What I liked
This was so much fun! They had a great mix of classic and newer characters to enjoy and fight to the death!
What I didn't like
The the character I voted for didn’t win
My overall impression
Did you ever think you could have a conversation with Donkey Kong? What about Mario? Or Samus (from Metroid)? Well, in The Video Games, you can!
The Video Games is a play off of “The Hunger Games”, but using video game characters. You’ll see (and meet) characters from Mortal Kombat, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, Halo, and more. They all try to get you to vote for them (via Twitter hashtags) for them to survive and earn the ultimate title of “Player One”. This brings a fun and “replayable” aspect to the show since no show will end the same. (I heard people in back of me say that the last time they went, Scorpion won).
If you aren’t a gamer, you can still recognize some characters (right Russell?). There are some nerdy deep cuts that people who play the games will understand, but those things are thrown in and not necessary for the story.
This is listed as immersive theatre and at points, it is. You can have conversations with the characters, but those conversations don’t seem to change the story. That happens via Twittering and hashtagging rather than the actual conversations.
This was such a fun and entertaining show! If you have enough quarters, you can replay this many times and will see something different each time.
