- Acting for Two: This is inevitable while voicing all the characters in a game, though it occasionally results in Nico actually conversing with himself (the gamer) as the character.
- Taken to its logical extreme in his "Council of Voices" videos.
- Occasionally, two characters Nico gave the same voice to will interact with one another. This will cause Nico to either differentiate the voices slightly to make them distinct from each other (e.g. Lotta Hart and Nicole Swift in Ace Attorney Investigations 2) or keep the voices the same for comedic effect (e.g. Sigma and Junpei in Zero Escape).
- There's also the last trial of Dual Destinies, where Phoenix argues against the phantom, who is imitating him.
- Approval of God: Apparently, Kotaro Uchikoshi, creator of the Zero Escape series, follows Nico on Twitter. Also the developers of the Danganronpa series, Spike Chunsoft, love using his Hope Bagels meme when talking about Nagito Komaeda on social media. Komaeda's English voice actor, Bryce Papenbrook, takes it even further: after learning where the meme originated, he started bringing it up with Danganronpa fans and explaining the meme to those unfamiliar with it. But it also goes the other way around; Nico himself liked and retweeted the picture of the Danganronpa OC Nico Bessho (Ultimate Guesser) from the fanfic Final Horizon.
- Author's Saving Throw: Nico stated that his LP of The Great Ace Attorney was meant to appease fans who wanted Nico to turn off the voice acting for Steins;Gate 0. Due to the former being a visual novel with very little voice-acting, this lead to more ab-libbing from Nico, as opposed to the latter having all lines voice-acted.
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
- In his LP for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, he made a joke about the Yiga Clan being a bunch of Gontas thanks to their Trademark Favorite Food being bananas. However, if one takes a look at Gonta's report card, he actually dislikes bananas.
- While playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on a livestream, he calls Pauline "Rosalina", and refers to Pikachu Libre as "he".
- At the end of the The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures LP, Nico compares Case 3 of the game ("The Adventure of the Runaway Room") to "Farewell, My Turnabout" from Justice For All. He says that Adventures' case was much better executed as a story about defending a guilty man in court, and states one of his reasons as to why is that the case in JFA derailed back into the series' standard "believe in your client" moral when everything was solved. However, the entire point of the case was to give more Character Development to Phoenix, and that solely believing in your client simply isn't the right way to go, and that he should search for the truth if he wants to be a more effective lawyer.
- Nico was unaware that Nekopara was a hentai, as he called it a "cutesy cat-girl Visual Novel."
- Creator Backlash:
- Nico did not like how the SoraXRiku counter in the Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] LP came out due to how much he had to stretch his definition of Ho Yay in order for the gag to last past the first instance of it.
- He also slowly started to dislike the Corpse Party series as a result of Corpse Party: Blood Drive going into too much dark subject matter for the sake of gratuitiousness, and slowly realized that the series as a whole was more gratuitous then he remembered. Though the "Moshirige" voice that debuted from it is still in use, he stated that he never wanted to play another Corpse Party game on the channel again because of how Blood Drive ruined the series for him.
- He felt that AI: The Somnium Files was one of Kotaro Uchikoshi's weaker games, and actually felt bad due to many of his audience thinking it's actually Kotaro Uchikoshi's best game due to his differing opinion of the game, particularly from the Iris route onwards. That being said, he did show some excitement for the sequel as it stars Mizuki, his favorite character from the game, and he actually has a much more positive experience when LPing said sequel.
- Nico personally wishes that he hasn't done the "What Do You Mean?" Counter in The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures as he ended up realizing that the official translated Ace Attorney games has their characters saying "What Do You Mean?" a lot far before the Scarlet Study Fan Translation, and felt that that he placed a big unnecessary spotlight on the Fan Translation's usage of the characters asking that question.
- He doesn't look kindly on his game Forever's End these days. He dedicated his 9th anniversary stream to playing and riffing on it.
- Creator's Favorite Episode:
- Nico stated the Fire Emblem: Three Houses dance contest episode was his favorite episode to record due to him making all of his students to participate in the contest via Save Scumming leading into a lot of hilarious things.
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim ended up not only being one of his favorite LPs ever, but the game itself is officially one of his favorite games of all time after he finished it.
- Fan Community Nickname: Picky Penguins.
- He Also Did: He's the same NicoB who made the RPG Maker game Forever's End.
- Meme Acknowledgment: Bryce Papenbrook, the voice of Komaeda, acknowledged the bagel meme.
- Missing Episode: Even Nico himself has one. Originally Nico wanted to do the Let's Play of Theresia: Dear Emile as per commenter's request, but as it was revealed by channel mods few years later, Nico stopped recording after the first episode, admiting that he couldn't make it funny or entertaining to watch, thus never publishing it.
- Playing Against Type: The Monokuma voice is a strange example, since it was a Mickey Mouse impression to begin with. Eventually, King Mickey from the Kingdom Hearts series is given this voice and needless to say, he's far more heroic than Monokuma and his other incarnations, though some of Monokuma's snappiness bleeds through when he has to rescue Sora or Ventus.
- Sequel Gap: It took Nico almost four years for him to do his highly-anticipated Let's Play of Steins;Gate 0, an unusually long time for the channel.note Several factors held him back from him LPing this game sooner such as a two-year Let's Play embargo being placed on the game, barring Nico from playing it on his channel for that period, and doubts on whether he should even play the game in general as he was concerned that he would find the premise of Okabe having to cope with the fact that he accidentally killed Kurisu with his own hands to be too depressing.
- Shout-Out: "NicoB" comes from "Niko Bellic", the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto IV. Played with in that Nico had gotten the spelling wrongnote .
- What Could Have Been: Nico almost played Nekopara for a stream after popular vote, but once he learned about the more... risque parts of the game, and the fact that the SFW version is actually really boring, he quickly decided not to play it and instead streamed the runner-up Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
Nico's personal ranking of Ace Attorney games is The Great Ace Attorney 2 > Investigations 2 > The Great Ace Attorney > Apollo Justice > Trials and Tribulations > Spirit of Justice > Phoenix Wright > Dual Destinies > Justice For All > Investigations
Nico's Top 10 Games of 2023
- #10: Super Mario RPG
- #9: Star Ocean: The Second Story R
- #8: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- #7: Marvel's Spider-Man 2
- #6: Resident Evil 4 (Remake)
- #5: Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed
- #4: Lies of P
- #3: Hi-Fi RUSH
- #2: Master Detective Archives: Rain Code
- #1: PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
- Honorable Mentions
