These are the video essays I thought were worth sharing this year in a rough order of how much I liked it. I’m not able to give them legit order or cut any but a few out. So here they!
- The 20 Best Train Movies Of All Time
- The Entire History of RPGs
- Robert Altman: America’s Rebel Director
- An in-depth look at Romance in video games
- Building Civilization - A Sid Meier Retrospective
- How The OC saved indie rock
- Know No Shame: Black Sails
- The Harry Potter for Grown-Ups Industrial Complex
- The Unhingery of Unsolved Mysteries (1987-2002)
- Sabrina the Teenage Cashcow - A Video Essay
- How Reality Cop Shows make us LESS SAFE
- TaleSpin (1990-1991) Retrospective/Review
- The Lore of FTL: A Deep Dive
- In Praise of Subtle Performance
- All the RAGE: A Franchise Retrospective by Noah Caldwell-Gervais
- Theme Hospital - Making of Documentary
- How Many Clicks Does It Take To Get to the Center of Diablo? A Franchise Retrospective
- What’s the deal with Seinfeld? - Renegade Cut
- The Past, Present & Future of Soul Reaver - Noclip Documentary
- Plagiarism: A Measured Response
- The Goblin Hypothesis by Curious Archive
- Star Trek Voyager… The Documentary You’ve Been Waiting For!
- A critical look at how we watch video essays
- The 1970s science fiction classic that actually needs a reboot
- Games that Don’t Fake the Space
- You’re Standing on My Neck - A Brief Retrospective of Daria