What this kind of Let's Play called, Text LP

I found this site that use old styleof LP, a text style, like if LP was a book using screenshots and text! https://lparchive.org/Doki-Doki-Literature-Club/

Those are still just called "Let's Plays", there's no distinct term for them.

They actually predate the video-style of LPs.

Edited by Primis on Jan 30th 2020 at 8:36:42 AM

So do they have a TV Trop page and how to search for them?

This kind of question should go on Trope Finder

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The page is Let's Play. There's nothing special enough about the concept to warrant splitting it from the main page.

If you're looking for specific text Let's Plays, then just search for them the way you would a video LP: by looking up the game's name or the creator's name and seeing if it has a page.

Example: searching for "Pokecapn" leads you to his page, which contains a link to his LP of Sonic '06.

Alternatively, on the page for Sonic '06, you can see there's a Let's Play button at the top, which brings you to the same LP mentioned above.

Just so you know, though, there aren't a lot of LPs that have their own pages.

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Why? Let's Play isn't a trope, it's more of a genre than anything.

Edited by Primis on Jan 30th 2020 at 12:17:33 PM

There's an argument for the term "Screenshot Let's Play"—see for example this entry on the "Let's Play Wiki".

I do think that I've heard some specific term for text-and-screenshot let's plays as distinct from video let's plays, perhaps especially as they were, I believe, the original form of the genre. However, whether it's "Screenshot Let's Play", as above, or something else, I fear that I don't know.

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Jan 30th 2020 at 12:46:22 PM

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Screenshot-and-text Let's Plays were the original Let's Plays, so it's highly unlikely there's any other term for them than "Let's Play", at least none that has seen widespread acceptance.

As I said, I do think that I've heard such a term, and the above link does offer one. The wiki in question may not be the biggest ever, but it does provide at least some indication that there is an extant term. Whether the term is widely accepted or not is unclear.

As to there being no term for them since they're the originators, consider that one of the original forms of FPS—the sort made famous by Doom—now has specific terms that can distinguish it from other forms ("retro-FPS" or "boomer-shooter").

If people want to distinguish one thing from another—perhaps especially a less-common form from a more-common one—then terms may come into being to do that, even for the originating form, I think.

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I would want a separate index for the separate format, however.

For easier sorting, etc.

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576