Welcome to the RETRO STUDIOS season of The Geek Critique! This season will cover the three Metroid Prime games, as well as Donkey Kong Country Returns and Tropical Freeze!

Metroid Prime is available NOW for $5 and up patrons!

Here's a brief overview of how (and why) TGC's Patreon works:

$1 will get you the NEXT week's episode once the season begins. So when Prime comes out, you'll get Prime 2 a week early, and so on!

$3 will get you ALL the completed episodes of a season all at once as soon as I start releasing them on YouTube. This will allow you to binge-watch the season as fast as you'd like, instead of waiting a week between releases.

$5 is the "TGC Producer" tier, and gets you access to episodes as they're actually completed. This may mean that you'll be able to see episodes weeks or, because these things take a while, even MONTHS in advance!

Now, you might be asking... WHY am I releasing content like this?

Simply put, blame YouTube. Their algorithms favor quantity and consistency over quality. If you can upload once or even better, twice a week, your rankings shoot WAY up. This change was implemented right around the time I was trying to get started on YouTube, and it completely KILLED anyone who was trying to get well known for doing anything that took too much time. Animators were hit the hardest, but it hurt any kind of scripted, polished video, and kind of led to the rise of people who work VERY hard on their channels, but not so much on individual videos.

Which is why, you might notice, most of the people who are still making these long-form analysis videos... were already famous for doing it pre-2013.

This change made sense for YouTube as a business, but I much preferred the old style, and that's what I want my series to be. But sad to say, this sort of work no longer fits within YouTube's system. No matter how much my channel has grown, the only way to get YouTube to promote me to new viewers is to have a period of time where I upload consistently, and the only way for me to DO that and maintain this level of quality is to build an entire season ahead of time.

That's where, I hope, you guys who do enjoy this sort of content come in. TGC survives, or even thrives, on YOUR support, and for that I thank you.

And not to go all Jimmy Wales on you, but if about a fifth of my subscriber base backed me for just a dollar, I really could consider this a career.

Whatever you want to do, I want to THANK YOU for helping me create The Geek Critique.