![]() It’s a silly thing, but I feel like it better preserves the story, I guess? I never knew if people actually liked that kind of video, though, and I’m not 100% sure what else I could even do it with. Head towards the tool shed, pick up the Axe, head over to the cellar door, smash the lock. Walk down the porch, around the side of the house. ![]() What I do instead is I approach the house, show the environment, and then try the front door. In a normal walkthrough or longplay video, the person showing the game would immediately duck in to the tool shed first thing, grab the axe, and make a bee line for the cellar door, making the player almost appear to be psychic. Take the first video in this playlist, for example. Instead, I take my time to show the process of getting through an area via some weird sort of “acting”. They do things that might not always make sense, pull of tricks that aren’t explained, etc. Or, alternatively, a movie in first-person with a silent protagonist, I guess. ![]() What it would look like if this was somebody’s first time playing the game but they never got stuck. So what I tried to do was portray the “ideal” playthrough. By the time I decided to record this series, I’d already finished the game twice, so I more or less knew about everything that was coming. And instead of text on screen, I tried to provide… a performance, as it were. I didn’t want to do a Nightmare House 2 LP of any kind, so I just… recorded myself playing the game. “Good” Horror LPs at this point weren’t live commentary, but were text-on-screen affairs as to preserve the atmosphere. On top of that, this was before the era of THE SCARECAM, so it was thought that you couldn’t do a horror game Let’s Play without ruining the appeal. You’d go looking for a specific clip of a gameplay moment, and you’d have some idiot with a bad mic providing really lame commentary over it. I’ve said it before, but I used to hate the proliferation of “Let’s Play” on Youtube. It wasn’t originally intended to be a longplay, though that’s what I call it now. LINK: Longplay: Nightmare House 2 (in HD) - YouTubeĪctually, now that I bring up my Nightmare House 2 “longplay”, I feel like I should talk about it some, because it was super fun to do. ![]()
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