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ivory solar
Maybe try going about your thumbnails in a different way. If your not seeing the results you want make adjustments in title+thumbnail/concept until you see an uptick in views.
What it thinks is your target audience in the initial push are choosing to not interact and in that regard youtube doesnt push it any further.
I would avoid linking it elsewhere. Your video should be its own promotion.
lost trellis
As someone who makes gaming video essays, I'll tell you that making a successful game review nowadays takes a lot of skill and effort
The "talking about video games" scene has come a long way so generic game reviews like this typically don't do that well
People are looking for reasons to watch a game review, and if the packaging doesn't give them a really good reason to click, they just won't watch
I hate to tell you, but the problem really is just that you need to keep improving and working on better video topics, with better thumbnails and with better titles
Idk what your videos themselves are actually like as you haven't linked them so I can't comment on your writing, editing, voiceover work, etc. ,but the packaging and video topics I'm seeing don't lend themselves well to the most success
You should take time to research video topics in the game review/game video essay scene as the videos that do well have very appealing topics and packaging which is a big part of a what makes a video successful
It's not just "X game is amazing!" or "Y game disappointed me...", the most successful gaming video essays as of recent are now narrower in subject and have very interesting topics alongside very appealing packaging (I should also mention that they all also have very, very good writing which is a skill that requires practice to develop, and more likely than not have above average editing): https://youtu.be/5wAo54DHDY0?si=puV70X1bvYNyNc5z https://youtu.be/lOebGm_jMLY?si=Sgelta-aQ8vjztFV https://youtu.be/Ctn8uuvYKIs?si=bDzhTppBsIjrDzoQ https://youtu.be/ZDrHpmkL4rY?si=vNxAkbHkBDcD-2nt https://youtu.be/1Wc3lavznus?si=CjYXyK6HekGVlQto
lost trellis
Well I hate to tell you, but that title doesn't really spark all that much curiosity
People who have never heard of the game won't really be given a reason to click as the only information presented is that you have mixed feelings about this game they don't know about which doesn't really mean much to them
And for people who are familiar with amnesia: the bunker, it still doesn't really say anything interesting and all they know is that it's a review of the game with the conclusion that you had mixed feelings and that's it
I actually recommend you to watch the "Three Specific Kinds of Terror" video I shared (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDrHpmkL4rY) because he talks about amnesia: the banker for the first third of the video
It might give you a better idea of how to package videos
You should note how a video like this doesn't have clickbait or a BS title
It simply just has a really interesting title and thumbnail
You don't need to do what you typically think of as "clickbait" to make good packaging for a video, in fact, it's actually kind of a newtuber's trap because it misunderstands what makes people actually click on videos
I honestly don't think it's a bad idea to transform your written game reviews into youtube videos
I think your problem is just that you need to do some work to reformat them to have a better thesis and to work on your packaging
lost trellis
Well it's not necessarily the fact that you have a mixed opinion that is the issue
The video concept takes precedence over the video content when it comes to what determines the packaging of the video
The video concept has an overarching effect on how good the video content and packaging will be, that's why video ideation is a skill youtubers have to develop
Because you're turning old written game reviews on a blog into youtube videos, you already have the video concept pre-determined
Just copying those reviews over into a youtube video isn't giving you any flexibility in video ideas so you end up having little control over how good you can package the video (i.e all you had to work with was that you had mixed feelings on amnesia)
That's why I said you would need to do some work to reformat your written reviews to have a better thesis so they can be transformed into youtube videos
Those written reviews you have really should serve as a kind of outline or catalogue of ideas that you pull from to then create a video that says something interesting and lends itself well to having appealing packaging
Using Jacob Geller's video as a case study again, when he talks about amnesia: the bunker, he isn't talking about what he liked and disliked about every aspect of the game
He for sure is still reviewing the game and explaining what his experience of playing the game was like, but he's selective in what he presents to the audience because his thesis isn't "here's all my thoughts on amnesia: the bunker", it's "here's me breaking down my experience of amnesia: the bunker by explaining how it instilled terror in me throughout game with various game mechanics that is unique to other survival horror games" which of course connects to the main video topic of him reviewing three horror games and analyzing how each instill terror in different ways (i.e Three Specific Kinds of Terrors, the video title)
Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to because I've never played Amnesia: The Bunker before and I don't know the actual contents of your amnesia video so the only context I have is that you made a review saying you had mixed feelings so I have barely anything to work off of
well tbf, I looked it up and the review scores indicate that this was a mostly liked game
There's just going to be people who write hate comments if you critique a game with a large enough audience of people who like the game
I've experienced the same for criticizing a game despite having a widely agreeable stance
I think my final thoughts are that
You really should considering reformatting your written reviews if you want to turn them into YouTube videos as that seems to be a big limiting factor on what you can do with the packaging and overall concept for the video
Keep researching what other game reviewers/video essayists do; take note of the video concepts they come up with, examine the writing and the flow of the contents of the video itself, look at their thumbnails and titles, ask yourself what you find appealing about these aspects of their videos and why that is the case to see figure out how they do it so you can apply it to your own videos to improve
lost trellis
Oh yeah also, I actually just thought of an example of good packaging on a video that's similar to a game review with mixed opinion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNA80GYvxe8
