Gameplay videos on Nico Nico Douga
I’ve been addicted to Nico Nico Douga for really a long time to enjoy watching some Anime shows (which are mostly copyright infringement and banned strictly recently), MAD (Japanese way of saying AMV/Mash-up videos) and Vocaloid (初音ミク etc.) indies music. Recently I (re-)found another category that I really love: gameplay videos. You can watch these kinds of videos on other video sharing sites like YouTube, but Nico Nico is a bit different. The player usually talks and reacts during the play, and the watchers leave comment floating and time-synced ala Nico Nico style. By re-found I meant I really liked Nagai-Sensei’s gameplay videos with his brother Hiro-kun, but haven’t watched it for a while. So it’s a re-discovery.
MOTHER 全くわからないけど実況してみる 番外編I just finished MOTHER gameplay by a girl named “Shushu”. Her voice is definitely cute and the way she edits the video (to cut off boring part) is awesome. Click on the video to see how it looks like, even though the language she speaks might not make sense to you (Japanese) :) It took me like 2 weeks since the whole gameplay is like 30 episodes, each of which runs 20 minutes or so. It’s been an enjoyable moment. She just started MOTHER 2 (also known aka EarthBound in USA) so I’ll watch the series as well. Nico Nico has 30,000 of these gameplay videos and there are lots of retro NES/SNES games like this, as well as new games on PS3/XBox360.