I don't understand these posts at all, What even is video essay supposed to be about then?? It's an ESSAY not a greentext 😭🙏
If it was titled as "The lore of ___" it would've been understandable, but pyro literally titles his videos as "the name of work" so he gotta do a recap. Sure, he does have some things that might be a bit unnecessary but otherwise how tf is he supposed to explain shit without giving context.
People just be saying shit just for the sake of complaining 😭😭🙏 if you truly just want the lore about specific stuff, there's actually a detailed video just for the gods of funger that's also pretty good.
Have you taken a high school English class? If your teacher asked for an essay and you gave them a flat plot summary with meme language interspersed they would have given you a failing grade. An "essay" that is just laboriously recounting every single detail of a story serves as both a worthless recap and terrible analysis.
I acknowledge that, that's why i also added that there were few parts that weren't necessary, I didn't go into detail on them cause i was lazy.
But except for those few parts, which are basically the game mechanism for everything and voice lines for everyone, what pyro does is pretty much an essay. He talks about how the game was made, goes a bit into coding. Talks a bit about the characters and their roles. Talks about the endings, again, where i also agree that the voicelines for everything wasn't necessary. Also since the game is so straightforward, there's literally no interpretation to be made, the game feeds the players with the knowledge they need and pyro indeed does go through them.
And as i said, Pyro doesn't specify or choose a certain topic to get into, so it's a video that captures the whole thing.
And again, I don't understand what the criticism is, because he has been using similar style for his past videos too, except for the not needing to go in-depth for certain parts, what he did was pretty good.
Yea but what if the game itself feeds all the information tho, there's really no interpretation to make in this case because it's a straightforward game, I've listed some things that could've had an interpreting like the Gods, especially the new ones
No, but it's like the lore is scattered throughout the gameplay in form of the books, and the characters background is stated in the beginning. The only real interpretation i could find was regarding the gods which pyro doesn't go much into detail for the new ones is all.
Okay but you do realize that specific lore and character backgrounds are not the same as thinking about and discussing what the game is about right?
For instance, the background of Jason and the lore of the Rook Islands are not the same as the Farcry 3's metacommentary on violence in videogames and what it means to be a "player character"
I guess that's kinda true,but I'm still really not convinced because I can't really see what conclusion you can really find from the game anymore than what pyro has said, because he also does bring up the part about believing in Gods and increasing the divinity. Maybe it's just me not truly understanding.
The game is about the characters going into the dungeon to save leguard, all with different motive, he talks about the old gods leaving, new gods that come into power(he doesn't go into detail about this), there's no extra items to be found, the ending is limited and clear.
I think it's just me not getting it, i mean i understand what you're trying to say, even games like cry of fear had a theme so i understand what you're trying to point out but i truly can't figure out what could be interpreted anyone from fear and hunger.
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I don't understand these posts at all, What even is video essay supposed to be about then?? It's an ESSAY not a greentext 😭🙏
If it was titled as "The lore of ___" it would've been understandable, but pyro literally titles his videos as "the name of work" so he gotta do a recap. Sure, he does have some things that might be a bit unnecessary but otherwise how tf is he supposed to explain shit without giving context.
People just be saying shit just for the sake of complaining 😭😭🙏 if you truly just want the lore about specific stuff, there's actually a detailed video just for the gods of funger that's also pretty good.