Ryan Bloom

BLTN: Sonic Lost World

I think with Sonic Generations, I made a vow that I would do video reviews for every major Sonic game to come out. So, Sonic Lost World was a given. This was the video that made me realize it's not worth it to capture in 480i anymore. The Wii U has weird overscan issues so this video came out extra blurry. Unfortunately, capturing in HD adds SIGNIFICANT amounts of time to my editing process, as we've all learned.

BLTN: Trick or Treat 2012

I love celebrating Halloween. That's really all I can say about this video. I know it's just a list video, and people usually frown on lists, but it was fun. I've wanted to do another video like this for a while now, but I feel like I haven't kept abreast of too many freebie games to feature. I'm also almost always busy with something else. I think this was the last video I did that went up exclusively on Blip.tv first. Shortly after this, I started trying to monetize my content on Youtube.

BLTN: Sonic Generations

Almost two years (!) after reviewing Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, I got back in the saddle for Sonic Generations. This was, at the time, the biggest, longest, and most complex video I'd ever done. I captured all of my own footage, and there's like, 15-20 games featured in the introductory "History" segment alone. Despite this, this review still only took me a week and a half to put together. Capturing and editing in 480i is SO, SO much faster and easier than 720p. I'm not joking when I say...

BLTN: Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing

We pick back up 7 months later to talk about Sega's Kart Racing Debut. If we're being honest, this was just an excuse for me to complain about how annoying I thought Mario Kart DS was.

BLTN: Shenmue 1 & 2

Better Late Than Never closes out 2009 with a look at both Shenmue games. I used to be real proud of this review, but looking back now it is a little scattershot. From here, BLTN reviews sort of drop off quite a bit in frequency considerably.

BLTN: Klonoa 1 & 2

Somehow, I managed to turn this around in less than a month after my Astal video review. Capturing and editing video in 480i was so quick and easy...

BLTN: Astal

Four months after my first attempt at a video review, I dug deep in to my Saturn library to feature a game nobody really talks about much.

BLTN: Sonic Unleashed (Pilot Episode)

A bolt of inspiration struck one day and I decided to try my hand at a video review. This is the end result. I'm always surprised at how different I sound in this.

January 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Rise of Lyric Video Review: Preview

Oops, I stayed up for 24 hours straight working on this. Oops oops oops. BUT: PROGRESS! NOW: nap time

Crater Lake - Framerate Comparison

I'd heard the Sonic Boom patch smoothed out the framerate in the travel segments, but either I picked a really bad location to compare or the difference is almost imperceptible. Will investigate further after I get some sleep and maybe re-write part of my video review. In the mean time, have this and decide for yourself.

Sonic Boom video review artwork

I dunno why I chose to ink this by hand, but I did. I think it might've gone faster, at least, so that's a plus. Unfortunately, my hand isn't so steady and I accidentally messed up on one image. Whoops! Onwards, to give these a quick layer of color!

December 2014 Patreon supported

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Sonic Boom: Glitch Montage Preview

As the video title says, I'm just checking to make sure this song doesn't trigger a content ID. :P But it's also a 3 minute preview of the upcoming video! So there's that.

Round and Round We Go

I need some Sonic 2006 footage for my upcoming Rise of Lyric videos (for comparison purposes), and during that I happened upon this. I swear, every time I play this game, I find something new that's broken. Despite my Roxio Gamecap saying it was set to 720p, this recorded in 480i. Sorry about that.

"Cool Kids Club" Logo (Hi-Res)

The "Patreon Cool Kids Club" logo, minus the Patreon part. 4000x4000 resolution, for you to do whatever you wish with it.

The Ghost of Perci (Preview clip)

Here's a weird bug that's definitely going in one of my Rise of Lyric videos: Amy calls out to Perci, an NPC we meet earlier in the game. It seems that maybe she was supposed to have a mission where she joins you in combat at some point in this cave area. In the game as it is now, Perci never leaves her spot in the village. It wouldn't surprise me if her combat mission was cut for time. Take note when the voice clip plays -- a rock in front of Sonic breaks on its own, even though nobody touches ...

Rise of Lyric - "Here I am!"

So the plan is to do a glitch montage video and then a video review. For the glitch montage, I'm going to try and keep it short, just like the Sonic 06 one. 11 minutes max. I have a LOT of footage. While recording I wrote down any bugs that happened and what video they happened in -- I'm not even halfway done sifting through what I recorded and I'm already at 35 clips. There's at least 50 or 60 things more I wrote down. I could very easily do 2, maybe even 3 montage videos. I'd just do one big o...

Unlisted Videos: The Masterpost (Outdated)

UPDATE: This is now a simple playlist .

It may become useful to bookmark this post just in case it becomes buried in the future. The Original "Did You See That?" Video with Full Voice Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9liSOsg_qm0 60fps Test Post (A less than perfect run of Final R...

Pardon My Dust

If it looks a little bare right now, it's because things are just getting started. Over the coming weeks I'll sift through the necessary files and start getting more stuff up for people who pledge! But for now, enjoy what's already here.

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