If you haven't seen my work before, my goal is to edit together the story of a game in a style that can be understood and enjoyed by anybody, whether you've played the game or not, or even if you don't play games at all. Unlike some videos, this isn't just a compilation of cutscenes. While my focus is on the story being told, there's much more to the story than just the cutscenes. Some of the gameplay represents and important part of the storytelling, and therefore must be included. That being said, I do try to keep the gameplay time down. If I can cut a section without sacrificing storytelling, I will. The main goal is making sure any edits I make don't cause the audience to get confused, while making sure the gameplay remains entertaining to watch.

I do some other things to try to improve the movie watching experience. The main thing is turning off as many HUD options as I can. Thankfully, this game has many options to disable parts of the screen, although you will still see some things. While recording this movie, in particular, objective markers and button prompts were the two things I couldn't disable, as well as a few other miscellaneous pop ups. At the beginning, I tried using VFX to remove all of this stuff, and I was able to do that for the first 15 minutes or so of the movie, but then I decided to give up on the objective markers, which were becoming too complex to remove. I used a story moment of Aloy suggesting using the Focus to reveal the path to start showing them. That being said, when I was 70% of the way done recording, the game was updated to allow disabling the objective markers and button prompts, so you'll stop seeing the objective markers once the story gets closer to the end.

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Chapters:

0:00:00 - Reach For the Stars
0:42:50 - The Point of the Lance
0:57:59 - To the Brink
1:19:40 - The Embassy
1:41:20 - Death's Door
2:07:47 - The Dying Lands
2:30:51 - The Eye of the Earth
2:58:58 - The Broken Sky
3:22:23 - The Kulrut
3:44:07 - Cradle of Echoes
4:04:43 - The Sea of Sands
4:32:45 - Seeds of the Past
5:02:51 - Faro's Tomb
5:41:06 - Gemini
5:57:35 - All That Remains
6:19:48 - The Wings of the Ten
6:36:04 - Singularity
7:18:43 - Credits

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