Seems like FNF/SMS is continuing the tradition of being unwatchable. Seriously, they clearly have zero clue how to play any of the characters, and I don't understand why they think anyone would want to watch them flail around mashing random buttons for 30 minutes. Either bring back brawls, or spend like a couple hours before each FNF learning how to actually play the game so we can have some real and slightly competitive matches.
I feel like earlier iterations of FNF were a lot better, honestly. Most of their choices being games they were either clearly excited or familiar with (and those continue to be the best FNFs, see: Revelator) and there was more of a chilled out, relaxed tone to them with them just playing matches (with average video length being like an hour), shooting shit, and answering questions. It was like an extension of the podcast centered entirely on fighting games and it ruled. Nowadays, FNF just feels more like... another video, which is sort of a shame.
SNS is mostly just a dumpster fire of them playing bad games and not really gleaning much interesting commentary of that, but occasionally there's gems like Dong Dong so the series isn't totally awful.
And Gang Beasts is still, y'know, like a top 5 channel video as far as I'm concerned.
Like I said, I'm feeling positive about these castings overall. I am confident in Atlus's choices (I know they would never just say "fuck it" with these castings); I just wish I had an easier time imagining their voices for their respective characters.
SMT4A is, on top of being a very good JRPG, probably the best way to correct that. As I said, there's a lot of cast crossover and I anticipate that they'll be Atlus's new 'core' cast (succeeding Bailey, Lowenthal, Ruff, etc) for their future localizations and they all turn in some pretty standout (and generally signature) performances. I don't really expect anyone there (except Xander) to sound especially different going into P5.
