Hey kids, this is Kalir, let's play a bunch of games in video form!

So yeah! I dunno if you guys all knew it or anything, but I've got a YouTube where I put videos of me screwing up immensely at an assortment of games of varying renown! Warning: updated when I feel like it.

I'll link all the playlists for the games I've done here, now counting DoomRL even though we got a place for that already. Newer (and thus probably higher-quality videos) are near the top.

Currently playing: Metroid Fusion

• Rokko-Chan: Fan-made Mega Man clone. Pros: Satonakaja shows up again, X-style dashing, female protagonist. Cons: A really mean spiked shaft, Rolling Ring, discrepancies in engine emulation.
• Frogatto and Friends: An indie platformy thing about a frog in need of a quick buck. Pros: light-hearted humor, actually good swimming physics, lasers. Cons: a few minor glitches, inconvenient Hyper powerups, and those damn squirrels.
• Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle: Old DOS platformer by the Doom guys. Pros: Relatively open-ended, pogosticks, inchworm armies. Cons: No checkpoints, a romhacky bonus level, a high score table that was last updated in high school.
• Mega Mari: Touhou-themed Mega Man game. Pros: Satonakaja as guest commentator, sadistic game design, and Touhou artwork. Cons: audio issues, sadistic game design, and Touhou artwork.
• Hero Core: Minimalist indie Metroidvania. Pros: tons of robots, retro translations, and loads of projectiles. Cons: ridiculously tough bosses, occasionally bland music, nothing to eat.
• Spelunky: Platformer roguelike, as well as man-eating plant-themed mod Tastes Like Spelunky. Pros: Close calls, jetpacks, Rocky Mountain throwing damsels. Cons: disturbing meat-themed treasure, YASDs, and a burning hatred of totems.
• Castlevania: Circle of the Moon GBA Castlevania, released around Symphony of the Night. Pros: giant plate metal boots, fire swords, monster-slaying. Cons: random drops, Hugh's ridiculous angst, and my complete inability to sequence-break.
• An Untitled Story: Indie Metroidvania about an egg or something. Pros: Charming story, massive world, psychobilly freakout ninjas. Cons: Slight video issues, repeated deaths, dumb minigames.
• Retrobattle: Arcade indie game designed for maximum retro. Pros: jetpacks, lasers, never getting the Space Viper's name right. Cons: gold drones, gold drones, gold drones.
• Golden Sun as well as the sequel, the Lost Age: What some people refer to as JRPG comfort food. Pros: Quaint story, Djinn, crazy GBA graphics fights. Cons: unskippable cutscenes, way too long, and when have video LPs of RPGs ever been good? Never, that's when.
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX: My first Zelda game. Pros: even weirder than most Zelda games, in full color, pyromania. Cons: Does not distort reality, trading sequences, and you have already played this game.
• VVVVVV: Short indie title involving gravity flipping. Pros: Constant smiling, kickass music, more spikes than I Wanna Be The Guy (not really). Cons: Exploring is boring, repeated deaths, repeated deaths on that one part in the endgame.
• Greencastle: Double Exodus: Flash RPG in which everyone is a chess piece. Pros: Fork Tech, historical relevance, GRINDING RAEG. Cons: Dumb plot, some jackass in the comments ranting about Final Fantasy, and the part where video LPs of RPGs aren't good.
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Beat-em-up based off of a show I watched as a kid. Pros: color-coded jumpsuits, giant robot fights, surprisingly good platforming elements. Cons: kinda samey, the boss of area 2, swimming.
• Lyle in Cube Sector: Another freakin' Metroidvania. Pros: Weird art style, cube-throwing, warns children about the dangers of antagonizing cows. Cons: Unregistered Hypercam 2, faulty keyboards, no methods of non-cube-based warfare.
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons followed by Oracle of Ages: Two-part Zelda games with passwords and stuff. Pros: Stabbing a dragon in the face, kangaroo-based locomotion, Roc's Cape. Cons: Pretty long, audio feedback, Oracle of Ages isn't actually very good.
• A Bunch of Unrelated Crap: Things that are too short for playlists of their own, as well as obligatory April Fool's stuff. Yes, I celebrate April Fool's. No, you can't stop me.

Don't forget DoomRL, while not entirely your LP it is hosted there and is awesome!

Everyone should watch Kalir's videos. They're usually pretty fantastic!

They totally are!

I have a guest spot on one of the mega Mari Videos. It's the one where the guest commenter is totally useless.

Well, I was totally useless too, and not only that, had terrible audio quality!

Oh man, just what I need, another youtube channel to subscribe too.

Pass.

... Dammit

*subscribe*

(which is to say, the first video was cracking me up.)

Decided to watch the CotM LP on a whim, and I find it interesting that you got the game while here in Oregon. Mostly because I almost got the game myself once, but someone else happened to buy the last copy of it in stock while I was pondering it. Maybe that was you? :P

I dunno, were you looking for it in a pawn shop in Newport? Cuz that's where I got mine.

Nope, a Fred Meyers in Clackamas. Ah well, it's still interesting.

Geez, Kalir, why haven't you advertised before? *subscribe'd*

You are very truly funny, or at least from what I can tell from the first Spelunky video.

oh hay look wut i got

If you ever want a guest commentator for Keen4 I'm your man. I never beat like the lake level and this was all like 14 years ago but you know. If you want someone to go AWW MAN I REMEMBER THIS it would be cool.

I'm digging your Commander Keen videos. I played the hell out of those games when I was a lad, and replayed the whole series last holiday season when Steam had a sale on Id's entire back catalog. Keen 4 is definitely the high point of the series, and it's a lot of fun to watch someone else work their way through the game!

Hey kids, you like frogs, right?

Course you do.

Hey, HCBailly makes good RPG video lps. But your vids are good.

Part 14.

Probably lost forever!

Yeah, that was one of the times I learned to make sure to upload videos before I delete them to make room!

What happened: Black Tower got built more, we got some workers to do stuff, and saved Ricky from the hell that is the Fairy's Woods.

One word: Yunakitty.

Okay, RPG LPs can be good. It just requires someone being inventive and amusing over the space of a ton of samey battles, or challenge runs that don't necessitate grinding or an equivalent.

Anyway, I've finished Frogatto and Friends now. The first post also has the DoomRL playlist, because hey why not.

I've actually seen "no grinding" as an actual challenge run requirement (normally defined in terms of the game as something like "run from all random encounters, fight only mandatory nonrandom encounters", and perhaps a rule to stop grinding within a single battle). (Arguably, I'm attempting it in my current Pokémon LAP, apart from the grinding to pull off a glitch at the start; I'm not sure how long I'll be able to keep it up, though, when every battle's requiring as much thought as it does at the moment.) I'm not sure how many RPGs are even possible under that restriction without becoming repetitive, though.

Boosh! It's a game!

Wanna play it yourself? Okay!

Hey sure, let's do this. This won't end in horror and fire, right?

Wait, no, disregard this, the audio sucks again. Hang on.

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