August 10, 2004
Dance Voldo Dance
In Dance Voldo Dance, my favorite Soul Caliber character, Voldo, dances to Nelly’s Hot in Heer. Since word of this video has already been circulating around the blogosphere for a couple of weeks, I’ve been resisting posting about it here. But I enjoyed the video so much that I decided a “me too” post was fine. All moves in this video are in-game; no programming or game hacking is involved. While there’s alot of Machinima being produced these days, most of it is narrative; I enjoyed the pure dance performance of this piece of Machinima, a performance enabled by Voldo’s freaky double-jointed moves and enhanced by his S&M attire. While Dance Voldo Dance was carefully choreographed, I can imagine a new fighting game performance form in which two or more players improvise to music in real-time, perhaps done as a competition with the audience serving as judges.
August 10th, 2004 at 2:23 pm
Excellent. There seem to be at least two different edits of this video out there: here’s another, downloadable.
August 10th, 2004 at 2:38 pm
I prefer the purity of the first version; it’s all gameplay. The second version cuts in too many non-interactive cinematics for my taste.