I totally agree with you. I had another comment bringing up the exact same issue and you're both totally correct, I did a big uh oh there and should have elaborated on this. My next video is on a standalone game so that video shouldn't have that issue as much as this one. Anyway, I do have issues with YiiK's themes, and I'll actually tell you my issues right in this reply (Spoiler Warning:) YiiK is a game that attempts to tackle the idea of flaws. The game attempts to present this theme through Alex Eagleston, the main character of the game and an intentionally unlikeable character. He has pretentious monologues, annoying acts of selfishness, and the player's actions can cause a party member to lose their life, with which Alex's actions and inner monologues are legitimately a little bit disgusting. He is a massive piece of garbage with the idea that he grows in the story along with the player. By the end of the game, Alex hits rock bottom and needs the player to join him in saving the world, through a forth wall breaking moment that establishes there are millions of parallel universes with a version of Alex and all of his party members, and the one in your universe consists of *you*, the player, and all your friends. It's almost a really neat fourth wall break, and probably the best part of the game. But it's *almost* a really neat fourth wall break. Because Alex doesn't have any actual consistent character development. The game could totally have kept him a bit douchey, even by the end of the game, but he says and does stupid things until the final chapter starts, basically, so not only does the player not even think he grew that much by the time it's over, but the game literally tries to compare the player to Alex through the alternate universe shenanigans when the player probably doesn't even like Alex (ESPECIALLY if they took the route that resulted in the party member death). That's a very bare bones explanation of YiiK's flaws, but I feel like it has a lot of excellent ideas concerning its story, with the fourth wall break being a huge stand out moment, but also with the idea of Alex LITERALLY being the most important being in the universe whose failure will doom every planet by the end of the game is so extra it's hilarious. Yeah that's about it

@@mageyplss Ah that does sound interesting, cant wait to see this explained in your editing style lol. Does the planned update intend on rewriting the story to fix these issues or just the gameplay and levelling mechanics like you mentioned?

@@EchoesPF878 I am not entirely sure, that's why all I said was that it promised to fix gameplay issues. I was going to say that it planned on improving the story but I didn't actually see much about it so I decided to cut me saying that out. The closest thing to story improvement that is promised are reworked cutscenes, and yes, they are visually incredible and a massive step up from the cutscenes of the original release. They very well could improve parts of the story to make the message more clear, and I hope they take that extra step to do so, but most of the reveals for the update are for things like the revamped mind dungeon. You should look at the opening cutscene for YiiK 1.5, it looks very good. As for my editing style; I still want to keep the style for all of my future videos but I still feel like it has a lot of room for improvement. That is to say that my next video(s) might not be exactly like how this video was edited. I feel like people don't really understand how much time goes into crafting a video with my editing style, and for me, doing something as simple as finding every single clip I need for a video is an entire process that can make a minute of a video take multiple hours. Not to say people are ignorant but I have to adapt my editing style to the length of the video to an extent to get the video finished relatively quickly, and even then, getting out one video every two weeks takes up most of the time that I'm not putting towards school. yea that's all i wanted to say ig

​@@mageyplss The issue here is that you believe the intent was that "Alex is going to change" Alex actually is working against that trope altogether. The point is that the growth is "false" that it's supposed to be the appearance of growth but from a guy who refuses to EVER admit his faults and grow. It's where that "Post-Modern" thing comes in As far as gameplay goes it's important that the developers have been open that the way it's designed was not what they wanted but was rather a suggestion from the publisher from playtesting. With nearly every dungeon completely remade before release. (The original versions are viewable in game files and they are pretty awful) And how it even still has run out of its budget. (I.V's Budget has been completely self (ACKK) funded and the publisher has no involvement)

@@hellkrai I see what you mean, I considered the possibility of him not being meant to change but I felt as though that wasn't the case considering the ending that directly compares Alex to the player. He also has redeeming qualities and the ending is played completely straight, so idk this is why I didn't go into the game's themes lol

Oh no

still true smh

@@AshenDesolation :[

@@mageyplss I was going to scream in my heated gamer chair if that was the video

@@victorjohnson5646 I added thumbs up to Madeline and Chicory to be like "no these are good i swear haha please don't make a deviant art post about me"

I definitely see what you mean there. How the game presents its themes is definitely flawed and I shouldn't have neglected to talk about how the game fails at them, and I think part of the reason why I didn't even though I could was because I was a lot more bothered by the gameplay when I played it than anything else, and I lost focus on all other elements. It's honestly a pretty glaring issue in the video, but I also think I didn't want the yiik portion of the video to be too long in comparison to the other game discussions. I know that sounds silly but it's easy for me to get lost in all my talking points. I'm working on the next video's script and will take your criticism into account for that.

@@mageyplss Thank you very much for listening. I appreciate it.

@@SmokeTheHorsehog receiving criticism to improve my work is one of the best parts of doing KZfaq for me.

Bro why are all these comments so heartwarming💀I'm working on the next video rn lol

as someone with "a lot" of friends, even with 100,000 friends, and even if they were all really close to you, maybe 0.1%-1%.

Thanks :] I've been trying for a while

Thanks :] I've been trying for a while

it took me a very long time

Hehe

dam

🤭

okay? watch something else

@@azalea4884 that’s exactly what I did

It's literally just me talking about a bunch of games

To answer your question, I didn't really have an incredibly defined point to this video. I just kinda wanted to make a video about YiiK and that landed me here. I think about the points of my videos a lot more than I used to and honestly i wasn't expecting this video to do nearly as well as it did so I kinda didn't really think about it that much. The point of me talking about chicory and celeste was to provide examples of games that did a good job of using their game to say what they wanted to.

Lmao

correct me if I'm wrong but maybe that's just an in-joke, like the whole morbius thing.

@@boxylemons7961 pretty sure it isn't ngl, I think that opinion originated because of how relatively new video games are (the same thing happened with graffiti and people throwing it off as nothing but a method of vandalism) and because there was also push around video games being nothing but a toy for children, or even something genuinely harmful in any capacity. Video games being seen as something for children is also probably a factor involved in it not being perceived as art, as typically kids media is unfairly seen as something that rarely can have any depth to it. That's a whole other can of worms I'd like to get into at some point tho lol

Celeste - Mirror Temple (Mirror Magic Mix): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7GeqrmnvdG7oWQ.html I have linked every single song I used in this video

It is! It has a really great and touching story and the exploration is way more fun than it has any right to be if im being honest

ohhhhhhh that makes a lot of sense actually

It's a masterpiece honestly, the story seriously touched me and the protagonist's struggles were immensely relatable.

I've never had it but eggplant is objectively the funniest vegetable

yiiking out is a lifestyle

true, I always found it stupid >:[

I think it's because most "normal" people assume that you just need to type a few lines of code, add the game into the game files, and put 3,000 shaders onto it and boom, easy triple a game in 5 minutes, not at all considering the sheer amount of time, effort, and MONEY that goes into creating games, especially for smaller developers such as indie game creators. There are a lot of games that are extremely visually pleasing, have a really fleshed out gameplay system that ensures that you won't get bored of it within 1 hour of playing, games that don't constantly try to stay relevant by constantly adding more content locked behind paywalls that range from either what should be just a small free update to a rather small addition (such as skins for stuff, like characters and items) either through an optional virtual currency, actual money, or both. Of course, 1 singular game can have all 3 of these and still be considered "bad/inferior" due to the rest of the content within it. Unfortunately though, most people would only look at the "top" games (the extremely popular ones/trendy ones or triple 'a's) as "The definitive video gaming experience" and think that everything else is inferior, usually trying relate almost ALL video games that aren't the top games to the generic copy and paste ad riddled slop that you typically find in mobile app stores.

I mean it's free :] I'd like to upgrade to a pay-to-use video editor and nicer PC soon; I'm saving up a little bit of money

@@mageyplss it's not meant to be a criticizing comment, it's just funny because it's always so noticeable when somebody's using it because of the default font

@@charl2182 I can relate, whenever I see the clipchamp font I'm like 'clipchamp user detected'

thats so real. like i see the default fonts and im like "clipchamp buddies!! joy and whimsy"

Not hating. Just criticizing. Know the difference.

@@OddLefted piik requires ZERO changes made to it, therefore any criticism is just hating

Hiik is a post modern MASTRRPICE and anyon who sas the oposite is HATRRRR!!!!!!!

Kinda funny how the creators of undertale and Omori, two of the best earthbound inspired games ever made, worked on its soundtrack.