Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Keith Ballard
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Insult to Injury - Let's Play Lyre [Part 17]
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![Insult to Injury - Lets Play Lyre [Part 17]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JmPgHuC0g04/mqdefault.jpg "Insult to Injury - Lets Play Lyre [Part 17]
Insult to Injury - Lets Play Lyre [Part 17]")
![Worqor Zormor - Lets Play Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail [Part 240]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jqy-16orZFQ/mqdefault.jpg "Worqor Zormor - Lets Play Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail [Part 240]
Worqor Zormor - Lets Play Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail [Part 240]")
![Secretary Math - Lets Play The Roottrees are Dead: Roottreemania [Part 6]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JzJXesEzM44/mqdefault.jpg "Secretary Math - Lets Play The Roottrees are Dead: Roottreemania [Part 6]
Secretary Math - Lets Play The Roottrees are Dead: Roottreemania [Part 6]")
![Slam Dunk! - Lets Play Big Walk [Part 3]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K-WRW6jt9aU/mqdefault.jpg "Slam Dunk! - Lets Play Big Walk [Part 3]
Watch more Big Walk! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc7uHiRyI-gY
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Andrew @TheSaDGames
BirdCatcher @BirdCatcher
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Ansu @BluestAnsu
Game Description:
Hang out and get lost with close friends in a big world. A cooperative online walker-talker from the creators of Untitled Goose Game.
Big Walk is a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking.
Set out with your friends through a wide-open world full of challenges, puzzles, and discoveries. You’ll need to work together to find your way around, stay in contact using an assortment of tools and toys, and figure out new ways to communicate when you suddenly find yourself speechless.
Adventuring aside, there’s plenty of time to just hang out. Sit and watch the sunset, or steal your friend’s binoculars and kick them into the ocean. Spending time with friends is the best part of a big walk.")
![VERSION 60: THE MINESHAFT UPDATE - Lets Play Lethal Company Co-op [Part 55]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K1Gopx4bEXU/mqdefault.jpg "VERSION 60: THE MINESHAFT UPDATE - Lets Play Lethal Company Co-op [Part 55]
VERSION 60: THE MINESHAFT UPDATE - Lets Play Lethal Company Co-op [Part 55]")
![Into the Spiderweb - Lets Play Yakuza: Like a Dragon [Part 9]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K2jrWT0AZl0/mqdefault.jpg "Into the Spiderweb - Lets Play Yakuza: Like a Dragon [Part 9]
Into the Spiderweb - Lets Play Yakuza: Like a Dragon [Part 9]")
![I’ll Walk With You - Lets Play Deltarune Chapter 5 [Part 16 ENDING]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KEYlxVfosDs/mqdefault.jpg "I’ll Walk With You - Lets Play Deltarune Chapter 5 [Part 16 ENDING]
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Thumbnail art is drawn by CrimsonRabbit (18+)
Game Description:
Deltarune is a role-playing video game created by American indie developer Toby Fox. The player controls a human, Kris, in a world where monsters live on the surface of the Earth. Kris and a classmate named Susie fall from Earth into a place called the “Dark World” where they meet Ralsei, who informs them that they are heroes destined to restore balance to the world. The players meet various beings who call themselves Darkners during a prophesied quest to seal the dark fountain. Mainly through the combat system, the player navigates through different kinds of bullet hell attacks by enemies, which can be resolved peacefully or through violence. The first chapter of the game was released on October 31, 2018 for Microsoft Windows and macOS for free, with later Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 released on February 28, 2019. The games graphics are reminiscent of 16-bit Japanese role-playing games such as EarthBound, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and Chrono Trigger.
Deltarune is a spin-off of Foxs previous game, Undertale (for which Deltarune is an anagram), but its setting is not the world of Undertale, according to Fox, though characters and settings may bring some of Undertales world to mind. As of December 2018, Chapter 2 is planned, but no release date has been announced yet.
Deltarune, like Undertale, is a role-playing game that uses a top-down perspective. The player controls a human named Kris and has to complete objectives in order to beat the game. During some parts of the game, the player is allowed to choose attacks of other characters in the game. Similarly to Undertale, Deltarune has bullet hell sections, in which the player must move Kris SOUL around a boxed area while avoiding enemy attacks. Getting close to the attacks (without actually touching them) will give the player TP (Tension Points), which allow team members to use spells such as Pacify. Defending also increases TP, albeit by a much larger amount than dodging attacks. Combat is performed similar to most standard turn-based role-playing games, choosing from a set of actions such as Attack or Spare. While the goal of the game is implicitly to avoid fights and spare monsters, this is made difficult in that Susie, who is not initially controlled by the player, would rather attack enemies than spare them, and thus the player must also determine actions to prevent Susie from hurting enemies if they want to show mercy.")
![Final Boss: Lost Lace - Lets Play Hollow Knight: Silksong [Part 89 FINALE]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KSujBXFa29w/mqdefault.jpg "Final Boss: Lost Lace - Lets Play Hollow Knight: Silksong [Part 89 FINALE]
Watch more Hollow Knight: Silksong! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5dr1EHvfwpP8CT3rL252nbJ-8AjoGFtC
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The thumbnail is drawn by CrimsonRabbit (18+)
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Game Description:
Become the Princess Knight
As the lethal hunter Hornet, adventure through a kingdom ruled by silk and song! Captured and taken to this unfamiliar world, prepare to battle mighty foes and solve ancient mysteries as you ascend on a deadly pilgrimage to the kingdom’s peak.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the award winning action-adventure. Journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover secrets tied to your nature and your past.
Game Features
Discover the fallen insect kingdom of Pharloom! Explore mossy grottos, gilded cities and misted moors as you ascend to the shining citadel at the top of the world.
Engage in lethal acrobatic action! Wield a huge suite of deadly moves as you dance between foes in swift, beautiful combat.
Craft powerful tools! Master an ever-expanding arsenal of weapons, traps, and mechanisms to vanquish your enemies and explore new heights.
Solve shocking quests! Hunt down rare beasts and solve ancient mysteries to grant the wishes of the downtrodden and restore the kingdom’s hope.
Face over 200 ferocious foes! Beasts and hunters, monsters and knights. Defeat them all with bravery and skill!
Vanquish over 40 legendary bosses! Battle fabled heroes and fallen kings in epic combat to decide the kingdoms fate.
Challenge Steel Soul mode! Once you conquer the kingdom, test your skills in a new mode that presents a more formidable challenge.
Experience a stunning orchestral score! Hollow Knight’s award-winning composer, Christopher Larkin, brings melancholy melodies, symphonic strings and heart-thumping, soul strumming boss themes to the adventure.")
![The Child King - Lets Play Lyre [Part 23]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KUgsQJnKVhA/mqdefault.jpg "The Child King - Lets Play Lyre [Part 23]
Watch more Lyre! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5dr1EHvfwpMapW5GqFXPZPKhM-H1MTpc
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Play Lyre (18+) on itchio: https://atmac.itch.io/lyre
Cohosts are FullPurp (18+) and Jericho (writer of Remember the Flowers).
Marrow, Purp, and Jeri in the thumbnail are drawn by FullPurp (18+)
Game Description:
The first book in the Chronicles of the Emissary series
A human ambassador awakens in the northern Kingdom of Lyre, his entourage gone as hes surrounded by strangers. His memory seems to be intact, but something is amiss...Figuring out their motives proves to be the one of the more difficult challenges thrown his way.
Entangled in a game of deception, a loyal Knight may be the only one he can trust. Help from a mysterious individual will find him as well, but will it be enough?
The secrets of Lyre and the mystery of their world as they know it start to unravel once more, as a terrible plot and an unlikely romance unfolds.")
![Fight or Flight - Lets Play Silent Hill f [Part 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KXv3oepuCvs/mqdefault.jpg "Fight or Flight - Lets Play Silent Hill f [Part 2]
Fight or Flight - Lets Play Silent Hill f [Part 2]")
![Baby Don’t Cry - Lets Play Yakuza: Like a Dragon [Part 4]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KZPLjoLzD28/mqdefault.jpg "Baby Don’t Cry - Lets Play Yakuza: Like a Dragon [Part 4]
Baby Don’t Cry - Lets Play Yakuza: Like a Dragon [Part 4]")
![What Cahciua Has Become - Lets Play Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail [Part 247]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Kmkg44eMIYM/mqdefault.jpg "What Cahciua Has Become - Lets Play Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail [Part 247]
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Andrews Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thesadgames/videos
Game Description:
Final Fantasy XIV is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Square Enix. Directed and produced by Naoki Yoshida, it was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3 in August 2013, as a replacement for the failed 2010 version of the game, with support for PlayStation 4 and macOS releasing later. An Xbox One version is in development. Final Fantasy XIV takes place in the fictional land of Eorzea, five years after the events of the original 2010 release. At the conclusion of the original game, the primal dragon Bahamut escapes from its lunar prison to initiate the Seventh Umbral Calamity, an apocalyptic event which destroys much of Eorzea. Through the gods blessing, the player character escapes the devastation by time traveling five years into the future. As Eorzea recovers and rebuilds, the player must deal with the impending threat of invasion by the Garlean Empire from the north.
The original Final Fantasy XIV, released in September 2010, was a critical and commercial failure. In response, then-Square Enix President Yoichi Wada announced that a new team, led by Yoshida, would take over and attempt to fix the issues with it. This team was responsible for generating content for the original version as well as developing a brand new game which would address all of the previous releases criticisms. This new game, initially dubbed Version 2.0, features a new game engine, improved server infrastructure, and revamped gameplay, interface, and story. The original version shut down in November 2012 and was followed by an alpha test for Version 2.0.
The game released to largely positive reception; critics praised the game for its solid mechanics and progression, and they commended Yoshida for turning the project around. After a poor 2013 fiscal year, Square Enix executives attributed the companys 2014 return to profitability in part to the games strong sales and subscriber base, reaching a total of over 20 million registered players by 2020. Since release, the game has had a number of content updates produced for it, including three major expansion packs: Heavensward (2015), Stormblood (2017), and Shadowbringers (2019).
Gameplay
Final Fantasy XIV is an MMORPG and features a persistent world in which players can interact with each other and the environment. Players create and customize their characters for use in the game, including name, race, gender, facial features, and starting class. Unlike in the original release, players may only choose to be a Disciple of War or Magic as a starting class—Disciples of the Hand and Land are initially unavailable. Players must also select a game server for characters to exist on. While servers are not explicitly delineated by language, data centers have been placed in the supported regions (i.e., North America, Europe, Japan) to improve the communication latency between the server and the client computer and players are recommended to choose a server in their region. Regardless of server or language, the game features a large library of automatically translated game terms and general phrases which allow players who speak different languages to communicate.
REVIEWS
“a great MMORPG experience”
8.6 / 10 – IGN
“One of the best takes on the MMO experience I’ve ever seen”
92 / 100 – Ten Ton Hammer
“rounds up every great MMO feature we’ve seen in the last decade”
9 / 10 – Machinima Inside Gaming")
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