Some people laugh when I tell them there’s a huge competitive scene surrounding Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros., the series of outwardly casual fighting games starring Mario, Link, Donkey Kong, and other cute Nintendo icons. Sometime later this year, I’ll be able to point them to the upcoming documentary Metagame and show them the errors of their ways.

Filmmaker and Smash Bros. player Travis “Samox” Beauchamp recently unveiled the first full trailer for the production at the MAGFest video gaming celebration in Maryland, and it shows the human side of players best known by names like Mango, Armada, and Dr. PP.

As the trailer shows, it goes far deeper than forgettable fluff about how much fun the players have onstage. One player speaks openly about his depression and its relation to Smash; another, Mango, talks about how the rest of the world melts away when he’s in top form.

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