Showing posts with label sentiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sentiment. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2014

No Kill la Kill Liveblog Today...

Sorry, but I'm at Intervention, enjoying a con where for once I have no responsibilities and, if past years are anything to go by, regenerating my creative energies for the remainder of the year.

In the meantime, have some videos! Today's theme: videos that celebrate the oft-forgotten minor enemies in video games.

First off, this great song parody by the inimitable Smooth McGroove and Dookieshed, "Pokemon: Try to Catch a Few!"


Second, this brilliant original song by Matthew Taranto of Brawl in the Family, "Ode to Minions."


Speaking of Matthew Taranto, he has an *incredible* ability to make songs/videos that give me actual feelings about personality-less classic video game pixel-collections. For example, "If It Takes a Lifetime," which examines what the video game concept of "extra lives" would really mean, passing through horror to something actually kind of sweet:


But the one that makes me actually, I kid you not, cry for a sprite with virtually no characterization is "Prodigal Robot." I tear up at 2:11, and just lose it at 2:29 every goddamn time, because I am apparently a sentimental loser: