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It's honestly life-changing. Puts lots of things in life into new perspective

This game genre should be called "Wilds like"

God that end is so real, I WISH I COULD FORGET IT ALL TO RELIVE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME AGAIN

Haha! 0:27 - Syncing "special little game" with the Marshmallow stick twirl was, well - art.

Just hearing the end music at the end of your video made me slightly tear up. In all my time playing games I never had a game that had the same effect on me as outer wilds. Similar maybe (Journey for example) but they were all still different games. This works only as a game. As a movie or book this would have nowhere near the same impact. Everybodies playthrough is slightly different and they'll discover stuff in different orders and have different conclusions for long parts of the game. Every planet and place to explore feels truly different and they aren't just the same planet with a different color. Despite being on a timer through the whole game I never really felt stressed unless I needed to get somewhere at a specific time to do something but even then knowing that I can fly to every place in the solar system in 2-3 Minutes lessens that a lot and even dying accidentally isn't a big deal as you'll be back fairly quickly. Only at the end will you feel truly stressed as that is the 1 time it actually matters.

Fun fact, but also spoilers. If you start a new game and exhaust all of Hals dialogue in the museum, Hal mentions that a piece of the nomai statue was chipped off and used to make your ship’s computer, since the nomai statue is made of a material that can store information. This explains why your ships log stays updated throughout the time loop, it’s connected to the same statue you are.

I watched a play through of this game never expecting to play it myself. Cycle a few years later, I bought it on sale and started playing it. I regret having spoiled the game for myself. But it was still a wonderful experience playing the game my own way. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I haven't seen any of the DLC content, so I got to experience that terror completely unspoiled. 10/10 game

In my essay about this experience, I referred to this phenomenon as the "illusion of the illusion of choice", where every lead ties into the greater mystery. I do like the way you sum it up, though, as arriving at a math problem's answer without using the methodology a teacher taught. Otherwise a short and sweet video, well made 🐻

how i feel about looking things up, is it CAN be done (as a last resort), but definitely try to even ask another outer wilds player for hints first. just know that when you find out via a spoiler, you will feel VERY silly. sometimes, something that is very easy for one person to pick up, can be EXTREMELY difficult for another person to get (like from a bunch of incorrect assumptions or just not seeing something that, in hindsight, is extremely obvious). but that's also just the outer wilds experience ::)

Dude this video should have 100x the amount of views it has

Marvelous editing bro

Love the vid. You should try Tunic if you haven't already, it scratches a very similar itch

I like PB without the J. 4:28 that’s one smooth transition Amazing, absolutely spectacular video. ::)

Wow, amazing video! and only 61 subs???

Im glad im not the only one who experiences buying my first house all the time. Does that mean you're also in a time loop?? 😆 But seriously great essay! I wish i could send this to my friend to hype them up, but i don't want them knowing about the time loop and supernova yet. Once they learn about those two things, ill be sure to send this over to get them hyped to continue the game. 😉

How are the marriages going?

5:16 bro so true😭 I looked up a guide once and I got spoiled on everything😔 still love the game tho

Very few games have puzzles that makes the player feel like they figured it out on their own. That perfect balance of level design to make rules easy to understand but the complexity so it’s not too obvious either. Portal 1 and 2, Chants of Sennaar and (arguably) FEZ are the only other examples I can think of but neither have the emotional and existential impact that Outer Wilds has. Paradise Killer has the music and exploration but not the puzzles. Ghost Trick, The House in Fata Morgana and To the Moon have that feeling of puzzling together the story piece by piece but lacks exploration. In the end Outer Wilds is unique. There is simply no other game like it.

There is no other game that can be 100% as good as Outer Wilds, We still like other games

Nobody likes Outer Wilds. They love it. I think the only people who dont enjoy the game at all are people who play games like CoD and just want their games to be full of action and never pay attention go duolage or anything. A great example I saw of this was from a game journalist who was writing a review and it started off saying it was an okay game and listing why only to then state, "My biggest issues - a lack of comabt, direction, or martial rewards - are deliberately bold choices made by Mobius Studios." Like this review made me so mad and I started ranting about it to my friends who never played the game before but still agreed with me that it was a dumb review.

The only truly unique game

this game is goated

Do you have any spare micro plastics?

God, after finishing the video, I’m bamboozled on the low view count and number of subs

Nice video! Nice game. But I must say, I got a bit tired of this kind of video naming. Maybe that's just my thing, but when I see a title made of a question I immediately interpret it like genuine confusion from an autor. Like "guys, why the hell do you like this thing?". I mean if you not asking a question but stating it (to answer it in your video/essay/whatever)... Then you don't need a question mark. In the current example you (the author of the video (hi)) aren't really wondering why people fall in love with Outer Wilds - you're announcing the talk topic, which should preferably immediately translate into "the reason(s) why people fell in love with Outer Wilds". As I said, that may be just me. But I Really got tired of those confusing unnecessary question marks (:

u Should try subnautica

i see outer wilds as less of a masterpiece and more as a framework for a future masterpiece, someone will take this concept and do it better. i am ALL for artistic games that break every boundary, but this one was so lousily executed; for a game all about reading text and finding new things and clues about the world, the writing is extremely poor at making you care for any character, event, or the world itself. the game bored me out of my mind, and not in an artistically intentional way either (for example, omori - 80% of the game is boring and that is the point) and the ending made me go "that's it?"

what you said in the first thirty seconds is my exact view on games😆🥲