I can understand how limited inventory can seem bad if you're not used to it, but more people ought to give it a chance.Īpologies if I said this already, but I tend to think AVGN is at his best when he's either discussing hardware (the 3DO or Sega 32X episodes) or is dealing with something potentially nostalgic. that you're never ever gonna use because the magic is so overpowered and easily refilled. Whereas with Final Fantasy, you usually end up with thousands of potions, ethers, rat dicks etc. the thing is Earthbound is balanced around its limited inventory, the whole point is to incentivize using your items instead of just hording them. I'm also not a big fan of his "it doesn't play like Final Fantasy VI therefore its bad" model of complaints.Īdmittedly I've seen a lot of supposed fans of RPGs who don't understand how or why they work, but regardless. I was kinda mixed on the Earthbound episode, in particular I was hoping he'd somehow recreate the game's actual ending in his own Nerd interpretation, but instead he acts like the story ends at Ness' dream. Playing them for the first time now, the element I really hate is where you have to collect a majority of the items in each stage before it'll let you continue on. On this note, I've seen Amiga fans say the Zool games are classics, but I loaded them up on emulator and.
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I realize now that was a stupid hang-up to have, since of course Retsu just riff the footage, while James actually describes how the game plays and how to make the plot advance and gets the "real" ending of the game (or rather, whoever recorded footage got the real ending, but. I actually avoided watching the Town With No Name episode for a long time, because I tend to not watch videos about games I've seen other youtubers cover, and that one was of course riffed by the almighty Retsupurae (I miss them about as much as I miss Spoony).
Other than that, I liked that episode too, even if some of the humor came from just how hilariously surreal that Kang Fu game was. Did he confirm somewhere that he destroyed a real one? I always assumed the AmigaCD32 he destroyed was one that didn't work, or was just a plastic shell made to look like the real thing. I prefer when James combines classic style with more elaborate surreal scenes, reminds me of the classic Mario 3 and Glicthes episode.īut I do agree that the last truly brilliant episode was Eartbound, It’s definitely felt like a finale of some sort, and it should’ve been the 200th episode or had ended the show there, I can’t think of a more fitting end to the shows legacy than that. Hell, I even enjoy the 2021 Shrek and Fear and loathing episodes, they were just so ridiculous they had a sort of surreal elaborate energy that has been missing from a lot of the modern eps, they felt too safe and early AVGN. I even quite like The Home Alone, and Gilbert Gottfried episodes, It was just cool to see both Celebs work with the nerd and Gottfried (RIP dude) really worked with teh Nerds Energy.
Im one of the few who actually really liked The Amiga CD32 episode, It was a hilariously and bafflingly made bad console and The Town With No name gave us some great comedic reaction from James.
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As one of his biggest defenders I still really enjoy late 2010s AVGN, I think you can see screenwave start to take over the series direction from 2017 onwards but there were still really great episodes.
What year was the jumping shark moment for AVGN for you guys? I personally think It was 2020 with a noticeable decrease in funny episodes and more sketch focused direction, but some people are way harsher and think the series started to tank immediately post Nerd Movie.