The Story of Nintendo

Here is a piece of information, here is the same information said by a second person, and finally here is the same information again, by a third person, reading of a card.

Here is a second piece of information, here is the same information said by a second person, and finally here is the same information again, by a third person, reading of a card.

Here is a third piece of information, here is the same information said by a second person, and finally here is the same information again, by a third person, reading of a card.

It's like the Groundhog Day of documentaries - and made my head hurt, so only managed 15 minutes.

This "stuff" is seemingly made by japan lovers who don't care about anything but, and only but, what they like and what they want to see. To signify the japanese industrial rebirth after the Pacific war, the one started by the japanese army illegally bombing Pearl harbor without the declaration of war, this fanvideo makers used a footage from Hashima, also known as Kangoku(prison) shima(island), where japanese government used people from Korea and other Japanese colonies during the war, and used them as slaves. The makers PICKED that spot to say "Japan rose back up from the ashes of war". Distasteful is an understatement.

Anyway, This "so-called documentary" is more or less a youtube fanvideo with the editing skills and the visual fetish from 2013(yeah. When GTA5 was released and all those 70s disco reference was a thing). The speakers cannot even pronounce the names of the people and the regions right, and the narrator sounds like he was told to sound like a voice generator.

After finish watching the video, it left me thinking, WHAT DID THEY WANT TO SAY?

Did they make this because they just wanted to shout out "Nintendo is great and Japan is so fascinating"?

If so or not, they made this without considering what to focus on. Its people? Games? Competitors?

I can't tell.

They may have just put a long piece of paper on the table, put the timeline of Nintendo on it, sliced it by a decade or so, gathered Nintendo fans or Japan fans, asked them how much they know about that period, WAM everything into the video editor and cut it under an hour length.

You will not learn anything new from this documentary.

At one point the narrator talks about Disney making a deal with Nintendo to create cards for kids.

In the next frame you have someone sitting in a chair telling us THE EXACT SAME information we just heard.

You also have the "Experts" using words like "I think", as in, they are not sure about the information they are giving us.

The production quality over all is not great. I had high opes for this documentary.

It looks like they took these people and set them up where ever they could, gave them a chair and pointed lights at them. It looks that cheap!

I was hoping that this would had been better than what was advertised but instead got the opposite. I feel like they rushed it and in the end released this nonsense of a video that came up short of what Nintendo deserves to be recognized for. The sound mixing at certain points and clips that were used make this seem like some high school dropouts put this together. It's unfortunate that Nintendo would allow these amateurs to create a disaster that they claim is a documentary on their company. Hopefully someone here in the states will put something better together that will pay tribute to Nintendo and not be as disastrous as this video.

Technically really poorly edited (e.g. Talking about the NES , inserts screenshot of Atari Misske a command).

Factually incorrect (asserts the Nintendo Seal of Quality refers to the technical reliability of the system, instead of the aspect that Nintendo was vouching it was just not crappy software). Numerous other factual errors.

Experts are weak using words and phrases they don't understand: one calls Nintendo a "conglomeration"; one exist praising Miyamoto and says "contributions cannot be understated" (you mean overstated, pinheaded).

Completely misses how Donkey Kong cane to be.

The narrator I almost sounds like a bad chatbot iat times.

Poor effort overall.