I've never played this game, so I'm unaware of the exact confusing plot mentioned (the screenshots were honestly easy to keep up with, imo) but I AM a huge fan of let's plays, and I don't generally enjoy said let's plays in the form of unbroken silence for chapters at a time followed by "what was that" commentary in a small, skippable blurb. This is, fundamentally, not what a let's play is.

I understand that no one else wants to rant and rave about let's play True Scottsims but me, so I'm going to rant and rave about the incorrect use of "let's play" here.

A let's play in purest, most platonic and concentrated form, is an experience of viewing the playthrough, style, and experience of something (typically a game) with a person who does the actual work of clicking and engaging both the medium and the viewer. Even wikiped notes that it specifically is "documenting the playthrough of a video game" ... "by focusing on an individual's subjective experience with the game, often with humorous, irreverent, or critical commentary from the player, rather than being an objective source of information on how to progress through the game." (wikiped for let's play)

On the surface, you can sort of wishy-washy pussyfoot about with this being a let's play, but it is, fundamentally, not. Mainly because... This is a review? Yeah, it's literally just a chapter-by-chapter review. We aren't actually seeing the playthrough, the experience of playing the game, we just experience it and then go meet up for one-sided book club after. This is, again, not a let's play!

A chapter-by-chapter review is one thing, and a let's play is another. If I review each individual chapter of a game like... Deltarune, in this exact style, have I created a let's play? No, of course not. You never even saw me play it, in this instance, YOU played it separate from me, then asked me to monologue my own thoughts at you. There was no recording of gameplay, no reading, no engaging, not so much as a click on the screen, and worst of all, the gaming review is marketed as 'bonus content' instead of the core of the let's play. What let's player would call their craft 'bonus content' of the game itself?

The excuse for this is paper thin and personally came into my home to turn my knockoff Kuromi sleepover keychain's fuzzy pj's inside out. You monster, she's cold and unprotected from the AC now. That is not a let's play, that's a copyright case waiting to happen, and frankly, an insult to the genre.

I understand the word for this is a mirror. However, since it's labeled a let's play, I won't be giving it the respect of being called a mirror. This is not media preservation, this is a sick joke designed to keep me up at night, plagued by thoughts of what these pesky external viewers think of my favorite video passtime. May the horrorterrors have mercy on my soul.

One last thought, before I finally close out of this rage rant and go do something healing, like petting my beloved pet rat or chopping wood: the dedication to misgendering Hussie in those 'bonus content' monologues is ffffuuurrreaking unreal. I have no words. Hussie's gender is explained in the game, playing the game should have explained it well enough. If you pay attention even to the screenshots, it's very quick to understand. Not only is it not a let's play, it wouldn't even be a good let's play if it was one, failing to engage with or comprehend the media at all.

So... Thanks for 'playing' my let's play of this Psycholonials let's play, I guess. -_-