"Shut the fuck up, Navi!"
Greatness.

When I started watching this the last time you guys posted it, I didn't think I'd like it. But something about it is just so enjoyable, maybe it's that they have the same twisted view on the video game world as I do.

People should really give this a chance if they haven't yet.

Man, this has easily become one of my favorite web series right now. So so awesome.

I need to figure out how to put that ending on a loop. Ending EPIC, Mario EPIC, Kirby EPIC. This was probably the best episode in the set.

Rosseh needs to stop trollin.

OMG Kirby... o_O

aww hahaaa you got meeee!
But seriously, this show would be a decent, yet stale, bit of film. Then they had to go and put computer game characters in it. Why? For the attention. Target demographic. It's the same as that 'PSP for Gurlz' and all the other marketing crap that big companies churn out except this is done by a few people and somehow it's alright? It's selling out, plain and simple.

I'm sure you make references to things in your everyday life. You reference pop-culture and it gets a few laughs. But would you think it was OK if a standup did an entire routine consisting of TV and movie quotes? No, cause that is sloppy and poor.

I didn't say anything about it's popularity. Sure, the phrase "selling out" has become stigmatised with people believing anything popular is selling out but in the beginning it meant 'marketing' your work, rather than creating it organically.

What I'm asking is; What does the inclusion of videogame characters bring to the piece? I have watched the first episode and this episode(OK, I skipped through bits of this one)and the writing is pretty decent. Course you could say it's ripped off from hundreds of movies but every aspect of the episodes I watched were pretty solid and that's why I think it's just pandering to a demographic. In fact, their inclusion only takes away from the overall quality.

While Grafton and Mercer claim to be avid fans of Nintendo and that the entire series was written as an homage, it just comes across like they wrote this separately, saw a competition on Escapist or something and swapped out their characters for Nintendo ones for the exposure.

I don't think you can compare it to changing elements of music. It's tricky to explain but a 3-10minute song, while it can have a similar emotional value, usually focuses on a single emotion or issue, sometimes a few, but never as many as multiple hours worth of film. For me, a bit of fun would have been maybe the entire thing abridged into a single 16 minute episode, that's just a quirky idea/experiment realised.

Maybe if they had adapted the costumes to the real world it would have seemed more like a distortion but the costumes add to what seems like fan service really. A distortion would have been like those great pieces of art in 'I Am 8-Bit' where they depicted Mario's world but twisted and dirty. They could have set it in that world, distorted in some way, and explored the possible connotations of each character's actions.

A bad example would be how a lot of people have made those flash movies where Mario is just trying to have sex with the princess. That is a distortion and an exploration of that world. This, on the other hand, just comes across like a classic serialised thriller with videogame characters transplanted in. So I don't think the piece brings much to the characters either but I could be wrong about that one if I watch the whole series. So it looks like I may have to do that to see for myself.

Man I love these, easily my fav web series now that Life in a Game has finished. Can't wait for the next one to come.

I'm thinking it could be Master Hand, Olimar, or Bowser.

AND DON'T TOUCH MY ANGEL!