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Nier Automata blew me away with its ending structure. At first I was a little confused as to why the game essentially restarted but I went with it. Then it became clear that it wasn't the same. After that, it continued on and then kept going. And going. And going and oh it was just so good. I ended up getting every ending (yes, even ending Y)

"God Mode" may trivialize the game, but in this case, I don't see that being an issue. You already had a normal run through the game. Now it's time to goof around. Like in the NES version of Super Mario 3. Beat the game once, and you can replay with an inventory full of P-Wings. That was a fun reward, and I kinda wish they had brought it back for rerelases.

Something to add for Devil May Cry: bosses actually get new moves on higher difficulties. So not only do they have more health and deal more damage, they also make you learn completely new moves to deal with

Zero Escape 999 is basically incomprehensible with only one run. It encourages players to take different routes each time, with a bit of information in each route, but not enough to really understand, until you beat the true route, and man. I won't spoil it for anyone but what a twist! Also there are other games in the serie that are apparently similar in structure, but I haven't played them yet.

One NG+-like thing I enjoy is that the entire Nier series is a direct continuation from the esoteric ending D from Drakengard 3 where you...play a dragon-based rhythm game in actual Tokyo.

Final Fantasy X had the secret language that you unlock one letter at the time by finding hidden items, so on your next play through you get more context as to what some of the characters are saying.

The hades pact of punishment is a really good way to do a new game +. You continue to earn rewards and progress the vast amount of stuff there is to upgrade or buy while maintaining the challenge and ramping it up at a perfect pace letting you decide the heat level you choose and not giving additional rewards for drastically increasing the heat. It encourages you to raise the level one heat at a time and so by the time you clear 1 heat you're thinking "two heat won't be that bad", and so on.

Randomizers are also a cool way to extend a game but underused by developers.

I've always loved OneShot for how it makes NG+ manditory for the plot, and even built up towards it before it released. Niko is taken away from his world, placed inside of this game world, and you need to help him return the Sun so he can go home. You play through the game, return the sun, and learn that nothing was actually fixed. the world is still broken, and so Niko might not have been sent home. On release it took a few months for the Solstice run to be released, where you offically learn that no, Niko never get sent home, and now you need to fix things for real, and actually send him home. All throughout the game there are things that show that your first playthrough didnt fix anything, and there were deeper underlying problems that needed solving, and you couldn't solve them until you found the Solstice run, which requires using an item that you get in the first playthrough, but did nothing at that time. Once he is actually sent home for real this time, if you ever want to play the game again, Niko isn't there. He is already back in his own world, so instead you "play" as a simulated hologram of Niko, because dragging a real living person back to this world just for your amusement would be cruel.

I have to disagree on P5's New Game Plus simply trivializing everything because of what carries over. I agree with your point that time management is important in the game, but the issue is you can't see/do everything without a guide because it's impossible to plan everything without meta knowledge on what days you'll be prevented from doing things due to events, what days are exceptions for people's schedules, and the like. In addition, while you do have access to all your old personas and equipment, you never have to use them if you wish to play as normal. Joker's stats are reset, so the only way to boost them is with a stronger Persona. My original play-through was something like 100 hours. My second, when I wanted to see the social links I didn't experience fully, and play around with strong Personas, was about 70. For a game filled with this much content, I don't think that's an issue.

I really like the new game plus in Heaven's Vault, which retains your library of translated words in the Ancient script and makes the phrases you're asked to translate this time around more complex. This means you'll have to put in as much, if not more, into understanding the language and completing the challenges, but also gaining more insight into this lost culture. The story has enough branching choices to support several playthroughs

The fact that you used CrossCode footage (a little masterpiece only few know) makes me really happy

I always like how Trails of Cold Steel did NG+ For every time you complete the story, you unlock points you can use to carry over things from the playthrough. So you have to decide if you want your gear, money, character notes, sepith and pretty much everything the game gives you, outside of your levels... The most expensive option is to get unlimited bonding points, so you don't have to miss out on a partymembers complete story, letting you hang out with everyone at every occasion!

For the people who liked Undertale's approach, I want to recommend OneShot. It takes the fourth-wall stuff from Undertale and turns it up to 11. Spoilers ahead. Basically, the character you control is her own person, who has been transported from her home to an unfamiliar, desolate world. But she finds she can talk to you, the player, directly (though multiple choice dialogue, of course.) At this point, I've been chastised for spoiling the ending, and decided I can't say why this is a recommendation for those who enjoyed Undertale without spoiling the heck out of the ending, so I've deleted the rest of my explanation. Go get the game, it's good.

Devil Survivor is a pretty important example, I think. It's very similar to Persona in the types of progression you carry over, but how much you can bring is itself locked behind achievements and challenges. It gives you an entirely new side of the game to consider as you clear out the other storyline paths, much like how roguelikes let you slowly build up a base powerlevel with every reset. Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter had nice ideas with their newgame+, but was sadly not enough to make the game accessible to most people.

“Persona 5’s New Game Plus isn’t the best” Me: *agreeing, but also knowing full well I finished a NG+ run of regular P5, and will almost certainly do another once I finish Royal.*

One game with a very interesting use of NG+ is Bravely Second, mainly because, like Automata, it's actually essential to complete the story. But not in a 'ending after the ending' kinda way, more in a 'the game won't actually end until you figure out what to do' way. It uses NG+ as the answer to an in-game puzzle.

kingdom hearts chain of memories had my favorite new game plus mode where you played as Riku

Astro Boy: Omega Factor always stood out to me as having a great New Game Plus. Astro keeps his memories of the previous playthrough and as early as the replayed tutorial starts asking questions about things he shouldn't know yet that end up totally changing the plot up. It was mostly story-related, but some unique boss fights came out of it. Great game on top of that too!

I didn't notice the differences between Mario and Luigi, and I'm telling you that I finished that game at 100%, both regular and green stars only with Luigi, once finished the main quest I just changed to Luigi because I love him, and then, well, just collect everything by my own (with some exceptions, not every green star is fair to find)

Glad to see Tales represented at least a little (in this case, Vesperia). I think the Grade Shop is definitely something that should be touched on more as a NG+ device. Vesperia's NG+ alone allows you to (realistically) achieve higher levels, win "unwinnable" fights, take more shots at completing your compendiums, unlock higher difficulties, alter the game's balance... there is a lot to unpack, and it's up to the player to design how their next run will go! It's really something great.

I really love xenoblade 2's new game plus. You get a choise between god mode, 2nd challenge, and skill ramp. This is due to the level down mechanic and the brutal difficulty. If you want god mode then keep your level and equipment and blaze through the game. If you want to get a skill ramp then level down to level 1 and since a new skill tree was unlocked use that. If you want a challenge put the difficulty of the bringer of chaos mode that is designed to use end game gear and strategies. I really love how they did the combat in this game so I liked using my new strategies and skills in new game plus.

It's worth mentioning Shovel Knight: Spectre of Torment's and King of Card's new game +: SoT: -Game turns your Will (health) and your Darkness to one entity as Will/Darkness and it drains by time. -Unlike original game, your enemies became desparate resource with risk rather than obstacles while being cautious about using items. KoC: -Your vigor (mana) gets replaced by Gold. You spend Gold while using items. -Your character gets Gold multiplier if you kill enemies without taking damage. (x2 / x5) All campaigns: -You take more damage, there's less checkpoint and major healing item gets replaced with traps.

Final Fantasy X-2 had a good use of NG+, allowing you to keep unlocked classes and character progressions in those classes, as well as equipment, but not levels. But more interesting is the narrative used, with each area of the game having missions you can pass or fail (or skip altogether), and some storylines that intersect with others. And there's also a major choice you make about a third of the way into the game that affects how a lot of people in the story see and interact with you for the rest of the game.

I loved being able to play as different dogs after beating Okami! I also tried to play through the game's story as quickly as possible, so not only did I get to play as different dogs (each with different barks) but I also found more collectibles, weapons, I never found all of the fish or animals, but it was fun to find more, I also found more brush styles from exploring the areas more! It was in general the most fun game to beat 100% I've ever played!

I apreciate a lot the love of Crosscode in this video.

OneShot's new game plus is great in that the story starts the same way, but gradually deviates into an entirely new direction. It's a great way for the wonderful story to end, too.

Not necessarily a “traditional” New Game+ or even a New Game+ for that matter, but I really love the post-game of Dragon Quest XI. Just throwing it out there.

Hearing and seeing Ratchet and Clank gave me nostalgia flashbacks. _Help_ Incredibly interesting as always,particularly in some of the games put on display,i wasn't aware even back then Link had a new game +. _And this let's me take a peek at games i'd look forward to play,like CrossCode._

Persona NG+ after about 3 times through should be the moment you decide "I like this low level persona, but I don't like that it's low level" then you make it OP.

Bravely Second is my favorite use of NG+, considering the first time it happens, it's not _really_ NG+, but the term being used for the characters to take a second chance to beat the bad guy, since they totally failed the first time. The second time is a standard real NG+ option once you beat the game.

I had some ideas for a new game plus for the game im currently makeing, you could save characters that normaly die in the first playthrough and your character will get more and more self aware

The first NG+ I did was Persona 5. Imo a good NG+ is a little more difficulty (since you're more leveled and skilled) some exclusive content like a secret boss or 2. Love your videos btw

I always loved new game + it gives a whole new experience depending on the game. Since games are expensive these days if i can get replay value & enjoy it a second time then it's worth it

For NG+ the one good example I can think of is OneShot. The game kinda hints you about where the story isn't complete, and when you start NG+ a carried over item enables a new route that's completely different. The game also talked about "multiverse" so that's some extra bit of content. I think the design shines because it's not triggered automatically, you need to solve extra puzzle in order to get into the new route.

Atlus games overall sometimes have some unique rewards for NG+ routes, aside from also several of them having several different endings. SMT Nocturne has tombstones in its optional dungeon where you can rematch old bosses, which is usually fast but the gimmick is that you have to beat them in a specific time. Do that for all the bosses and on NG+ you can obtain an extra turn, which is always fun in a turn-based game. Strange Journey Redux not only has some content that you can only access on NG+, but on most difficulties, you can choose what things you can transfer. You can for example transfer all your map progress which is super handy for a dungeon crawler, but not your level and stats so you can still be challenged.

Every time I watch these kinds of videos I'm reminded of my monstrosity of a backlog

Fire Emblem : Three Houses is another game that does narrative new game + well. Each of your playthrought feels like a different game where you explore each faction, but the are all tied together in the same story

The new game plus mechanics in The Messenger are an interesting mix of the godmode and secondary challenge categories. For a game with such exacting platforming, a speedruning community is inevitable. And the devs knew this. For each run of the game you complete, you get to choose one of three items chosen at random to keep, as well as keeping all of your unlocked movement abilities. And these upgrades stack. And as you repeat playthroughs, you'll get faster and faster as you realize you can skip and sequence break with your items. For those interested in the game, I HIGHLY ADVISE playing it yourself and not looking things up. There are quite a few massive twists that the developers were quiet about during development and marketing. Additionally, I tried to keep spoiler free here, so know there's a little more nuance in the new game plus.

Tales games always had a interesting new game plus; having a massive load of options either to make things easier or create a new challenge. The GRADE system created a limit on the options you had based on how well you performed in battles.

Speaking of Nier, Drakengard is also a good example of NG+ but then again because it's the same director. Also, I really like NG+ when characters recognize that this aren't their first time with these events like in Shadow of Memories but it's a shame that IIRC you have to play through all 4 endings to reach that.

I see NieR: Automata in the thumbnail, I click.

I have to say that I admire the simplicity new game plus in Nier. It's simply turns on subtitles and shows you what the bosses were doing before you came in. Flips the entire narrative on its head. What is so surprising is how much sense the story makes both times while being so radically different with such a small change

*Sees CrossCode *Intense Happiness noises*

Might as well mention Fire Emblem Three Houses! New Game + there is quite nice, as it gives you a lot of flexibility in how much you want to use/abuse certain abilities for a playthrough. Want a run to still be challenging, but have more options for who you can field? No problem. Want to make Byleth hyper-competent so you can teach your students how to kill way faster? Got it. Want to play the game by making everyone an armor knight? Totally possible. That, and the 4 total routes make it a game that’s disgustingly easy to replay.

Hollow Knight's Steel Soul is more of a challenge NG+. But instead of changing the enemies life or damage, it only change is in your character, adding permadeath. In first glance doesn't look special enought, or just too difficult for some players, but HK game design change completely players opinion if they just give it a try. Now that you understand the world and the map, you not just understand in a different way the early game dialog if you is paying atention to the lore in you first playthrough, but you can complately change the order of the things you get and do in the game. HK map have so much freedom to do the things and strange orders, HK map is Open World much earlier than you first notice, and when you already know the intire map, you can plam yourself to get the items in the order that you want, trying to avoid areas that you are afraid to die in early games, and soon the game mode that you would think that you needed to just do everything again without dieing, becomes a totaaly different experience

Yeah, Nier and Automata are narrative masterpieces. They are two of my most favourite games of all time, and with a remake of Nier now on its way, I've not been more excited since 2017.

Vagrant Story has probably one of my favorite New Game+ mechanics. And I know you know about CrossCode since visuals and music came up in the video.

> Sees "New Game Plus" and NieR on the Thumbnail Ah, brilliant.

thinking back to Bartle's taxonomy of gamers, I feel like the concept of new game + carries the most appeal for explorers. Explorers find most of the appeal in the games they play within the story, variety, and possibilities of a game, rather than the inherent challenge. On a mechanical level, a new game + is an opportunity for them to enjoy what they've already collected and sort of "play with all the toys" a game has to offer

Chrono Trigger is still my favorite NG+. On top of the godmode stuff, the game becomes a completely different, almost puzzle-like challenge, going from "Can I beat this game?" to "What happens if I beat the game and end the story NOW (before/after x happens)?".

I love how the Kirby series has done new game plus post Super Star. Most of the time, you play through a harder version of the same main game, sometimes as a new, slightly more powerful character, and sometimes with new bosses! Then, you have the option to take on those harder bosses in a gauntlet as Kirby, with only your skill and the knowledge of your encounters in the new game plus to help you beat them, and even then a new surprise or two gets thrown in at the very end! Finally, through all this, you're able to learn new things about the characters and the world around them, mostly through pause screen text, but sometimes its through encounters, dialogue, and visual similarities, that most of the time reference previous games in the series, rewarding veteran fans with the satisfaction of not only completing the challenge, but also with the excitement of learning more about a series they follow!

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon has to be my favorite NG+ system I've seen so far. After getting the "good" ending on a normal run, you unlock Nightmare mode, which as one would expect is (mostly) a replay of the game with added difficulty and tougher enemies. But it is also a required playthrough if you wanna progress the story of the game, and see the real ending. The twist comes from the fact that- *SPOILERS* in the previous ending, the protagonist essentially gets lost to the void, and thus the remaining characters have to rescue him. This means you will have to progress through an harder version of the game with one man down. The final twist comes in the form of the last stage of the game being entirely replaced with a new, secret level that is unique to this game mode, where your party must finally confront their fallen comrade. Alternatively, the game's normal mode offers many different endings based on which characters you choose to recruit, ignore or straight-up kill. Killing potential party members buffs up your main character with new abilities, but these abilities are nothing spectacular on their own, and in no way make up for losing an extra character with its own health bar and skillset, something that the game itself constantly reminds you of. So by playing around with these routes, you can also up the challenge by choosing to play with less party members than you would on your normal first playthrough. In fact, the route where you kill off every character and obtain the worst possible ending as a result, is a pre-requisite in order to unlock the game's final Ultimate mode, where you play through Nightmare difficulty, but the main character starts out with all extra abilities already unlocked.

The best way to do a new game plus is to replace all squishable mushroom creatures with fireproof shelled creatures

As a man who loves video game soundtracks, I appreciate how you played music corresponding to the game you were talking about in a very seamless manner. Couple of them took me back down memory lane.

83K views in 2 days? Glad to see your channel finally getting the recognition it deserves, “Design Doc” (aka warbot 😏). Been enjoying the quality content for years. Keep up the awesome work! :)

5:39 that's the worst name I've ever heard.

The most fun I ever have from NG+'s are god modes. I already beat the game, tearing through it after is a blast. Let me trivialize all those challenges I went through before. I love it

I enjoy a new game plus when there's a good handful of new content you can't access in the first playthrough. Not just a new boss or a ten floor dungeon. But extra content such as unlockable items, access to areas that weren't accessible before.

This video came right when I was thinking about this! Love the content!

hmmm, remind me to return to this when I've finished Nier Automata Edit: There we go, I'm here again. Good video. Also, such a bloody good game, time to play the original I guess.

I found that Dragon Quest XI had a great way of expanding the story after the last boss. Time travel and the real baddy which was foreshadowed in the main campaign

I swear this channel really knows how to inform me. I did not see or understand the point of new game + modes in video games, but now I see the benefits of them. I like the idea of Narrative + Skill-based new game + modes a lot too. I think too many games rely on "replay the exact same game because you love it!" and not enough focus on emphasizing growth in a player's skills. Good video!

Thank you so much for the description list. I wish more people did what you did there. I subbed as soon as I saw that.

One I enjoy is Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen. I’ve been playing it off and on for four years and just saw a new ending for it this week. Without NG+ I wouldn’t have beaten it multiple times in multiple ways.

Analog: A Hate Story and Hate+ have a fairly interesting and very in-genre new game plus mode, worth exploring if you're in the visual novel space.

As always, great video. I just replayed my very first game, pokemon mystery dungeon blue recue team, and my console was stolen before I finished it, so I recently discovered it's post-game content. I was so happy to just collect the pokemon and rank up, but the discovery of more narrative, was incredible. Your scripts are clean af dude, love your vids, I share them with friends who don't play videogames and they still watch the till the end!

Another great episode! Interesting topic! Thanks for the video guys, I don’t need to say it again but great work keep it up! How you analyze and scan games is so interesting!

Oxenfree had my favourite new game + I've encountered. I think I finished it five or six times until I was satisfied!

"and we can't talk about new game plus design without talking about at least one yoko taro ruse cruise"

I don't know if Oneshot fits this category, but after your first play through, you also get a change of narrative of the story and the game gives you your "happy" ending, the game is really meta as well

Nice Chrono trigger music in the background near the end of the video😁 I love how I begun to hear it just as you were introducing the game

Breath of Fire 5: Dragon Quarter does new game + quite differently. The game is set on a strict timer, depending on how fast you clear the game you gain a certain D-Ratio (kinda like social standing in-universe) which can unlock doors in previous areas giving new items, new ennemies, new challenges. You also get to see new cutscenes fleshing out the characters. The whole game is made on the idea of limited time and ressources, where you have to be strict with certain stuff, else you'll end up in an unwinnable situation and you'll have to "restart" the game (either previous save or the beginning) with a few stuff you had that could help you to progress faster/better. It's sometimes super stressful, since there's a kind of timer running out through almost the whole game, and certain overpowered abilities makes it go way faster.

Nier Automata is a haven for amazing design, honestly. That hacking section against the final boss alone is top tier.

Radiata stories is one of my favorite games offering new game plus. It has a story split in the middle that you can explore the second time around, characters that can only join your party on one branch or the other, and gives you some carryover for items and skills, but not completely.

I loved the game loop of Onimusha Warlords on ps2, and even after years of not playing it, I found more secret game modes and costumes with finding all the fluorite or playing under a certain time limit. This helps a game with replayability and surprises with content never before seen on later playthroughs

I want to add the devil survivor series, zero's escape and dragon quest ix to the list! Also hatoful boyfriend xD

NG+ in Fire Emblem Three Houses does it well IMO.

Thank you for the spoiler time stamp in the description, that was very considerate. None of the games in the list were games I wanted to preserve my lack of knowledge of so I can now dive into this video with carelessness!

why this kind of channel is rarely get noticed? 1.quality content 2.thorough explanation 3.well made

My favorite game of all time that utilizes New Game Plus is Fire Emblem: Three Houses. With the game being designed around playing the game a minimum of three times (four for the secret route) to understand the whole of Fodlan's history, and the ability to decide what my characters have access to (I.E. costumes, weapon proficiencies, etc.) practically whenever I want, I always have a blast replaying the game each time to experience the World in different ways, even after over 775 hours of overall playtime.

The fact that you can play as a chonker in Ōkami for NG+ automatically makes it amazing

6:52 Don't forget that the NG+ in the Ratchet and Clank series usually had a bolt multiplier that went up as you defeated enemies while taking no damage, and reset to 1x when you took any damage. Gives you an incentive to play more skillfully to unlock some of the more expensive stuff. NG+ probably served as a more natural way to level up all those weapons that didn't involve just grinding for XP in the last few areas. If the map-o-matic carried over, it might also put you on a more natural route to obtaining the gold/platinum/titanium bolts.

As a game designer at a big company, I keep watching your videos and sharing them with my colleagues, because of its simple yet important contents and the way you present them to the audience. They’re not just for the curious or design/game students. Congrats! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Ff7R was an almost perfect second challenge with hard mode, that’s exactly how it should be imo. Hard mode early game scaling to normal mode and game is next level planning

Late by about a month or so, but I want to give my piece still. I felt pretty teased by the glimpse of Kirby games! They're my personally favorite series, honestly. Ever since the Extra Modes starting in Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, they've gotten much better as time went on (Meta Knightmare Ultra was a great improvement compared to Meta Knightmare), to the proper Extra Mode variation setting in with Return to Dreamland, staying and changing in a few ways with each entry. Whether or not the EX mode starts you off with less health, play as another character or something along the lines, I always find them enjoyable due to what they do, specifically with Return to Dreamland and onward. You're playing the same worlds again, but with some differences. Either lower health, enemies with different sizes, enemy rushes being added around certain rooms, skip travels that let you skip ahead and get a better time when the EX mode has a timer... However, past those differences, what I like the most is the EX version of bosses in all they bring to the table, and even more so bosses that weren't in the Main Story mode. New looks, different patterns, new attacks, new everything to some degree when it comes to them. I'm also a sucker for the Kirby Lore, and I absolutely love the usage of Pause Descriptions now that I've gotten used to checking them out (not really intuitive at first though, which is a flaw), and I love it when I see new snippets of information or lore when I check the descriptions, possibly planting seeds for something that'll come in the future. Of course, this doesn't undervalue the good examples given in the video!

How did I miss this channel before? Now I get to fully understand NG+ and more things that were at the back of my head, but always unreachable.

I heard that dragon god and thought my phone was ringing for a sec lol

"I managed to keep spoilers out of this video!" >shows Nero in DT bruh

Absolutely love your music choices: I haven't heard the Time Devourer from Chrono Cross in so many years! Also: Scenario OverLay from Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter was one of my favorite New Game Plus mechanic!

I didn't play yet, (Want to, but other games are in the way for now) but I find very interesting how the Shining force 3 trilogy work, in which game you can recruit specific characters, depending which one you get in the first can change the one you get in second and the same thing with the third. While is not that mind blowing the interesting part is that the game has a Premium disk that allow you to change your choices in the one game and create a unique save, then you can use that save to replay any of the sequels without the need to replay the one that came before. Funny the premium disk was a gift from Sega to the players that bought all three games. Apart from all that the Premium disk has other extras more similar to others new game plus

Quiet Man is what happens when you get excited about making a new game + that completely changes what you thought was happening, but forget to make a game people will want to finish in the first place.

Admittedly, despite the endings of NieR:Automata, I felt that after that, there was nothing else to do, which sucked. The Colosseum DLC was okay, but there's too much of a level gap between every challenge for each character, and even then, I didn't like it all that much. There was a score attack mode that was seemingly thrown together with Popsicle sticks and bandaids that was demonstrated at a certain game convention, and it still exists in the debug build, but it never reached the final game and never got fleshed out. You think a boss rush would be fun, going into chapter select and i.e. beating Adam again and having some fun with a new challenge, but the bosses always remain the same level, so it's just incredibly sad how easy things are. Sucks even more, because the enemies outside of bosses always scale with your level. But Adam remains level 25 and Simone remains level 15, and you can kill Adam in 30 seconds after reaching endgame levels and gear. I'd like to note that the reason I'm sad is because there isnt much to do after you finish all quests and get all endings, and it's questionable why there isnt much to this considering MGR and Bayonetta had grading systems that kept you coming back for more, and you were always on somewhat equal ground with the bosses depending on your gear(even with the wig, some bosses can be difficult).

Thumbnail says it all: nier automata and undertale has left the biggest impressions on me out of all the games I've played in 27 years.

Cool video, you should do one on what makes for good post-game/endgame content too!

The only way a game can convince me to go trough new game + is if it has any narrative impact/information.

Xenoblade for story reasons,bravely second.

the indie game "Oneshot" is kind of built around the concept of new game plus. it's a great game, and it's very meta. i'd highly recommend looking into it!

Amazing job as always!