Into the Madness [Soul Eater x Little Nightmares]

[Kireblue]

Though, if this video has a flaw, it's that the scene selection is obsessively literal. You matched each individual lyric to an appropriate corresponding clip, at the cost of any sort of visual flow or emotional dynamics. There's no rise and fall of feelings, just a flat line of quality macabre entertainment. Sure, that's what the song is, but it does mean that engaging with the video on its own terms is harder if you aren't familiar with either the song or the show.

I think I kinda get a little bit of what you're saying here, although I don't think that my focusing on lyric sync was why the video doesn't have a rise and fall. Even though the song is upbeat, it's also strangely monotone and maintains the same pace pretty much from start to finish. And I actually think that I prioritized hitting the song's backbeat more so than just getting the lyric sync across. But by prioritizing that backbeat, the pace of the video ends up having the same kinda monotone rhythm that the song has.

And personally, I feel this I showed a great deal of restraint on my lyric sync since I choose not to use Soul Eater's basketball episode for "balls in my court", or the boat episode for "Seasick from the spinning of the atlas" . But seriously, glad you still enjoyed the video

[SilkAMV]

I think I kinda get a little bit of what you're saying here, although I don't think that my focusing on lyric sync was why the video doesn't have a rise and fall.

You're right about that. Like I said, it's not that you should have done anything differently. It's just the nature of this video. Lyric sync, (and flawlessly edited lyric sync, make no mistake) is the only strength this video has. It's not exactly well-rounded.

And it doesn't need to be, just so I'm clear. As the saying goes, "I don't fear the one who knows 1000 kicks. I fear the one who has practiced one kick 1000 times." Lyric sync is this video's singular kick, and it's a strong one.

And personally, I feel this I showed a great deal of restraint on my lyric sync since I choose not to use Soul Eater's basketball episode for "balls in my court", or the boat episode for "Seasick from the spinning of the atlas" . But seriously, glad you still enjoyed the video

I agree with you on the basketball one, but leaning more into the boat episode is at least something I would have explored had I been editing this. Maybe you did use more of it and it just didn't work out, I don't know. But that setting shares a lot of similarities to the LN story, and could be worth using for more than just for the sake of lyric sync.

Again, what you did is more than fine. I don't actually know if using more of the boat scenes would have improved the video. But since you brought it up, it got my mind going for alternate possibilities I hadn't previously considered.