History WebVideo / MandaloreGaming

** His video on ''Anonymous Agony'' is more of a cutscene clip show that showcases its overly edgy and ridiculous writing that sounds like something created by an angsty teen. As Mandalore calls it, it's a "nuclear trainwreck", but he does say as much of a technical and literary mess of a game it is, he does think there is at least a level of coherence to its insanity.

*** In his ''Anonymous Agony'' video, he had popular true crime youtuber JCS: Criminal Psychology give out bits of information on the main character's strange psyche.

* DrinkingGame: Mandalore has done this (formerly with Shammy) when streaming games like ''VideoGame/TheMysteryOfTheDruids'', ''Anonymous Agony'' and ''VideoGame/GartenOfBanban''. Because of the rules he sets up, he'll usually end up being completely hammered by the end of the current stream and will usually fail to grasp certain things that happen during those games.

** When he mentions a "haze" in his ''VideoGame/{{Pathologic}}'' video (uploaded 2018) he briefly shows the character Haze from ''Anonymous Agony'', a game he would review three years later.

* FalseCause: ''Anonymous Agony'' has {{Loading Screen}}s, despite the game being a light UsefulNotes/RPGMaker project that loads nigh-instantly; in fact, you can sometimes spot the game loading the map ''before'' transitioning to the loading screen. Mandalore brings up that the game's creator specifically added ''fake load times'' into his game because "all the best games have loading screens", a reasoning that elicits nothing but utter confusion.

* FreezeFrameBonus: In his ''The Mystery of the Druids'' video, there is a brief one before TheStinger that shows a screenshot of ''Anonymous Agony'' with Lowry placed into the image. This could also be an EarlyBirdCameo as Mandy would make an ''Anonymous Agony'' video a year later.
** Similarly, when he's discussing the visuals of ''VideoGame/{{Pathologic}}'', he brings up that the drab coloration and foggy draw distance make it feel like "you're living in a haze." When he says 'haze', an opaque image of Haze Stratos, the PlayerCharacter of ''Anonymous Agony'', briefly appears in the corner of the screen. He brings this up at the end of the ''Anonymous Agony'' video.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: A brief cutaway gag in the ''VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain'' review when [[spoiler:his door creaks open with a skeleton reaching into the room.]] He'd repeat this gag in his ''Anonymous Agony'' review.

** For his ''Anonymous Agony'' video, he jokes about how unsurprising it would be that the other cops aren't sympathetic to Craig's interest in a case that nearly got his wife killed if said cops were from the city. Later, when Haze feeds one of his victims' corpse to a group of dogs, Mandalore suggests using pigs would be faster [[VisualPun while putting the same cops on the screen again.]]

** He also does this upon finishing ''Ring II: Twilight of Gods'' as that game's credits roll in his video covering both ''Ring'' games. Considering that Mandalore went through what can be best described as [[MoonLogicPuzzle Moon Logic]] flavored [[MindScrew brain poison]], it's more than understandable.

* ShoutOut: The "Pathways" segment of his ''Myth II'' video has one when a Myrkridian shows up and requests the lone soldier to "[[VideoGame/GartenOfBanban hand over [his] pancreas]]."

* BrokenAesop:[[invoked]] Mandy thinks this for the story of ''Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013''. Throughout the game, he's been led to believe that the message of the game was to shoot everything in sight because, from a story perspective, Luke saving Jacob instead of getting a clear shot on the bear about to attack the latter resulted in their father's death and, from a gameplay perspective, [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou every animal in the game]] [[AnimalsHateHim tries to specifically kill Jacob]]. So you could imagine his surprise when the game led to the message of "always help before hurting" by having Jacob save Luke ''and'' kill the black lion and the two continuing their safari after this point as a good thing, completely ignoring that the entire region of Africa (and parts of Alaska) went through a mass-extinction event [[OneManArmy courtesey of Jacob]] to get to this point.

* HalloweenEpisode: Starting in 2020, around Halloween, Mandy will upload a review of a game that is bound to make people feel like they were sent through a bizarre fever dream, because according to him, "a cosmic horror hiding under something innocuous is perfect for Halloween." So far, this applies to his videos on ''VideoGame/TheMysteryOfTheDruids'', ''Anonymous Agony'', both ''Ring'' games and ''[[VideoGame/CabelasDangerousHunts Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013]]''.

* YouLookFamiliar: Mandy makes a understated comment when first meeting the adult Luke during his ''VideoGame/CabelasDangerousHunts 2013'' video, calling to mind he looks ''a lot'' like [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Canderous Ordo]].

** During his review of the ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'' remake demo, he compares the protagonist's constant narrating of everything going on to something from a cartoon for small children. Up pops [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]], [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues Blue]], and [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Ruby]] [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Rose]].

* ChekhovsGun: Quite literally. When Mandy and Avery were streaming ''The Moment of Silence'', he cocks an unloaded shotgun it in front of his mic for comedic effect when Avery basically tells the chat to "lock and load".

* {{Japandering}}: Discussed in the ''Shogo: Mobile Armor Division'' review. While Mandalore does enjoy mecha shows like ''Franchise/Patlabor'', he can't wrap his head around how anyone could enjoy moe SliceOfLife series like ''Anime/KOn''. He also notes how the in-game models are a crude imitation of the anime art-style which clash heavily with the more realistic level design.

* FlatWhat: In his review of ''War Front: Turning Point'' he lets out one of these when [[MoodWhiplash a scene of Americans and Germans being all buddy-buddy post-WWII cuts suddenly to one of the main characters being shot dead by an enemy agent]].

* {{Japandering}}: Discussed in the ''Shogo: Mobile Armor Division'' review. While Mandalore does enjoy mecha shows like ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'', he can't wrap his head around how anyone could enjoy moe SliceOfLife series like ''Anime/KOn''. He also notes how the in-game models are a crude imitation of the anime art-style which clash heavily with the more realistic level design.

* NightmareRetardant[[invoked]]: Discussed in ''Myth II'' with regards to the Myrkridian. The original game framed them as a race so horrific that a mere reminder of their existence drives the villain into a blind rage. The gangly bat people introduced in the second game are so goofy looking that Mandalaore simply cannot take them seriously as a threat.

* ConversationalTroping: Though he has never mentioned TVTropes in his videos, Mandy has called out enough tropes by name to infer that he has some degree of familiarity with it.