History TearJerker / Jimquisition

* Instead of being titled as such, their "Best games of 2021" video is simply titled "The Games of 2021 I Didn't Completely Hate". Why? Because as Jim themself says, they've become so broken by years of predatory business practices and countless sexual abuse scandals in the video game industry that it's all but impossible to take ''any'' joy in it anymore.

** [[UpToEleven Taken up a notch]] in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhYT5Lgp98 Ubisoft Spent Years Protecting Physical and Mental Abusers]]". Jim's usual boisterous tone [[TranquilFury is absent]] for most of the episode; the entire thing leaves them so spent that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness they don't even say]] "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase Thank God for me]]" at the end of the episode.

* Instead of being titled as such, their "Best games of 2021" video is simply titled "The Games of 2021 I Didn't Completely Hate". Why? Because as Jim themself says, they've become so broken by years of predatory business practices and countless sexual abuse scandals in the video game industry that its all but impossible to take ''any'' joy in it anymore.

* Jim's review of ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition2'' is full of this. Jim admits that it was their most anticipated game for 2020, which makes their reaction to the game all the more heartbreaking, especially when one recalls how the first game was one of their favorite games of all time. In addition to multiple problems including framerate issues, Jim feels disappointed and disheartened by the game's problematic trans content and its offensive nature. And after creator SWERY promised to fix the problematic parts, only to subsequently make a few token cuts of the very worst lines and then declare he was happy with it before lashing out at people who were still rightfully appalled at it, Jim [[BrokenPedestal completely lost faith in him]]. At the end of the year, Jim put the game very high on their list of the Shittiest Games of 2020, and even ''apologised'' for supposedly being a driving force in getting the game made in the first place due to their championing of the original. ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor They were sorry the game existed.]]''

* Jim's [[http://www.thejimquisition.com/the-beginners-guide-review/ review]] of ''VideoGame/TheBeginnersGuide'': instead of making a conventional review, since they doesn't want to spoil the story, Jim instead references the game's themes by giving a heartbreaking description of their horrible childhood at the hands of an abusive stepfather and mother and how it caused them to develop a need for external approval that still persists to this day.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7c2uZACcI A Truly Fucked Up Industry]]". OOCIsSeriousBusiness is in full force here, as Jim goes on to criticize Ubisoft without the usual "Oh Ubisoft" sound effect for the company's enablement of abusers and sexual predators, while also discussing their own past, regrets, and their feelings of despair at the wrongdoings in the industry that friends of them and others were subjected to. They narrates the whole thing in a genuinely somber and exhausted tone, and there's little humor to be found, if any at all.

* Jim's childhood wasn't exactly sunshine and rainbows. They was abused by their father, who was an alcoholic and a member of a biker gang. By the time Jim became a teenager, they was unable to socialize with people and feared that everyone hated him. While Jim still has some social anxiety today, they're far better off now than they was back then.

* Jim's review of ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition2'' is full of this. Jim admits that it was their most anticipated game for 2020, which makes their reaction to the game all the more heartbreaking, especially when one recalls how the first game was one of their favorite games of all time. Among multiple problems including framerate issues, Jim feels disappointed and disheartened by the game's problematic trans content and its offensive nature. And after creator SWERY promised to fix the problematic parts, only to subsequently make a few token cuts of the very worst lines and then declare he was happy with it before lashing out at people who were still rightfully appalled at it, Jim [[BrokenPedestal completely lost faith in him]]. At the end of the year, Jim put the game very high on their list of the Shittiest Games of 2020, and even ''apologised'' for supposedly being a driving force in getting the game made in the first place due to their championing of the original. ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor They were sorry the game existed.]]''

** [[UpToEleven Taken up a notch]] in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhYT5Lgp98 Ubisoft Spent Years Protecting Physical and Mental Abusers]]". Jim's usual boisterous tone [[TranquilFury is absent]] for most of the episode; the entire thing leaves them so spent that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness they doesn't even say]] "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase Thank God for me]]" at the end of the episode.

* Jim's review of ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition2'' is full of this. Jim admits that it was their most anticipated game for 2020, which makes their reaction to the game all the more heartbreaking, especially when one recalls how the first game was one of their favorite games of all time. Among multiple problems including framerate issues, Jim feels disappointed and disheartened by the game's problematic trans content and its offensive nature. And after creator SWERY promised to fix the problematic parts, only to subsequently make a few token cuts of the very worst lines and then declare he was happy with it before lashing out at people who were still rightfully appalled at it, Jim [[BrokenPedestal completely lost faith in him]]. At the end of the year, Jim put the game very high on their list of the Shittiest Games of 2020, and even ''apologised'' for supposedly being a driving force in getting the game made in the first place due to their championing of the original. ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor They was sorry the game existed.]]''