History WebAnimation / FullyRamblomatic

* NoticeThis: {{Discussed|Trope}} throughout the review of ''VideoGame/AvatarFrontiersOfPandora'', with Yahtzee criticizing the game for botching this. On one hand, Yahtzee is already annoyed by the game's unfocused "Jiminy Cockthroat" approach to WideOpenSandbox design in plastering notifiers over everything, undermining the exploration aspect since the game just tells you were to go. On the other hand, he found that with the game's option to turn those notifiers off (replacing the objective markers with vague location clues that require more problem-solving), [[FakeDifficulty the game became unfairly difficult]] as [[PixelHunt the objectives become easily obscured by the cluttered environment]]. Yahtzee finds this especially damning since the whole appeal of the game lies in [[SceneryPorn exploring beautiful and lush alien landscapes]], but because this aspect was so mishandled, it's either ignorable or actively impedes the player.

* DatedHistory: The review of ''VideoGame/HelldiversII'' managed to have this ''twice over'' in the narrow time period between it was recorded and published. The review opens with Yahtzee acknowledging at the last minute the controversy the game was embroiled in regarding Creator/{{Sony}}'s [[ScrewedByTheNetwork treatment of the game]][[invoked]][[note]](It had been announced that the game would henceforth require a [=PlayStation=] Network account, which was met with widespread backlash due to how PSN isn't even available to a massive swathe of the world and the game's playerbase, which would effectively [[NoExportForYou nuke the game's availability]] even to those who already paid for the game)[[/note]], and that while most of the review was already completed, this controversy would be discussed at the very end as an addendum... which simply consists of Yahtzee clumsily attaching "Shame they ''[[AtomicFBomb fucked it up!]]''" However, an additional, even-more-last-minute addendum plays during the credits, where Yahtzee discusses how Sony [[AuthorsSavingThrow had since backed off from their plans]], thus rendering the earlier addendum moot -- the only reason he decided to keep it in at all is because [[RuleOfFunny it's funny]].

* DatedHistory: The review of ''VideoGame/HelldiversII'' managed to have this ''twice over'' in between the time it was recorded and published. The review opens with Yahtzee acknowledging at the last minute the controversy the game was embroiled in regarding Creator/{{Sony}}'s [[ScrewedByTheNetwork treatment of the game]][[invoked]][[note]](It had been announced that the game would henceforth require a [=PlayStation=] Network account, which was met with widespread backlash due to how PSN isn't even available to a massive swathe of the world and the game's playerbase, which would effectively [[NoExportForYou nuke the game's availability]] even to those who already paid for the game)[[/note]], and that while most of the review was already completed, this controversy would be discussed at the very end as an addendum... which simply consists of Yahtzee clumsily attaching "Shame they ''[[AtomicFBomb fucked it up!]]''" However, an even-more-last-minute addendum plays during the credits, where Yahtzee discusses how Sony [[AuthorsSavingThrow had since backed off from their plans]], thus rendering the earlier addendum moot -- the only reason he decided to keep it in at all is because [[RuleOfFunny it's funny]].

* DamnedByFaintPraise: His review of ''VideoGame/HelldiversII'' has him point out that a game being touted as "fun with friends" isn't the praise it seems, as that reflects more on the quality of one's friend circle than the quality of the game itself. After all, many terrible things can be enjoyed with friends, [[from BreadEggsMilkSquick watching a bad B-movie to pissing on a dead cat.]]

* HiddenDepths: During his mini-review of ''Jusant'' in "The Games of 2023 I Didn't Review", Yahtzee revealed a fun personal fact previously unmentioned in his long career: he's an avid indoor rock climber ("Well, I ''was'' -- it's hard to find time away from the kids while I'm unwilling to duct tape them to my spine."), which he brings up to highlight his insight towards the unique physicality of the sport that ''Jusant'' does an admirable job of replicating.

** Yahtz represents the protagonist of a reviewed game as having the head of some other fictional character. For the ''Graven'' review, the protagonist is introduced alongside the phrase "Christ no one's gonna get *this* reference", as Treguard from ''{{Series/Knightmare}}'' fills in for ''Graven'''s protagonist.

* BitingTheHandHumor: Yahtzee ended his first video saying that he can now do anything he wants, while smoking a severed arm. This was originally supposed to be a bong, but he was told that Youtube would react badly to it and had to change it, and so settled for a LiteralMetaphor irony.

* BrickJoke: About halfway through the ''VideoGame/LikeADragonInfiniteWealth'' review, Yahtzee jokes about getting teased more badly than trying to use a glory hole at the retirement home. At the very end of the review, Yahtzee also jokes that the latest game evokes the same feeling as watching an elder family member wander around and get distracted -- with the aforementioned glory hole being one of those distractions.

* GenreThrowback: {{Discussed|Trope}} as part of the mini-review of ''Phantom Fury'', which Yahtzee found to be a passable, but shallow attempt to recreate the spirit of late 90's/early 2000's 3D shooters like ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', finding in practice that it more resembles [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct the low-quality knockoffs]] of ''Half-Life'' in the era such as ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune'' and ''VideoGame/SiN1998''. Yahtzee notes that if you want something that evokes the spirit of a beloved game, ''just play the actual game'', finding that all that ''Phantom Fury'' really excels at is reminding the audience that every era looked on with fondness [[SturgeonsLaw still has piles of mediocre dross]].

** In terms of "Game of the Year" in specific, actual quality of the games themselves is irrelevant (though it does help) -- it's more about pushing a narrative for the gaming industry as a whole, with ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' being an obvious shoo-in not just because it's a good game, but because most of the competition in the category were either remakes or sequels, which can be seen as regressive rather than forward-pushing. This left ''VideoGame/AlanWakeII'' the only viable competitor, but Yahtzee didn't see it winning either because, by his observations, the triple-A games industry gets cold feet at the idea of video games actually being an artistically provocative medium rather than a place for [[LowestCommonDenominator reliable committee design]][[invoked]], with a game as experimental, postmodern, and auteurist as ''Alan Wake II'' only being enough to claim a ConsolationAward in the form of "Best Game Direction".

* NonconformistDyedHair: {{Discussed|Trope}} during "The Language of Color in Games", where Yahtzee makes note of how magenta is the go-to primary color for [[TheManIsStickingItToTheMan highly corporate-driven and sanitized mainstream fare when it's trying to appear free-spirted and bohemian]], almost always featuring at least one character with magenta hair as a cheap ploy to appear "rebellious". Yahtzee also makes note of how a weird number of indie games also feature player characters with cyan hair, which might be a response to the overuse of magenta.

* ColorMotif: The subject of "The Language of Color in Games", with Yahtzee observing how gaming culture formed an unspoken, yet understood agreement of what certain colors mean for certain gameplay elements, ranging from red meaning "health", blue meaning "magic" or "shields", [[RealIsBrown brown meaning "realism"]]), to magenta meaning "mainstream interpretation of 'punk' aesthetics".