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I made a video of Fidget cutscenes that are spliced together into a different order, based on the lines she spoke.  I used Google Docs to list out all of the lines that Fidget has.  I also used videograbby.com to pull the videos off of Youtube.  I used Videopad Video editor since it's free software.

Note, there are some out-of-context spoilers in this video, so watch at your own peril!

Intention

Well, I thought I'd take a new look at the video game Dust an Elysian Tail. It is a game near and dear to my heart, and my favorite character is Fidget, a side character who travels with and helps fight with the main character, Dust. So after a munch of scrapped ideas, I decided that it'd be interesting to see what the journey would look like if it was entirely from Fidget's POV and her words. She has some pretty entertaining statements, and she breaks the fourth wall a lot, so seeing the story from her perspective would be both entertaining and interesting.    They are already funny in context, so I thought it'd be more interesting to hear them out of context and rearranged.  

Context

There are a lot of works out there where people do things from the points of view of other people, things, and creatures.  I just wanted to have some fun with a character I love a lot and show the journey from her perspective, so I suppose you could say it is par for the course.  Well, until I rearranged all of her lines.  Then it's less of the journey from her point of view but a different story entirely.  

Process

Well, originally I was going to actually do the Legend of Zelda trailer from Epona, Link's horse's point of view.  Mostly because I thought it would be hilarious to point out that Link usually ends up with a lot of equipment that Epona has to carry.  Two problems -I have never played the Legend of Zelda games and the video I was using just didn't feel right for me to use, especially since they were just trailers and the actual game hasn't come out yet.

Idea number two was similar.  Journey the video game from, not the point of your character, but instead the living murals which reacted to the character's prescence and observed the passing of many characters.  It'd be an interesting idea to go through, but not much footage to use.

This went on for quite a while, looking at and discarding ideas of characters I'd like to see have their stories told, when I realized that I could really use Dust an Elysian Tail.  Fidget isn't a minor character, it wouldn't be too difficult to tell her story, and her lines are really quite entertaining.  

So originally I was just going to cut all the scenes with Fidget in them and splice them together into one video which would work chronologically

And then I decided that that was boring.  So I decided to splice together Fidget's lines and ONLY Fidget's lines and see what happened when I put them together.  So I took all of her lines and put them into a document.

Now was the hard part -how to organize all the lines into either a cohesive paragraph or a bunch of similar ideas.  It was especially hard since I only took Fidget's lines.  

But I got it down eventually.  And rendered the video, and made some more, because Fidget just has a lot of great lines that I didn't use in the video that are quite entertaining

Reflection

I'm pretty happy with this work, though I would like it if I used more lines from Fidget, because she has some truly beautiful moments.  However, those all need context, so I couldn't use them anyways.  Otherwise, I like this work, it just took a ridiculous amount of time.  Also, I probably could have organized the lines better.  Because it would be a lot easier to make a new story from the lines if I had sorted them based on the types of sentences and who the subjects were rather than chronologically, it was a bit of a pain to sort through.  

And for funsies, I made a few more videos, because I was sad that I could not use all of Fidget's awesome lines.

Attribution

Dust, an Elysian Tail

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