The Happy Video Game Nerd: Difference between revisions

[[File:HVGN.jpg|frame|How can you be angry at that face?]]

 

[[So Cool Its Awesome|Let's talk about some games that are great]]<br />

[[Entry Pimp|I'd rather let other people know]]<br />

* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Normally averted, but his reviews of ''[[StarTropics]] 2'' and ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] 10'' had this in spades. Also in the second half of his ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' review.

* [[Adorkable]]: Derek, especially when he [[Squee|squees]] over the games he reviews.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]

* [[April Fools' Day]]: He's done something on April Fools' Day every year since starting as the HVGN, one of only two occasions (the other, of course, being Halloween) for which this is the case:

** 2012: He finally [[Broken Streak|failed to deliver]] his customary April Fools prank, promising in a blog released the following day that he would return in full force in future years.

* [[Big "What?"]]:

'''Nightshade:''' *[[Beat]]* WHAT! }}

* [[Bizarro World]]: He presents himself as the exact inverse of AVGN; not only does he review retro games positively, but he drinks red wine instead of beer (at one point getting confused when someone replaced his wineglass with a beer bottle).

* [[Halloween Episode]]: Much like the Angry Nerd, Derek likes to review horror-themed games in late October, as well as in May under the same logic as Christmas in July.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: At the end of his Metal Storm review:

'''HVGN: [[Rage Quit|WHAT]] [[Nintendo Hard|THE]] [[Precision F-Strike|FUCK]]!''' }}

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Fun]]: The end of the ''[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]]'' review.

* [[So Proud of You]]: [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] is a subscriber to his account.

* [[Take That]]: In the stinger to his Final Fantasy Mystic Quest video, he deliberately pronounces "NES" as both "Enn-ee-ess" and "Ness" just to "piss everyone off".

** In his review of ''Aladdin'', he makes a jab at the [[Irate Gamer]]'s infamous review.

* [[Take That, Audience!]]:

'''Nightshade:''' (looks towards camera) [[[Beat]]] Fuck you. }}

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: HVGN's [[In-Universe|chief argument]] as to why ''Zoda's Revenge'' was a worse game than its predecessor, ''[[StarTropics]]''. He takes the time to point out that just as many people agreed with his criticisms of the game as disagreed with them.