Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
I’ve posted TerminalMontage’s “Something About” series of satirical game animation videos before. The Fruitless Quests of Nabiu (8 item playlist) is another thing from them, but unlike those it doesn’t refer to any specific game. It just uses the tropes of various JRPGs in its animation and storytelling. This allows it to be much more accessible to non-game playing viewers, and I think it also makes it much better at storytelling. I quite like this new direction they’re going in, and recommend them! Please take a look.
So far, Jeremy Chinshue has released two main episodes of The Fruitless Quests of Nabiu, and six promo shorts.
The shorts: Potion Practice (44s), Beastiary Update (1m), Wandering Doortal of Rescue (1m), Fatigued Fungi Story (46s), Nabiu Stepped on a Plush Trap (38s, ad for merch) and Nabiu’s Off-Meta TCG Duel Deck (1m)
The “main” episodes are much longer and tell a continuing story. Note that most of the dialogue in these animations are presented in JRPG-style text boxes. I don’t mind it myself, but I have heard a couple people express annoyance at the chattering noises they make as they speak. Please try to bear with them.
Episode 1 (21m) introduces Karoto the bard, and sets up what Nabiu, an intern “M.A.G.E.” working for Wizzro the Wizard, is doing, searching for a lost magical chair:
Episode 2 (20m, the most recent to date) continues the duo’s quest, where they encounter a very strange town, and are also joined by Brolly the Knight:
