Videos — Let's Plays

  C9


Trunkl Plays Territory War (2020): Recorded March 2020. William plays Territory War by AfroNinja as Matthew and I watch. A view of historical wars spanning time. The conversational war between us three. War and histories of our characters (and Newgrounds).

Minecraft Survival Picture Folder — Nomad (2021): Minecraft is a game I always loved but I never found a fun way to keep playing on the same world. Then I understood my preferred game play : travelling and never settling down. Exploring new areas and discovering the unknown. Being sedentary gets boring so I decided to become a Nomad, travelling the land and going where the wind takes me. Hope you enjoy my adventures!
 — Hardcdore (2021): Minecraft is often called an easy game. But that's because they don't know that there exists a challenge reserved for the most experienced of veterans, the hardest challenge this game has to offer : HARDCORE MODE. If you die, you lose your world. Game over. And it's locked on the hardest difficulty. I intend to play for as long as I can until I meet my untimely demise. Wish me luck out there! I will surely need it... -William

SwaggyHajj Plays Final Fantasy X (2024-2025): Matt streams Final Fantasy X on Twitch while interacting with other C9 members in chats.
 Hajj Notes: First memory I have of playing it was some time between 2013-2015. I remember because it was my birthday and it was a snow day. My sisters had brought me a cupcake while I was playing in the basement. I remember starting it up but dropping it because I was bored by the intro maybe a few months prior. I intermittently played it throughout middle school/high school while eventually getting stuck on the penultimate boss. I didn't have enough of a specific potion and the nearest shop was so far away so I just gave up. Inshallah we don't do that again. We have unfinished business.

  Jace LP


Let's Play Chibi Knight (2012): The summer of seventh grade, I began a Let's Play channel, nicknaming myself Jace. Unfortunately, I permanently deleted my first Let's Plays of Bobby's Adventure, Heaven or Hell, and Boss Slayer (in which I frequently spoke about the tastiness of the Fruitopia I was drinking). This is really my third multipart one. Chibi Knight was a cute action RPG with a multisectioned world that was fun to explore, appealing to me well as a wide-eyed boy.

Other Let's Plays and Stuff (2012-2014): A playlist of all the channel's one-off videos. In the first update video, I present some of the gifts I received for my thirteenth birthday in a slideshow. In the second, I announce that I received a capture card over footage of Banjo-Kazooie I recorded with it.
 My channel trailer was well-received by my friends. When I got an allergy attack and one accompanied me to recover at his house close to the school, he rewatched it with me. Some of my friends made channels for videos of video games too (Minecraft server channel, rival Halo machinima channel), and we would have discussions about them together. One of them, who'd showed me the program I used to record mine, planned on making videos with Happy Wheels, a popular Flash game at the time I judged to be overly so. I made a parody Let's Play of its most popular level for April Fool's Day pretending to have an even higher voice.
 I played the first Monster Basement game to celebrate Halloween 2012 and the second for Halloween 2013. They were my favourite Flash horror games. I had fond memories of playing them and others in elementary school with my friends and getting scared. Once during after-school day care, we snuck up to the library to play some all around the one computer there, without supervision. We played many other free online games too. One of said childhood friends, Julien, made a let's play with me of an old favourite, a Bomberman clone titled Playing with Fire 2.
 Let's Play Red Beard | The Golden Catz, my final video of this era, marked a transition into greater artfulness and middle adolescence. Featuring the instrumental Where Are My Cheerios coupled with an opening cinematic.

Let's Play Stick RPG (2012): I didn't complete my playthrough of this game because I felt that it was too repetitive. To my confusion, this series attracted the most views. The gamified depiction of crass adult city life excited my friends and I playing it in the computer lab after school. We set up a make-pretend drug shop in the cramped playstructure house (with a small metallic slide attached) and sold the closest-looking equivalents to popular drugs, according to our inexperienced conceptions, of the nearby natural resources (e.g. grass as weed, sand as cocaine; there were more, but I forget because we guessed them weirdly) to other kids in exchange for rocks as currency.

Let's Play Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (2012-2014): I didn't complete my playthrough of this game because I couldn't get my recording set-up to work with my new computer. I used Pinnacle Studio and Windows Movie Maker until it randomly stopped functioning, then Sony Vegas 10. In my childhood, I replayed its final levels in a fort built like a small low blanket-roofed home in my basement. I took this series more seriously playing a privately fond, longer, big-budget game.

Let's Play Skullface (2013): A straightforward action platformer of which I recorded a complete playthrough in a sitting.