Archipel are making the best videogame documentaries on YouTube

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The back of a Isamu Kamikokuryo's head as he looks upon a strange industrial construction.

Most videogame documentaries look like early ’00s webcomics. There’s usually a couch, some talking heads, maybe the occasional establishing shot of a building, to let you know that the couch is inside a building. Archipel is something else entirely. A YouTube channel dedicated to creating documentaries about Japanese artists and creators, it has raised the bar – and mostly just by making people go outside.

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Author
Graham Smith