Friday, July 28, 2023

New Stream-To-Video Setup! Let's See How It Goes: Adventures in TOTK: Skydiving into Yiga Clan Territory!

Hello again! Back into the swing of things, we're starting off a new series of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom! I have been a huge fan of the Zelda franchise all my life, and these two latest games are no exception. I played Breath of the Wild a ton, and even if I didn't complete it, I did spend a lot of time doing side quests and little things around Hyrule.

See, I had seen a ton of people play and finish the game, especially for speedruns, so all I wanted to do was try to mess around with speedrunning strats as much as my joycons would allow, and see what the devs had to offer all around the different regions. And boy did they have a lot!

And now?

THERE ARE 3x AS MANY REGIONS!

Holy goodness, a sky and underground area, both the size of Hyrule??? I cannot freaking WAIT to get into this.

This first episode is admittedly a little slow, but that seems to just be how things are with my content. Wait for episode 5 or 6, then you'll be HOOKED! Trust me, I'm gonna try to pick up every speedrunning trick I can, and when I do, oh boy. We'll be having SO much fun. I've already discovered item duplication glitches, and as I haven't updated my game since buying it, *they still work*! The easy, simple ones, that is. You can see how this is going to go off the rails real quick.

Also, I feel it's worth mentioning that I'm taking full advantage of ChatGPT4 for this video. This video is a bit experimental in that I'm using GPT4 to write the title, tags, and description (with a little editing to make it more my style, but not too much to ruin the SEO). Hopefully this will cause the video to reach a wider audience, we'll see! And if you're concerned, the only thing which is a little off-brand for me is the description, but honestly, who even reads those? The title is still pretty close to something I'd write, honestly, just putting the game name before the main title, rather than after. While I prefer to put it after, I'm leaving that as-is, because I think maybe it'll make it clearer what the video's about to new viewers, or cause the title to be more eye-catching to my intended audience. I think people write titles that way, and the AI picked up on it, for a reason, so we'll see how it works out. I could talk a lot about the decisions I'm making in this episode and why, but...

Anyways, that's enough gushing and rambling for now, go check out the video below!