Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Royal Edition code provided by publisher. Potential spoilers.
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I take a look at the Royal Edition of Final Fantasy XV, examining why many of the changes made potentially detract from what made the launch version, with all it's imperfections, so special for me.
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Intro Text Provided by Lashman - twitter.com/RobotBrush
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Regalia Type D footage from Asetoni FFXV - youtube.com/watch?v=Uw44sj0iTmc
Type F footage from videogamedunkey - youtube.com/watch?v=ITfKaUFfx7g
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Thank you so much for your continued support!
Production work by Nico Bleackley
Royal Edition code provided by publisher. Potential spoilers.
Patreon: patreon.com/writingongames
Podcast (iTunes): itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/writing-on-gamescast/id1124674245?mt=2
I take a look at the Royal Edition of Final Fantasy XV, examining why many of the changes made potentially detract from what made the launch version, with all it's imperfections, so special for me.
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Intro Text Provided by Lashman - twitter.com/RobotBrush
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Regalia Type D footage from Asetoni FFXV - youtube.com/watch?v=Uw44sj0iTmc
Type F footage from videogamedunkey - youtube.com/watch?v=ITfKaUFfx7g
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Thank you so much for your continued support!
Production work by Nico Bleackley


![Keep Running Up That Hill: An Analysis of DEATH STRANDING (Spoilers)
SPOILER WARNING! This video spoils Death Strandings story.
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Death Stranding (Hideo Kojimas first game post-Konami break up) is a game I have many complicated feelings about, both positive and negative. To try and make sense of them, lets talk about absurdist philosophy and noise music as we take a spoiler-heavy look at one of the most complex, deliberately exhausting games about walking ever made.
Sources:
Kojima Explains 49 Minutes of Death Stranding Gameplay (Now in English) (IGN) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JdEeGHEaNU
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus (1942, translated by Justin OBrien, 1955)
Friedrich Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols (1889, translated by Richard Polt, 1997)
Metal Gear Solid Vs nuclear disarmament cutscene (Rock Paper Shotgun) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8kIQ_neK6M
[Guide] How to obtain / steal a Nuke and dismantle it - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (ElectroRage) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg7SgavIwFI
Death Stranding: Inside Kojima Productions (BBC Newsbeat) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjUpYlKs0nM
Kojima Famitsu interview translated by Reddit user damnlee - https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathStranding/comments/dg0n1f/new_information_for_death_stranding_kojima/
Norman Reedus discussing Death Stranding at ACE Comic Con (vgc2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZuzAFVffA
Twitter thread about MGSV nuclear cutscene integer overflow - https://twitter.com/thesnakesoup/status/959493879950127104
Mads Mikkelsen had no idea what Death Stranding was about after Kojima described it (Polygon) - https://www.polygon.com/2017/2/28/14761696/death-stranding-mads-mikkelsen-hideo-kojima
Konami explains MGS5 nuclear disarmament event mishap, apologises to players (Updated) - https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-mgs5-nuclear-disarmament-event-triggered-this-weekend-but-no-one-seems-to-know-why/
Hijokaidan footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k-XHlOFtlk
Intro text by Draz - https://twitter.com/drazgames Keep Running Up That Hill: An Analysis of DEATH STRANDING (Spoilers)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jw2MY38L3ng/mqdefault.jpg)







