History LetsPlay / SorcerorNobody

** The phenomenon goes UpToEleven in episode 5, containing two cuts from within the episode (one of which gets played back in reverse), one from the previous episode, and one from ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack Crash Bandicoot 2]]'', which ''[[BeyondTheImpossible Sorc hadn't even LP'd at the time]]''.

*** Does that mean it could be said the flash cuts were taken ''exactly'' [[UpToEleven Up To (Episode) Eleven]], [[IncrediblyLamePun and]] [[ExactWords no]] [[AccidentalPun further]]?

* ScoreScreen: Taken UpToEleven by tracking over a dozen statistics, including the pointlessly {{meta}} "Episodes concluded", "Storylines completed", and... "Statistics tracked".

* UpToEleven: Sorc normally plays ''Audiosurf'' in Mono mode on Casual and occasionally Pro difficulties; channel update videos in particular use Casual surfing for background gameplay. This series, however, is exclusively Ninja Mono.
** "Channel anthology" videos are done after every third channel update video; these consist of Ninja Mono resurfs of the three tracks used in those updates. "Descend" (used in the fourth channel update) is an exception to this, however, as it had a video to itself.
** While Sorc points out that he generally dislikes ''Audiosurf'''s puzzle gameplay modes, he does accept the challenge of playing "The Device Has Been Modified" with the [as-portal] tag, which applies first-person camera and enforces Pointman Pro mode.

* PunnyTitle: The series is titled "Keep Talking and I Explode" because, well, he is "Nobody".

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: In episode 2, Sorc describes the inability to zoom in as strahnge, and then shortly afterwards, puts a kewb on ze bouton.
** These pronunciations are [[CallBack deliberately reused]] in episode 9, too.
** Portal placements are often described as being "hyar" (here) or "nyar" (there), which is a pronunciation habit picked up from [=ZombieCleo=].

* LampshadeHanging: The playlist description satirises the fact that Cuphead is commonly called "the ''Dark Souls'' of platformers".

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%%* DeadpanSnarker: Lives and breathes.

%%* PungeonMaster: Just look how many examples there are for various wordplay tropes in the folders below.

* TitleDrop: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], arguably, by episodes named during editing by Sorc just picking a phrase from his commentary in that episode that he thinks will be a mildly amusing title.

%%* IncrediblyLamePun: Several episode titles. Mostly getting worse as the series progresses.
%%** Sorc would like to assert that episode 28 is not an example, because its pun is ''not lame''.
%%** Episode 29's title is not so much lame as downright terrible, for the specific purpose of [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]].
%%** Episode 31's title is a pun that, [[invoked]][[GeniusBonus while really quite clever]], is the ''pinnacle'' of incredible lameness.
%%** Episode 33's title is ''painfully'' bad.

%%* OverlyLongGag: See Department of Redundancy Department, above.

[[folder:Beat Saber]]

%%* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Candleman]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

%%* AbortedArc
%%* {{Filler}}

%%* {{Montage}}: The iron farm in episode 9.
%%* SelfDeprecation: PlayedForLaughs by the playlist description.

[[folder:The Climb]]

%%* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=ClusterTruck=]]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

%%* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

* VirtualReality: Is a game that can be played in VR.

[[folder:Job Simulator]]

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

[[folder:Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes]]

* PunnyTitle: The series is titled "Keep Talking and I Explode" because, well, he is "Nobody".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Little Nightmares]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

* VirtualReality: Is a VR version of an existing game.

[[folder:Sairento VR]]

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scanner Sombre]]

!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

%%* TitleDrop: The title of the final episode is "Sombre".

* ShoutOut: "[[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} Out, damn'd box! Out, I say!]]" in episode 12.

[[folder:Thumper]]

* VirtualReality: Sorc showcased the game in VR.

[[folder:TO THE TOP]]

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

[[folder:Transistor]]
->''Begin Playlist(); plan Episode() x 15; execute Playlist()''
-->-- Description on the series playlist.

The second side LP, started shortly after the conclusion of ''Sonic Adventure 2''.

The series is concluded, and consists of one failed attempt at the opening episode ("Episode 0") and fourteen proper episodes.

!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:
* AnimationBump: The intro and outro sequence from this series are still Sorc's personal favourites compared to his other LP intros. Not so much for quality, but for artistry.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Virtually all of the episode titles. Episode 8, "Spinal Tap()", is the most glorious by far.
* ThemeNaming: The title of every episode (bar 0) is a pun on the game's combat abilities, and the playlist description also invokes the combat function structure.
* TitleSequence: From episode 4 onwards. As noted above, still Sorc's personal favourite.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Windlands]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:
* [[invoked]]ThatOneLevel: The Sky Challenge. Sorc subsequently completed it in VR instead.
* VirtualReality: The final two episodes were Sorc's first VR videos.

[[/folder]]

* TheOneWith: Episode 5, "The One With Compromised Audio".

* ThemeTuneCameo: "Shiny Tech" is used in episode 2 to demonstrate the custom music feature.

* ThemeTuneCameo: As noted under Arc Number, surf #13 was the channel 'theme', "Shiny Tech".

* DeadpanSnarker: Lives and breathes.

* LovableCoward: Is a seriously jumpy person. YMMV on "lovable", if you insist.
** Also takes an odd sort of pride in the fact that he's a genuine wuss, and thus isn't merely milking supposed jumpiness for a gimmick, unlike ''some'' popular [=YouTubers=] that could be mentioned.
** His jumpiness is frequently a target of his SelfDeprecation, and he always leaves in any cases of keyboard clatter or other noises that result from his actual physical jumping when startled, then comments on them.

* PungeonMaster: Just look how many examples there are for various wordplay tropes in the folders below.

* [[invoked]]ScheduleSlip: All over the place; indeed, it's fair to say that the schedule itself slips more than Sorc's adherence to it does. A lengthy history of the schedule is contained in this [[note]]On starting [=LPs=], there was initially no schedule, but Sorc aimed to get a video out every day. This lasted until the conclusion of ''Transistor'', at which point Sorc took a week's break from ''Minecraft'' and put out ''Surgeon Simulator'' every day for that week before starting a schedule of Mon/Fri ''Minecraft'' and Wed/Sun side LP. On the release of ''Minecraft'' 1.8, the ''Minecraft'' schedule was divided into modded on Monday and vanilla on Friday, and when Sorc resumed ''Surgeon Simulator'' for the DLC update, he split the side LP schedule into ''Surgeon Sim'' on Wednesday and keeping the ongoing ''Alundra'' on Sunday; he then kept the split side schedule when starting ''Crash Bandicoot Warped''. Almost immediately after that, he wrecked his base in vanilla, and began a hiatus from ''Minecraft'' that lasted throughout ''Warped'' and the remainder of ''Alundra''. Finally, with both side [=LPs=] conveniently and coincidentally ending in the same week, he changed the schedule ''again'' to MWF, three series rotation, with all three slots being given equal precedence rather than ''Minecraft'' being considered the "flagship", as it had been up to that point. Subsequently, in October 2016, Sorc finally dropped the idea of scheduled ''games'' entirely, meaning the three videos in any given week can be of any game whatsoever, although since ''Mirror's Edge'' was ongoing at the time of the change, it remained in its Wednesday slot until completion.[[/note]], for the curious. As of January 2019 or so, there is no longer any concept whatsoever of a schedule on the channel.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Several episode titles. Mostly getting worse as the series progresses.
** Sorc would like to assert that episode 28 is not an example, because its pun is ''not lame''.
** Episode 29's title is not so much lame as downright terrible, for the specific purpose of [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]].
** Episode 31's title is a pun that, [[invoked]][[GeniusBonus while really quite clever]], is the ''pinnacle'' of incredible lameness.
** Episode 33's title is ''painfully'' bad.

* OverlyLongGag: See Department of Redundancy Department, above.

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

* AbortedArc
* {{Filler}}

* {{Montage}}: The iron farm in episode 9.
* SelfDeprecation: PlayedForLaughs by the playlist description.

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

* TitleDrop: The title of the final episode is "Sombre".

* [[invoked]]GeniusBonus[=/=]GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Episode 16, concerning the Donald Trump surgery, is titled "Burke meets berk". For those who don't know, the term "berk" is mostly colloquially used in the UK to merely mean "idiot"; however, Sorc is very much aware of [[CountryMatters the actual etymology]], and its use in the title is ''extremely'' intentional.

Each subsequent season starts from a world reset on the server, generally due to the release of a new major ''Minecraft'' version: season 2 for 1.9, season 3 for 1.11 and season 4 for 1.13.

** The equipment naming theme in season 4 is major ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' characters.

** Season 2 had no specific theme but every name was a ShoutOut to something.
** Season 3's theme was GratuitousLatin translations of each item.
** Season 4's theme was major ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' characters.

The series reached thirteen episodes, at which point Sorc accidentally destroyed half of his base and went on a total ''Minecraft'' hiatus. The series was finally resumed on April 6th, 2015. Furthermore, as of episode 19, Sorc joined [=Sl1pg8r=]'s Patreon server.

Season 2 began when the server had its world reset and updated to version 1.9.

** His current ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' skin, which debuted in this LP,[[note]]Although it also appeared in the final episode of modded, due to vanilla starting slightly before moddded ended[[/note]] is based on his ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}''-style avatar.

* SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike: In-universe. While Sorc will frequently be complimentary to games he's enjoyed, this was the first (and, so far, only) game where he ''planned in advance'' all the things he intended to comment on, just to make sure he'd remember to say it all during the credits. And he praised just about every aspect of the game.

[[folder:Overwatch]]

* CallBack: When Sorc dies in a match as a direct, unambiguous result of server latency in episode 10, the "Blame the game, not the gamer" faux trophy that appeared in episode 9 of ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' pops up.
* VirtualReality: Sorc "attempts" to play Overwatch in VR as a joke at the start of episode 12.

[[folder:[=Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D=]]]

* SignificantAnagram: States in the LP anniversary video that "Bat Conjurer"[[note]]Which he self-describes as for fun, and which he used as the name for both his ''Minecraft'' camera account and his second YouTube channel[[/note]] is an anagram.

* ''Candleman''

[[folder:Captive Minecraft]]
->''im trapped in an achievement factory please send help''
-->-- Description on the series playlist.

When problems emerged with playing the Modsauce pack, Sorc was unable to record a second episode in time for the designated slot. [=TheFarlanders'=] ''Captive Minecraft'' challenge map was used as a gap filler, lasting for as many weeks as necessary until Modsauce started working. Which turned out to be one week. As such, the series has only one episode; however, Sorc does plan to probably bring it back sometime in the future, along with Captive Minecrafts II and III.

* AbortedArc
* {{Filler}}

[[folder:Captive Minecraft IV]]
->''My only achievements in life.''

Following the release of ''Captive Minecraft IV'', and with some lingering disappointment at how his original ''Captive Minecraft'' series went, Sorc decided to play the new map, making it his Wednesday slot series.

* {{Montage}}: The iron farm in episode 9.
* SelfDeprecation: PlayedForLaughs by the playlist description.

[[folder:The Climb]]

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

[[folder:[=ClusterTruck=]]]

* ArcNumber: "Shiny Tech" is the music used for Sorc's channel trailer, as well as the standard outro segment to all of his [=LPs=] as of the March 2015 schedule. This makes it arguably the "representative surf" for the channel itself, and Sorc therefore chose to make it number 13 in the series. He also released it on the 26th of the month.[[note]]i.e. March. He'd have gone for the 13th of April, but that was an on-schedule Monday slot.[[/note]]

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Every iteration of his channel schedule, while it had one, assigned Mondays to ''Minecraft''. When ''Minecraft'' was divided into vanilla and modded, this was further invoked by putting modded on Monday (and vanilla on... er... [[ShoehornedFirstLetter Vriday]]). Also, ''Warped'' Wednesdays became a thing for the run of that LP, although in that case, it was simply a consequence of the available slot.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII: The Zodiac Age''

[[folder:Kingdom Hearts III (and Re:Mind)]]

* ArcNumber: 3, 7 and 13 are all important numbers in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' franchise. The playlist for KHIII has 13 videos thanks to part 7 being split into 3. The playlist for Re:Mind also ended at 7 videos, after Sorc decided making it to the halfway point when fighting [[spoiler:[[BonusBoss Yozora]]]] is as far as he wants to take streaming the DLC, since the alternative would probably be numerous streams consisting of nothing but failed attempts.

[[folder:Kingdom Hearts III (and Re:Mind)]]

* ArcNumber: 3, 7 and 13 are all important numbers in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' franchise. The playlist for KHIII has 13 videos thanks to part 7 being split into 3. The playlist for Re:Mind also ended at 7 videos, after Sorc decided making it to the halfway point when fighting [[spoiler:[[BonusBoss Yozora]]]] is as far as he wants to take streaming the DLC, since the alternative would probably be numerous streams consisting of nothing but failed attempts.

* [[invoked]]DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: Several sounds in the game earn Sorc's ire. Most prominently, the incessant pinging of the radar in Knuckles and Rouge's levels. Also, any time Omachao starts talking. Also, the noise the turtle in Dry Lagoon makes.

* ArcNumber: Inasmuch as he actually has one, Sorc's arc number is 13. This is mostly due to the fact that his emblem is derived from the ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' Nobody emblem, which itself has connotations with the number. It's also reinforced by his secondary personal symbol, the Sorceror l'Cie brand, which carries a connection to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''.

* ArcNumber: 3, 7 and 13 are all important numbers in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' franchise. The playlist for KHIII has 13 videos thanks to part 7 being split into 3. The playlist for Re:Mind is currently on track to have 7 videos, but is not yet complete.

Nearly all of Sorc's own LP series are titled "Nobody Plays X", because {{pun}}. The channel schedule is completely flexible, though he aims for five videos per week (one every weekday), and usually tries to ensure at least three per week. Videos are typically released at 7pm UK time.

You can find Sorc's videos [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SorcerorNobody on his YouTube channel.]]

[[folder:Relevant tropes for Sorc himself]]el

* SignificantAnagram: States in the LP anniversary video that "Bat Conjurer"[[note]]Which he self-describes as for fun, and which he used as the name for both his ''Minecraft'' camera account and his secondary Website/YouTube channel[[/note]] is an anagram.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Every iteration of his channel schedule has assigned Mondays to ''Minecraft''. When ''Minecraft'' was divided into vanilla and modded, this was further invoked by putting modded on Monday (and vanilla on... er... [[ShoehornedFirstLetter Vriday]]). Also, ''Warped'' Wednesdays became a thing for the run of that LP, although in that case, it was simply a consequence of the available slot.
* ArtEvolution: A couple of stages of this, mostly after getting Sony Vegas. Obviously, there was an immediate general improvement in the editing quality (and scope for extra flair) due to the better tools available. Then, starting from mid-late February 2015, Sorc implemented much better rendering settings and also began recording and rendering ''all'' of his videos in 60fps. Then he got a new monitor and started recording in 1080p. The next part of the long-term plan will be to look into getting a proper microphone to improve the audio side of things.

* DisorganizedOutlineSpeech: Doesn't tend to plan out episode content in advance much beyond general "this project". Consequently, any attempts to plan or to summarise tend to become this to at least some extent.[[note]]Other [=LPs=], particularly ones where he knows the game, generally suffer a bit less, since he can make a better rough estimate of how much progress will be made.[[/note]]

* OutOfFocus: Sorc began [=LPing=] ''Minecraft'', and considered it his "flagship" series, but right from day five, when he started ''Sonic Adventure 2'' as a "side" LP, ''Minecraft'' generally shared equal output with the side LP. Eventually, due to the long ''Minecraft'' hiatus, Sorc finally demoted it to just being one of three equally weighted LP slots... and vanilla and modded share that slot. His channel update video about this explicitly states that he no longer considers any of his scheduled [=LPs=] to be "side" ones.

* [[invoked]]ScheduleSlip: All over the place; indeed, it's fair to say that the schedule itself slips more than Sorc's adherence to it does. A lengthy history of the schedule is contained in this [[note]]On starting [=LPs=], there was initially no schedule, but Sorc aimed to get a video out every day. This lasted until the conclusion of ''Transistor'', at which point Sorc took a week's break from ''Minecraft'' and put out ''Surgeon Simulator'' every day for that week before starting a schedule of Mon/Fri ''Minecraft'' and Wed/Sun side LP. On the release of ''Minecraft'' 1.8, the ''Minecraft'' schedule was divided into modded on Monday and vanilla on Friday, and when Sorc resumed ''Surgeon Simulator'' for the DLC update, he split the side LP schedule into ''Surgeon Sim'' on Wednesday and keeping the ongoing ''Alundra'' on Sunday; he then kept the split side schedule when starting ''Crash Bandicoot Warped''. Almost immediately after that, he wrecked his base in vanilla, and began a hiatus from ''Minecraft'' that lasted throughout ''Warped'' and the remainder of ''Alundra''. Finally, with both side [=LPs=] conveniently and coincidentally ending in the same week, he changed the schedule ''again'' to MWF, three series rotation, with all three slots being given equal precedence rather than ''Minecraft'' being considered the "flagship", as it had been up to that point. Subsequently, in October 2016, Sorc finally dropped the idea of scheduled ''games'' entirely, meaning the three videos in any given week can be of any game whatsoever, although since ''Mirror's Edge'' was ongoing at the time of the change, it remained in its Wednesday slot until completion.[[/note]], for the curious.
* ScoreScreen: Most of his non-''Minecraft'' [=LPs=] have one. [[ArtEvolution They've been getting increasingly elaborate]] with each new iteration, going from just death counts in ''Sonic Adventure 2'', to tracking about a dozen things and downright showing off with the presentation of the list in ''Alundra 2''.

--> That's going to be it for this episode; if you've enjoyed the video, remember to leave a like. Share, favourite and comment; help support the channel. Follow me on Twitter to stay up to date with what's going on, and subscribe if you want to see more. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time!

This series was started intentionally so that its first episode was Sorc's 200th LP episode overall. It is the first LP series to be off-schedule from its inception.

[[folder:Antichamber]]

[[folder:ARK: Survival Evolved]]

[[folder:Bastion]]
->''Let the delicious narrative voice wash over you.''

Sort of a sequel/prequel/sidequel/callback series to ''Transistor'', really. This series consists of 22 episodes.

* AprilFoolsDay: Episode 20 starts out with Sorc playing ''Transistor'' but still acting like he's playing ''Bastion''.
* CallBack:
** The thumbnail for the first episode of New Game Plus is identical to that of the first episode, other than the episode number.
** Because episode 16 features the cameo of turrets from ''Portal'', the ''Portal'' LP's score screen makes an appearance.
** A remark in episode 17 about trying to explain game mechanics logically is an oblique callback to similar remarks in ''Alundra'' episode 35.
* PaintingTheMedium: Episode 20 reverts to ''Bastion'' via a ton of video effects and a test card screen.
* ScoreScreen: Doesn't normally have one, but the "Turrets neutralised" one from the ''Portal'' LP makes a cameo appearance in episode 16.
* TheTeaser: Episodes 2, 6, and 17 feature episode highlight clips before the intro.

[[folder:Bioshock Infinite]]

[[folder:Braid]]

[[folder:Captive Minecraft]]
->''im trapped in an achievement factory please send help''
-->-- Description on the series playlist.

When problems emerged with playing the Modsauce pack, Sorc was unable to record a second episode in time for the designated slot. [=TheFarlanders'=] ''Captive Minecraft'' challenge map was used as a gap filler, lasting for as many weeks as necessary until Modsauce started working. Which turned out to be one week. As such, the series has only one episode; however, Sorc does plan to probably bring it back sometime in the future, along with Captive Minecrafts II and III.

* AbortedArc
* {{Filler}}

[[folder:Captive Minecraft IV]]
->''My only achievements in life.''
-->-- Description on the series playlist.

Following the release of ''Captive Minecraft IV'', and with some lingering disappointment at how his original ''Captive Minecraft'' series went, Sorc decided to play the new map, making it his Wednesday slot series.

* {{Montage}}: The iron farm in episode 9.
* SelfDeprecation: PlayedForLaughs by the playlist description.

[[folder:The Climb]]

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=ClusterTruck=]]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the umpteenth failed attempt at the final boss in episode 7, Sorc stages a RageQuit.
-->"Are you ser... ah... jh... no... no. No. That's it. Nope."
-->''[voice getting fainter]'' "That's it. Had enough. Nope. Done."
-->''[door opens]''
-->''[door slams, video cuts to black]''
-->''[{{Beat}}]''
-->Caption: [[PrecisionFStrike TRUCK]] [[{{Bowdlerize}} THIS]] [[{{Pun}} SHIP]]
-->Cue outro

[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Consuming Shadow]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Crash Bandicoot 2]]
Long intended since the ''Warped'' series. A Friday slot LP.

!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:
* ContinuityNod: Episode 7 contains the N. Gin boss fight that ''Warped'' episode 5 had an [[BeyondTheImpossible inexplicable]] flash cut to. So, naturally, the fight ends with a flash cut of that episode. [[MindScrew Including the entire flash cut to this game from that episode.]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Crash Bandicoot Warped]]
->''Unquestionably the best game in the "time-travelling platforming marsupials" genre.''
-->-- Description on the series playlist.

After concluding ''Surgeon Simulator 2013'' for the second time, Sorc had chosen the next game to be a side LP. Not wanting to stop ''Alundra'', nor wait until it ended, Sorc decided to keep the Wednesday slot as being a different series to the Sunday slot, formally making his schedule a four-series rota... although that rota broke down almost immediately after the ''Warped'' LP began, due to the ''Minecraft'' hiatus. Go figure.

The series is concluded, and consists of fifteen episodes.

!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

[[folder:Crypt of the NecroDancer]]

[[folder:DLC Quest]]

[[folder:[=Element4l=]]]

* FailureMontage: In later episodes, especially the final one, as some of the manoeuvres get really tricky to chain together.

[[folder:Final Fantasy III]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:
* RunningGag: Ingus is an aloof git. And Refia is a ''betch''.

[[/folder]]

* [[WhatWereYouThinking What Were The Developers Thinking?]]: The VR view is not shared to the screen, which just displays the player's avatar in the normal non-VR view of the game. Which is much less interesting to look at. Sorc is understandably perplexed by this design choice.

[[folder:Infinifactory]]

[[folder:INSIDE]]

[[folder:LIMBO]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Little Nightmares]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

[[folder:Mr Shifty]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nefarious]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

[[folder:Oxygen Not Included]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D=]]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

* WhatWereYouThinking: Although in principle an engaging VR experience, there were some issues. Most notable of which was the fact that the player perspective was locked facing backwards for some strange reason, making the game both patchy on tracking and pretty bad for a video, since Sorc had to primarily face away from his computer and, therefore, his Rift sensors and his camera.

[[folder:Refunct]]

[[folder:Rock of Ages]]

[[folder:Sairento VR]]

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

[[folder:Scanner Sombre]]

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title is a single word.
* TitleDrop: The title of the final episode is "Sombre".
* VirtualReality: Has a VR-compatible beta, which is the version Sorc played on the channel.

[[folder:Skyfactory 3]]

[[folder:Sonic Adventure 2]]
->''Watch now for your chance to win a free cannon lizard!''

The first side LP, started a short time after the custom modpack LP [[ItAmusedMe because Sorc felt like it]].

The series is concluded, and consists of eleven main episodes and three bonus episodes.

* FlatWhat: Invoked by a large on-screen caption when he outright clips through the road in the episode 9 timelapse.
* GrammarNazi: One particular error in the subtitles in episode 7 prompts a replay with a large flashing red text caption.
* IncrediblyLamePun: A few of the episode titles. Special mention goes to episode 5, "The Blue Bluh", and the deliciously cringeworthy episode 6, "Darker and eggier" for the start of the dark side story.
* MarathonLevel: The finale is almost exactly an hour long, mostly by happenstance, but partly by intent.
* ScoreScreen: On-screen death counters on Final Rush, Final Chase, Cannon's Core and the endgame bosses. Totals for all deaths (not just the ones counted on-screen) are given at the end of each story.
-->0: That jammy echidna
* TheStinger: Debatable whether it counts as a stinger, since it's a full five minutes of footage, but after the "official" end of the episode is a bonus clip to demonstrate what happens if [[spoiler:time runs out on the [=FinalHazard=] fight]].
* TimeLapse: A few, to get through unimportant gameplay. Universally set to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic E.G.G.M.A.N.]]
* TitleSequence: From episode 3 onwards.
* {{UNREADABLYFASTTEXT}}: Serial escalations of the phrase "Famous last words" appear on screen ''extremely'' briefly in the finale, referring to Sorc describing the [[spoiler:final boss as being less challenging than Biolizard]].
-->Famous last words.
-->Very famous last words.
-->The most famous last words of all.
-->[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Generic]] [[OverlyLongGag flash-past]] [[TropeName remark.]]

[[folder:Sonic Forces]]
->''Sonic Forces me to make the obligatory joke about Sonic forcing me to do something.''
-->-- Description on the series playlist.

* IncrediblyLamePun: When Infinite opens the portal to Null Space: "Well, this sucks."
* ShoutOut: The video description for episode 6 is a play on the lyrics of Infinite's theme.
-->''When every ring I've grabbed has come and gone, only scores remain of what I've done. But the storyline will carry on -- this game persists, I cannot quit, 'cause that's what it takes to beat Infinite!''

[[folder:Spectrum]]
->''A colourful and quirky CTM map by... kwirky.''

A ''Minecraft'' Complete The Monument map that Sorc played for five episodes while taking a break from the vanilla LP, due to his time on the server being spent on the secret project for [=Sl1pg8r=]'s birthday.

[[folder:Subnautica]]
->''Damn nature, you scary.''
-->-- Description on the series playlist.

* [[invoked]]{{Blooper}}: Episode 9 starts with Sorc letting Jack's Septic Tank fill in part of the intro. It ends with a reel of the attempts where it responded with everything but the desired voice clip.
-->'''Sorc:''' "Hello everyone, and..."
-->'''Septic Tank:''' "Punch the like button in the face!"
-->'''Sorc:''' "...well, you can do that, but that's not what I'm going for."
* IncrediblyLamePun: Episode 6, Aurora explorealis, a play on aurora borealis.
* IRegretNothing: Going out into the dead zone in VR was an entirely necessary experience to include in the series. As was doing it again (not in VR) just to make a point of encountering the maximum of three adult ghost leviathans at once. Totally WorthIt, no matter the consequences for cardiac health.
* {{Montage}}: Episode 14 features a "deconstructage" of his seabase.
* PaintingTheMedium: Uses his test card in the episode 9 blooper reel.
* ShoutOut:
** Episode 9 features the Disease Research Facility and is, somewhat inevitably, titled "Down with the sickness".
** Episode 11's title is a reference to the [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP Foundation]].
** Appropriately for a game that already references it, the titles of episodes 12 and 13 allude to ''[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''.
** Two to ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'': the description of episode 4 is a verse of Pinkie's Smile song, and the title of episode 17 is a play on Winter Wrap-up.
** Episode 16's title is an obvious play on the Pokémon catchphrase. Heh... ''[[{{Pun}} catch]]''phrase.
* TheStinger: The blooper reel at the end of episode 9.
* VirtualReality: Has VR capability, which Sorc demonstrates in parts of episodes 1 and 16.

[[folder:SUPERHOT]]

* TheBusCameBack: The original game only got one episode, as something went wrong with recording the second one, and Sorc never got around to fixing it. After a substantial gap, the series continued with the VR version instead. Then, after another long gap, Sorc decided to finally continue with the original game.
* CallBack: In episode five, directly mentions one comment he made in his ''Mirror's Edge'' series (about wanting to pick up guns while doing fancy acrobatics), and further calls back to another (about punching guys off buildings).
* VirtualReality: Sorc played SUPERHOT VR as well as the base game.

[[folder:Surgeon Simulator]]
->''I'm sure nothing can possibly go wrong.''
-->-- Description on the series playlist.

The third side LP, started after ''Transistor'' concluded, and initially intended to be a breather series, starting in a week of no ''Minecraft'' episodes being released; as such, the first seven episodes ran on a one-per-day output rate, as a new channel schedule was being instituted the following week.

The series is concluded, and consists of sixteen episodes.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: The series originally ended after ten episodes with all achievements earned.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Episode 11, "Burke is back!"
* [[TheBusCameBack The Ambulance Came Back]]: For an additional five episodes, due to the ''A&E: Anniversary Edition'' DLC.
** And then again for one more episode to cover the Donald Trump surgery.
** And then ''again'' for the VR "Experience Reality" version of the game.
* AnnoyingLaugh: A deliberately goofy laugh in episode 15 turns out rather more dreadful than intended.
* BlatantLies: The playlist description.
* CatchPhrase: "Be severed!"
* FunWithHomophones: Episode 16's title.[[note]]Considering Trump is involved, one could also say that episode was [[IncrediblyLamePun Fun With Homophobes]]![[/note]]
* [[invoked]]GeniusBonus[=/=]GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Episode 16, concerning the Donald Trump surgery, is titled "Burke meets berk". For those who don't know, the term "berk" is mostly colloquially used in the UK to merely mean "idiot"; however, Sorc is very much aware of [[CountryMatters the actual etymology]], and its use in the title is ''extremely'' intentional.
* TheOneWith: Episode 5, "The One With Compromised Audio".
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Seen on Bob's goggles in episode 14 during the space eye transplant.
* ScoreScreen: Tracks the number of watches lost, the number of times the patient dies, and the number of spoons flipped (of which caught, and whether [[WebVideo/BirgirPall sick filth]] has been achieved).
* ShoutOut: "[[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} Out, damn'd box! Out, I say!]]" in episode 12.
* TheStinger:
** Episode 5 has a review of the majesty that is the 180 spoon flip.
** Episode 13 features the broken physics engine montage.
** Episodes 17-19 all have some post-outro nonsense.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Episode 13 [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]] in multiple ways. But at least it has a great thumbnail and [[spoiler:a bonus Talking Stain Dance performance at the end of the video]], thanks to the physics engine [[EpicFail going horribly wrong in an utterly hilarious fashion]].
* VirtualReality: The "Experience Reality" edition.

[[folder:The Swapper]]
A puzzle-platformer currently occupying the Wednesday slot.

* ShoutOut: In episode 2, an NPC saying "Look, it's too late now to apologise." prompts Sorc to put a caption on screen noting that he had to resist the urge to insert a brief clip of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSM3w1v-A_Y&t=1m46s a certain music video]] in response to that line, and only the risk of a Content ID Match stopped him.

[[folder:The Talos Principle]]
->''"Philosophical puzzler" is a lot more fun than it might sound!''

A philosophical puzzler that occupied the Wednesday slot.

* SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds: Invoked by the playlist description.
* EasterEgg: The icon for the QR code counter is a working QR code. [[spoiler:[[TrollingCreator It's a Rickroll.]]]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A minor one in episode 25 after [[spoiler:his retaliatory dickishness towards Milton leads inexorably to Sorc being forced to uninstall him]] – something that he didn't want to do, and immediately regrets.
* ScoreScreen: Deaths experienced, QR codes scanned, terminals accessed, mentions of the tower, stars located and collected, philosophical questions, epitaphs found, and mines detonated. The VR series adds "VR breaks".
* [[invoked]]SeriesHiatus: For nine months after episodes 18, due to puzzle fatigue. And then picked back up with considerable gusto from 19 to 26, where the main game storyline was concluded and the main game series ended. A further hiatus ensued until Sorc got the VR version of the game and began the Road to Gehenna DLC.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Averted. Sorc declines to restore a backup in order to undo [[spoiler:his uninstallation of Milton]], not out of a lack of regret, but instead arguably as a punishment to himself.
-->I know, I could restore a backup, and go back before I [[spoiler:uninstalled him]], and not do it, but... I think I need to live with what I did.
* ShoutOut: The title of episode 9 to a level in ''Crash Bandicoot Warped''.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: A touch of BlackComedy after the above MyGodWhatHaveIDone. ItMakesSenseInContext, mind you.
-->Moral of this episode: don't be an ass to someone just because you can. You might end up [[spoiler:being forced to uninstall them]], and regret it.
* TheStinger: Episode 5, due to the fact that the game footage spectacularly failed to record, has the audio of the moment when Sorc found out.
--> That's been recording, right...? ''*clicking*'' [[CurseCutShort Ffffff-]]
* TakeThat: In episode 26.
-->ELOHIM: "I know you seek the truth. But if you stay, we can make our own truth."
-->Sorc: "That's not how truth works. No matter how much the Trump administration might want it to."
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Pretty much the entire theme of the game, but brought into focus by Sorc himself at the end of the game, where it's clear that he basically regards [[spoiler:uninstalling Milton as having murdered him]].
-->This is the "Take it with you"... but I can't, [[spoiler:because I kil-]]
* VirtualReality: Aside from the whole game being set inside a virtual reality, Sorc tackles the Road to Gehenna DLC in the VR version of the game.

[[folder:Thumper]]

* VirtualReality: Sorc showcased the game in VR.

[[folder:TO THE TOP]]

* VirtualReality: Is a VR game.

[[folder:Transistor]]
->''Begin Playlist(); plan Episode() x 15; execute Playlist()''
-->-- Description on the series playlist.

The second side LP, started shortly after the conclusion of ''Sonic Adventure 2''.

The series is concluded, and consists of one failed attempt at the opening episode ("Episode 0") and fourteen proper episodes.

* AnimationBump: The intro and outro sequence from this series are still Sorc's personal favourites compared to his other LP intros. Not so much for quality, but for artistry.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Virtually all of the episode titles. Episode 8, "Spinal Tap()", is the most glorious by far.
* ThemeNaming: The title of every episode (bar 0) is a pun on the game's combat abilities, and the playlist description also invokes the combat function structure.
* TitleSequence: From episode 4 onwards. As noted above, still Sorc's personal favourite.

[[folder:Windlands]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:
* [[invoked]]ThatOneLevel: The Sky Challenge. Sorc subsequently completed it in VR instead.
* VirtualReality: The final two episodes were Sorc's first VR videos.

[[folder:The Witness]]
!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

[[/folder]]
!Other videos

[[folder:Relevant tropes for Sorc himself]]

* FailureMontage: The end of episode 8, which is condensed down to a montage due to its sheer length as Sorc dies a total of eighteen times in a span of two and a half minutes.[[note]]That's the edited time; it was about eight and a quarter minutes real time.[[/note]]

* SguarWiki/BetterThanItSounds: Invoked by the playlist description.

* [[PerformanceAnxiety Let's Play Curse]]: Has bemoaned more than once that "this would happen on camera" or "I'm normally good at this".

* RunningGag[=/=]ShoutOut: Every single episode has an allusion to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', accompanied by a brief image of a character from the show. '''Every single one.''' Though some are bigger stretches than others, being shoehorned in retroactively during editing rather than intended during recording. Especially the Owlowiscious one.

* [[SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike Gushing About Video Games You Like]]: In-universe. While Sorc will frequently be complimentary to games he's enjoyed, this was the first (and, so far, only) game where he ''planned in advance'' all the things he intended to comment on, just to make sure he'd remember to say it all during the credits. And he praised just about every aspect of the game.

* [[WhatWereYouThinking What Were The Developers Thinking?]]: Although in principle an engaging VR experience, there were some issues. Most notable of which was the fact that the player perspective was locked facing backwards for some strange reason, making the game both patchy on tracking and pretty bad for a video, since Sorc had to primarily face away from his computer and, therefore, his Rift sensors and his camera.

* [[invoked]]AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: Omachao.

* [[MarathonLevel Marathon Episode]]: The finale is almost exactly an hour long, mostly by happenstance, but partly by intent.
* [[invoked]]DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: The radar in Knuckles and Rouge's levels. Also, Omachao. Also, the turtle in Dry Lagoon.

* [[invoked]]MostAnnoyingSound: The radar in Knuckles and Rouge's levels. Also, Omachao. Also, the turtle in Dry Lagoon.

** Sorc doesn't know what Deadeye Zach is, exactly, but notes that while Zach is green, he's not that weird, and ''definitely'' not the main villain, [[CaptainObvious because that would be stupid]].