Mucho Video Multigib Madness REVAMP! (LV2+) (Ends Sep 11, 12:00 PM US PST) (CLOSED, Solution posted)

Open

Hey all. You might recognize this post from a now-closed thread, and whether you’re familiar with it’s puzzles’ obtuse difficulty or not, I hope you’ll give this revamp a chance. I was originally going to create a different puzzle, scrap the one I had, but I saw people making progress that must’ve taken a lot of thinking and testing, and I didn’t want any of that to go to waste. Instead, I’m going to give this another shot.

Changes made:

There are now two weeks to solve the puzzles
All encrypted clues revised, but using same encryption methods
Three additional concise clues for each train in guide below

Alright, let’s do this one last time.

I’ve got five videos from five YouTubers with under one million subscribers. These are mostly video essays, feature-length stuff you can’t burn through on a lunch break. To keep them topical, they are all about video games, though only one of them is specific to PC gaming and two-and-a-half are about games that can’t be played on PC legally except by ripping and emulating roms from your own legally purchased console games, which is the "only method I recommend..."

A Brief Review of Pokémon Generations 1-5, by KingK

To ease us in, we have a sort-of popular gaming YouTuber with a six-figure subscriber count. Okay, I say “ease us in,” but the video’s five hours long. Here me out. KingK’s style is very relaxed but methodical. I especially love his Zelda and Sonic videos, but I went with his Pokémon retrospectives because he’s planning to release his Gen 7 retrospective within the next few weeks or so. You could watch the playlist of the original videos for this reason, as it includes two videos not in the compilation covering Gen 6 and the games for N64 and GameCube, though the compilation video has all of the sponsor segments cut out. I sort of wanted to be controversial and recommend KingK’s review of Link to the Past, because I think that video’s backlash was 90% unwarranted, but whatever. Go watch them all if you like.

The Appeal Of Older Graphics, by Internet Pitstop

I was originally trying to keep this recommendation list majority-zero-play-button, but I thought it was a bit too heavy and dry, so I switched in this guy. His whole aesthetic is relaxing, just chilling in a greenscreen. Looking at pretty graphics and animation. The graphics video is a feast for the eyes. I’m also going to break my game-only rule to recommend his video about Yu-Gi-Oh. Well, I guess technically it is a game… whatever.

Ocarina of Time is the Mayonnaise of Video Games by i am error

i am error has such a gentle yet emotional style that gets me kind of weepy sometimes, and that’s a feat. In addition to her big Ocarina of Time video, she’s also made an even bigger Super Mario 64 video. I also want to shout out her Minesweeper trilogy (the first one’s unlisted, see her playlists), and her video on “the pain of losing friends,” which hit like a freight train.

Franziska von Karma: Profoundly Misunderstood [Analysis & Retrospective] by Wendy Rocket

This one is purely a personal pick that I don’t expect everyone to see the same way as I do. It’s a defense of one mid-tier popular character from a mid-tier popular game series, it’s delivered via rantsona, I get it, I don’t care, IT JUST SPEAKS TO ME! But give it a chance anyways, especially if you like Ace Attorney, and especially especially if you just thought of Franziska von Karma as the black sheep between Edgeworth and Godot. Also, Wendy has a less intense video about Manfred von Karma. I’m mostly mentioning it because it’s her only other scripted video, but it's still good, I swear!

Exploring Dead Games by Redlyne

Finally, a bookend of another six-figure sub guy who is well on his way now that his videos are pulling seven-figure views pretty consistently. This recommendation is kind of the dessert. No essay or persuasive point, just entertaining content. I’ve seen all three of these videos thus far, they’re all I’ve watched, but I’m looking forward to watching his 2-hour flash game video. Skimming through it brought back a lot of memories.

2 weeks ago*

Comment has been collapsed.

77 Comments

slaveofwant

== GUIDE ==

The clue most people have found is structured like this:

X...;Y...;Z...

The purpose of these three clauses is to direct you towards three trains:

X: How to decode Puzzle 1
Y: How to decode Puzzle 2
Z: How to find Puzzle 3

In order to solve these puzzles, you will need:

X: The primary video recommendations
Y: The secondary video recommendations and the first train
Z: Both trains

The steps go as follows:

X: Decryption Methods A, B
Y: Decryption Method D, Assembly, Decryption Methods C, B
Z: No decryption

The trains contain games from the following:

X: Fanatical Jubilant Bundle
Y: Fanatical Summer 2024 Bundle
Z: 5 very positive games and 5 overwhelmingly positive games from no particular bundle, all full value listings. It's a surprise, but if you really need to know...

Here are some things to keep in mind:

Decryption A: Number in its name
Decryption B: Easiest method, doesn’t require a tool
Decryption C: Number in its name
Decryption D: Number in its name, but doesn’t have its own dedicated dcode page, also requires multiple settings
“??” Numbers: Tied to the post, there’s a pattern in the main discussion post that reveals the rest
Results of Decryption: The decryption will not give you the giveaway ID or parts of it, it will instead instruct you how to find them.

Hints:

Train 1: In order to find the entrance, you’ll need five names. Once you’ve cracked the code, you’ll have only seconds to find them, but that’s all the time you’ll need.
Train 2: The code is in the right order, but in order to put it back together (assembly) you’ll need to put each of the five parts in the right positioN=.
Train 3: The main thread, dcode, and the videos will be of no use to you in finding the last train.

2 weeks ago*