YouTuber Evbo's surreal saga of video game world where you can only survive by doing cool jumps has dazzled millions of viewers
If you didn’t know better, you might think you were reading the early notices after a premiere at Cannes. Instead, these are just a handful of the awestruck responses to a nearly two-hour saga titled “Minecraft but I survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION [FULL MOVIE],” typically shortened to Parkour Civilization by those who like to think of it as a feature film.And yes, Parkour Civilization does take place on a map created within the popular sandbox building game, with a very important caveat: literally everything in this iteration of Minecraft, from work to money to food to survival itself, is predicated on the ability to make cool jumps.Evbo’s videos typically involve some inventive twist on the Minecraft format: “Minecraft if it was played backwards,” “Minecraft if there were NO RULES,” and “Minecraft but it’s in the FUTURE” are among the many concepts he has brought to life for an audience of 2.7 million YouTube subscribers. But nothing to date has matched the ambition of parkour Minecraft, something Evbo called “my greatest project on the channel” in a pinned YouTube comment.It was one year ago that Evbo uploaded the first installment of the series that he would eventually cut together as Parkour Civilization, and viewers were immediately thrust into a Kafkaesque scenario. “Let’s go, open up, it’s time for parkour,” we hear.