The Secret Magic of Farm-Life Sims GC Vazquez 2020-02-14 | Hey there! Are you bored of your routine? Yearning for what's over Yonder? Feel like you wake up everyday being the Graveyard Keeper to your own existence? Do you have the Stardew drops hanging in the Valley of your eyes? Sounds like it's time for a getaway! Easier said than done, but Farm-Life games make that dream a little easier to access! When the worries and the doubts start to Staxel up, it can feel a Little like a Dragon's size of a problem! Don't curse your own Stranded Sails though, because Farm-Lifes are there to provide the escapism in your time of need. But all that chopping wood, planting crops, and building machines is doing a lot more than giving you a breather. It's also building your confidence back up, and instilling in you some real positive habits! Didn't you know? Sometimes a Littlewood is exactly what you need to find the strength within yourself to grow past your hurdles. Farm-Life Games in this video: Alchemy Story - store.steampowered.com/app/1040630/Alchemy_StoryDeiland - store.steampowered.com/app/760620/DeilandFantasy Farming: Orange Season - store.steampowered.com/app/416000/Fantasy_Farming_Orange_SeasonGraveyard Keeper = store.steampowered.com/app/599140/Graveyard_KeeperKynseed - store.steampowered.com/app/758870/KynseedLittle Dragon's Cafe - store.steampowered.com/app/915710/Little_Dragons_CafLittlewood - store.steampowered.com/app/894940/LittlewoodMy Time At Portia - store.steampowered.com/app/666140/My_Time_At_PortiaStardew Valley - store.steampowered.com/app/413150/Stardew_ValleyStaxel - store.steampowered.com/app/405710/StaxelStranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands - store.steampowered.com/app/943260/Stranded_Sails__Explorers_of_the_Cursed_IslandsYonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles - store.steampowered.com/app/580200/Yonder_The_Cloud_Catcher_Chronicles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter! ► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►Character art by: IST-Audius (ist-audius.tumblr.com) (@IST_Audius) ►Questrospective Logo by: BriHardGaming twitter.com/BriHardGaming If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed! ► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GC Positive,stardew valley switch,stardew valley 1.4,Dragon Quest Builders 2 switch,Stardew Valley,Stardew,Dragon Quest Builders 2,Littlewood,Littlewood game,Dragon Quest Builders 2 PS4,Nintendo Switch,Switch,Graveyard Keeper,Graveyard Keeper Switch,Graveyard Keeper zombie,My Time At Portia,My Time in Portia,My Time At Portia switch,Farm-Life Games - GC Positive,Farm-Life Games,Farm Life,Harvest Moon Gamecube,Harvest Moon,Farm sim,little dragons cafe
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth Has A Confusing Message GC Vazquez 2024-04-01 | It's not an April Fool's Joke! It's time to take a look at Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth in our ongoing Like A Dragon video series! Will GC Vazquez finally enjoy his time in RGG Studio's clutches once again? Or will he lament the ongoing spiral of mediocrity this series is spinning in? Did Tsuyoshi Furuta get his grubby hands on this one, or is Kazunobu Takeuchi's fresh contributions curbing the Furuta's stings? Will GC ever get over himself?! WHO KNOWS?! YOU'RE GOING TO WATCH THE VIDEO ANYWAY! #likeadragoninfinitewealth #likeadragon #infinitewealth #sega #rggstudio 0:00 - SPOILER WARNING4:00 - Improving the RPG9:29 - Harming the RPG15:23 - Hawaii and New Playspots18:42 - The Issue with Playspots22:22 - Yutaka Yamai, My Sweetheart24:14 - Tsuyoshi Furuta and a Clarification30:40 - The Women of Infinite Wealth33:19 - A Repetitive Series37:01 - General Writing Complaints38:08 - Intro to The Serious Discussion39:13 - On Hawaii, Tourism, and Imperialism42:31 - Confusing Cult Conversations48:47 - On Cancel Culture53:41 - Overall Impressions54:34 - Get Destroyed-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,Infinite Wealth's Finite Reach,Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth review,Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth Reaction,Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth article,Infinite Wealth review,Infinite Wealth ending explained,Infinite Wealth Story Explained,Infinite Wealth retrospective,Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth Retrospective,Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth Has A Confusing Message,GC Vazquez Infinite Wealth,GC Vazquez yakuza
The GBA Dragon Quest Monsters We Never Saw in the West GC Vazquez 2024-02-09 | Normally, I skip the entries in a series I’m covering if they aren’t localized in English. I do this because A. I only speak and read English and Spanish, so anything in a different language is a bit hard to get through, B. Fan translations are a lot of work, and not every game is graced with one. And C. I like being consistent; I don’t want to cover one non-localized title and then not cover the other ones as a result of them missing a localization. But I’m breaking this rule here today by covering Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart.#dragonquestmonsters #dragonquest #squareenix #yujihorii #gcvazquez-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,Dragon Quest Monsters Meets The Oregon Trail,Dragon Quest Monsters Caravan Heart review,Dragon Quest Monsters caravan heart retrospective,caravan heart review,caravan heart retrospective,dragon quest monsters caravan heart gba,dragon quest monsters caravan heart gameplay,dragon quest monsters retrospective,dragon quest monsters review,gc vazquez dragon quest,gc vazquez dragon quest monsters
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince - The Video Youre Looking For GC Vazquez 2023-12-22 | The Dark Prince is the first Dragon Quest Monsters game to come out in the West in over seven years. Does it live up to the expectation of rabid fans everywhere? Will Square Enix ever learn how to market their games again? Can GC Vazquez come up with interesting video descriptions that aren't just copy and pasting his script? The future will know. Kick back, relax, and settle in to a Dragon Quest Monsters video by yours truly, as we bend time and space to bring you the retrospective for The Dark Prince years in advance! That's right! In the future, when the rest of the retrospective series is out, this video will be at the bottom of the playlist, and it'll look nice and organized in order of release! Isn't that cool?! I think it's cool. I think you're cool too. Watch the video! Like and subscribe! Watch more videos! CONSUME CONTENT.#dragonquest #dragonquestmonsters #thedarkprince #squareenix #armorproject0:00 - The Dragon Quest Media Renaissance2:28 - A Lack of Advertising6:10 - A Simplified Monster13:11 - Scenario Structure16:37 - Level Design18:39 - Are Seasons Really That Interesting?21:36 - Scouting is Changed23:22 - Performance Issues and On-Disc DLC26:03 - A Small Moment for Multiplayer28:12 - This Is It-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GC Vazquez,Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince,Dragon quest monsters dark prince gameplay,dragon quest monsters dark prince review,dragon quest monsters the dark prince review,Dragon Quest Monsters GC Vazquez,Dragon Quest Monsters retrospective,Dragon Quest monsters dark prince synthesis,dragon quest monsters dark prince analysis,dragon quest monsters dark prince gc vazquez,DQM dark prince review,DQM the dark prince review,dark prince review
Like A Dragon: Gaiden is MORE Content and Im Tired GC Vazquez 2023-12-01 | Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is here! As an interim title before Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Gaiden sets the stage for the next heavy hitting Ryu Ga Gotoku. Today we learn if Kiryu's life as a daidoji puppet sucks (spoilers: it does)! But did RGG Studio come out with a certified Like A Dragon banger, or are we facing another lackluster story ala Lost Judgment? Welcome back to the Like A Dragon Retrospective Series- though I guess from here on out, it's more of a current...spective? Eh? Eh?? Yeah I don't know, I don't usually write these descriptions. Enjoy this look at Like A Dragon Gaiden! I didn't like it! But the reasons why make for a fascinating watch.#ryugagotoku #likeadragongaidenthemanwhoerasedhisname #likeadragongaiden #sega #LADGaiden-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,Like A Dragon: Gaiden is MORE Content...And It Sucks,Like A Dragon Content Farm,like a dragon gaiden the man who erased his name review,like a dragon gaiden the man who erased his name reaction,Like A Dragon Gaiden review,Like A Dragon Retrospective,GC Vazquez Yakuza,Gc Vazquez like a dragon,Like A Dragon gaiden gc vazquez,Like A Dragon gaiden content farm,Ryu Ga Gotoku gaiden review,ryu ga gotoku gaiden video
A Dragon Quest Monsters Double Feature! GC Vazquez 2023-11-17 | Rejoice! The long-awaited Dragon Quest Monsters retrospective is here! And more than that, I'm bringing you a double feature! That's right, today we're going to be covering Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland, AND Dragon Quest Monsters: Cobi's Journey and Tara's Adventure! Call them reviews, call them video essays, call them what you'd like- this video marks the beginning of our journey through the Dragon Quest Monsters series, where we'll be covering all of them. Yes! All of them! Even Caravan Heart and Joker 3! So stay tuned, enjoy the ride, and thank you for watching! Please remember to share this video and give it a thumbs up! Subscribe for future Dragon Quest Monsters content!#dragonquestmonsters #dragonquest #dragonquestmonster #ToseSoftware #armorproject 0:00 - Intro 1:22 - The Pokemon Factor3:51 - Assembling the Team5:41 - Terry's Wonderland Synopsis7:44 - Dragon Quest Monsters is a Roguelike10:37 - Breeding a Better Monster12:19 - The Monsters Battle System13:31 - Hardware Limitations14:45 - The Marks Monsters Misses17:24 - Closing the book on Monsters 118:34 - Opening the book on Monsters 220:12 - Cobi and Tara ARE Dragon Quest22:12 - Doing Away With Randomization- but not entirely24:33 - Monsters 2's Historic Contribution25:57 - Like and Subscribe-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective, GCVazquez, GC Vazquez, Dragon Quest Monsters, Dragon Quest Monsters retrospective, Dragon Quest Monsters review, Dragon Quest Monsters 2 review, Dragon quest monsters 2 retrospective, terry's wonderland review, terry's wonderland retrospective, monster catching games, dragon quest monsters gc vazquez, gc dragon quest, gc vazquez dragon quest, dragon quest monsters video essay, dragon quest retrospective, dragon quest monsters series, cobi's journey review
Like A Dragon: Ishin Has One BIG Caveat GC Vazquez 2023-10-27 | If you’ve been here before you know how this works: For Like A Dragon spin-offs, I try to avoid the thoughtful, storyteller approach in favor of a list of valuable reasons for why you should play them. Ryu Ga Gotoku spin-offs tend to lean more on the side of having a fun romp through a fictional world based on a historic time period, wacky premise, or intellectual property- as opposed to providing a thoughtful discussion on specific themes or ideas. Like A Dragon: Ishin! breaks the spin-off mold for better and worse: A remake of a highly sought after Japan-exclusive, finally brought over to the West much to the excitement of Western audiences, going completely mask off with seconds left on the clock in such a way, you’ll be shocked this thing ever got remade at all. There’s a lot to unpack here, and definitely some to leave stored away in the deep recesses of RGG Studios history. Where no one will ever look again. But for one time only, come along, and let’s talk about a few reasons to play Like A Dragon: Ishin, and a couple of story beats to be wary of. #likeadragonishin #ryugagotoku #likeadragon #sega #ladishin-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,why you should play yakuza: dead souls | questrospective,Like A Dragon Ishin Has One BIG Caveat,like a dragon ishin,like a dragon ishin remake,like a dragon ishin review,Like A Dragon Ishin problems,like a dragon ishin gc vazquez,lad ishin,lad ishin review,lad ishin gc vazquez,yakuza ishin review,gc vazquez yakuza,gc vazquez like a dragon,rgg studios like a dragon ishin,rgg studios ishin review,rgg studios ishin remake
The Gaming Industry And My Gambling Addiction GC Vazquez 2023-10-06 | Welcome to the Feature Creep Season Finale! On this episode, we take a look at gambling in video games, the why and how it ends up in the games we love, and how that might affect some of us- or at least how it affected me. From Dead Rising to Pokemon. From New Vegas to Red Dead Redemption. Here's How The Gaming Industry Made Me A Gambling Addict.Nowadays gambling is an industry estimated to be worth over 700 billion US dollars. It’s a global market built around finding ways to sucker people out of their money with the false promise they might be the lucky few to win it big. This means a ton of money goes into advertising the joy of gambling…including making it seem mega-cool and awesome to do. And so far it’s working pretty well. Tons of movies give gambling this debonair aesthetic with a dash of danger. We have books on the art of gambling. Professionals with the ins and outs of moving the odds in your favor do seminars on gambling. Heck, we got gambling tournaments, hosted in cities dedicated to gambling. And…Video games…! Are full of references to casinos and have been shoveling gambling mini-games and mechanics into the hands of players since, at the very least, the 80s. Ever since, gambling mini-games have evolved from simple slot machines your typical first-year Computer Science student can program, to complex card games and even cheating mechanics to outsmart your opponents in a different way. Have you ever wondered why though, why adding gambling to games is so popular? Well, there’s plenty of reasons; Simplest one: art imitates life! People put entertainment they enjoy in the entertainment they create. Yuji Horii, the creator of Dragon Quest, is a well-known gambler and loves recreating his favorite casinos in his games. Dragon Quest XI’s casinos, for example, strongly resemble Caesar’s Palace and the Venetian, respectively. But the series has had gambling since Dragon Quest III, where players could bet on monster fights. Yeah I know: I try to shoehorn Dragon Quest into everything. I’m sorry! At least it’s relevant this time!Another great reason: realism! In the early 19th century, poker exploded in popularity here in the United States on gambling boats along the Mississippi River and in Louisiana. It kept growing from there, and many other variants of Poker, including Texas Hold ‘Em, were born from it. It’s become a center stage attraction at casinos, and the World Series of Poker is a huge event every year now. Any game set in the 19th and 20th century, especially in the United States, would lack authenticity without a poker mini-game- or a table and a bunch of dusty old folks hunched over some cards. Games aiming for historical accuracy like Red Dead Redemption, without poker, are like a cowboy without their horse; missing a vital piece of the whole historic ensemble. Likewise, games like Dead Rising 2 are literally on a casino strip. It’d be strange if there weren’t slot machines and poker matches at all!In video games? No one can stop me, and nobody cares how far I go. After all, the currency I’m using, traditionally, is entirely virtual. Fable 2’s pub games weren’t going to drive me into debt in real-life, and neither would playing Blackjack in Fallout New Vegas. And I’m old enough to separate fact from fiction. I know the excessive gambling I’m doing is a terrible habit to commit to outside of this fantasy experience I’m indulging in. One theoretically without consequences. One where I can turn the game off without wondering where my money went. But I’m speaking with hindsight. With wisdom learned from my personal past with gambling. I also know the line between fantasy and reality, when it comes to gambling, can blur for many people. In other words: Just because you aren’t actually losing money, doesn’t mean you aren’t still developing the habit. #gamblinggames #videogamegambling #gacha #gambling #addiction -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,The Gaming Industry Made Me A Gambling Addict,How The Gaming Industry Made Me A Gambling Addict,Gambling in video games,video game gambling,gambling laws video games,pokemon slot machine,red dead redemption poker,gambling in pokemon,gambling in games,fallout: new vegas casino,sonic the hedgehog casino level,video game gambling addiction,gambling addiction stories
Urdnot Wrex is Self-Aware GC Vazquez 2023-09-15 | Recently I wrapped up a playthrough of Mass Effect 1 Legendary Edition. Mass Effect was a formative trilogy of RPGs for me in high school, so I wanted to revisit a perceived classic to reevaluate how I felt about it. Most of it held up! Except all the extremely important parts. Mass Effect in general is…a bit confused. Trying to posture as one thing, and still reinforcing the opposite in the spirit of pulling in as many different players as it can. But in spite of its confusion, Mass Effect holds within a plethora of deeply moving and complex characters who explore social issues of its time to varying success as well as present us with challenging relationships and conversations we may not ever have in real-life given our beliefs or ideologies. The companions and squadmates we meet along the way to saving the galaxy are a collection of misfits and ne'er-do-wells, soldiers and mercenaries, perfectionists, paragons, realists, and renegades. Our subject today is one such companion and unlikely friend. A survivor of Mass Effect’s confused theming. A victim of its ignorance. What makes him a fan favorite, what stands him out among the rest despite only being a squadmate in one Mass Effect and potentially never surviving past it, is the state of his very existence. Caught in the middle of breaking down in-game stereotypes, while having those same stereotypes pushed upon him by game elements both diegetic and otherwise. He represents the awkward balance between Mass Effect’s messaging and its mistakes. He’s everything good, everything bad, and everything odd about the series. And he’s my favorite character from the original Mass Effect. I’m GC and this is the ballad of Urdnot Wrex.A special thanks to @Zoltiboi for the thumbnail!#masseffect #wrex #bioware #masseffectlegendaryedition #EA-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Replay Value is Nonsense GC Vazquez 2023-08-25 | When I choose a video game to play, I balance a ton of factors against one another until I sift out the misfits, and am left with one matching the time and place I’m looking to play it in. Factors can range from main story length, to genre, to whether or not it’s an indie- you name it. But I’ve noticed I’ve never really cared much for one, particular, popular criteria: Replay Value. I see it mentioned in all sorts of places; from reviews, to tweets, to press kits, replay value is a highly sought after quality in video games, and it’s often what many game publishers will pride themselves on ensuring in their products. As a perfect human being with absolutely no flaws whatsoever, this dissonance between my feelings and that of an industry I project my identity onto was concerning. I did a little check in with myself about why I’ve gradually grown out of needing games to have replay value. Was I too old and therefore too busy with other responsibilities to care for replay value? Maybe I prefer to play a game once and move onto the next thing- whether or not I finished it of course. This deeply reflective process leading to my third eye opening and revealing to me the secrets I’d worked so long and hard to understand happened over the lengthy course…of a two-hour Twitch stream I was doing at eleven in the morning. Half-asleep. And hungover. But it felt like I had been streaming that day, for months. And in in-game time, that might as well be years. Joking aside, I really did come to a funny conclusion about it live on one of my 4-day a week Twitch streams. Replay Value is made-up. Replay Value doesn’t exist. The phrase “Replay Value” Is Nonsense.#replayvalue #replay #videogames #gaming #gamingvideos -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A Thirty-Minute Roast of Lost Judgment GC Vazquez 2023-08-04 | The original Judgment was a flawed if earnest attempt at crossing legal drama with detective mystery. Sure, the mystery was as exciting as waiting in-line at the self check-out of your nearest discount grocery store, and the dialogue was pumped full of more fun facts than a bar owner hosting trivia night to keep the lights on, but it had promise. Takuya Kimura and Shinshu Fuji had great on-screen chemistry as Yagami and Kaito respectively. Scenes including the detective duo had a great balance of action, melodrama, and comedic timing. Though sporadic, chewing scenery as a detective in a classically long Ryu Ga Gotoku cutscene kept you invested in the Yagami character- even if what you were investing into was a detective who couldn’t deduce himself out of a cardboard box. And of course, the fighting and playspots in Judgment carried the whole experience on its back. Like a fire truck strapped to a sea turtle. Retaliating in self-defense by inflicting open head wounds had never felt so good, with the Dragon Engine finally delivering solid hit feedback, toning down the ragdoll effects, and making Yagami a technical fighter centered around precise combo attacks. Things weren’t looking great, but there was room to grow and reason to believe improvement was certain in the event of a sequel. And a sequel we got! Lost Judgment sees the detective arrive in Yokohama with a singular mission: end bullying forever. If Judgment was a friend with the chance to grow from their mistakes then Lost Judgment is the friend who doubled down and made their mistakes their entire personality. Yakuza 6 was written by an angry man. Judgment was written by a man with his head in the clouds. Lost Judgment was written by a Nosferatu who hasn’t left its crypt in four hundred years. The plot twist to this cute joke I wrote is: all these entries have the same writer: Tsuyoshi Furuta, and at this point his writing, what I don’t like about it anyway, can no longer be given the benefit of the doubt. I’ve got nothing against the man personally, but his work is infuriatingly unsatisfactory. Lost Judgment is no exception, and a perfect microcosm of his weaknesses as a writer. Look, creating anything is hard. Writing is monumentally hard, and writing for games- especially games on tight deadlines- is excruciatingly difficult. But it’s not like we don’t have a point of reference for the quality standards we’ve come to expect from this studio. They’re not exactly the next Nobel Prize candidates, but there are standout entries with captivating plot lines and meaningful subtext in RGG Studios’s catalog. Tsuyoshi Furuta doesn’t need to suck me silly from the back with the world’s next piece of biblical storytelling; all he needs to do is deliver a satisfying, cohesive narrative on the level- or in the range of- a standard Ryu Ga Gotoku story. What he delivers with Lost Judgment is a confusing, convoluted tale that loses the strength of its messaging due to his over-reliance on bad writing techniques.#lostjudgment #likeadragon #ryugagotoku #sega #GCVazquez-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,A Thirty-Minute Roast of Lost Judgment,The Roast of Lost Judgment,Lost Judgment review,A Rant About Lost Judgment,Takayuki Yagami in Lost Judgment,The Kaito Files is Really Good,I Love The Kaito Files,Lost Judgment is bad,Takuya Kimura in Lost Judgment,GC Vazquez Yakuza Videos,GC Vazquez Judgment Video,Lost Judgment School Stories review,Lost Judgment video essay,Lost Judgment is a bad game,Ryu Ga Gotoku Lost Judgment video
The Greatest Game Ive Ever Read GC Vazquez 2023-07-14 | When I was a kid, my parents weren’t the most adamant about giving me new games to play. They were expensive, they were always an argument waiting to happen between my brother and I, and they were annoying to listen to in the living room. So no new releases for me. No old ones either as long as they were still above an arbitrary price point my parents would move the goalposts on in order to feel whimsy. But I was a smart kid, and I found a loophole. A weird loophole. A loophole which forever changed the course of my relationship with games. See, over at Cousin Vazquez’s house, little ol’ GC could play all the games he wanted! Hyperzone, Super Mario 64, The Ocarina of Time. My cousin’s world was my oyster! Until I had to go home, or until my cousin got sick of having me in their room. It was a seven year difference, so I get it. They probably had things to do. Weird, teenager things we don’t talk about. Because it’s weird and scary and teenagers are gremlins. Borrowing Cousin Vazquez’s games wasn’t unheard of…but it was rare and I had a pretty bad track record of losing them. But Cousin Vazquez also had…strategy guides. Strategy guides for all sorts of games. Official ones. Unofficial ones. An entire shelf on a bookcase’s worth of ones. Aha! Little GC might not be able to use the Super Nintendo or the Nintendo 64 while his cousins are using it, but he can read strategy guides. He can borrow strategy guides! And suddenly one day, scanning over a really funky Super Mario 64 strategy guide with the price tag still on the front, it hit me: Strategy Guides are cheaper than video games. And they’re books! And boy howdy do I love reading. And this is how I grew attached to a lot of games as a kid! Before I learned to speedrun Super Mario 64, I read about how to grab all the stars in a strategy guide. Before I laughed my way through Donkey Kong 64, I was shouting “WHAT” at King K. Rool’s Island-mounted death cannon through the pages of a strategy guide! Before I chickened out of playing Siren, I was looking over my shoulder to check for ghosts reading, through, a strategy guide. And I knew those games front-to-back by the time I played them. I was a walking encyclopedia of games I never played! And I loved them. Now I told you this story to tell you another one. Of all the strategy guides I read, there’s one game I never found the closure for. One I never found the time to play despite it being one of the most compelling, satisfying reads I’ve had. Until now. And it’s the Greatest Game I’ve Ever Read.#strategyguide #majorasmask #legendofzelda #majora #zelda ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective, GCVazquez, GC Vazquez, gc positive, The Greatest Game I Ever Read, The Greatest Game I Ever Played, Majora's Mask strategy guide review, Majora's Mask strategy guide, strategy guide majoras mask, donkey kong 64 guide, majoras mask guide, reading video games, video game strategy guides, super mario 64 guide, reading strategy guides, using strategy guides, You Don't Need To Finish Games, nintendo power strategy guides, The Greatest Game I've Ever Read
Triple Triads Living Legacy GC Vazquez 2023-06-23 | This time, this time we’ve got some ground to cover. If there’s one thing game developers can’t get enough of, it’s packing in an entire other game into one they’re already working on. And there’s nothing, nothing more popular than building your own card game in the middle of your other, bigger game development project, and finding an organic way to include it in the deadline. But before we can get into card games (in) games history and explore the breadth of its presence, we have to lay down some ground rules. Because according to my Twitter surveying, some of you don’t know the difference between a card game, and a card game. What is this, What is this? Baten Kaitos? NOT A CARD GAME! Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories?! NOT. A CARD GAME. I’m not talking about card games, I’m talking about CARD GAMES. Poker has its place in our world, but it’s not the feature creeping, side quest obsessing, back of the box promotion a card game is. What I’m referring to, is something closer to Magic: The Gathering or the Pokemon Trading Card Game. The kind of card game you pick up in chapter two of a turn-based RPG, and go around its world challenging other players to. But we’re not talking about video game card games, which are digital counterparts to physical card games, nor video games which use card game mechanics as its core gameplay- but we’ll get into those later. Don’t worry, I have plans for them. No for me what card games (in) games really means are those precious wonders of Sunday afternoons. The kind of day where it’s too late to make significant story progress before work or school tomorrow, but not late enough to sit there and do nothing, and oh! How you so badly want to return to the land of neverwas and exist among its people in some way…! But ohhhh you can. YOU, CAN. Pull the deck of cards from your inventory, ask them if they partake in the ruler’s game, and lay WASTE to their SORRY-ASS DECK. BRO, WHAT KIND OF SELF-RESPECTING INDIVIDUAL RUNS A 1-2-1-1 IN THEIR DECK? GET OUT OF HERE, KID. [Clears throat] I uh- I may have been a part of the Yu-Gi-Oh community at some point? My therapist says progress isn’t linear. When I say Card Games (In) Games, I’m talking about mini-games which change the way we view the setting we’re already a part of. I’m talking about the grounded irony of high-fantasy characters whipping out a deck of cards and sitting down at a table, regalia and all, to play a few games of cardboard. I’m talking about the only thing open world games haven’t adopted and run into the ground yet. CARD. GAMES.#tripletriad #cardgame #cardgames #finalfantasyviii #magicthegathering Special thanks to @razbuten and @snomangameplay for some of the footage used in this video!And a very special thank you to @hotcyder for the thumbnail!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kasuga Ichiban Is Like A Dragons Greatest Hero GC Vazquez 2023-06-02 | Previously, I revisited Dragon Quest because Like A Dragon Seven has been said to be directly inspired by it. I’m hesitant to call Like A Dragon “Like A Dragon Quest” because in truth it borrows much from other RPGs as well. The job system and even unique character classes each party member can take are definitely reminiscent of Dragon Quest. Ichiban’s Hero class is parallel with Dragon Quest 3’s Hero. Both possess a basic offensive spell that grows stronger at higher levels, both possess strong healing abilities and have mid-level magic points, meaning casting spells is always the second option to basic attacks. Nanba is the Sage class, possessing both strong offensive and healing spells with the magic power to back it up, but trading off health to do so. Adachi is your classic Warrior tank, and Saeko is your fighter with a little bit of thief mixed in. Enemies in Seven are grouped into archetypes similar to Dragon Quest’s enemies, with stronger versions of the same archetype changing in outfit colors or donning more extreme versions of their clothes. Our map is an overworld with distinct regions, and the enemies in those regions have unique level ranges that immediately deter players from being there if they’re too low a level. Like A Dragon Seven even sports a no game-over option where you lose half your money- just like in Dragon Quest.But that’s where the similarities end. Like A Dragon Seven also borrows from Pokemon, turning every enemy into a Sugimon, and challenging the player to “fight them all” and complete the Sugidex, a bestiary collecting information on all the weirdos of Yokohama and beyond. It takes the social mechanics from Persona and gives Ichiban a social stat wheel he can increase with certain dialogue choices and actions, as well as a social link system between Ichiban and his party members. Seven also has action commands in the style of the Super Mario RPGs. Timed presses can increase damage on attacks or reduce damage on well-timed blocks. And no heavily inspired RPG would be without Final Fantasy summons, which of course, Seven has plenty of. Although Dragon Quest is an integral part of Kasuga Ichiban’s backstory, Like A Dragon Seven doesn’t pigeon-hole itself into Dragon Quest trappings, and in fact, comes off as a celebration of turn-based RPGs in general. However, it’s after taking all of this into account when seven’s strength as a turn-based RPG begins to wane.Special thanks to @hotcyder for the thumbnail!#likeadragon #yakuza7 #LikeADragon7 #SEGA #ryūgagotoku -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,why you should play yakuza: dead souls | questrospective,yakuza 4: kamurocho's broken machine,gc positive,yakuza like a dragon retrospective,yakuza like a dragon review,like a dragon ichiban song,like a dragon dragon quest,like a dragon turn based,Yakuza: Like A Dragon,Yakuza 7 review,Like A Dragon 7 review,Kasuga Ichiban Is A True Hero,like a dragon 7 kiryu,Ichiban vs kiryu,Kasuga Ichiban Is Like A Dragon's Radical Hero
Like A Dragons Failed Hero (and Why He Works) GC Vazquez 2023-05-12 | #ryugagotoku #likeadragon #yakuza #sega #yakuzagames There are few characters from the Ryu Ga Gotoku franchise who aren’t prime candidates for a dedicated ballad. The series is ripe with supporting roles who’ve been fleshed out into memorable pillars keeping every entry upright with stories of their own. Daigo Dojima’s encapsulates privilege. Shun Akiyama’s revolves around the momentum of financial power. But somewhere in the middle of this very tiny spectrum I’ve just arbitrarily constructed inside your mind is Kiryu’s closest ally and Ryu Ga Gotoku’s forgotten keystone. One whose growth is determined by the role he’s needed to fill by the narrative- and somehow still has a clear throughline. A hero’s journey in a series not really known for using said literary mechanism. It speaks on authoritative power, how it’s designed to maintain appearances and uphold a status quo in a system meant to keep people under the thumb of a ruling class. How removal of said oppression is only possible from the outside of such an organization. And it kind of botches the job towards the end? It’s messy. Messy enough to warrant a conversation. Messy enough to make it a fascinating character study. I’m GC, and this is the ballad of Makoto Date.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,why you should play yakuza: dead souls | questrospective,gc positive,yakuza 4: kamurocho's broken machine,yakuza makoto date,like a dragon makoto date,makoto date yakuza like a dragon,makoto date yakuza,Like A Dragon's Failed Hero (and Why it Works),the ballad of makoto date,character ballad,makoto date character ballad,gc vazquez yakuza,gc vazquez character ballad,ryu ga gotoku date,ryu ga gotoku,like a dragon
Revisiting Dragon Quest GC Vazquez 2023-04-21 | A young writer named Yuji Horii is riding high off placing in a programming contest hosted by Enix, a tabloid magazine turned video game software company, with his game Love Match Tennis. He’s so happy about this, he decides his freelancing work for Weekly Shonen Jump isn’t enough to satiate his creativity, and becomes a videogame designer. Citation for the timeline on this is needed, since there’s conflicting reports. All by himself, he creates The Portopia Serial Murder Case. Now Portopia isn’t too important; it only inspired several video game legends, almost sold a million copies in an era where game audiences were smaller, and redefined what a visual novel was and remains the legendary foundation set for visual novels today. But y’know- no biggie. Horii isn’t satisfied with his latest hit. After a few more visual novels under his belt, he wants to create a different experience. He’s inspired by his favorite computer RPGs, and wants to dabble in a little fantasy. He assembles a team. You know how this goes: With the help of his manager at Shonen Jump, Horii asks Akira Toriyama to do the art and character designs for this new fantasy RPG idea. Toriyama, already a successful mangaka after creating the popular Dr. Slump and afterwards Dragon Ball serieses, signs up for the project. Then, and retroactively unfortunately, a passionate fan letter from esteemed composer Koichi Sugiyama, complimenting Enix on their shogi videogame, inspires the company to hire him to compose for them. He says yes. This eventually leads to the now dead, and while-alive known holocaust denier and homophobe Koichi Sugiyama to compose for the legendary RPG that started it all…Dragon Quest.0:00 - The beginnings of Dragon Quest6:10 - The West and Dragon Quest8:44 - Dragon Quest's Living Legacy16:17 - Dragon Quest Has New Game Plus18:13 - Dragon Quest's Iconic Imagery20:30 - Grinding Is Optional22:52 - Conclusions#dragonquest #enix #dq #GCVazquez #QuestrospectiveSpecial Thanks to @culIen for the voiced quotes! Sources for info, images, and interviews:nintendoeverything.com/a-look-at-the-launch-of-dragon-quest-xi-in-japangematsu.com/2015/08/lawson-dragon-quest-shop-opening-tokyoshmuplations.com/adventuregamesgrapee.jp/en/125188https://gccx.xyz/en/season1/chunsoft/dragonquest.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Quest_Wikishmuplations.com/dragonquestivweb.archive.org/web/20210709184738/sp.ch.nicovideo.jp/gamemusic/blomaga/ar304408-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,gc positive,Dragon quest retrospective series,dragon quest retrospective,I Remade My First Dragon Quest Video,dragon quest 1 switch,dragon quest 1,dragon quest,dragon quest history,dragon quest development,gc positive dragon quest,gc vazquez dragon quest,dragon quest questrospective,yuji horii dragon quest,koichi nakamura (chunsoft),koichi nakamura,akira toriyama DQ,yuji horii dq,dq retrospective,dq history,dq review
What Ive Figured Out About Fishing Games GC Vazquez 2023-04-02 | Not gonna lie, I'm a little nervous. This is the big one. Of all the quirky additions and classic staples of video game features, fishing is one of the earliest instant success stories with the most obvious reach. It stretches across the genres, across time, across hemispheres, and has almost become a mandated inclusion by the industry and its consumers. Its implementation encompasses every part of the spectrum. From simple button press mini-games to fully fleshed out simulations with lure and line choices meant to optimize catching specific fish. Video games have covered fishing in almost every incarnation: as pastime, as career, as sport, as survival skill, the list goes on and on. Fishing’s the chum in the water, and we’re frenzying at the smell. We’ve fallen for fishing hook, line and sinker. And today we’re going to learn a little about why, and what you find out might surprise you! Fishing in games isn’t just a neat side-activity; there’s a significant purpose behind its inclusion, and several reasons we gravitate to it like bait on a line. Sounds a bit fishy? Trust me, after this deep dive, you’ll be swimming to my tune. But that’s enough floundering around, school is in session, and I’d like to keep things flowing. I’m also getting tired of these puns. They stink- you could say they smell a bit…fishy?...Fish. Fish puns.Ocarina of Time fishing footage from: @snomangameplay Special Thanks to @VZed and @razbuten for their help in collecting additional footage!And a bow of gratitude to @ChipmunkuChan for the thumbnail!#fishinggames #finalfantasyxv #stardewvalley #FeatureCreep #GCVazquez-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,gc positive,Fishing In Games,What I've Figured Out About Fishing Games,best fishing minigames,fishing games,the first fishing game,fishing derby atari 2600,fishing planet fishing,stardew valley fishing,final fantasy xv fishing,the world of fishing games,What I've Figured Out About Fishing Games | Feature Creep,Feature Creep,fishing game features,the art of fishing games,I played a bunch of fishing games,sega pro fishing
The Cultural Connection of Cooking In Video Games GC Vazquez 2023-03-10 | It seems like if you go far back enough into the history of what’s in a video game, you’ll always find yourself in the 1970s and 80s. They made games about everything back in the day. Cooking in games, technically, started with the Burger Time Arcade game in 1982, and expanded into the tycoon genre with a bunch of titles about managing restaurants and serving guests. While these certainly are cooking-based games, they’re not really what I’m referring to when I say Cooking (In) Games. There’s a cooking element, sure, but the art of cooking isn’t present. The spirit, the soul of cooking is absent. Burger Time’s a platformer inspired by Donkey Kong. Those tycoon games are more about managing restaurants. Ironically, you don’t really do a whole lot of cooking in them. No, when we talk about cooking in games, we’re talking about something a little more appreciative of the culinary arts. Food prep! Cooking itself! Presentation! The building blocks of wasteful, expensive restaurants and Instagram food pics! These factors are what make the act of cooking so enjoyable, and the act of Cooking In Games memorable. And that is a little harder to track down in history.0:00 - Intro0:48 - What I mean by "Cooking in Games"3:00 - Cooking is Subjective6:25 - Cooking is Social11:15 - Cooking is Caring14:05 - OutroI almost forgot to thank @razbuten for lending me some footage for this video! Thank you very much!#cookinggames #suikodenii #breathofthewildcooking #FeatureCreep #GCVazquez-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,gc positive,why you should play yakuza: dead souls | questrospective,Feature Creep,The Cultural Connection of Cooking In Video Games | Feature Creep,The Cultural Connection of Cooking,Cooking in video games,cooking video games,cooking in breath of the wild,cooking in suikoden 2,cooking in final fantasy XV,how cooking in games,why cooking in games,video game cooking,super paper mario cooking,cooking in games
Takayuki Yagami Is A Terrible Detective (Judgment) GC Vazquez 2023-02-16 | Special thanks to @KBash , @culIen , and @Darkfry for lending their voices to those quotes for the video, and a very special thank you to @hotcyder for making the thumbnail!Chapters:Intro - 0:00Judgment As a Detective Drama - 4:51Yagami's Motivations - 7:54Yagami's Methods - 10:11Judgment's Momentum - 12:48Mandatory Side Cases - 15:12Detective Drama Conclusion - 18:29Intermission 1 - 19:23Judgment As a Detective Game - 20:29Immersive Sim Elements - 22:33Underutilized Features - 24:06Speculation About Production - 25:44Detective Game Conclusion - 28:35Intermission 2 - 29:00Judgment As a Like A Dragon Game - 29:33Evolving From Lost Paradise - 30:54Fighting in Judgment - 32:16Playspots and the Dragon Engine - 32:58Positive Examples of Women Representation - 34:16Negative Examples of Women Representation - 37:13Tsuyoshi Furuta's Writing Style - 38:55The Alzheimer's Shoehorn - 40:45Furuta's Last-Minute Scramble - 42:46Like a Dragon Game Conclusion - 46:11Final Thoughts - 47:06“Eyes like these can’t see much. Can’t tell an innocent man from a murderer.” The search for truth is fraught with wrong turns and blind eyes. In the crumbling halls of justice, where the stands cast dark shadows on the innocent, and the guilty hold the gavel, the truth dies. There might be no saving it. You can cast a light down the corridors. Rip the curtains from the wall and bathe the room in the Sun. But the more you shine from on high, the darker those shadows get. The harder it is to see the filth in those places light will never reach. But down there, where you can’t see. That’s where the truth is. “For a lawyer, the job ends when he’s proven the client innocent of all crimes. That said…I’m not a lawyer anymore.” No. It’s better not to force the issue. It might be darker than you’d like, but it keeps the shadows weak, mild, penetrable. Once your eyes adjust, you see things clearly. The monsters underneath our beds. The skeletons in our closets. And the truth.On September 20-something 2018, Toshihiro Nagoshi appeared on-stage at the Tokyo Game Show with fandom-shaking news. Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios would be making a brand new IP, helmed by Nagoshi himself. Hesitant to call it a spin-off, as they had so willingly done before, he insisted this title would be a new taste of what RGG Studios could offer. Dubbing it a legal thriller or legal suspense depending on who’s translating, it would revolve around one Takayuki Yagami, an ex-lawyer turned detective, hounded by a case from his past. Nagoshi mentioned the player would be performing their own investigations, alluding to detective-like mechanics. It was a big promise from a studio which had only known one genre for the last fifteen years. Whether or not they made good on it, however, is our story here today. For we are the audience to RGG Studios’s ambition. Ours are the judging eyes that seek the truth. The time is nigh. And truth is within our grasp. This is Ryu Ga Gotoku’s Judgment.…And I dunno, man! It’s kind of all over the place if I’m being honest! #judgment #likeadragon #ryugagotoku #SEGA #yakuza-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,gc positive,yakuza 4: kamurocho's broken machine,why you should play yakuza: dead souls | questrospective,Takayuki Yagami Is A Terrible Detective,takayuki yagami actor,judgment takuya kimura,judgment detective gameplay,judgment ace attorney,yakuza retrospective series,takayuki yagami evil detective,judgment vs like a dragon,takayuki yagami lost judgment,takuya kimura hero,judgment legal suspense,judgment detective,judge eyes
Paper Luigis Bizarre Adventure GC Vazquez 2023-02-09 | Welcome to another Character Ballad- and a wildly ambitious one at that! Few people exist on an echelon of calibur more impressive than this man. Discarded by fate, shunned by a society he protects, and forgotten by the annals of history. An unsung hero. God among men. I am referring to none other than Paper Luigi. A paragon of the Paper Mario universe, and one of my favorite characters to watch evolve across the original three entries of the Paper Mario series, and I’m not kidding. Y’see, Paper Luigi might, in fact, be the origin of the modern characterization of Luigi in general. If he isn’t, then he certainly steered it into the loveable soft-hearted gentleman we see today. Most of the Paper versions of long-standing Mario characters were given more personality than they ever previously had. Paper Peach plays an active role in her own rescues. Paper Bowser is a rough-and-tough goofball, who constantly fumbles his plans due to his incompetent subordinates when he isn’t completely barking up the wrong tree. Paper Mario himself is a Mickey Mouse-esque interpretation of the character: energetic, out-spoken, but unlike Mickey, a little too polite sometimes. Yet none of them have as huge of a glow-up as Paper Luigi. A character who begins the series as a background element, to a background element, and steadily earns his place as a central party member, making mistakes all along the way. Whereas your Luigi Mansions will play up the cowardice of our subject today, Paper Mario aims to create a self-made bad-ass out of his early easter egg origins. I’m GC Vazquez, and this: Is “The Ballad of Paper Luigi.” ...Yes, really.Special Thanks to Zoltiboi for the thumbnail: twitter.com/zoltiboi #papermariothethousandyeardoor #papermario #superpapermario #papermariostickerstar #CharacterBallad-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,gc positive,GC Vazquez character ballads,gc vazquez yakuza,Super Paper Mario Mr L,Super Paper Mario Luigi,paper mario luigi's diary,paper mario thousand year door luigi's story,paper luigi the thousand year door,Mr. L's True Identity! | Character Ballads,Luigi's secret identity,gc positive character ballads,paper luigi secrets,paper luigi breakdown,luigi character analysis,Paper luigi story,GC vazquez dragon quest,luigi analysis
Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise Absolutely RULES GC Vazquez 2023-01-20 | Ryu Ga Gotoku studios isn't particularly known for branching out into other settings or IP. Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise might not see us running around the mean streets of Kamurocho, or give us another opportunity to hang out with Kazuma Kiryu and his wacky friends, but it bears all the trappings of a Like A Dragon experience! Quite possibly...one of the best Like A Dragon experiences! Running off the Yakuza 0 engine (sorry Dragon Engine), Lost Paradise is anything but a wasted effort. With new HEAT move mechanics, an abundance of new playspots, and an open world to drive your very own buggy around, there's more to Lost Paradise than meets the eye. While it isn't part of the mainline Yakuza series, Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise is still very much indicative of Yakuza's evolving game design. On today's Questrospective, we won't be breaking down the adapted Fist of the North Star story, nor will we even try to come away with an old-fashioned Questrospective takeaway. Instead, give me the opportunity to convince you that Lost Paradise is less of a spin-off than you think, and make the case for why you should absolutely play it on your journey through the series.#fistofthenorthstarlostparadise #ryūgagotoku #fistofthenorthstar #likeadragon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,gc positive,why you should play yakuza: dead souls | questrospective,yakuza 4: kamurocho's broken machine,fist of the north star lost paradise,hokuto ga gotoku,Ryu Ga Gotoku's Hidden Gem of the PS4 Era,Like A Dragon's Hidden PS4 Gem,The Ryu Ga Gotoku Hidden Gem of the PS4 Era,Lost Paradise review,Lost Paradise video,Fist of the North Star lost paradise review,Fist of the north star game,is fist of the north star lost paradise good
The Wacky Video Game World of Irresponsible Drinking GC Vazquez 2022-12-29 | #videogamedrinking #featurecreep #videogamealcohol #drinkingingames #videogamealcoholismWelcome to Feature Creep! A series dedicated to those little features and mini-games we find all over the video game compendium. To start things off, I'm covering drinking in video games! An act we get a lot of laughs out of, that we might be taking for granted or not putting enough thought into. Drinking in games has a weird history, largely because how cultures view drinking is incredibly varied from country to country. In the United States, prohibition and the temperance movement really cut down on our consumption of alcohol in general, and sort of shifted it into this more private affair. Not that we all still hide our drinking habits or anything, but we tend to view drinking with an eccentricity. Like this special thing. Compare this to some European countries, where the drinking age is lower, and alcohol consumption is almost a historical staple of dinner. A little bit of wine with every meal is relatively common in places like Spain, and because it doesn’t have this quirky taboo nature in those regions, children are pretty familiar with the concept of alcohol and don’t grow up viewing it like this rite of passage or forbidden nectar. Again, not that underage drinking doesn’t happen in these other places, but different societies treat drinking- and other things- differently. The way we treat drinking in our respective society influences how we portray those things in our respective media. And when said media crosses over into other countries or cultures, it sometimes has to play by said cultures’ rules. This is why we sometimes see references to alcohol in Japanese games changed, altered, or straight-up removed when they get localized for the West. But the iconography of drinking is harder to scrub out of a game’s identity. Drinking in video games is basically as old as video games themselves.0:00 - Intro2:04 - History of Drinking In Games3:49 - How Drinking Ends Up In Games6:18 - Drinking As A Mechanic8:44 - This Is Not A Soapbox9:43 - The Perception of Drinking12:03 - Ignorance of Drinking12:53 - Positive Depictions of Drinking16:34 - Conclusion-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GCVazquez,GC Vazquez,gc positive,why you should play yakuza: dead souls | questrospective,yakuza 4: kamurocho's broken machine,The Wacky Video Game World of Irresponsible Drinking,Feature Creep,Video Game Drinking,Drinking In games,drinking in video games,drunk in video games,majora's mask milk bar,psychonauts 2 bob's bottles,psychonauts 2 bob,psychonauts 2 alcoholism,video game alcoholism,video game alcoholics,video game drinking games
The One Thing I Like About Final Fantasy 13... GC Vazquez 2022-12-07 | I wanna talk to you about something which has fascinated me for the last twelve years about Final Fantasy XIII. Someone on the art team had an armpit fetish. None of the women wear sleeves. Like ever. There’s a hard refusal to cover up the pits, and the pits are…I mean just always in frame. What’s up with that, why did they do that? Super weird. Anyway, Final Fantasy XIII is a divisive entry in the series nowadays. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of its insistence on automating a large part of turn-based RPG strategizing by encouraging style switching and hitting the auto button with mechanics built around having characters in a turn-based game attack very quickly in succession in order to properly dispatch enemies who attack at a rapid pace in order to pressure you into adhering to the same playstyle as everyone else. That being said, I’ve played Final Fantasy XIII a good amount more than other Final Fantasy games, in a fruitless attempt to understand what others enjoy about it. While I don’t think I’ll ever take to its gameplay elements…I also won’t take to its narrative ones either! XIII’s story feels very aimless and disjointed. Decent character moments are constantly overshadowed by an ambiguous central plot, and a boring premise we’ve seen in plenty of RPGs. Fighting destiny is…so basic and routine and can be built into better themes in this genre. Previous Final Fantasies accomplished as much and more. But I didn’t completely come away from XIII without enjoyment. Among the cast of redundant heroes and chopped up references and recycling of previous characters in Final Fantasy, one has stood out to me every time I pick XIII back up to give it another chance. He’s a character many of you might be fond of, and he’s a character I find a lot more grounded, believable, and compelling to watch. Despite the messy plot we watch him wander around in, his arc tells a great story. And between you and me, he would have made for a better protagonist. I’m GC Vazquez, and this is the ballad of Sazh Katzroy.Welcome to the first episode of a series I'm dubbing "Character Ballads." Character Ballads are all about side characters or lesser-than-protagonist characters in games, I feel, are often overlooked or have their stories inaccurately reduced into a couple of sentences. This series is starting with The Ballad of Sazh Katzroy, a script I initially wrote way back in 2014 when I had just started making YouTube videos! Sazh is an underrated character in Final Fantasy XIII, and the inspiration behind the series. I'm hoping with my pieces on him and other characters you might recognize from other games, I can win them some points in your book. I'm really proud of this one, and I'm excited to show it to you all!0:00 - Armpits?0:44 - What I Don't Like About FFXIII1:48 - The One Thing I Like About FFXIII2:34 - Problematic Elements of Sazh4:31 - Introducing Sazh Katzroy6:10 - Brief Recap of FFXIII's Premise7:33 - Sazh's Motivations, Dynamic, and Dilemma11:08 - The Recontextualization of Sazh Katzroy13:01 - Sazh Katzroy's Moment of Truth14:57 - Sazh Katzroy Cares17:53 - The Ballad of Sazh Katzroy19:19 - Sazh is a Better Protagonist23:12 - Sazh Katzroy is Forgotten#finalfantasyxiii #SazhKatzroy #squareenix #GCVazquez #CharacterBallad-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questrospective,GC Vazquez,gc positive,final fantasy 13 sazh,Sazh Katzroy Story,sazh ff13,Final Fantasy XIII's Most Important Character | Character Ballads,Sazh Katzroy analysis,final fantasy 13 sazh eidolon battle,final fantasy 13 vanille and sazh,Final Fantasy 13 Sazh and Dajh,Sazh Katzroy,ffxiii sazh eidolon,ffxiii sazh theme,final fantasy xiii characters,ff13 character study,Character Ballads,Character Ballad ff13,GC Vazquez Character Ballad
Yakuza Kiwami 2: The Soul of the Mad-Dog GC Vazquez 2022-11-18 | I'm BACK with a brand new Questrospective- and a huge line-up of other videos in the coming months! Thank you all so much for being patient. The time has finally come! Yakuza Kiwami 2 was a wonderful experience shadowed by a few Dragon Engine issues...or should I say Like A Dragon Kiwami 2? So much has happened since the last Questrospective I'M SO EXCITED. Anyway, new voice actors casted into old roles, a fresh-faced return to favored combat elements, and a dedicated side story to one of the series' most iconic characters, dare I say it: Yakuza Kiwami 2 is a better finale to the Kiryu saga than Yakuza 6 was BY FAR. Seriously. The Majima Saga is some of the best writing the series has ever had! But it wasn't all fantastic. The Dragon Engine rears its ugly head once again, and poor representation needs to be addressed and examined, as Like A Dragon is dragged kicking and screaming into a better tomorrow. Have they righted wrongs in Yakuza Kiwami 2? Is it a faithful remake worth playing over the original? And will GC Vazquez use another Kiwami episode to remorsefully mull over his past? Watch Questrospective to find out!0:00 - Intro/The Past/Personal Anecdote6:00 - Changes Made From Yakuza 28:58 - Sayama, Yuu Daiki, Aya Hisakawa, Analysis12:58 - "Embracing My True Self" and Awkward Transphobia14:35 - Knife In The Rain18:30 - The Red Pain19:11 - Closure22:26 - Ugaki-san and Majima24:30 - Horii-san and The Majima Saga27:32 - Kiwami 2's Kamurocho29:31 - Giving the Baby His Medicine30:18 - The Monsters We Give Birth To33:10 - The Return of the Dragon Engine35:23 - A Poor (And Probably Inaccurate) Explanation of PC Bugs38:10 - An Apology, From Me, To You42:10 - Conclusion, Absolution, Resolve#likeadragon #ryugagotoku #yakuzakiwami2 #yakuza #sega -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► tumblr.com/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I Rejected These Video Essay Ideas GC Vazquez 2021-12-03 | During the month of November, five-time viral tweeter GC Vazquez suffered an episode of desperate and rabid video production. Not gonna lie, it was kinda awesome. Of the many, many video ideas he drafted, only four survived the final cut. These are the rejects. If you've enjoyed this month of weekly uploads, it would mean a lot to me if you subscribed, liked the video, and shared it with your friends. I want to give a very special thank you to everyone who's kept up with the recent uploads. It meant the world to see everyone cheering me on while I kept putting a ton of stuff out, and I'm almost sad to close out such a productive month. Alas, this will probably be the last of these weekly uploads. But hey! This means another Yakuza Questrospective will be on the way soon enough! And who knows? Maybe I'll have another big burst of ideas ready to fire away with! Credit to John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players for their rendition of Vivaldi's Summer Mvt 3 Presto. The songs in their Vivaldi album are licensed underCC BY-SA, and are available for sharing through any other medium or format.Dispersion Relation by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100258Artist: http://incompetech.comEasy Jam by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100245Artist: http://incompetech.comHyperfun by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400038Artist: http://incompetech.com0:00 - It Begin0:52 - Top Ten Things I Like About Kingdom Hearts0:55 - Top Ten YouTubers From The Aughts Who Still Inspire Me1:00 - Mass Effect 1: A Galaxy Left Behind4:15 - Why FF7REMAKE Isn't a Multimedia Marketing Ploy4:21 - Breath of the Wild Is Just Like Every Other Open World Game, You Just Like Zelda and The Witness4:39 - SMT Demon Negotiations Are Better Than Pokeballs7:34 - The Dreamcast is a Shenmue Machine8:26 - Columbo's Son Rates Paper Mario Characters Based on How Likely They Are To Drown11:27 - I Played 400 Hours of Animal Crossing And I Don't Think I Was Supposed To14:41 - Top Ten Kairi Moments In Kingdom Hearts14:45 - List of People of Color In Dragon Quest14:50 - I Respond To Comments From Videos People Didn't Like14:55 - The Old Republic And the Sith EA Empire17:58 - Reasons To Like Koichi Sugiyama-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mods Make Games Evergreen GC Vazquez 2021-11-26 | I’ve been replaying a lot of Stardew Valley lately. I’m not replaying Stardew Valley for the new content patched in long after I beat the game on release. I’m finding a little bit of solace inside of it at a time where I’m lost on where my life is going to go next, but I’m not talking about ten or twenty hours across a month of existential turmoil. I’m talking multiple playthroughs reaching thirty or forty hours in two weeks. Y’see, I’m not playing a normal version of Stardew Valley. I’m playing with mods. A metric boatload of mods. More mods than you’d expect. I have this uncanny habit of coming back to certain games just before they enter their next big surge of popularity or get a major facelift. So of course, I started modding up Stardew Valley for the upteenth time. Then shortly thereafter it was announced to be getting a 64-bit version which would, basically, allow Stardew to allocate more RAM for itself. It was also getting a new framework. Ideally, these make it possible to load more mods at once, and for mod authors to more easily create them. It got me thinking about modding in general; why people do it. Why games with mods seem to stand the test of time.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Youre Playing Mario Party WRONG GC Vazquez 2021-11-19 | There’s a hidden truth lying in wait inside of this horrible stigma Mario Party has carried on its back all these years. A two-faced lie we’ve taught ourselves in the spirit of fairness and politeness has prevented us from indulging in the true joys Mario Party has to offer, and hypocrites that we are, we kiss the boots of newer games who pit us directly against each other with a fake social contract. Meanwhile, Mario Party hands us the deed to our freedom to act however we want. Mario Party’s social contract is one devised entirely by the rats themselves, as they pick a franchise character and descend into the maze to find their five-pointed cheese. Mario Party is schadenfreude, a game of alliances and betrayals formed and broken faster than the 10-turn option that NO ONE picks because it’s TOO FAST- Mario! Party! Is! The Progenitor- The Prototype- The FIRST. Popular! Social! Deduction! Video Game! #MarioParty #Nintendo #AmongUs #MarioPartySuperstars #SocialDeduction-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hep Cats by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500022Artist: http://incompetech.com
Unpacking My Life With Unpacking GC Vazquez 2021-11-13 | In a rare moment, I played a video game which wasn't a Dragon Quest or a Yakuza, or 80+ hours long! That's right, I played a wonderful indie game called Unpacking, made by Witchbeam, and it slammed with a reflection of my life I didn't expect to sit down and think about. Enjoy!Special Thanks to @HeavyEyed for taking a look at the script!Play Unpacking on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1135690/Unpacking#Unpacking #Witchbeam #IndieGames #Puzzle #VideoEssay-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yakuza 6 is...Not Good GC Vazquez 2021-11-05 | And so we finally arrive to Yakuza 6, the final Kazuma Kiryu chapter. A book end to the Yakuza series and to Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios' long-time work with a world revolving around one of SEGA's video game icons. One final adventure with the Dragon of Dojima, one last time to wave goodbye to Akiyama, Majima, Saejima, and the rest of Yakuza's rogue's gallery. One more moment with Haruka Sawamura and the orphans of Morning Glory Orphanage. One more gauntlet of HEAT moves and Karaoke songs- for old time's sake! Except for everything but that first sentence up there.Unfortunately for us, today's Questrospective won't be another celebration Ryu Ga Gotoku nor an emotional retrospective take on a heartfelt, passionate tale. Today, we're disappointed. Today, we're getting critical. Literarily critical. Which means books and stuff. Yakuza 6 is a sales pitch for the Dragon Engine. Yakuza 6 is a pale shade of what Ryu Ga Gotoku has come to represent. Yakuza 6 harbors a much darker purpose (in my opinion) than to entertain folks or give them something meaningful to depart this part of the series with. It breeds contempt of others, it champions harmful ideas...and borders on being a thinly veiled piece of propaganda for Japanese ultra-nationalist interests. Brace yourself for some inarguably horrendous rhetoric.Also, it just kinda sucks.Special Thanks to @hotcyder for the thumbnail, and @culIen for the voice-over on the quotes used in the video! 0:00 - Legacy 5:16 - The Dragon Engine & Exploration12:47 - Intermission 113:53 - Relevance17:00 - Combat in Yakuza 623:00 - Absence of the Series in Yakuza 628:20 - Intermission 229:36 - Preface to the Discussion & Xenophobia in Previous Games41:26 - Xenophobia in Yakuza 652:55 - Misogyny in Yakuza 61:04:03 - Combining Racism and Misogyny / Mask Off1:25:23 - Narrative Inconsistencies in Yakuza 61:32:39 - Conclusionsources used in the video: Yokoyama Extensive Interview w/ Dengeki Online: dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/455/1455505Translation here: dojimasdragongirl.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/yakuza-6-interview-with-writer-producer-masayoshi-yokoyama-from-dengeki-onlineTranslated Famitsu Interview With Yokoyama: yakuzafan.com/famitsu-interview-yokoyama-masa-792016-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez ► patreon.com/GCVazquez► twitch.tv/GCVazquez► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#Yakuza6 #Yakuza #SEGA #RyuGaGotoku #LikeADragon #YakuzaMisogyny
Yakuza Kiwami 1: A Questrospective Retrospective GC Vazquez 2021-08-02 | Doing things a little differently today. Yakuza Kiwami is the remake of the original Yakuza, renewed and refreshed for the audience the series pulled in with Yakuza 0, and for longtime fans. But with time comes age, and with age comes wisdom. Kiwami means Extreme, and playing Yakuza Kiwami has brought with it memories of this video series' beginnings- and my own feelings from when I set out to make it. For me, Kiwami is a little more- just a little more- than a remake of a beloved classic. It's a retrospective into my own past, my journey since, and a sense of closure I've been chasing for the last three years. 0:00 - Beginnings07:03 - Kamurocho Again and Anew09:51 - Friends, Majima, and Boss Fights19:53 - Kiwami Means Extreme...ly Personal#Yakuza #YakuzaKiwami #LikeADragon #RyuGaGotoku #SEGA-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC__Vazquez If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCVazquez?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From Wikipedia: Yakuza Kiwami is an action-adventure video game developed by Sega. It is a remake of Yakuza, the first game in the Yakuza series, originally released on Sony's PlayStation 2. Yakuza Kiwami was released on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan on January 21, 2016, and on PlayStation 4 in Europe and North America on August 29, 2017. It was also ported for Microsoft Windows worldwide on Steam on February 19, 2019, and was released on Xbox One on April 21, 2020.Like the original PlayStation 2 game, Yakuza Kiwami explores the life of a man named Kazuma Kiryu who is demoted from his clan after taking the blame for his boss's murder. After a decade in prison, Kiryu searches for his old friends who have gone missing. The remake adds extra elements to the story, including Akira Nishikiyama's corruption during Kiryu's imprisonment and constant struggles between Kiryu and his rival Goro Majima. The gameplay was improved to resemble the prequel Yakuza 0, adding more depth to the fighting system.Sega had ideas to remake the first Yakuza game in 2015 as part of the series' 10th anniversary but were unsure about developing due to their team focused on making Yakuza 0. Following the success of Yakuza 0, Sega started working on the remake of the first game and aimed to add new elements to the story while trying to make it more enjoyable than the original game. The game was well received, earning positive sales. Critics praised the simplicity of the gameplay but were divided by the handling of the storyline and pacing. Yakuza Kiwami was followed up by Yakuza 6: The Song of Life later in 2016, and another remake based on the second game titled Yakuza Kiwami 2 was also released in 2018.GC Positive,Questrospective,Yakuza Kiwami: Kiwami Means Extreme...ly Personal | Questrospective,Yakuza Kiwami: Kiwami Means Extreme...ly Personal,Kiwami Means Extreme...ly Personal,Yakuza Kiwami,Yakuza is For Men,Yakuza 0: One's Own Justice,Yakuza 5: At the Heart of Dreams,Yakuza 4: Kamurocho's Broken Machine,Yakuza Kiwami review,Yakuza Kiwami differences,Kiwami differences,Kiwami changes,Majima Everywhere,Yakuza Tonight,Yakuza: Kiryu Rising,Majima Kiwami,Yakuza
Yakuza Is For Men: A Breakdown of Yakuzas Shortcomings GC Vazquez 2021-07-08 | The Entire Yakuza Retrospective Series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCGj9A7lAH8RYefzWTRDXtol9bogyfNEbYakuza 0 Video: youtu.be/EE4afSZ9R-s?list=PLCGj9A7lAH8RYefzWTRDXtol9bogyfNEbEurothug4000's video on Yakuza Like A Dragon : youtu.be/WhdZ1AlEEqYThere's an elephant in the room I don't think the Yakuza fandom or the Ryu Ga Gotoku community at large has addressed enough. After playing Yakuza 1-5, Dead Souls, and 0, it's time we had a chat. About Yakuza. About games made for men. About what exactly "made for men" is justifying. Special thanks to @RedBardIsCool and @eurothug4000 , as well as everyone else who took the time to look over my script! Sources for videos and articles used: japan-experience.com/to-know/visiting-japan/women-only-cars-on-trainscbsnews.com/news/kutoo-movement-women-in-japan-fight-expectation-to-wear-high-heels-to-work-2019-11-09jlearn.net/dictionary/醜女-ぶすsiliconera.com/yakuza-director-says-20-players-female-theyll-still-keep-manly-seriesyoutube.com/watch?v=-Mikf3bYiY8youtube.com/watch?v=tl1G3_a5ZP8youtube.com/watch?v=SZG1Cx_acQkyoutu.be/kS7_XGOsivAfamitsu.com/news/201605/25104646.htmlyoutube.com/watch?v=rbnv4GE4XZkwww.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4MLIgtdk4youtube.com/watch?v=zQfZVltX6eU0:00 - Intro and Examples of Women In Yakuza6:36 - The Male Perspective10:08 - Ryu Ga Gotoku's Treatment of Sex Workers13:57 - How Yakuza Challenges Masculinity16:42 - Ryu Ga Gotoku 0, Transphobia, Lack of Press23:34 - Women's Rights in Japan, Why It Matters25:21 - Steps Yakuza Has Already Taken and Steps For The Future27:05 - The Apprehension of Men, The Challenge to Be BetterAll the synthwave tracks used in this video were made by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio. Find their YouTube channel here: youtube.com/c/WhiteBatAudio#Yakuza #YakuzaRemasteredCollection #LikeADragon #SEGA #YakuzaMisogyny #RyuGaGotoku-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► twitter.com/GC_Positive ► patreon.com/gcpositiveIf you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yakuza 0: Ones Own Justice GC Vazquez 2021-06-01 | All the synthwave tracks used in this video were made by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio. Find their YouTube channel here: youtube.com/c/WhiteBatAudio► twitter.com/GC_Positive ► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1► patreon.com/GCPositive0:00 - Behind-The-Scenes9:35 - Money19:40 - Intermission 121:07 - Substories, Subjugation, Suffering35:25 - Intermission 236:57 - Treatment of Women45:22 - Combat, Weapons, and Legends48:45 - Simplicity, Solidarity, and Control56:04 - Patreon/Discord Announcement-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Yakuza 0 marked the 10-year anniversary of the series, which naturally became a point of retrospection for the creatives who had built their entire careers off it. A look back on how far they’d come, and how drastic of a shift the series has had since escalating in popularity. It provided an opportunity to speak on those origins. It also gave them insight into how far from the original concept Ryu Ga Gotoku had strayed from- and whether or not this was a good thing. Nagoshi saw Yakuza 0 as an opportunity for a reset. A way to balance out past and present, return to roots with the wisdom and innovation an entire decade can provide. He wanted to reflect this in the game’s characters, story, and setting. Ryu Ga Gotoku 0 takes place in 1988, during the economic bubble in Japan. Goro Majima. Kazuma Kiryu. In the 1980s, both of these men are far cries from the god characters we recognize them as, but deep down hold fast to similar convictions. They’re unrefined versions of their future selves, placed in situations designed to challenge and destroy their fledgling ideals. Their journeys will test their resolve, the dilemmas they face will strip away the illusions they’ve casted upon themselves, and the world they live in will do whatever it can to keep them under its heel. And they’ll need money. Lots of it. It Always. Comes Back. To Money. Join GC Positive on another Yakuza Questrospective, as we navigate the complicated reality of Kiryu and Majima's lives...and maybe learn a little bit about our own.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#Yakuza0 #RyuGaGotoku #LikeADragon #SEGA #YakuzaFrom Wikipedia:Yakuza 0 is an action-adventure game developed and published by Sega. It is the sixth main entry in the Yakuza series and a prequel to the original game. It was released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan in March 2015, and in North America and Europe for PlayStation 4 in January 2017. It was released on Microsoft Windows on 1 August 2018 and was released on Xbox One on 26 February 2020. A free accompanying game application for PlayStation Vita, titled Ryū ga Gotoku 0: Free to Play Application for PlayStation Vita, was released in Japan in February 2015.The game received generally favourable reviews from critics, and is largely responsible for the franchise's rise in popularity and sales in the West, the series being deemed obscure beforehand. Yakuza 0 was followed up by a remake of the original game, Yakuza Kiwami, the next chronological installment of the series. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GC Positive,Questrospective,Yakuza 0,Ryu Ga Gotoku 0,majima yakuza 0,yakuza 0 kiryu,yakuza 0 substories,yakuza 0 review,yakuza 0 analysis,goro majima,yakuza 0 questrospective,Yakuza 0: One's Own Justice,Yakuza 0: One's Own Justice | Questrospective,One's Own Justice,yakuza 0 retrospective,dame dame,baka mitai,yakuza 0 judgment,Judgment,WOW BREAKING THE LAW,WOW BREAKING THE WORLD,KOWASE,KIRISAKE TENDERNESS,WOAH WOAH WOAH,WOAH WOAH WE ARE BAD BOYS
Lore-Building Isnt World-Building GC Vazquez 2021-03-26 | Human beings are pre-programmed to find patterns in all things. We love connecting those dots, finding shapes and faces in clouds and inanimate objects, we love to sort data until it makes sense to us. From this instinctual behavior is where modes of our subjectivity originate. It’s inevitable for the people ingesting media to crave explanations for plot holes and inconsistencies. When patterns are difficult to identify, stories stop making sense, character motivations can become confusing, and plot twists can fall flat. This is a very short and huge reduction of the conversation around subjectivity, but I hope you’re understanding me. Our way of identifying patterns is intrinsically unique to us, and a great deal of our subjectivity lies in it both when creating and when being an audience member. It’s the place from which headcanons and fan theories are born. It doesn’t matter if details are only secret for a short time; I once made a fan theory about Fallout 4 in the five month space between it being announced and released because all we could do at the time was speculate. I was, unfortunately, let down by the reality of Fallout 4’s central plot, and learned a hard fast lesson about Speculation: The truth is boring.#ElderScrolls #DarkSouls #BreathoftheWild #WorldBuilding #Gaming -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GC Positive,Questrospective,Lore-Building Isn't World-Building | GC Positive,Lore-Building Isn't World-Building,The Elder Scrolls Lore,Fallout Lore,Zelda Lore,World Building games,creating worlds,world building video essay,Breath of the Wild lore,exploring worlds in video games,Lore crafting,Kingdom Hearts lore,narrative lore,You Don't Need To Finish Games,breath of the wild theory,Speculation in games,Representing Latines and Hispanics In Games
You Dont Need To Finish Games GC Vazquez 2021-02-26 | I have something important to tell you: You Don’t Need To Finish That Game. Game completion is so obsessed nowadays, people gate-keep and invalidate each other’s opinions based on how far they made it while playing them. Being up-to-date on a long-running series seems to be more important than caring about its trajectory, its quality, and the conditions it was made in. People are so afraid of missing out on the “real impact” of a sequel they’ll prevent themselves from playing it until they beat the games leading up to it. We’re so desperate to be a part of the wave we’re insistent on buying the new thing, and beating it as fast as possible so that we’re riding at the very top. And the truth is, this is a reality we didn’t necessarily force ourselves into. It’s not the nature of recreation. It’s the nature of business. #Gaming #GCPositive #GamingCulture #BeatingGames #FinishingGames ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter! ► twitter.com/GC_Positive If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed! ► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GC Positive,You Don't Need To Finish Games | GC Positive,You Don't Need To Finish Games,Finishing Games,Completing Games,Beating games isn't necessary,you don't have to beat games,video game completionist,never finishing games,beating video games,finishing video games,completing video games,console wars,game completion,game industry practices,gaming culture,Lore-Building Isn't World-Building,Representing Latines and Hispanics In Games,completionist, gaming backlog
Yakuza 5: At The Heart Of Dreams GC Vazquez 2021-01-22 | Voice for written quotes by ChrisTheFields, who has his own retrospective series about Fire Emblem! Please go show him and his work some love: youtube.com/user/UsedPotatoWhat do you dream of? What do you aspire to be? The journey towards what we want is never a simple one. Yakuza 5 is about dreams: being lost in them, abandoning them, reaching towards them, helping others...and searching for the core meaning behind each and every wish inside our hearts. The first Yakuza release after officially dubbing themselves Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios, Yakuza 5 is arguably one of the best in the series- and it's completely different from the rest. Join us on an equally different episode of Questrospective, as we dive deep and discover together what lies at the heart of dreams.0:00 - Kiryu, Engine Updates, Creators' Intent10:23 - Saejima, Scope of Content, Side Stories21:44 - Haruka, Treatment of Women, Dance Battles30:42 - Shinada, HEAT Focus40:10 - Flaws and Strengths, Finale, Final Takeaway#Yakuza #YakuzaRemasteredCollection #LikeADragon #SEGA #Yakuza5 #RyuGaGotoku------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter! ► twitter.com/GC_Positive ► Questrospective Logo by Brian Harding: twitter.com/BrianHardingArt If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed! ► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From Wikipedia:Yakuza 5 (Japanese: 龍が如く5 夢、叶えし者, Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku 5: Yume, Kanaeshi Mono, "Like a Dragon 5: Fulfiller of Dreams") is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3. The game is the fifth main entry in the Yakuza series. The game was released in December 2012 in Japan, and localized for North America, Europe and Australia as a PlayStation Network download in December 2015. A remaster with improved resolution and frame rate was released for the PlayStation 4 on June 20, 2019 in Japan, and worldwide on February 11, 2020 as part of The Yakuza Remastered Collection.[1] Versions for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One will be released in January 2021.[2][3]The game features a new graphics engine, unlike previous games in the series that have been re-utilizing the same engine since Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan!. For the first time in the series, it features five settings across Japan along with five playable main characters.[4][5]
Hades and The House of Escape GC Vazquez 2020-12-22 | With Hades out of early access, I thought I'd take a gander at Supergiant Games' new title. But, given that I've looked at every other Supergiant game, why not look at Hades through that lens? As it turns out, it isn't just the next milestone on Supergiant's tenure, it also reflects their journey as a studio. From Bastion, to Transistor, to Pyre, Hades remembers where it came from, and underneath it's story about strife and conflict, is the tale of Supergiant Games themselves. About their close relationship with escape as a theme and concept. How their view on it has evolved across the last decade, and how their own growth has affected that. This is Hades and The House of Escape! ► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►twitch.tv/GCPositive#Hades #SupergiantGames #Supergiant From Wikipedia: Hades is a roguelike action role-playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Nintendo Switch on September 17, 2020, which followed an early access release from December 2018.Players control Zagreus, the son of Hades, as he attempts to escape from Underworld to reach Mount Olympus, at times aided by gifts bestowed on him from the other Olympians. Each run challenges the player through a random series of rooms populated with enemies and rewards. The game has a hack and slash combat system; the player uses a combination of their main weapon attack, dash power, and magic ability to defeat them while avoiding damage to progress as far as possible. While Zagreus will often die, the player can use gained treasure to improve certain attributes or unlock new weapons and abilities to improve chances of escaping on subsequent runs.Hades was developed following Supergiant's Pyre, a game in which they wanted to explore procedural narrative storytelling, but due to the nature of the main gameplay, found that players did not play through Pyre multiple times to explore this. The roguelike structure of Hades gave them the opportunity to tell these branching stories to the player over the course of multiple runs. Hades received critical acclaim, particularly for its gameplay, art and narrative and was nominated for and won several awards, including Game of the Year by numerous publications. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GC Positive,Hades and The House of Escape,Hades and The House of Escape | GC Positive,Hades,Supergiant Hades,Supergiant Games Hades,Supergiant Games,Hades game design,Hades video game,Supergiant Games Transistor,Supergiant Games Bastion,Transistor,Bastion,Pyre,Hades nintendo switch,hades zagreus,hades discussion,hades gc positive,hades game,hades aspects,hades boons,hades family,hades greek gods,hades weapons,hades review,hades dusa
Representing Latines and Hispanics In Games GC Vazquez 2020-12-01 | This time we're going to talk about something important, but different to the usual GC Positive content. I'd like to talk to you all about the way Latine and Hispanic people are represented in video games and games media. It's not great. Whether it's by washing out our unique cultural identities, painting us as villains, or worse yet, using our struggles to satisfy a guilty conscience, Latine and Hispanic people are often mishandled in games. From the coded Borderlands 2 characters Salvador and Mordecai, to the stereotyped Mexicans of Red Dead Redemption, to the missed opportunity with Evil Within's Sebastian Castellanos and Gears of War's Dominic Santiago. I’d like to break down these faux-pas, explain why they’re not acceptable forms of representation or at least not where they need to be, and maybe teach you a little bit about the incredibly vast and colorful differences between Central, South, and Caribbean-American cultures. This is a complicated discussion, but a necessary one. If there's anything I've made that I want people to see the most, it's this video. Right here. Right now. Please enjoy, and thank you for listening.#HispanicsInGaming #LatinxInGaming #LatinxRepresentation #GCPositive------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter! ► twitter.com/GC_Positive If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed! ► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GC Positive,Representing Latines and Hispanics In Games,Hispanic & Latine Representation In Video Games,Latinx Games,Latinx in games,Hispanics in games,representation matters,latinx representation in media,latinx representation in games,latino representation in games,bipoc in games,latinx games festival,spanish video game characters,latinx game characters,latino game characters,Lore-Building Isn't World-Building,You Don't Need To Finish Games
The Yakuza Game Everyone Forgot About GC Vazquez 2020-10-27 | The long awaited Dead Souls episode is here! Known for being a zombie shooter with less-than favorable reception during the hay day of the zombie video game craze, Yakuza: Dead Souls is an enigma. Poor sales in the West combined with zombie fatigue at the time sealed its destiny as the often forgotten, commonly avoided entry in the Yakuza franchise. But we're thorough here on Questrospective; if we have access to it, and it isn't a spin-off? Then it's part of the journey! What's that? Don't think Yakuza: Dead Souls is a main series Yakuza game? Then you're in for a big surprise. Allow GC to enlighten you, and perhaps convince you to pick up Dead Souls if you haven't tried it yet. Because in case you weren't aware: Dead Souls could be your new favorite. This is Why You Should Play Yakuza: Dead Souls!#Yakuza #LikeADragon #SEGA #YakuzaDeadSouls #GCPositive #RyuGaGotoku-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive ► Questrospective Logo by Brian Harding: twitter.com/BrianHardingArtIf you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From Wikipedia:"Dead Souls is a non-canonical side story set during April 2011, one year after the events of Yakuza 4. A sudden outbreak causes the residents of Kamurocho to become zombies, biting victims to continue spreading the plague. Kamurocho is slowly quarantined as the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force is called in to contain the infection. In the wake of the outbreak, four men take charge to help the people of Kamurocho and find the source of the disease: Shun Akiyama, a local loan shark attempting to rescue his sick receptionist; Goro Majima, a feared yakuza and construction company owner trying to stave off his own infection; Ryuji Goda, a disgraced former yakuza and takoyaki chef whose clan has ties to the outbreak's origins; and Kazuma Kiryu, an orphanage caretaker and legendary former yakuza forced to return when his adopted daughter Haruka is kidnapped."
Yakuza 4: Kamurochos Broken Machine GC Vazquez 2020-08-25 | Questrospective arrives with another foray into the bustling streets of Kamurocho- but will we ever see the red-light district in the same way again? Three new protagonists are weaved into the series's tapestry in Yakuza 4. The Dragon of Dojima finds allies in The Lifeline of Kamurocho, The Parasite of Kamurocho, and the Tiger of Sasai. Their own chapters. Their own substories. Their own revelations. Grab a snack, get comfortable, and settle in with GC as we uncover the hidden truths of Yakuza 4: A story about society, authority, power- and their victims. Kiryu had learned much in his adventures, but was he ready to accept his own failings? Were we? 0:00 - Intro, Background Info5:49 - Akiyama 1 & Mini-Games14:30 - Akiyama 2, Multiple Characters, Remaster Issue28:59 - Saejima 1, Level Design Changes, Yakuza 3 Comparison35:50 - Saejima 2, Chase Sequences, Dojo Master45:30 - Tanimura & Storytelling1:02:00 - Kiryu 1 & Player Character Inversion1:14:52 - Kiryu 2 & Combat1:25:26 - Finale & The Takeaway#Yakuza #LikeADragon #SEGA #Yakuza4 #GCPositive #RyuGaGotoku------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter! ► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►Questrospective Logo by Brian Harding: twitter.com/BrianHardingArtIf you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed! ► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Yakuza 4 (Japanese: 龍が如く4 伝説を継ぐもの, Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku 4: Densetsu o Tsugumono, "Like a Dragon 4: Successor of the Legend") is a video game developed and released by Sega for the PlayStation 3. The game was introduced on July 24, 2009. A promotional video was presented at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, The sequel to Yakuza 3, it was released on March 18, 2010, in Japan after a playable demo was released on the Japanese PlayStation Store on March 5. Yakuza 4 was released in Europe and North America in March 2011.This was the first Yakuza game that did not feature the involvement of the current series producer and one of the members involved since the very first game, Daisuke Sato.A remaster was released on the PlayStation 4 on January 17, 2019 in Japan, and worldwide on October 29, 2019 as part of The Yakuza Remastered Collection. Because Hiroki Narimiya retired from acting due to allegations of drug use, the role of Tanimura was recast with Toshiki Masuda taking over.GC Positive,Yakuza 4: Kamurocho's Broken Machine - Questrospective,Yakuza 4 - Questrospective,Kamurocho's Broken Machine,yakuza 4 remastered,yakuza 4 subtories,yakuza 4 chapters,yakuza 4 revelations,yakuza 4 walkthrough,yakuza 4 review,yakuza 3,yakuza 2,yakuza,yakuza kiryu,yakuza saejima,kazuma kiryu,yakuza 4 kiryu,akiyama yakuza,tanimura yakuza,Yakuza 4,yakuza 4 analysis,Questrospective,Kamurocho Yakuza,yakuza games,yakuza game,yakuza collection
Yakuza 3: Of Trust and Compassion GC Vazquez 2020-05-24 | 2 years have passed since the dragon of dojima defended his title against Ryuji Goda in Yakuza 2. In that time, Kiryu has walked away from the Yakuza- for real this time I promise- to finally live a life of peace. But when the dealings of the Tojo threaten the very ground his orphanage rests on, he's forced to return to Kamurocho and chase after the yakuza for answers. Along the way he'll meet old friends and enemies, experience revelation after revelation...and perhaps find renewed brotherhood in the form of a young man eager to learn from him? Yakuza 3 is an insane back-and-forth full of surprises and with the Yakuza Remastered Collection giving it a new facelift, it's time to crack it open! Join GC as he dives into the hows and whys of Yakuza 3's wacky adventure! Onward through our Yakuza Questrospective!0:00 - Intro / Japan Exclusives4:34 - Story 1 10:23 - Level Design / Engine Upgrades14:55 - Themes of Brotherhood & Homoeroticism22:10 - Mini-Games / Substories32:20 - Substories / Story 239:48 - Combat / Use of Melodrama49:10 - Story Finale / Final Takeaway#Yakuza #LikeADragon #SEGA #Yakuza3 #GCPositive #RyuGaGotoku------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter! ► twitter.com/GC_Positive ► Questrospective Logo designed by Brian Harding: twitter.com/BrianHardingArt If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed! ► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GC Positive,Yakuza 3,Questrospective,Yakuza 3 chapters,Yakuza 3 walkthrough,Yakuza 3 retrospective,Yakuza 3 review,Kiryu Yakuza 3,Yakuza GC Positive,Yakuza PS3,Yakuza PS4,Yakuza Remastered,Yakuza 3 Remastered,Ryu Ga Gotoku 3,Yakuza PC,Yakuza 3 Revelations,yakuza game,yakuza games,yakuza remaster,yakuza remastered collection,yakuza kiryu,yakuza like a dragon,yakuza 3 hostess,Yakuza 3: Of Trust and Compassion,Yakuza 2 Questrospective
Yakuza 2: Anatomy of a Dragon GC Vazquez 2019-07-12 | Questrospective's journey through the Kamurocho streets finds us spilling into Sohtenbori, and picking up the pieces of one's life. One year after the events of Yakuza 1, Kazuma Kiryu takes it upon himself to lay the Tojo clan's rivalry with the Omi to rest. But is the Dragon of Dojima really just doing his part, or is he haunted by the ghosts of his past? This Action RPG is a fantastic improvement from the first, but it's also a vehicle for Kiryu's torment. It's about surviving, doubting who you are, and the existential dread of both. Also Majima is wearing a hat in this one. GC Positive presents to you: Yakuza 2!#Yakuza #LikeADragon #SEGA #Yakuza2 #GCPositive #RyuGaGotoku-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►Character art by: IST-Audius (ist-audius.tumblr.com) (@IST_Audius)►Questrospective Logo by Brian Harding: twitter.com/BriHardGamingIf you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GC Positive,Yakuza 2,Questrospective,Yakuza 2 review,Original Yakuza 2 review,ps2 Yakuza review,Yakuza 2 retrospective,yakuza retrospective,yakuza 1,yakuza 2,yakuza 3,yakuza 4,yakuza 5,yakuza 6,yakuza 0,yakuza 2 walkthrough,yakuza 2 analysis,yakuza 2 video essay,yakuza analysis,yakuza video essay,SEGA,Yakuza series,yakuza guide,yakuza video,yakuza 2 video, Yakuza2: Anatomy of a Dragon, Questrospective Anatomy of a Dragon
Dragon Quest XI Spoiler Discussion GC Vazquez 2019-03-26 | Hello everyone! After the Dragon Quest XI episode, we received a lot of comments asking me to discuss the spoiler elements of the plot and a few elements of the game I didn't mention. So here's a Spoiler Discussion video on late-game plot elements from Dragon Quest XI! My thoughts, takes, speculations, and impressions. (PS I'm slightly out of focus, and the color correction yellowed my teeth yes okay)This was fun to do, honestly. If you enjoyed this format, please let me know! I'd like to do more discussion vlogs like this one in the future! #DragonQuestXI #DragonQuest #SquareEnix #GCPositive #YujiHorii-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►Character art by: IST-Audius (ist-audius.tumblr.com) (@IST_Audius)If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age GC Vazquez 2019-02-27 | It's time for Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age! On this final (mostly) no spoilers episode of our Dragon Quest retrospective, GC breaks down the latest entry in the Dragon Quest series. Interested in Dragon Quest XI S? Want to avoid major plot spoilers? Dying to finally see the next episode of GC Positive's retrospective series? Stumbled upon this video searching for something entirely irrelevant, but are too lazy to click away? Sit back and relax, friend. You're in for a good time.Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age won my heart over at release, and I'd like to share that with you. With a Nintendo Switch port on the way promising to bring with it 3DS content we never received internationally, it's as good a time as any to find out for yourself why you should pick this one up. It's my new favorite Dragon Quest, and you oughtta know why!Special Thanks to SuperFlyGuy for lending his voice: twitter.com/ForColinOutLoudhttps://www.castingcall.club/m/Superfly1787#DragonQuestXI #DragonQuest #SquareEnix #GCPositive #YujiHorii-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►Character art by: IST-Audius (ist-audius.tumblr.com) (@IST_Audius)If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yakuza: Kiryu Rising GC Vazquez 2018-09-09 | It's about time this show got its own proper branding! Welcome to the brand new Questrospective, a journey through many series. Entry-by-entry, we'll learn the whos, the whats, and the (speculatory) whys of your favorites! Come along with me, GC Positive, as we start on our path through Yakuza. Watch it evolve from an early Playstation 2 title with rocky beginnings into a beautiful story of love, fatherhood, and humanity. #Yakuza #LikeADragon #SEGA #GCPositive #RyuGaGotoku-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►GC Character Art by: IST-Audius (ist-audius.tumblr.com) (@IST_Audius)►Questrospective Logo by: BriHardGamingtwitter.com/BriHardGamingIf you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GC Positive,Questrospective,yakuza gc positive,yakuza 1 ps2,playstation 2 yakuza,yakuza kiwami,yakuza review ps2,yakuza review,yakuza 1 review,yakuza retrospective,yakuza 2,yakuza 3,yakuza 4,yakuza 5,yakuza 6,yakuza 0,original yakuza,yakuza ps2,yakuza,yakuza series,Toshihiro Nagoshi,Hiroyuki Sakamoto,review,game,video games,yakuza game,yakuza gameplay,yakuza kiwami 2,Yakuza - Questrospective,Yakuza: Kiryu Rising | Questrospective,Kiryu Rising
A Hat In Time - GC Vazquez GC Vazquez 2018-02-02 | People will look back on 2017 as an amazing year for video games. There were so many knockout titles last year, that it's safe to say most people didn't get to play all of them. But besides your Breath of the Wild, your Persona 5, your Super Mario Odyssey, and your Nier Automata, there was a massive amount of great indie games last year too! Let's take a look at maybe the best indie game of 2017, and one people had been looking forward to! Let's look at A Hat In Time!If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies - GC Vazquez GC Vazquez 2017-12-14 | This season of GC Positive ends how it began: with a Dragon Quest Retrospective! Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies was Level-5's last entry in the series- and it's a weird one! How does a handheld, multiplayer Dragon Quest experience hold up compared to the huge legacy it's a part of? Let's find out!#DragonQuestIX #DragonQuest #SquareEnix #GCPositive #YujiHorii-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pyre - GC Vazquez GC Vazquez 2017-10-06 | If someone told me when I was younger that we were going to get an Action-RPG Basketball video game that offered up deep questions about ourselves, I would have been deeply skeptical. And yet, here we are. It's 2017, and Supergiant Games has just released their third title, Pyre. Pyre is about self-reflection and heavy thoughts- and is a serious contender for game of the year! You could say it's... a slam dunk?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►Character art by: IST-Audius (ist-audius.tumblr.com) (@IST_Audius)If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yooka-Blurry, A 3D Platformer Rare-buttal GC Vazquez 2017-09-03 | Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie were games that formed my childhood. So of course, when Playtonic Games, made up of ex- Rareware employees, were looking to bring back 3D Platformers as a whole with their Kickstarter for Yooka-Laylee, I was incredibly excited. Five months since its release, and my mood is a bit...different- however! I think writing Yooka-Laylee off as exemplifying the problem with games of the past is reductive and a bit silly. What works? What doesn't? Let's find out on this episode of GC Positive!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►Character art by: IST-Audius (ist-audius.tumblr.com) (@IST_Audius)If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toukiden 2, An Open World Monster Hunter - GC Vazquez GC Vazquez 2017-06-09 | Monster Hunting games are growing in numbers, and they've managed to introduce a bunch of innovative mechanics lately! But one series happens to stand out- and it's not Monster Hunter. Let's talk about Toukiden 2, a game that incorporates the best hunting games as of late have had to offer and throws in an open world to boot!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►Character art by: IST-Audius (ist-audius.tumblr.com) (@IST_Audius)If you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nioh - GC Vazquez GC Vazquez 2017-05-07 | Dark Souls has become somewhat of a meme all on its own as of late, but it's revitalized the action RPG genre and created one of its own: the Soulslike! Games like the Souls series have started sprouting up all over the place, and it was only a matter of time before one set in feudal Japan happened. Let's talk about Nioh! An action RPG that's very quickly become one of my favorites. It's like Dark Souls! I'M SORRY.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know what I'm up to/how far along I am on the next video? Find me on Twitter!► twitter.com/GC_Positive ►Character art by: IST-Audius (ist-audius.tumblr.com) (@IST_Audius)►Intro jingle by: twitter.com/naphiveIf you like my stuff, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed!► http://www.youtube.com/c/GCPositive?sub_confirmation=1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
