Yahtzee Croshaw (Zero Punctuation, Fully Ramblomatic)

So, what was his verdict on the game?

In Yahtzee-speak, he liked it.

In my experience watching ZP, I just assume he didn't finish any game he reviews unless he explicitly indicates otherwise.

I wonder if he's ever played a game like Peace Walker, or Gravity Rush 2, which have "fake endings" where the plot just keeps going after that, and he just stops at the first ending and goes "Whelp, I'm done, time to say the ending sucked in my review".

That's more or less exactly what happened with Gravity Rush 2, yeah.

His review of the first NieR also implies he only played it the one time when you're supposed to play it more than once.

I wonder what could have been if he had played it all the way through...

Because IIRC, he praised Spec Ops: The Line for having a story that makes the player feel dead inside via harsh truths and deconstructive fourth wall breaks when NieR predates that by a few years or so. (Again, IIRC.)

Kudos to Yahtzee for weaving his E3 review in with a review of Friday the 13th. Linky

What amuses me far more than the video, however, is a clever Who's on First? play in the comments, starting with a conversation between a game store manager and their employee about the new Microsoft console: "Get me one Xbox One X box..."

edited 28th Jun '17 2:06:17 PM by Fighteer

That was a funny one.

Ah, the glorious fifth generation of consoles. Well, if you bought a Playstation, at least. Not so much if you were a Nintendo (or Sega) fan.

edited 3rd Aug '17 6:26:55 AM by Fighteer

PS 1 was my first console, back when I was like 6. Man did I get hours of fun off that one.

I still think the Dual Shock is an abomination of a controller and its lingering presence in modern day is a shame.

Why so?

The thumbsticks are awkwardly placed. It's almost as if they've been put there because it was literally the last place free on the controller. There's a reason literally every other dual stick controller since then has the left one where the D-Pad is.

I find analog sticks where they are on the Dualshocks much more comfortable and intuitive than Xbox and Nintendo controllers.

I can adjust to almost any combination of buttons, given that they are big enough and spaced far apart enough to press without accidentally hitting them all, and given that I can identify one from the others without needing to look down from the screen.

Fuck playstation controllers. And the massive potatoes claiming to be Xbox controllers. I chose a gamecube for my first console ever based solely on the controller.

The 360 controllers did well enough though.

The GameCube controller is a gift from God.

Though the D-pad on it admittedly sucks.

Yahtzee may like his games hard, but he expects something to make the difficult challenges worthwhile with Edmund McMillen's The End Is Nigh. Meanwhile, Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles has perhaps given Yahtzee a new catchphrase.

edited 10th Aug '17 9:20:19 AM by TargetmasterJoe

What he criticized about The End is Nigh isn't just that it's hard, but that there seems to be no reward for slogging through the punishing difficulty, a sentiment I can heartily appreciate.

edited 9th Aug '17 4:36:29 PM by Fighteer

After watching gameplay for The End is Nigh, I see what you're getting at. You're getting the weird floaty globs...and that's it apparently.

It's also a step down from Super Meat Boy in terms of what you're able to do. At least in SMB, you could do wall jumps while in TEIN, you can't, even though it would be very much useful...

So I should probably tweak my earlier post.

To put it another way, he enjoys banging his head against the wall for the sake of getting through it to a reward. He doesn't like banging his head against the wall if the reward is to bang his head against the wall.

While it's totally normal and healthy for a game developer to take the production, story, themes, and so on of its own game seriously, there's apparently such as thing as being too serious about it, as Yahtzee sees it in his review for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

That was really damn funny. Strange for him to rag on Ninja Theory for Dm C though, considering Yahtzee rated it higher than DMC 4.

Sonic Mania

So, it's basically a fan nostalgia game. Okay. Can't really offer any opinion since I've never played the various Sonic games and have no direct experience of them.

Destiny 2

Spoiler alert: the thing he found most interesting about the game was the procedurally generated wall textures. This sort of thing is why I don't go in for online AAA shooters these days.

"Facetiousness zone" for the bright neon colors in character generation is brilliant. And the ending got a laugh out of me.

Hold your horses, one and all, because Yahtzee's come back for another review. This time around, it's Cuphead!

And you can all calm down because he actually quite likes it a bunch!