Smash Bros Collab Goddamn, most of these collabs are great, but I'm sorry, this one fuckin' sucked.
It's that weird situation where nearly every person was trying to compete to be the most abstract or aggressive. Characters boredly talking to each other sitcom style, take a character and violently murder them, show a detailed guy looking scary, absolute silence for five unblinking seconds so we can REALLY understand how a w k w a r d this situation is!
The whole mood felt like nobody wanted to do this, so everything has to have a cake of irony on top. "HAHA I'm making a joke about Smash Brothers! It's been done to death, so I'm stretching the absolute limit to make a joke about ANYTHING!" It's like doing a Mario collab and the entire bit is pulling Mario's fingers off while looking to the camera like "you wanted this." I really didn't!
All the artists involved are super talented and I wanna follow tf out of 'em! I ain't knocking all the work put in, but it's drowned out by this cynical, junkyard humor. It feels like some in-joke I ain't getting, compounded by the ending with Rina-chan as a corpse. It's like... alright, yeah Brawl Taunts was in 2008, which was 10 years ago and they're making an epic return as a corpse, because that was such a long time ago. Gud bit.
I feel like an asshole, but it was oddly depressing watching this whole thing play out and not enjoying any of it, then it ends by reminding me of a different time when I was watching funnier collab projects. So I'm giving this a No Star, because it reminded me that someday I'm gonna die, which is not really what I was looking for.
The Final Fantasy one was pretty great tho! 5 Stahr~
EDIT: I'm sorry if I offended the animators who worked on this! I do animation work too and I know how difficult it is to make this stuff, only to get shut down for being "sad" or whatever. This is obviously fantastic, 'cause of all the love it's gotten, and I don't wanna be "that one comment that ruins my day" kind of guy. It just wasn't my thing, y'know?
EDIT EDIT: Yo that copy/pasta NigelNudeground did is fucking hilarious my dude, why can't I respond to comments!?
