HIS NAME IS PHOENIX BECAUSE HE'S A LEGEND. Everything you've accomplished is so well-deserved buddy, keep up the phenomenal work
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Mario Sunshine Deep Dive is literally my favourite video on this platform, and it’s great to see it with the appreciation it so deserves!
5 months ago
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Dude. You legit solved the Dolphic language mystery that had been around for 20 years! That’s incredible!!
5 months ago
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I really love these in depth videos. I don't always have time to replay my favorite games so this level of analysis is so nice to watch and I do really appreciate that you do compile it into one mega video later
5 months ago
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You deserve it man your videos are great. Found you because of your KH1 videos and have nearly finished watching your Hollow Knight videos. Even from your beginning you've been making high quality videos and im excited to see where you go in the future.
5 months ago
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Watched the individual sunshine videos as they came out, now I'm listening to the compilation almost every night to fall asleep to. Not saying that you're boring, but it works pretty well
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I love the sincere and joyful nature of your work. God bless you and peace to you my dude!
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I watch the whole Mario Sunshine deep dive at least once or twice a week to sleep to and I still play it in the background while playing games or cleaning. It's my favorite 3D Mario game, so I really enjoy the breakdown of it. I watch the Kimgdom Hearts ones a lot too and enjoy how concise and detailed they are. I'm excited to see the next world and the next stained glass dive to the heart renditions. That creator makes great art and I can't get the stained glass image of Trickmaster out of my head.
5 months ago
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Your Sunshine Deep Dive brought me back to my 9 year old self using every possible nozzle to discover every corner of the map…always Delighted to find a coin or a new npc to talk to. And lordy those puzzle levels felt like bomb defusals at that age. Such a great time and I loved your thorough breakdown of the game. Your dedication helps us appreciate what the developers put their heart and soul into. Thank you
5 months ago
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Your videos are the highest S-tier of anything I watch on this platform. Seriously, well done!
5 months ago
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your Kingdom Hearts series are some of the best Youtube videos i've ever watched and i can rewatch each one multiple times a week. i wish i could make breakdown videos of some of my favorite games in the same style you do
5 months ago
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I remember when your Black Chateau video came up on my fyp, and I - always a sucker for new Sly videos - immediately gave it a watch. Was completely blown away by the level of research, and loved your unique commentary blend of full gameplay breakdown (even going so far as to dissect character dialogue!) with that touch of retrospective. At the time I think that video sat at a couple hundred views, and I was appalled you didn’t have more, because I thought it was one of the most lovingly crafted and well thought out videos I’d watched for a long time. It’s been such a joy to watch your channel grow this past year, the videos have all been stellar. And even though it’s not mine, I feel so proud whenever I see that the views on your Black Chateau video have jumped up. Keep on keeping on <3
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I discovered your channel watching your Sunshine Deep Dive, and it truly was like stumbling into a time capsule. I felt like a kid again, back in one of my all time favourite digital spaces (and learning new things about it while there, which was such a treat!!). Since then, when I see a video from you, I drop what I'm doing to check it out because I know with certainty it's gonna be a great time. Thank you for making such amazing and detailed videos! So often in games, there are details put there with love and effort that so easily go overlooked and unappreciated. So to have videos dedicated to celebrating these games to their fullest fills me with such joy. I'm always eager to see what you put out next. Keep up the great work! ❤
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Dude, keep it up! I first found you by the Super Mario Sunshine compilation, and have regularly relistened to it. I can't tell you how happy I was seeing the first KH one pop up. I've rewatched a few of them as well. I don't care how long they take, I will watch them as soon as I can. Keep doing the stained glass drawings! They're such a nice fan touch, that feels KH, and were a pleasant surprise! I even recently replayed KH after you started the videos, and did your trick to get Lightning before Wonderland and found it fun. Again, please take all the time you need. To quote a rather well known game developer: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a bad game is bad forever", and I want you to take the time you need to ensure you're proud of your videos.
5 months ago
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I literally just finished your Sly 1 and Sly 2 series (and I'm up to date with the Sly 3 one) and you have no idea how happy you made me, the Sly games are pretty much my childhood games and I've been struggling with a huge depression and a recent suicide attempt recently, your videos have distracted and entertained me so much... Seriously, thank you very much, you do an amazing job!
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Hey dude I randomly watched your deep dive Mario sunshine video one day(s) Then I watched all your sly 2 breakdown, currently watching your KH and Sly 3 breakdowns. I love your Channel. My life has been really busy and chaotic recently, and I can’t do the one thing I love most; play videogames. So I listen to each of your videos while commuting to and from work. Keep doing what you’re doing, I’m surprised on how small your channel is while being so high quality
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I love your videos so much! I'm not a fan of Sly Cooper that much but your enthusiasm is infectious, and KH and Mario Sunshine are some of my favorite games of all time
5 months ago
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I'm a big fan! I love the sly cooper videos, and I even started watching the Mario videos even though I haven't played the game. Keep it up!
5 months ago
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2CPhoenix
🎉 Happy 3 year anniversary to this channel!! 🎊
Thank you one and all for coming with me on this ride. Once again, I’ve experienced exponential growth in just one year, and had just over 8,000 subscribers on this day in 2024. I am routinely stunned by the overwhelming positivity and support that I receive on a daily basis.
Quick retrospective on this year behind us, Mario sunshine finished, and when I posted it as the 7 hour compilation, I was completely blown away by its success. A Super Mario Sunshine Deep Dive has nearly half a million views and just keeps climbing. As such, I’ve adapted something of a new mindset for the projects going forward, and now consider the full-length deep dive in one video to be the real finished product, and the segments dedicated to each level to be akin to experiencing a game in early access, with viewer feedback and contributions making the compilation far better than if I kept it all under wraps until it was finished.
As always, the speed at which I make them is to my mind, my greatest shortcoming, but one I’ve come to accept. I also wanna mention the concurrent series model I’m currently running with, alternating uploads between Sly 3 and Kingdom Hearts. This came about out of necessity, since the KH videos have a lot more input from other creators, most notably, the incredible artist who draws the stained glass murals for each boss, and the schedule had to slow so I could keep those elements in the video. I don’t plan on doing more concurrent series in the future, but the experience has been positive enough I wouldn’t be against it either.
This year also represented tremendous growth for both my discord and patreon communities, with nearly 500 members in the former, and 1,000 in the latter. I wanna especially shoutout my community manager Yggralith for being the beating heart of the server and for being an absolute pillar of support to me.
As for goals for the future, if the exponential rate of growth continues, we’ll be celebrating 6 digits! My personal goal is 50k by the end of the year, but more importantly I wanna try to have both the current Breakdowns finished on patreon by September, we’ll see!
In the meantime, another massive thanks to you! Everyone and everything! And here’s to another spectacular year!
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