Me Saying Butts (Day 3594 - 9/27/19)

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They just ended the The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening stream 15 minutes ago. After the stream, Stephen drank some water and tried to mentally recover for a bit. Stephen says that the stream went well and that there were some good and bad things that made the stream memorable. He talks about how they have alerts that play music for donated bits on Twitch and whenever that happens he has to improvise a song. Sometimes the person who donated the bits will give them a subject to sing about. Stephen says that coming up with a song on the spot is very difficult especially when it's a bunch of songs in a row like during today's stream.

One of the good things about today's stream was that it was fun singing the songs, but the songs got progressively worse until they were almost nonsensical. At one point, Stephen sang too many songs and felt like he had no brain cells left. So, he warned chat that the if someone else donated any bits for a song alert, then he would just say "butts" for the entire song. Afterwards, someone sent in some bits for a song alert with the message: "butts butts butts". A clip from the stream of his "butts" song then plays.

Stephen then talks about how they are essentially recording episodes for YouTube while streaming the game. They started the stream early today to try and record more episodes since they were only able to record 4 episodes last week. Stephen wanted to try and record about 5 episodes this week. The bad part of this stream was that they were only able to record 4 episodes and the stream ended later than it did last week. On the very first episode they recorded tonight, Stephen got stuck and died multiple times on the Bottle Grotto final boss. Mallory had already finished beating the boss and everyone was just waiting on him to beat the boss.

Then, he talks about how it's interesting to playthrough the GBA and Switch versions simultaneously. He says that both games are technically the same game, but at the same time they aren't. Stephen says that there are differences in the little details like the physics of the game and changes Nintendo made to make the game more accessible. He says that the 1993 version of Link's Awakening isn't the hardest game in the world, but there are things about it that make it a little difficult. Stephen says that the game was released around the tail end of the time when games were hard. But, it's not as hard as games that were developed in the 1980s though. Stephen says that the palate of video game players these days is a little different, so the Switch version is a little bit easier in certain aspects. There's also the fact that it's changing from this very rigid GBA game to something where you have a little more room to breathe. Stephen says that there will be times where he dies because of the rigidness of the old game. He says that it goes in both ways though since there were times where he was able to accomplish something really easily while Mal is trying so hard to do it.

Stephen thanks everyone for the immense amount of support and says that they sincerely appreciate it. He had fun doing the improv songs even though they are very hard to come up with. Stephen says that they will have a large chunk of videos for Link's Awakening before the Let's Play comes out on YouTube. He talks about how when playing the game live, it's harder to miss things in-game or miss tips viewers are giving them about the game. When pre-recording a Let's Play, if they record too far ahead there will be comments telling them to go back because they missed something or telling them that they using the game mechanics incorrectly. Stephen says that these comments will then span multiple episodes since they recorded multiple episodes ahead of time. But, in a live stream the chat can just tell them if they miss something.

Stephen says that he's looking forward to playing more next week. He then talks about how it takes a lot of time to set up all the equipment and then take it down afterwards. But, the biggest problem was the echoing issue with the audio equipment that he talked about last week. However, he fixed it and there was no issue this week. This gave him a bit of confidence since he had wanted to start doing a more streaming especially with First20s. Stephen says that it might start streaming First20s as early as next week. But, he has a lot of things he's juggling so he wants to make sure that he's not taking on too much work.

Stephen thanks everyone who was able to come watch them live and be a part of it. He hopes that everyone had fun. Stephen talks about how watching it live is a unique experience as opposed to just watching VODs. He says that the VODs only include the parts of the stream that happened during gameplay and the stuff that's happening during the breaks in between is riotously hilarious.