YMMV / Fully Ramblomatic

• Awesome Music: The official theme music for the series by James Elsey is a banging piece of badass rock music balanced out with thumping electronic synths, evoking the energy of the Zero Punctuation theme but upgraded and tastefully refreshed for a new era for Yahtzee's reviews. The theme for "Semi-Ramblomatic" is also based on the same arrangement, spiced up with an emphasis on electronic elements.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • At the end of "The Games of 2023 I Didn't Review", the shiny dog grabs a signboard and puts it on the ground, then goes to get the black marker and use it to write "Rub Tummy" on the sign, before lying on its back hoping for someone to give it a tummy rub. So adorable.
  • In his Semi-Ramblomatic of The Game Awards while going over suggestions on how to improve them, he pitches various ideas for more intuitive award categories based on its targeted emotional experience rather than genre, bringing up Spiritfarer for a contender for "Best Game That Made Me Cry", leading to a simultaneously funny and sweet Call-Back to his review of the game in Zero Punctuation (where he admitted to being genuinely brought to tears over Alice's final moments):
    Yahtzee: Oh God, I just want to know you're in a happier place now, Alice the Hedgehog!
  • The end credit skit for Graven is a dog using a magic book to conjure up a floating hand that pets another dog.
  • After many years of complimenting Suda51 with only off-hand mentions of his landmark title, Killer7, "An Explanation of 'Post-Punk' Games" presents the opportunity for Yahtzee to discuss why — in spite of defying all logic as a critic — he feels that it's Suda's best work.
    Yahtzee: Killer7 is the kind of thing a very ignorant person would call "so random, lol." It's a mad kaleidoscope of ideas, character moments, visual chaos and gameplay that switches between pseudo-rail shooter gameplay and weird puzzles where you have to shoot a dude's tie to make his brain pop out or something, but it's not random. There's recurring themes and motifs, a connecting plot told in rigid chapters, even if the art style for the cutscenes inexplicably changes from one to the next. I still don't really get what the story's about, and I have both played it a million times and read the companion literature that supposedly explains it. And yet, the story clearly makes sense to someone, and it still affects me, emotionally. Why do I feel genuinely sad when the Killer7 are systematically wiped out in the near end game boss fight? Is it because we're finally losing one of the few consistent things we've been on this wild odyssey with, and now we'll never again enjoy the sight of Mask de Smith headbutting a bullet out of the air?

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