Tetris Effect and Other Games with Immaculate Vibes

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2 жыл бұрын

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Connected (Yours Forever) Piano Cover by Henry Walsh: • Connected (Yours Forev...
Digital Foundry Retro: Tetris!: • DF Retro: Tetris!
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Old Classic Retro Gaming: • Apple II Game: Beyond ...
Squakenet: • Elite gameplay (PC Gam...
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Visual Media used: Marble Madness (Arcade), Venineth, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, Elite, Karate Champ, Hitman 3, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Elite Dangerous, Ballance, Marble it Up!, Marble Blast Gold, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, Mortal Kombat 9, Myst, NaissanceE, Street Fighter V, Tetris Effect, Tetris CD-I, 400 other versions of tetris (see Digital Foundry video for full details)
Music used (chronologically): Connected (Tetris Effect), Level 1 (Marble Madness), Lunar Discourse (Tetris Effect), Level 0 (Tetris CD-I), Level 2 (Marble Madness), Level 8 (Tetris CD-I), Ballance OST, Level 0 (Tetris CD-I), Joy, Connected, Bright Shadow (Tetris Effect), Metamorphosis II (Carrion), End (Venineth), Connected Jazz Improvisations by Henry Walsh, Dire Dire on the Rocks (OC Remix by Geoffrey Taucer/FFmusic Dj), Level 0 (Tetris CD-I)
Additional Music Provided by Epidemic Sound
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Description Credit: Connected (Tetris Effect)

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@JacobGeller 2 жыл бұрын

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@sppie 2 жыл бұрын

join us, its great!

@aze4308 2 жыл бұрын

YAY

@conheaton1111 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob, fantastic video. I bought Venineth as soon as I saw that Twitter post you shot out a few months ago. I can't explain how cool it was that you ended up covering this marble masterpiece in one of your videos.

@EvilGenius815 2 жыл бұрын

I noticed that you said Myst but showed Riven, and simply assumed it was because Riven is the true great entry of the franchise and better represents what Myst is than Myst does.

@sidremus 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that this video was a bit more upbeat. Sometimes, on the weekend you just wanna sit down, forget the craziness for a little and watch a video about games about falling blocks and rolling spheres

@EmptyFeet 2 жыл бұрын

in Jacob Geller's video at hand he says, "this game is overgrown by elements of nature. so it stands, a tetris obelisk reclaimed by wild unknown, whose soothing beats and backdrops of lush lands convey the goals those game designers had which yet survive, as emulated things much like the game itself, O tetris never-dead, whose great effect is present even here 'the game is tetris CD-I, of all things stack up its blocks, and solid rows will clear!" this little-known rendition, difficult to play, yet echoes in our modern tetris fare about which Jacob G has much to say

@kimjunguny 2 жыл бұрын

what

@porcupineangel6632 2 жыл бұрын

Percy Shelley is weeping for not writing this

@stock_img 2 жыл бұрын

thank you toasty, very cool!!!

@elijahemerson4934 2 жыл бұрын

*snaps fingers in appreciation

@_artemkoi 2 жыл бұрын

YEAAAA TOASTYGLOW

@rowangrey6437 2 жыл бұрын

Literally the second you brought up Marble Madness I was on the edge of my seat, like "Oh I cannot WAIT for Jacob to talk about Venineth"

@arthurjeannin3357 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god same! And at the same time, I didn't think he actually would since it's such an underground game. Super happy that he talked about it and hope it makes people try it out!

@manaulhoque6507 2 жыл бұрын

How come it has like 60 steam reviews but everybody in the comments seems to know about it?

@kevinwillems8720 Жыл бұрын

@@manaulhoque6507 because we watch Errant Signal

@shutuptravis5609 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob is genuinely one of the smartest people on this platform and he spends his time and intelligence talking about how tetris transcends all space and time. Please never stop making videos

@sirius_714 2 жыл бұрын

True

@Travisious 2 жыл бұрын

Seriously, this entire video had me in awe of Jacob's ability to synthesize so many different topics together. Jacob is absolutely one of the most intelligent creators on KZfaq. Also I'm slightly offended by your username /s lmao

@dazza2350 2 жыл бұрын

Ehhh

@earthgrazer2164 2 жыл бұрын

I hate how you chop this up to intelligence

@dirkdiggler8367 2 жыл бұрын

This nigga Jacob really makes me think about things I never ever thought I could think about ! Idk how to explain it ! I love his videos I wish I had money to give him

@knowledgedroppings 2 жыл бұрын

Looking at Veninith and Marble Madness side-by-side made me think of this quote-I can't remember who said it and can't find it, it might have been Hayao Miyazaki but idk-that said something like, adaptation is fundamentally like taking another person's work and explaining it to a friend, saying "This is what I saw in it." And I don't know the extent to which Veninith was specifically conceived as a response to Marble Madness, but it certainly feels like one. That "alien" "other-ness" you describe in Veninith feels like a natural extension of the feelings I had about Marble Madness and other similarly "primitive" games when I was a kid. When games that looked like that WERE the peak of graphics technology, I never saw their limitations, their failure to seamlessly render something else. The combination of novel, unfamiliar technology and minimalist abstraction always felt extremely surreal to me, and have stuck with me for years. It always felt like I was having a greater, stranger experience than just playing with a toy from the store, and that's something that I feel like has sometimes been lost in the pathological obsession with having the most photorealistic representations of human skin that seems to have consumed modern AAA developers.

@april5054 2 жыл бұрын

This is a bit off topic but if you think about it, in that case, it makes sense that older games were never really decried for "shitty graphics" and "bad textures" back in the day. When what you're experiencing _is_ the limit, you never stop to think about how that limit could be broken. Only after the limit is broken can people look back and think, naively, "why couldn't you do this back then?" It makes one wonder what limitations, graphical or otherwise, will be overcome in the future. How can a game 20 years from now be so good that it makes TLOU2 look ugly? How can mechanics be so seamless 20 years from now that new AAA games will feel clunky? It makes me realize that AAA games always have a timer, but indie games are much more timeless, with the lack of a distinct focus on improvement of the basics and a more specialized nature. indie games don't have to break limits, they can just work within them to make something that's never been seen before. anyway im rambling at this point lol

@finnycopper 2 жыл бұрын

@@april5054 Maybe it’s just me, but I think the progression new games, AAA or indie, are going in is stylization. The graphics and all can still be there in AAA titles, but looking at the frontrunners in the upcoming generation: Demon’s Souls Remake, the God Of War sequel, Battlefield 2042, etc, they have much less “gritty” textures than their previous titles, going more towards things that pop, colorful effects, concise textures, and bombastic animations that are helped out by haptics. Even if they had to use the technology and graphics of 10 years ago, they still would feel distinct, which I think is largely because we’re reaching the ceiling of realism, so you can’t blow your competition out of the water unless you’ve got superiority in gameplay and vibe. It’s also that the indie and AAA scenes are colliding in on each other, games like Hollow Knight and Hades are constantly brought up within game circles, Sony themselves made a rouguelike 3rd person shooter, a genre almost untouched by AAA studios, Sonic Mania is hailed as one of the best sonic games in recent memory, and some of the biggest trendy games, minecraft, undertale, among us, have been produced by indie studios. It feels like, in some ways, 1st party studios are starting to look into more experimental titles, to the extent their left pretentiousness might let them. Ultimately I’m still not sure where they’ll try to go, but personally I’ve become more invested in the mainstream than I have in a while

@katrinakollmann5265 2 жыл бұрын

Toy ♡ I use these resources to stim as my talents are not generally ... hmm.. profitable to me but only others if I charge for them. I need an outlet for my pattern and problem solving fetishes.. giggle. Can't help it. I don't have a community to utilize my other talents with in trade for them helping me stay alive. Aww Heck... #ytwhining #latestagecapitalism #rabbitholes #h0les

@april5054 2 жыл бұрын

@@katrinakollmann5265 Huh?? did you reply to the wrong comment or something?

@darksentinel082 2 жыл бұрын

@@april5054 it’s a bot, maybe, i honestly have no idea

@TheGlooga 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man, I see "immaculate vibes" and "marbles" and I start vibrating with excitement. Venineth is such a good game

@conheaton1111 2 жыл бұрын

The coolest thing about Venineth is how difficult and long it is, and just how opposed to giving you any sort of direction. Jacob touched on this, but seriously you're dropped into these levels and they go on for hours and hours, and you spend a long ass time just trying to get your marble up an impossibly high slope or clear a wide jump. When you do finally progress, you're suddenly faced with yet another even more head scratching challenges. Often I forgot where I was going or what I was doing, with the only thoughts in my head being "roll, roll roll"

@TheCyanSqueegee 2 жыл бұрын

become one with marble

@subzu2733 2 жыл бұрын

I feel the reason why it didn't give you a specific direction is because they didn't only want you to finish a level but explore it and that's really cool

@aarcade6676 2 жыл бұрын

oh my god ive got like 50 hours in venineth and this is the most ive ever related to a comment. you truly do just forget about any goal or objective and become one with the marble.

@cody.vagabond Ай бұрын

@@TheCyanSqueegee Embrace Rolling

@mg7977 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob-how is everything you make so good? I always start your videos with only a passing interest in the subject matter at best, and always come away feeling like I've had a borderline transcendental human experience that has left me permanently changed in some small but fundamental way.

@nahometesfay1112 2 жыл бұрын

Mr. Geller is made of immaculate vibes Everything he vibes with vibes even more

@we-must-live 2 жыл бұрын

i COULD explain how the combination of perfectly-selected music, enthusiastic speech and audible passion form together to create a viewing experience that feels more like... an old friend telling you about their new favorite game, rather than gameanalyst#6153 spouting out the 'connection between gameplay and the inherent human experience expected of most players of the game', but i WONT, because, i, uhh... already have! enjoy the rest of your night!

@im19ice3 2 жыл бұрын

mood v_v

@GrandPrinceBlueblood 2 жыл бұрын

I NEED VENINETH This is the marble game I’ve been waiting for my whole life.

@jaspin555 2 жыл бұрын

My only question, have you also heard of Marble Marcher? It might not be so profound. But you need to check it out. Awesome combination of marble games and fractals

@GrandPrinceBlueblood 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaspin555 Yes I have. I watched playthroughs of it.

@jaspin555 2 жыл бұрын

@@GrandPrinceBlueblood awesome! Meanwhile, i have a game to check out now so :D Venineth here i come

@StezzerLolz 2 жыл бұрын

It is. Venineth is spectacular.

@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr 2 жыл бұрын

I've played a few hours now and it's amazing! Definitely worth my $20

@ahobimo732 2 жыл бұрын

This is getting out of control. I'm damn near falling in love with this man. He is one of the most _human_ human beings I've ever encountered.

@we-must-live 2 жыл бұрын

oh, you wouldn't believe! in this world full of superficial people spouting on about how 'real' and non-superficial they are, in order to appear as, y'know, not not non-superficial - Mr. Geller is, uhh... a breath of fresh air!

@ahobimo732 2 жыл бұрын

@@we-must-live I believe that you cannot fake authenticity. The Jacob Geller in these videos is the real Jacob Geller. And I'm very grateful that I got to see him.

@vampyre444 2 жыл бұрын

that's a parasocial relationship. you're only looking at a very heavily edited and curated glimpse of a person, he doesn't know you exist. it's a really unhealthy mindset

@ahobimo732 2 жыл бұрын

@@vampyre444 I'm very well aware that it's one-sided. He knows nothing about me, and he might not like me if he did. But that doesn't mean that I cannot know him or like him. I don't agree with you that the Jacob in the videos is not the "real" Jacob. I know the videos present a limited perspective. There's lots about Jacob that I don't know and never will. But I think that his videos show something authentic. The aspects of his personality that are presented are real. The depiction is truthful And based on these aspects of his personality, I fucking love him.

@therilyncobrin2372 2 жыл бұрын

@@vampyre444 you're damn right it is, and you can't do anything to stop me

@TheGazorpatron 2 жыл бұрын

Everytime Jacob uploads I literally backwards long jump to my pc to watch it

@zaidlacksalastname4905 2 жыл бұрын

Backwards long jump? You got the plug on mario oddessey two or what lol

@topichu970 2 жыл бұрын

@@zaidlacksalastname4905 its a mario 64 thing

@dantesdiscoinfernolol 2 жыл бұрын

WAHOO

@ricecooker7037 2 жыл бұрын

Do a prop fly over the floor stain, angular flip jump off the pizza box, flying prop manifest to the gaming chair, b hop around in glee. Any % speedrun of KZfaq

@GuiiSanttoss 2 жыл бұрын

YAHOO

@Vontux 2 жыл бұрын

"We're all connected", can't wait for Serial Experiments Lain Tetris.

@mcslender2965 Жыл бұрын

Can't wait for Strand type Tetris

@mybattyvalentine 2 жыл бұрын

i dont usually comment on videos, but i just wanted to take a second to say i am consistently blown away at how sharp and poignant your scripts are. every video you make feels like it is stuffed full of as much thought and care as you could give it and you are one of the only youtubers who talks about games that i know of that actually bothers to take the time to talk about how they affect the real world, i.e. the player, the landscape around the game's release, the feelings they can evoke. emotions. you refuse to be "apolitical". you want your videos to mean something even if it gets vitriol slung your way and despite the fact i don't know you i have a huge amount of respect for you on those grounds alone. thank you, jacob.

@csonweedagain5054 2 жыл бұрын

This is just my interpretation of Venineth, but it arguably also reflects human experience in a different way by throwing you into a world that you know nothing about, and you learn and experience new things as you continue. Just like starting from birth.

@we-must-live 2 жыл бұрын

in a way, does that not make it 'another life' for us to experience? actually, doesn't that make ALL videogames 'new lives' for us to live out? sure, they may be antiquated lives, full of expected turns and events, but - you learn new things, you become invested (hopefully!) and, when it all ends, you... aren't really at peace with it... ending. and that's, uh... pretty realistic to the human experience, yeah!

@csonweedagain5054 2 жыл бұрын

@@we-must-live Absolutely, however I think it depends on the individual. Some view games as another passive story of another's actions for them to mentally throw away - and it's the least interesting thing about me, but being a drug user *gasp*, it's really given me an opportunity to "feel" the games in a whole new way that makes the game feel more unique and exactly like a new life to ME. They also opened up my mind to the idea that everybody has their own unique experience, and that I should learn what I can from all sources that I can, be it right or wrong, because all those aspects were brought about from the things that make life unique to THOSE people as well. I'm high as I type this, so forgive me if it didn't make any sense lol I'll probably find this reply tomorrow and shamefully delete it 😆

@we-must-live 2 жыл бұрын

@@csonweedagain5054 hehe - you're surprisingly legible while high. i try to explain any concept even after like a few coffees, and i'm going on tangents that lead absolutely nowhere! but not tonight - yeah maybe tonight i just completely lost focus... damn. well, enjoy the rest of your night (if i didn't already say that - did i?)!

@csonweedagain5054 2 жыл бұрын

@@we-must-live I hope I didn't put off a feeling of trying to make you think you're wrong or anything, you were as legible and correct as I was trying to be lol. You have an even better night, sir :)

@we-must-live 2 жыл бұрын

@@csonweedagain5054 oh, why thank you! it just so happens that when I write an elaborate piece directed to a specific person, I end up taking the focus in a completely different direction, invalidating the original intended message - just like i've done here! like, really, what is the point of what I just wrote? why am I staying up so late and for so long to try to cause sleep deprivation hallucinations? is it to feel a taste of that fear that used to drive me, or to just give myself an excuse to chug monster and say i chugged monster to all of my internet friends that definitely care about the lie that I chug monster! here i go again, making up stories - guess I'll never change! and yeah, I hope you enjoyed reading my essay as much as I did writing it

@antomanifesto 2 жыл бұрын

Tetris Effect is easily one of my favourite chill-out games, and tracks from the soundtrack regularly make it on to any playlist I'm making! It really is the perfect symbiosis of visuals and music

@Mrguythepersonman 2 жыл бұрын

There's some irony in Jacob referencing the "RTX On" meme in relation to Venineth, as one of the most advanced RTX demos Nvidia has available right now is a mini-game called "Marbles RTX". Ironic, because it's kind of the opposite of what Jacob finds so captivating about Venineth - all its incredible visual fidelity is used to anchor it in real, mundane things, almost a deliberate rejection of the abstract Marble Madness precedent.

@herculean616 2 жыл бұрын

Tetris is just the game that you can never quit, you're instead just taking long breaks from playing :)

@purromemes7395 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta say that your videos have helped me. You along with a couple other youtubers have helped deradicalize from the alt right.

@inspectortezuka3160 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob: Tetris is a relaxing game- Me, trying to dt canon into a 4 wide while fighting for life: haha yea-

@ollioil 2 жыл бұрын

I remember my first time through Tetris Effect on expert, it was incredibly challenging, supremely difficult to me but it wasn't until I just let the music, visuals, and vibes take over me that I was able to beat it. It was one of my favourite gaming experiences ever and I love going back to it every once in a while and just being swept up in it again. The last stage is incredible, it feels near impossible but once you make it out the other side you're just itching for another go. Tetris Effect is THE definitive Tetris experience to me.

@username4570 2 жыл бұрын

I love that Jacob watches Errant Signal, I get a great game recommended to me, I go play and love it and then I get an awesome meditative examination of it in a couple months

@EZOnTheEyes 2 жыл бұрын

It was halfway through watching this I remembered I dreamt of the T-Spin move the other night. *The weird thing is I haven't played Tetris in months*

@InnuendoStudios 2 жыл бұрын

Venineth: modernism Tetris Effect: postmodernism

@ryba4439 2 жыл бұрын

omg hi ian! always so nice seeing all my fav creators watching each other lol

@TheMathDieu 2 жыл бұрын

I would argue the opposite tbh. Tetris Effect: tries to ground the game as a sort of universal experience with a recognizable and somewhat logical "design" (quite modernist), while Venineth rejects this universality, rejects the possibility of answering the question of what it is, and subsequently embraces an otherness that is way too alien to be "objectively" understood (postmodern af).

@lawrencesmeaton6930 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMathDieu I don't think you're quite right. Modernism is an old term now, and came into the world as an idea in the early 20th century. Modernist art is extremely abstract but grounds itself in fundemental truths and attempts to ascertain meaning through absolutes - for example there is an emphisis on geometry as symbolism. Post-modernism, by extension, is a rejection of 'modernism' and tries to reconceptualise the human experience thrugh a social lense and tries to explain that the meaning of life is through our shared experiences, history, culture and thus our future is dependent on our current relationships - as opposed to some higher universal power or scientific construct.

@TheMathDieu 2 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencesmeaton6930 modernist art isn't just abstract art, what we know as "abstract art" can be found in both modernist and postmodernist artistic movements, but even if abstract art was exclusively a feature of modern art, I would argue that the visuals of Tetris Effect are much more abstract than the ones of Venineth, so my point would still stand :p I don't see how your comment really contradicts mine tbh, I don't completely agree with how you characterized modernism and postmodernism as I find it a bit reductive (I'd say that your definition is more befitting that of poststructuralism rather than postmodernism per say) as postmodernism, both artistically and philosophically is too diverse and varied to give it a one fits all definition (besides the rejection of overarching truths and narratives which seems to be a trend of postmodern thought) but even if this characterization is taken into consideration, I feel like my comment still holds

@nahometesfay1112 2 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencesmeaton6930 it's funny that you describe modernism as focusing on fundamental truth and using geometric symbolism then say that Tetris Effect -a game that posits we are all connected by visions of geometric shapes- isn't modernist. But a bit more seriously, postmodernism doesn't simply reject religion and science, but anything that could fill a similar role like culture or history (these are called meta narratives). I think an argument can be made that Tetris Effect is about the subjectivity of an abstract game which sounds postmodernist, but then they tie it all together into a collective human experience which doesn't really sound postmodernist at all. Edit: I have no clue how or why that one line is crossed out

@_Conzo_ 2 жыл бұрын

This is an incredibly intelligent, articulate, and simply fascinating video essay.

@casualcadaver 2 жыл бұрын

All his videos are incredibly intelligent and articulate . Its people like him that makes me feel like a dumb smooth brain lol.

@_Conzo_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@casualcadaver Haha, same! I'm not on his level.

@diplague 2 жыл бұрын

Shame on you for not mentioning the greatest Historically Accurate Strategy Tower Defence Marble game, The Rock Of Ages

@gwen_gets_got 2 жыл бұрын

Breath of The Wild's "vibe" is easily one of the my favs. For the most part a chill game, but those battles and always exciting. One of the reasons it's a favorite of mine.

@ParadoxGavel 2 жыл бұрын

"This means something. This means something big. But you, you human, just don't speak the language." I love it when games make me feel that way, but never really had the words for it before. Absolute chills.

@antomanifesto 2 жыл бұрын

Most unexpected game to give me the Tetris Effect? War Groove! Literally couldn't sleep for all the random battle situations that kept popping up from my subconscious

@svendinsvinderlin4569 2 жыл бұрын

I got it from playing portal 1 and 2. Trying to sleep while flying around rooms into portals that throw you out in unintuitive places is really difficult.

@The_Jovian 2 жыл бұрын

I got it from chess and a mobile word puzzler

@Avioto 2 жыл бұрын

Into the Breach did it for me. I got so obsessed it became a little scary.

@leomadero562 2 жыл бұрын

I got that way with osu and recently call of duty

@talonraker1140 2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Jovian I've had it from chess recently too, super cool to know it has a name

@reNINTENDO 2 жыл бұрын

When you mentioned the abstraction of marble games, I was expecting the RTX Marbles demo to get a mention. Photorealistic, grounded levels built upon the most advanced graphics tech currently possible so you can play as a marble. Essentially the opposite of what came before. Gotta say though Venineth looks super cool and definitely a creative take on how abstract most marble games are.

@user-on9rs3yx3s 2 жыл бұрын

I just stumbled upon your channel accidentally and holy shit did I find a gem. I don't even know how to describe your channel, you just talk about books and games and plays and shit but somehow with every upload you delve deep into my psyche and either reveal something new i've never thought about before or just straight up fuck my brain. You are so eloquent with your words it's entrancing, you're like a poet. Every video i've watched so far i've been hypnotised right from the start - hanging off every one of your masterfully crafted sentences. My man Geller even somehow convinced me I want to read Piranesi and Death of a Salesman, and I haven't read in years. I wasn't expecting to find a top tier KZfaq channel with quality on par with Exurb1a/Lemmino/Veritasium/Vsauce when I clicked on your video on the shape of infinity but boy was I pleasantly surprised. Anyway what i'm poorly articulating in my gushing fanboy rant is this channel is amazing and you use words good. I'm gonna go watch your entire catalogue and then eagerly await each new upload.

@InsidiousClouds 2 жыл бұрын

These videos are a cure all for writers block, artists block, or just.. any block in general. Having a breakdown before work? Boom, put on a Jacob essay. I've never been more satisfied than when I'm watching these videos. They scratch that itch of not being able to describe a *feeling*. And yet, Jacob manages perfectly. Listening to him ramble helps me brainstorm, because of how much he talks. Its therapeutic.

@heyitsmort7744 2 жыл бұрын

Love to see an Errant Signal shoutout. Ian Danskin’s was the whole reason I found Chris’ channel, and I’ve devoured his essays since.

@SanderAgelink 2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to hear Jacob's perspective on the Myst games

@manaulhoque6507 2 жыл бұрын

Or The Witness

@workthrowaway8430 2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't believe I saw someone talk about Tetris CD-I. The vinyl release of it is freaking great and came out from left field. Such a solid release.

@RRM_Personal 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob: Ah yes, my memories of Myst Also Jacob: *shows screenshot from Riven*

@RatchetSly 2 жыл бұрын

The golden dome of Temple Island is quite distinctive!

@fourleaves6877 Жыл бұрын

This has to be one of my favorite Jacob Geller videos. Listening (for the third or fourth time) while doing laundry, and I'm reminded that each time you say "We're *all* connected, we're *All* connected, we're *ALL* Connected-" makes a lump rise in my throat. Playing Tetris Effect has made me cry multiple times, and your conviction just makes that feeling come back to me. Thank you Jacob.

@GlutesEnjoyer 2 жыл бұрын

i absolutely love the music of this game. yours forever is a fantastic song.

@Minihood31770 2 жыл бұрын

When Venineth appeared I literally went "oh yeah, it's that Errant Signal marble game

@ALtheBoi 2 жыл бұрын

Shout out to all my homies who are bad at Tetris and are very embarrassed about it 💪

@alexmorenoac 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob has the the superpower of being able to find any topic, find a deeper meaning intrinsic to it, then talk about it in a video that makes me reconsider all of my previous experiences in a moderate existential crisis

@andriypredmyrskyy7791 2 жыл бұрын

I love that line "Of rolling marbles, and falling blocks"

@shifty1927 2 жыл бұрын

Seeing Jacob talk to us in person makes me smile.

@toobular 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for talking about my favourite game, venineth. i have put literally 200 hours into it---an amount of time which i suspect is rivalled only by the developers themselves---because i was so smitten by it that i took up speedrunning it. so it's great to see it being enjoyed by and shared with other people. and what a coincidence, cdi tetris is my favourite tetris game too! one of my favourite video game soundtracks (after venineth)

@awanderingtraveler1972 2 жыл бұрын

Really happy to finally see cdi getting some love, ive had the soundtrack in my playlists for years now and it kinda felt like everyone forgot it ever existed, good to know I wasnt the only one enjoying the weirdly chill vibes

@nickatorimi6926 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great videos! Your style of talking about these themes is very special, very calming and makes me pretty much meditate and reflect on things.

@tamaramacadam8650 2 жыл бұрын

My friend literally just got Tetris Effect working on their computer a few hours ago, this is slightly terrifying

@unustheuntouchable 2 жыл бұрын

I get so hyped every time I see a new video from you. Sure appreciate what you're doing up in here. Helping to explain (and in turn legitimize) how we emotionally connect to the things we invest our time and energy into. Thank you.

@boomkruncher325zzshred5 2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE to do a complete journey through all the single player levels in Tetris Effect: Connected, the PC port of the game. It’s an endurance challenge that rewards you for your time with progressively more beautiful and emotional experiences, and ends beautifully.

@elhombre162 2 жыл бұрын

Love your content! It's thoughtful and very well done and I get excited every time I get a notification there's a new episode.

@theoe354 2 жыл бұрын

Never stop, Jacob. You're by far my favorite channel to watch late at night when the day is over and im in a thoughtful and reflective mood. No one else could make a video about tetris and marble games anywhere near as interesting as you do. Bravo 👏

@CristinaAlmarazLopez 2 жыл бұрын

I love thinking about the games that inspired these primitive video games. You mentioned those slide contraptions where you just let the marble fall but I think the marble "videogame genre" is much more inspired by those wooden puzzles where you have to turn the whole thing to get a ball through a labyrinth or get several balls in their holes. And I just did a little search and Tetris was inspired by a math puzzle called Pentominos which has very similar moving pieces but made of 5 squares (usually made of wood) that you basically have to make fit together into a box. They're basically the same concepts as the video game incarnations and they share their simplicity and almost primal concept of "game". I just think it's neat that humans of the past and of the present are entertained by the same little things

@mydingling 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful video essay. One of your best yet.

@NyancyCat 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video! I've always felt a deep resonance with games like Marble Blast and Tetris and this talks more about them then I'd ever expect anyone to.

@flare8089 2 жыл бұрын

This video made my day by being posted. I was having a not great day due to too many people and lack of sleep, but then you posted this and I got to watch it at the end of the day and it's instantly so much better :) Hope you had a good day, and your videos are always wonderful

@TheMJCMike 2 жыл бұрын

I love your work Jacob. Keep it up!

@richardseaman8881 2 жыл бұрын

your viedos are some of my favorite on youtube, I have bought and played so many games that I never would have known about otherwise. i love yourcontent keep it up man.

@yeahthatsright33 2 жыл бұрын

I love your videos so much dude. Could binge watch these any day

@tomorvalentine 11 ай бұрын

I played through all of tetris effect in one go while my flatmates were playing poker at the kitchen table, occasionally stopping to watch and cheer me on. Truly immaculate vibes indeed, it is one of my favourite memories of living in that flat. The music and graphics just kept swelling and ebbing and building, I was totally sucked in and was able to clear every level first try, making it a wonderfully seamless experience. I love tetris.

@animal_4826 2 жыл бұрын

jacob, this was the best video i've seen in a long time on youtube, thanks

@cptdumplin 2 жыл бұрын

It is an absolute joy listening to you talk. I put on your video in the background with the intent of listening to it while playing FF8 for the first time in over a decade, literally re-experiencing my childhood and happily grinding out draws like I did back then. And 5 minutes in, I paused FF8, minimized the completely legal PS1 that I totally have hooked up to my computer. I stopped immersing myself in a childhood experience so I could watch and listen to you talk about Tetris and Marbles. You're a phenomenal wordsmith.

@caseymauldin8396 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate every video you put out Jacob and look forward to every one.

@AI-mg3hy 2 жыл бұрын

I DO remember my first encounter with Tetris. It was the late 80s and my mom came home from work one day saying she almost missed her bus because was playing a game at the arcade by her bus stop, and she wanted to show me the game. So sometime in the next couple weeks we took the bus to downtown Seattle where she worked in a restaurant, and she led me into this dark little arcade right off the busy street. My memory of this place has a retrofuturist Blade Runner vibe, with all the activity happening outside and people glued to machines inside and the only lighting coming from the machines themselves and whatever could find it's way in through the door. That was where I first played Tetris. We spent Christmas at my aunt and uncle's house that year, and my mom let me bring my NES so I had something to do since I was the only kid there. When we opened presents, she had given me both Tetris and Paperboy. We spent a week there, and after everyone saw what Tetris was the adults pretty much took over my Nintendo. Great video!

@PersonalZombie 2 жыл бұрын

The gameboy color version of Tetris was my first game that I ever owned. My dad found it and the Gameboy color it was in at the airport and, when it went unclaimed at the lost and found for a week, brought it home for me. Still have that cart. It still has it's original owner's name in the high scores dispite how hard I've tried to beat em over the years

@Cometstarlight 2 жыл бұрын

Ok, I have almost the exact same story. There was a non color Gameboy left behind in lost in found after it was left on an airplane. It went unclaimed, so my Dad’s coworker told him to take it home. The game cartridge inside? Tetris. I still have that Gameboy and the Tetris game. I’m going to have to look to see who has the high score though!

@dainess2919 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, I just watched this video and now I feel high. What a trip man. You are a unabashed genius, the work you do for vidyagaems as a medium is priceless, we don't deserve you, it's amazing, please keep probing the corners of this medium for we are in desperate need of fresh air and dissent, and nothing gives both to the world quite like reasoned discourse such as yours

@ottovonbismarck3905 2 жыл бұрын

Yet another excellent video, and thanks for bringing the CDI tetris soundtrack to my attention!

@Joostus 2 жыл бұрын

I will never forget the first time I played Tetris Effect. I was in an internship at a small gaming news plattform and the game was just about to release. We had received a review code and put it on a giant tv in the office. I had only been passively aware of Tetris Effect before, and when I played the first level I damn near teared up from the visuals and the music. Throughout the day I put everyone of my colleagues in front of that tv, gave them a headset and just let them loose on the first level, watching their reactions. The pure elation and euphoria on their faces has etched into my brain. We all shared a moment that day, when something as simple as Tetris made us connect on an emotional level

@mileshardingwood6469 2 жыл бұрын

New Jacob Drop!!!! I've celebrated your videos being released so often that I think my parents might actually know who you are now, which is quite the testament to how much I enjoy them. Seriously, the ridiculously consistent quality and writing blows me away, your content is truly an inspiration.

@halframen 2 жыл бұрын

I really love the way you talk passionately about everything in every video you make!!

@TrevorTheHyena 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are absolutely amazing man. I really appreciate having an ever-growing impressive library of content to watch that not only makes me appreciate the most incredible yet simple of human achievement BUT also reminds me of how beautiful the human mind can be over the most minute of things. Your outward appreciation for the smallest of human capacity is phenomenal; keep up the amazing videos.

@sycastells1212 2 жыл бұрын

When I first saw someone playing Lumines, my impression was "This is basically next-level Tetris." Then a year later I bought the game and sank hours upon hours into it.

@jammydodger7065 2 жыл бұрын

I do quite enjoy immaculate vibes, and I love your videos! another good one, Jacob :)

@georgeforeman2834 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos legitimately bring tears to my eyes man, please keep doing what you’re doing.

@MadHatter42 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob’s description of Veninith’s alien landscape reminds me of H. P. Lovecraft’s description of the ancient idol of Cthulhu; “One sight of the thing had been enough to throw the assembled men of science into a state of tense excitement, and they lost no time in crowding around him to gaze at the diminutive figure whose utter strangeness and air of genuinely abysmal antiquity hinted so potently at unopened and archaic vistas. No recognised school of sculpture had animated this terrible object, yet centuries and even thousands of years seemed recorded in its dim and greenish surface of unplaceable stone. […] Its vast, awesome, and incalculable age was unmistakable; yet not one link did it shew with any known type of art belonging to civilisation’s youth-or indeed to any other time.”

@IfYouSeekCaveman 2 жыл бұрын

This might be my favorite video you've done. Bravo

@hawkofthereborn43 Жыл бұрын

Never heard of Tetris Effect until I was in a discord call one day with some friends, where one was streaming this game to us. The instant he began the first level, I felt as if I recalled something I had long forgotten. This game is euphoria, and I don't think anything could ever match that feeling of pure awe and beauty as its soundtrack and visuals that sync with your gameplay. Tetris Effect is a masterpiece. THE masterpiece, of gaming. Who could have ever thought that falling blocks could make you cry.

@GordonFreemanlvr 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible video as always

@aryang1232 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing as always never stop

@glowing_purple_girl 9 ай бұрын

This has become one of my favorite videos to fall asleep to. Excellent work, Mr. Geller

@xcal789 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know how the hell you make me emotional over Tetris but goddamn you did it! The comfy ass vibe each video has makes new releases and rewatches a welcoming experience as always so thank you!

@JS-3 2 жыл бұрын

beautiful, incredible work as always. i’ve been jumping between tetris effect and tetris 99 a LOT lately, but i’m thinking i may need to put tetris down for a bit to pick up veninith. loved the video!

@CallMeSheyzie Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty new to video games (and this channel); I bought Tetris Effect for the switch after watching this video a week ago, and I'm so glad I did! I actually have never played tetris before, and I feel lucky that it's my first experience with it! :) It wasn't even remotely on my radar when considering what games to try out, thank you for talking about it!

@SibyllineSounds 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic, so brimming with the joy and humanity that leaps forth from small innocuous things.

@charlesmynhier5611 2 жыл бұрын

Dude this video is incredible. Thanks for making it, love hearing your thoughts! Helps you really appreciate the beauty of games :)

@CapitandodleR 2 жыл бұрын

This has to be one of my favorite videos of yours, Tetris Effect is one of my favorite games of recent time. I'm so excited to check Venineth now, seems like my type of game.

@Nighzmarquls 2 жыл бұрын

So something I don't see you noticing but stood out to me. Tetris Effect's campaign mode plays with difficulty, music and visuals to convey a story as well. It is not JUST the visuals and audio, there is definite distinct 'moments' of scaling adversity and relief explicitly implemented. It is in that regard a master stroke in my mind, the final chapter is one that conveys an experience of benign reality that was incredibly refreshing and touching. The mechanic actually does communicate back along side all the other channels of communication.

@swiftcrayon 2 жыл бұрын

So I have loved watching your videos for a long time Jacob. Tetris is the one game that I have always constantly played. It is my favorite of all time. Hearing you talk about it is making me smile. Tetris Effect is amazing. Now I guess I'm off to roll some marbles?

@toms9986 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos man, thank u for uploading

@sanitarymailbox-8023 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob, you're one of my favorite KZfaqrs for videos like this. The way you describe the themes and ideas behind pieces of media, you do it so well, with such passion, while making me feel things the whole way. Thank you for making your videos, I love them very much

@sanitarymailbox-8023 2 жыл бұрын

@Gacob Jellar the Fully Unhinged the dedication and love for his craft is disgusting, frankly

@cel_3465 2 жыл бұрын

every jacob geller video is essay that feels a lot like the prettiest poetry. i love it here :)

@Bonnythebest1 2 жыл бұрын

I CANT BELIEVE IT.. Alright.. what the hell. Just one week ago I spend an entire day thinking about marble games on a whim and searching for a marble game I swore I saw on an essay video. I looked thorough all supereyepatchwolfs videos, I looked through yours, Jacob, I searched far and wide on Google to find it but alas I went to bed with a bitter taste in my mouth and I soon forgot about it. AND THEN a week later you release a video specifically about marble games, nonchalantly revealing not only that that game was venonith but also that that essay video I swore I saw was errant signals! I... I guess I'll just start thinking really really hard about how cool it would be to have a pc port of Bloodborne?

@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making this video Jacob, I just started playing Venineth today and it's exactly the type of game I needed right now

@joshuarobinson6030 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome content, as always

@knightofpower3093 2 жыл бұрын

I just wanna say, you are legitimately one of the few people I look forward to searching to see if they uploaded, and immediately watch the video in full. Every vid is amazing

@EmethMatthew 2 жыл бұрын

This was an interesting analysis. Thank you

@no_special_person 2 жыл бұрын

I initially watched the whole thing without audio. Beautiful video

@HeavyEyed 2 жыл бұрын

absolutely phenomenal video, one of my favorite of yours so far

@JacobGeller 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks king!!

@TheEliera 2 жыл бұрын

Love the music in this episode -chill vaporwave are my jam...

@C1c4da 2 жыл бұрын

I watch a huge variety of content on KZfaq From science stuff, art stuff, true crime, etc. I dont even play video games that often But your channel is one of my absolute favorites I think you could make any topic interesting!

@wa5657 2 жыл бұрын

1) we can surely replace the philosophical axiom with "i play tetris, therefore i am" 2) we *will* communicate with aliens via tetris effect 3) i never held a marble ball nor ever i saw the physical prototype of the game, but the game told me everything about this ball so clearly i didn't need to 4) i love and appreciate your works so much man

@thealgerian3285 2 жыл бұрын

Discovered your channel like 2 days ago, love your videos. A lot of them I see the title of, and think "this one's not gonna be interesting for me", and each time I'm just flat out wrong.