I look forward to this video every year. An industry animator talks about the best animation found in last year's games. There are always lots of games I've never heard of, and I end up appreciating something about a game that I've never thought about before.

March 14, 2024 beyond excited for this, EDF

Part five in this long running series looking at the animation in each Final Fantasy game

(december 8th, with demo)

Not exactly what we usually post here, but I really like these

Only ever released briefly on vhs, then later on dvd in Spain for some reason, comes The Midnight Hour. A teenage Halloween party that turns deadly and bursts into song!

also starring Le Var Burton! It's a really fun Halloween movie that I try to watch every year, even if the quality is terrible

Trailer The Entire Movie

Okay, there aren't actually that many frogs in this movie. But there is always a vague croaking sound in the background track so that counts right?

Trailer

It's Exactly What You Think It Is

And oh boy, they aren't lying about that tagline. It is exactly what you think it is. Good score, though!

From Claudio Fragasso (yes, the Trolls 2 guy) comes Night Killer. If you're looking for 93 minutes of awkward dialogue and acting, this has it in troves. Claudio Fragasso has such a unique ability to take mediocre actors and make them so much worse

Plugging this website I've used for years for video game music, it provides internet radio (you can listen in the browser or music player [like vlc]) and all the music is chosen alternately randomly and by requests (sign-up with discord to put requests in)

the request system has cool-downs to stop certain games from being overplayed so I've been introduced to a lot of music I wouldn't have ever heard otherwise thanks to it. Plus it's just nice to have people pick music rather than an algorithm.

I've been waiting for this for so long... 2024 can't come early enough

I feel like this whole soundtrack gets slept on in the vgm world, but I've been obsessed with it since I first heard it 20 some years ago. It's very 90s, but the entire soundtrack has great themes that run through it, and it has that oceanic choir running through a jungle beat thing that never quite made it out of the 90s