Astro Bot Is A Platforming Masterpiece
37Astro's Big Adventure
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro & Astro's Playroom
01:49 Playroom Update
03:59 Astro Bot Introduction
04:53 Game Structure: Playroom vs. Bot
07:01 Bot Gathering
08:20 Crash Site & Collectables
09:56 Technical Showcase
14:11 Simplicity
15:11 Gadget Mechanics
16:15 Level Themes & Charm
18:24 Ongoing Fun
19:43 Gripes: One-hit & Costume Unlock
21:50 Conclusion
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Heyo. It's not uncommon for me to be "gone" for two or three months between uploads, but usually when i come back it's with a huge 1-2 hour video... not a twenty minute one. The longer videos really do take that long to make, and i release them as soon as i'm able to. This one here, it was meant to be a really quick and easy vid. (i think we've been through this before...) It should have been 3 weeks, maybe four tops. I hit the ground running with this video, getting all my Playroom footage before the game came out, then recorded the new game footage right away, and had a script within the week. Recorded all the voiceover, even edited most of the audio and some of the video. And then... Well i just couldn't keep in it. Burn-out be like that sometimes. I couldn't focus on the project, or get more than a few minutes into editing before totally cashing out. I even contemplated scrapping the video altogether, i mean, the Astro-hype had already died down. Not even sure much of that would trickle down to my lowly channel anyway, but still. It's kinda discouraging when some of my favorite videos i've worked on can't even scrape together 1k views, but it is what it is. This is actually the second of two videos i've started after the Mario Sunshine vids. The other one was also meant to be a quick and short video, i even got it all recorded and the audio edited too. But that one was scrapped when Astro came out. I wasn't super into it, and the game footage placement would be kinda vague as it's not pertaining to one specific game. But idk, maybe i'll bodge it together as a lost video or something. Generations is next anyway. That should be fun. Oh yeah, i didn't even finish my story, not that it's all that interesting anyway. but yeah, i somehow veered the ship back on course after a few weeks and really got into the Astro project again. And i'm glad i did, This game really was a joy to play through. There's plenty of great games out there, but not many as special as this game was. That's really it i think. There's no moral to this story, i'm just rambling like i do. Oh yeah, i actually did go out and get that new computer i mentioned before. It's slick. No longer do i have to wait ninety seconds for Premiere to do a simple video playback. yay. Along with that i tried out a new recording program and changed up the mic set-up, which is why the voice over may sound different in this video. In fact, the VO in the scrapped video i mentioned was pretty rough but i cleaned it up as best i could. The astro vo was much better, but i still have quite a bit fine-tuning to do. Maybe one day i'll have professional quality audio, but that's for another day or something. idk. Cheers.