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| 11 | [[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/projared_557.png]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:275:''"[[MadLibsCatchphrase I'm playing TV Tropes.]]"'']] |
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| 14 | ''[=ProJared=]'' is a gaming {{review}} channel hosted, created and run by former Website/ScrewAttack member and former Normal Boots member Jared Knabenbauer. On his channel "[=ProJared=]" (previously [=DMJared=], still used as the user link), Jared does 3 main shows: |
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| 16 | * ''[=ProJared=]'', the main show, is a show in which Jared reviews a game and plays it, gives a plot summary of the game he's playing, goes through it from beginning to end, and gives it a humorous take at it. These reviews are more for fun, usually featuring bad games and [[BrokeTheRatingScale having humorous (yet somehow fitting) scores]] such as "[[VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons a bucket of tears]] out of ten." |
| 17 | * ''One Minute Reviews'', his second show, is where Jared is only given a minute to review a game, normally a modern game, and usually in a more serious light than ''[=ProJared=]'' reviews. However, he stopped doing One Minute Reviews around 2015. |
| 18 | * Full reviews, in which he usually spends five to ten minutes more thoroughly reviewing games. These reviews rarely ever done, but are much more professional than the others, going in depth into the good and bad traits of a game. |
| 19 | * D&December, where every December, Jared expounds on the TabletopRPG TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, sharing his thoughts and experiences with the venerable passtime. |
| 20 | * ''WebVideo/NowInTheNineties'', where every Friday he does a rundown of all the games released that week, 30 years ago. Eventually spun off into its own channel |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Besides those main shows, he does several other kind of videos, such as short skits, guides, and SelfImposedChallenge [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]]. |
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| 24 | Jared's Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/user/DMJared can be found here]]. More recent Let's Plays (including newer Nuzlocke runs) are in his other [=YouTube=] channel, [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ProJaredPlays which can be found here]]. ''Now in the 90s'' can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/@Nowinthe90s here]]. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Jared was also previously playing the [[TheChewToy plucky human]] [[LoveableRogue rogue]] Diath Woodrow in the Live-Play D&D campaign WebVideo/DiceCameraAction |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[AC:Games [=ProJared=] has done videos on]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Projared Pro Reviews]] |
| 31 | * ''VideoGame/TwoWorlds'' |
| 32 | ** ''VideoGame/TwoWorlds II'' |
| 33 | * ''VideoGame/{{Hydlide}}'' |
| 34 | ** ''Super Hydlide'' |
| 35 | ** ''VideoGame/VirtualHydlide'' |
| 36 | * ''VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons'' |
| 37 | * ''VideoGame/{{Blackthorne}}'' |
| 38 | * ''VideoGame/Quest64'' |
| 39 | * ''VideoGame/TheSecretIslandOfDrQuandary'' |
| 40 | * ''VideoGame/HavenAndHearth'' |
| 41 | * ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2008'' |
| 42 | * ''[[Anime/DragonBallZ Dragon Ball Z Game Retrospective]]'' |
| 43 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonBallZSagas'' |
| 44 | * [[Platform/PlayStation3 PlayStation Move]] |
| 45 | * ''VideoGame/PockyAndRocky'' |
| 46 | * [[Platform/Xbox360 Kinect]] |
| 47 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' |
| 48 | * ''VideoGame/SimAnt'' |
| 49 | * Worst Console Ever (the Interact, a Platform/{{Wii}} knockoff) |
| 50 | * ''VideoGame/KingsKnight'' |
| 51 | * ''[[VideoGame/SonicBlastMan Sonic Blast Man 2]]'' |
| 52 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering (1997)'' |
| 53 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Bonk}} Super Bonk]]'' |
| 54 | * ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' |
| 55 | * VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}} |
| 56 | * ''VideoGame/MegaManX7'' |
| 57 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' Kartoons (''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatTheJourneyBegins'' and ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'') |
| 58 | * ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' |
| 59 | * ''Oscar'' |
| 60 | * WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry |
| 61 | * ''High Seas Trader'' |
| 62 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' |
| 63 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Rules Cyclopedia |
| 64 | * ''[[VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsChroniclesOfMystara Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom]]'' |
| 65 | * ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' |
| 66 | * ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' |
| 67 | * ''VideoGame/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'' |
| 68 | * ''VideoGame/ScorchedEarth'' |
| 69 | * Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin |
| 70 | * ''VideoGame/MortalKombatMythologiesSubZero'' |
| 71 | * ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'' |
| 72 | * ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' |
| 73 | * ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '17]]'' (April Fools Video) |
| 74 | * ''VideoGame/KidKlownInCrazyChase'' |
| 75 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' |
| 76 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' |
| 77 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' |
| 78 | * Anime/SailorMoon (Games on the SNES) |
| 79 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' |
| 80 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' |
| 81 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' |
| 82 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' |
| 83 | * ''VideoGame/MarbleMadness'' |
| 84 | * ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' |
| 85 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' |
| 86 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' |
| 87 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' |
| 88 | * ''VideoGame/SimCity'' Card Game |
| 89 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{FinalFantasyXI}} Final Fantasy XI Online]]'' |
| 90 | * ''VideoGame/SpiderManAndTheXMenInArcadesRevenge'' |
| 91 | * ''VideoGame/StarTropics'' |
| 92 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' |
| 93 | * ''VideoGame/{{Populous}}'' |
| 94 | * ''VideoGame/TheBouncer'' |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:One Minute Reviews]] |
| 98 | * [[VideoGame/DuckTales DuckTales Remastered]] |
| 99 | * VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons |
| 100 | * VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV |
| 101 | * VideoGame/TombRaider2013 |
| 102 | * VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU |
| 103 | * VideoGame/ZombiU |
| 104 | * VideoGame/NintendoLand |
| 105 | * VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar |
| 106 | * VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII |
| 107 | * VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 |
| 108 | * VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown |
| 109 | * VideoGame/ChivalryMedievalWarfare |
| 110 | * VideoGame/CrimsonShroud |
| 111 | * VideoGame/DeadSpace3 |
| 112 | * VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight |
| 113 | * VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening |
| 114 | * VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines |
| 115 | * VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance |
| 116 | * VideoGame/SimCity2013 |
| 117 | * Runner 2 |
| 118 | * [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate]] |
| 119 | * VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII |
| 120 | * VideoGame/OrganTrail |
| 121 | * VideoGame/{{Evoland}} |
| 122 | * VideoGame/GameDevTycoon |
| 123 | * VideoGame/StarDrive |
| 124 | * VideoGame/TheLastOfUs |
| 125 | * VideoGame/ProjectXZone |
| 126 | * VideoGame/RogueLegacy |
| 127 | * VideoGame/CharlieMurder |
| 128 | * VideoGame/{{Flashback}} (2013 HD remake) |
| 129 | * VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Full Reviews]] |
| 133 | * VideoGame/SimCity2013 |
| 134 | * VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs |
| 135 | * [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate]] |
| 136 | * VideoGame/BioShockInfinite |
| 137 | * [[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons]] |
| 138 | * Videogame/BeyondTwoSouls |
| 139 | * VideoGame/DragonballXenoverse |
| 140 | * VideoGame/PokemonGo |
| 141 | * VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse2 |
| 142 | * VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasy |
| 143 | * VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild (Spoiler-Free) |
| 144 | * VideoGame/Splatoon2 |
| 145 | * VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey |
| 146 | * VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld |
| 147 | * VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake |
| 148 | * VideoGame/TrialsOfMana [Remake] |
| 149 | * VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles Remastered |
| 150 | * VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII |
| 151 | * VideoGame/StrangerOfParadiseFinalFantasyOrigin |
| 152 | * VideoGame/LiveALive [Remake] (Spoiler-Free) |
| 153 | * VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb |
| 154 | [[/folder]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | [[folder:Worth A Damn]] |
| 157 | * VideoGame/VolgarrTheViking |
| 158 | * VideoGame/ShovelKnight |
| 159 | [[/folder]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Lets Plays]] |
| 162 | * VideoGame/ResidentEvil |
| 163 | * VideoGame/HeavyRain |
| 164 | * VideoGame/PokemonFireRed |
| 165 | * VideoGame/PokemonY |
| 166 | * VideoGame/FinalFantasyI |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Top Ten [=JRPG=]s NOT from Creator/SquareEnix]] |
| 170 | * VideoGame/WildArms |
| 171 | * VideoGame/PhantasyStar |
| 172 | * VideoGame/LostOdyssey |
| 173 | * VideoGame/EarthBound1994 |
| 174 | * VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga |
| 175 | * VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon |
| 176 | * VideoGame/Grandia2 |
| 177 | * VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV |
| 178 | * VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia |
| 179 | * VideoGame/SuikodenII |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Others]] |
| 183 | * VideoGame/DayZ |
| 184 | * VideoGame/{{Slender}} |
| 185 | * VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends |
| 186 | * Various Anime/DragonBallZ games |
| 187 | * VideoGame/DarkSouls |
| 188 | * Cyberpunk 2020 |
| 189 | * VideoGame/Yakuza0 |
| 190 | * VideoGame/DeadIsland2 |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
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| 193 | ---- |
| 194 | !!Tropes in his main content: |
| 195 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: Even though Jared spends most of his ''Two Worlds II'' review trashing the game, he admits at the end that he thought it was a decent game that actually had a few funny moments when its delves into SelfParody. |
| 196 | * AerithAndBob: In his playthrough of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', he names his party members Peeb, Jerd, Joof and Ian. [[note]]They're named after WebVideo/PeanutButterGamer, himself, WebVideo/SpaceHamster (real name Jeff) and WebVideo/BrutalMoose (real name Ian) but a combination of nicknames and the game's own four-character limit for names resulted in only one of them sounding like a real thing.[[/note]] |
| 197 | * AlasPoorScrappy: [[invoked]] |
| 198 | ** In ''Fire Red'', this is his reaction to [[spoiler:Jeflump the Golbat]] dying. |
| 199 | ---> '''Jared''': He wasn't my favorite, but I didn't want him to die. |
| 200 | ** Completely averted with [[spoiler:Burden the Snorlax]], whom he sends off with a cheerful "Bye!" |
| 201 | * AnalogyBackfire: He rates ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' a "bowl of lucky charms out of ten", saying that, like Lucky Charms, the things everyone loves and remembers about it make up less than half of the product. He then picks a huge handful of marshmallows out of a bag of Lucky Charms and eats them all at once, then immediately realizes that, in the case of Lucky Charms, the marshmallows are diluted with cheerio knock-offs for a ''very good reason''. |
| 202 | * AprilFoolsDay: |
| 203 | ** On April Fool's Day, 2015, Jared released a video named "Top Ten Boobs in Gaming". The video starts out by explaining that boobs are everywhere in gaming, and [[spoiler:they're stupid, so Jared decides to count down the top ten ''dicks'' in gaming instead.]] |
| 204 | ** It got a sequel in 2016. He released a video building up the topic of Story VS Gameplay. He poses the question of which is more important to a video game's structure. He asks "What good is a compelling story if you don't have [[spoiler:DYICKS!!!]] And then he released an unlisted companion video parodying WebVideo/IHateEverything and his TakeThat against clickbait/reaction videos. |
| 205 | ** For 2017, he played VideoGame/MaddenNFL, treating it and football as a whole as a mystical RPG. |
| 206 | ** For 2020, he reviews the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake''...except for it's the infamous NES demake of ''Final Fantasy VII''. He also reviews the game with borderline {{Manchild}} expectations for the game (such as Cloud fighting [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], Tifa [[{{Fanservice}} wearing a bikini]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Barrett wearing]] [[FanDisservice a bikini]], and also being more than ok with [[BribingYourWayToVictory DLC]]). |
| 207 | * BadBoss: |
| 208 | ** In ''"Animal Crossing New Leaf - Problem Solver"'' Jared plays a mayor who is too busy setting up pitfalls, fishing and hunting for butterflies to properly manage his town. He ultimately solves his problems by sending citizens gifts and letters. |
| 209 | ** In ''VideoGame/GameDevTycoon'', Jared worked his employees to the bone and abused them for his own failings in management whenever a game bombed. He particularly scapegoated Nolan Parks (who would eventually become his AI specialist), and his final act as CEO of [=ProCity=] Games was firing Nolan. |
| 210 | * BaitAndSwitch: In ''Mortal Kombat Kartoons'', the footage shows Stryker when Jared talks about the most irritating character in ''Defenders of the Realm''. And then he reveals he's talking about Sonya. |
| 211 | %%* BeeAfraid: See ''Hydlide'', ''Virtual Hydlide'', and his list of "Top Ten Bees in Video Games". |
| 212 | * BlatantLies: In his review of VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution, any time he compliments the game, it is accompanied with video footage showing how much what he's saying is not the case. For example, a sequence where he has to brawl with several minor thugs in a boxing ring to get the right to fight the boss of the level has him describing the rich strategies he needs to employ, and how carefully made the enemy AI is, while the video underneath shows him spamming the kick attack, [[StunLock because the animation of enemies recovering from the kick takes longer than it takes to kick.]] |
| 213 | * BrokeTheRatingScale: |
| 214 | ** His non-serious reviews always hand out a "Object relevant to the game/overall experience" out of 10. ''Oscar'' managed to break that system by earning a "f*** you" out of 10. |
| 215 | ** [[invoked]]Shows up occasionally in his ''One Minute Reviews''. For example, ''Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate'' gets a 12 out of 10, and ''Sim City'' a ''"[[SoundEffectBleep *Beep*]] it! I'm going to bed."'' |
| 216 | * BrokenPedestal: Humorously compares Atlus's publishing of ''Virtual Hydlide'' to a perfect example of this, describing it as having admired a great woman since childhood only to find out that she had once kicked a dog's head so hard that it spun around like a rotor blade. |
| 217 | * CallBack: |
| 218 | ** Several segments from Hydlide are repeated almost verbatim in Virtual Hydlide to make fun of the fact the latter game is a remake of the former. Perhaps the most notable is Jared searching for a fairy in a cluster of trees, picking the wrong one, getting killed by a swarm of bees, then offering a eulogy for his fallen Knight. |
| 219 | ---> '''Jared''': Jim/Portly Guy the Knight, killed by bees. |
| 220 | ** The line "Fuck you nature." (also from Hydlide) gets a more enthusiastic CallBack when Jared starts chopping down trees in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest''. |
| 221 | ** His pronunciation of ''dicks'' from the aforementioned AprilFoolsDay video comes back for his ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' review with Dixie Kong's nickname ([[UnfortunateNames Dix]]), and his ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' review with the boss fight against King Dick. |
| 222 | ** When Jared names {{Creator/Konami}} (as in the whole company) in his Worst Games of 2015 list he references doing the same thing in 2012, as in both years "all they did was screw up." Then in his Worst Games of 2021 list, Creator/ActivisionBlizzard takes Konami's place in the list. |
| 223 | * CausticCritic: Not normally, but deliberately invoked (LargeHam melodrama included) when he does his Worst Games of the Year list, where he claims everything is garbage...invariably after a Best Games list, where he claims everything is awesome. |
| 224 | * ClusterFBomb: In his Nuzlocke of ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRed'', Jared asks chat "how fucked would [he] be" if he entered a Gym with only four Pokemon. The crowd responds with "very fucked, super fucked, utterly and completely fucked, so fucking fucked, gee fucking gee" and so on. |
| 225 | * CriticBreakdown: |
| 226 | ** Most famously over ''Oscar'', ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'', ''VideoGame/DayOneGarrysIncident'', and ''VideoGame/VirtualHydlide''. |
| 227 | ** Playing ''Oscar'' was such an awful experience that he [[https://youtu.be/vgSJjp9sGF8 spends the entire review]] [[HeroicBSOD lying on the floor and questioning his life]] when not despairing about the game. |
| 228 | ** The opening of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaLHt1ajC5w review]] of ''VideoGame/VirtualHydlide'' replaces his usual "I'm playing..." line with a shot of him screaming wordlessly. |
| 229 | * {{Crossover}}: With WebVideo/PeanutButterGamer for Pocky & Rocky. |
| 230 | * DawsonCasting: [[invoked]]Makes fun of it in his ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' lets play when first meeting Chris. |
| 231 | --> '''Jared''': [[SarcasmMode He's definitely a highschooler and not 28.]] |
| 232 | * DespairEventHorizon: Jared manages to cross this extremely early on in his playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Randomized. After spending an inordinate amount of time desperately fighting a rather difficult boss without the use of any genuinely helpful items and only a single extra heart container to his name, all in the hope of getting something worthwhile for his troubles, Jared finally overcomes his adversary and is rewarded with... [[spoiler:[[EpicFail the dungeon's map.]]]] [[https://youtu.be/mhBAg5ak3gg?t=2466 He isn't exactly happy to say the least.]] |
| 233 | --> '''Jared''': ...just end the episode. |
| 234 | * DeadpanSnarker: His style of humor, especially during of review. |
| 235 | * EveryoneHasStandards: In his Let's Plays, he generally makes it no secret he's not big on kids or babies, but in his Let's Play of VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage, he looks legitimately horrified upon learning that [[spoiler: the flask he got from Castle Dimitrescu contained Rose's head.]] |
| 236 | * ExplainExplainOhCrap: His response to getting the neutral ending in ''VideoGame/KidKlownInCrazyChase'', despite an almost perfect playthrough: |
| 237 | --> "I did everything right! I got all the symbols, I got the keys, I only had to continue once, I put the right key in the right lock and... I continued. Oh my god, you can't even use a single continue!" |
| 238 | * FlatWhat: |
| 239 | ** Lets one out during Two Worlds upon learning that one of the main quest line characters is named [[UnfortunateNames Ho.]] |
| 240 | ** His reaction to [[EpicFail Square-Enix's E3 conference]]... mixed with FlippingTheBird and a PrecisionFStrike. |
| 241 | ---> '''Jared''': What the fuck, Square-Enix? |
| 242 | ** His reaction to the opening sequence of ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution''. |
| 243 | ---> '''Jared''': It opens with what you can expect from this game: biker dudes, motorcycles, a... turret section...? '''WHAT!?''' |
| 244 | ** Made a literal one after being surprised by a bonus stage in ''VideoGame/KidKlownInCrazyChase'', after expecting a comedic beating instead. |
| 245 | * FourPointScale: |
| 246 | ** {{Averted|Trope}}. Jared isn't afraid to give scores below a five out of ten to games he finds mediocre or bad. On the other hand, he also considers sevens and eights out of tens to be good scores and gives them to games he likes. |
| 247 | ** Unlike some examples, though, he's not afraid about using the very top end of the scale, having given out several nines and two tens despite being a fairly new reviewer. |
| 248 | ** He also makes the concession that his point-score of a game's quality doesn't necessarily map directly to entertainment value. Best demonstrated when he gave ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' a 4/10 in a One Minute Review, but later uses it to pass time in his ''VideoGame/HavenAndHearth'' video. |
| 249 | * SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike: |
| 250 | ** His ''One Minute Review'' of ''Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate'' can be summed up as Jared trying to gush as much as he can in one minute or less, giving it a score of 12/10. His extended review released shortly after still has some gushing, but he was not afraid to acknowledge the game's flaws, giving it a "great but not perfect" score of 8/10. |
| 251 | ** His video on ''Yakuza 0'' is also full of this, mainly due to just how much he thoroughly enjoyed and was emotionally invested in every part of the game, and credits it for renewing his passion for playing video games. |
| 252 | * HeroicBSOD: Playing Oscar was such an awful experience that he spends the entire review lying on the floor and questioning his life when not despairing about the game. |
| 253 | * HypocriticalHumor: While talking about ''Videogame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds'' in his list of the worst games of 2017, Jared goes on a rant about how terrible the game is and wonders who in their right mind would play it... while the video displays a slowly zooming shot of his own Steam profile, which shows that he himself has 109 hours logged on PUBG. Then a cursor moves across the screen and clicks 'play'. |
| 254 | * IKnowMortalKombat: "First Person Soldiers" mocks this. |
| 255 | * IdiosyncraticRatingsScale: Jared rates every game [BLANK] out of ten, where the blank can be filled with pretty much everything except a number from 1 to 10. These scores are always symbolic for something which he elaborates on in his final thoughts. |
| 256 | * IslandHelpMessage: He hoes the letters "S O S" into the sand at the beach at one point in his ''Videogame/StardewValley'' video. |
| 257 | * ItsPersonal: Jared started the channel by posting a negative review of ''VideoGame/TwoWorlds'' because he felt the game was massively over-hyped and horribly under-delivered, but somehow escaped any notoriety. |
| 258 | * JumpScare: WebVideo/PeanutButterGamer of all people pulls one on Jared in ''Pocky & Rocky''. |
| 259 | * KickTheDog: Discussed when Jared finds out that Creator/{{Atlus}}, one of his favorite videogame publishers, was involved in ''Videogame/VirtualHydlide''. He compares the feeling of betrayal to being told that beautiful girl you always had a crush on once kicked a dog so hard his head spun like a rotor blade. |
| 260 | * LimitedWardrobe: Typically wears blue, short-sleeved button-up shirts. |
| 261 | * MadLibsCatchphrase: |
| 262 | ** "I'm playing [name of game]." |
| 263 | ** "That's why my final rating for this game is [[[IdiosyncraticRatingsScale object or activity related to the game]]] out of ten." |
| 264 | * MotorMouth: He does use it in a few other videos, usually to sum up something quickly, such as a chain of busywork quests in ''VideoGame/TwoWorlds II''. |
| 265 | * NightmareRetardant: [[invoked]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqakBC4p04A He created a guide]] to turn the game ''Slender'' into this. His playthroughs of horror games end up being this in general due to his impressive resistance to scares, leading to ''very'' mellow reactions that tend to take the stress out of most situations. |
| 266 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: |
| 267 | ** In his ''Videogame/TwoWorlds II'' video he adds one of these after stating that the developers of ''Two Worlds'' sent letters to game retailers apologising for how bad the first game was. |
| 268 | ** The protagonist of ''Videogame/{{Hydlide}}'' really is called "Jim the Knight". |
| 269 | ** When showing footage of a bad game with a low framerate and/or bugs, Jared will occasionally add a caption reading "I didn't edit this. This is actual footage from the game" or something similar. |
| 270 | * OffhandBackhand: Discovers he can pull this off in ''Blackthorne'', much to his delight. With a friggin' automatic shotgun. |
| 271 | * ProductPlacement: His review of ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' was sponsored by Blue Apron (who sponsor a lot of Website/YouTube shows and podcasts), and Jared went to the effort filming a full mid-episode commercial where he cooks a full meal with their products. |
| 272 | * {{Railroading}}[=/=]PlotArmor: Specifically complains about these in his ''Beyond: Two Souls'' review, stating that it's hard to care about winning [=QTEs=] when the protagonist will get out of it alive anyway. |
| 273 | * RealMenWearPink: Jared is a ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' fan, and unashamed of the fact. |
| 274 | * RefugeInAudacity: His April Fool's 2015 video, ''The Top 10 Best Boobs in Gaming'', is [[spoiler:really about the top 10 best ''dicks'' in gaming, and he shows all of the penises uncensored]]. |
| 275 | * RunningGag: |
| 276 | ** Jared often begins longer reviews, particularly of games he doesn't like much, with a bit of ridiculous footage from the game and a shot of him snarkily saying, "I'm playing <name of game>." |
| 277 | *** He is unable to do this in Virtual Hydlide because of its stupidness and awkwardness, and instead [[NightmareFuel lets out a pained groan.]] |
| 278 | ** Whenever an RPG has a "collect four treasures of the elements" plot [=ProJared=] says, as deadpan as possible, "Gee, an epic RPG where I have to collect four treasures of the elements? I've never heard that one before." And then he holds up a copy of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' for the NES. |
| 279 | *** When he reviews ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'', he starts to do the same gag, and then halfway through holding up the cartridge goes "WHOA WAIT A SECOND!" |
| 280 | *** When he finally reviews ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' itself, he holds up the cartridge and admits "I don't know how to make this running gag work here." |
| 281 | *** And when he reviews ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' when mentioning the Dark Crystals of the elements, he begins saying the line, but says to hold on and describes the multiple other crystals in the game, adding up to 17. He then adds, "No running gag could have prepared me for this." |
| 282 | *** During the VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV review he brings up the returning "collecting the treasures of the elements" trope while skipping the actual gag, and adding that "At least this game has six of them instead of four." |
| 283 | ** Whenever he's going through the jobs in a Final Fantasy game, he'll always mention that bards can get the [[CensoredForComedy [=f***=]]] out of his party. |
| 284 | ** Jared has a recurring fascination/fear of bees, to the point he is often referenced by other [=YouTube=] personalities (such as WebVideo/PeanutButterGamer) whenever the topic of bees is brought up. |
| 285 | ** [[ArtisticLicensePhysics "Screw physics because video games!"]] |
| 286 | ** "These (elements of nature) are trying to kill me...Fuck you Nature". |
| 287 | ** In his video on ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVI'', almost every music track Jared talks about is described as "the best song of the game!" |
| 288 | ** During his review of ''VideoGame/TheBouncer'', Jared always describes Sion as some kind of rip-off of [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]]. ("We have Sora at home", "dollar store Sora", etc.) |
| 289 | ** His "Now in the 90s" have him commenting almost OncePerEpisode "reviews used to make no sense at the time" whenever a magazine review for a game he's covering contradicts itself. |
| 290 | * SelfDeprecation: |
| 291 | ** In his review of Mortal Kombat Kartoons, he says that he was stupid when talking about when he was younger watching ''The Journey Begins'', with a note briefly saying that he "still [is]". |
| 292 | -->'''Jared''': "Don't throw up into people's mouths to feed them? Oh noooooo... that's why I was never invited to parties [[CaptionHumor (Also I'm a loser).]] |
| 293 | ** "This says ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'', but [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV it's not]]. The 2 is false. The 2 is about as accurate as the Pro in [=ProJared=]." |
| 294 | * SelfImposedChallenge: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbYx4R6wqew "Ganondorf Challenge"]] for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Melee''. |
| 295 | * ShapedLikeItself: His final score for ''Virtual Hydlide'' is a [[spoiler:Hydlide out of 10]]. |
| 296 | * ShellShockedVeteran: While describing the ending sequence for Pocky And Rocky, [=PBG=] reads off part of the ending scroll that says that Pocky "had better dreams than usual that night". Cut a DeathMontage with Jared and [=PBG=] screaming in horror played over it. The camera returns to Jared and [=PBG=] who both have a ThousandYardStare. |
| 297 | * SoundEffectBleep: Used every time he curses on his scripted videos. His non-scripted series usually leave them uncensored, and as of his VideoGame/SimAnt review he seems to have dropped it. It's back as of his Sonic Adventure 2 review. |
| 298 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 299 | ** Jared bought the Kinect to review it. He wasn't one of the people who rushed to the store to buy one without knowing the software lineup...yep... |
| 300 | ** According to Jared's video on ''Magic: The Gathering'', playing two of your own decks against each other is not pathetic or sad in any way. |
| 301 | * TakeThat: |
| 302 | ** In his ''One Minute Review'' of ''The Banner Saga'', he says that the game is great, and then adds that one of the reasons you could buy it is because it'll "piss off everyone over at the ''Candy Crush Saga''", referencing the fact that the games ''trademarked'' the words "Candy" and "Saga". |
| 303 | ** One of the custom messages he makes for ''VideoGame/ScorchedEarth'' is "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII FFXIII]] sucks". |
| 304 | ** In his review of ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'', he goes on a heartfelt speech about how much he loves the franchise, even if he doesn't like all of them. As he says that he doesn't like all of them, he pulls up ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', and throws it on the ground. [[spoiler:The movie also gets a ''Final Fantasy XIII'' out of 10.]] |
| 305 | ** His ''Madden '17'' April Fools Joke review is full of these, directed at a number of things. |
| 306 | *** The entire review is structured like he's reviewing a JRPG of all things with noting on the "frequency of cutscenes" and the "poorly explained mechanics" that would be indicative of something more akin to obscure JRPG's. He even describes things like the football as the "magic stone", and so on. |
| 307 | *** The review is also a StealthParody TakeThat of American Football in general, with Jared larping on the over-complication of the sport and how many insipid rules there are in place despite the general premise being easy to understand. |
| 308 | *** The review contains a few potshots at fellow [=YouTuber=] and Normal Boots member WebVideo/JonTron. Specifically, the "best Packers commit more penalties than the worst Vikings, yeah, that's a fact, look it up" joke is meant to be a jab at Jon's "rich blacks commit more crimes than poor whites" claim- Jared even mirrored Jon's chuckle and spoke it in a manner almost identically to how Jon did. |
| 309 | * TemptingFate: In his ''Mighty No. 9'' playthrough, he says he's going to try and be optimistic about the game and not get hung up on its bad points, in spite of the memory leak issues he's experiencing. Episode 2 features the memory leaks, which also start messing with his ''recording equipment'', and is also the point when the games' most criticized points (cheap enemy placement, annoying character dialogue, and overuse of instant kill traps) become apparent, making it harder for him to be anything but aggravated at the game. |
| 310 | * ThatCameOutWrong: From Jared's review of ''Scorched Earth'': |
| 311 | -->'''Jared''': Just as enjoyable as killing things with all of these sweet weapons, is watching people die! ...Don't take that out of context. |
| 312 | * TotemPoleTrench: One of Jared's complaints about ''Videogame/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'' is that the poor graphics make all the criminal characters look the same, and when he completes an arrest he can't tell if he got the actual criminal or two children disguised as a trenchcoat-wearing adult. |
| 313 | * AWinnerIsYou: In his Hydlide review: |
| 314 | -->'''Jared''': Congratulations! My reward is these two frames of animation! |
| 315 | * WolverinePublicity: Jared complains about the use of this in ''Videogame/MegaManX7'', noting that even though Mega Man X is front-and-centre on the box-art and ''the character the game is named for'', he doesn't become playable until you've played at least 5 of the 8 stages... and by that point you've already spent most of the upgrades on Zero and Axl, so he CantCatchUp. |
| 316 | |
| 317 | !!Tropes in his "Pokemon Nuzlocke" series: |
| 318 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:''Fire Red'' ends in his victory, but 2/3 of his then-current party died bringing him his victory. That's not counting the rest of his Pokemon who were KIA.]] |
| 319 | * BossInMookClothing: ''Dark Cry'' spoilers follow. [[spoiler:Lass Crissy, a trainer who in the original games couldn't be fought until the player could Surf. However, in this game, through careless placement or perhaps as a deliberate cruel joke, she can be fought as soon as the player reaches that route (i.e. hasn't even beaten Misty yet). Jared found this out the hard way when her Level 31 Paras -- about a dozen levels higher than his entire team -- effortlessly made mincemeat out of Ekrah, Tarp, and Bidumb even after lowering its Attack thrice. Jared's Kadabra, Ubagub, just managed to pull through and win a hard-earned victory... only for Crissy to pull out a ''second'' Paras. It's almost merciful that he didn't last longer or he would have gone up against her final Pokemon, a Level 31 PARASECT.]] |
| 320 | * DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Jared crosses it in ''Pokemon Y'' when Rathalos dies]]. |
| 321 | * DownerEnding: |
| 322 | ** [[spoiler:''Pokemon Y'' ends with a premature game over.]] |
| 323 | ** [[spoiler:''Dark Cry'' ends with Jared's team absolutely destroyed by Lass Crissy, a trainer who in the original game wasn't able to be fought until the player learnt Surf. Thanks to terrible programming, Jared faces her early, and it ends in absolute failure.]] |
| 324 | ** [[spoiler:''Alpha Sapphire'' ends with a TotalPartyKill against Winona's Altaria, he was unaware that it had Earthquake which lead to the death of Zimzy, and Cotton Guard which made Cordy's Rock moves wholly ineffective, which eventually led to no one in his party capable of damaging it enough given that it also knew Roost.]] |
| 325 | * HopeSpot: [[spoiler:In episode 9 of ''Dark Cry'', he finally takes down the level 31 Paras with his last remaining Pokémon! Except...]] |
| 326 | -->'''Jared''': [[spoiler:[[OhCrap Ohh, there's two more!]]]] |
| 327 | * InterfaceSpoiler: It didn't start this way, but each ''Fire Red'' video has a picture of the current team he is using as of each video. Newcomers to his series will pretty much know who dies and who lives if their eyes wander. He did seem to realize that this was the case, and put up pictures of the Elite Four and Champion for his final videos. [[spoiler:Although even that spoils that he makes it to the end of the game.]] |
| 328 | * KickTheDog: In ''Dark Cry'' Episode 7: [[spoiler:After the massacre of his team in the previous episode, leaving him with three Pokemon left (after he picks up a Rattata), he hopes that he will be able to get another Pokemon through a hole in one of the houses. When he does so, the trainer he meets, who ''wasn't even looking at him'', kills Derlan, leaving him only with Bidumb and Tarp.]] |
| 329 | * OhCrap: Jared's reaction to [[spoiler:Winona's Altaria knowing Earthquake, which in part resulted in a TotalPartyKill ending his Nuzlocke.]] |
| 330 | * RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Invoked with Bidumb in ''Dark Cry'': Jared quickly realises that he's [[spoiler:not a Bidoof, but a badass Zigzagoon]]. This gets taken further as the series progresses and he becomes an ActionSurvivor, and eventually, in Episode 7, [[spoiler:he becomes one of Jared's two surviving Pokemon]]: |
| 331 | -->'''Jared''': Really starting to regret calling him "Bidumb" now. "Bidumb"? More like... [[spoiler:"[=Bi-OnlyHopeIHaveForThisNuzlocke=]"]]. |
| 332 | * RunningGag: |
| 333 | ** One of the best (and probably his favorite) Pokemon on his team in ''Fire Red'' is a Vileplume named Nuptup. Each time he says Nuptup's name, he edits in a brief picture of Nuptup with its name below it. |
| 334 | ** The Shorts Cult |
| 335 | * SelfImposedChallenge: The main premise of his Nuzlocke series. In ''Pokemon Y'', he added the rule of turning off the [[LeakedExperience Exp. Share]], as well as not using healing items in Battle. |
| 336 | * SeriesMascot: Nuptup the soul-eating [[KillerRabbit Vileplume]] has become this, by way of being an InUniverse MemeticBadass. |
| 337 | * StupidSacrifice[=/=]SenselessSacrifice: In Episode 6 of ''Dark Cry'', [[spoiler:Jefina and Pachifetch's deaths could easily have been avoided.]] |
| 338 | ** ''Alpha Sapphire'' spoilers follow: [[spoiler:In Norman's gym battle, Jared mistook Retaliate for a Fighting-type move and so kept Cordy, his Graveler, on the bench when Cordy would have been in a great position to sweep Norman's whole team. This misunderstanding cost Jared his oldest two Pokemon, Ghim the Grovyle and Daybo the Dustox. (The latter is especially painful since Daybo took a few Retaliates throughout the fight, meaning Jared should've had the opportunity to notice that the game wasn't informing him "It's not very effective" as it would have if Retaliate were a Fighting move.) Needless to say, it's the most controversial episode of the playthrough so far.]] |
| 339 | * ThatOneBoss: |
| 340 | ** InUniverse, the innocent ComMon known as Rattata (across many different trainers) during his Fire Red Nuzlocke managed to take out a startling number of his Pokemon. |
| 341 | ** Many wild Pidgey got in a lot of crits on him and nearly killed members of his team. Also, the first death in the game [[spoiler: was to a Spearow]]. |
| 342 | * TheStinger: After the end of Jared's [[spoiler:failed]] ''Pokemon Y'' Nuzlocke the screen fades the black, then shows an extra scene at the end, revealing that ''Dark Cry'' will be the next Nuzlocke series. |
| 343 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: After [[spoiler:Burden the Snorlax kills Oh,he, his first caught Pokémon]] in ''Fire Red'', he caught it, but even then, he couldn't forgive him about the incident. [[spoiler:Even after Burden died against Blackbelt Koichi's Hitmonchan, the parting words]] he had for him was: ''"I never forgave you!"''. This became prominent in Part 8 of the ''Pokemon Y'' Nuzlocke when he [[spoiler:rejected his Route 7 capture and fainted a potential Snorlax he could have caught]] because of the event that happened in the ''Fire Red'' Nuzlocke. |
| 344 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 345 | ** In ''Alpha Sapphire'', Jared bemoaned catching a Plusle on route 110 (as an Electric-type, she was a welcome addition, but he would have preferred an Electrike). But the Plusle in question, Zimzy, proved instrumental against [[spoiler:Wattson, whose Magnemite and Magneton she expertly baited into using inferior moves via Encore, laying out the path for Jared's other Pokemon to safely carry the day.]] |
| 346 | ** Zimzy puts in another glorious performance against [[spoiler:Norman, neutering his threats with Charm to the point that they could barely even scratch Rolic and Daybo after she finished with them, let alone Cordy. A damn ''Plusle'' is turning into the MVP of Jared's run.]] |
| 347 | * TotalPartyKill: [[spoiler: Almost happened to his team early on in his Pokemon Y playthrough, [[SoleSurvivor with only his Charmeleon, Rathalos, making it out alive]]. Jared's party never fully recovered after that battle, [[DwindlingParty with many new Pokemon getting killed off shortly after being added to the team.]]]] |
| 348 | * WhamEpisode: The Guidjuk battle in Episode 6 of ''Dark Cry'': [[spoiler:Jared sacrifices Jefina to get an extra switch-out, and following that is a complete massacre: Fuhrdan is the next to go via Squirtle's water gun, Nokenil is killed in one hit, then Pachifetch is killed in his first turn in a useless attempt to get a critical hit, and Jared is only able to survive the battle by a Quick Attack from Derlin. In one battle, Jared went from six Pokemon to two.]] |
| 349 | * WhamLine: |
| 350 | ** In ''Dark Cry'' Episode 9: |
| 351 | --->'''Jared''': [[spoiler:Level ''thirty-one?!'']] |
| 352 | ** And ''Alpha Sapphire'' Episode 18 |
| 353 | --->'''Jared''': [[spoiler: ''EARTHQUAKE?!'']] |
| 354 | ---- |
| 355 | ''"That's why my final rating for this article... is a strand of @/FastEddie's beard out of ten."'' |
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