Game:

Blocks That Matter (2011)

Duration: 1:12:07

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This game can be found on Steam for $4.99, though it is actually on sale right now for $1.24 (75% off!) until January 5th, 2013. Sounds like a real bargain if you ask me, so get it now if you're interested and you've got a Steam account and a buck and a quarter to spare!

So, I recently acquired this game, and I had gotten all of the achievements except for one, "Acceptable in the 80s", which requires the player to go through the main story from start to finish in one playing session, so I decided to make a video of me doing that. Here's the result!

I decided to leave the story elements in, but I might've gone through the dialogs a bit fast, so pause the video if you need more time to read the text. (I did accidentally skip over a couple of lines way too quickly, so I'll include what was said in those cases in annotations.)

Now, the number of deaths doesn't matter for getting the achievement, but I kind of wanted to limit the number of dumb deaths in this run. Still, I managed to mess up six times along the way (mostly in dumb ways), which I guess is not bad, but I might want to try for a no-death run at some point. Also, I intentionally avoided picking up any of the treasure chests (though I do show how you would reach a few of them), but I did pick up some stars (by completing a level while carrying a certain number of blocks), including a couple green stars (by finishing a level with more blocks than necessary for a yellow star, which is only possible in certain levels, and often requires some tricky maneuvers and/or creative thinking).

Now, fortunately, this video was recorded well before that green screen glitch started happening (This footage was recorded on December 18th), but if I were to want to record this game again, that glitch would probably have to be fixed first.

Huh, that's interesting... This game was made by Swing Swing Submarine, the same Swing Swing Submarine that made Tuper Tario Tros., but that's gotta just be a coincidence, right?

Also, wow, this is now, by far, my longest annotated video! (Though it didn't take quite as long to annotate as my first Project Nize Festival video, possibly because the annotations are generally much less dense in this video.)

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