Let's Play:
This is sort of a director's cut of the game. I wanted to have a video recording of the game. So I figured I'd try making a Let's Play. Never done anything like it before, and the only Let's Play I've ever watched was of my previous quest, The Nine Villages, by MeleeWizard. But I tried. And I quickly realized that I don't talk enough for this type of thing. I've made a few training videos for work, but nobody wants to hear an exact play by play: "i went east to the next room, let me walk up to this guy and kill him, and now I'm going to kill that next guy over there," boring and repetitive. So I started talking about the quest.
At first, I was kind of just winging it with the explanation. I wrote an introduction sentence for each video, just so I could avoid saying the same intro each time, and I had a list of songs I would need to identify in the video. Maybe a quarter of the way through, I started making a bullet list of things to discuss. Not a script, but topics or points I thought should be part of the same explanation. Around then I got more used to talking constantly, so the first quarter of the Let's Play is pretty rough. I also did very little audio cleanup at first, which is pretty obvious compared to the later videos.
Well, I figured I'd provide a list of topics. There is no list anywhere else. By the way, I am both obake-san and obake-san's ghost. I like the redundancy of the longer name.
Let's Play videos:
Part | Game Section | Discussion Topic |
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1 (27:51) | Start and Level 1 | Introduction. I don't know... |
2 (25:26) | Level 2-1 and 2-2 | What happened with my first attempt at making the quest. |
3 (24:18) | Level 2-3 and Class Area | Length of the Game. 15 hours is extremely fast. |
4 (25:35) | Select Class and Class Dungeons C12 and C14 | Character Classes: Wizard, Knight, Thief, and Monk. |
5 (22:48) | Town and Optional Dungeon 1 | Level 2 button: Persistent change across time. |
6 (27:42) | Town 2 | Story of the town. How to make the present better. |
7 (29:56) | Level 3-1 and 3-2 | More of the town. Probably not much to say. |
8 (34:05) | Level 3-3 and HCP Cave 1 | Title origin: "Manos the Hands of Fate" bad 60s movie. |
9 (27:46) | Level 4-1 and Power Bracelet | Tilesets and Custom Tiles. |
10 (29:56) | Level 4-2 and Optional Dungeon 2 | Mystery Science Theater 3000 MST3k, the old and new TV Show. |
11 (29:56) | Class Dungeons C22 and C24 | Age of the quest, and why an obsolete version number. |
12 (21:26) | Optional Dungeon 3 and Money | All about Link's Decision 1, released back in 2007. |
13 (26:25) | Level 4-3 | The walkthrough is extremely thorough and detailed. |
14 (31:33) | Level 5-1 | Why I would make a walkthrough, and how I did it. |
15 (23:48) | Class Dungeon C32 | Hard mode: Link's Decision 1 had an easy mode, it was too hard. |
16 (27:12) | Class Dungeon C34 | The music for the game. This is why and how, not a list of songs. |
17 (28:41) | Level 5-2 and Coin Cave | The help cave really does know where to go next in the overworld. |
18 (35:21) | Level 5-3 | The coin cave is from Link's Decision 1. |
19 (23:52) | Level 6-1 | Finished the game from binders of printed maps and descriptions. |
20 (36:15) | Optional Dungeon 4 and Level 6-2 | Chronos is the Ancient Greek personification of time, not a titan. |
21 (29:21) | Miscellaneous Heart Container Pieces | Rifftrax and it's relation to MST3k. Both riffed Manos. |
22 (26:38) | HCP Cave and Town 3 | HCP Cave is from Link's Decision 1, a few of the same puzzle types. |
23 (32:16) | Arena and Town 4 | The town's side quest for the golden statue, and how the town was made |
24 (28:21) | Level 6-3 | Recording and editing the videos of this Let's Play. |
25 (30:50) | Level 7 First Half | The Nine Villages was my previous quest, Zelda 1 and Zelda 2 maps. |
26 (29:46) | Level 7 Second Half and Ending | Zelda Classic and the history. I'm just filling out time now. |
27 (46:26) | Post-Game Secret 1 | The ending story of the game, including how Link and Ganon were tricked. |
28 (14:12) | Post-Game Secret 2 | How I made the dungeons. |
29 (32:39) | Post-Game Secret 3 | How I made the overworld. |
30 (52:45) | Post-Game Secret 4 | How to make a video trailer with free software. Almost a music video. |
31 (46:33) | Post-Game Secret 5 and Town 5 | Anagrams of my own name, and cast metal puzzles because I like them. |
post (21:52) | Post-production Editing | A video of me explaining what I'm doing as I edit part 16. |
3X (27:21) | Thief Special: Flippers and Mirror Shield | This is immediately after part 3. The thief can skip ahead to Level 6. |
Tr (2:46) | Trailer (Gameplay) | No talking. This is just gameplay set to music with some explaining text. |
MV (2:38) | Music Video about the town | They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (not Constantinople) |
Anagrams:
Starting at part 23 of the Let's Play, I "accidentally" introduced myself with the wrong name. That's nine introductions, and each was different. Those are all anagrams of "obake-san's ghost". That's where all the letters are re-arranged to spell something different. Well, here's the full list of them.
So Go Thank Bases
Shaken Gas Boost - Sloshing the tank? This is the first one I found.
Sank Stooge Bash
Ask the Boson Gas - My favorite one, even though particles aren't a gas.
Goes as Bank Shot
Than Sage's Books
The Book Sang Ass
Banks Go To Ashes - The most coherent one, but if I used it as a name, I'd end up on a terrorism watch list.
Those Knobs' Saga - A stupid or unpleasant person, as in, "What a knob." So the anagram could translate to "the quest of those stupid people", perfect for my Zelda Classic game.
Here's the thing. I had a lot more than that. But I wasn't going to go back and change 22 video openings, and it was funnier starting at 23. So I had a lot of unused Anagrams. Anagrams often make little sense, but many of these are complete nonsense.
A Snag Shook Best
Go Bash on Skates
So the Saga Bonks
She Ganks Taboos
Go Stab on Shakes
Nooks Bash Gates
Boast Snake Hogs
Bong Tokes as Ash
Shoot Bang's Sake - Thai rice wine, like Bangkok.
Stage Bans Hooks
Sage Shoots Bank
Tan Shoes Go Bask
Gash Takes Noobs
Sanest Bag Shook
Banks Goose Hats
Those Gank a Boss
Boa Snake's Goths
Bag Shoots Snake
OKs Tango Bashes
Hobo Stages Sank
SoHo Stage Banks
Stake Goon's Shab
Sang as the Books
Despite finding so many anagrams for obake-san's ghost, I have never been able to find an anagram for my real name. I just think I got lucky with the assortment of letters obakesansghost.
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