build a relationship with a new city from scratch, mostly because I don't have a very deep relationship with anywhere else. It's very easy to forget the past, when all that is around you is new to you. It's surprisingly important to have material anchors around, things you bring with just because that's what you do, what you've done. And it's remarkable just how much stuff we carry with us in our lives.
All this to say...I definitely should play unpacking.
Excellent and thoughtful video essay. A video essay with no overt mentions of dragons, although we came pretty close with the tabletop stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it! I hope people like this one- I really wanted to do something different this time.
I've been feeling pretty depressed and listless the whole week, but when I spotted this game on GamePass yesterday, I immediately downloaded it and played through all of it in one sitting. It clicked with me, and the part of my brain that enjoys observing environments and cleaning up chaos. I feel the slightest bit more... grounded, now.
I've never moved, I've lived all 27 years of my life in this house. The closest I've come is leaving my childhood bedroom in elementary school, moving only to the upper floor into a more spacious room that never belonged to anyone else before, newly built and painted in a colour I've long grown sick of seeing - a process that took me a year and spare. I still own that same plush Pikachu from back then, my globe has been in this room longer than myself, the old mug (a memento) has always had a spot of honour. My taste in books has changed dramatically, a lot more colours have invaded my space, replacing the black-and-red phase of my teenage years, and I've managed to part with some of my early papercraft models over the years. Despite the full shelves and a completely covered desk, I still miss the Gaara figurine I saved up for in 7th grade that I've lost somewhere, years back. I remember which of my games originally belonged to my brothers or one of my friends, and what games they have of mine in exchange. It's weird, how much of our space reflects much of our history, even if we don't actually notice all the time, until a gem like "unpacking" reminds us.
Great video as always.
This game was one of those gamepass surprises i love like carto.
A cathartic short experience.
I had a different experience.
One of anxiety as I saw the progress of the characters life and it felt like all the friends I have have moved forward and I'm still here. Complacent in a life that I'm deeply unhappy with because of a fear of the unkown to a degree. But more a fear of leaving something or someone behind and missing out on an important moment. Ironically it has stilted my ability to have new important moments and made me a stagnant unmotivated version of who I want to be.
This channel has always had so much heart so glad I found it when I did.
I moved 20 times before I was 20 years old. Now I settled and I hope to never move again.
Great vid, makes me realize the potential strength of this indie title that I now understand I might have overlooked.
Right on!
this game has a very scary potential for some very tempting merchandise
Man, never knew how personal this felt for you. I never knew this feeling b/c I've only moved once in my life, and haven't ever since then. I can only imagine what it must feel like to move to another place, unpacking to fulfill your own personal space, physical and mental.
You really do deserve a whole lot more attention then you get.
My room it's mostly pretty empty, but there are things that have been here with me for quite a while. This video made me think, thanks.
Great job GC, starting a big move soon. This video hits a lil different this time around. Thank you for everything you do.
I appreciate that! Good luck with your move!
Phenomenal work.
This is an excellent bit of writing on self reflection, and damned if it wasn't powerfully capable of imparting the bittersweet nature of this topic.
I'd love to ramble a ton, less for any of the words to be read and a lot more to express at a glance just how much appreciation I hold for this piece, but dwelling on the nature of unpacking has a quality that leaves me feeling rather quiet.
Thank you for sharing, and for the work you've put into this video.
Oh, and the cutaway gag around 4:40 was a winner and a half. Something that can get a laugh out after starting so strong in the rhythm of reflection is worth pointing out on its own :P
Have a good one.
This was such beautiful, zen, introspection. Thank you for sharing your story - and for that BANGER last 20 seconds. Finding your channel's honestly been one of the best things about my year.
Since college, I've had to move around so much more than I ever had to as a kid-until recently, anyway. And it's been weird. Every time a move is coming up, I'm anxious out of my mind. But every time I get to actually unpack my messily Tetris'd boxes and make a new space my own... it feels so bittersweet, but SO rewarding. Especially when I'm sharing the space and process with people I care about.
Such a touching story. Thank you for sharing it.
From dragon quest to making me have a exestintal crisis. Yay...
HAHAHAHA, I'M SO SORRY!!!!!!
@@GCVazquez Nah, it's alright. I still have DQ to keep me from thinking of my impending doom.
Excuse me is that a FRAMED picture of Hilda from Three Houses?!!
YEAH LMAO it's my roommate's!
@@GCVazquez Bro why is it FRAMED? I'm also a Hilda Appreciator™ but DAMN
@@Darkfry she's also got Marianna and Mercedes framed too. Honestly I'm surprised you're not asking about the framed picture of my ass!
@@Darkfry cause she's the best duh.
I think we more or less have opposite experiences with moving. I moved with my mom a few years ago. It came after a long awaited divorce, was in the middle of covid, and around the time I started college. It felt like a fresh start, except we moved into a much smaller house, with both of my siblings, and her boyfriend moved in, in addition to his daughter. Now, I guess I want another fresh start, which as far as I know, won't come for years. But this game offered some escapism and made me reevaluate why I questioned nearly every item the game's character decided to hold onto. The game is deceitfully personal in a way you can't understand without interacting with it yourself
That was great video, it made me tear up hearing about your perspective on moving. And also a cool game recommandation. Neat !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Man I hate to be that guy commenting on several of your videos in a single day, but this was another one that hit home with me. I moved around a lot as a kid because my dad was in the military. It was kind of a bummer moving to a new place, only to know you're going to be gone in 3 years from now. Though our stories are not the same, I can relate to losing a lot of my possessions to hurricane Katrina in 05, and losing irreplaceable things 15 years later when I moved to California by myself and couldn't get a U-Haul to leave the state. Not to go deep into it, but my friend/roommate was supposed to ship the rest of my stuff over but then wanted thousands of dollars for it and held my possessions hostage. It wasn't worth the legal battle, especially cause I moved to the other side of the country. So I had to accept my high school diploma, irreplaceable pictures, sentimental childhood belongings, and art I had commissioned from an old friend, were gone. I found comfort in listening to your experience and though it may not directly relate, was able to take things you talked about and apply it to myself. It's an old wound I don't think about often, but I was able to find some resolution from this video. I really appreciate these inside look videos where you can talk about yourself and how it relates to the topic at hand. You're well spoken and have some really interesting social commentary about trials and tribulations of being a human being. I know you're working hard on all these videos you have coming out and I can't wait to finally see them. But I do hope to see some more inside looks if you're comfortable with being that open on the internet. If not that's totally understandable too. Originally I was here years ago for the dragon quest retrospective and now that I've gotten back in to 11 to finish act 3, I found myself revisiting your channel. Definitely has been the best part of my day so far. Take good care, and as always, much love man 🤙
You're such a wonderful storyteller. Thank you for sharing a bit of yourself.
This was a nice vid, thanks for making and sharing
Whoa.
This was, therapeutic. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Why isn't this channel bigger? It's super fun and covers stuff that's not done to death. Cheesy sometimes, sure, but usually pretty poignant.
Thanku for the warm feelings💜🦨
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Incredible video. You're right, that boyfriend is the biggest asshole
He's such a JERK my god!!!!