The Gallery of Let's Plays

I love a good Let's Play. I love it as another option of experiencing a game, and some of my favorite games I've ever bought were ones I had first only seen a Let's Play of. (You know what they are, right? It's literally just video footage of someone playing a game, generally with their voice recorded too.) On my YouTube channel, I upload all kinds of content, but recently I've been doing LPs too.

NOTE: All links go to YouTube.

DJay plays some vidya games

The main series. I play what I can, I am sometimes even able to finish the games, and I always seem to have some technical problems but I'm slowly getting better. Expect a lot of paying attention, quiet reactions, some goofy jokes, and me getting scared.

• Sonic Robo Blast 2 - May 2023. My favorite Sonic game, one I've been playing since I was like 11. Specifically this is version 2.2. I play through the main campaign and also the three Challenge levels.
• U-Me Nikki - October 2023. Specifically, this is an elaborate map in VR Chat that adapts a bulk of the game Yume Nikki, so, in effect, this is Yume Nikki In VR.
• Sonic Superstars - October 2023. A new 2D Sonic game. I bought it and played it the day it came out. This LP had probably the worst technical problem, in that I accidentally deleted all my voice commentary, so most of the Let's Play is just gameplay footage. I did record new bits of commentary to cover what was missed, though.
• Blair Witch - November 2023. My first LP of a Bloober Team game. I take a stroll through the woods in a horror game based on a movie I had not seen. It's pretty good.
• Layers of Fear - January 2024. Second LP of a Bloober Team game. This is a big anthology of several related horror stories, including the remake of the very first Bloober game I played. I have a pretty good time, though I do critique the remake part, and I, uh, run into a game-breaking glitch leaving this LP UNFINISHED.
• [ECHOSTASIS] - July 2024. The third game in the Enigma trilogy, which I deeply respect. But I struggle with this game. I get to the third level and then have to leave it UNFINISHED.
• Pools - July 2024. A two-hour experience. A surreal walk through an indoor space. Pretty good vibes. I do this to calm down after ECHOSTASIS.
• Super Mario 64 B3313 - August 2024. A surreal Mario 64 hack that basically puts Mario in a comically large maze of distortions and unsettling empty rooms. I play it for two hours and have a good time. I don't know if I'll return to it.
• Riven - October 2024. Part 1 of my Three LPs of Halloween. This is a first-person puzzle game from the 90s, remade in 2024 with full VR support, that I play for the very first time. I elect to just play a bit of it here and show off what the game is like; I will not finish this LP.
• Mouthwashing - October 2024. Part 2 of my Three LPs of Halloween. A fresh new indie horror with a really good story. Another two-hour experience. Comically, I play 95% of the game, literally up to the last five minutes, and then have to quit because a gameplay portion is too frustrating. There is no point to me finishing this one.
• Silent Hill 2 - October 2024. The Halloween Feature Presentation. Bloober Team's biggest and best game. A remake of a 2001 horror classic I never played. I consider this Let's Play to have been therapeutic for me, letting me overcome some hangups I have with my fear. I fucking finish this one.

Older LPs

I had done sporadic LPs in my earlier years too. Some of them have slight historic value I guess, but I never revisit these.

• Trilby's Notes - January 2011. My brother Nathan plays the beginning of this early indie horror, on a crappy webcam.
• Reimagine: The Game - June 2011. I play some kinda flash game, on a crappy webcam. Apparently my video card couldn't even support FRAPS at the time. Damn.
• Fear Mythos: The RPG - August 2012. Now directly screen-captured, I play the hotly-newly-released first ever video game for the Fear Mythos, LizardBite's RPG. This game even features some characters from my stories.
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - April 2013. With the help of my brother Adam, I make an honest attempt to play through the game I grew up with and always hated. I don't get very far.
• Sonic Robo Blast 2 - January 2017. (Amusingly enough, this isn't even my first LP of SRB2. The first one was of a Final Demo, pre-2.0. I put it on Facebook many many years ago.) This 2017 LP is of version 2.1, which despite only being a decimal point away from the version I played in 2023, is pretty drastically different.

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