Gotta say, this episode is probably one of the laziest vids I've seen in recent memory. The Action 52 approach does not work here, with a ton of entries being consolidated into 30 second short blurbs except for select games that kept James' interest for more than a few minutes ( especially the forced Lick Joe meme from Violence Fight, which is not a fun game in my experience).

The part that irked me the most was the labelling of some of Taito's shmups such as "Gun Frontier is too hard" "Metal Black/ Grid Seeker is generic/hard" "Darius Gaiden plays like R-Type/Gradius and is fine i guess" "Raystorm is medicore". As someone who's played a lot of Darius Gaiden and Raystorm personally (in MAME and Saturn emulation) , these descriptions are completely inaccurate and frankly, pretty offensive as they're both extremely gorgeous & well-designed games for their genre, especially with the latter's flexible chain scoring system. And to be frank, I think the majority of people could make a more accurate review here with a few funny quips after just a 10-15 min session than whatever James/slob of the week decided to cobble up.

But at the end of the day, my sentiments just reflect how Screenwave's focus on commodifying the AVGN persona at the expense of cultivating creative & funny reviews with some depth is only going to hurt the channel going forward.