The Smash Brothers, a documentary about Smash Bros Melee’s scene.
Interesting:
Competitiveness in games. There’s something amazing about a non-corrupt state where people respect each other and just have fun, while trying to be the best. It has become so rare.
Wife’s speech skills are way above average. That dude makes you want to buy a GameCube and a copy of SSBM asap.
A scene like that would never emerge in France due to terrible people behavior (stealing, stealing, stealing, everyone shitting on your passion).
Interracial. In the US, seeing interracial stuff is rare so I’m always happy when I see some black white Asian people around a TV. It’s still nothing but it’s still something.
Nintendo’s denial. They didn’t want that game to become competitive but it happened so instead of acting out against it, they should have embraced it. But Nintendo is a very, very conservative company despite being innovative. They are obsessed with mainstream without understanding that competitive and mainstream can totally go together, see most sports on TV? Though I totally understand that trash talk and absence of women in these competitions don’t suit a corporation very well. But they could help, instead of hiding.
I hadn’t had the time to watch the SSBM scene golden era, so it was good catching up.