Overwatch Newbies React to Overwatch Animated Short | "Rise and Shine" (G-Mineo Reacts) 

Non-overwatch players: she is so cute! Overwatch players: KILL THAT DEMON!!

There are three more animated shorts what you haven't watched Shooting Stars Reunion Zero hour

they changed “non overwatch players” to “overwatch newbies” they’re growing

6:26 that is not Mcree, the name that is displayed is MacReady which is a reference to a character from a 1982 film called “the thing” which takes place in Antarctica. Just a fun fact I thought you should know.

@11:02 Wade: "Wow!" Haley: "Wow!" Marc: "Wow!" Mei: "Wow!" xD

During Mei's soft launch, it was revealed that Mei managed to connect with Winston but instead of joining him and Tracer, she travelled the world for a bit and wrote a blog

Oh, Haley, you do a decent job, considering you don't go binge watching all cinematics and rereading all the lore for an nth time. Yet

"That's so sad" It's sad until you play against her, then your glad she went through this trauma.

Yo, the diversity in Overwatch is one of the reasons it's so beloved. There's a hero for everyone.

The second I saw what they where reacting too I was like “oh there gonna cry”

I recommend maybe watching the “Are you with me” and “We are Overwatch” teasers. They’re pretty short: the first one is winston’s full message and the second is a cool little “inspirational” thingy.

When overwatch 2 releases you should play as it gives slot of lore to the game

3 more left! “Shooting star”, “reunion” and the last one “zero hour” (the best!)

Hayley every scene: “that’s so sad”

If this dude says "cHamPioNs" one more time I'm going to loose it

Are you going to react to the Hero Origin stories after these last few shorts?

Haley is the best Overwatch Recap CEO!

Mei’s Animatic makes me wanna cry every freaking time I watch it aghhhh

i had my wife watch this, and the whole time she was just "that's not logical" and uninterested. The moment with snowball, she started screaming and paused it and sobbing and screamed why would you make me watch this why would they do that? And it took me like a whole day to convince her that it ends better, she just needs to stick through it. She didn't believe me and I never saw her care so much about a story or cry so hard before. She's very logical and just doesn't get connected to fiction like that. Such a strong moment.

YOU GUYS NEED TO WATCH THE VIDEO: "ARE YOU WITH US." IT'S THE FULL MESSAGES

They'll never see the cinematics or story beats from the PvE missions in the game. Hopefully they look into that, because that does provide a little more insight to the team and Blackwatch specifically, for the Rialto mission, when they were active.

Team fortress 2 shorts gave me joy, overwatch shorts gave me tears... no other games peaked as much as these 2 games. I fully reccommend to watch all shorts aviable from them.

When you guys are done with the cinematics, you have GOT to see the origins stories!!!

Omg Haley's overwatch animation recaps are so amazing!!! She's so educated on overwatch lore, the depth of knowledge she possesses is honestly impressive!

I love watching these videos to see how they react to the different stories of the characters!

Man I have not seen this short in quite a while and I really kind of got emotional watching it and your reactions as well. Blizzard's shorts are the best man

Perception from this video - Awww, she's so adorable and caring! Actual gameplay - Heartless ice queen who freezes people in place so she can casually execute them with an icicle to the head.

Like most of the other animated shorts, this takes place on one of the game levels (Ecopoint: Antarctica). After this short was released, they updated the map to add the coffee mugs in front of the malfunctioning cryo chambers.

I love this cinematic, can’t wait to see you guys react to Shooting Star

I don’t remember being this emotional when I first watched this lmao, I love u guys so much

Omg guys you are like robots... I cried like 3 times on this video and you just said "wow" 😂😂

I love Haley's look of sheer terror every time Wade turns to her for a recap.

6:40 the pod on the far left read "MacReady" which is a reference to the 1982 movie "The Thing", MacReady being the main character of the movie who is played by Kurt Russel. It is a clever reference considering that this short takes place on an Arctic base away from all other life just like The Thing movie.

Moira gets absolutely savage in the spawn room! (That or she genuinely doesn't know...) Moira: Dr. Zhou, I'm interested in your colleagues research into the long term effects of cryogenic freezing... Mei: Well- Yes... I'm sure... maybe... *Sniffle* *Cries*

You guys should also react to all the origin stories! It would definitely give you insight onto how each character came to be who they are now!!! Pls watch them :D

To give some context: The cryochambers failed because the batteries started failing one by one over the years. Mei would've also died if not for Winston's message. Because there was only one battery left, there was only one cryochamber left operational basically.

Haley says people call her dumb in the comments but I'm honestly impressed with how much she's of the lore she's learned!

Can’t wait till you guys finally reach ‘Zero Hour’. Just a few more! 🤞🏽Also, so cool to see how your Overwatch lore knowledge has grown since the earlier OW reacts. Keep ‘em coming!

for mei to be tortured so much she really does love subjecting players to the same pain as her friends

I love how brave and creative Mei is in this animated short!

You guys do such a great job wrapping up the videos xD and I like how you understkod the lore so fast! Btw, check out the Junkrat video (not a cinematic short), but since u like him, u might love it xD

There is an in-game interaction with Moira where she asks Mei for the Data that explaines the long time effects on humans while in cryo sleep and mei just says "yes" and starts crying.

As oppressive as mei’s character is in game, this is def one of the better shorts. Wonderful recap Haley, great vid. Keep it up

I teared up when her voice cracked at "my friend" 😢

Just so you know, the next cinematic is tecknicly "junkertown: the plan"

You guys have a few more overwatch animated shorts to watch. Shooting Star the D.VA cinematic. Reunion the Ashe and McCree cinematic. Zero Hour the Overwatch 2 announcement cinematic. There is also a Junkrat and Roadhog short which is really funny. Edit: BTW Ecopoint Antarctica is a map in Overwatch. Another note, Blackwatch was a special ops divisions of Overwatch. Blackwatch was lead by Gabriel Reyes (Reaper). They did some shady stuff. Other members of Blackwatch are McCree, Genji, and Moira.

There's another layer of heartbreak for Mei. She developed the cryochamber tech. So she also feels guilty for her team's death. There's an in game interaction between her and Moira where Moira asks if they can discuss her advancements in that field and Mei starts sniffling.

It’s so good to see people excited for Overwatch.

If you guys do one day play Overwatch I highly recommend playing the story modes that your only able to play during April. These story modes also will help answer your questions about Overwatch lore like, “what happened to Overwatch that made it disbanded?” Btw I also recommend reacting to the Overwatch animated short “Zero Hour” once your done reacting to all the other animated shorts so that your watching them in chronological order.

I’m so excited for y’all to watch dva’s animated short

In the game, Mei also normally survive the longest on fights lol

team dies: ehh thats sad. snowball dies: i cri every time

I must be in a crying mood for watching anything containing this animation

Not sure if comments have said this, but it is speculated that as the power slowly ran out the Cryo chambers one by one shut down and so the people died, May was lucky that , one, hers was the last one and two, Winston's message was picked up, forcing the computer to wake someone.

their reaction to finding out Mei had been asleep for NINE years!

10:56 this what every mie main said when blizzard keep nerfing her 😂

One of my fave cinematics, never fails to give me chills or make me tear up. Especially at that part near the end when she leaves drinks as a last offering to her deceased friends ;n;

I have a theory that Winston ended up saving Mei. My belief is that the batteries were dying, leading to one cryo pod after another being shut down and hers would have shut down soon but the emergency broadcast led to the system trying to activate any functional cryo pods.

Definitely still take the time to check out all the origin stories (probably all of them in one or two videos), as well as the comics! Lots of delicious lore there. The comics especially reveal stuff like Tracer's girlfriend Emily and backstories of different characters! There's also one that comes directly after Infiltration :)

I would say that Shooting Star is worth watching. If you didn’t know, Moira was part of Blackwatch and is now with Talon. Mei is with Overwatch. If Mei and Moira are on the same team you can hear a dialogue wear Moira asks Mei about the effects on cryogenic freezing (how everyone died) and Mei starts crying 😢. There is a pajama Mei skin and the outfit she wore when she climbed the tower things available in the game. Ecopoint Antarctica is also a map in game for 1v1s and Elimination. Haley is a great recap specialist. Hype!!!!!!!!

Then you have to watch the Origin Stories (which are the introductions for implemented characters) then the Overwatch 2 trailer! Great reactions as usual! :)

Wade's strong feelings about wanting to help Overwatch are so legit tho. That's the magic of these cinematics.

Can't wait for you guys to react to Sigma's origin story. The trailer it self is amazing but you can really see how much blizzard cares about these animations and how detailed they are (they put extra messages if you play that video backwards to make it extra creepy which fits sigma's character super well). People spent days trying figure those out lol.

Haley is such an awesome recap CEO!!! I'm definitely not peer pressured my Wade into typing this!!!! Jokes a side, I really think Haley does a really good job at recaping

After watching the last 3 shorts, I HIGHLY recommend watching the origin stories (which you can probably do 2 or 3 per video since they’re shorter) because it tells you a lot more about each specific hero

I recommend the hero trailers as well. they give lore for characters and are quick to watch sigma's always makes people mildly freak out

Once you guys are done with the animated shorts, I sure hope you check out the character origin videos. They have a lower budget but still explain the origins of the characters that didn't get their own short films. You'll find new reasons to love those characters you'd never heard of from the cinematics. :D

Mei is the devil and snowball is a demon, they slowly kill everyone by freezing while laughing. It's scary and has happened way to many time to me when I play support

Really should watch the origin stories, they’re super cool, and provide a LOT of insight on the story

@gmineo Dr. Mei Ling Zhao and her associates were climatologists working out of an Overwatch base (Ecopoint: Antarctica). Overwatch charged them with monitoring the atmosphere for anomalies in the changing climate and to help keep the planet habitable for Humans and Omnics. When playing as Mei, you can tell she's not really a combatant the way she holds her gun and often sways it, showing she hasn't developed a steady hand from experience.

Oddly enough, some of the most horrendous, soul-crushing characters to play against have tragic backstory cinematics...

I always love watching these videos! So fun :D Also can't wait for shooting star, that's definitely a rollercoaster xd.

You guys are f’ing awesome! Keep doing your thing.

love the fact that they seemed much more upset that a bird nest got destroyed then finding out that all of meis friends are dead

Haley’s overwatch recaps are EVERYTHING. Y’all are trippin >:3

Non over watch players: “aww mei is cute” Overwatch players: “NO SHES AN ICE DEMON”

Snowball:There is no other way and we both know that if can't discover it I'LL do it

Man, after watching this there’s no way to complain about having a bad work day 😳

Dude, I like you guys Makes me forget about all of the Toxic people online. So thank you, also I cannot wait until you do Reunion

Mei be like: All my friends are dead push me to the edge 👊🏼😩🤚🏼

Oh man! Can't wait for the next reaction video!!!

After the cinematics you all should check out the Overwatch character reveals and origins. The Moira and Ashe gameplay reveals were awesome. The Sigma origin cinematic is my favorite origin.

I always cry when snowball transfers it’s battery

Hahaha Now I have a new thing to be excited for, hahahaha (MARC SINGING BOHEMIAN SO AMAZED CANT SLEEP FOR DAYS hahahaha!! Go mineo go!!!❤❤❤rise and shine🎶🎶🎶🎶 and also CEO HALEY REALLY SMART hahaha I really waiting for it. Kudoz

I came late in the game like about a year before it came out and I didn't even know about the animated shorts until later on.

Hey GMineo Team *Here's a list of OW cinematics and shorts in chronological order* "Tracer Origin Story" "King's Row Uprising Origin Story" "Soldier:76 Origin Story" "The Last Bastion" "Hero" "Ana Origin Story" "Are You With Us?" "Recall" "Overwatch Cinematic Trailer" "Alive" "Sombra Origin Story" "Infiltration" "Orisa Origin Story" "Doomfist Origin Story" "The Junkers" "Junkertown: The Plan" "Rise and Shine" "Dragons" “Honor and Glory” "Brigitte Origin Story" "Wrecking Ball Origin Story" "Shooting Star" "Ashe Origin Story" “Reunion” "Baptiste Origin Story" "Sigma Origin Story" "Roadtrip" "Zero Hour" "We Are Overwatch" Finally off camera, watch "Complete History and Lore of Overwatch" by TGN

It´s possible that the malfunctioning was connected to them running low on power and the fact that Mai survived was entierely coincidental because of Winston´s call that booted up the system.

Great content as always! Love you guys so much

I just saw the notification for this video and immediately say “yassss” 😂

If you notice in game some heroes’s skin have description. Some hero has a specific skin that explains a little bit of their backstory. So... dont accidentally spoil yourself while playing the game.

Omg I'm crying every time i see this sinematic

@G-Mineo Here's a little fact to make you even more sad: Mei, who is a Climatologist, is the one who designed and helped build the Cryo-Chambers at Ecopoint Antarctica (the location "Rise and Shine" takes place). So yeah, there's underlying guilt throughout this entire animated short because of that fact. On some level, Mei blames herself for the malfunctions that killed her team. Which, in turn, fuels her Survivor's Guilt. Which, in turn, helps fuel her need to bring the data back to Overwatch and to help Overwatch help the world. Also, and I'm surprised not one of you realized this, Snowball is Mei's Ultimate in the game. He's the device that Mei tosses out to create the Blizzard.

What is the most fucked up part is that Mei was the one who invented cryogenic freezing in Overwatch so its likely that she built the pods that took her friends' lives.

Another great video guys! Honestly excited for Zero Hour now! Hope I can hop on next stream too! ❤❤

Only started watching ur channel a week ago. I'm addicted

I love this serie , keep doing this reaction!!

They need to see:"Zero hour" and i fckin love Haley omg

dude i cant wait for the reunion and the shooting star its gonna dope!!!!!! ASHE! ASHE! ASHE! ASHE! ASHE! ASHE! ASHE! ASHE!

The biggest crime in his video is that the flash drive doesn't use *Type-C.*

Why did people tell them that it was going to be sad? The moment she went to sleep, they were anticipating it.