Nothing But The Worst

Alongside the video essays I create, I also like to occasionally stream myself playing some of the newest and hardest stages that the developers of The Battle Cats give the players to tackle. This has lead to me making a plethora of stream highlights videos, going over some of my greatest triumphs and biggest lows in conquering these stages from my streams. However, one of the lowest lows I've had playing this game was doing the hardest difficulty of Uncanny Legends, known as 3 Crowns. In this, all enemies are juiced up to anywhere from 1.2x to 2x as powerful as they are when you first encountered them, and it is often referred to as one of the hardest tasks in the entire game. With all of that said, when it came for me to do a trifecta of really disliked subchapters, these being Rose-Colored Road, Behemoth's Peak and Moodist Beach, it absolutely destroyed me on stream. Afterwards, when it inevitably meant I needed to make a thumbnail and title for the video, I fittingly came up with the title "Nothing But The Worst", and for the thumbnail, I immedietly knew what I wanted to do. Using the little space I had in my dorm, I took this photo of myself emulating a meme of Shinji from Evangelion lamenting, and then surrounded myself getting ganged up on by the many different stages I had conquered during that stream. I had done many thumbnails up until this one where I blended an image of myself with in-game assets, but this is by far my favorite I have made both from a graphic and comedic perspective.