[TOMT] [WEBSERIES] Animations about RPG from the villains' POV
The series was comedic, making fun/ putting twists on RPG (or maybe JRPG?) tropes. I think one of the reasons why I could never forget it is how rare it is to have
a typical rpg story from the villains' POV
a story where the villains win in the end
These videos had both! They were the sort of thing that might have come from Newgrounds but I'm 90% sure I watched it on YouTube. I've been impulsively searching for this series every once in a while for years on both YouTube and Newgrounds and can't find it.
By the way it was fully voice acted. No Undertale style beeps and boops.
The artstyle is retro, low res, can't remember how heavily pixelated but definitely some early Final Fantasy games inspiration. The lesser villains that are the main focus and rant and bicker a lot are:
a magic type who looks like a dark mage from ff1 but dark purple instead of blue and a hood instead of a hat - I definitely remember the face being in shadow. Call him purple mage.
a female assassin. Look up "Recettear charme sprite" to get an idea of what she looked like, it wasn't exacly like that but she did use daggers and looked/sounded like a "hot assassin" trope. In the big battle she could teleport in a puff of smoke/ go invisible. I remember her being taller than the purple mage. I think he was just short though, like he came from a different game where the sprites were smaller or something.
There were 4 heroes, pretty generic stuff. I definitely remember a monk and a cleric, and I'm less sure but I think the other 2 were ranger and knight. They barely get any screentime in any of the videos except the last one where they storm the big bad's castle to try and stop the big bad from ending the world by playing a song on a piano/organ that brings about the apocalypse. He keeps trying but can't remember how it goes, and when he messes it up he flies into a rage and starts smashing things and offing minions. I promise it's funnier than I'm making it sound.
That's the last episode. I think it's the first episode where the lesser villains (working for the big bad) either intentionally or by accident release a gigantic green slime boss into a starter town way too early. The heroes hadn't leveled up yet or were nowhere near the town or both so it just gets demolished. The slime boss makes a surprise comeback in the final episode and instantly takes out the monk and tanks a whole bunch of attacks from the other heroes before going down.
Oh, and this part might be useless but I vaguely remember the series had a name with "mirror" in it. Something like "Shattered Mirror/ Black Mirror/ Dark Mirror" and yeah I watched it as a kid on YouTube long before I knew/cared for something like the show Black Mirror. I'm wondering if the animations came before season 1 of Black Mirror (2011) or at least before it became a worldwide phenomenon, but I have no idea. And trust me, searching things like "Black Mirror animation" and getting something other than the British show is like, impossible.
A list of results that keep coming back from conventional searches and AI that are NOT IT:
-NiN10Doh! / TOME: I'm listing them both because they're both made by Christopher Niosi and I the seires would have a playlist on his channel if it were his. It's not, I checked.
-Mario and Sonic animations (?): AI keeps sees "RPG animation" and gives me me this stuff for some reason.
-Dorkly skits like "Dorkly vs. Final Fantasy (Final Fantasy Dorkly Bits Compilation)"
-Collegehumor skits like "Every JRPG Ever"
I know it's a lot of info but it was never enough for me. I even feel like I'm forgetting something else I used to search for these videos. I'll comment with more info if I can remember it.
If you can help me find this, it'll mean the world to me.