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** "It's like...that kayon ''Manga/KOn'' character maker that all the kids on Website/DeviantArt like to use. Or pretty anybody who doesn't know how to draw likes to use. ...So, yeah, [=DeviantArt=]."
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Christian reserves his greatest disdain for games where it's clear that the developers put in minimal to no effort, particularly for commercially released products such as the Gameboy ports of ''Mortal Kombat''. ''Duel Masters: Kaijudo Showdown'' has him refuse to play the game after realizing the NPC dialogue comprises riddles from a joke book for kids, calling it "one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen in a video game".
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* EveryoneHasStandards: EveryoneHasStandards:
** Christian reserves his greatest disdain for games where it's clear that the developers put in minimal to no effort, particularly for commercially released products such as the Gameboy ports of ''Mortal Kombat''. ''Duel Masters: Kaijudo Showdown'' has him refuse to play the game after realizing the NPC dialogue comprises riddles from a joke book for kids, calling it "one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen in a video game".
** Christian reserves his greatest disdain for games where it's clear that the developers put in minimal to no effort, particularly for commercially released products such as the Gameboy ports of ''Mortal Kombat''. ''Duel Masters: Kaijudo Showdown'' has him refuse to play the game after realizing the NPC dialogue comprises riddles from a joke book for kids, calling it "one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen in a video game".
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* BaitAndSwitch: In the "BAD Mario Fan Games" video, Pikasprey introduces it as a video covering the topic his viewers have been "demanding I cover for a while now"... as a screencapped comment asking him to feature unused content in the fourth series of Pokemon games floats into view.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Christian reserves his greatest disdain for games where it's clear that the developers put in minimal to no effort, particularly for commercially released products such as the Gameboy ports of ''Mortal Kombat''. ''Duel Masters: Kaijudo Showdown'' has him refuse to play the game after realizing the NPC dialogue comprises riddles from a joke book for kids, calling it "one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen in a video game".
--> "The level of how much (the developers) had to have not cared is astounding here. If I still did live bits on this show, this would be the part where I pull out my prop gun and shoot the cartridge."
** Christian also takes a ''very'' dim view of plagiarism, mentioning it in his satirical "How to Become a Sonic Fan" video without any sarcasm.
--> "No, but seriously stop stealing other people's work and calling it your own."
--> "The level of how much (the developers) had to have not cared is astounding here. If I still did live bits on this show, this would be the part where I pull out my prop gun and shoot the cartridge."
** Christian also takes a ''very'' dim view of plagiarism, mentioning it in his satirical "How to Become a Sonic Fan" video without any sarcasm.
--> "No, but seriously stop stealing other people's work and calling it your own."
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* GuideDangIt: Discussed in "Hidden Content: ''Mortal Combat'''s Insane Secret Characters", where he complains about how cryptic and hard it is to unlock the secret Jade and Smoke fights. It's then parodied, where he makes his own OriginalCharacter "Donny Rage", who can only be unlocked with an impossible series of steps, including "having an A in your first name".
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* GuideDangIt: GuideDangIt:
** Discussed in "Hidden Content: ''Mortal Combat'''s Insane Secret Characters", where he complains about how cryptic and hard it is to unlock the secret Jade and Smoke fights. It's then parodied, where he makes his own OriginalCharacter "Donny Rage", who can only be unlocked with an impossible series of steps, including "having an A in your firstname". name".
** Pointed out in his video for ''Confess My Love'' when he tries to unlock the Mutated Room... and learns that following the steps required, which are never outright alluded to during gameplay, only has a 1 in 3 chance of triggering it.
--> "Are. You. Kidding Me."
** Discussed in "Hidden Content: ''Mortal Combat'''s Insane Secret Characters", where he complains about how cryptic and hard it is to unlock the secret Jade and Smoke fights. It's then parodied, where he makes his own OriginalCharacter "Donny Rage", who can only be unlocked with an impossible series of steps, including "having an A in your first
** Pointed out in his video for ''Confess My Love'' when he tries to unlock the Mutated Room... and learns that following the steps required, which are never outright alluded to during gameplay, only has a 1 in 3 chance of triggering it.
--> "Are. You. Kidding Me."
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--> (after Pikasprey discusses how to make "original characters" by using the Bucket tool in Microsoft Paint to change the colors on official artwork) "Shadow the Hedgehog? More like, [[StealthPun Phil]] the Hedgehog! Ha ha ha - [[MoodWhiplash Copyright 2015, DO NOT STEAL.]]"
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Admits that against all odds, he actually enjoyed ''Uzi's Drugged Adventure'', despite how he found the humor to be immature. In that game, he also found the joke of a monster he was sent to kill having actually been dead for thousands of years pretty funny and clever.
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* BlatantLies: PlayedForLaughs when he contradicts what happened or is happening within the playthrough, such as insisting in ''Uzi's Drugged Adventure'' that he's killing the monsters with love, and that he absolutely did not take more than one attempt to get the good ending of ''VisualNovel/SleeplessNight''.
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* BlatantLies: PlayedForLaughs when he contradicts what happened or is happening within the playthrough, such as insisting in ''Uzi's Drugged Adventure'' that he's killing the monsters with love, and that he absolutely did not take more than one attempt to get the good ending of ''VisualNovel/SleeplessNight''.''Sleepless Night''.
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** "It's like...that kayon character maker that all the kids on Website.DeviantArt Website/DeviantArt like to use. Or pretty anybody who doesn't know how to draw likes to use. ...So, yeah, [=DeviantArt=]."
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* SelfImposedChallenge: Invoked. ** Christian's playthroughs of ''Pokemon'' commonly involve a strict challenge for the sake of seeing if it can be done, with a basic rule being that he can't use healing items in battle. These challenges include:
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* SelfImposedChallenge: Invoked.
** Christian's playthroughs of ''Pokemon'' commonly involve a strict challenge for the sake of seeing if it can be done, with a basic rule being that he can't use healing items in battle. These challenges include:
** Christian's playthroughs of ''Pokemon'' commonly involve a strict challenge for the sake of seeing if it can be done, with a basic rule being that he can't use healing items in battle. These challenges include:
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* BlatantLies: PlayedForLaughs when he contradicts what happened or is happening within the playthrough, such as insisting in ''VideoGame/UzisDruggedAdventure'' that he's killing the monsters with love, and that he absolutely did not take more than one attempt to get the good ending of ''VisualNovel/SleeplessNight''.
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* BlatantLies: PlayedForLaughs when he contradicts what happened or is happening within the playthrough, such as insisting in ''VideoGame/UzisDruggedAdventure'' ''Uzi's Drugged Adventure'' that he's killing the monsters with love, and that he absolutely did not take more than one attempt to get the good ending of ''VisualNovel/SleeplessNight''.
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* SelfImposedChallenge: Invoked. ** Christian's playthroughs of ''Pokemon'' commonly involve a strict challenge for the sake of seeing if it can be done, with a basic rule being that he can't use healing items in battle. These challenges include:
*** A fully-randomized ''VideoGame/PokemonPlatinum'' Nuzlocke run.
*** Playing a game with only a team of six Smeargle, or a single Ditto, to use in battle.
*** Setting up traps that would render the game unwinnable, and then attempting to find a way to beat them, such as using only a level 5 Magikarp at the Indigo Plateau.
** In ''Bears Love Honey'', he became determined to win the game while collecting every single collectable, getting every ending, and in one round, not losing a single jar of honey.
*** A fully-randomized ''VideoGame/PokemonPlatinum'' Nuzlocke run.
*** Playing a game with only a team of six Smeargle, or a single Ditto, to use in battle.
*** Setting up traps that would render the game unwinnable, and then attempting to find a way to beat them, such as using only a level 5 Magikarp at the Indigo Plateau.
** In ''Bears Love Honey'', he became determined to win the game while collecting every single collectable, getting every ending, and in one round, not losing a single jar of honey.
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* HelloInsertNameHere: Though his characters are usually named Pikasprey or Christian, he sometimes takes advantage of this:
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** When annoyed with ''Sleepless Night'', he changed the character's name from Pikasprey "Pikasprey" to I "I Hate This. This". In his "friendly" playthrough, he became Frienderson. "Frienderson". In the final run, his character's name was Bullshit."Bullshit".
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* BlatantLies: PlayedForLaughs when he contradicts what happened or is happening within the playthrough, such as insisting in ''VideoGame/UzisDruggedAdventure'' that he's killing the monsters with love, and that he absolutely did not take more than one attempt to get the good ending of ''VisualNovel/SleeplessNight''.
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* HelloInsertNameHere: Though his characters are usually named Asprey or Christian, he named his silly-looking ''VideoGame/DuelMastersKaijudoShowdown'' character "Cancer the Human".
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* HelloInsertNameHere: Though his characters are usually named Asprey Pikasprey or Christian, he sometimes takes advantage of this:
** He named his silly-looking ''VideoGame/DuelMastersKaijudoShowdown'' character "Cancer theHuman".Human".
** When annoyed with ''Sleepless Night'', he changed the character's name from Pikasprey to I Hate This. In his "friendly" playthrough, he became Frienderson. In the final run, his character's name was Bullshit.
** He named his silly-looking ''VideoGame/DuelMastersKaijudoShowdown'' character "Cancer the
** When annoyed with ''Sleepless Night'', he changed the character's name from Pikasprey to I Hate This. In his "friendly" playthrough, he became Frienderson. In the final run, his character's name was Bullshit.
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** The "How To Be A Sonic Fan" video is a mockery of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fandom.
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** The "How To Be Become A Sonic Fan" video is a mockery of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fandom.
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** His attempt to win ''VideoGame/PokemonCrystal'' eventually became a purely-luck based game, one where everything had to go right for him to win a battle. This becomes UpToEleven when battling Red, as to even come close to winning, he needed to have impossible luck, such as every electric move hitting, crit-ing, ''and'' paralyzing.
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** His attempt to win ''VideoGame/PokemonCrystal'' with just a Ditto eventually became a purely-luck based game, one where everything had to go right for him to win a battle. This becomes UpToEleven when battling Red, as to even come close to winning, he needed to have impossible luck, such as every electric move hitting, crit-ing, ''and'' paralyzing.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: Starts his videos with "Hello, internet user."
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* LuckBasedMission:
** His solution for escaping the Lorelei soft-lock [[note]]in which the player's Rage-using mon is trapped in an endless battle against her perpetually-healing Dewgong[[/note]] involves so much luck with RNG that nobody would actually be able to do it- the player would have to miss Rage every turn until running out of PP, a near-impossible feat as Rage is 100% accurate.
** His attempt to win ''VideoGame/PokemonCrystal'' eventually became a purely-luck based game, one where everything had to go right for him to win a battle. This becomes UpToEleven when battling Red, as to even come close to winning, he needed to have impossible luck, such as every electric move hitting, crit-ing, ''and'' paralyzing.
** His solution for escaping the Lorelei soft-lock [[note]]in which the player's Rage-using mon is trapped in an endless battle against her perpetually-healing Dewgong[[/note]] involves so much luck with RNG that nobody would actually be able to do it- the player would have to miss Rage every turn until running out of PP, a near-impossible feat as Rage is 100% accurate.
** His attempt to win ''VideoGame/PokemonCrystal'' eventually became a purely-luck based game, one where everything had to go right for him to win a battle. This becomes UpToEleven when battling Red, as to even come close to winning, he needed to have impossible luck, such as every electric move hitting, crit-ing, ''and'' paralyzing.
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* HelloInsertNameHere: Though his characters are usually named Asprey or Christian, he named his silly-looking ''VideoGame/DuelMasters'' ''2'' character "Cancer the Human".
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* HelloInsertNameHere: Though his characters are usually named Asprey or Christian, he named his silly-looking ''VideoGame/DuelMasters'' ''2'' ''VideoGame/DuelMastersKaijudoShowdown'' character "Cancer the Human".
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: His video on ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' starts with him claiming that the Donkey Kong franchise is perfect and untouchable...until he remembers what the title of his video is, and watches the intro with a FlatWhat and an "oh no".
* UnwinnableByInsanity: Invoked; in "Soft-Lock Picking", Christian goes out of his way to create traps that'll completely ruin his game. The trope is usually subverted, however, as the point is to try and ''escape'' these unwinnable situations without cheating, proving the game can be salvaged with enough patience and effort.
* UnwinnableByInsanity: Invoked; in "Soft-Lock Picking", Christian goes out of his way to create traps that'll completely ruin his game. The trope is usually subverted, however, as the point is to try and ''escape'' these unwinnable situations without cheating, proving the game can be salvaged with enough patience and effort.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: His video on ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' starts with him claiming that the Donkey Kong ''Donkey Kong'' franchise is perfect and untouchable...until he remembers what the title of his video is, and watches the intro with a FlatWhat and an "oh no".
"Oh, no.".
* UnwinnableByInsanity: Invoked; in "Soft-Lock Picking", Christian goes out of his way to create traps that'll completely ruin his game. The trope is usually subverted, however, as the point is to try and ''escape'' these unwinnable situations without cheating, proving the game can be salvaged with enough patience andeffort.effort.
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* UnwinnableByInsanity: Invoked; in "Soft-Lock Picking", Christian goes out of his way to create traps that'll completely ruin his game. The trope is usually subverted, however, as the point is to try and ''escape'' these unwinnable situations without cheating, proving the game can be salvaged with enough patience and
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: His video on ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' starts with him claiming that the Donkey Kong franchise is perfect and untouchable...until he remembers what the title of his video is, and watches the intro with a FlatWhat and an "oh no".
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* SarcasmFailure: The opening cutscene of ''Mario and Sonic: Revenge Of The Deadly Six'' leaves him speechless, and he admits he'd run out of jokes to tell.
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* HelloInsertNameHere: Though his characters are usually named Asprey or Christian, he named his silly-looking ''VideoGame/DuelMasters'' ''2'' character "Cancer the Human".
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* RecordNeedleScratch: Plays during the review of ''Meteor The Hedgehog'' when he gets into the first battle and sees the amateurish drawn OC he's fighting.
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* TakeThat: The "How To Be A Sonic Fan" video is a mockery of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fandom.
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* TakeThat:
** The "How To Be A Sonic Fan" video is a mockery of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''fandom.fandom.
** He makes a lot of shots aimed at ''VideoGame/SonicExe'' and its fans, referring to it as an abomination or similar.
* TakeThat:
** The "How To Be A Sonic Fan" video is a mockery of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''
** He makes a lot of shots aimed at ''VideoGame/SonicExe'' and its fans, referring to it as an abomination or similar.
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* RecordNeedleScratch: Plays during the review of ''Meteor The Hedgehog'' when he gets into the first battle and sees the amateurish drawn OC he's fighting.
--> "And in that moment, I thought of all the other things I could be doing today."
--> "And in that moment, I thought of all the other things I could be doing today."
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* PalletSwap: Parodied with "Donny Rage", an OriginalCharacter who is nothing more than an all-red [[VideoGame/MortalKombat Johnny Cage]] sprite.
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** "Hidden Content", which focuses on hard-to-find secrets.
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* GuideDangIt: Discussed in "Hidden Content: ''Mortal Combat'''s Insane Secret Characters", where he complains about how cryptic and hard it is to unlock the secret Jade and Smoke fights. It's then parodied, where he makes his own OriginalCharacter "Donny Rage", who can only be unlocked with an impossible series of steps, including "having an A in your first name".
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* UnwinnableByInsanity: In Invoked; in "Soft-Lock Picking", Christian goes out of his way to create traps that'll completely ruin his game. The trope is usually subverted, however, as the point is to try and ''escape'' these unwinnable situations without cheating, proving the game can be salvaged with enough patience and effort.
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Pikasprey [[note]]prounouced "Pik-aspree", not "Pika-spray"[[/note]], also known by his real name of Christian, is a [=YouTuber=] who makes videos about various Video Games, often for the purpose of reviewing, analysing, or playing them.
He has two separate channels:
* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJVzJk_24aefzpKAbqiP9Q Pikasprey Blue]]: A LetsPlay channel for himself and, occasionally, his brother. Some videos involve multiple games with the same theme, such as ''Franchise/SuperMarioBrothers'' fan-games. Games on "Blue" are often later discussed on...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Pikasprey Pikasprey Yellow]]: A game review-and-analysis channel, with multiple series in addition to his other content:
** "Unused Content", where he explores dummied-out content in games.
** "Odd Fan Games", in which he plays and reviews strange fan-games, good or bad.
** "Soft-Lock Picking", where he purposefully makes a game UnwinnableByInsanity or UnwinnableByMistake, and then proceeds to find ways to escape the trap.
** "Gem Collecting", where he finds obscure and/or unusual games to give them a review and synopsis.
The games he features fit into a wide range, being anything from ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' and ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', to more obscure games like ''VideoGame/ConfessMyLove'', to fan games, rom-hacks, and parodies; The basic criteria is, if it'll be weird or challenging, he'll play it. This sometimes include setting his own challenges to push the limits of the game, exploiting glitches, or playing whatever his audience requests.
'''Please note though, some of the games played on "Blue" are NSFW; Only the basics about those games will be discussed when necessary.'''
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!Tropes featured in Pikasprey's work:
* ConstructiveCriticism: Despite his penchant for sarcasm, the reviews are quite honest and fair. While any flaws will be explained in detail, any good points will be praised, and in general, he admits he never wants to insult people who try their best in making a game, even if it's a bad one.
* DeadpanSnarker: Christian's commentary is always extremely dry and sarcastic, with lines such as:
--> "Point is, I proved someone wrong on the internet. And at the end of the day, isn't that what really matters?"
* {{Determinator}}: In some ''Pokemon'' playthroughs, he'll set some utterly brutal challenges for himself, but won't stop trying until he either succeeds or can no longer continue.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** The title for the "Unused Content" series, which is jokingly referred to as "creatively named", is stating the obvious: a series about unused content in games.
** "Odd Fan Games" is a series about, well, reviewing odd fanmade games.
* MoodWhiplash: One of the ''VideoGame/SonicExe'' fan-games played started off with a relatively creepy and interesting atmosphere, being a first-person adventure game...until a 3-D rendering of [=Sonic.Exe=] appeared in a flash, leaving Christian stunned and laughing.
* SelfDeprecation: A common joke on the channel is about how the videos aren't that great and that the audience is just there to watch Christian suffer.
--> "If you're here, chances are you have an interest in ''Pokemon'', or unused content in games. Or you just typed "mediocrity" into the search bar, but either way, you've come to the right place."
* UnwinnableByInsanity: In "Soft-Lock Picking", Christian goes out of his way to create traps that'll completely ruin his game. The trope is usually subverted, however, as the point is to try and ''escape'' these unwinnable situations without cheating, proving the game can be salvaged with enough patience and effort.
Pikasprey [[note]]prounouced "Pik-aspree", not "Pika-spray"[[/note]], also known by his real name of Christian, is a [=YouTuber=] who makes videos about various Video Games, often for the purpose of reviewing, analysing, or playing them.
He has two separate channels:
* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJVzJk_24aefzpKAbqiP9Q Pikasprey Blue]]: A LetsPlay channel for himself and, occasionally, his brother. Some videos involve multiple games with the same theme, such as ''Franchise/SuperMarioBrothers'' fan-games. Games on "Blue" are often later discussed on...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Pikasprey Pikasprey Yellow]]: A game review-and-analysis channel, with multiple series in addition to his other content:
** "Unused Content", where he explores dummied-out content in games.
** "Odd Fan Games", in which he plays and reviews strange fan-games, good or bad.
** "Soft-Lock Picking", where he purposefully makes a game UnwinnableByInsanity or UnwinnableByMistake, and then proceeds to find ways to escape the trap.
** "Gem Collecting", where he finds obscure and/or unusual games to give them a review and synopsis.
The games he features fit into a wide range, being anything from ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' and ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', to more obscure games like ''VideoGame/ConfessMyLove'', to fan games, rom-hacks, and parodies; The basic criteria is, if it'll be weird or challenging, he'll play it. This sometimes include setting his own challenges to push the limits of the game, exploiting glitches, or playing whatever his audience requests.
'''Please note though, some of the games played on "Blue" are NSFW; Only the basics about those games will be discussed when necessary.'''
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!Tropes featured in Pikasprey's work:
* ConstructiveCriticism: Despite his penchant for sarcasm, the reviews are quite honest and fair. While any flaws will be explained in detail, any good points will be praised, and in general, he admits he never wants to insult people who try their best in making a game, even if it's a bad one.
* DeadpanSnarker: Christian's commentary is always extremely dry and sarcastic, with lines such as:
--> "Point is, I proved someone wrong on the internet. And at the end of the day, isn't that what really matters?"
* {{Determinator}}: In some ''Pokemon'' playthroughs, he'll set some utterly brutal challenges for himself, but won't stop trying until he either succeeds or can no longer continue.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** The title for the "Unused Content" series, which is jokingly referred to as "creatively named", is stating the obvious: a series about unused content in games.
** "Odd Fan Games" is a series about, well, reviewing odd fanmade games.
* MoodWhiplash: One of the ''VideoGame/SonicExe'' fan-games played started off with a relatively creepy and interesting atmosphere, being a first-person adventure game...until a 3-D rendering of [=Sonic.Exe=] appeared in a flash, leaving Christian stunned and laughing.
* SelfDeprecation: A common joke on the channel is about how the videos aren't that great and that the audience is just there to watch Christian suffer.
--> "If you're here, chances are you have an interest in ''Pokemon'', or unused content in games. Or you just typed "mediocrity" into the search bar, but either way, you've come to the right place."
* UnwinnableByInsanity: In "Soft-Lock Picking", Christian goes out of his way to create traps that'll completely ruin his game. The trope is usually subverted, however, as the point is to try and ''escape'' these unwinnable situations without cheating, proving the game can be salvaged with enough patience and effort.
