This clip from Kid Icarus perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with modern AVGN. Painfully bad overacting, random yelling of lines, bizarre facial expressions and unfunny punchlines. This "bunghole" line at the very end is super cringe and the way he whispers "that's what its called" is so weird.
View attachment 5603048
"It's a game... made by Nintendo.... with kids in mind, where, in order to get your health up, you must consume an alcoholic beverage! And a LOT of it!"
Yes, and kids take communion at church too. It's not really that farfetched. Plus, there really wasn't much censorship of alcohol consumption in Japanese versions of many retro games. There was even a drunk enemy in Earthbound, and
the American player's guide calls him a drunk.
Good points all around. You can't deny that they each are doing what the other is better at. Mike seems to at least enjoy video games and James loves film (when he has time, which is never).
James doesn't seem to enjoy the hobby he's built a character around. Never truly has to me to be honest. Dude ran out of passion when he ran out of material he was familiar with.
IIRC the story was that Angry Nintendo Nerd was just one of countless random things James threw at the wall while he was making his random movies, and Mike especially liked it, so he encouraged him to do another one, and then a third one, so he'd have a trilogy.
I get the sense that James really did enjoy video games when he was a child, and then had fun playing party games with his friends in college, and much later enjoyed playing Breath of the Wild with his daughters. That's about it. Pretty normie ways to enjoy games, honestly, but it's his whole career, and he can't really ever escape them.
I wonder if James ever considered how he's in a similar position as so, so many artists. Like a musician who gets well known for one song, and they have to hold back contempt for that song, as it's their one and only moneymaker. Or better yet, a famous filmmaker who gets best known for one film, and no matter how much more he does in his life, his fans will always know him for that film.