Patreon: / mrenter Link tree: linktr.ee/mrenterofficial Find (almost) all of my videos here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... So... I'm finally reviewing a video game adaptation. And what a one to start on.
The Mario bros show was fucking hilarious Mario: "I was born with a plunger in my hand!" Luigi: "I know, it was sure hard on ma..." Mario: "D:" -------------------------------------- Bowser: ITS THE END OF THE TRAIL FOR YOU Mario: Good cus this is the end of the trail mix. ------------- It's fucking gold.
The problem with video games adaptations is not the lack of story. The problem with video game adaptations is that they are mostly made by people who only know the basic premise of the franchise and want to cash in on it. That's why they have been getting better - yes, slowly and not without its setbacks, but better - because they are made by people who actually are fans of the franchise and really want to make it interesting.
That along with just thinking stuff out properly instead of just throwing a while bunch of random junk into the mix and hoping it sticks or trying to have substance compared to being all spectical and no substance.
Extra Credits puts it excellently in their episode about why there are so few good game-based movies; the people with the power, money, and influence in these industries didn’t grow up with games, and aren’t familiar enough with them to really understand them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JnP2boSC-FM.html
MSROCKADA Well, again, that's because it was made.. beside the game. When they were working on Sonic Boom, they were already hard at work with a comic and cartoon series. It also helps that the Sonic Boom's.. self-satire works far better as a show.
MSROCKADA Sonic Boom is legitimately the funniest and most self aware cartoon on tv right now. And Eggman is the best character on the show. Every one of his lines is gold.
Wait, if K.Rool switched brains with the crystal coconut, doesn't that mean that his sentience would be transferred into the coconut, leaving his body a soulless husk while he obtains its power? If that's the case, then would his sentience grant him the ability to utilize its power without a third party being involved? These are the questions that needed to be ask at the last presidential debate.
and if the coconut can do literally anything why doesn't K Rool use the wish granting power of it to gain its abilities? hell if it were me i'd do that and take it a step further and destroy the coconut so i couldn't be stopped.
anyone else feel like pointing out that this show does that thing where some characters blink with their pupils, not their eyelids that is awfully bothersome
Yeah some official Nintendo games did that with Diddy Kong (I think it was one of the Mario Karts) and it always annoys me. Especially since in other games they do it right, like Smash Bros.
You what's sad? The Professor Layton movie is fantastic and true to the original game series, but no one ever seems to remember it. To people who think that VG movies can't be great, watch Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva. It's great.
Oh shit yeah, it really is a truly fantastic adaption of the Layton series. I went out of my way to buy it and by NO means do I regret doing so. I would love to see it as an admirable animation on this channel.
Not only is it an underrated movie, but an underrated video game series in general. It'll always be my favorite video game and people really should give it a shot
The characters in this show do move similarly, in that the character models look like, well, _character models_ whose bodies and limbs are being moved around. But at least this show bothers to give the characters facial expressions as well, unlike Foot Fight...
You know that one Samurai Jack episode where Aku originated from a fragment of a formless cosmic entity in the nether regions of space that found it's way to Earth?
P. S. The Donkey Kong Country games weren't rendering live 3D. They were sprites that were made out of 3D animation, so they looked impressive, but they weren't actual 3D.
"How do you make a cartoon out of Pac-Man?" By coming up with the most bizarre lore imaginable, including but not limited to: the ghosts all being the vengeful spirits of dead war criminals, while the corpses of said war criminals are kept in a hammer space container by the government and Pac-Man is a war orphan and the last survivor of his kind after they were wiped out through genocide of their specific race.... also known as Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. Seriously that show is batshit insane and I love every single ridiculous second of it. I wish it had gotten more love because I don't think it's going to have a 3rd season now, which is a shame. The plot was getting even more crazy and I wanted to know where it was going. (Also it has a body swap episode that averts the Voices are Mental trope, just saying)
I just realized how dark that is. Wow. I remeber seeing the cartoon when I was younger and wondering what the heck did had to do with Pac Man but I frickin love it.
T.N. Newton I swear, that show is so ridiculous it's amazing. I haven't watched it since I was younger but from what I remember it was somehow simultaneously a joke & a serious story.
That wasn't a body swap episode. Betrayus possessed his and Stratos Spheros's mother and spoke in her voice when he possessed her. December 12, 2017, 5:35pm
I really loved hearing the voices of Coop from Kid vs. Kat and the MLP characters Party Favor, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Snips and Soarin in that show. It was very enjoyable to watch even though the theme was in the 20 Worst Cartoon Themes video. I wish a Top 10 Best Episodes Countdown for Pac-Man and The Ghostly Adventures was Mr. Enter's 300K subscriber special. Please! December 12, 2017, 5:38pm
There's a Totally Spies episode where Jerry and Clover get their bodies switched, and their voices stay in the same bodies. It's just that their accents are switched. It's a pretty good episode. Totally Switched, Season 2, episode 19. Overall episode 45.
It... it shouldn't have been so hard to make an acceptable DKC cartoon, you know? Banana hoard gets stolen in the pilot, they try to get it back every episode. There, you now have an episodic, self-limiting, formulaic video game ad that writes itself and is also a perfectly decent adventure cartoon by the standards of the 90's.
3:16 now look here, buddy... that pop tart scene traumatized me when i first saw it. It was truly the most horrifying experience in my life. Every time I even LOOK at pop tarts anywhere... I just curl up and get flashbacks of that scene... that brutal.... brutal... pop tart scene.
Pop tarts aren’t scary. It’s the Pyramid Head and Robbie the Rabbit. The Silent Hill movie should’ve been better if Hideo Kojima was writer/director of that film and it would get a 96% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Here's my opinions on the David Cage trilogy: Indigo Prophecy: I really liked the opening scene in the diner and that was it. The entire game after that point was a boring, stupid mess with awful controls, horrible writing, annoying as shit quick time events and an extremely convoluted plot. And the final section of the game is some of the most ridiculous shit I have ever seen in a video game. (In terms of trying to portray a serious story.) Heavy Rain: It's fucking sad that Heavy Rain is literally David Cage's best game. A side plot that goes absolutely no where and makes no fucking sense. Absolutely fucking horrendous voice acting and a predictable plot twist. Beyond Two Souls: I'd rather not write an entire paragraph about this abomination of a "Game", so I'll be brief. I find Beyond Two Souls to be one of the worst games of the decade, easily. I also find it to be an absolute fucking insult to the industry and I'd never ever want to go through the torture of playing that steaming pile of goat shit ever again.
Hey Mr. Enter, would you ever consider checking out Total Drama? I struggle to tell if it would be an admirable animation or an animated atrocity, because it is definitely a love it or hate it show. And if you don't think that any episode from the show can be either, than would you consider the online web series Inanimate Insanity? (Specifically season 2)
Quick Gaming I think he said somewhere that he liked Total Drama, but had a hard time reviewing it since he would have to spoil the ending to every episode he did. It's like why he rarely reviews anime. I don't know what he thinks of Inanimate Insanity, though
Didn't he address Total Drama in some way in one of his earlier videos? I forgot what he said exactly, but I don't think he's going to review it (I wish he would). Also I love Inanimate Insanity, but I think he said he wasn't going to review web series either :(
I agree with you on Animal Crossing: The Movie. It's my favourite video game movie and one of my favourite movies in general. There was also a Super Mario Bros. movie from 1986 that was apparently good but it was only released in Japan (so it suffered the same fate as Animal Crossing: The Movie, though both would've had English fan-dubs).
Well, the Mario movie wasn't made by Nintendo and had not much to do with the games. Well, at least all characters are there and they act like they're supposed to (with the exception of Luigi, but to be fair, the movie was made before he had a personality). The changes they made to the story are huge, but they're forgivable. Still a better adaptation than the live-action disaster.
Would you like to know something odd? I just found a body-swap episode of a cartoon where the voices AREN'T swapped too! It was in one of the weirdest places... Sonic Boom. Yeah! In The Meteor Sonic and Eggman switch bodies and their voices don't change!
Shinji Ikari She looks like she wears more of a 90’s style look in the show. In the games, she looks more like an ape-version of Peach, with blonde hair and either a pink bikini or a white t-shirt and pink shorts.
Oh come on! SatAM Sonic was good, Super Mario Bros Super Show was "So cheezy and cringey that it's hilarious" (can't say the same about the budget-limited, MORE annoying, and MORE cringy Super Mario World continuation), Earthworm Jim was good, and the Ratchet & Clank movie, though not "The greatest", was at worst "Ok" (with plenty of fun winks and nods, and Paul Giamatti was a half-decent Chairman Dreck). As for Pac-Man... well, the cartoon WAS made by Hanna-Barbera: They know how to whip up a story, from the ground up. Not ALL Video Game cartoons/movies are bad... except for the ones directed by Uwe Boll, but that's because we found out he made them simply to help fund his other companies (i.e. he really didn't give a damn about how good or bad his movies were. He did them to make money).
24:12 "I will say that it's really fun to watch and make jokes about how stupid it all is." Actually, my best friend and I did exactly that once. We have this thing that whenever we have a sleepover, we have to watch some old video game cartoons. Typically, we'd watch The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, or the Legend of Zelda cartoon (heck, we watched the latter so many times that we made a drinking game out of it), but recently, we had a sleepover and we watched the Donkey Kong cartoon. It was hilarious. We were laughing the whole way through- not because it was funny, but because it was just so stupid.
and at least the idiocy of the characters can be funny at points, when King K Rool states his plan to use the machine to extract knowledge from books i burst into laughter
so before I begin watching the review, I would like to say I personally like the show. now it's not perfect, far from it: bad animation, bad jokes, bad stories. but there's some charm to it. being one of the first CGI TV shows in giving some personalities I like for main cast (except Candy. she bitched alot). and i even like some of the songs. they're not award-winning, but fun and catchy. so yes, I understand why you made this review and why it an atrocity, but I still like it.
The only positive things I have to say about this show is Donkey Kong's singing voice, Sterling Jarvis. At the time this aired, I was impressed by Reboot and Beast Wars and was a fan of the games, so I gave this a try. I don't know what possessed the creators of the show to go so far off base from the source material or why they felt they needed at least one song an episode (I assume it has something to do with the incredible singing voice they hired for DK). Everything about this show seems like it was a huge gamble and as far I'm aware, it didn't really pay off for them. Some people from my generation look back on this show fondly, but I think that is in part by association with the games of the same name.
The only other reason I can think of for anyone looking back on this show positively is because of Donkey Kong's emergence as a meme. Similar to the 60's Spider-man cartoon, this program can be mined thoroughly for screens to associate with "Expand Dong."
It's neither the association with the games nor the memes. Believe me, I WISH this weren't associated with the games and it's just downright bizarre to me how it influenced a couple aspects of DK64's development. The best I can say about it is that it's an enjoyable sort of idiotic. Even as a kid when it was still airing, I thought it was absolutely ridiculous how forced and excessive the musical numbers were, I hated Candy and Bluster for being the most unlikable characters ever, but the Kremlings getting up to various manners of harebrained plots was legitimately fun at times and there are moments of sheer surreality that are hard not to like. Like Cranky spontaneously bursting into song about how he's going to be famous "like James Dean, or Mr. Bean".
The DrillStreet Bees Viva Piñata was one of the few good shows from 4Kids entertainment. The other one is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Nearly everything else, especially their awfully dubbed and overly censored edit of One Piece, is terrible.
actually in 1996 there was a video game adaptation that was very good it respected the source material and had a fairly strong and at times even kind of deep plot that adaptation was the Sonic the hedgehog OVA movie and I stand by it being one of the best video game adaptations in film and no I am not a sonic fanboy
Elias Chacon I think it's worth reminding that the Sonic franchise at that point was starting to target teens rather than preteens. and while it didn't put too much focus on sexuality it did bring it up every now and then with Rouge's flirty lingo, Amy's accidental panty shot and Blaze being self conscious about her bosom. did I forget to mention that this is a Japanese franchise?
Can't check your sources there? 16:04 "I can see why it was turned into a Super Smash Bros trophy, Source: Super Smash bros. Brawl." No he isn't. That was a fake trophy a fan made up for a hypothetical "Robot DK trophy". This was the video you used: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8sjGGrny8yc.html
*The Eds want jawbreakers* Me: Someone tell how many times they were close to getting a jawbreaker only to get screwed over by something or someone else? also I love that show!
The Donkey Kong meme's have been circulating for quite a while now, in fact they've already gone into mild obscurity. The meme's have come and gone. lol
Its the golden rule of mind swapping. Your voice is going to be different simply because your vocal cords are NOT your vocal cords.... lot of body swapping episodes tend to forget that important aspect of anatomy.
The Nutshack did it right too....... No, I am not kidding. I don't know if that's a relief that the Nutshack could do it or if it's insulting that the Nutshack of all things did it
0:43 Except anime. Anime is usually pretty good when it comes to video game adaptations. That's why Pokemon and Animal Crossing worked. Advent Children is by and far an outlier and made by the same studio that made Spirits Within. I still don't get how their Animatrix segment didn't suck. And yes I know Visual Works is a different company logistically but it's basically just the Squeenix version of Square Pictures. I'm not even entirely sure if they even count as anime. The Square Pictures stuff wasn't even made in Japan...
mattwo7 Also all those rhythm game adaptations like Pripara and Aikatsu, which weren't great by any means, but cute shoujo fun with likable characters and OK music.
Besides, it was the first anime adaptation of a video game ever, and the first movie based on one and still leagues better of an adaptation than the live action movie... Which is pretty sad considering the anime one came first...
9:06 kinda random, but I absolutely love that you used the phrase "drives me up a wall", I use it all the time but I never hear anyone else use it and sometimes I feel crazy for things like that:P
AC actually isn't that bad as far as FF games go tbh. It just falls into the "you have to actually enjoy the source material to get into it. Much Like the Warcraft movie which a decent chunk of people ACTUALLY enjoyed but those who didn't really understand the souce material (or were overly critical about what was changed in the adaption because they don't understand you can't have anything,) did not.
I'm so using the Donkey King singing Metalhead in a song. I don't know it just sounds so cool and I could definitely use it, and besides a lot of music references stuff like Manslaughter by Let's Be Friends
It's alright. It pretty much just tells the story the games were already based on, exactly the way you'd expect them to. Nothing special, but not horrible either. Visually, it looks great, though.
(4:30) The SNES didn't render the 3D graphics. The 3D grahpics were rendered, and turned into sprites for the SNES to show, instead of an artist drawing the sprites. If you want an SNES game that does render 3D graphics, you have Star Fox / Star Wing.
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