Created: 24 Nov 2016
Yup. I sat on this video for nearly 5 months! It was one of the videos I pumped out in the off-days when I wasn’t working on JojoBebop. I literally just sat down and played Dark Souls 3 for an hour, and stopped shortly after this video ends, and I haven’t played since.
Once in the editing bay, I experimented a bit, and decided to intentionally edit it in a rather chill way, as opposed to the in-your-face way a lot of heavily edited gameplay videos are. (Of course I still love my Dunkey’s and Slimecicle’s, I just like a little variety in the Youtube scene).
The last step was the prospect of some music. I tried putting some smooth jazz here and there, but in the end my answer was contained within the video itself. As I mentioned in my JojoBebop post, I was listening to this playlist a lot at the time. So I was singing some Steven Universe songs in the actual video, and I knew just the instrumental songs to add.
Anyway, I think it really elevates the video to something beautiful.
Confession: Not only am I bad at video games, I commit the mortal sin of being pretty insecure about it. That won’t stop me from posting videos like this, (because it’s a good video regardless) but know that I recognize the problem. If I could flip a switch and make it so I could beat the boss in one try, I would have flipped that switch like an ebay scalper years ago. Instead I can only ask for patience, and that folks might realize that there is greater enjoyment in laughing at the struggle than getting frustrated by it.