Monthly LP Update - November 2024

This is my monthly update post, cross-posted to both Patreon and my personal blog detailing the progress I've made on my Let's Plays. More below!

In Stars and Time

After nearly a year a recording and half a year of releasing, the playthrough of In Stars and Time has come to a close! In a beautiful coincidence, the penultimate episode where we finally broke out of the time loop came on the game's 1 year anniversary of being released.

I am exceedingly happy with how the series came out. It truly is a wonderful game that hit on some extremely personal notes for me. The way it handles mental illness is honest, sympathetic, and necessarily critical where it needs to be. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to take the content warnings for the game seriously,

I may come back soon with a little post-mortem on the playthrough. This is something I used to do in video form, but they tended to get a weird amount of hate so I stopped doing them. If I do return to doing port-mortems for playthroughs, it'll be in text form here on my blog and Patreon.

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

Every single episode of A Realm Reborn has been recorded, edited, and uploaded. The finale of A Realm Reborn will be up before the end of the year, and Heavensward will begin on January 6th, 2025. 721 episodes! I can't believe I actually managed to pull it off?! 721?! 2.5 years?! What an incredibly long playthrough.

I am happy overall with how it came out though. I learned a lot, especially about my personal limits, and it's led to a lot of significant improvements in my video production pipeline for the sake of my own health. I've made a lot of friends through it as well, many of whom have joined me for various videos including FATE grinds, raiding, and MINE dungeon runs.

Sonic Adventure Chao Garden

I recorded three Chao Garden episodes recently which will be coming out over the next few weeks. Unfortunately they ended with the conclusion that the Chao Garden videos just are not working. Disappointing, but the Sonic Adventure 1 Chao Garden just isn't really that good? I loved it when I was younger and had the time to just chill with the Chao for hours and hours, but I don't have that anymore.

LP #016

Today I recorded the first half of the next Let's Play! That's right, half! It's going to be a pretty short game, but it's an indie classic I am excited to revisit and share. I will almost certainly finish recording it tomorrow and the videos will begin going up for Patreon in the next week or so. The big thing I need to figure out is the thumbnails... though I have a few thoughts on that!

Coming Up

A Realm Reborn finishes this month! More Sonic Adventure Chao Garden as well! And then a break for the winter holiday season before we come back in January with Heavensward and LP #016!