I can assure you of this, though: since what I am about to relay to you is a melange of my own personal experiences with your website and YouTube channel, what you are about to read is honest and accurate—unlike the bulk of your recent articles and videos.
I was immediately drawn to the witty writing style, the half-skit, half-serialized structure, and the acting by the two leads. For my money, it was one of the smartest, most interesting series on YouTube. What I found to be so charming about your content was that, with the exception of very serious topics, it was clear to me that your authors put comedy first.
With that being said, this article was likely as difficult for me to write as it is for you to read. Escort Mission rapidly became one of my favorite of your series, largely because it starred Michael Swaim, whom I believe to be the funniest, smartest writer and actor whom you have on staff. However, I was also drawn to the series because it was meant to apply that analytic Cracked logic to the interactive visual medium video games, which is a topic that is very clearly quite close to my heart.
Swaim, I thought, was the perfect person from your website to do a series on video games—not only because of his quick wit and knowledge of video games, but also because of his passion for games as a storytelling medium, which he has expressed countless times on the Cracked Podcast.
Up until mid-August of this year, I was pleased to see that Escort Mission was exactly what I hoped it would be: a comical analysis of weird quirks in video-game storytelling that we all experience but never quite think about.
