The Raison D’etre
Apart from providing entertainment, video games have single-handedly provided hundreds—if not thousands—of people with their income. These are your streamers, YouTube personalities, and pro gamers. Many of these individuals have needed only one game to guarantee their paycheck, be it Minecraft, Fortnite, the Binding of Isaac, Super Smash Bros., Call of Duty, or XCOM. For the pro gamer, this is understandable; it’s hard enough to git gud on a single game, let alone gud enough to beat every other gamer out there. For the content creators, it becomes baffling how they pull in the money after hundreds of episodes on the same game.
It takes a special game to create such a track record. We know GoNNER and Angels of Death have little chance of attracting attention. Certain games, like Think of the Children or A Gummy’s Life, can barely offer enough content to garner one video. I could theoretically create an entire series around playing Spacecats with Lasers, but it would most likely be a documentary of my descent into depravity and desperation. No one can remain sane playing that game longer than five hours.
This gets to the most important element: you have to actually enjoy the game to make a profit from it eventually. Many of the games I like most have already been gutted and stripped of all appeal by other content creators. I would only be a vulture picking at fetid scraps if I were to start my own series on such games.
Gorogoa falls into the category of not having enough content. I adore the game, perhaps more than most if internet search results have anything to do with it. No matter how many angles I could take, Gorogoa could only sustain interest for another article and maybe another video. It’s a fascinating game which deserves more attention—hence this video—but it does not offer the replayability of such games like Enter the Gungeon or even Skyrim.
So Gorogoa cannot be my money maker, but it has been interesting to play it repeatedly. Due to my efforts to cut out the black lines in the video, I replayed Gorogoa at least five times (making it my tenth or so play-through since I purchased it). I am not one to speed run, but there is a certain sense of exhilaration in beating your previous time. My initial run in this recording process was 35 minutes, and our final point is around 22. It absolutely kills the pacing of the game, but its brevity does make me feel more masculine.
It’s a bummer the end result is marred by the visual issues, but if Gorogoa hates Elgato, I can’t blame it.