Brent Smalley's Videogame World: Difference between revisions

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Subverted, as the series actually BUILDS a Fourth Wall in a couple of later episodes rather than the talking-to-the-camera style used earlier. Especially noticeable in the Trent VS. Brent two part episode, which actually features on-screen co-stars for the first time and Brent talks to the viewer only once or twice. In his review of the NES game "Back to the Future," the action begins and ends with a fourth wall and presents "behind the scenes" action through it, as Brent prepares for the filming of a review (we see him switch on the camera before we see him through the camera view) and later we see him in an [[All Just a Dream]] sequence without any [[Fourth Wall]] -breaking commentary. The pre-review opening of this episode seemed intended to make it feel more epic, as if this was Brent's example of [[The Movie]]. It arguably looked much more cinematic.

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Brent comments that Trent Biggie is a ripoff-parody who "must be from Canada," used purely as a derogatory term with no other context.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Baby!" Brent seems to add the word "Baby" to the end of sentences more often than any normal person probably ever would or ought to. He's also fond of using the phrase "Once again?" with increasing frequency when something repetitive continues to occur during a game. The latter was parodied by Grandma Grunch Productions' "Trent Biggie's Videogame Universe" as a part of an overall parody/homage/ripoff of the Brent Smalley series, with Trent saying the phrase again and again increasingly rapidly a ridiculous number of times in succession as he gets hit or runs into things in the SNES game "Taz-Mania." It wasn't really too far removed from Brent's use of the phrase in the debut episode.

* [[Choose Your Own Adventure]]: Brent invited viewers to vote on what his next review would be at the end of his review of the Punisher franchise, though this may count as a subversion as over two months have passed as of the time of this writing and none of the choices offered have appeared in a new video yet. There has been a two-part new episode since then, but, uncharacteristically of the series, it was not a review of anything: it is actually a battle between Brent and his ripoff Trent Biggie, who previously appeared in his own fan-made video.