Some corrections: • The Nurse’s favorite biome is the Hallow. She’s okay in the desert, but I grouped her with the Arms Dealer because she does like him. • NPCs do not need to be happy in order to have a working Pylon. There just needs to be 2 or more NPCs. • The Reaver Shark USED to be able to mine Hellstone, but as of 1.4, the Reaver Shark can only mine Demonite, Crimtane, or weaker ores. I think I got the idea of the Reaver Shark mining Hellstone because I did a playthrough a long time ago where I only used fishing to get materials. • Crawltipedes spawn naturally, not from enemies. • Permanent, not “pernament”
When I first found a fairy in terraria, it guided me to a chest and poofed away as if it died. I thought it was funny and thought the game was being generous. But when I opened the chest, I blew up in a massive explosion, introducing me to the troll side of terraria. My jaw was dropped for several minutes.
Dead man's chest, I look around for possible dart traps, Boulder traps, and notably explosives. I still get got once in a while, but yeah the first time I opened one of those and just went bam. I was like, what?!
"You are terraria" Thank you. Thats the best compliment one can make , for terraria is such an amazing game , being compared to it is uterly flatering.
Does anyone realize just how powerful they become in Terraria? We killed CTHULHU HIMSELF during our progression. We literally become gods during our journey trying to just survive in a hostile environment.
I often hear that Terraria is basically 2D Minecraft... but it seems more accurate to say that Minecraft is like someone made a 3D clone of Terraria but removed virtually everything except mining and crafting. The rest of the game is missing.
unmodded minecraft kinda sucks with the amount of quality of life it has. the progression system is not even close to being any good, every biome has the same enemies and underground areas. the main issue with minecraft for me personally is that mojang just does not want to step out of their confort zone to attempt to make the game the best version of itself. the game just has so many useless features that don't get updated because "it may piss off players or ruin old builds" and so many outdated systems like the difficulty selection. base minecraft is just lacking cause well "you can just install mods", the game is kinda cool with mods but only enjoyable with friends for me, still makes the game a lot better by focusing on it's strenghs on being a game about creation and optimisation. terraria is all about exploration and combat. the game is less accessible by default but is way more polished and refined to its maximum potential. minecraft development just has been really out of touch and relying on modders and server developers to fix their game.
I think the better statement would be that Minecraft and Terraria set out to accomplish two different goals as survival games and it makes little sense to compare them Speaking as somebody that vastly prefers Terraria.
@@CrabRango Yeah, Minecraft is basically a sandbox with a few game elements tossed in. Terraria is a fully fleshed-out game which happens to be built in a sandbox.
I'm glad you touched on the world being its own character, that's how I view the whole game. The main character isn't the moon lord, or cthulhu, or even you, it's the world. Enemies only really spawn and swarm around players because the world is recognizing you as a threat, knowing your eventual goal. You have to fight against it in order to save it, eventually combating even the moon and its forces. A lot of the conflicts center around the world or change it in some way, which I think is a really unique and fun concept for a sandbox game and makes maintaining and taking care of it that much more rewarding
I hate to bring this news to you... But I have gotten so many Pocket Mirror drops in the playthrough I recorded that it's absurd. I had to throw one of them into the Shimmer at one point!
The summoner slander is insane! Summoner is my favourite class and throughout the majority of the game Summoner does the most DPS of any class, plus, I love the glass cannon playstyle. Overall, this is a great video though!
as a summoner main (often doing summoner exclusive characters) it does have a slow start, but once it gets going, it pretty much becomes the strongest class in the game the only thing stronger is the melee class imo, and that's because of the Menacing Zenith build for super late game gamers
@@itsClaptrapIt’s funny because one of my friends desires to be a summoner every single multiplayer playthrough we do together. I’m glad that summoner class has a dedicated fanbase haha
Summoners are into BDSM, why you think all those whips help summoner and no one else. That and they're masochist, self inflicted lain is their gain lol.
i find terraria to still be enjoyable after 3750h , (even though 60% of my playthroughs rn are modded) it proves terraria is one of the best and in my opinion the best games of its kind , it has an insane diversity and a lot of weapons and classes to choose from.
I've seen so many videos talk about the "top 10 greatest games of all time" and Terraria is never mentioned. This really upsets me because on an objective level it is better than ALL of the games mentioned on those lists. Terraria is the only video game I can truly call perfect as it has no objective faults (maybe a minor nitpick or two at the absolute worst) and excels at just about everything it does.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstarI genuinely do recommend it. It's one of the most fun I've had playing this game. Many people say its hard, which it is, but isnt unfair. It a hard but fair and most importantly,"fun" mod that imo improves most of calamity and especially vanilla bosses(except polterghast, they ruined him lmfao). Imo, the only time where it actually gets hard is after moon Lord. Even if you aren't really a "pro" in dodging, you can still beat it.
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed that part, I really like how climactic the Devourer of Gods theme sounds, so I thought it’d be fitting to put for a finale montage of fighting the Moon Lord and reflecting on the entire adventure.
hey my man, this was a great video! your love for the game comes through in a genuine way that doesn't get in the way of the slick presentation with really no filler. this video is like a loveletter to the game. i didn't grow up with it as i was in my late 20s when it came out, but it is in my top 5 games in terms of hours played on steam. a pure masterpiece and growing
Wow what a video! The way you made terraria feel like not just a game, but a story for every player really brought me back to playing it for the first time ❤️
Terraria is probably my favourite game of all the time, I remember playing the demo at a cafe on my Grandad's phone here. I am 5 years later, beating the moonlord on master mode difficulty.
I think summoner has risen to be my favoriite class since 1.4.1. The obsidian armor and the flinx stuff for early aummoner gear makes the class REALLY fun now and its really really strong. I commonly get like 150-200 dps single target with pre-boss gear
Loved the video, and I’d love to see more content like this in the future! Also, seeing you place regular torches in special biomes causes me physical pain, _please_ do the torch god your torch luck is lower than employment rates during the Great Depression
I really appreciate how you go about making this video. You talk about freedom and games that many of us have played going into in-depth analysis on why freedom is something developers should consider. I really appreciate this channel.
Thanks a ton! I definitely considered making that the theme of this since there’s freedom in what you can do in this game but also how the developers gave themselves freedom by not having any kind of thematic limitation in the game. This game has medieval stuff mixed with high tech weaponry AND otherworldly creatures. It’s wild.
Your points are the reason why I am so hyped about the Terracraft Mod Developement for Minecraft. They really trying to put the 3rd dimension into terraria on the base of minecraft and it looks incredible and has great potential in my opinion
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar I my opinion it could be the greatest game in history if they would combine when fully developed with 1 to 1 recreation of Terraria, the Terracraft Mod with Calamity Mod and with the Minecraft Feed The Beast Ultimate mod. It would be insane if things like Industrial Craft, Thaumcraft or even Computercraft could be integrated into a 3D Terraria Version with Calamity. The progression could be limitless and it would have Content for Several Years for a single World
gg, it's a video that should be much better known. The quality of the expression and the structure of the video are managed admirably. I've never seen a better retrospective than this, keep it up, I hope you succeed.
Terraria is a timeless game and the community has only added to it. Since i watched yrmir's boss tutorials (cos i didnt have the game yet) to when i beat the wall of flesh for the first time on my 3DS while on holiday in egypt, to getting it on my switch and finally beating the moonlord, to playing modded now - this game has been fun for me for about 7 years of my life.
Really cool video !!! I would just want to add something : being able to build your own arena is something that i really liked and that is greatly encouraged by the game itself its easy to figure out yourself that its a good idea to build one ( wall of flesh is basically impossible without the famous hell bridge)
I’ve been making content for a while now, but I think this video was the first one to resonate with a larger amount of people. I had 439 subs before I uploaded this, I have almost gained 100 from this video alone, and I am extremely touched by all of the support this has gotten!
The one thing I love about progression in this game is that it is never the same depending on how you play. As a summoner in 1.4, when you first start playing you need to find a summon if not in journey. For example, If you find the finch staff, the snow is your next stop to kill fluffy boys. Obtaining their fur gives you a good summon and armor set. Then going to the jungle to fish for ingredients. Then gearing up for the optional boss Queen Bee to get her armor. Meanwhile with a Ranger, blitzing the corruption/crimson or the desert would be the way to go for gear.
Oh yes that’s another thing I really enjoy about the different classes! Each one has you go on a different path for each weapon and armor set. Like, as an example, the dungeon after Plantera is extremely important if you’re going Magic, but it’s relatively optional if you’re Melee, Ranged, or Summoner.
I look at your sub count and was expecting a couple hundred thousand but you only have 631. Awesome job dude, this was a great video. Oh and make that 632 😉
I have over 3600 hours in terraria by now. I started playing in march 2016 and since then, much time has passed. Nowdays i am used to play Terraria Calamity on Infernum Mode almost the entire time, i tried many other mods, i made mods myself, ive played with friend AND most importantly, i forgot how playing Terraria for the first time felt. That video kinda made me nostalgic. Killing the EoC was not just a "task i do because its fun". It was a goal to beat that eye and figure out what it drops. Terraria lost its magic for me and even Calamity lnfernum already loses that a bit. But still, this game is still fun to play 2-3 times a year. I really like your video :)
@@crimsonagent Oh yeah, I’ve already been working on another retrospective like this one. Don’t know when it’ll be out since I’m also working on a college project too, but hopefully I can get it out soon. Really excited to work on it.
I certainly plan to make more retrospectives like this! I have 2 review formats, being comedy freestyle reviews and analytical retrospectives like this one. I already have plans for what I’m going to review next for each format, and I hope to bring both of ‘em soon!
Terraria is my game of all time. Terraria itself is what you just said, freedom. But that extends beyond just the game. I always tell people i try to out onto the game that "you would be shellshocked to find how humanly sophisticated some of these 2d items are. Terraria is in itself truly a 1 off experience and nothing like minecraft
"The arms dealer, who sells guns and ammunition after you likely have picked up a gun from curiously smashing a shadow orb or a crimson heart" As someone who rushes Boomstick in the early game, I'm pretty sure the last time I got the Arms dealer from breaking a shorb/creart was over a year ago at this point.
That is a fast way to get a gun, so that’s a good thing to point out, though I do think that it is common to have a lot of players’ first gun be a gun from a Shadow Orb or Crimson Heart.
Ah. Good to know. I thought that they spawned from enemies since I saw a few come from enemies a few times and I thought they didn’t affect the counter, but I must’ve been seeing things. Thanks for pointing that out.
I really loved Terraria on my first playthrough, and I've started playing it again with my partner, and only now did i realize people make boss arenas- It never occured to me, but Ill try them out this time 💀
Honestly I love Terraria and even if more updates happen (joke of the true final final final update and all that lol), the actual progression is perfect as is. There is part of me that would like if they fleshed out the ocean and space a bit more. I’ve had this idea of like if they made the space taller and added like asteroids and such at a certain height before eventually reaching like a moon area or something at the top. No mandatory progression but maybe an some moon caves and an optional boss or something could be neat to dick around with in postgame.
Terraria is one of the games I grew up with and possibly the game in which I have spent the most amount of time (over 5 thousand in my life, most of that coming from 1.3 versions of the game). It's like that old friend of yours that you grew up with you and changed with you. It's crazy to see how much the game improved and how popular it is.
Genuinely my biggest gripe that I've ever had with Terraria is also a collection of decisions that flew in the face of the game's freedom. The Reaver Shark and Crates. Fishing, if you knew what it was capable of (foreknowledge), had the materials to take advantage of it (preparation) and were willing to put in the time and deal with rng (patience), once upon a time allowed you to skip two of the most tedious parts of the game if you so desired, by deliberately choosing a different sort of tedium. You didn't have to go through copper to gold, you could just jump straight to Hellstone. Furthermore, you didn't have to go through Cobalt to Adamantite, you could simply save up Crates. The latter of which could be a definite boon in a multiplayer world. It also gave you a far easier pathway a world without random goblin invasions since you could simply choose to not fight the evil boss. Now the only way to get a world free of meteors and free of goblin invasions is to use a summon item and only _partially_ defeat the boss, gathering random scraps in the process, just enough to get the pickaxe. But you are pretty much forced to encounter the pre-hardmode evil boss now, and that's just... annoying to have to do every single time. Sure, in most playthroughs I would've done it eventually regardless, but having it thrown in my face isn't great. And knowing that those more rigid approach to the progression was done largely at the behest of one person in the team campaigning for months to convince the rest it was a good idea is just... kind of frustrating.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar Honestly, fishing is a path only veterans really take, so I never really understood nerfing it to enforce the primary progression path since it doesn't really help first-time players in any way.
@oriondezagrats4228 My guess is that they want the players to have the primary Terraria experience before getting experimental with different paths n’ such.
This is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time ever since the Excalibur was the best sword in the game I've played this game so much over the years on steam Xbox ps4 and the switch I can always go back to this game when new games are not in my interest
Gosh I remember those days. I actually first played Terraria on the PSVita of all systems, and beating every boss at the time was a massive achievement for me. I'm oddly quite nostalgic for the older versions of Terraria now! This is one of my all time favorites too.
I started my first true playthrough of Terraria today and it's already super addictive. I love Minecraft and it has it's place but Terraria is better imo
"The central ore of this area, hellstone, can only be mined with a pickaxe of a tier of the level of a nightmare or deathbringer pickaxe. Or the reaver shark if you went fishing enough." Oh, honey, no.
I don’t understand where the review was in this video. It felt like a summary, which is helpful for those who haven’t heard of the game for sure. I guess I’m confused as to the objective of this content
I’ve actually gotten a similar comment from one of my friends who watched this as well saying it isn’t really a retrospective. For this video, I wanted to showcase how Terraria expresses freedom in multiple aspects, both thematically, and in its gameplay, while still being a tightly structured video game. I didn’t really dig into the typical review format for this video since I didn’t feel the need to outright state how the aesthetics are good or the soundtrack is incredible, I wanted to show those aspects as well as the theme of the game through 4 categories: “Build, Dig, Fight, & Explore”, which is actually the 4 words this game uses in a lot of the trailers from a long time ago, and I aimed to showcase some elements of good game design with its different mechanics, like how there a lot of light sources you can find when mining in the game to keep the player wanting to constantly explore the caves. Whether or not I succeeded in my objective for the video is a matter of opinion. And while I missed a few things that the comments have no doubt pointed out, I like to think I did a good job with what I aimed to do with this video. But, like I said, not everyone will agree, and that’s okay.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar I appreciate the response it’s awesome to have a back and forth with the creator of the video. I guess my confusion is better summarized not in judging this as good or bad like a book report for high school but rather I think we fundamentally have different expectations of the word retrospective or review. To me a better descriptor would be a summary of progression and my comedic take on bits and pieces of it. Again appreciate the feedback, I think we are just on the internet for different things.
Some corrections:
• The Nurse’s favorite biome is the Hallow. She’s okay in the desert, but I grouped her with the Arms Dealer because she does like him.
• NPCs do not need to be happy in order to have a working Pylon. There just needs to be 2 or more NPCs.
• The Reaver Shark USED to be able to mine Hellstone, but as of 1.4, the Reaver Shark can only mine Demonite, Crimtane, or weaker ores. I think I got the idea of the Reaver Shark mining Hellstone because I did a playthrough a long time ago where I only used fishing to get materials.
• Crawltipedes spawn naturally, not from enemies.
• Permanent, not “pernament”
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I'd also argue the summoner class is pretty on par with the other classes nowadays.
@@grazzhopper6799It’s definitely been improved a large amount over the years.
Ah yes, very pernanent.
When I first found a fairy in terraria, it guided me to a chest and poofed away as if it died. I thought it was funny and thought the game was being generous. But when I opened the chest, I blew up in a massive explosion, introducing me to the troll side of terraria. My jaw was dropped for several minutes.
Oh gosh HAHA
Can I ask if the fairy's name was Navi
Dead man's chest, I look around for possible dart traps, Boulder traps, and notably explosives. I still get got once in a while, but yeah the first time I opened one of those and just went bam. I was like, what?!
@@christianedwards9025 I think you can use the wire tool to check any contraptions)
"You are terraria"
Thank you.
Thats the best compliment one can make , for terraria is such an amazing game , being compared to it is uterly flatering.
*flattering
utterly*
Does anyone realize just how powerful they become in Terraria? We killed CTHULHU HIMSELF during our progression. We literally become gods during our journey trying to just survive in a hostile environment.
Terraria characters are truly overpowered lmao
yep, from struggling to battoe bald eagles to slaying a God. It feels amazing
just commenting for the algorithm
this video should have more views
Hey thanks!!! I very much appreciate it.
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haha, nice. Bump indeed
I often hear that Terraria is basically 2D Minecraft... but it seems more accurate to say that Minecraft is like someone made a 3D clone of Terraria but removed virtually everything except mining and crafting. The rest of the game is missing.
unmodded minecraft kinda sucks with the amount of quality of life it has. the progression system is not even close to being any good, every biome has the same enemies and underground areas. the main issue with minecraft for me personally is that mojang just does not want to step out of their confort zone to attempt to make the game the best version of itself. the game just has so many useless features that don't get updated because "it may piss off players or ruin old builds" and so many outdated systems like the difficulty selection.
base minecraft is just lacking cause well "you can just install mods", the game is kinda cool with mods but only enjoyable with friends for me, still makes the game a lot better by focusing on it's strenghs on being a game about creation and optimisation.
terraria is all about exploration and combat. the game is less accessible by default but is way more polished and refined to its maximum potential.
minecraft development just has been really out of touch and relying on modders and server developers to fix their game.
I think the better statement would be that Minecraft and Terraria set out to accomplish two different goals as survival games and it makes little sense to compare them
Speaking as somebody that vastly prefers Terraria.
@@CrabRango Yeah, Minecraft is basically a sandbox with a few game elements tossed in. Terraria is a fully fleshed-out game which happens to be built in a sandbox.
@@ToyKeeper Minecraft is more kind of a spiritual game if you get what i mean. Terraria can feel really linear some times but both are good
You could've also described Terraria as "2D Minecraft with rpg elements and more content"
I'm glad you touched on the world being its own character, that's how I view the whole game. The main character isn't the moon lord, or cthulhu, or even you, it's the world. Enemies only really spawn and swarm around players because the world is recognizing you as a threat, knowing your eventual goal. You have to fight against it in order to save it, eventually combating even the moon and its forces. A lot of the conflicts center around the world or change it in some way, which I think is a really unique and fun concept for a sandbox game and makes maintaining and taking care of it that much more rewarding
Yooo 45 minute terraria vid lets go
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It’s too rare, glad to have finally found one
17:30 are we gonna ignore that the medusa he killed just dropped the pocket mirror, an item i've been farming for the last three weeks with no results
I hate to bring this news to you... But I have gotten so many Pocket Mirror drops in the playthrough I recorded that it's absurd. I had to throw one of them into the Shimmer at one point!
One word: Shimmer
Shimmer the blindfolds that some enemies drop, it'll drop the pocket mirror
It’s not that rare, 1/20 Medusa drop it
The summoner slander is insane! Summoner is my favourite class and throughout the majority of the game Summoner does the most DPS of any class, plus, I love the glass cannon playstyle.
Overall, this is a great video though!
Thanks!!! Summoner is pretty cool once it gets going, I think it’s pretty fun as well, I just wish it got as much attention as the other 3 classes.
as a summoner main (often doing summoner exclusive characters) it does have a slow start, but once it gets going, it pretty much becomes the strongest class in the game
the only thing stronger is the melee class imo, and that's because of the Menacing Zenith build for super late game gamers
@@itsClaptrapIt’s funny because one of my friends desires to be a summoner every single multiplayer playthrough we do together. I’m glad that summoner class has a dedicated fanbase haha
Summoners are into BDSM, why you think all those whips help summoner and no one else. That and they're masochist, self inflicted lain is their gain lol.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar don't worry it's having a lot of stuff added next update
i find terraria to still be enjoyable after 3750h , (even though 60% of my playthroughs rn are modded) it proves terraria is one of the best and in my opinion the best games of its kind , it has an insane diversity and a lot of weapons and classes to choose from.
This video is gonna blow up 100% you did such a great job man. Best Terraria vid out there is this one
Thank you!!!
Banger! Watch this vid blow up
Thanks! It certainly has for my channel's standards haha
This video is extremely well made. Really good style of story telling. A perfect retrospective of the game I love the most.
Hey thanks a ton!!!
*_We’re making it out of the Underground Jungle with this one boys_*
Terraria’s the best game of all time and I will never change this stance
L take Fortnite is better
Terraria is easily the best game of our world
@@JoeSmith-tk6wv minecraft? maybe but defiantly not better than terraria
I've seen so many videos talk about the "top 10 greatest games of all time" and Terraria is never mentioned. This really upsets me because on an objective level it is better than ALL of the games mentioned on those lists. Terraria is the only video game I can truly call perfect as it has no objective faults (maybe a minor nitpick or two at the absolute worst) and excels at just about everything it does.
Calamity Infernum is this whole video but on steroids and crack at the same time.
I’ve always wanted to try that mod actually.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar You should, it’s very fun, but also VERY hard. If you do try it, good luck!
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstarhighly reccommend. Also, calamity summoner is quite an experience
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstarI genuinely do recommend it. It's one of the most fun I've had playing this game. Many people say its hard, which it is, but isnt unfair. It a hard but fair and most importantly,"fun" mod that imo improves most of calamity and especially vanilla bosses(except polterghast, they ruined him lmfao). Imo, the only time where it actually gets hard is after moon Lord. Even if you aren't really a "pro" in dodging, you can still beat it.
A lot of the improvements to the bosses I’ve seen for that mod look incredibly dope. I’d be very interested in trying it someday.
This channel is pretty high quality for under 500 subs. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!!!
Devourer of Gods music + Moon lord fight was a especial moment for me, thank you for that. Absolutely amazing video
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed that part, I really like how climactic the Devourer of Gods theme sounds, so I thought it’d be fitting to put for a finale montage of fighting the Moon Lord and reflecting on the entire adventure.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar you do know where DOG is from right? a terraria mod.
@@ItstoadXD Yes, it is from the Calamity Mod. I've played it before haha.
hey my man, this was a great video! your love for the game comes through in a genuine way that doesn't get in the way of the slick presentation with really no filler. this video is like a loveletter to the game. i didn't grow up with it as i was in my late 20s when it came out, but it is in my top 5 games in terms of hours played on steam. a pure masterpiece and growing
Wow what a video! The way you made terraria feel like not just a game, but a story for every player really brought me back to playing it for the first time ❤️
Brand new viewer! A great retrospective that shows off why I've been playing this game for close to 15 years now!
Thanks a ton! And... gosh I can't believe Terraria has almost been out for that long.
Terraria is probably my favourite game of all the time, I remember playing the demo at a cafe on my Grandad's phone here. I am 5 years later, beating the moonlord on master mode difficulty.
Here due to the algorithm.
Staying FOR the algorithm.
Keep it up man :)
Thank you!
Men you are the most underrated YT channel the video quality is so good i really hope you get millions of subscribers this year ❤
Thank you!!!
Finally another terraria retrospective worth watching
God I can't believe terraria is old enough to get a retro perspective now,man i feel old
It’s been 12 years… Going to 13 in May…
I feel very old too haha
I think summoner has risen to be my favoriite class since 1.4.1. The obsidian armor and the flinx stuff for early aummoner gear makes the class REALLY fun now and its really really strong. I commonly get like 150-200 dps single target with pre-boss gear
Loved the video, and I’d love to see more content like this in the future!
Also, seeing you place regular torches in special biomes causes me physical pain, _please_ do the torch god your torch luck is lower than employment rates during the Great Depression
Yeah I probably should have done that more often. Didn’t cross my mind much when I wasn’t really looking for rare drops in my playthrough.
I really appreciate how you go about making this video. You talk about freedom and games that many of us have played going into in-depth analysis on why freedom is something developers should consider. I really appreciate this channel.
Thanks a ton! I definitely considered making that the theme of this since there’s freedom in what you can do in this game but also how the developers gave themselves freedom by not having any kind of thematic limitation in the game.
This game has medieval stuff mixed with high tech weaponry AND otherworldly creatures. It’s wild.
Your points are the reason why I am so hyped about the Terracraft Mod Developement for Minecraft. They really trying to put the 3rd dimension into terraria on the base of minecraft and it looks incredible and has great potential in my opinion
That honestly does sound super cool.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar I my opinion it could be the greatest game in history if they would combine when fully developed with 1 to 1 recreation of Terraria, the Terracraft Mod with Calamity Mod and with the Minecraft Feed The Beast Ultimate mod. It would be insane if things like Industrial Craft, Thaumcraft or even Computercraft could be integrated into a 3D Terraria Version with Calamity. The progression could be limitless and it would have Content for Several Years for a single World
gg, it's a video that should be much better known. The quality of the expression and the structure of the video are managed admirably. I've never seen a better retrospective than this, keep it up, I hope you succeed.
Thank you very much.
Terraria is a timeless game and the community has only added to it. Since i watched yrmir's boss tutorials (cos i didnt have the game yet) to when i beat the wall of flesh for the first time on my 3DS while on holiday in egypt, to getting it on my switch and finally beating the moonlord, to playing modded now - this game has been fun for me for about 7 years of my life.
Really cool video !!!
I would just want to add something : being able to build your own arena is something that i really liked and that is greatly encouraged by the game itself its easy to figure out yourself that its a good idea to build one ( wall of flesh is basically impossible without the famous hell bridge)
41:37 the eventide shots line up perfectly with the moonlord them
YES i will be listening to this throughout the day. lets gooo
The algorithm is certainly working... seems like a great vid... will definitely watch it when I get home... I love this game.
but seriously, how do you only have 500 subs. the algorithm is the final boss of this video. absolute injustice
I’ve been making content for a while now, but I think this video was the first one to resonate with a larger amount of people. I had 439 subs before I uploaded this, I have almost gained 100 from this video alone, and I am extremely touched by all of the support this has gotten!
Well this beauty of a video is getting added to my playlist
Thanks!!!
great vid but my jaw dropped when you mentioned the quick stash. how did i not notice that
One of the most useful mechs in the game
I was looking for a Terraria analysis video So THANKS ❤
Hope you enjoyed it!
The one thing I love about progression in this game is that it is never the same depending on how you play. As a summoner in 1.4, when you first start playing you need to find a summon if not in journey.
For example, If you find the finch staff, the snow is your next stop to kill fluffy boys. Obtaining their fur gives you a good summon and armor set. Then going to the jungle to fish for ingredients. Then gearing up for the optional boss Queen Bee to get her armor.
Meanwhile with a Ranger, blitzing the corruption/crimson or the desert would be the way to go for gear.
Oh yes that’s another thing I really enjoy about the different classes! Each one has you go on a different path for each weapon and armor set.
Like, as an example, the dungeon after Plantera is extremely important if you’re going Magic, but it’s relatively optional if you’re Melee, Ranged, or Summoner.
I look at your sub count and was expecting a couple hundred thousand but you only have 631. Awesome job dude, this was a great video. Oh and make that 632 😉
Thank you!!!
Great video
Its always great to find these long structured videos, especially if it is from a small content creator. Take my like ❤
I will gladly take it! Thank you!
the wording he uses for a lot of things is excellent
wow, another retrospective about terrraria. well I dont mind actually, ill watch this while eating
great video! you deserve way more subs and views
Thank you!
I have over 3600 hours in terraria by now. I started playing in march 2016 and since then, much time has passed. Nowdays i am used to play Terraria Calamity on Infernum Mode almost the entire time, i tried many other mods, i made mods myself, ive played with friend AND most importantly, i forgot how playing Terraria for the first time felt. That video kinda made me nostalgic. Killing the EoC was not just a "task i do because its fun". It was a goal to beat that eye and figure out what it drops. Terraria lost its magic for me and even Calamity lnfernum already loses that a bit. But still, this game is still fun to play 2-3 times a year. I really like your video :)
Emotional af but hella true :(
Excellent video man! Idk if you can believe this but I’m getting my own vanity set! We start designing next week. I love this game.
Thanks! Is the vanity set a mod? That’d be interesting to see.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar no it’s getting added to the game!
@@frankkasper5247Oh wow that’s sick!
you are seriously underrated wth
One of the videos of all time
When you can count the problems with a game on one hand you know that it's a pretty great game!
This was extremely entertaining to watch. Even though I've played Terraria multiple times it was oddly engaging and I kept asking what's next haha!
Thanks a ton! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar double down on this type of content. It's doing really well.
@@crimsonagent Oh yeah, I’ve already been working on another retrospective like this one. Don’t know when it’ll be out since I’m also working on a college project too, but hopefully I can get it out soon. Really excited to work on it.
I need more like this.
Keep makin em and I'll be stay subbed man.
I certainly plan to make more retrospectives like this!
I have 2 review formats, being comedy freestyle reviews and analytical retrospectives like this one.
I already have plans for what I’m going to review next for each format, and I hope to bring both of ‘em soon!
Terraria is my game of all time. Terraria itself is what you just said, freedom. But that extends beyond just the game. I always tell people i try to out onto the game that "you would be shellshocked to find how humanly sophisticated some of these 2d items are. Terraria is in itself truly a 1 off experience and nothing like minecraft
I’ve done 5 play throughs of terraria and I still find it fun with out mods
thx for feeding my current terraria fixation, i’ll be listening to this repeatedly while i build unnecessarily large and lavish houses for my npcs
Glad to hear haha
"The arms dealer, who sells guns and ammunition after you likely have picked up a gun from curiously smashing a shadow orb or a crimson heart"
As someone who rushes Boomstick in the early game, I'm pretty sure the last time I got the Arms dealer from breaking a shorb/creart was over a year ago at this point.
That is a fast way to get a gun, so that’s a good thing to point out, though I do think that it is common to have a lot of players’ first gun be a gun from a Shadow Orb or Crimson Heart.
This is great! I'll never say no to another video praising Terraria!
Very good video, enjoyed it all the way through!
Thanks a ton!!!
"One of which summoning a worm called a crawltipede"
Crawltipedes spawn naturally, my man.
Ah. Good to know. I thought that they spawned from enemies since I saw a few come from enemies a few times and I thought they didn’t affect the counter, but I must’ve been seeing things. Thanks for pointing that out.
commenting to boost that algo, this video is very well done and I admit I'm biased as Terraria is my favorite game of all time.
Thanks a ton!
It’s definitely up there in my top 10 favorite games of all time.
I’ve not seen a terraria video essay this good since Uber dangers mythical terraria review
Thanks a ton!!! I actually watched that one not too long ago as I was working on this, found it quite funny.
Start building a dirt hut end up killing elder gods with a yoyo
Amazing dude!
What a well produced video, so underrated
This is hella underrated! You need more views!
I really loved Terraria on my first playthrough, and I've started playing it again with my partner, and only now did i realize people make boss arenas-
It never occured to me, but Ill try them out this time 💀
Honestly I love Terraria and even if more updates happen (joke of the true final final final update and all that lol), the actual progression is perfect as is.
There is part of me that would like if they fleshed out the ocean and space a bit more. I’ve had this idea of like if they made the space taller and added like asteroids and such at a certain height before eventually reaching like a moon area or something at the top. No mandatory progression but maybe an some moon caves and an optional boss or something could be neat to dick around with in postgame.
I actually had a similar idea, if space had different little planets or something like in Mario Galaxy.
Terraria is one of the games I grew up with and possibly the game in which I have spent the most amount of time (over 5 thousand in my life, most of that coming from 1.3 versions of the game). It's like that old friend of yours that you grew up with you and changed with you. It's crazy to see how much the game improved and how popular it is.
great vid!
Ayyyy thanks a ton!!!
Welp guess I’m spending g my spring break playing terraria
Genuinely my biggest gripe that I've ever had with Terraria is also a collection of decisions that flew in the face of the game's freedom.
The Reaver Shark and Crates. Fishing, if you knew what it was capable of (foreknowledge), had the materials to take advantage of it (preparation) and were willing to put in the time and deal with rng (patience), once upon a time allowed you to skip two of the most tedious parts of the game if you so desired, by deliberately choosing a different sort of tedium.
You didn't have to go through copper to gold, you could just jump straight to Hellstone. Furthermore, you didn't have to go through Cobalt to Adamantite, you could simply save up Crates. The latter of which could be a definite boon in a multiplayer world.
It also gave you a far easier pathway a world without random goblin invasions since you could simply choose to not fight the evil boss. Now the only way to get a world free of meteors and free of goblin invasions is to use a summon item and only _partially_ defeat the boss, gathering random scraps in the process, just enough to get the pickaxe.
But you are pretty much forced to encounter the pre-hardmode evil boss now, and that's just... annoying to have to do every single time. Sure, in most playthroughs I would've done it eventually regardless, but having it thrown in my face isn't great. And knowing that those more rigid approach to the progression was done largely at the behest of one person in the team campaigning for months to convince the rest it was a good idea is just... kind of frustrating.
It really does feel like fishing was nerfed pretty hardcore over the years.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar Honestly, fishing is a path only veterans really take, so I never really understood nerfing it to enforce the primary progression path since it doesn't really help first-time players in any way.
@oriondezagrats4228 My guess is that they want the players to have the primary Terraria experience before getting experimental with different paths n’ such.
This is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time ever since the Excalibur was the best sword in the game I've played this game so much over the years on steam Xbox ps4 and the switch I can always go back to this game when new games are not in my interest
Gosh I remember those days. I actually first played Terraria on the PSVita of all systems, and beating every boss at the time was a massive achievement for me. I'm oddly quite nostalgic for the older versions of Terraria now! This is one of my all time favorites too.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar damn that's a name I never hear anymore
I started my first true playthrough of Terraria today and it's already super addictive.
I love Minecraft and it has it's place but Terraria is better imo
the algorithm giveth, and i shal returneth an entire videos worth of viewtime and a like to returneth to the algorithm
nice video man!
Thank you!!!
"Retrospective?" It's still evolving.
It is continuously evolving as we speak.
Won’t be too much longer until 1.4.5 is out.
I love Terraria so much I could pee my pants
Wish me luck on my master mode playthrough
deserves more views
Tldr : terraria good. Devs good. Lore good. Game good
Extremely underrated and great video :)
Thanks!!!
Omg as a terraria veteran, I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t know what the shimmer was
To be fair, it wasn’t introduced until 1.4.4 and is a bit difficult to find.
i love this game.
just commenting to drive engagement for all knowing algorithm
That was amazing nothing less to be said
seeing someone call a review on terraria a "retrospective" is making me feel *old*
> Terraria Retrospective
> Look Inside
> Minecraft
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Terraria is one of the greatest games of all time
It truly is. It belongs in like… at least the top 50.
Top two
"The central ore of this area, hellstone, can only be mined with a pickaxe of a tier of the level of a nightmare or deathbringer pickaxe. Or the reaver shark if you went fishing enough."
Oh, honey, no.
Turns out I forgot that they nerfed the Reaver Shark in 1.4
i felt so guilty of buying it on sale, that after 2k hours poured into it, i bought it 4x times xD
Don’t know if it was still on sale those 4 times you bought it, but those $40 were well spent.
GET THIS MAN OVER 700 SUBS WTF
Great video ❤
For the algorithm, may the Omnissia bless this video!
Shout-out to my man spawning directly under a floating island
im commenting so algo-jesus will give this video the views it deserves
Hey thanks a ton! It's certainly been helping, as this is now my most viewed public video on the channel.
great video brah
Thank you!
Awesome
I don’t understand where the review was in this video. It felt like a summary, which is helpful for those who haven’t heard of the game for sure. I guess I’m confused as to the objective of this content
I’ve actually gotten a similar comment from one of my friends who watched this as well saying it isn’t really a retrospective.
For this video, I wanted to showcase how Terraria expresses freedom in multiple aspects, both thematically, and in its gameplay, while still being a tightly structured video game.
I didn’t really dig into the typical review format for this video since I didn’t feel the need to outright state how the aesthetics are good or the soundtrack is incredible, I wanted to show those aspects as well as the theme of the game through 4 categories: “Build, Dig, Fight, & Explore”, which is actually the 4 words this game uses in a lot of the trailers from a long time ago, and I aimed to showcase some elements of good game design with its different mechanics, like how there a lot of light sources you can find when mining in the game to keep the player wanting to constantly explore the caves.
Whether or not I succeeded in my objective for the video is a matter of opinion. And while I missed a few things that the comments have no doubt pointed out, I like to think I did a good job with what I aimed to do with this video. But, like I said, not everyone will agree, and that’s okay.
@@RyderPlatinumWarpstar I appreciate the response it’s awesome to have a back and forth with the creator of the video. I guess my confusion is better summarized not in judging this as good or bad like a book report for high school but rather I think we fundamentally have different expectations of the word retrospective or review. To me a better descriptor would be a summary of progression and my comedic take on bits and pieces of it. Again appreciate the feedback, I think we are just on the internet for different things.
great video!
Thank you very much!!!