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Let's Play/The LP Archive

Notable LP Archive playthroughs:
  • This LP of Scratches: Director's Cut is horrifyingly good.
  • The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing as played by ChewBot, which really has to be read to be believed. It turns a game based on cute cuddly animals into a hellish nightmare that will haunt you until the end of your days. Could arguably be counted as a deconstruction of the original game.
    • Fair warning: if you ever intend to enjoy Animal Crossing in earnest again, do not click that link. It's more like the darkest of Dark Fic than a Let's Play, and it's illustrated besides. Note: No-one here is joking. Seriously. Though if you read 'til the end and don't read the second ending, it's not quite as horrifying and considerably more Badass.
  • From Earth's Let's Plays of Silent Hill series humorously downplays all the horror with gusto and has him express his hate for egregiously complicated fetch puzzles.
  • Seorin's Let's Play of Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, who uses the customizable aspect of the game to craft an epic tale of tragedy and redemption.
    • Seorin also provided a Let's Play for Tsukihime. Worth reading if you never played the game, and for the absolutely hilarious "censorship" of the ero scenes by replacing the more objectionable language with names of: cookies, breakfast cereals, ice cream flavors, and other nouns completely unrelated to the act which is ocuring.
      • Seorin is also doing a (now finished) LP of Fate/stay night, which is arguably better than his Tsukihime LP. The sex scenes are skipped (except for "highlights" where he mocks what he considers the worst parts). Also, Shirou is GAR for Archer.
      • Then again, the gay jokes get pretty tiring, even as far back as the Tsukihime LP (where his targets were Shiki and Arihiko). He's pretty consistently funny otherwise though, and likes to show off little bits of hidden codes in the games. He's also done Tsukihimes sequel Kagetsu Tohya, and has stated that he may do Fate Stay Nights equivalent sequel Hollow Ataraxia by translating it as he LPs it.
      • Unfortunately, the Fate/Stay Night LP was never archived due to the LP archive maintainer not wanting any more H-games on his site (despite having the H removed) and now requires access to the Something Awful thread archives to view.
      • Seorin now has an HTML archive of his Fate/Stay Night LP here.
  • Feinne has done LPs of the first two Ar tonelico games, told as Scrapbook Stories with various characters (usually Reyvateils) narrating.
  • Rooreelooo's LPs of Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie, both subtitle LPs that go through every nook and cranny of the games. Of course, it isn't without the obligatory mishaps with Mr. Vile and Canary Mary...
  • Shugojin's LP of Baldur's Gate 2 and Throne of Bhaal (with mods) is notable for the inclusion (and mockery) of a Romance Mod. The author does get in some great moments, such as disposing of Anomen with The Elemental Plane of BEES:

"Why yes, yes I did just summon a Pit Fiend, cast Protection from Evil on anyone not Anomen, and then make up something completely ridiculous."

    • Though it's hard for those not in the know to tell which lines are original and which ones are an in-game result of having Minsc, Jan, and Haer'Dalis in the party.
    • Also features multiple appearances of Tyr the Maimed God, who hates all his Chosen (or at least Saerileth and Edorim) and likes to see them suffer. And is apparently played by Samuel L Jackson.
  • Cheeseball IV's role in his LP of Black & White is to either make you very glad he is not a real god, or to wish he would do more Let's Plays.
  • Zoolooman's abandoned LP of Civilization IV takes the series's penchant for revisionist history to its logical extremes, chronicling the rise of a Russian World State through such trials as the assimilation of Indian and Chinese cultures, a brief holy war with Spain, and Archimedes blowing Lenin's hand off with a prototype hand cannon. Further 4X forays can be found in the multi-user LP of the original Civilization (spearheaded by Deceased Crab) and Fangz's take on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
  • Jamesman's LP of Chulip. It just might be the most insane, poopie-filled, violently Japanese game of all time.
  • Quovak's Let's Play of the Chzo Mythos, wherein he points out all the game's flaws, even after Yahtzee shows up and joins in the discussion. Funny and insightful, as Yahtzee talks about the things he'd change if he could.
  • Envisioned's Let's Play of the original Crash Bandicoot series is among the best this troper has seen. They're a great resource if you ever wanted to know some of the bigger guide dang its in the games, and LPer himself keeps up a nice running commentary of tips and trivia.
  • LawrenceFriday's LP of Dante's Inferno is a quite funny MSTing of what the author describes as "unashamedly a rip-off of God of War". Laugh as LF and his cohorts John Murdoch and tehwarsmith squirm at the game's Squickier moments and mercilessly mock the derivativeness of the gameplay, the large amounts of filler, the bad game design decisions, Virgil's bizarre metaphors and the nonsensical plot, with special regards to the ending which is enough to cause the crew to rant for the entire ending credits.
  • Daikatana is one of those MST style Let's Plays. Proteus4994 and Suspicious, along with several hapless guests, are made John Romero's collective bitch as they delve, Dante's Inferno-esque, into this infamously terrible first-person shooter. Terrible weapons that hurt the player more often than the target, map design ranging from bland to outright malevolent and broken, an atrocious anime fanfic of a story, and gameplay that would (and did) make a grown man cry are all punctuated by glitch after hysterical glitch. Bring popcorn.
  • Slowbeef and Diabetus Lets Play of Dead to Rights. Lets put it this way:you will have started laughing by the time they start doing their Jack Slate impressions. Otherwise, you have no soul, is the idea here.
    • The later move onto the Reboot, Dead to Rights: Retribution and continue their antics from there.
  • Slowbeef takes on Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Diabetus takes on MetroidFusion. Hilarity Ensues It's hilarious because of how comical, and comically bad at the games, Slowbeef is.

Ridley: "I'm still falling!"

  • Slowbeef's version of Snatcher slowly decays from a straight, rather dull play-by-play into an insane roleplay, with other posters signing up as characters from the game and commenting on the action, and a final culmination into Slowbeef being killed and replaced by the Snatchers, then resurrected by a character account from a previous LP - a bizarre Let's Play version of Wiki Magic.
    • And he winds up carrying that spoilered part into the LP of SD Snatcher, itself a gold mine of Hideo Kojima nutjobbery.
    • Slowbeef also has another famous LP of the rather poor Dating Sim Sprung, told in the viewpoints (in separate SA topics, even) of the pepper-spray happy dumb as a box of hair hero Brett, and the Yandere face-punching Becky. Apparently, it's deep enough to merit the forumers Photoshopping together such homages as Phoenix Wright-esque screenshots and a mock "Snatcher 2" cover based on the box art.
    • Slowbeef's LPs themselves have become infamous for somehow always featuring exploding heads. Not even his laggy video LP-turned-screenshot LP of Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode is safe.
    • As long as we're talking Slowbeef, his Justin Bailey run of Super Metroid has to be seen to be believed, and his recently completed second LP of Snatcher, co-starring Diabetus and sometimes Cherry Doom, is also fantastic.
    • Speaking of Snatcher, Slowbeef recently did a Video LP of it with Diabetus and CherryDoom commenting. During the playthrough whenever Slowbeef surprisingly forgets something, Diabetus offers to go check the screenshot LP to which Slowbeef always answers "It wouldn't help".
    • And in one of the earliest Let's Plays, Slowbeef plays the forgotten Genesis classic The Immortal.
  • Back before Slowbeef did Snatcher, he did another game filled with unrivalled Hideo Kojima insanity - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Since this was before he knew what a Let's Play was, he called it a "Metal Gear 2 Strategy Guide: The Game Solid Snake Never Intended For You To Play" and put it on his personal webspace instead of Something Awful.
  • Schildkrote had an iconic LP of Desert Bus. Truly a milestone in Let's Play history.
  • AccountingNightmare's LP of the Devil May Cry series. Informative commentary and skilled playthrough, usually on the highest difficulty and with highest completion. She will awe you with her in-depth knowledge of every enemy attack, every weapon combo, and every hidden secret. She cheerfully shares all this, in a calming, pleasant voice, while painting the walls with demon blood. Using the Stinga!
  • b00n has completed a number of First Person Shooter LP's: Doom 3 and its expansion, Half-Life 2 and the current Episodes, and FEAR. In each one he takes it slow and careful, showing off every secret he can, though the FEAR LP included an alternative playthrough by site, who cheated himself the big guns from the start and kept count of the number of Replicas killed throughout the game.
  • There is an ongoing LP of Dungeons and Dragons on the SA forums. It has a lighthearted feel to it, along with endearing characters and good DMs.
  • The group effort/succession game Let's Play of Dwarf Fortress tells the tale of Boatmurdered from the point of view of its succession of overseers, their crusades against bloodthirsty and vengeful elephants, and the use of levers as doomsday devices. Must be read to be believed.
    • Many have tried, but it seems the only LP that has risen to the task of being a worthy successor to Boatmurdered is the epic saga of death, madness and fire (lots of fire) that is Headshoots.
    • Syrupleaf is notable for being the first SA DF LP to use mods, and for its degree of audience participation - the fortress crosses the line at times from Let's Play to collaborative fanfiction, and the thread got very, very long.
    • Bravemule is an epic illustrated DF LP with strange and funny writing that sounds straight from the game itself. Some of the more dramatic updates include illustrated videos (with original music!) and gorgeously drawn comics.
  • Travis343's LP of EarthBound for its narration of the game story from Ness's perspective, as well as characterizing Captain Strong as a more serious character, even going as far as to have him run Ness out of Onett.
  • Phiggle's LP of Earthworm Jim 2 is wonderfully bizarre, from frequent Lampshade Hanging, to a history of Major Mucus, to editing the cows that appear at the end of every stage to congratulate Jim.
  • Fallout 1, played by BOrangeFury; presented as the diary of the Vault Dweller, and chronicles his evolution from wide-eyes idealist to world-weary savior in name only.
  • Leovinus' Let's Play of Final Fantasy VIII is quite hilarious to read. Among his acts are turning Zell into The Scrappy (insulting and berating him at every possible opportunity, and NEVER letting him level), making a Draco in Leather Pants out of Kiros (who verbally bitchslaps anyone he lays eyes on, mostly via over-the-top accusations of Ho Yay), and giving dirty names to anything he can (this DOES result in a rather humorous moment with Worf's dog Angelo and one of its attacks).
    • Currently, he's doing an LP of Final Fantasy IX. Even if all the characters except Zidane are keeping their original names. Also, a large amount of ass jokes and a few about Viewer Gender Confusion about Zidane. (Warning: There is a possible-troll in the comments, as well as lots of infighting about whether IX or VIII is the better Final Fantasy. But some of the latter is actually hilarious in its own right)
  • Kuvo, Bandunk, and TopiKal's (now working under the name Tipping Forties) recently completed Let's Play of Final Fantasy X. A playthrough of a game none of the Let's Players actually enjoyed or were any good at, which for the most part resulted in them relentlessly MST-ing game which in turn resulted in a very amusing and entertaining Let's Play.
  • Flashback, played by Yahtzee, the man behind Zero Punctuation.
  • God Hand by Kung-Fu Jesus is generally funny, though a tad busy from the commentary by Kung-Fu Jesus and his various guests.
  • Jerusalem's Let's Play of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas gives us In-Depth Carl Johnson and justifications for all the crazy stuff he can get despite his gangsta status.
  • Cybershell's Half-Life 2 LP, which is totally not the original Half Life, honest, in which, amongst other things, Cybershell keeps on updating through a power outage by drawing pictures of the game from Gordon's perspective and taping them to his monitor.
  • Cooked Auto is notable for let's playing Halo pretty decently.
  • CapitanGarlic's absolutely hilarious Let's Play of Icewind Dale II, featuring a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Five-Man Band (and Marty) consisting of a Small Name, Big Ego sorcerer with an ego the size of Jupiter, a monk whose specialty is the Groin Attack, the Only Sane Man half-orc wizard, the Ditzy elven bard, a druid in a constant state of Mushroom Samba (who has a tendency to break the fourth wall), and a Heroic Sociopath barbarian of manliness + 5 whose every sentence is pure gold:

Urggzob: Urggzob is like a small country whose primary exports are PAIN and CRUSHING!
Urggzob: Urggzob should get teeth for his eyes. That way he could bite his foes by blinking at them.

    • And it still pulls off one hell of a Tear Jerker ending.
  • supergreatfriend's Illbleed LP has been compared to Research Indicates' Trespasser LP (see above) in terms of quality. Though it's not as slick as Tresspasser, it's still a good and informative series on a truly bizarre survival horror game.
    • A highlight being supergreatfriend trying to make sense of some of the more bizarre suspect options for the fifth stage murder mystery killer, Killerman (said suspects being 'Killerman' and 'You' as in, YOU THE PLAYER are somehow Killerman)
    • He's also completed LPs of both D and D2, bizarre indie horror titles from the 90s, although bizarre in completely different ways from the previously mentioned Illbleed.
  • Jagged Alliance as played by Karach takes a somewhat cynical look into the liberation of Arulco (examples include Ira being a Tyke Bomb) and the ending is gets rather cynical for everyone in the squad. Oh, and it's lead by Dagny Taggart, the main character of Atlas Shrugged, and the squad is comprised of all the worst characters in the game.
  • Kaizo Mario World, played by Psychedelic Eyeball, Proton Jon, & Wugga; an example of sadistically Nintendo Hard ROM hacks.
    • They really put together the perfect team for it, too. Minimal loss of sanity (probably considering Eyeball didn't have much to lose), and one of the forumers gave them a tool-assisted speedrun that has to be seen to be believed.
  • Frankomatic has done LPs for the King's Quest series.
  • The Kirby 64 Let's Play, by Medibot, is a surprisingly soothing Let's Play, in which Medibot speaks in a soft-toned, conversational voice (what he calls his "children's show host voice" in a bonus reel) that works very well with the moderately lax style of gameplay provided by Kirby 64.
    • Although he adopts a demonic tone and starts rambling on about murder and destroying things whever he picks up an Invincible Candy. It's fairly Narm-ish, though. Lead to the memorable line of "Kirby, your mission is clear: You must destroy everything." before picking it up in one case.
    • There's also the point where he picks up a crab and... goes a bit mad with power. "This crab will take me as far as I need to go!"
    • The one of Kirby's Dream Land 3 isn't bad either, with Kaz as the second player bringing the Bash Brothers action. And that wasn't the end of it; the pair also worked together to defeat Kirby Super Star and Kirby's Epic Yarn.
  • Knights of the Old Republic II by Scorchy. It's not meant to be particularly hilarious, but the commentary is often very insightful, and it shows the tons of content that was cut from the game.
  • Anything by Deceased Crab, really, especially his epic, sanity-straining LP of La-Mulana. Also recommended is his LP of Cave Story, with special bonus "Balrog Story". Notable for being one of two LPers who brought Let's Play to YouTube. Huzzah!
    • Let us not forget his LP of Cocoron, featuring Singing Ninja Tank!
      • Deceased Crab would also co-star with Madam Luna in some of her playthroughs as well.
      • Speaking of Madamluna, there's her blind run of Shadowgate, with Deceased Crab acting as her navigator. Meaning he gets to trick her into falling into many of the traps in the game.
    • Especially gut-wrenchingly hilarious is a Let's Play he does of a Barbie game... whilst on pain killers... because he's just had his wisdom teeth out... whilst Man'O'War plays in the background. Especially interesting because, as he notes, the gameplay of the game isn't THAT bad.
    • His LP of Mappy Land, a pleasant-looking but also very shoddy and insane game, is a treasure trove of delirium.
  • Feinne made an utterly awesome LP of La Pucelle Tactics, where Prier tells our favorite overlord and company about her time with La Pucelle with help from Lujei.
  • A particularly funny LP came out of Guide Dang It romhack The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds, in which Woobie-esque Zomodok attempts to trek through the entire game; all the whilst taking crap from both Deadpan Snarker Diabetus and Insufferable Genius Oyster. Made all the better in its' Lost Forever-inducing second quest when Zomodok actually gives up and hands the reins to his Jerkass predecessors.
  • Oyster's LP of the original Mega Man, with the suggestions of maniacal contributor Diabetus, goes from providing fun facts about the series to reciting Slash Fic during a level playthrough to turning Elec Man into Nightmare Fuel.
    • Oyster has also contributed as a player in several Let's All Plays of various Mega Man games. Expect loads of Carpet F-Bombing whenever he dies due to user-imposed challenges, though.
  • In this Let's Play collaboration, Seiferguy, Diabetus, Krakhan, Kefkafloyd, Maxwell Adams, Kung-Fu Jesus, Taxidermistpasta and Oyster take on Mega Man X 3. During the final stage run, Diabetus "transforms" into mock voices of the other LPers as he takes on the eight robot masters again.
  • Mr. Swoon's Let's Play Monster Rancher 1 shows us the results of a monster being raised by a drug addicted alcoholic. Let's Play Monster Rancher 2 main character is less cruel (but not by a big margin).
  • Ghost Car's Nanashi no Game Let's Play manages to be humourous at times while still preserving the game's creepy atmosphere. Ghost Car also translates the game, making this a must-see for anyone frustrated by the No Export for You.
  • Lt. Danger's Neverwinter Nights 2 is very insightful, providing commentary on various themes and characters throughout the game, as well as extra content that was cut from the final version. It also helps that it's downright hilarious in many parts.
    • Lt. Danger also recently finished LPing one of the expansions, Mask of the Betrayer. It's even better than the first, and the "Evil" ending simply must be seen to be believed.
    • Dohash's take on the other expansion pack, Storms of Zehir is also worth reading. Like the Icewind Dale 2 LP, it takes a relatively bland, straightforward game and manages to craft an engaging story built around the reader-generated characters.
    • lucidfox, disappointed about the fact Lt.Danger chose the evil route in Neverwinter Nights 2 decided to make an LP of a Neutral Good character (crossposted on SA and rpg.net), which is just as informative as Lt.Danger's LP, that said however Good Is Not Nice with the character.
  • Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus' LP of No More Heroes provides hilarious jokes, Ear Worm catchphrases ("PIPES!"), a mock "ranked assassin" complete with fake introduction (actually just Chip's dad wandering in and rambling about Star Trek), and of course, plenty of commentary on the age old question of whether flaws on Suda 51 games are actual flaws or post modern Mind Screws.
    • The same authors have also made an LP of the even crazier Killer7. Highlights include futile attempts to make sense of it all, Chip's burning hatred of Iwazaru, Ironicus' impressions of "Ghost Kid"/Kess BloodySunday's voice and finally the final revelation that the entire LP may or may not have been a hallucination by Chip, completely in line with the game's Mind Screw nature.
      • They've moved on to Metal Gear Solid 3 now, featuring Chip Cheezum on a mission to "place every animal (found in the game) in his mouth", thus completing the spiral of life. The thread title, originally a quote from MGS2, sums it up best: "Cruelty to animals is a sign of serious behavioral problems".
      • * sniff* Mission J. Frog :(
      • Let's not forget Chip Cheezum's insistence on replaying maps several times with different play styles, an epic wrestling match between Ocelot and a king cobra, Snake attempting to teabag a helicopter, Cheezum's Flanderization of Big Boss as a wild jungle man with No Social Skills (complete with Hulk Speak), Major Zero trying to convince Snake to shoot a porn movie with EVA, and General Ironicus' tendency to burst into punch-drunk laughter whenever a new gameplay mechanic is introduced. And that's just a fraction of the awesomeness that is this LP.
    • The next one is another big Genre Shift to 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand, which as you may guess is as much MST as LP of a game that's far more unintentionally ridiculous (probably) than the Refuge in Audacity before.
      • Of note are General Ironicus's sociology notes, which he pulls out and recites at two points in the LP. Try to imagine a serious discourse on racial sociology being spoken over 50 Cent mowing down faceless Middle Eastern goons and swearing at the drop of a hat. Now imagine the Top Gun soundtrack in the background. Yeah.
    • Their LP of Beyond Good and Evil was also pretty good, what with insights on how certain things in the game work, such as the likelihood of Double H being issued with the children's edition of Carlson & Peeters and increasingly absurd suggestions on what to include in Beyond Good & Evil 2.
      • Their Let'sPlays are specially notable due to Cheezum's habit of showing off everything. Every Easter Egg, glitch, alternate path, and extra feature of the games are found, shown, and skillfully edited.
    • Chip has also done a solo LP of Rez HD, a beautiful rail shooter with absolutely kick-ass visuals and sound. No commentary on this one, put Chip does quip in, in text form, to let you know about the game. Everyone should agree that's how it should be LPed.
    • Getting back to MGS, there's their Let's Play of Substance, which features a serial killer named after a fruit, loving descriptions of Raiden's thighs and Stillman, who as you might be aware, killed his soooouuul!!
    • Visit their website and be lost to the outside world for hours. Their LP of The You Testament has to be seen to believed. They've also finished LPs of Lego Star Wars, Zone of the Enders, and MGS 1(with special guest voidburger).
  • Chewbot has conducted a recently archived LP of Oregon Trail, which ratchets the characterization of a pioneer family up from "Bare-Bones" to "Filling". It includes such madness as a wife with a history of sleeping around, a subplot involving disgruntled British spies, and a hideously malformed baby who happens to be the patriarch's only biological child, out of three—including "Waffles," who got his name from a childhood incident that's never fully explained.
  • Tasian's LPs of both Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan games are pretty enjoyable. They're more or less Gag Subs giving the names of goons to various characters, though during the tapping sections Tasian will explain bits of culture or stuff about the band which made the song.
    • They might have gotten you to download songs that your family calls "psychopathic", but it was worth it for moments like Tasian throwing his stylus at the screen, the things the Ouendan shout after each success ("Monster! Relationship! Stable!"), and that time he was so inspired that he used two styluses. Love and Government!
    • It a must watch if only for the insane amount of skill Tasian has. Anyone who has played EBA or Ouendan has not lived until they've watch the finale of the second game. Phenomenal.
    • Now has its own section on the Ouendan page. Good luck to you!
  • Faceguy and Wogturt's LP of Paper Mario is hilarious the whole way through, and also has quite a number of guest commentators. Check it out, especially if you like pokecapn and his gang's various LPs; it's in quite a similar playfully mocking style, minus the frustration.
  • Mr Swoon pulls off a fairly straightforward Parasite Eve... save for his penchant for replacing Daniel's face with those of Eddie Murphy, Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Glover, and other famous black film cops in every screenshot that presents the opportunity. And be sure to pay attention to Science Time with Talking Polygon Character Heads!
  • My Life Is a Goddamn Mess of Persona 3 shows the game as the records of the Livejournal pages of the main character (with occasional uses of comments and/or blog pages of other characters), adding large amounts of Character Development to the Heroic Mime, who is portrayed as a Deadpan Snarker Emo Teen (particularly in music taste) both frustrated and bemused by the characters and events of his life, making jokes about the Level Up At Intimacy 5 system and the people around him, it gets much more dramatic as it goes on, as the main character gets closer to The End of the World as We Know It and his eventual Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Any and all Pokémon Let's Plays by Red Chocobo. Utterly hilarious commentary from a character POV, supported by little sidestories and excellent artwork, not to mention the most effective use of smilies ever. Has now begun a Platinum Let's Play.
    • Note: According to Red Chocobo, the Platinum Let's Play is finished. It can be found here.
    • Relatedly, there's the Let's Play of a So Bad It's Good Game Mod known as Pokemon Quartz, complete with input from Red Chocobo himself and an interview with the creator after the LP ended.
      • Zorak's LP Quartz is apparently all a dream caused by Misty's (of LP Emerald) Ludicolo (Sanchez) with a Dream Eater TM stuck in his head fucking with Roxy's (of LP Crystal) cousin Foxy (the main character of LP Quartz).
    • New to the pantheon is FredMSloniker's LP of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, chronicling Jake the Meowth's quest to hug 'em all. The normally hum-drum missions are spiced up by fellow Goons using the Wonder Mail Generator to hand out awesome post-game TMs and items as rewards.
    • And, of course, the entirely and easily-forgotten chronicles of Lorak's Let's Play of Pokemon Colosseum, a rather narratively bland Let's Play of an often-overlooked Gamecube game that is technically part of the third-generation of Pokemon games. It was made with executive permission from slowbeef during the time of the strict Pokemon LP ban, and was rather low activity, but became what was one of the most informative Pokemon ones to come out of the LP subforum, other than...
    • A goon named Metroixer managed to get around the SA LP forum's semi-ban on Pokémon LPs by making his playthrough of Blue version center around a specific gimmick: showing off as many of the game's unintentional, hilarious, reality-destroying glitches as humanly possible. It's comparatively short and yet lives up to its foreboding original thread title "Let's horribly break Pokémon Blue", and there were plenty of fascinating conversations and supporting posts (including a Tool-Assisted Speedrun, "Let's literally break/fix Pokémon games", and insightful conversations about programming) from the thread that are included in the archive. It's a great look into one of the greatest games from several generations ago that managed to be fun despite many programming quirks.
  • Princess Maker 2, played by SynthOrange as he raises an innocent little girl according to the whims of SA's forum. Having been produced by Gainax, the obvious choice for the father is Gendo Ikari. He ends up a much better father then you'd expect, though only really gets his act in gear when his daughter is killed by the God of War and then walks home from hell. Shame that the gods kinda frown upon Gendo's ward committing regicide, then proceeding to marry and usurp the Devil, though.
    • Also, Gendo, with breasts
      • Also also, Gendo trying his hand at Shinji Ikari Raising Project whilst Lizzie is dead and epically failing to get a non-Kaworu ending.
  • Sethur's LP of Psychonauts is well worth a look. It was very considerate typical videogame desire, which is to hear every line and read every description. Extremely considerate; there probably wasn't a single opportunity to see someone's reaction to a button or being caught on fire that was missed. Sethur knows when to stop talking and doesn't make a lot of bitter sarcastic comments, and he goes through and collects every single figment, no matter how painfully placed, to earn the bonus video. He also has a pleasant voice and doesn't swear much - and when he does swear, it's actually deserved.
  • Bobbin Threadbare's LP of Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva, depicted as a tabletop RPG campaign not unlike the style of Darths and Droids. Also includes the story of The Greatest Dick Move of All.
  • Olive Branch completed a well written Let's Play of Republic the Revolution, the tale of a revolutionary who started off as a The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized to becoming a pragmatic leader of a coalition that in spite of his force roots have managed to force the dictator to resign.
  • The Dark Id has established himself as a popular Accentuate the Negative Let's Player with a Mystery Science Theater 3000- esque way of presenting games. He spends about 50% of them sarcastically tearing apart Plot Holes, various Solve the Soup Cans puzzles, and the remaining 50% photoshopping in new and hilarious scenery, bit pieces, and writing new and hilarious lines for the characters. And it is hilarious. Oh, and at some points he also plays the games. In order of LP creation:
    • Resident Evil 4: Guns N' Roses Ganados, a hilarious deconstruction of what had to be going through Leon's mind when he killed the first Ganado, Chief Bitores Mendez running around in a Packers cheese hat, and depicting the cabin siege as a horrific Civil War battle... And that's before they even get to the castle.
      • Not to mention two of the monsters in that game being born from an incompetent Ganado scientist, when he was supposed to be making the Regenerators.
    • Resident Evil: Code Veronica X: Puts makeup on Alfred Ashford. Gives Wesker multiple silly sunglasses, hates Steve with all his guts.
    • Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is turned into a Pimp, the T-800 and a Super Saiyan.
    • Resident Evil 2: Mr X becomes Señor X. Leon is a racially insensitive dick. Sherry Birkin is traumatised. Claire gets trapped in the Jersey turnpike.
    • Resident Evil: Dead Aim: Has a priceless reaction to Tyrant Morpheus.
    • Resident Evil 0: Turns Billy (FUCKING) Coen into an evil bastard. Abuses Rebecca at every oppotunity. The T-001 is a drunkard. Billy is killed in the end.
    • Resident Evil 1 (Remake): Chris goes through multiple hallucinations. Billy Coen's ghost haunts Rebecca, and causes Richard's death.
    • Dirge of Cerberus: Vincent is equal time angsty and resigned over the stupid plot in his own Day in The Limelight. Lucrecia spends most of the game trying to get a restraining order. Yuffie ends up dead by own clumsiness, which is immediately Ret Conned. Twice. The author ends up entering Cluster F-Bomb territory over all the belts, zippers, and bad plot twists.
    • Onimusha: Nobunaga has a bitchin' mustache. The ninja sidekick is useless. Albert Wesker and Dr. Wily do expert commentary on the Shakespeare references and lack of giant robots.
    • Clock Tower 3: Before he went through it, he considered Resident Evil: Dead Aim to be the worst game ever. Not anymore.
    • Drakengard: He's a mute Heroic Sociopath who loves murder and... Um... More murder. And talking about murder. She's a Deadpan Snarker misanthrope red dragon. They Fight Crime! DRAKENGARD! becomes a Catch Phrase for explaining everything that's wrong with this game.
    • Limbo of the Lost: Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs defiles numerous corpses and becomes a sex offender. Meanwhile a great battle betwen the two opposing forces known as FATE and DESTINY (apparently Fate and Destiny are opposites, who knew?) is brewing and only Captain Briggs can- What's that? Nevermind. That plot point about Fate and Destiny is immediatly forgotten and Benjamin spends the entire time wandering aimlessly through a sick, twisted, copy-right violating purgatory assaulted by terrible voice acting and broken animations. He also becomes the worlds greatest brain-damaged detective and solves a murder investigation in a way that must be seen to be believed.
    • Wirehead: A quick play through of a FMV SEGA CD game that involves jumping out of airplanes, fighting bears, high-speed wagon chases and a terrifying journey to THE SOUTH!
    • Chrono Cross: Serge becomes the Only Sane Man. Kid is repeatedly abandoned. The El Nido islands consists of nothing but anorexics. ZOAH BECOMES AN Ensemble Darkhorse.
    • Nie R: Has practically no Alternative Character Interpretation whatsoever due to the game being actually liked, and a pretty detailed look at the backstory and how the world is connected to the Drakengard universe is provided. That doesn't stop TDI from getting Trolled by Cavia with every other sidequest and Tyrann from narrating the New Game+. About a third of the thread readers decide to buy the game after seeing the LP. The Boars turn out to have a drift function.
    • Drakengard 2: Back to bad with the other sequel to Drakengard. Nowe is an idiot... And yeah, that's about it.
  • Didja Redo's take on Riviera: The Promised Land manages to maintain the basic plot of the game while turning it into a laugh riot via a ton of Flanderization of every single character; plenty of lampshading (to the point of using actual terminology from This Very Wiki) and other "creative liberties".
  • SimCity 2000, played by Moon Slayer and Deryl; presented as a deconstruction of the otherwise Acceptable Breaks From Reality in the game, and making "City Name" (the name chosen by consensus for the new city) look like Silent Hill.
  • The Deadly Hume's SimCity 3000 LP features an entertaining plot and a very well built city. His SimCity 4 LP can be found on Something Awful, which, while lacking a story, shows off Hume's incredible ability to build great, realistic cities and gives a good number of interesting pointers.
  • Egomaniac's video LPs of Siren and Siren 2 are subtitled and extremely detailed, organized into both chronological and play order, and provide details and translations of the Archives and speech in Siren 2.
    • Just want to emphasize that Egomaniac went above-and-beyond the normal call of duty here. Not only did he collect every Archive item and solve the puzzles, you can tell from the commentary that not only does he know the winning moves, but can anticipate the viewer's questions and ideas and explain why they would or wouldn't work.
    • Not to mention that Siren 2 wasn't released in America, meaning he translated nearly every line of text and dialogue his own damn self.
  • Cybershell has also done Let's Plays of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Sonic 3 and Knuckles (available here), including his opinion of the latter's infamous Guide Dang It: He thinks you're mentally retarded if you took more than a minute to figure it out.
  • The Sonic The Hedgehog 2006 Lets Play LP by pokecapn, medibot, Kung-Fu Jesus, and IlluminatusVespucci takes on one of the franchise's worst games in a single cooperative session, clocking in in about 20 hours. Two of which were spent staring at loading screens.
    • And they did it again for Sonic Unleashed (the Xbox 360 version). Which is at least a better game, but has plenty of humor despite it, such as the sole piece of combat music, a jazz tune, being used OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER...
      • Not to mention medibot giving a description to EVERY SINGLE PICKUP ITEM without repeating himself once.
      • Extra points for the occasional embittered reference back to Sonic '06: "Remember when running into walls like this would kill you?" "NO."
      • The LP also manages to be unintentionally hilarious (in a ironic way) because of their conclusion that the Werehog sections would be better if it had better controls, especially for grabbing things. They never realized that they could hold B to auto-grab objects.
    • Sir pokecapn's band also did a LP of Sonic and the Black Knight soon after.
    • More recently, they moved onto doing one of Sonic Colors. They enjoy it much more than the previous games, to say the least.
    • And in a direction that is entirely different from Sonic games, the crew have recently started an LP saga of playing through each of the Friendship-Destroying Mario Party games. A comment in one of the first videos sums it up nicely:

pokecapn: Well that's five controller's thrown now, and all of them by me.

  • Feinne has also done an LP of Soul Nomad and The World Eaters, done as the journal entries of the (female) main character (with Gig making his own little additions). The Demon Path ends with the implication that Revya will become Baal...
  • The in progress let's play of Dr.Snofield's Startopia, as the (Only) human in the station he is forced to contend with a more than human AI and a variety of moments...namely this moment where he realizes the Sirens are Cross Gender, namely the male sirens sound like women, the female sirens sound like men. With this followup.

VAL: “It’s actually quite interesting,” said VAL, hovering in front of my dumbstruck face. “Sirens and humans look so very similar, but the major difference – other than the wings – is that Siren males look just like human females! And visa versa, of course.”
Snofield: “Buh... but...”
VAL:“Hold on... you didn’t think... oh you silly organic.” If drones could smile, VAL would have been grinning ear to ear, if he also had ears. “If only you could see your face! Actually, as it happens, I have a camera, so I can show you back at the command centre!”
Snofield: “Err...” I got out, once again moving to the door. “You go on ahead... I’m going to go use the Lavotron... set to cold.”

  • Super Mario RPG by loquacious, accompanied by his cousin Organ Donor who's coming to the game almost blind, plus the occasional guest star. Lots of laid back fun is had at the game's ridiculousness, and there's also plenty of great information and tips on how to play.
  • Khad just finished his version of SWAT 4, and unlike Spoony, he also finished the expansion. Some of the frustration Spoony faced was eased due to the Sheriff Special Forces Mod.
  • Neb777's Let's Play of TIE Fighter /Star Destroyer.
  • Jerusalem's Let's Play of 'Medieval 2: Total War: A Scotsman in Egypt weaves a tale of two disillusioned Scottish princes who conquer Egypt in a fit of drunken ambition and proceed to craft a Scottish Empire that retakes Jerusalem in the Crusades with a degree of permanence, unites the British Isles under Scottish rule halfway by accident, and routs the Mongol Hordes with horrifying results. And we haven't even gotten into the second half and its magnificent forgery of a Downer Ending. (NOTE: Not to be confused with its considerably shorter prequel, Rome Total Realism: An Egyptian In Scotland by Porkness.)
  • Khad's Let's Play of Treasure Master would be a fairly standard Let's Play of a Nintendo Hard game... were it not for the guest commentators, particularly taxidermistpasta, who takes every chance to annoy Khad in increasingly ridiculous ways (from playing The Entertainer to reciting a walkthrough... for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
    • Don't forget Lowtax and his squeaky robot noises and spontaneous echoing.
  • Research_Indicates's LP of Trespasser is arguably the best video LP ever conducted, with a laconic Southern-ness that eases the pain of lampooning one of the quirkiest of Jurassic Park games.
  • From the same guy responsible for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Special Edition: His later Let's Play of a pair of obscure SegaSaturn games (called Tryrush Deppy and Super Tempo) is one of the most soothing and poetic LPs ever.
    • At least the Deppy Side. The Tempo side is just as (if not more) bizarre as Sonic 2: Special Edition.
  • What Nakar has done to the majority of the Ultima series is nothing short of madness. Our female protagonist Steve conducts herself in a very un-Avatarlike manner, what with killing Lord British a couple times, killing Iolo in Ultima V so he can be rebuilt as a robot and fitted with the Cheat Menu for Ultima VI, conducting mass murder in U6 with the help of "Death Cannon," and wrecking the economy of Serpent Isle with a few (dozen, maybe hundred) well-placed castings of False Coin.
    • Of course, we should mention that Steve is apparently channeling Hunter S. Thompson
    • And let's not forget Martian Dreams, where she takes every opportunity to insult Iolo, Shamino, and Dupre's Expys whilst kicking ass and taking names accompanied by such Victorian figures as Nellie Bly and Sigmund Freud. Not to mention a Martian fembot. And the Beefeater-looking chap with the hots for said Martian fembot.
    • Skara Brae, twice. It deserves all the accolades we can give the expeditions, because it involves killing all the inhabitants. Twice. The second time around, they're all ghosts and Steve still manages to pull it off. And completely wipe the island off the face of the map with a few hundred thousand pounds of explosives.

Steve: There, now we can NEVER go back to Skara Brae. Nobody can go back to Skara Brae. Ever Again.

    • "Yes. I demand that you have sex with this talking mouse. I am a paying customer and you are being incredibly disrespectful."
  • The Let's Play of Uplink turns an unconventional strategy game about Hollywood Hacking into asklh%$#h; endl; [ ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERR
  • Pesmerga's roleplayed LP of Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines.
  • Nigel Necksmasher's conquest of Azeroth in Warcraft, accompanied by the lovable brute Vilefeast and the irritating-yet-still-lovable Bloodgut. Also DEATH WAGONS!
  • Zutaten's MSTing of Xenosaga: Episode I.
  • X-COM: Apocalypse, a true epic played by GuavaMoment. He manages to turn an essentially plotless strategy game into a riveting tale of intergalactic war. Of course, there's a lighter side, explored when one of the soldiers suffers a psionic attack and spends his last days hallucinating an LP of X-COM: Interceptor. But be warned...
    • Even more so (in both the epic and light-hearted senses) with his LP of the first game of the series, X-COM: UFO Defense, with such weirdness as an Ax Crazy scientist outfitting her cat with Powered Armor, a janitor being assigned to three parts of X-COM at once (and falling into said scientist's good graces in the process), a squad leader Expying Kamina eight years before Gurren Lagann was made, and President Andrew Jackson fighting aliens.
    • And the saga continues with Jade Star's LP of UFO: Aftermath, the first in a trilogy of Spiritual Successors to the X-COM series. Notable antics in this After the End romp include the janitorial woes of off-screen character seaborgium, the slightly off-kilter Snake Squad's first encounter with Car Crabs, research into Reticulan Burgers, and the death of Canuck and his subsequent return as Robo-Canuck. Jade and Guava actually have a pact running to LP the remaining X-COM and UFO games.
  • Tehzim, a New Zealand goon risks breaking the law completed a playthrough of Postal 2, pointing out the negative flaws of the game and making a light joke about bits of the game.

"Oh nononononono, only one dead black celebrity per LP. We Already got Gary Coleman, so no Michael Jackson say goodnight.

  • PoptartsNinja has done a Let's Play of Star Trek Online featuring a Cardassian as the player character. He then proceeds to expand upon the basic plot of the game with such things as greater character development, a Tribble Borg collective, a few romantic subplots, Undine spies that you won't see coming, a Pakled councillor and a few appearances by some familair faces who otherwise wouldn't appear in the game. Really it's worth looking into even if you just skip the videos and follow along with the updates that move the storyline foward.
  • After Schildkrote went on hiatus on his Persona 4 LP, Feinne picked it up, continuing his streak of high quality first-person narrative LPs.
  • Let's Play Assassin's Creed, by Geop. Not only is he thorough in researching the historical context and locations of the game, but near the end, he gives viewers some fairly digestible history lessons.
  • Jade Star and Guava Moment are back! And they are heading to Pandora for some awesome guns and loot!
  • baldurk, Blister, cKnoor and EthanSteele play Left 4 Dead on Expert and Versus, along with several custom campaigns. It's hilarious every step of the way.
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