Amazingly, the thing that stood out most to me from this "game" was from the trailer part where the story went that they sent a soldier into the FUTURE to prevent the outbreak... I mean, that doesn't make any sort of sense whatsoever when you think about it for more than a single second!
@@TetsuoIVIX oh wow that's really clever, you know I didn't notice the similarities but you're right! Maybe they could explain the crappy graphics as Brian being disoriented from the time travel like Cole was.
I'm gonna bet that Nintendo is working on a "remaster" or a package for F-Zero that will of course be $60-70. I'll prob still buy it. Imo they just need to make an entire new F-Zero...
Thank you very much @DigitalFoundry for showing some of the student projects! My team's work was actually featured (at 14:16) and we would love to share the trailer to some of you who might be interested! :D Just add this after the usual youtube adress: /ljFsRU2ei4A (my comment got deleted after I posted the full link...) We are planning to release it soon on itchio aswell! The other games are from my collegues who might also be happy to share their dev process and links! :)
@@Carsonj13My personal favorite part was the montage with some awesome music while showing some of the worst "games" (if you can even call them that) ever created, though the entire video is a treat.
The side-by-side of The Last Hope up against The Last of Us had me confused. I was wrong on which was which. Thanks for clarifying. Impeccable game design, I must say.
It's a wonder how far some developers will push the limits of copyright. And it's a wonder that Nintendo has absolutely zero quality control over the Eshop.
Nintendo are obviously A. retentive about the copyrights of its own IPs, but clearly have no regards of the violation of copyrights of others in their own store.
@@HazyJ28that's not what it means. The Seal of Quality means the game won't damage your console when you play it, not whether the game is necessarily good. A good look at the NES library can attest to that.
This is the highest level of commitment in a review that I have ever saw. Even counted the bullets available in the game and most of all pay money for that videogame. I hope that the youtube monetization of this video help to cover the initial inversion and the subsequent therapy to overcome the trauma after playing it.
All the Digital Foundry team are talented, but for me John is really the top member. He blends passion, statistics, humour and all the things that make DF such a quality channel in just the right doses.
I really like the message at the end. It's a good thing not to completely dismiss any indie game made by a developer new in the market, if they put genuine effort into it when something like this game exists
A cop pulled me over and I told him my car has a dynamic speed rate feature. He gave me a ticket and told me that my bank account will soon have a dynamic money rate feature.
They probably only have like 3 employees in some poor country so it's probably not so bad to throw together an asset flip in a week. Just as long as you don't actually care about the artistic value of video games.
I mean every single asset was bought,including main character skeletal mesh,animation,and what ever limited gameplay programming,so not that hard to top that,i dont get these people they wanna make game without making a game.
I'm a game developer who is in the process of getting a game on Nintendo Switch and this just baffles my mind. When you are getting a game on the system it must go through lotcheck where Nintendo play test the game and give you a list of things to fix before they will accept it. This is a painful process as your game goes through a lot of scrutiny and even the tiniest thing can get your game rejected until it's fixed. I have no idea how this game passes lotcheck.
This was a masterpiece. I don't mean the game. I mean John's editing and humour. All the asset store items cracked me up. This is the most low effort game I have ever seen. So hilarious 😂
I don't, but only because this game is getting a lot of press and coverage that it doesn't deserve. With a game this bad, there is no such thing as bad press. It will be getting way more sales than it should just from all the coverage and people wanting to see just how bad it is.
It never ceases to amaze how many junk games there are on the E-Shop, almost reminds me of the Play Store. With how much Nintendo focuses on the gameplay with their consoles you'd think the E-Shop would be a bit more "curated."
Especially considering that Nintendo's whole raison d'etre was the Nintendo Seal of Quality. Back in the 80s when the Atari video game crash happened, it was precisely because of all the shovelware games and low quality garbage like ET. Nintendo actually limited developers to only publishing a handful of titles per year and made everything get reviewed before it could be published. This was how they succeeded. How far they have fallen from that...
Nintendo doesn’t give a shit about anything other than selling it’s customers the same recycled first party IP over and over and over again. Heck they even sell the same game over and over each time they release a new, non-backwards compatible console and force you to buy multiple copies if your family has multiple consoles.
@@flyingplantwhale545 a distinction needs to be made between third party support and "crapware" support. If it wasn't for Nintendo's own games and a few AAA and indie games, the e-Shop would be fairly indistinguishable from mobile game app stores.
I am a gamedev and it makes me sad to see how little detail they added to this game. If you don't put passion into your projects how can you expect to have a good game?
They aren't doing this out of passion for the art. They only care about putting the bare minimum in and hoping to cash out when people who don't know better buy their game by mistake. It's utterly creatively and morally bankrupt.
I really loved the calculation that showed that you almost can't complete the game with the supplied ammo and stamina regen. Apparently the game creators themselves haven't bothered to do this math LOL. Or maybe they were truly aiming at classic survival horror rules?
@@hommie126 i dont know about Steam blushing, like John said in vid. Steam has trashiest trash i think nintendo qualty controil a little better. (we talking about games like "beating faces with dildos " on Steam)
14:10 Student of that university here! I didn't work on one of the games (I did an animation project instead) but I want to say thank you in the name of my semester for giving us the praise! The games shown in that small sections are called: "Me and my Shadow", "Dead Care", and "Follow after me!" They are all available online, so go look through google and check them out please!
The problem is because of these asset flips, decent small budget games get mistaken for this. Devs end up needing to spend valuable time and money on marketing. It is too bad these stores aren’t better curated.
Decent small budget games with keyword salad names and ripoff themes/screens? While this garbage isn't good for discoverability of anything else, nobody in their right mind will mistake this for a little game made with love.
@@theseabass At first I thought you meant Falcom and was ready to start ranting, then I googled "Kemco" and had the impression of falling down a hole of RPG Maker Games...
It makes me miss the 360 indie store Ghetto. It was full of random crap like this with some gems like Cthulhu Saves the World, but you knew what you were getting into when you went there.
At 8:00 that's hilarious, but maybe you can open the door by connecting a keyboard via USB to the Switch and just pressing the 'E' key? In the Switch 1.0 version of SpongeBob Rehydrated, you can access an entire debug menu by connecting a keyboard and pressing a button, so I have a feeling it'd be the same case for this game
Same, and it's crazy the dev company released a game like this without any judgment. (I am not blaming the actual developers, only the boss) I am making a small game in my free time, and I will definitely make sure to only release it if it reaches a quality standard.
@@StriderVM when you are going to publish a game in and platform, there's a certification process. The platform owner has a testing team where they test the game and verify that it works, and also check if they meet a list of requirements. No matter the company, every game has to pass the process. I'm pretty sure this game should have failed a few of those requirements
The Switch store used to be a “mark of quality”. I’m not sure if the acceptance process has loosened, or if these companies have just found a way to game the existing system.
@@TiJayFLY I think the issue isn't in the certification process, but in Nintendo allowing more people to develop and publish their games in their system The certification process it's more about technical guidelines than the quality of the game. Although still incredible the fact this game passed it
Right as you said the eShop is flooded with rubish, Garlic was highlighted, which is a terrific precision platformer with a lot of style. It's like a mix of Celeste with Gato Roboto, with a dash of early Dragon Ball's sense of humor
I don't understand how this is legal to sell. It's blatantly obvious that this is a rip off of a well known IP, and a pretty shameless one at that. All of the DLC pack assets from another game on top of it, how is it that this is even listed for sale on an online store for a company as large as Nintendo? You would think that this game is just a massive lawsuit waiting to happen, but I'm not a lawyer and who knows what kind of loopholes they jumped through to make this "technically legal".
I fully expect that menu, endscreen promo and other graphics are actually AI generated, where they used their assets or also reference graphics as guide images and counted fingers, and that's it. That being said maybe these developers aren't as advanced as that. After all, GPT3 could have written MUCH better flavour text and dialogue than this!
I have been watching Digital Foundry for years. This may be one of my favorite episodes ever. Should really make a series like this where you roast shitty graphical elements, even in AAA games. There's been so many games that are gorgeous, but have that one element that gives a "wtf were they thinking" like water, splashes, sand, and even sound design decisions. Just hearing you guys with your esoteric and astute vernacular roasting the shit out of bad game design warms my heart in a way I wasn't sure I needed until this video. Carry on, lads! 😂😂
The fact that this has Kenny Omegas best entrance theme within the first couple minutes makes this a certified classic. I did double take when it popped up
I've covered this in a few videos: Nintendo doesn't care about the games on Switch eShop and will literally let anything go up, even if it has the words 'Call of Duty' or 'Counter Strike' in the title.
I've always hated the idea that 'well if it's so bad, then do something better yourself', but in this instance I think most people (with access to tutorials) easily could
@@RetroProg I'd imagine it probably only takes 1, or a handful at most, people to crank out these games every week or month. If so, it wouldn't make many copies of each game to make a profit. They've got a ton of press on this game too.
@@RetroProgthey use these games to launder money, a lot of shitty games you see get released are only there to make companies look like they specialize in makin games when in reality they are not
Believe it or not... making game is very hard and time consuming... this $h*t is still take skills... I guess you can have skills without having any talent.
Shame on Nintendo for even CONSIDERING putting this on the Eshop. ESPECIALLY considering their history in takedowns of people they "considered copied them"
This is not only happening in gaming, it's happening everywhere on the internet because of the get rich quick gurus. But to be honest, everyone who buys this crap for himself or his kids, doesn't deserve it otherwise.
Guarantee you some kids got eshop credit for their birthday/Christmas/etc., were excited to buy their own game, bought this, and were bitterly disappointed.
@@LeesChannel Well that's on them and their parents. I wouldn't dare to buy my kid, who's ability to make a reasonable decision isn't fully developed, any kind of credit.
This is also a glimpse of the future driven by AI. With the speed at which AI can now shovel out complete, but poor quality, books, articles, websites, art, videos, and soon videogames, low quality AI content will flood the internet and vastly outnumber human created content, let alone GOOD human created content. All in the effort to make money. The behind the bastards podcast recently did a deep dive into how this is already happening with the ebook industry - it'll happen for all creative industries over the next few years.
@@brup123There was a dearth of crap by humans as it was, as usual with new tech it'll get abused so AI being used to make shovelware doesn't strike me as surprising. In fact I kinda thought that had already happened, years ago...
It looks like a game studio located in Moldova. The people working there probably know how to make games but the studio limits them with time and human resources.
I was thinking the same. Would be nice to use the big number of followers here to shed some light on some talented young devlopers and give them some deserved promotion
Thank you so much! My team's work was actually featured (at 14:16) and we would love to share the trailer to some of you who might be interested! :D Just add this after the usual youtube adress: /ljFsRU2ei4A (my comment got deleted after I posted the full link...) We are planning to release it soon on itchio aswell! The other games are from my collegues who might also be happy to share their dev process and links! :)
This honestly feels like the best thing that could happen to them. People are gonna buy it out of morbid curiosity and no publicity is bad publicity. Would be a good ad campaign when your product has no redeeming qualities. 🤔
I think I speak for everyone here (almost) that this was the best DF video in years! You should start a new series where you expose these kind of games that are designed to rip off people but in a tech analysis way you guys are known for.
All videos about it is technically publicity....some would buy a game about 3 green squares and a potato, if it got 3 million views on RUclips, because they`re special like that.
How did they manage to get the lighting to look so bad? It's like they're actively fighting the Unity engine to produce a mid '90s look. This has to be some kind of advanced trolling.
It's amazing that these geniuses who managed to build a time machine were stupid enough to send someone to the FUTURE to prevent a disaster from happening....
Makes no sense that a small caliber handgun regardless if it’s a .380, 9mm, .40 cal or even a .45 ACP would take less rounds to take a zombie down than a 5.56 rifle. Even if it’s firing .223 instead of 5.56 it’s still going to have exponentially more velocity and stopping power. Such backwards logic
As an indie developer I don't know how to feel about this. Absolute majority of developers are trying to make the best game they can and their success greatly depends on the fact, whether someone (hopefully big) will cover them. And then there are developers like this, absolutely cynical, with no shame and with very good understanding of what they're doing, which are then rewarded with the coverage from someone like DF. I know John just wants to shine a little light on this shady game, but ultimately they are profiting from it. They must be patting themselves on the back how their strategy is paying off.
I haven't seen a single comment about this, but what kind of stamina mechanic is this??? Permanent stamina loss just getting using a weapon or running, only able to slightly refill it a few times??? Absolutely mind boggling that this mechanic made it in, even for shovelware
Press E to pay respects. Also, this reminds me of some 4 hour podcasts I've listend to that are double the length of the movie they talk about in the podcast... it reminds me of those, because it must have taken John twice as long to make this video about The Last Hope, as it took the dev to throw this unity store item mix together.
The first time I entered a piracy "shop" on my jailbroken Switch, I noticed the amount of shit available and believe me, it's horrible the amount of garbage on the eShop.
It’s crazy that Nintendo allows this on their shop but if any company were to create a shitty Mario clone, Nintendo would send a cease and desist within minutes.
Great video, editing and interpretation were also great! I'm fascinated by bad games and I'm glad you said to don't buy the game and still highlighted small projects that are of real quality.
Best graphics I've ever seen on a Switch, by far. Props to the devs for making such a masterpiece. Is there any way I can donate to the developers? Surely I'm not alone in thinking they deserve more than the price for this game. I feel like I could play it for years.
It’s amazing that shovelware games always find a place in every generation of gaming 😂. Also, love the inclusion of the Killer 7 OST around 4:01. That soundtrack still hits just as good now as the first time hearing it.
Nintendo needs to get itself together when it comes it's store and transferring stuff. Everything would tied to your login, not the console. The amount of people who lost their Animal Crossing saves after buying a new Switch is just insane!
I find the Unity logo puzzling. I've only ever seen that on games made with the free version, that doesn't allow publishing to consoles. So they either pirated Unity or couldn't be bothered to change the logo
Just wanna point out that by the end when he mentions the shovelware infested store fronts he (probably unintentionally) moved the cursor over Garlic which is an excellent platformer.
Shitty Games like Redfall or Fallout 4 are way worse, because they didn't make these Games just to scam people. They actually (I guess) put real effort in there and also ask for 70€!
Amazingly, the thing that stood out most to me from this "game" was from the trailer part where the story went that they sent a soldier into the FUTURE to prevent the outbreak... I mean, that doesn't make any sort of sense whatsoever when you think about it for more than a single second!
Yep, they couldn't even reference The Terminator correctly. What a quality product made with love. 😂
@@garyd2717I think they were more so ripping off 12 Monkeys?? Maybe?? LOL
@@TetsuoIVIX oh wow that's really clever, you know I didn't notice the similarities but you're right! Maybe they could explain the crappy graphics as Brian being disoriented from the time travel like Cole was.
Well you know, they could have just waited and stop it anyway, but that would be boring.
@@garyd2717 Genius. Everyone is looking at the game wrong. It’s clearly an art piece
What's amazing is the EShop has all this crap placed on it, but still lacks some of Nintendo's best titles from the past. Truly a spectacle.
like F-Zero GX, stuck on Gamecube and it is concidered one of the greatest games ever
I'm gonna bet that Nintendo is working on a "remaster" or a package for F-Zero that will of course be $60-70. I'll prob still buy it. Imo they just need to make an entire new F-Zero...
and still, people are shoving the dollars down Nintendo's throat just because they liked some of their games in their childhood 🫠
I wonder, does Nintendo charge to have a game appear in the e shop? If so that would explain why they're not picky.
@@bumpsy I stopped doing that, as soon as I realised the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" was a thing of the past.
We need a physical copy to preserve this masterpiece.
it should have the Nintendo Seal of Quality like those NES carts, lol
The "Collector's Edition" could come in a giant poop emoji box. I would actually buy that I think.
Not gonna lie, I'd genuinely buy a physical copy in an instant. That's shit's history!
🤣😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂
Thank you very much @DigitalFoundry for showing some of the student projects! My team's work was actually featured (at 14:16) and we would love to share the trailer to some of you who might be interested! :D Just add this after the usual youtube adress: /ljFsRU2ei4A (my comment got deleted after I posted the full link...) We are planning to release it soon on itchio aswell! The other games are from my collegues who might also be happy to share their dev process and links! :)
very cool, keep at it :)
Don't release total dogshit unfinished games. No matter the quality. 🤦♂️
You can put link in your bio.
@@theJesai Thx, I appreciate :)
Awesome my dood❤
"Halfway through the game you encounter her in the library. This is about 7 minutes in by the way."
I died on that line.
😂
My personal favorite was "If you're looking for an alternative to licking the toilet bowl..."
@@Carsonj13My personal favorite part was the montage with some awesome music while showing some of the worst "games" (if you can even call them that) ever created, though the entire video is a treat.
The side-by-side of The Last Hope up against The Last of Us had me confused. I was wrong on which was which. Thanks for clarifying. Impeccable game design, I must say.
This game is over hated asf it’s so good I’ve played it 23 times already.
What do you mean? You can easily see which is which....!
It's clearly the..... Um....
One of those two? Actually, I can't tell.
The Last Of Us Remastered vs The Last Of Us Unmastered
@@kyan892same. They're just over exaggerting for clickbait and profit off of hate speech.
@@Wesmoen I think he was actually tricking us. Both of those pictures were from The Last Hope and he can't convince me otherwise.
This ain’t The Last of Us at home. This is The Last of Us at the homeless shelter.
Homeless deserve better.
Basically the game equivalent of an asylum movie
While high on crack
you mean the ruins of the homeless shelter that's been molotoved to ashes with all three available molotovs
🤣🤣🤣
It's a wonder how far some developers will push the limits of copyright. And it's a wonder that Nintendo has absolutely zero quality control over the Eshop.
Nintendo are obviously A. retentive about the copyrights of its own IPs, but clearly have no regards of the violation of copyrights of others in their own store.
Makes you appreciate Apple in a way.
"Nintendo seal of quality"
@@HazyJ28that's not what it means. The Seal of Quality means the game won't damage your console when you play it, not whether the game is necessarily good. A good look at the NES library can attest to that.
@@HazyJ28that was a thing of the past, they need to bring that back.
This is the highest level of commitment in a review that I have ever saw. Even counted the bullets available in the game and most of all pay money for that videogame.
I hope that the youtube monetization of this video help to cover the initial inversion and the subsequent therapy to overcome the trauma after playing it.
All the Digital Foundry team are talented, but for me John is really the top member. He blends passion, statistics, humour and all the things that make DF such a quality channel in just the right doses.
I really like the message at the end. It's a good thing not to completely dismiss any indie game made by a developer new in the market, if they put genuine effort into it when something like this game exists
This is one of the most notable implementations of the dynamic framerate feature, truly fascinating stuff!
Yes, Naughty Dog could learn a thing or two from these guys!
A cop pulled me over and I told him my car has a dynamic speed rate feature. He gave me a ticket and told me that my bank account will soon have a dynamic money rate feature.
I love the fact John presents this as a positive and leaves you to decide. Genius.
Ehh, Biomutant had a better implementation
Working at that company must be a really uplifting, fulfilling experience
They probably only have like 3 employees in some poor country so it's probably not so bad to throw together an asset flip in a week. Just as long as you don't actually care about the artistic value of video games.
I don`t think a discord server counts as a company
They probably don’t have crunch problems….and it shows
@@gamerxt333 I don't Nintendo puts games from a discord server on the eshop
it's the game dev. equivalent of an indian scammer call center
You put more effort into reviewing this game then the designers did making it
I mean every single asset was bought,including main character skeletal mesh,animation,and what ever limited gameplay programming,so not that hard to top that,i dont get these people they wanna make game without making a game.
What designers?
@@EyefyourGf Is just some guy in his basement throwing out shovel ware to get some cash.
Ah yes, The Last Hope, the emotional story of Noel and Nellie in a zombie apocalyptic world.
I think that everyone who sent Laura Bailey death threats for The Last of Us Part II should be forced to play only this game for eternity.
yaaa
Nothing would make them beg for the real last of us more than this 😂
I'm a game developer who is in the process of getting a game on Nintendo Switch and this just baffles my mind. When you are getting a game on the system it must go through lotcheck where Nintendo play test the game and give you a list of things to fix before they will accept it. This is a painful process as your game goes through a lot of scrutiny and even the tiniest thing can get your game rejected until it's fixed. I have no idea how this game passes lotcheck.
Good luck on your game bro! I always wanted to make a game of my own.
@@jjaze9831 thanks! The game is called Undying, it's on steam already!
It’s either bribery, or maybe you are facing more restrictions on account of your game’s rating. Maybe that’s it
It's like what happens in the ps store. The check is does it start up.
Bribes, perhaps.
The review we never asked for but the review we all needed.
Two days after an almost identical video from SwitchUp…
not really
i never asked for movie Matrix 1999 for example. who create that stupid "never asked" meme i wonder
This was a masterpiece.
I don't mean the game. I mean John's editing and humour. All the asset store items cracked me up. This is the most low effort game I have ever seen. So hilarious 😂
The last line sounded like he had genuinely forgotten the game's name and then remembered it at the last second lmao
'A suitable alternative to licking the toilet' Lol that got me., Such a good and funny vid :)
John is a genius 😁
Trully a professional. i would have failed completely to play this crap long enough to point out all he did!
"This game seems like it was made for streamers"
"Most low quality things are"
Nintendo: it's fine if it's a copycat of another platform on us, but if the game is copycat of ours prepare to face our lawyer
It’s nice to know 20 years after Big Rigs that bad games never really go away
I bet that my man, Alex Burton did the music for this gem as well. Except the one on the menu screen of course.
At least Big Rigs is hilariously broken. This is just broke(n).
The "You dead" message actually reminded me of "You're winner".
At least Big Rigs used original assets.
@@kveller555say it like Chris Tucker: "You dead!"
I LOVE how you’ve actually tried to play and finish the whole game for this. Well done.
I don't, but only because this game is getting a lot of press and coverage that it doesn't deserve. With a game this bad, there is no such thing as bad press. It will be getting way more sales than it should just from all the coverage and people wanting to see just how bad it is.
@@TheCrewExpendable Fair point actually
Still a better story than the Last of Us 2....
@@sellingacoerwa8318knew id see this comment, touch grass dude
@@TheSoulWithin7it's true though
It never ceases to amaze how many junk games there are on the E-Shop, almost reminds me of the Play Store. With how much Nintendo focuses on the gameplay with their consoles you'd think the E-Shop would be a bit more "curated."
Especially considering that Nintendo's whole raison d'etre was the Nintendo Seal of Quality. Back in the 80s when the Atari video game crash happened, it was precisely because of all the shovelware games and low quality garbage like ET. Nintendo actually limited developers to only publishing a handful of titles per year and made everything get reviewed before it could be published. This was how they succeeded. How far they have fallen from that...
It is curated. This is Nintendo going like “See? We have 3rd party support too”
Nintendo doesn’t give a shit about anything other than selling it’s customers the same recycled first party IP over and over and over again. Heck they even sell the same game over and over each time they release a new, non-backwards compatible console and force you to buy multiple copies if your family has multiple consoles.
@@flyingplantwhale545 a distinction needs to be made between third party support and "crapware" support.
If it wasn't for Nintendo's own games and a few AAA and indie games, the e-Shop would be fairly indistinguishable from mobile game app stores.
And it’s funny how they always claim their copyrights 😂
"Ellie from the last of us with the serial number filed off" got a great chuckle out of me lol
well she would look better with black hair, so props for that
I am a gamedev and it makes me sad to see how little detail they added to this game. If you don't put passion into your projects how can you expect to have a good game?
Yoo your game looks cool asf
Where can i buy it?
They aren't doing this out of passion for the art. They only care about putting the bare minimum in and hoping to cash out when people who don't know better buy their game by mistake. It's utterly creatively and morally bankrupt.
It's not meant to be a "good game" it's meant to trick people out of money. I am not a gamedev
I really loved the calculation that showed that you almost can't complete the game with the supplied ammo and stamina regen. Apparently the game creators themselves haven't bothered to do this math LOL. Or maybe they were truly aiming at classic survival horror rules?
It's a survival game after all 😉
I guess it's completely by accident that there is limited ammo and more zombies, so that you have to calculate your moves.
I would guess that if you asked them, they'd say the latter but the actual reason is closer to the former.
The real horror is trying to survive the bugs and poor design to complete the "game".
This is "the last hope" for true survival horror gameplay!
The amount of effort DF puts in analyzing games is mesmerizing. Even this game got a technically fair review 😅
They put more effort into this video than that game developer did with all their games combined.
Exactly my thought too lol
Good to see Nintendo adhering to their high quality curating standards. If it’s in the Eshop, you know if has to be good.
Official Seal of Approval!
@@moosemaimersome of the peeps at ganescoop call it “Nintendos seal of quantity” lmao!
@@hommie126 i dont know about Steam blushing, like John said in vid. Steam has trashiest trash i think nintendo qualty controil a little better. (we talking about games like "beating faces with dildos " on Steam)
The game has now been delisted from the Nintendo eShop, after Sony filed a copyright claim or a golf club to the game.
14:10
Student of that university here! I didn't work on one of the games (I did an animation project instead) but I want to say thank you in the name of my semester for giving us the praise!
The games shown in that small sections are called: "Me and my Shadow", "Dead Care", and "Follow after me!"
They are all available online, so go look through google and check them out please!
The problem is because of these asset flips, decent small budget games get mistaken for this. Devs end up needing to spend valuable time and money on marketing. It is too bad these stores aren’t better curated.
Decent small budget games with keyword salad names and ripoff themes/screens? While this garbage isn't good for discoverability of anything else, nobody in their right mind will mistake this for a little game made with love.
Haha, love how serious you analyse the game and that you looked up the assets used 😆 Holy .... what a game, gotta love their naming though!
I'm going to hazard a guess that this won't be getting a physical collector's edition from Limited Run Games anytime soon.
I dont know. They love giving the Kemco games physical releases which are essentially the RPG equivalent of this game, so there is yet hope.
@@theseabassI will add this to the midnight vigil prayer list. We NEED God to intervene to save this masterpiece
Well they want to do a re-release of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, so if it's bad enough they will do it for hipster ironic points
@@theseabass At first I thought you meant Falcom and was ready to start ranting, then I googled "Kemco" and had the impression of falling down a hole of RPG Maker Games...
Nintendo even advertised this game in the "recently trending" tab in their newsletter.
There's something refreshing about a genuinely bad game, over the bland, mediocre bore-fests of the modern era. It makes me feel nostalgic.
Its honestly impressive that this game is actually on the Nintendo store
It's almost as bad as steam new realse page
youd be surprised at the amount of shovelware on the eshop
Nintendo can't get rid of their past with a shovelware ridden library
Just as bad as the shovelware on the psn store or steam store.
It makes me miss the 360 indie store Ghetto. It was full of random crap like this with some gems like Cthulhu Saves the World, but you knew what you were getting into when you went there.
At 8:00 that's hilarious, but maybe you can open the door by connecting a keyboard via USB to the Switch and just pressing the 'E' key? In the Switch 1.0 version of SpongeBob Rehydrated, you can access an entire debug menu by connecting a keyboard and pressing a button, so I have a feeling it'd be the same case for this game
Now I will never stop wondering what's behind that door.
@@pintavodkiwe Will never now because they took the game down
This is what I would imagine would happen if you connected AI to the “asset store” with the prompt: make a survival game with zombies.
I honestly thought it was an AI generated game
To be honest, I think AI could probably do a better job than this.
Nah, the AI would do a better job for sure
Those menu/loading screen images were definitely AI generated. So AI did have some part in this dumpster fire
@@brianfunt2619And they are the best part of the game.
This review was 15 minutes, just as long as the game apparently, and it was by far a seemingly better experience! 😂
I can hear Gollum / Daedelic breathing a sigh of relief somewhere far in the distance, for not winning worst game of the year 2023.
The fact that Nintendo allows this to be in their store is beyond me
Nintendo allowed shovelware rushed games on Wii as well.
NFS games on Wii looked worse than the ones on PS2.
@@carlosurquia2128The Wii was almost weaker than the GameCube. It wasn't "next gen", it was a goddamn "sidestep" from a graphical standpoint.
@@DimitriMoreira The Wii was stronger than the Gamecube, but was far behind from PS3 and Xbox 360
@@DimitriMoreira Wii was a bit stronger but after I saw GX on the Gamecube, also in solid 60fps Wii never had a game like that
@@agamaz5650 Zelda Twilight Princess was a lot better on the GC too. The Wii was a sidestep in terms of graphics.
As a QA who worked in near 20 small game titles for the eshop, I cannot believe they passed the certification process
Same, and it's crazy the dev company released a game like this without any judgment. (I am not blaming the actual developers, only the boss) I am making a small game in my free time, and I will definitely make sure to only release it if it reaches a quality standard.
There is a certification process? Then how did this pass that? Maybe in your company, but probably not as Nintendo?
@@StriderVM when you are going to publish a game in and platform, there's a certification process. The platform owner has a testing team where they test the game and verify that it works, and also check if they meet a list of requirements. No matter the company, every game has to pass the process. I'm pretty sure this game should have failed a few of those requirements
The Switch store used to be a “mark of quality”. I’m not sure if the acceptance process has loosened, or if these companies have just found a way to game the existing system.
@@TiJayFLY I think the issue isn't in the certification process, but in Nintendo allowing more people to develop and publish their games in their system
The certification process it's more about technical guidelines than the quality of the game. Although still incredible the fact this game passed it
I love how hilariously well this video was scripted! Awesome delivery too 😂
Right as you said the eShop is flooded with rubish, Garlic was highlighted, which is a terrific precision platformer with a lot of style. It's like a mix of Celeste with Gato Roboto, with a dash of early Dragon Ball's sense of humor
I don't understand how this is legal to sell. It's blatantly obvious that this is a rip off of a well known IP, and a pretty shameless one at that. All of the DLC pack assets from another game on top of it, how is it that this is even listed for sale on an online store for a company as large as Nintendo?
You would think that this game is just a massive lawsuit waiting to happen, but I'm not a lawyer and who knows what kind of loopholes they jumped through to make this "technically legal".
If it weren’t for the asset flip, I would swear this was AI generated.
The code might be :D
I fully expect that menu, endscreen promo and other graphics are actually AI generated, where they used their assets or also reference graphics as guide images and counted fingers, and that's it.
That being said maybe these developers aren't as advanced as that. After all, GPT3 could have written MUCH better flavour text and dialogue than this!
I have been watching Digital Foundry for years. This may be one of my favorite episodes ever. Should really make a series like this where you roast shitty graphical elements, even in AAA games. There's been so many games that are gorgeous, but have that one element that gives a "wtf were they thinking" like water, splashes, sand, and even sound design decisions. Just hearing you guys with your esoteric and astute vernacular roasting the shit out of bad game design warms my heart in a way I wasn't sure I needed until this video. Carry on, lads! 😂😂
Bang on!😊
Man I just want them to talk about waterfalls in Just Cause 4. They had the most beautiful map to explore and then ruined it with water of all things!
The fact that this has Kenny Omegas best entrance theme within the first couple minutes makes this a certified classic. I did double take when it popped up
Was that Little V?
@@Reynsoon Yes.
@@Reynsoon Kenny Omega commissioned Little V to make and sing it.
@@KTG690 I'm a LittleV fan, I thought I recognized his style!
Kenny Omega's epic theme playing over some of the least epic games possible was just *chef's kiss*
I've covered this in a few videos: Nintendo doesn't care about the games on Switch eShop and will literally let anything go up, even if it has the words 'Call of Duty' or 'Counter Strike' in the title.
I've always hated the idea that 'well if it's so bad, then do something better yourself', but in this instance I think most people (with access to tutorials) easily could
You have to wonder if they sell enough copies to make it a viable business model. Fascinated to see sales charts of their stuff.
@@RetroProg I'd imagine it probably only takes 1, or a handful at most, people to crank out these games every week or month.
If so, it wouldn't make many copies of each game to make a profit. They've got a ton of press on this game too.
@@RetroProg this isnt their first game, so you do the math
@@RetroProgthey use these games to launder money, a lot of shitty games you see get released are only there to make companies look like they specialize in makin games when in reality they are not
Believe it or not... making game is very hard and time consuming... this $h*t is still take skills... I guess you can have skills without having any talent.
This is John's playful era and I'm here for it.
me too
John woke up and chose violence and I love it
@@obyrodriguez7816 I love him when he does so LICHDOM BATTLEMAGE
Playful era ? He`s always made videos like this.....lol at thinking he`s going thru phases like he`s Picaso or something.
"Press E to Open" is an impressive puzzle.
I’m 99% certain the zombie sound bites are ripped from seasons 1-2 of The Walking Dead tv show.
Shame on Nintendo for even CONSIDERING putting this on the Eshop. ESPECIALLY considering their history in takedowns of people they "considered copied them"
This is not only happening in gaming, it's happening everywhere on the internet because of the get rich quick gurus. But to be honest, everyone who buys this crap for himself or his kids, doesn't deserve it otherwise.
Guarantee you some kids got eshop credit for their birthday/Christmas/etc., were excited to buy their own game, bought this, and were bitterly disappointed.
@@LeesChannel Well that's on them and their parents. I wouldn't dare to buy my kid, who's ability to make a reasonable decision isn't fully developed, any kind of credit.
This is also a glimpse of the future driven by AI. With the speed at which AI can now shovel out complete, but poor quality, books, articles, websites, art, videos, and soon videogames, low quality AI content will flood the internet and vastly outnumber human created content, let alone GOOD human created content. All in the effort to make money.
The behind the bastards podcast recently did a deep dive into how this is already happening with the ebook industry - it'll happen for all creative industries over the next few years.
@@brup123 Yes, regulations regarding the ability of what AI is going to be capable of, and what information it is fed, will be coming for sure
@@brup123There was a dearth of crap by humans as it was, as usual with new tech it'll get abused so AI being used to make shovelware doesn't strike me as surprising. In fact I kinda thought that had already happened, years ago...
This game is so terrible it deserves one of the press media's lowest gaming scores - 5/10.
-10/10.
Way too generous
I guarantee that goes over some peoples heads
I think it's truely inspiring. Didn't know how to make a game, didn't have an idea for a game and some how that didn't stop them.
I agree
It looks like a game studio located in Moldova. The people working there probably know how to make games but the studio limits them with time and human resources.
Its ironic cause if someone did this with Mario Nintendo would sue immediately
I'm sorry you had to go trough with this John, but I'm happy you did lol! Great fun :D
What's sad is that the E-Shop has all this crap on it, but still lacks some of Nintendo's best titles from the past. Truly a spectacle.
You guys should make a full video focusing on those german students games. Maybe some interviews with them. They looked great.
I was thinking the same. Would be nice to use the big number of followers here to shed some light on some talented young devlopers and give them some deserved promotion
Thank you so much! My team's work was actually featured (at 14:16) and we would love to share the trailer to some of you who might be interested! :D Just add this after the usual youtube adress: /ljFsRU2ei4A (my comment got deleted after I posted the full link...) We are planning to release it soon on itchio aswell! The other games are from my collegues who might also be happy to share their dev process and links! :)
This game is so bad that Rich let John say the word “shitpost” in a DF video uncensored
I think this shows how little integrity Nintendo actually has.
If it was something even slightly resembling Mario, their lawyers would be all over it.
They missed the opportunity to call it "The Last hope for Us"
This honestly feels like the best thing that could happen to them. People are gonna buy it out of morbid curiosity and no publicity is bad publicity. Would be a good ad campaign when your product has no redeeming qualities. 🤔
I considered buying it until he started discussing the ammo situation.
Using Kenny Omega's music: AUTOMATIC WIN!!!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⅚ stars
08:17 had me spilling my coffee all over my monitor, keyboard and dog
It’s always good to still hear LJN be brought up after watching AVGN videos about LJN, which means laughing, joking, and numb nuts
I think I speak for everyone here (almost) that this was the best DF video in years! You should start a new series where you expose these kind of games that are designed to rip off people but in a tech analysis way you guys are known for.
This is giving strong "Life of Black Tiger" vibes. It might even work in favor of the devs, publicity wise.
All videos about it is technically publicity....some would buy a game about 3 green squares and a potato, if it got 3 million views on RUclips, because they`re special like that.
How did they manage to get the lighting to look so bad? It's like they're actively fighting the Unity engine to produce a mid '90s look. This has to be some kind of advanced trolling.
It's amazing that these geniuses who managed to build a time machine were stupid enough to send someone to the FUTURE to prevent a disaster from happening....
Makes no sense that a small caliber handgun regardless if it’s a .380, 9mm, .40 cal or even a .45 ACP would take less rounds to take a zombie down than a 5.56 rifle. Even if it’s firing .223 instead of 5.56 it’s still going to have exponentially more velocity and stopping power. Such backwards logic
As an indie developer I don't know how to feel about this. Absolute majority of developers are trying to make the best game they can and their success greatly depends on the fact, whether someone (hopefully big) will cover them. And then there are developers like this, absolutely cynical, with no shame and with very good understanding of what they're doing, which are then rewarded with the coverage from someone like DF.
I know John just wants to shine a little light on this shady game, but ultimately they are profiting from it. They must be patting themselves on the back how their strategy is paying off.
To be fair, it's not that different with artist making cool art and getting beaten by a trashy sexual cosplay photo.
Internet is weird.
Was that Little V music made for AEW's Kenny Omega at 0:58?
Jupp
100%
Absolutely going full fists in the air when Omega's music hit. God what a tune that is. 10/10 video.
I wonder if it's because the dude that made it won't copyright the song's use
@@randomnerd3402 probably just that John is a massive Kenny mark and honestly who can blame him
@@brazilianmegaman258everyone's a Kenny mark
James Stephanie Sterling was fighting the good fight for about a decade now. Glad that other high profile RUclips channels are joining the fray
I haven't seen a single comment about this, but what kind of stamina mechanic is this???
Permanent stamina loss just getting using a weapon or running, only able to slightly refill it a few times??? Absolutely mind boggling that this mechanic made it in, even for shovelware
Press E to pay respects.
Also, this reminds me of some 4 hour podcasts I've listend to that are double the length of the movie they talk about in the podcast... it reminds me of those, because it must have taken John twice as long to make this video about The Last Hope, as it took the dev to throw this unity store item mix together.
Yeah, the thing is though John actually made something entertaining, so from bad things good can come.
Truly a game of all time
It’s truly something of all time
We found the modern AVGN show :)
amazing work .
That`s some impressive sarcasm...
The first time I entered a piracy "shop" on my jailbroken Switch, I noticed the amount of shit available and believe me, it's horrible the amount of garbage on the eShop.
It’s crazy that Nintendo allows this on their shop but if any company were to create a shitty Mario clone, Nintendo would send a cease and desist within minutes.
I can tell John had a lot of fun with this video. Great job 😁
"They have a bright future ahead and let's hope the inverse is true for whatever this dev's name is." Well put! Lol
That was by far the most entertaining video DF has ever made. Bravo!
“If you’re looking for a suitable alternative to licking the toilet bowl, West Connection Ltd has you covered” 😂😂😂
“All we have is The Last Hope”
Who tf is we?
Great video, editing and interpretation were also great! I'm fascinated by bad games and I'm glad you said to don't buy the game and still highlighted small projects that are of real quality.
Best graphics I've ever seen on a Switch, by far. Props to the devs for making such a masterpiece. Is there any way I can donate to the developers? Surely I'm not alone in thinking they deserve more than the price for this game. I feel like I could play it for years.
I now appreciate every single game ever made. Thanks John!
every game? so the older west connection games too?😂
@@RUclips-Censorship-Police haha! Well… I should probably say every single game ever not made by them.
Nintendo allowed these shovelware games to flood the eshop when they should of filtered them out.
God the ai generated "cutscene" images.
It’s amazing that shovelware games always find a place in every generation of gaming 😂.
Also, love the inclusion of the Killer 7 OST around 4:01. That soundtrack still hits just as good now as the first time hearing it.
Nintendo needs to get itself together when it comes it's store and transferring stuff. Everything would tied to your login, not the console. The amount of people who lost their Animal Crossing saves after buying a new Switch is just insane!
You can get them transferred😊
I find the Unity logo puzzling. I've only ever seen that on games made with the free version, that doesn't allow publishing to consoles. So they either pirated Unity or couldn't be bothered to change the logo
I believe you need the pro version, if you want to port to consoles.
So, it could be both?
How do you know if it was paid or free?
Just wanna point out that by the end when he mentions the shovelware infested store fronts he (probably unintentionally) moved the cursor over Garlic which is an excellent platformer.
Wrst part is the people who actually make these games make a lot of money selling them to scam people. They make thousands of dollars easy.
Shitty Games like Redfall or Fallout 4 are way worse, because they didn't make these Games just to scam people. They actually (I guess) put real effort in there and also ask for 70€!