Jim & Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular: Cyclical

[WhitbyDragon]

I've watched all the Rhymedown's, and somehow I still got taken in by Jim's poem and was wondering if it was a genuine personal exposition. Please keep these coming both of you, I didn't know I enjoyed poetry until a topic that makes me smile started to be covered so well (games, not scary depressing love triangles, though the liking of one could lead to the other one day maybe?).

 

[WhitbyDragon]

Just a thought, but are we building to an Escapist member submitted episode? There are a fair few creative souls in the forums!

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Yaaaay, knuckles!!!
Good ones, both. Keep it up!

 

[Darth_Payn]

I'm not sure if Yahtzee was making fun of our fascination with open world, or of libertarianism.

Oh, and Jim, I, for one, really love your poetry!

Why not both? In Yahtzee's reviews of open-world games, he likes the unrestrained freedom they offer, but doesn't like side missions that take you away from the main story. But then again, Yahtzee doesn't hold a very high opinion of human nature.

 

[zvate]

Enjoyed them both this week. Although they were both kind of downers

 

[Lightknight]

Man, I really enjoyed Jim's work this week. Very good.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I'm convinced there's more to these poems then I can tell. There's the first layer: a love triangle with sonic and knuckles. Then the meta message, about Sonic games sucking but no one willing to admit it. There MUST be a third, greater layer on top of this. Like Inception, a message about a message within a message. Something more than just poems about video games...

 

[Evonisia]

Nice work, I particularly loved the rather glum poem about Sonic. Now to play a non-Sonic game.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Jim, your relationships with game characters are a tad disturbing.

and confusing. Is Sonic the one Mario was doing that led to Jim killing the plumber?.

Couldn't be 'cause if Jim is cheating on Sonic with Knuckles he doesn't really have the right to go after Mario.

Love (and lust) is often irrational. It's not uncommon for one unfaithful person to be mad at their unfaithful partner for their unfaithful acts.

Really? Well in that case maybe Sonic was the one Mario was doing that caused Jim to kill him. Man that's a disturbing thought.

I think you two are forgetting something very important.

What about Miltank?

I hadn't forgotten, I was repressing. There's a difference.

 

[warmachine]

I normally consider Yahtzee the better poet but Jim was better this episode. His poem was also slightly disturbing.

 

[Aiberg]

As usual I liked Yahtzee's much more. Except for the first few, Jim's parts are coarse and no fun. His lines and especially his delivery is irritative. Jimquisition, I like...

 

[animeh1star1a]

Hell am i the only one who likes jim's stuff?.... i didn't figure out it was sonic until the fast comment a few minutes in... also drawing a parallel between the aging franchise to that of a failing marriage is creative, in my opinion. Frankly, i like Jim's stuff because it's different every time, with different tones and intentions.

 

[Olas]

I always knew Knuckles was getting some tail on the side. I'm sorry that was terrible, but the poems were pretty awesome this week. Keep it up guys.

 

[BunnyKillBot]

Sorry I bored you.

Aww Jim, don't be sad.

Yahtzees poems are captivating and genius but fairly flat. Yours are more dynamic and unfurl over time. Both are great, the second will always have elements of 'boring' but with a bigger pay-off. Keep it up

And hey, Mogworld was great, but Jam was fairly meh. The master isn't infallible

 

[Necris Omega]

Honestly, I stopped trying to make sense of Sonic as soon as the Dreamcast hit. Sure, I played Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2, but by that point the writing was not just on the wall, but well lit, bold faced, and transcribed into multiple languages. After that? ...

I know how Yahtzee always laments that Mario and the Zelda series never tries anything different, but they'd probably just point to Sonic and say, "Different? Oh, you different like that? Is that what you want, you psychotic sack of loon berries?"

... I miss the Old Sonic.

 

[TheRaggedQueen]

I came expecting brevity and the pair poking fun at Sonic's degradation (this was my first Rhymedown, if that means anything), only to sigh in exasperation. For too long has the poor blue creature's series labored at death's door, a wonderful creation now reduced to a footnote in gaming lore.

Were it back like the days of old, of speed and tails flying, but alas, those times are gone, instead filled with games no one is buying.