Honestly, I think this is my favorite video in the entire festival, but I'm not a fan of the other Nintendobo videos I've seen. Dr. Mario says eat mommy's pills was just... Not cohesive? Like I felt like it wasn't doing anything. The jokes weren't funny and it didn't seem to have an overall point (although I did like the bit at the end about Jesus on his crucifix and racing him to heaven, and Steve Irwin and Lynyrd Skynard being "the Jesuses we've killed). The first one to me seemed even more pointless. I feel like the series has come into its own with this video, though. It's created a more cohesive world, it has him interacting with other characters, the narrative seems to build towards a single point the whole time. The parallel between his father feeling trapped by real life obligations and Nintendobo feeling trapped by virtual ones in Donkey Kong 64 was, well, poignant, and it felt like that's what the entire episode was building towards, using a stressful game as a way to understand the stresses real life throws at others, something Nintendobo's detachment from the world makes it hard to understand. It was a great epiphany moment for the character when he said "Because if going to find another digital banana is this tedious, just imagine how it must hurt to go find paychecks."
In short, I like this one a lot, and if you can keep up the sort of focused narrative that this one had, if you can make each episode have a point, and make it explore Nintendobo's world and his views about it this deeply then I'd love to see more of this series. But I definitely wouldn't be as excited if the uploads I saw were more like the earlier Nintendobo videos.
In short, I like this one a lot, and if you can keep up the sort of focused narrative that this one had, if you can make each episode have a point, and make it explore Nintendobo's world and his views about it this deeply then I'd love to see more of this series. But I definitely wouldn't be as excited if the uploads I saw were more like the earlier Nintendobo videos.