History YMMV / Northernlion

* ArchivePanic: His rate of video uploads is frankly absurd compared to many other Let's Play channels. Since the start of the channel in 2010 he's been consistently uploading somewhere around 3 to 5 videos a day, each 30-60 minutes long. The biggest individual example is of ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', across the original flash game, ''[[VideoGameRemake Rebirth]]'', it's [[ExpansionPack three expansions]], and the ''[[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaacAntibirth Anti]][[GameMod birth]]'' mod, he uploaded Isaac daily (often time multiple episodes a day) from ''2011 to 2022''. About a year after the release of ''Repentance'' daily episodes stoped, although occasional Isaac uploads do still happen. In total this adds up over ''4000 episodes'' each of which range from 30 minutes to over an hour. Once you make it through ALL the Isaac episodes, you'll be about 1/3rd of the way through his youtube backlog, [[SarcasmMode so have fun with that archive.]]

* ArchivePanic: He tends to upload very long videos of games that are very replayable or long. The biggest example is of ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', which went on for more that ''3000 episodes'', and that's just the ''original Flash Isaac'', so there's still ''[[VideoGameRemake Rebirth]]'' and both of its [[ExpansionPack two expansions]], '''and''' ''[[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaacAntibirth Anti]][[GameMod birth]]'' — each single episode can be from just under 30 minutes to an ''hour long''. Oh, and he's still active, and he's still making videos... [[SarcasmMode So have fun with that archive.]]

* ArchivePanic: He tends to upload very long videos of games that are very replayable or long. The biggest example is of ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', which went on for more that ''3000 episodes'', and that's just the ''original Flash Isaac'', so there's still ''[[VideoGameRemake Rebirth]]'' and both of its [[ExpansionPack two expansions]], '''and''' ''[[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaacAntibirth Anti]][[GameMod birth]]''- each single episode can be from just under 30 minutes to an ''hour long''. Oh, and he's still active, and he's still making videos... [[SarcasmMode So have fun with that archive.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: One of Northernlion's main complaints about ''[[VideoGame/TheSimpsonsVirtualBart Virtual Bart]]'' is that the game's attempt at humor uses a lot of BlackComedy and mean-spirited jokes, such as a game over cutscene of Bart being drawn and quartered, compared to the show's family-friendly comedy. Among the major criticisms of later seasons of ''The Simpsons'' is that the humor has gotten too dark and mean-spirited.
* HilariousInHindsight: In the ''Virtual Bart'' Let's Play, he decides to try beating the dinosaur stage by running past all obstacles, and proceeds to discuss a hypothetical idea for a game where it's beneficial to run past all your enemies even though they're trying to kill you...which is a fairly accurate description of ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}''.

** In another episode, when encountering a boss, he encounters a glitch where on the vs. screen, the boss's portrait cycles through all the different bosses. Northernlion comments that he thought he would be fighting all the bosses, which is something he expected [[TrollingCreator Edmund]] to do. In ''Rebirth'' there is a BossRush room that has all the bosses from the first game and the expansion sans the final bosses (as well as a few of the [[spoiler:Womb/Utero]] bosses).
*** As if that wasn't enough, Afterbirth+ adds [[spoiler:Delirium, who, quite literally, cycles through all the different bosses the player has encountered in the current run.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: One of Northernlion's main complaints about ''Virtual Bart'' is that the game's attempt at humor uses a lot of BlackComedy and mean-spirited jokes, such as a game over cutscene of Bart being drawn and quartered, compared to the show's family-friendly comedy. Among the major criticisms of later seasons of ''The Simpsons'' is that the humor has gotten too dark and mean-spirited.

* NeverLiveItDown: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDnrW-pnXU Trainwreck]]. In the first twenty minutes of this ''Isaac'' run, he died twice. He then spent the next hour trudging through the game with possibly the worst fire rate he had ever seen, eventually reaching Mega Satan... and dying. Over a month later, and he still hasn't forgiven himself for it.

* EarWorm: Running into a bug while playing [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac The Binding Of Isaac]] eventually results in [[http://youtu.be/7BVozd90y2U?t=43m22s this]].
* EnsembleDarkhorse: A lot of people seem to like Kate.

** The Pot Play.

* MostWonderfulSound: Northernlion's voice, which is one reason why he's so popular.

* ArchivePanic: He tends to upload very long videos of games that are very replayable or long. Case in point, his ''[[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac]]'' LPs which can go on for hundreds of episodes, each being between 30 minutes to an hour, and that is not including all the expansions and remakes either.

** In another episode, when encountering a boss, he encounters a glitch where on the vs. screen, the boss's portrait cycles through all the different bosses. Northernlion comments that he thought he would be fighting all the bosses, which is something he expected [[TrollingCreator Edmund]] to do. In ''Rebirth'' there is a BossRush room that has all the bosses from the first game and the expansion sans the final bosses.

* HarsherInHindsight: One of Northernlion's main complaints about ''Virtual Bart'' is that the game's attempt at humor uses a lot of DeadBabyComedy and mean-spirited jokes, such as a game over cutscene of Bart being drawn and quartered, compared to the show's family-friendly comedy. Among the major criticisms of later seasons of ''The Simpsons'' is that the humor has gotten too dark and mean-spirited.

* HarsherInHindsight: One of Northernlion's main complaints about ''Virtual Bart'' is that the game's attempt at humour uses a lot of DeadBabyComedy and mean-spirited jokes, such as a game over cutscene of Bart being drawn and quartered, compared to the show's family-friendly comedy. Among the major criticisms of later seasons of ''The Simpsons'' is that the humour has gotten too dark and mean-spirited.

* {{Squick}}: A few of Northernlion's comments are a bit...disgusting.
--> "This level, however, can suck my dick until I come down its throat and hopefully it chokes on my seed!"
--> ''(after getting a powerup that makes his mouth all bloody)'' "Also, it looks like I just ate out my girlfriend on her period!"

* HilariousInHindsight: In the ''Virtual Bart'' Let's Play, he decides to try beating the dinosaur stage by running past all obstacles, and proceeds to discuss a hypothetical idea for a game where it's beneficial to run past all your enemies even though they're trying to kill you...which is a fairly accurate description of ''{{Iji}}''.

** Probably justified, as he is playing the NauseaFuel-filled Roguelike ''TheBindingOfIsaac''.