
With that experience, more types of videos become available to create also, including reviews. This revenue is then poured back into your gaming rig that, arguably, looks more modern as you progress, thus allowing you to create longer, better videos. Whilst the task of queuing actions will be familiar to those that have spent any time with sim-styled games, the act of putting a video together is more involved, allowing you to chose cuts, effects, and so forth, all with the hope that more viewers, subscribers and, eventually, revenue will come as a result of this. Menial tasks initially litter the first few hours, asking you to create rudimentary reactionary videos. I chose to game, naturally, and thus my quest for digital world domination did start – in an empty bedroom, gameless, with a PC that could have been ripped straight from the 90’s.

You start off your avatar’s adventures by selecting one of these three ‘unique’ paths, shaping the adventure that lays before you. The cultural phenomenon that is YouTube, according to U-PLAY at least, consists of three large entities: Cooking, Music, and Gaming. The awfully sub-titled YouTubers Life: OMG Edition has it all, but leaves you feeling more frustrated than inspired at the end of your time with U-PLAY Online’s latest.Īfter saving the world, Link decided to conquer his next nemesis: Youtube. We don’t see the behind the scenes struggles, the work-life balance feud and, most appropriately, the technical mishaps that can immediately halt any prospects of turning this allusive dream into a reality.


After all, we only see the glitz and the glam that Google’s most popular purchase can offer. I’d wager that, in this digitally-focused day and age, most young adults, children and anywhere in-between have, at some point, been tempted by the all-so alluring concept of becoming a ‘YouTuber’, alongside the likes of Pewdiepie and Jacksepticeye.
