My Favorite Things Summer 2021

hi um so to begin today's video i thought we'd start by going through the entirety of my internet search history followed by all my passwords and login information now to begin we can see here that around may 7th i think that was the release of resident evil a i become suspiciously interested in googling tall women what you're looking at here seems ridiculous and it is but this is the risk you run whenever you log on to home or public wi-fi not only is your information vulnerable to third parties who may have hacked into that same network but in some parts of the world governments can just look at your data whenever they want and in others internet providers can log all these sites you visit and sell that information to third parties which is why i like to use today's sponsor expressvpn because it encrypts a hundred percent of your network data and reroutes your connection through their secure servers so your personal information is protected from nefarious outside sources saving you from public personal and professional humiliation which should always be your biggest concern expressvpn also letting you switch the regions for the streaming services you're already paying for unlocking thousands of new shows and movies like did you know that netflix japan has over 1300 exclusive titles not available anywhere else like king kong escapes which is just well it's it's really something expressvpn link in the description for three free months resident evil 8 recently released and by my estimation was rather good the moment the long-running horror series plunged headlong into pure unrestrained lunacy but take all that baby [ __ ] and throw it in the [ __ ] garbage because what i want to talk about today is the resident evil 8 puppet show welcome to re village in which the hideous boss monstrosities of re-8 take their adorable puppet form and try and convince you that there is nothing going wrong in their village from brushing their teeth with razor blades to big sis d's need to drink buckets of red paint the entire four part series is filled with so many goofy creative and horror inspired moments that it seeds with the disturbing innocence of the gregory horror shows and don't touch me i'm scared of this world you can find the entire thing on the biohazard official youtube channel but personally i'd recommend the english fan translation over on the channel next gen have you heard of elfin lead this might be something that your classes goth kid whispered to you in hushed tones or maybe like me you were that goth kid elfin lead being the strange mildly terrible anime that for years was the bogeyman of western anime fandom a violent cruel and absurd story that is also the subject of one of my favorite video essays of the year in hazel's why did we like elf and lead a fascinating deep dive into how elf and lee became a cornerstone of early 2000s western anime while simultaneously being nearly ignored in japan that exploration drifting beyond the scope of the show itself and into the lives and memories of hazel and her teenage friend group building a story inside the analysis that will be so deeply nostalgic to anyone who spent time discovering anime in the mid-2000s and using that insight to peel back the layers of what this show was why it mattered to a group of edgy teenagers and ultimately why there was real value in that unfortunately the video angered the youtube content gods by being too real meaning that it's never going to be recommended to you and will not show up in general searches so this video you're watching right now may be the only time you're ever going to stumble across it which sucks but ultimately the point of these videos is to shine a light on creators who deserve it which hazel very much does as she explores a lot of the weirder lesser-known oddities of anime and manga in a way that is equally insightful playful and sincere so go my dear wolf pack let us battle the youtube content gods and give this video the attention it deserves i don't talk about music a lot on this channel because i don't know how to music now i did release two electronica albums a long time ago but we're just uh we're just not going to talk about that but my lack of music knowledge is also why i enjoy the channel alex mccalla music alex being this incredibly talented music producer who breaks down different video game tracks pulling them apart with a near surgical precision and isolating the individual elements that make them work and as a result i now have a much better understanding of why devil may cries bury the light is such a perfect encapsulation of virgil as a character why near's music makes me feel so hopeful but so depressed at the same time or why guilty gear's smell of the game makes me want to tear open the sky and punch god in the face however underscoring that precise technical know-how and honestly what keeps me so invested in these videos is just the sheer unrestrained passion alex shows in doing what he does even recreating tracks he talks about himself to gain a deeper understanding of the cogs and wheels that drive them link to everything i talk about in the description below friends a crime has occurred on youtube in that i've recently seen one of the best god damn animated shorts of my entire life and somehow it has less than 30 000 views this is the unfortunate reality of modern day youtube where an overnight shift in the algorithm basically obliterated this kind of video meaning today [ __ ] stunning pieces of art like the naked king's music video reaches only a fraction of the audience they should and god damn directed by animator wrapper whose gorgeously loose colorful style is used to tell the story of a demon who plunges to earth meets a human companion and the road trip the two take together in a beautiful fun and painful story that despite its brief run time really feels like you've gone on this massive journey with these characters so trust me here you are going to be hard pushed to find a better way to spend four minutes on the internet so check this out and be sure to follow on twitter i've briefly talked about jiu jitsu kaisen before on this channel where my sentiment was uh yeah it's it's okay it's it's not bad however after watching the second half of the first series i am now going to upgrade that to a uh yeah it's pretty it's pretty good yes good and what that comes down to is the strength of its second major arc the kaito goodwill event which won me over not just because of how [ __ ] consistently bonkers the animation is but also on how it expanded on a lot of the lesser characters namely toto the muscle-bound idiot dreamer whose charm and bombast fills every scene he's in letting this beautiful fool punch through the years of shonen's cynicism might have built up inside me taking him straight into my heart i'd still argue that there are maybe some more interesting things happening in shonen than jiu jitsu kaisen right now but i've also dropped any reservation i have about saying that this is a fun weird ball to the wall thrill ride that does everything at least okay and some things really beautifully making it a complete no-brainer for anyone who has even the slightest of soft spots for the animated art of screaming teenagers punching each other and what's more if the half year manga sales are anything to go by you're about to see jiu jitsu kaisen take over the entire goddamn manga industry i also watched miss nagatoro and look not every recommendation has to be this big [ __ ] deep dive into why i like the things i like do you like mean girlfriend anime well then you'll probably like this no well then i don't know [ __ ] move on there's nothing for you here i'm not your dad i can't tell you what to do the appropriately titled odd taxi is a strange show that i'm going to recommend off the bat that there is nothing else that really feels like this dorara being probably the closest thing i could compare it to the story centering around a taxi driving walrus and these strange anthropomorphic passengers he ferries through the night the conversations between them being sharply written enough that they really pull you into these characters and bring to life their unique world views while passenger by passenger knitting together a larger narrative that goes beyond any one character and feels more like an encapsulation of the city itself definitely one for people who want to see less industry in the anime industry and more for those who still see anime as a vehicle for some weird creative and unique expression one slightly older anime i checked out was in this corner of the world a beautifully peaceful film focusing on rural japanese life in the 1940s and then contrasting that life with the destructive horror of hiroshima and if you want to experience the just nightmare of world war ii through anime you are not short on quality options but what i loved about this movie particularly is how much of its time is dedicated to the gentle lives of these people only for its final moments to obliterate everything in the cruelest most shocking manner possible really pulling into focus the harrowing human cost that large-scale atrocities like this have and as a little supplement to this if you want to see how absurdly avoidable this tragedy was i'm also going to recommend this video by youtuber sean which shines a light on the honestly ridiculous set of circumstances and justifications that led to one of history's greatest atrocities and how infinitely avoidable and needless it truly was eno's back and she has glasses now guilty gear strive recently exploded onto consoles and as someone who spent months piecing together the insane lore of guilty gear from ending cutscenes on my ps2 it is so glorious to have this beautiful and ludicrous world of fighters back in full force newcomers like the wolf wielding giovanna and the indestructible vampire samurai nagariyuki being two of the best editions of the entire roster jio's intense rush down style letting her pin opponents to the corner overwhelming them with barrages of attacks while nag takes a step back eviscerating opponents with slow careful strikes the subtle journey of figuring out the scenarios your characters are strongest in and the strategies of how to create those scenarios resulting in some of just about the most satisfying and rewarding matches i've played in years the rollback netcode finally actually able to keep up with the blistering pace of guilty gear and that's all without even mentioning how dripping in style personality and world building this game is and if you're new to guilty gear i know it can seem kind of intimidating but the gameplay has honestly never been more accessible and if you're worried on the two decades plus of lore allow me to direct you to woolly versus a terrible person who makes great content his lore series on guilty gear being a fantastic introduction to the just insanity of this world as well as why it is so worth getting into to present a slightly balanced viewers drive though i do think that it's currently suffering from the new generation problem and that there are new systems mechanics that very clearly need refining and parts of the game that need to be fleshed out but i'm also viewing this as what i'm hoping is going to become a generation defining fighting game so hell yeah still my heart is blazing and to get just about as far away from that as humanly possible let's talk about disco elysium you awaken from a drunken stupor the hotel room around you destroyed the smell of alcohol thick on your breath and from here it's up to you to figure out who where and what you are as you begin to piece together the story of a self-destructive police detective pulled into a murder case that is quickly spiraling out of control and threatening to consume the entire fictional town of rivershaw that surrounds it and so you approach the case like a real detective would chasing down leads questioning witnesses and calming the city for any clue as to what may or may not have led to a dead man swinging from a tree but what's so fascinating about this game are the mechanics that drive that experience see your stats aren't your typical strength decks or look but things like empathy drama and authority where pouring points into any particular one will dramatically change how your detective approaches these different encounters so when i dumped a lot of points into inland empire basically the dale cooperstat my character began to interpret universal signals to make breakthroughs in the case those different stat categories acting nearly as party members inside your own head even arguing with each other as they pull you in different directions it's a really interesting concept but what really brings it to life is the absurdly high level of writing and dialogue portraying both the city of rivershall as well as the characters in it as these beautifully vivid hopeful and damaged people and particularly the one you control you can mold your detective however you want but it's not a question of min-maxing stats or optimal builds but what kind of train wreck he will end up becoming in a beautifully bittersweet story of a broken person trying to maintain order in a broken city i do want to say that it took me about three attempts before the game really started to click the game being unapologetic in what it wants to be but for those willing to persevere i think what you're going to find here is a game that is going to be very influential in the years to come and a must for anyone who cares about the storytelling potential of video games the granddaddy of 3d fighting games recently made a glorious return in the form of virtual fighter 5 ultimate showdown and i think it's easy to look at virtua fighter and for its lack of fireballs air dashes and instant kills to make it seem like the boring old man of fighting games but trust me benito still waters like an ocean of depth to the point that each character might as well be a game unto themselves seriously i have put well over a hundred hours learning the brutal grapple arts of the malicious judo user go and sometimes i still feel like i'm barely scraping the surface and part of what made that journey so enjoyable is just the bone crunching animations some of these characters have like seriously check this out if you have psn ultimate showdown is currently free right now so grab a buddy find a character that speaks to you and settle in for what could be a long rewarding journey you sit on your front porch staring out into the cold morning when a white van pulls up in front of you and driving it is a man in an expensive suit you start down at your notebook which simply reads tell him i'm done and if me saying game good is enough to make you spend 15 on the hour and a half long adios then maybe you can just skip to this part right here but if you need further convincing this is a first person narrative experience where you a pig farmer has decided that you no longer want to help a mafia hitman dispose of his bodies the beautifully written beautifully voice-acted conversation that follows conveying the warmth and tenderness that have built up between the two through years of friendship but also the inescapable reality if you truly want out then this conversation is going to be the last thing you ever do and that's how you spend the majority of adios's brief runtime as a man coming to terms with his final hours on earth subtly conveying the tragic journey that brought him to this point in a way that really made me reflect like wow how would i spend my time if i only had hours left to live the lo-fi visuals and haunting landscape capturing the finality of these moments beautifully in an extremely poignant game about what we are when there is no time left invincible was one of those shows where i spent the majority of its first episode being like okay it's it's a superhero story i i get it only for the last five minutes to leave me like oh oh [ __ ] okay well uh oh uh episode two i guess yep it's one of those shows where giving away the hook is going to rob you of the fun and shock of experiencing it yourself but hey look if i can convince you further this is a 42 minute animated tv show aimed squarely at adults and we do not get many of those and one filled with a lot of really fun and weird characters all packed into this intensely violent father-son story that never stops throwing wild swerves at you hey are you one of those people who likes to listen to old survival horror playlists on repeat because the chilled music helps you relax no well i don't care i'm going to recommend you the music of survival spheres basically an entire channel dedicated to creating music in the style of old school resident evil and silent hill osts and i think that's something that is attempted quite a lot but for me personally survival spheres is one of the few who's really able to pull out what was so ambient haunting and special about those tracks and recreate it in their own style i'm gonna link some of my favorite tracks to theirs in the description below but if you really enjoy this stuff consider buying some of their music on bandcamp as it's the best way to support musical artists lastly we gotta talk about it kentaro miura creator of berserk passed away just a few weeks ago and oh i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this that this video is not going to be able to contain but for now there's two things i want to say first i've seen a lot of sentiments online from people who say that they've always really wanted to read berserk but now never will knowing that it's never going to get its true ending and what i'd say to this is that i don't think stories should be seen as these cryptic codes whose true value is only unlocked in their final chapter they are the moment-to-moment experience of existing in a world that is different to ours and seeing our own struggles and ambitions and hopes and fears reflected in the characters of that world and the journey you take with them and just because one of those journeys abruptly ends that doesn't mean that every step that took us to that point had any less value in its imperfect unfinished state berserk is one of the very best of those journeys you can take berserk may be over and the conclusion might not have been what we wanted but i don't consider a single second i've spent with that story wasted the opposite i'm just so goddamn happy that it exists as it does berserk had a massive impact on me both personally and on the trajectory of this channel and i will never stop being grateful that i got to experience as much of it as i did and look this is not going to be the last time i talk about berserk on this channel but for now i think the only thing to say is thank you so much to quintero miura you are the best to ever do it friends thank you for joining me today if you'd like to help support this channel you can do so over at patreon.com forward slash super ipatchwolf where for just a single dollar you can help me keep creating videos and even have your name listed among these beautiful people right here in particular this video i would like to thank rags to napkins camilla and noah lucy orr brantley sam spiro zoom zike ham underscore boat and platius the dragon as ever you can find me on the let's fight a boss video game podcast on twitch.tv forward slash super ipatchwolf or on twitter at eyepatchwolf friends take care of yourselves and i'll see you next time

Channel: Super Eyepatch Wolf

Views: 443,345

Keywords: Jujutsu Kaisen, Miss Nagatoro, Guilty Gear Strive, Invincible, Disco Elysium, Shaun, Eflin Lied, Odd Taxi, Anime, Games

Id: UvhrGQM4YlI

Length: 21min 15sec (1275 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 26 2021