History YMMV / RETSUPURAE

*** Slowbeef's sarcastic declaration of "All hail Shadow!" becomes a delicious case of TemptingFate ([[IncrediblyLamePun foreshadowing?]]) when the game sings those very words ''sincerely'' during Shadow's credit song.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: While most of Dahir Insaat's concepts are as AwesomeYetImpractical as Retsuprae makes them out to be, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWk9gYSfME their "restaurant" concept]], where food is delivered to patrons via a conveyer belt and drop-down cranes, had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPoAjRxyBQQ actually been replicated by one Guangzhou restaurant]], where the entire restaurant is automated through robotics. It even makes the original concept look BoringButPractical by comparison, by replacing the conveyer belt with robots on elevated pathways. While the duo's primary criticism of cost-effectiveness is still valid - [[https://www.thinkchina.sg/guangzhou-robot-restaurant-robot-chefs-did-their-part-during-epidemic the restaurant acknowledges the high costs of this system as a major risk]] - it's doubtful they were anticipating this idea coming to life at all, much less with this level of precision to the original concept.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: While most of Dahir Insaat's concepts are as AwesomeYetImpractical as Retsuprae makes them out to be, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWk9gYSfME their "restaurant" concept]] had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPoAjRxyBQQ actually been replicated by one robotic restaurant in Guangzhou]], even making the original concept look BoringButPractical in comparison by replacing the conveyer belts with robots on elevated pathways. While the duo's primary criticism of cost-effectiveness is still valid - [[https://www.thinkchina.sg/guangzhou-robot-restaurant-robot-chefs-did-their-part-during-epidemic the restaurant acknowledges the high costs of this system as a major risk]] - it's doubtful they were anticipating this idea coming to life at all, much less with this level of precision to the original concept.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: While most of Dahir Insaat's concepts are as AwesomeYetImpractical as Retsuprae makes them out to be, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWk9gYSfME their "restaurant" concept]] turned out to have been more feasible than the duo had given it credit for. Specifically, they considered the process of food being automatically delivered via conveyer belts and drop-down cranes to be cost-ineffective, except [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPoAjRxyBQQ this is precisely what one Guangzhou restaurant has been doing]], along with automating the rest of the food-making process. Their execution of the idea even makes the Dahir Insaat's concept look BoringButPractical by comparison, by replacing the conveyer belts with robots on elevated pathways. While the duo's criticisms of cost-effectiveness are still valid - [[https://www.thinkchina.sg/guangzhou-robot-restaurant-robot-chefs-did-their-part-during-epidemic the restaurant acknowledges the high costs of this system as a major risk]] - it's doubtful they were anticipating this idea coming to life at all, much less with this level of precision to the original concept.

** VideoGame/JackOrlando, due to the fact that he's overly confrontational, bigoted against minorities and gays, and an [[DesignatedHero unheroic]] JerkAss. Slowbeef and Diabetus say ''Halligan'' was almost a better hero, due to the fact that at least he was just kind of stupid rather than outright malicious, and later on in Part 8 say ''Mike Dawson'' had more charm than Jack.

** Speaking of ''Dark Seed II'', [=ADVGames4ever=], the guy who longplayed the game, is this as well for wasting the riffers' and the viewers' time by talking to every single character in the game after ''every'' plot event,regardless of if that character actually gets new dialogue from it, and for standing still doing nothing for minutes at a time at random points. People have said that the longplay could've been '''much''' shorter (the full longplay as is comes out at just under '''eight hours''') if he were to edit the footage; he even makes Diabetus angry when he ''does'' try to edit, but screws it up and makes the scene in question ''longer''. Granted, his pauses did give us some really funny moments from the duo.

** ''Lechuza'' too. When the scariest thing about your horror game is the haggard-looking face of your protoganist plastered across the title screen, something is very wrong. At the end of the game, an owl demon appears to kill the protoganist: the creators clearly want you to be scared out of your mind, but it falls flat because the "owl demon" is just a photograph of a great horned owl!

*** ''Ihsoy'' is simply very hard to follow, as it includes inane descriptions of useless information - such as the narrator's trip to [=GameStop=] to buy the game - features incredibly bad action-movie style banter between the narrator and the monster, and the majority of the story is spent with Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Peach, and Bowser being possessed and un-possessed over and over again with no apparent rhyme or reason for why any of it is happening. All of the possessed characters' names are also backwards, making the possessed Princess Peach's name "Hcaep Ssecnirp", which (as the helpful pronunciation guide in the fic tries to point out) sounds like /hkeɪp sɛknɜrp/. It certainly isn't helped by the fact that the BigBad turns out to be [[spoiler:'''Reznor''', which is almost unanimously considered one of the easiest bosses in an entire franchise that is full of easy bosses, and doesn't even have the benefit of having an intimidating appearance either]]. It doesn't help that right from their introduction into the series, [[spoiler:Reznors are described as Dinosaurs who have been enslaved by Bowser, and thus don't act on their own will.]] The author [[AttentionWhore whoring his YouTube channel]] at the end of the story did not make things any better.

** Though you can say most [=LPers=] featured on Retsupurae are disliked, none seems to have attracted as much vitriol, both amongst the crew and the fanbase, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7iF0RRAZRc Queenie Z]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwmpd2hjtpE LijikLetsPlay]] received this similar treatment, which eventually forced him to close his account.

** Speaking of ''Dark Seed II'', [=ADVGames4ever=], the guy who longplayed the game, is this as well for wasting the riffers' and the viewers' time by talking to every single character in the game after ''every'' plot event (regardless of if that character actually gets new dialogue from it), and for standing still doing nothing for minutes at a time at random points. People have said that the longplay could've been '''much''' shorter (the full longplay as is comes out at just under '''eight hours''') if he were to edit the footage; he even makes Diabetus angry when he ''does'' try to edit, but screws it up and makes the scene in question ''longer''. Granted, his pauses did give us some really funny moments from the duo.

** Brent Halligan from ''Mystery of the Druids'' earned a ton of ire for being a general idiot despite being [[DesignatedHero the main protagonist]]. Also, he does a lot of awful things in the game, ranging from poisoning a homeless man ''just to get change for the phone'' to [[spoiler: '''stabbing the female lead apropos of nothing.''']]

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: A coping mechanism often employed by subjects of the [=RPs=].
** [[LetsPlay/SirRonLionheart On the]] [[LetsPlay/BillyMC rare occasion]], [[LetsPlay/ElectricalBeast though]], [[ColbertBump this actually turns out to be true.]]

* MostAnnoyingSound: Some noises just ''really'' irritate these guys.
** Rijno's [[VerbalTic constant use]] of "OKAY!" annoys them to no end.
** Any [=LPer=] who sings along with the music, does voice impressions, or uses too many sound effects. [=Playtennis14=] and [=NostalgicRageHQ=] are two good examples.
** Their opinion on [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Doug Walker's]] voice when he screams.
** The oyster in ''King's Quest VI'' gets this reaction as soon as he starts talking.
** In the ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'' longplay, Diabetus remarks how annoying the alarm is. Then a character gives the order to "sound the alarm!" while an alarm is clearly already sounding. A new alarm starts sounding along with the original alarm.
** The town music in ''King's Quest V''. When Kuroinokaze goes back into the town a fourth time, they begin to wonder if the longplay video was actually designed to ''kill'' them.
** Various animals in ''King's Quest V'', too, which leads to an unusual insult based on the above:
--> '''Diabetus:''' ''[about the rat]'' Your voice is like the town theme.
** Lijik's voice when reading the dialogue in his Tower of Heaven Let's Play really annoyed the duo, especially slowbeef, who lost all his cool and snapped at the guy for his gimmick.
** To a minority of the fanbase, the Ridley voice is this.

** In Chip and Ironicus' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9398SaYfUno Retsupurae with Chris & Tim!]], they riff on a duo for putting a feed of their own faces in the corner of the game footage, with a heavy dose of ItWillNeverCatchOn. This riff was posted in 2008, years before acts like [=PewDiePie=] and Markiplier would become internet celebrities for doing essentially the same thing.

** The second game of the ''Trapped'' series at one point involves a character somehow becoming locked ''inside'' a car, a concept so ridiculously unfeasible that it almost gives Proteus an aneurysm. Fast-forward six years, and there is now the ''Car Escape'' series, which is pretty much one guy somehow getting locked inside '''multiple''' cars over and over again.

* MemeticBadass: It was inevitable, given their frequent {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}.

** Subverted with John Parker from Shadow of The Comet. He initially became this thanks to him having a heart attack after looking at a photograph.[[note]][[{{Misblamed}} Granted, the picture was implied to be a Cthulhu-esque picture that'll surely scare anyone.]][[/note]] However, he later shifted to a MemeticBadass after pulling some really badass stunts later in the game.

*** Which was quickly confirmed by the end of the game when Halligan [[spoiler: ''stabbed his own love interest in the gut.'' Even if it was to stop the BigBad, [[AssPull it came so far out of nowhere]] and was so over the top that it cemented the Retsupurae crew's hatred of the guy.]]

** Speaking of ''Dark Seed II'', [=ADVGames4ever=], the guy who longplayed the game, is this as well for wasting the riffers' and the viewers' time by talking to every single character in the game after ''every'' plot event (regardless of if that character actually gets new dialogue from it), and for standing still doing nothing for minutes at a time at random points. People have said that the longplay could've been '''much''' shorter if he were to edit the footage; he even makes Diabetus angry when he ''does'' try to edit, but screws it up and makes the scene in question ''longer''. Granted, his pauses did give us some really funny moments from the duo.

** Jack Orlando from [[VideoGame/JackOrlando his self-titled game]], due to the fact that he's overly confrontational, bigoted against minorities and gays, and an [[DesignatedHero unheroic]] JerkAss. Slowbeef and Diabetus say ''Halligan'' was almost a better hero, due to the fact that at least he was just kind of stupid rather than outright malicious, and later on in Part 8 say ''Mike Dawson'' had more charm than Jack.

* BaseBreaker: [=MegaManNG=], aka '[=MegaJose=]', has divided opinions. Some find him endearing and consider him the next LetsPlay/BillyMC, others find him absolutely irritating and don't want him on the channel again.

** And yet again when they merely ''mentioned'' Creator/JesseCox's mini-Let's Play of ''I Wanna Be The Guy Gaiden'', ironically prompting slowbeef to RP it after all. Which, [[SarcasmMode shockingly]], led to still more InternetBackdraft. In both this case and with Seamus, above, many of the people insulting slowbeef and/or Retsupurae claimed QualityByPopularVote.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: A handful of people see Retsupuraes as constructive criticism, though slowbeef has said that they were simply making the riffs for fun. [[HilariousInHindsight Amusingly enough]], the parody/critique stream that he did with Diabetus effectively works on both fronts.

* MemeticBadass: It was inevitable, given their frequent AlternateCharacterInterpretations.

* SdrawkcabName: Averted of course, since "Retsupurae" is a Japanese pronounciation of "Let's Play", but...if YOU saw this out of context here on TVT, you surely thought "ear up uster...what...OK, then it is a Latin plural?!" first.

** For ''Dark Seed II'', Mike's mother [[spoiler:claiming that she'll explain everything, only for [[YourHeadAsplode her head to explode]]]]. This one in particular is so famous that the two tend to call similar {{Signature Scene}}s "Dark World Mom moments."

** The BigMastadon riff where he's eating the pizza rolls comes off a lot harsher now after he passed away in 2016 from weight issues.

** During one of their RPs of LetsPlay/BillyMC's playthrough of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'', Billy's comment about how his mom was asking if he wanted UsefulNotes/McDonalds while she was out Christmas shopping got the duo to think that the [=McDonalds=] ''was'' what he would be getting as a Christmas present. In December of 2014, [=McDonalds=] started running an advertisement that featured a dad giving his family chicken nugget boxes with Christmas bows on top.

** At the beginning of the ''VideoGame/BananaNababa'' Retsupurae, slowbeef remarks that he feels like he's watching an '80s horror movie, and Diabetus remarks, "An '80s horror movie... '''where nothing happens!'''". Five years later, they make fun of ''Hell's House'', which can be easily described as a horror movie where nothing happens (at least if you play it successfully).

** Any [=LPer=] who sings along with the music, does voice impressions, or uses too many sound effects. Playtennis14 and [=NostalgicRageHQ=] are two good examples.

** One of their friends and guests, TieTuesday, has a great laugh as well.

** On the other hand, several games that they are less harsh on tend to end up gaining a bit of popularity with their fans, no matter their previous reputations. One of the biggest examples was ''VideoGame/{{Harvester}}'', which already had a cult following, but suddenly gained a lot more acclaim from fans. ''VideoGame/{{Apocalypse}}'' had a similar reaction, as despite slowbeef trashing the game throughout the video, many viewers found it to be actually pretty awesome, while others who had played the game (especially in the arcades it was designed for) came to its defense.

** ''Paradigm Shift'' is probably one of the most notable cases, considering there are multiple encounters possible with endless hordes of bloodthirsty zombies, and yet the single scariest-looking thing in the game is the one other ''living, non-infected'' human being you find. A ''car battery'' that just so happens to look like it has a face is more human than an actual human.

*** Similarly, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeoVHUKvCaQ Mario Kart LP with a VERY SPECIAL GUEST]], slowbeef expresses sympathy for the player (Tingle) while his guest (LetsPlay/TheRealGoldenGamer) rips into him throughout the video.

** ''Paradigm Shift'' is probably one of the most notable cases, considering there are multiple encounters possible with endless hordes of bloodthirsty zombies, and yet the single scariest-looking thing in the game is the one other ''living, non-infected'' human being you find.

** Ted Hartrup/[[InconsistentDub Hadrup]] from the ''Ambition'' series is probably the prime example. His wife left him for the rich owner of a company and took their kids with her: sympathetic. Responding to this by strapping a bomb to yourself and threatening to blow up the building the new guy owns? Assaulting a police officer and escaping custody multiple times for no reasonable reason? Generally acting like a complete lunatic but [[CreatorsPet still canonically passing the psyche evaluation]]? Not so much.
*** Later installments in the Ambition series feature an absurd amount of [[ShockingSwerve swerves]] that seem to be there for the sole purpose of [[NeverMyFault retconning anything bad Ted]] did to be [[spoiler: part of an insanely convoluted conspiracy to frame him orchestrated by his ex-wife Bridget, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Rolf Klink]], and [[TheBadGuysAreCops the crooked police force]]]]. It doesn't help make him seem sympathetic and only serves to further muddy an already hard-to-follow plot.

** LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} himself during ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4jwRuZzxEE Let's Play Wii Sports Resort Immediately]]''. You can just hear how far the video pushed him toward the brink. Many of the comments show a bit of concern for the man as well.

** Bearpigman, the poor guy who suffered through ''Paradigm Shift'' due to its horrible difficulty by forcing him to replay the ''entire'' game from the beginning whenever he died and never giving him any hints on what he was supposed to do in some situations. He had to replay the game many times just to finish it, let alone showing everything off.

** slowbeef and Diabetus call Cobra the "anti-[[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]]", and the former even asks if Cobra's attempting to imitate [[Franchise/DevilMayCry Dante]] at one point. Earlier, Dante and Han Solo were considered derivatives of Cobra.

** Also averted with slowbeef and Mr. DJB's riffs on ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa''. Only a few people actually cried "HePannedItNowHeSucks!"; most viewers are just expressing bafflement at how slowbeef's opinion of the game inexplicably pulled a ''complete'' 180 in just a few months.

** slowbeef is now a big fan of [[Creator/TheKingOfHate DarkSydePhil]] just for this reason.

** Certain notorious Lets Players, like LetsPlay/PewDiePie, Creator/TheKingOfHate and Tobuscus.

** slowbeef's enthusiasm for ''Dangan Ronpa'' in the Retsutalk videos becomes this, considering the growing prominence of the FanDumb for both of the LP threads (which he had been paid to moderate) have basically tarnished his ability to enjoy the game. He's even made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpiym8Dh_KQ a series]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvMn729nbSw&list=UU7UdKZ9ujF1sFlP93dfjMgA of videos]] [[TakeThat tearing into the game]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8H6GrU4jYA SSoHPKC.]] Only five hours after the video was posted, it had 1,200 likes and ''1,600 dislikes''. To be fair, all of the dislikers were followers of Seamus and Machinima, which was at least 300k strong for Seamus alone. To make matters even worse, [=SSoH=] is a follower of Retsu much like [=ProtonJon=], and has admitted he even likes the video, but [[FanDumb people still don't catch on and accuse slowbeef and Diabetus of pointless trolling]].

** Also averted with slowbeef and Mr. DJB's riffs on ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa''. Only a few people actually cried "HePannedItNowHeSucks!"; most viewers are just expressing bafflement at how slowbeef's opinion of the game inexplicably ([[FanDumb or not]]) pulled a ''complete'' 180 in just a few months.

* NetworkDecay: The channel continues to undergo this, shifting from focusing on bad [=LPers=] to focusing heavily on {{MST}}ing flashes, longplayed games, creepypasta, and the like. Admitted by slowbeef, who said that they were beginning to run out of material for retsupurae videos, and noting that their FanDumb was making them wary of riffing on just any [=LPers=]. He said this on Formspring in response to a fan asking why they went in this direction:

** When they started the ''Franchise/AloneInTheDark'' wrongpurae, they made fun of the game's graphics and animations, which prompted a lot of angry comments pointing out that the game came out in 1992, and that it really wasn't fair to mock the visuals, even if they look dated by today's standards. They ended up discussing this while the game was giving a ''really'' long infodump during the second vid, and said that while the graphics may have been impressive for the time, sprite-based games from the same period still looked and played much better.

** Played with in the case of [[Franchise/AloneInTheDark Edward Carnby]], who goes back and forth between this and a drunken {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

** This goes for a lot of the Wrongpuraed titles as well, such as the ''VideoGame/DarkSeed'', ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' and ''Franchise/AloneInTheDark'' games.

** They also have this reaction to several SurvivalHorror games that they cover for their Wrongpuraes, including ''VideoGame/DeepFear'', the ''Franchise/AloneInTheDark'' games, ''VideoGame/{{Galerians}}'', ''VideoGame/ObsCure 2'' and ''VideoGame/ClockTower 2'', thanks to all kinds of {{Narm}} and/or primitive graphics.

*** slowbeef himself seems to feel this way about the first two ''Franchise/AloneInTheDark'' sequels.

* MostWonderfulSound: slowbeef and Diabetus' laughs. They're really damn contagious.

** They mention LetsPlay/{{Sir Ron Lionheart}}'s low subscriber count, and blame it on his voice. [[CriticalBacklash Their spoofing of him made him extremely popular]] ''[[{{Irony}} because]]'' [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent of his accent]].

** [=VoidBurger=] has recently proven a runaway hit; many of the comments on the videos featuring her include requests that she become a Retsupurae regular.

* {{Fan Hater}}s: Most of the comments on a riffed video can be summed up as: If you like this loser, you suck.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Taken to a extreme with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzPrmc4kVCo Loneliness]] which says that if a loved one dies, ''you should kill yourself.''

** [=ActionBastard's=] Franchise/MonsterInMyPocket LP with his "petty douchebag" friend, [[TheWoobie Tyler]].