Hundreds of hours of play, reduced to the decisions that mattered.
The standard
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Enter on the decision. Leave on the consequence.
- 01Dead air goes before anything else: walk-ups, reloads, rotations, menus, loading.
- 02Every clip enters on the moment of choice and leaves on what it cost — not on the kill feed.
- 03A retrospective is an argument about a game, so footage is chosen to evidence a claim rather than because it looks good.
- 04Zoom, shake and hit-stop are rationed. Used on everything they stop meaning anything.
Gameplay is mostly waiting, and nobody is there for the waiting. Cutting on the decision keeps the tension the raw footage already holds and throws away the part that leaks it. On a forty-minute retrospective about a game nobody is currently playing, that discipline matters more rather than less: every sequence has to be paying off a point, or the runtime is just runtime.
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