I got a thumbnail with a weeb

Boobies were an option? I got your face. Thumbnail looks good!

Vex face and logo

Vexx face & Logo

Face and logo. Getting fomo for the other 2 ;). Thanks for the video you did a good job.

I reckon that at some point James from NitroRad may want to make a new video on Vexx like he did with the Ty trilogy (so far). It's one of his oldest 3D platformer vids at this point.

All 6 Vexx fans, rejoice!

Sometimes a man just wants to talk about Vexx, you know?

There was a charming chaos to this era.

My own favourite was Kya: Dark Lineage.

This whiplash game looks so goofy! I love it. Also, it's Crystal Dynamics? So weird seeing this from them considering where they ended up.

I agree with this statement *very* strongly. It's stupid to want every game by every studio or developer to want to "PUSH THE LIMITS" or something. Even worse if it gets described as "the industry" as a whole. Developers have their own journeys of understanding, skill, failures and successes and the like to go through. Give 'em a chance based on what they have to offer on their own. There may be more to remark (positively, negatively or otherwise) than one may expect. Especially if, like you said, it aligns well with one's personal tastes. For another good 3D platformer type adventure, I can warmly recommend Kya: Dark Lineage. Kya as such doesn't have many innate platforming abilities, but throughout the game you come across little bits and segments of different platforming styles and *very* light stealth & puzzles. - Wall climbing - Wind gliding - Board sliding - Animal riding - And sydiving On top of this, there's a surprisingly in-depth combat system for a 3D platformer type game. Some have described it as being like a mini-Tekken. You start off with some kick-and-punch combos, some of which have properties like a simple three-hit punch, hitting low twice really quickly, two hits before leading into an uppercut, a low kick into an uppercut and then kicking away the enemy, etc. Then you gain expanded kick moves such as leg sweeps and double backflip kicks, depending where you hold the joystick. After that comes the Grabs, which differ depending on where you stand relative to the enemy, you get moves where you grab their tails to again kick them away or use them as a flail, you can jump over their shoulders to get behind them or onto them to send them careening into their allies, and more. The enemies aren't dumb punching bags either. There's three main types and different subtypes, and learn at different speeds what moves you use the most and will block accordingly. Higher ranks and subtypes learn quicker than others. So you have to switch up your moves, or reposition yourself, or use a grab (hard counter to blocking). But enemies can also perform special grabs on you if *you* block for a long time. For more recent titles, can warmly recommend the likes of Clash: Artifacts of Chaos (Zeno Clash prequel), Cookie Cutter, and Soulstice (character action/hack-and-slash type game, like Darksiders, DMC and stuff). Cookie Cutter especially applies in this context. The lead dev has a philosophy of "Fetish no fashion"-- not referring to a sexual fetish, but to make that what really appeals to you. He fully knew how niche it would be, proverbially fought tooth and nail to find a publisher that would not try to exert influence over the project, and still went on a pretty big journey of about six years to make a good game. To make something not better, not worse, but different, hoping that it will still reach many people. He's got more planned too and i'm very excited for it.

@@TarksGauntlet Heh yeah I didn't fully realize same folks as both Gex and newer Tomb Raider of all things, pretty interesting

@@jurtheorc8117 Thanks for the recs, never heard of these before, gonna look more into them!

For the longest time "soulslike" and "Souls-clones" were kind of both in use. You used to hear it a lot more. Structure-wise Vexx is very similar to Mario 64 but I like vexx's stage design and objectives a lot more.

One vexx demo has been dumped and you can find it on Internet Archive. I used some footage of it in this video during the development section, but sadly there's no dumps of the really early versions with the interconnected world's

@@TarksGauntlet that's unfortunate man I wish someone can develop a fangame from the early build tbh