Matthew Patrick (MatPat) has a YouTube channel called the Game Theorists, and is my favorite reviewer. I know the channel really well, I’ve been watching his videos for years. His success is unsurprising; his videos are always entertaining and interesting, and give the audience ideas that they may not have had before – like when he jokingly explained that Kirby is a single-celled organism (with evidence that actually makes a lot of sense).
Back when I first discovered the channel, I got into it because of the content and the visuals. I always chuckle when YouTubers add in those funny (and somewhat cursed) images while explaining things – like this:
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The video of his we watched earlier today is actually one of my favorites. I’m really into biology and still was when I saw it years back, so watching him make legitimate comparisons of Kirby to an amoeba was really funny, interesting, and amusing. He tends to always come up with these wacky takes in a way that makes the viewers think about connections and games in a different aspect, one that they’d probably never come up with otherwise. All of these takes are always in depth and always have tons of “evidence” to back them up. MatPat is really dedicated and always puts so much work into each video. I don’t even want to imagine how long it takes to edit and connect the dozens of images, animations, and video clips.
MatPat kinda changed the way I see video games. I now tend to over-analyze certain aspects and think about where the ideas from the developers came from. I love finding tiny details that other people would likely overlook. I’ll probably do the same in all the games we’ll be playing in class, likely without even thinking about it beforehand.
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