Maybe I assumed wrong, but I thought James would mostly write the episode, then threw in insults and other one liners written by the fans... not the entire episode written by the fans.
Deadly Towers is one he could have really done a bang up job on, but instead I feel he dropped the ball, and I hope he never does one of these again, or he cleans it up a bit and doesn't have 2 minutes of insults for no reason at all.
I enjoy the AVGN more when he's criticizing a games flaws and the anger that erupts from that... but this felt forced, I don't feel he showed us enough to really give us 2 minutes of straight insults, on top of the 1:20 intro, the 30 second ending... blah.
Like someone wrote earlier, it was like the AVGN mocking himself in a video, rather than just the AVGN doing a video himself. This is probably the first AVGN video since he's started releasing them that I won't ever go back and rewatch, which is a damn shame as I have fond memories of Deadly Towers and have been dying for him to review it for a long time.
Maybe one day he will go back and give it a proper review... like someone else also wrote, I too just fast forwarded the video at around the 6 minute mark.
I thought the last Batman video was great though... the guy captured the feel of the 60's Joker from the campy Batman show, and the fight scene at the end was pretty well done, not to mention I enjoyed the reviews too. Usually I can't stand when he has guest stars and little "bits", but this one I enjoyed a lot. It seems most people who felt the Joker was annoying hasn't seen the old tv show in awhile.
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