The Hylian

Happy new year, my dear subscribers!
Wishing you all the best!
2026 will be a year to remember for my channel.
Maybe there'll come a day when you remember this calm before the storm. 👀

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 8

The Hylian

Hello, everyone!
Another great video from one of this channel's big supporters, ‪@TheNightSkyPrince‬ , covering Kingdom Hearts I!
A 40-minute retrospective on the original game, its creation, final product, and impact.
Check it out below!

3 months ago | [YT] | 1

The Hylian

Hello, everyone!
I have great news. A new milestone has been achieved! We've reached 1K subscribers today! I can't thank everyone enough for your support, interest and love given to the channel.
I want to send a special shoutout to ‪@orion8550‬ for helping with the final push to help the subscriber count pass over this milestone tonight. He made an incredibly heartfelt gesture over on his own community and I can't thank him enough as well. A collaborator, someone I've had the great pleasure to work on a video with, and a great friend. Do support him too if you haven't already!


The output speed of the channel wasn't what was originally planned when it kicked off over 4 years ago, I think everyone, in some form or another, may have felt this. But that is a result of life that affects some out there trying to get into content creation or any kind of art in general. Personal life always comes first, after all. My life progressed in unbelievable ways, with lots of ups and downs that have kept me from fully dedicating to this channel compared to what I wanted to. Even now, my life is still at a very decisive moment, with big projects being attempted and my professional career reaching a potential turning point. But it's crazy to think where I was when the channel started. My Discord community existed almost half a year prior to the release of my first video, back when the pandemic was at its peak. I was still stuck in Brazil with family after visiting them from Germany. Now I've already moved back to Europe, going through two different demanding jobs that helped me grow a lot. The good news is that the wait for this channel's next big projects are approaching the end.


For starters, there will be a quasi-reboot of the first A Living Legacy video, separating the art analysis discussion from the FFVII content (updated with more context I gathered from new sources).
Afterwards, the big Unbridled FFVII Rebirth project will be a 2-part long-form feature, and the release of both parts won't be far apart as was the case with the Smash X FFVII Encore project. More updates of this project will be shared on Patreon soon.
There will also be another major Unbridled project coming right after, more details to come once we approach the release of the FFVII R videos.
I also wished I could produce one on Donkey Kong Bananza considering what that work turned out to be, but that will stay pending. A longform written review will probably come out first on Patreon and later on X. Finally, the long awaited Part 2 of A Living Legacy should arrive soon after.
There are other projects being worked on that, if they work out, will be even bigger than what was revealed so far, and I can't wait to share them all with you!


As we reach this first major milestone, we enter a new era for the channel. One that will really take off hard once the next barrage of videos is released. And I can't wait to show you all the incredible ride to come.
Thanks everyone for everything!

3 months ago | [YT] | 22

The Hylian

Hello, everyone!
Long time no see. :)
I'll give a proper update post soon for everyone. I left you waiting for a long time for my next projects, and I apologize for that. But irl demands have kept me stuck.
In the meantime, I want to take the opportunity to ask you guys to please check out the latest video from ‪@orion8550‬ , one of the most heartfelt and touching videos I've seen on this platform in a while.
It talks about FFVII, but it goes deeper into the general discussion of life, death and the loss of loved ones. If you have been through this kind of thing in your life, or if you ever pondered about that scenario, please give this video a shot. It is quite beautiful, and inspiring with acceptance and the importance of living on.
And of course, his usual spot on criticism of FFVII Rebirth's conclusion.
See you guys soon!

4 months ago | [YT] | 20

The Hylian

Since I've done megathreads on Twitter/X reaching as high as 1.7M views, I managed to grow my YouTube subs! We're so close to the 1K sub milestone. Can we get to that mark before DK Bananza releases on the 17th? 👀Thanks to all of you who subscribed! I'm currently developing two long-form critiques that may be late to the buzz of these works, but are done with enormous passion. I hope you enjoy what's coming!

6 months ago | [YT] | 8

The Hylian

I want to thank ‪@KongKompendium‬ for the shoutout in his latest video on Donkey Kong Bananza, even highlighting my work in Final Fantasy VII!
He highlighted the latest megathread I wrote covering the DK Bananza's historical context and some details that affect the current discourse on the game's story and gameplay features.
Do check it out!
Also, we're getting extremely close to a major channel achievement, as the total subs are only 18 away from 1K!
Let's get to 1K before Donkey Kong Bananza comes out on July 17th!
Thanks to all my fans for your love, support, and patience. Know that my work on the next video is progressing steadily. I'll have more to share soon.

6 months ago | [YT] | 4

The Hylian

Hi, everyone!
Hope you've all been well. Progress on my next videos continues well, but slow due to irl demands from my job.
In the meantime, I thought I could provide my audience with cool non-video content while my videos aren't out yet. As Mario Kart World is the hot topic at the moment, and after spending dozens of hours on it, I wrote a review on X/Twitter, that tries to be as nuanced as possible in as short form as I can. I hope you enjoy!
You can find it in the link below.

x.com/TheHylian64/status/1931845213695455708

7 months ago | [YT] | 8

The Hylian

Happy New Year, everyone!
Wishing you all, from the bottom of my heart, the best year possible.
Thank you for your support this year, for enjoying what I was able to upload in this hectic year of my life.
A lot has changed, a lot of accomplishments behind the scenes, and a lot of great projects for the future have been set in motion for next year.
I hope you look forward to 2025 as I am! It will be a defining year for this channel's history, I guarantee it.
Have a good one, folks!

1 year ago | [YT] | 6

The Hylian

Hello everyone!

It has been a little over there months since my last channel update, and I think it's time to share how things are right now.

These past three months have been rather hectic, primarily because I've found a wonderful job, one that has been eating up most of my time to both consolidate myself in this probation period as well as to where I moved to. The prospect of time spent and how much success will be derived from that is why the speed of content output has decreased. I hope you understand.

With that said, I'm still gonna be attempting to organize the second part of the Round Table on Tears of the Kingdom, focused on breaking down its story. I'm gonna aim for it to come out before Echoes of Wisdom releases, which is slated for September 26th. Given that game's appeal to open design, it should be interesting to juxtapose it with TotK as we conclude that arc in my Round Table series.

I'm also moving forward with ALL Part 2, as well as other releases for early 2025. I will keep you all updated to the best of my ability, and I hope that I will have more time available for the channel moving into mid-September.

I'm also happy to announce we hit the 900 subscribers mark! I'm happy we've come this far even with the big gaps in content, it wouldn't have been possible without your support and faith in me all this time. I hope to make your wait worth it!
Now let's hit that 1K milestone by the end of 2024!

1 year ago | [YT] | 11

The Hylian

Hello everyone!

I'm happy to announce that this weekend we'll be having the fifth episode in my Round Table series!
This week I'm incredibly honored to have the presence of ‪@MonsterMaze‬, ‪@GoodBloodGames‬, ‪@Rinkuto‬, and ‪@PixelFusionProductions‬, the largest guest count to date!

This episode will tackle The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, one of the most relevant works of its medium in the last decade.
We'll be exploring the work's impact one year after release, exploring its execution in storytelling, gameplay, world design, themes, the fan division, among many other topics.


Round Table #5 will go live on May 19th, 9 AM CET (Midnight for the American folks in the West Coast).


See you all there!

1 year ago | [YT] | 7