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Over the past few years, we've witnessed the cozy game genre explosion. No one can argue that. Games like Coral Island or My Time at Sandrock are recent examples. However, I've noticed that elements from this genre are pulled from, what I believe, are core facets of game design - especially in games that many would consider "un-cozy". This led me on a journey to define some of the feelings I get while playing video games, and an exploration of the cozy side of all of our favorite video games. I hope you enjoy The Hidden Coziness of Video Games! #cozygaming #cozygames #animalcrossingnewhorizons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Video chapters: Intro: 00:00 A Game's Potential: 1:11 3 Tenents of Cozy Video Games: 10:24 Why We Play Video Games: 13:18 Gaming and Need Fulfillment: 18:44 Peace Amidst Chaos: 22:35 How Horror Can Be Cozy: 26:02 Coziness is Player Dependent: 31:46 What Makes Games... Un-Cozy: 34:30 Outro: 44:12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Web sources: The paper that helped inspire some research: https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1709393/FULLTEXT01.pdf Agata Waszkiewicz and Martyna Bakun paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349524581_Towards_the_aesthetics_of_cozy_video_games (Unfortunately, I wasn't granted access to their paper. I was able to pull their insights from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_UWo24Day8&t=901s) https://lostgarden.home.blog/2018/01/24/cozy-games/ https://www.yorku.ca/playces/nicksmetatext/salenzimmermanreview.pdf https://www.polygon.com/23692974/dark-cozy-games-genre-dredge-strange-horticulture https://www.gamesindustry.biz/what-makes-a-cozy-game-cozy https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Play-Design-Fundamentals-Press/dp/0262240459 Video sources that weren't credited in-video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oJ1LKk-P1Q&t=529s (I didn't use footage from this, but thank you to this video for inspiring a thought process on Alien's aesthetic coziness! Please check this out it's an excellent game breakdown.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic9prLftrMg&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7XqBAmcvPg&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7DFuXDN29M&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_UWo24Day8&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJNbhekKShI&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MgUEbfrjXA&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3bDkjmtIU&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pkNhA8hf_s&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vid7MHfYQZ0&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBm9I_C0snE&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbVz6w539lE9-BP4xG1xUqSY&index=14 https://youtu.be/K8hfK3RQs2g?si=y4ZRRT7S_DraQzbx https://youtu.be/eNefYZI8D0E?si=DRCUqDcGp7mjn5dx https://youtu.be/C_UWo24Day8?si=i5xcpD2Tt9wea-78 https://youtu.be/7d31wvlYokw?si=VUjLKyAtukHE_RWU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Intro and Outro music provided by Streambeats by Harris Heller. Other videos: Pikmin - A Game About Letting Go: https://youtu.be/5A6G_RdSX7E Why EVERYONE Should Play Final Fantasy IV | A Final Fantasy IV Retrospective: https://youtu.be/7VjNd9GVWV4 5 MUST PLAY Games from 2022 You Missed: https://youtu.be/bnwdhV2R8Ns Resident Evil Remake: The Ultimate Analysis: https://youtu.be/gTEcL7s60mA What Stray Does MUCH Better Than Other Games: https://youtu.be/rasmGLrBReY What Claire A Does Better Than Leon A | Resident Evil 2: 24 Years Later - Part 2: https://youtu.be/6S5vUBuuU_A Playing Resident Evil 2 For the First Time | Resident Evil 2: 24 Years Later - Part 1: https://youtu.be/xEdD9YTnjbQ Why Final Fantasy III Is Better Than I and II: https://youtu.be/e31kqUOxmZw Why You Should NEVER Play Final Fantasy II: https://youtu.be/d7sqBS97_h8 Returnal is STILL the Best PS5 Game in 2022 | Returnal Review & Analysis: https://youtu.be/XcVOTtS8Bto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow the channel on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2PLXqyo Inspired by content from: Joseph Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtrAx-rVgco Whitelight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbD-CH9SWf8 MandaloreGaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bp3ivWv7Vs The Salt Factory: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheSaltFactory Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, and all that jazz!

#FinalFantasyII #FinalFantasy #JRPG The first Final Fantasy has grown on me a lot. It was a great start to the series and I look back on it fondly. The second game sucks. It's unbalanced and has a ton of strange gimmicks. Don't play it. Find out why in my Final Fantasy II Retrospective. This video contains complete spoilers for Final Fantasy II ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Final Fantasy II is a fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Square in 1988 for the Family Computer as the second installment of the Final Fantasy series. The game has received numerous enhanced remakes for the WonderSwan Color, the PlayStation, the Game Boy Advance, the PlayStation Portable, and multiple mobile and smartphone types. As neither this game nor Final Fantasy III was initially released outside Japan, Final Fantasy IV was originally released in North America as Final Fantasy II, so as not to confuse players. The most recent releases of the game are enhanced versions for iOS and Android, which were released worldwide in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Intro - 00:00 History in the Making - 01:26 Quit Hitting Yourself... No, Literally - 10:06 One Step Forward... That's It. Just One. - 14:18 A Tale of Legend - 18:03 Conclusion - 33:35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Intro and Outro music provided by Streambeats by Harris Heller. CrossCode Review: https://youtu.be/26Wwzz4_fE8 Final Fantasy 1 Analysis: https://youtu.be/BdY97BgMaic Resident Evil Analysis: https://youtu.be/pqMuUxLz738 (Part 1) https://youtu.be/DyC-_zVr0IY (Part 2) Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhaWp1RHrc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow the channel on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2PLXqyo Instagram: https://bit.ly/3pl8IZq Inspired by content from: Joseph Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtrAx-rVgco Whitelight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbD-CH9SWf8 MandaloreGaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bp3ivWv7Vs Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, and all that jazz! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ click in exists so you and I can talk about games.

CrossCode took me completely by surprise. It's a gorgeous, challenging, and involved action-RPG that takes place in an MMO. It's everything I could have wanted and more, and it deserves to be seen by all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CrossCode is an action role-playing game developed by Radical Fish Games and published by Deck13. The game's development began in 2012 and was later introduced as a crowdfunded project on Indiegogo in early 2015. Following a three-year-long early access beta phase, CrossCode was released for Linux, macOS, and Windows in September 2018, and for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in July 2020. It received generally positive reviews from critics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Intro music provided by Streambeats by Harris Heller. Link to the game: http://cross-code.com/en/home Outro: Rain by Kyle Kullas (https://soundcloud.com/kylekullas/rai...) Resident Evil HD Analysis: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FuqnYdCQbU5B5rKvZodmehx6TcwrLcp Final Fantasy 1 Analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdY97BgMaic&t=0s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhaWp1RHrc&t=0s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Source list Maplestory footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rmj2I0jlJM&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbX_ugjHNSqBG_oJYI7AVTRV&index=1&t=0s Pokemon Emerald footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9PRws7pRws&list=PL8FuqnYdCQbX_ugjHNSqBG_oJYI7AVTRV&index=2&t=13s Maplestory music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qj4hgJeSe4&list=PLcxic8qX2x6OQTdOZKPDKxU4GL8NrF73a&index=1&t=1s CrossCode music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWJ3M25F_w&list=PLtlMDRDo_s5_vW6k48EdujoUW7dgbPPO9&index=1&t=0s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow the channel on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2PLXqyo Inspired by content from: Joseph Anderson Whitelight MandaloreGaming Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, and all that jazz! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ click in exists so you and I can talk about games.

#FinalFantasy #FinalFantasy1 #RPG This Final Fantasy 1 retrospective comes from the perspective of a franchise noob. I've only played Final Fantasy XV, and from what I hear that's not representative of the series at all. So, I'm playing them all from the beginning, and I'm here to let you know if they still hold up. Here is The Truth About Final Fantasy in the Modern Era. Timestamps: Intro - 00:00 Game Background - 01:00 Little Worth Fighting For - 03:40 Right... Where it Matters - 07:30 A Storied Fantasy - 12:33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Final Fantasy is a Japanese anthology science fantasy media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games. The first game in the series was released in 1987, with 15 other main-numbered entries being released since then. The franchise has since branched into other video game genres such as tactical role-playing, action role-playing, massively multiplayer online role-playing, racing, third-person shooter, fighting, and rhythm, as well as branching into other media. Video sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/06/18/ign-presents-the-history-of-final-fantasy https://www.16bitdad.com/blog/the-history-of-final-fantasy/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190819184025/https://retronauts.com/article/670/akitoshi-kawazu-on-the-reasoning-behind-sagas-insanity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_I:_The_First_Age_of_Darkness https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/11/why-was-the-original-final-fantasy-so-seminal https://www.webcitation.org/6gLNbLUfI?url=http://www.1up.com/news/hironobu-sakaguchi-final-fantasy-roller-coaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Intro and outro songs by Harris Heller. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhaWp1RHrc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow the channel on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2PLXqyo Inspired by content from: Joseph Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtrAx-rVgco Whitelight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbD-CH9SWf8 MandaloreGaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bp3ivWv7Vs Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, and all that jazz. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ click in exists so you and I can talk about games.