Aug 31, 2010 at 6:26 PM
Join Date: Mar 23, 2010
Location: Hidden Palace Zone
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Age: 37
Gimmick!/Mr. Gimmick, annotated NES longplay.
Well, I used "let's play" since more people are familiar with that term. Really, in my experience, "longplays" are simply videos of a skilled playthrough of an entire game, making sure to show as much of the game as possible and not skipping anything or taking shortcuts, and usually have no commentary associated with them. Let's Plays are usually the ones more like this, where there's commentary. But there's a ton of different things like this that people give different names.
Basically, you need to watch this because... well, I just randomly stumbled upon it like a week or two ago, and was just blown away. I'd heard of Gimmick before since I know it's like the only NES game that uses this special soundchip to upgrade the music to a level a little more on par with arcade machines of the time, but I had no idea that it had THIS MUCH awesome stuff going for it that sets it totally apart from just about any other game of the era.
Just watching or even playing the game normally you might not even notice all the amazing little things about it, but this commentary does an exceedingly good job of informing you about all kinds of cool stuff. It's great. Make sure to watch all four parts if you can, unless you wanna play through the game first to avoid spoilers as was the case with some people I showed this to.
And even though I haven't mentioned it, it only came out in Japan (and Scandinavia, lol) so it'd probably be a bit more fitting to have called it a Famicom game rather than NES, but y'know. It WAS ready to be released here, but... well, just watch the videos, it explains everything.
And yes, it's where my avatar comes from :3
Well, I used "let's play" since more people are familiar with that term. Really, in my experience, "longplays" are simply videos of a skilled playthrough of an entire game, making sure to show as much of the game as possible and not skipping anything or taking shortcuts, and usually have no commentary associated with them. Let's Plays are usually the ones more like this, where there's commentary. But there's a ton of different things like this that people give different names.
Basically, you need to watch this because... well, I just randomly stumbled upon it like a week or two ago, and was just blown away. I'd heard of Gimmick before since I know it's like the only NES game that uses this special soundchip to upgrade the music to a level a little more on par with arcade machines of the time, but I had no idea that it had THIS MUCH awesome stuff going for it that sets it totally apart from just about any other game of the era.
Just watching or even playing the game normally you might not even notice all the amazing little things about it, but this commentary does an exceedingly good job of informing you about all kinds of cool stuff. It's great. Make sure to watch all four parts if you can, unless you wanna play through the game first to avoid spoilers as was the case with some people I showed this to.
And even though I haven't mentioned it, it only came out in Japan (and Scandinavia, lol) so it'd probably be a bit more fitting to have called it a Famicom game rather than NES, but y'know. It WAS ready to be released here, but... well, just watch the videos, it explains everything.
And yes, it's where my avatar comes from :3
