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* The final [[TheStinger stinger]] in his review of ''[[VideoGame/{{Blood}} Blood: Fresh Supply]]'' was [[Music/MyChemicalRomance "Give them all that they can drink and it will never be enough".]]
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* The final [[TheStinger stinger]] in his review of ''[[VideoGame/{{Blood}} Blood: Fresh Supply]]'' was [[Music/MyChemicalRomance "Give them all that they can drink and it will never be enough".]]enough."]]
* In his review for Creator/{{Acclaim}}'s "Hall of Shame", Yahtzee talks about the promotion of ''VideoGame/TurokEvolution'': "Now, one might reasonably say at this point, 'Surely, it wasn't a serious offer to let new parents cash in on their future bullying victims! Surely, these were just shock tactics to grab headlines, the way a graffiti artist just wants attention and doesn't literally want to [[Music/{{NWA}} fuck the police]! I mean, to be serious, there aren't enough hours in the day.'"
** Acclaim: "[[Music/{{Ludacris}} Scheme, scheme, plot, plot.]]"
** "And you know what? [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Dave Mirra's heart grew three sizes that day.]] ''({{beat}})'' Nah, I'm just kidding; he sued their bollocks off."
* In his review for Creator/{{Acclaim}}'s "Hall of Shame", Yahtzee talks about the promotion of ''VideoGame/TurokEvolution'': "Now, one might reasonably say at this point, 'Surely, it wasn't a serious offer to let new parents cash in on their future bullying victims! Surely, these were just shock tactics to grab headlines, the way a graffiti artist just wants attention and doesn't literally want to [[Music/{{NWA}} fuck the police]! I mean, to be serious, there aren't enough hours in the day.'"
** Acclaim: "[[Music/{{Ludacris}} Scheme, scheme, plot, plot.]]"
** "And you know what? [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Dave Mirra's heart grew three sizes that day.]] ''({{beat}})'' Nah, I'm just kidding; he sued their bollocks off."
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* During the review for ''VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand'', the subliminal message of "[[Series/FatherTed NOT RACIST]]" pops up throughout.
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* In the review for ''VideoGame/StarControlOrigins'': "...and it's like someone melted a TV remote in a kidney bowl, hesitant as I am to complain in this age of patching it in post, which means it might be fixed after this comes out or the entire game replaced with eighteen hours of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hampsterdance_Song The Hampster]][[Disney/RobinHood dance]]."
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* During the review for ''VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand'', the subliminal message of "[[Series/FatherTed NOT RACIST]]" pops up throughout.
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* Speaking of The Prodigy, in the review of ''Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3'', Yahtzee says "Seems like every single person we shoot is a bald, bearded Russian with angry domestic violence eyes." Said Russian quotes The Prodigy in saying "I'm gonna smack my bitch up."
** "I think his in-game character profile says it best: 'North is a firm believer in America's role as World Police.' ''[file says, "North is a hum de ham de hom de haw"]'' Wait, what?! So our protagonist watched that ''Film/{{Team America|WorldPolice}}'' film, and didn't realize that it was a satire?" ''(TV says, "America, Fuck Yeah")''
** "I think his in-game character profile says it best: 'North is a firm believer in America's role as World Police.' ''[file says, "North is a hum de ham de hom de haw"]'' Wait, what?! So our protagonist watched that ''Film/{{Team America|WorldPolice}}'' film, and didn't realize that it was a satire?" ''(TV says, "America, Fuck Yeah")''
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* Yahtzee calls ''VideoGame/DeadRising4'' "[[Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial The Dead Rising Holiday Special]]".
** "Recurring ''Dead Rising'' hero Frank West recurs once again, now sporting a slightly different face and voice and having apparently devoted his life to becoming a faintly desperate tribute to Creator/BruceCampbell's career-making performance in the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films."
** "But you'd get the same experience from pouring 5000 baby chicks into a meat grinder and putting on ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' in the background."
** Yahtzee's reaction to the ending: "[[spoiler:Frank West]] [[Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd dies at the end]]. Yes, that lovable original ''Dead Rising'' protagonist so popular they had to do a version of ''Dead Rising 2'' with him literally patched in to replace the other dude who was even in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' once, which was a little bit weird but nonetheless fun. This game features [[spoiler:his canon death]]. Great! Might as well have hit him with a bus in the end credit to the next ''[[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]''."
** "Recurring ''Dead Rising'' hero Frank West recurs once again, now sporting a slightly different face and voice and having apparently devoted his life to becoming a faintly desperate tribute to Creator/BruceCampbell's career-making performance in the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films."
** "But you'd get the same experience from pouring 5000 baby chicks into a meat grinder and putting on ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' in the background."
** Yahtzee's reaction to the ending: "[[spoiler:Frank West]] [[Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd dies at the end]]. Yes, that lovable original ''Dead Rising'' protagonist so popular they had to do a version of ''Dead Rising 2'' with him literally patched in to replace the other dude who was even in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' once, which was a little bit weird but nonetheless fun. This game features [[spoiler:his canon death]]. Great! Might as well have hit him with a bus in the end credit to the next ''[[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]''."
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* Yahtzee says that ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}} 2'' is like ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist: VR Edition''.
** "There are one or two bits where you have to search a cornfield for the exit while being hunted by multiple rednecks that's about as much fun as playing ''VideoGame/PacMan'' blindfolded in a sports bar where the power got cut halfway through the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl."
** "Every time I'm chased into another non-obvious dead end, it's annoying in the same way as losing another round of Connect Four to a hyperactive twelve-year-old with poor sportsmanship."
** "There are one or two bits where you have to search a cornfield for the exit while being hunted by multiple rednecks that's about as much fun as playing ''VideoGame/PacMan'' blindfolded in a sports bar where the power got cut halfway through the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl."
** "Every time I'm chased into another non-obvious dead end, it's annoying in the same way as losing another round of Connect Four to a hyperactive twelve-year-old with poor sportsmanship."
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* The end credits of the review for ''VideoGame/TheSurge'' say "[[Music/TheProdigy Smack my glitch up.]]"
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* "[The Molded] lurch towards you slowly enough that you've got time to lay a trigger bomb in their path, back off to a safe distance, and read another chapter of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''."
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** The game stops being scary when it loses Franchise/''TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' vibe and becomes... well, becomes a ''Resident Evil'' game, I suppose. It's not very long, since it takes place almost entirely on the set of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' and everything..."
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** The game stops being scary when it loses Franchise/''TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' vibe and becomes... well, becomes a ''Resident Evil'' game, I suppose. It's not very long, since it takes place almost entirely on the set of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' and everything..."
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* Yahtzee, during his review of ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' surmises that perhaps the large amounts of angst in Japanese video games and culture may be due to anime fans "liking their protagonists angsty and ineffectual, and [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion given to wanking off over unconscious women.]]"
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* Yahtzee, during his review of ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', surmises that perhaps the large amounts of angst in Japanese video games and culture may be due to anime fans "liking their protagonists angsty and ineffectual, and [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion given to wanking off over unconscious women.]]"
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* The ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' review contains a brief reference to Wiki/ThisVeryWiki (at about 0:55). It is appropriately {{meta}}, with a {{nerd}}y figure popping up [[FreezeFrameBonus in the background]] to {{lampshade}} that this is, indeed, a ShoutOut.
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* In the review of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'', Yahtzee points out that the policy "if at first you don't succeed, give up and do something else... worked for ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', when Creator/{{Capcom}} said to itself, 'Hey, we're shit at writing story and dialogue that always comes across as laughable and slightly camp. Let's just play that up and make the combat not so much like trying to teach the elderly how to dance to [[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]].'"
** The game stops being scary when it loses Franchise/''TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' vibe and becomes... well, becomes a ''Resident Evil'' game, I suppose. It's not very long, since it takes place almost entirely on the set of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' and everything..."
* "[The Molded] lurch towards you slowly enough that you've got time to lay a trigger bomb in their path, back off to a safe distance, and read another chapter of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''."
* The ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' review contains a brief reference to Wiki/ThisVeryWiki (at about 0:55). It is appropriately {{meta}}, with a {{nerd}}y figure popping up [[FreezeFrameBonus in the background]] to{{lampshade}} {{lampshade|Hanging}} that this is, indeed, a ShoutOut.
** The game stops being scary when it loses Franchise/''TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' vibe and becomes... well, becomes a ''Resident Evil'' game, I suppose. It's not very long, since it takes place almost entirely on the set of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' and everything..."
* "[The Molded] lurch towards you slowly enough that you've got time to lay a trigger bomb in their path, back off to a safe distance, and read another chapter of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''."
* The ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' review contains a brief reference to Wiki/ThisVeryWiki (at about 0:55). It is appropriately {{meta}}, with a {{nerd}}y figure popping up [[FreezeFrameBonus in the background]] to
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* In the review of ''VideoGame/{{Hob}}'' and ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'', the bed that the ZP Hat Kid sleeps in kinda resembles a Franchise/DisneyPrincess bed that has the Anna and Elsa characters from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''.
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* In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', Yahtzee says that "it's deliberately fashioning itself after retro animation, in the style of Max Fleischer or very early Disney, and pulls that off with quite remarkable success!" While he is speaking, the game becomes WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat, with both Fleischer mascot Bimbo and Creator/WaltDisney pop up, and Yahtzee says, "Gawrsh", just like WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}.
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* In the review for ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'', Yahtzee called the game ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime The Land Before Plots]]''.
** "I mean, where did the creators of ''Series/BreakingBad'' get off telling me I should watch season one before season two?"
** "Oh yeah, you can tame animals, which is sort of the compensation for not having guns, cause rather than sniping all the guards from a nearby hill, you just deploy a giant bear and throw bees at the survivors. You don’t fuck around in my [[Literature/WinnieThePooh Hundred Acre Wood]]!"
** "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones We'll Have a Gay Old Time]]"
** "I mean, where did the creators of ''Series/BreakingBad'' get off telling me I should watch season one before season two?"
** "Oh yeah, you can tame animals, which is sort of the compensation for not having guns, cause rather than sniping all the guards from a nearby hill, you just deploy a giant bear and throw bees at the survivors. You don’t fuck around in my [[Literature/WinnieThePooh Hundred Acre Wood]]!"
** "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones We'll Have a Gay Old Time]]"
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* In the review of the [=PlayStation=] VR, Yahtzee says that the PSVR is "a device for lonesome spods to find more lasting escape from a cruel reality"; cue the lonesome guy in a VR under a streetlight singing "[[Music/EricCarmen All by Myself]]".
* "...turning felt like my brain was attached to my eyeballs with partially melted Slinikes."
* "...turning felt like my brain was attached to my eyeballs with partially melted Slinikes."
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** "Still, [[VideoGame/SuperMarioRun that Mario iOS game]] shows that Nintendo has some perception of what consumers want, or at least what they wanted six or seven years ago."
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* Speaking of Apple III, in the review for ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeFederationForce'' an Apple III appears to Yahtzee in the cave and says "Mash your hand on this or something."
** "Why must we play as a midget inside a robot suit, and since the missions are spent more or less entirely inside the robot suits, why even ''establish'' that we are actually tiny Rice Krispie Elves, except to make things all the more humiliating?"
** Yahtzee says he should have called this game ''Tangential Metroid Universe Thing Starring the Cast of Film/{{Willow}}''.
** "Why must we play as a midget inside a robot suit, and since the missions are spent more or less entirely inside the robot suits, why even ''establish'' that we are actually tiny Rice Krispie Elves, except to make things all the more humiliating?"
** Yahtzee says he should have called this game ''Tangential Metroid Universe Thing Starring the Cast of Film/{{Willow}}''.
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* In the review of ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'', Yahtzee tells about the combat that is so complicated that "in the end, all you can do is get out the old steak tenderizer and do the Monster Mash."
** He also says that the experience of playing the game is "like having two perfectly good eyeballs and using them to watch ''Destructoid'' videos!"
** He also says that the experience of playing the game is "like having two perfectly good eyeballs and using them to watch ''Destructoid'' videos!"
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* In the review of ''VideoGame/{{Doom 2016}}'', Yahtzee says that "most of the NPC dialogue sounds like they are trying to do an impression of Dr. Claw from ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''."
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* In the review of ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare'', Yahtzee says that the ''Call of Duty'' series "decided to start doing games about modern warfare for a while, but for now the series is like [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} the brooms from]] ''[[Disney/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'' that kept doing that because no one told them to stop, and things have reached the inevitable conclusion with [''Infinite Warfare''] suddenly being '''[[RecycledINSPACE IN SPAAAAACE!]]''' like it's a fucking Saturday morning cartoon adaptation" (referring, of course, to ''[[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan's Planet]]'').
** He also says that the lads of ''Infinite Warfare'' "start getting picked off with the laughable regularity of a game of '[[NurseryRhyme This Little Piggy]]'."
** "[[Music/{{Blondie}} The Man from Mars Who Eats Guitars.]]"
** He also says that the lads of ''Infinite Warfare'' "start getting picked off with the laughable regularity of a game of '[[NurseryRhyme This Little Piggy]]'."
** "[[Music/{{Blondie}} The Man from Mars Who Eats Guitars.]]"
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* In the review for ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'', Yahtzee says that the Mire of Stench was "not so much" of a good name because "it's kind of redundant and immediately reminds me of that Music/DavidBowie [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} film]]."
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* The end credits of the ''Top 5 of 2015'' video have the first part that says "[[Music/PaulMcCartney Bland on the Run]]".
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* Speaking of Harry Belafonte, the end credits for the ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' review have the same tune, but with different lyrics: "Come, Mister Tally Man, tally me Cortana."
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* The end credits for the ''VideoGame/EverybodysGoneToTheRapture'' review state, "Still, check out the game if you're wondering what that bloke from ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'' is doing with his time these days."
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* Yahtzee calls ''VideoGame/TheOrder1886'' "another fucking cover-based shooter spiritually akin to ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'', except at least the aliens got faster in ''Space Invaders'' as you thinned their ranks."
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* In the review for ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDarkIllumination'', Yahtzee describes the "monsters being vulnerable in light" plot as complicated: "But the enemies constantly respawn and you're not going to be completing the current arbitrary fetch quest standing under a streetlight like a mournful hooker in a gritty musical." Cue said hooker, Cosette, from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' standing under a streetlight singing "I Dreamed a Dream".
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* In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Hatred}}'', Yahtzee says of "Jeffrey Cuddletrousers": "But I don't see how anyone can take him seriously long enough to be disturbed, with his [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]] voice and his 'Cousin Itt from Series/TheAddamsFamily' hair."
* "...interpreting the [monochrome] visuals can sometimes be like trying to read a ''ComicBook/SinCity'' comic that's been photocopied twelve times."
* "...interpreting the [monochrome] visuals can sometimes be like trying to read a ''ComicBook/SinCity'' comic that's been photocopied twelve times."
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* Speaking of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', in his review of ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'', Yahtzee (as "Space Commander Yahtzee: Hero of Space") sees a report on "Zarniwoop", the alien from the book.
** "Maybe they're constantly gathering data on who's the best pilot so they can pass the details on to those aliens from ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''."
** "Maybe they're constantly gathering data on who's the best pilot so they can pass the details on to those aliens from ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''."
