After the recent… happenings, Andie and I were left wanting for some game-related YouTube content to enjoy, so I decided to check out quite a large, popular channel that I've heard the name of on a number of occasions, but never actually investigated: Game Grumps.
I'm not sure why I hadn't checked these guys out before. I think I probably had some assumptions and prejudices in my mind based on the fact that they were a large YouTube channel (several million subscribers), and also their attachment to the Dream Daddy visual novel project. I have nothing against Dream Daddy itself as I haven't actually played it, but I had built up a certain amount of mild resentment towards those people who were declaring it as something new and revolutionary when, as we all know, Japanese devs have been doing romance-centric visual novels (including ones featuring male-on-male relationships) for a very long time now. Game Grumps, having had something to do with the project (I forget the specifics), got caught in the crossfire of my ire.
Anyway, the long and short of it is that they're very entertaining. They're two dudes with an enjoyably irreverent attitude about everything, and a penchant for behaving in a distinctly childish manner thoroughly unbecoming of someone in their thirties. In other words, I very much approve.
Their content covers a pretty broad variety of things. They do Let's Plays as a pair — which is great fun, particularly when they're playing shovelware or highly competitive multiplayer games — and they're not afraid to cover weird stuff that no-one else would bother with. I've enjoyed their look at the Intellivision Lives! collection on PS2, for example — that's a compilation I'm fully intending to investigate in detail at some point in the future.
Besides the Let's Play stuff, they also do a show called the "Ten-Minute Power Hour", where they get in front of the camera and do… something. Something usually vaguely craft-related that has plenty of potential for visual humour. So far I've seen them do acrylic pouring, cheese sculpting and making cardboard robot suits, and the atmosphere in these videos is just so infectiously joyful and childish that I've very much fallen in love with their work already.
And best of all, since they've been doing this shit for years now, I have a whooooole ton of videos to enjoy!
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