I was very much hoping that would be one of those old internet things that'd still 100% work for me today like Homestar Runner, but here's the thing... just about all of this fucking reeks of Newgrounds. Thankfully this completely avoids the edgelord aspect of that site, but most of the jokes here are centered around references and memes that the site's demographic are already familiar with. And, well, I dunno, this is just 100% a me thing but a lot of this "oh hey here's a reference to a game you know" humor doesn't really work for me personally these days, though it's all thankfully harmless (well, aside from those goddamn "firing my laser" jokes that popped up in a few episodes. The sooner more people realize that old meme is heavily rooted in blackface thanks to its 4chan origins and abandon it the better). Thankfully it somewhat fares better in the new game Completing the Mission (especially the walkthrough joke which I'll admit I let run for like six minutes before realizing that it wasn't just a heavily extended gag), though it still doesn't always hit. It's just not entirely my style of humor these days, though FWIW when it comes to revisiting things I liked at the age of 12 I'll absolutely take going back to this sort of thing over like, I dunno, the Nostalgia Critic or Egoraptor's shit or whatever

Basically what I'm trying to say here is that Charles is a very good boy who deserved a far better game than this.

Reviewed on Sep 20, 2020


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