The Game Essayist

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Hi, my name's Louis; I'm an autistic game video essayist from New Zealand who got sick of video game essayists never getting to the point, so I made a channe...

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She Didn't Cry For You The Truth About RE3make's Jill Valentine

How Capcom Fixed 30 Years of Racist Characters

Pokémon Villains Predicted Every Crisis You're Living Through

You Don't Rescue Anyone in Baldur's Gate 3

You Made Elden Ring Harder Than It Had To Be

The Real Reason Silksong Feels So Hard

Mass Effect 2's Genius Was Hiding in Plain Sight

The Lie Everyone Believes About James Sunderland

How Aerith Uses Jokes To Get Past Cloud's Trauma Armor

Jacinthe Is The Sweetest Little Tyrant In Pokémon Legends ZA

The Worst Writing in Persona 4 Is Its Most Important

One Silksong Boss Is Secretly Training You to Beat Another

The Hypocrisy of Outer Worlds 2’s “Good” Faction

Mass Effect 2's Paragon Path Is a Morality Trap

Silksong Broke the Rules of Boss Fights

The Vampire Mechanic That Changed My BG3 Story

Silksong Revives the Lost Art of the Boss Runback

Ghost of Yōtei Does What Ghost of Tsushima Wouldn’t Dare

How an Engine Limitation Made Fallout’s Scariest Level

Heroism or Stockholm Syndrome

Why the Old God of War Games Made You a Worse Person

Why This RPG Says Joining The Cult Saves Your Life.

The Master Sword Was Secretly Controlling Link All Along

The Game That’s Better When You Know the Ending

Hades 2's Villain Already Won and That's Genius

Outer Worlds 2 Makes You Monetize the Apocalypse

Outer Worlds 2 Thinks You're The Reason Its Satire Works

You Can’t Be A Hero Or Villain In The Outer Worlds 2

Pokemon Game Finally Has Politics in Lumiose

Why Your Crew Might Murder You In Outer Worlds 2