You ever heard of Mandaloregaming and Shammy? If not I'd recommend checking them out before answering this.
I think Iāve heard of Mandaloregaming but Iāve never paid him too much attention, and Iāve never heard of Shammy before.
Watching one video of theirs each, they seem fine, I guess. But this highlights a kind of the problem with the āreviewerā sub culture on Youtube, and thatās once youāve found your 3-4 people, you donāt really need to subscribe to any more beyond that?
Iāve known other people who try to get in to that biz and growth for them is really slow. I know that whenever I do an actual video review these days, it can be hard to build momentum.
And I see these folks, and itās like, they do good workā¦ but I already subscribe to Easy Allies, and SomeCallMeJohnny, and Accursed Farms. I kind of donāt need more game reviewers in my life. Easy Allies is one of the last to still do the classic āprofessional video reviewā format (continuing their legacy from Gametrailers), Johnny drifts around to whatever nears his wheelhouse, and Accursed Farms (Rossās Game Dungeon) focuses on the weird, obscure games and unique outlooks. Iām set, basically.
I also watched Shammyās āPeople you should subscribe to instead of meā video, and I see he mentions heās friends with Turbobutton, which isā¦ a channel I subscribe to, but somewhat reluctantly. His breakdowns of character action games are pretty good, but every now and then he kind of slips dangerously close to āangry gamerā territory.
What turned me off was his Bayonetta video and his āHow cover systems ruined shootersā video. With Bayonetta, it was his frustration that Bayonetta 2 simplified (or ādumbed downā as some would say) the combat system from the original Bayonetta, something I personally had not noticed, and considering I feel like I had more fun playing Bayonetta 2, I think it might have been a change for the better.
It made his complaints come off like āTHEY RUINED IT, FOR THE PLEBS!!ā instead of investigating why a change like that may have been made. Which was also the problem with his cover system video, because it was, again, him yelling about how shooters were being dumbed down. I think Turbobutton is a pretty smart guy sometimes, and Iām still subscribed to him, but I give his videos the side-eye sometimes. Heās so close to getting it, but sometimes his normally professional, intelligent appearance slips for a crass joke or an angry rant.
Hearing Shammy try to spin that as a good thing, and the āitās okay, Iām allowed to be rude, Iām friends with people that shield me from criticismā tone his own videos sometimes take, ehhhā¦ itās fine if youāre in to that, I wonāt judge or anything, but I donāt think thatās for me.
After watching Mandaloreās Paratopic review, I guess Iām thinking about maybe subscribing. I dunno.
