Baelin's Route: An Epic NPC Man Adventure

It would help to be a fan of Viva La Dirt League on Youtube to truly enjoy this mini movie. However, if you are an MMORPG fan that would be enough I suppose.

VLDL create short funny videos related to video games of all types. This is their first attempt at creating a video that is longer than a couple minutes. It's a mini movie really, about 30 minutes long.

Everything about this production was amazing. The gorgeous scenery, the sound, the characters, the costumes.

Some people may have a problem with Baelin (main character) as he can only say one phrase, as he is a non-player character in a video game, but he says these words with various emotional tones, much like R2D2 or groot.

I would love to see these people create a real movie. A game-related movie with real characters that aren't suck saying in-game phases only. This mini movie was big budget quality and so well done.

Not really a reviewer, but i had to give my two cents about this movie. I watch VLDL very randomly at YouTube, but more often than not i like their content and Im specially fond of Epic NPC Man. So, when the video popped on my main page and I pressed play thinking it was just another short skit. Man was i wrong.

The acting is great, the production value far above the overall content of the channel, but man, the writing and directing... So well polished, so focused on telling that exactly story, no more, no less. There isnt much to the plot, and the movie dont need it. The movie shine in the small moments where the characters run the edge between free will and whats scripted to then in the game program. You have to bear in mind this is still the VLDL's Epic NPC man's world. If you don't have some background for the world of characters, much will make no sense.

A very pleasant surprise, more from the team than the movie itself. Now I wonder what else they could create with such precise vision.

An annoying NPC (Rowan Bettjeman) is on his daily walk when an adventurer recruits him and he ends up getting (a bit) self-aware and has to rescue a girl played brilliantly by Phoenix Cross. Also, Ben Van Lier deserves praise for his role as the player who really doesn't like this game anymore.

Just... Wow! This works so well! The action! The humour! The emotion! Well done!

Half an hour long, cliché story which feels more interesting than half the things Hollywood produces to be honest. And Rowan Bettjeman brings the character to Baelin to life while uttering only one line of dialogue.