User reviews

Spoony really had a strong streak of Highlander-related videos ranging from The Quickening to the infamous Atari Jaguar CD video game Last of the MacLeods, and it's unfortunate that the guy doesn't seem to be doing that much these days. His YouTube channel is still up and has the goods, but he's just... there. He's around but he's not doing anything, at least he hasn't done all that much recently. Ever since he left Channel Awesome a few years ago, he's been in low-status mode.

Anyway, Spoony is probably the best YouTube-based video game critic outside the Angry Video Game Nerd, although I wish the two were releasing new content side by side. Since Spoony, there has been a surge in video game critics on YouTube, like JonTron, ProJared and Space Hamster. It would be great to see Spoony re-enter the area which made him so popular in the first place.

Want a fanboy who isn't the typically forgiving panderer? Well, The Spoony Experiment is for you.

I like Spoony. His show has its up and downs for sure (and I guess that this is also true about his private live), but in general I enjoy his "work".

There are a lot of review-people out there, but Spoony sometimes really has genius moments of humor. (Lately not so much when he is drunk in front of camera and thinks he is a golden go)

My personal highlight are his reviews to the Ultima-Series. Its just interesting to watch, and he is really in it with is heart. I just write this while watching his interviews with Lord British that came up online a few days ago (I am writing in October 2013) and you know ... he is just "somebody" who did something that meant something to him, and now he is invited in the holy-halls of Lord British.

Cool thing.

Way to go Spoony. Keep standing!

Firstly, if you don't like caustic internet reviewers, you won't like Spoony. It is a pop-culture review show, and while he does things that other don't, at it's core the show is just a guy mocking games and movies.

However, if you do like this form of entertainment, Spoony is by far one of the best in the format. He's not limited to one form of entertainment. He reviews movies, games, TV shows, and even some board games. And unlike many other reviewers, Spoony does more than just say "this sucks", he admits when he likes cheesy or horrible things, so there's a kind of child-like wonderment buried under the swear words and pop-culture references.

One thing that sets him apart from his peers is the fact that he does a wide variety of video types. He has many twenty-minute-or-so reviews, but he also does extremely long videos as well. His Ultima Retrospective comes out to about five hours, his FF VIII, X, and X-2 reviews are feature-length. He has also done "Let's Play" videos, where he plays entirely through FMV games from the mid-90s which are hours long, during which he riffs on the acting like an episode of MST3K, and he's actually pretty damn good at that.

If you work at a computer all day and usually listen to music or something in the background, I suggest listening to his Ultima Retrospective or Let's Play videos while you work. They're funny, you get a real feel for the guy's personality, and they are so enjoyable they make your mundane job fun. That's really what I use his videos for, a work soundtrack.

But like I said, if you hate internet reviews, Spoony will probably not be any better. But if you do like shows such as "The Nostalgia Critic", then Spoony is just as funny but in a different format(s) and tone, and in my opinion better.

As of the time of writing this post, it has been:

*76 days since his 'Street Hunter Rebuary' review (his last real movie review)

*351 days since his 'Spoony & April See Avengers 2: Age of Ultron' review (his last real vlog)

*437 days since the 'Massacre At Central High' review (his second-last real movie review)

*521 days since the 'Nightmare: Back In The Hole' review (his last Black Hole of Board Games Review)

*622 days since the 'Big Trouble In Little China for Commodore 64' review (his last actual video game review, done in his classic style)

Everything in between has either been Wrestle Wrestles, Live Wires or Counter Monkeys (which in all fairness ARE content, but none of which I've never really been interested in watching).

Nothing against Mr Antwiler, but he really does need to at least announce that he's semi-retired from being a serious internet reviewer and we fans need to come to the realisation that he's not going to return to form anytime soon (which is understandable, because he's not a well man).

He needs to look after himself and get his life in order, and then hopefully one day he'll make a great comeback, but this is unlikely for the foreseeable future in my opinion.