Break The Game: Review

15th June 2023

Break The Game: Review. By Jake Peffer.

Break The Game is a documentary that follows Twitch streamer Narcissa Wright. Narcissa had built a huge following on Twitch, but it all came crashing down when she came out as trans. Watching her once great streaming success go down to almost nothing Narcissa doesn’t know what to do.

Nasty comments and threats force her to contemplate suicide, but a few friendly fans help keep her sane. To win the rest of her fans back, Narcissa decides to break a record playing the newest Zelda game and live stream every minute of it.

Documentaries are the hardest genre to cater towards the masses as they usually have a very specific topic they focus on and unless you’re a fan of that topic or have an interest in it, then the documentary may not be for you. The best documentaries go beyond that and make audiences interested in a topic that they may not have ever even known about. Unfortunately, with Break The Game it suffers from not having an engaging topic. Video games are great and there’s a huge audience for them, but this story isn’t executed well enough to sustain an entire movie.

The intentions behind the movie are good and director Jane M. Wagner does what she can, it just isn’t enough to make it worthwhile. With a runtime that’s not even an hour and fifteen minutes the movie moves at a snail’s pace and feels like it’s going on for far too long.

While the story of a popular gamer losing their popularity due to coming out as trans is interesting on paper, Narcissa Wright just isn’t a very interesting figure to watch. A large majority of the movie is Narcissa sad and alone in her home just wallowing in sorrow and after so much it just gets tiresome.

There are some nice visuals throughout where Jane M. Wagner integrates little video game cut scenes that add some flair to the movie. At times it feels like they get focused on a little more than they should, but they are a nice addition to the overall movie.

I wish I had more positive things to say about this documentary but ultimately it just felt like a missed opportunity. While the intentions behind it were good there just wasn’t enough here to find engaging and that makes it one that you should probably skip.

Rating: 4/10

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