He failed shape association too, along with reading comprehension too considering the game literally tells him about these mechanics. The latter shouldn’t surprise me with Woolie at this point, though.
Jeez, Little V was right. Woolie really DOES have the worst fans. Chill TF out, let Woolie make some mistakes. He's a lot better at these games than almost all of you.
I love that Zanzo's whole theme as a villain is a stand in for toxic, unsustainable video game development. CNMN's "Immature creative vision" line is spot on.
It's not just Zanzo. Head of QA (Rekka) is is an overworking slave driver, head of marketing (Mimosa) is a self obsessed ego-maniac, head of finance (Roquefort) is a shrewd "I don't care if increasing the budget by 1% increases quality by 100%, you're not getting any more money" type, and guy at the top of it all (Kale) has done nothing to earn his position and takes credit for accomplishments at the company that he had nothing to do with They're all peak corporate assholes (except Korsica, she's great). I'd say they're all a parody of certain aspects of game development, but I don't think these things are unique to game development, this works as a parody of business in general (though I'm sure the devs of this game are writing what they know, which naturally is game development)
@@IronMan9771 Kale is the funniest one because his entire plan is to mind control people so he doesnt have to think up new products, when the mere premise of functional cybernetic enchacements will get him a river of money Hes literally just a slacker who makes things easy things more complicated by trying to get shortcuts around it
Woolie really had a "what does it do in swordmaster?" moment towards the end there lol Blue lady breaks blue shield. Green man breaks green shield. It don't gotta be more complicated than that. Edit: Yes Reggie, it does matter what color it is. lol
During the cut, twitch chat was trying to tell him that it was color-coded but he was insisting that the Z-shields were RED, so the green macaron thing didn't make sense. Basically, he was focused on the red cracks there rather than the green armor.
Reggie seems like a very gentle and kind person, and that's a good thing, don't get me wrong, but sometimes Woolie needs somebody to yell how the game works at him xD
The same applies to Reggie. Watching him play the first Mass Effect without understanding basic mechanics after dozens of hours of playtime was torture.
Definitely one of my favorite gags in the game. The decaf thing keeps getting brought up till the end of the game and it turns out it was a robot's last "f*k you" to the company that you may just not get if you miss the area with the message
Understanding that "shields" would make one think of forcefields too, I'm genuinely surprised they didn't pick up the color coordination between Macron and Z shielded enemies, and Peppermint and Forcefield enemies.
I noticed he was the only person I've seen so far who didn't try using Peppermint to break the z-shielding. So he missed half of the tutorial of "different assists for different armors". But yeah if after the first it doesn't work then you switch it up, especially when it's the same damn energy barrier all the other enemies had.
Also, PAT EXCLUSIVELY told Woolie so in the podcast “Guitar Nero” not too long ago. Woolie himself was like “eh, I don’t like that there’s color association”… only to forget color association here. Haaaaaa……
@@Riggs_The_Roadie he also when looking at the tutorial for mac breaking shielding thought that Peppermint OR Mac could destroy shielding out of nowhere.
Since its clearly going to continue to happen throughout this LP. Woolie, know we shit on you cause we love you! You're like our himbo brother when you aren't our wise uncle and that dichotomy is a big reason why we watch you.
I love you guys with all my heart...but that shield segment was excruciatingly painful. I had to skip through it to avoid yelling at my computer screen lmao
Oh, I just realized what the joke is with the four mondays. If you do the four mondays in a row and proceed with the rest of the eight day week in order there’s no weekend. Brutal.
I've said it before, but sometimes Woolie plays games completely fine, and other times he plays games like he's never touched a video-game before in his life.
Everybody here is stuck on 'Macaron green Peppermint blue' but he does get it by the end. I'm worried Woolie still doesn't fully understand the 'Stun Gauge'. Larger enemies with Stun Gauge can't be staggered or lifted until the gauge is 'broken'. The enemies themselves will still take damage, but Chai's attacks won't interrupt theirs. I believe fighting games refer to a similar effect as 'Super Armor'. So, until the Stun Gauge is depleted and broken, larger enemies have Super Armor.
That was actually one of his mistake points in that he internalised stun gauge early in the game as Armour, so getting introduced to Shielding thew him though a loop cause he through that stun and Shielding were the same or that one directly linked to the other.
Yeah RUclips got it easy. The little cut at 38:34 was 6 minutes of twitch chat having to Re-explain the game mechanics of Stun, Shock, Barriers and Shielding for Woolie to function like someone who has played video games most of his life.
DarkSydeWoolie with that "Blue barriers can be destroyed by the green man who was introduced by breaking Z shields" and the complete misunderstanding of the word "shield" It's literally color coded so you don't get confused or misunderstand what partner works against what. Did he really say the orange SBR01 are green at 40:15 ? Is he actually legit color blind? WHAT IS HAPPENING
Woolie: *explaining the difference between force shielding and armor in Mass Effect* Also Woolie: *utterly baffled by the concept of different types of enemy protection*
The fact that the company knows Chai's name since level 2 and still call "it" the defect really drives home the dehumanization/ableism, glad Reggie picked up on it quick
I guess it's the Barret comparisons but it's a funny character flaw that despite the plans, Macaron is very pro-corporation. His new friend + a bunch of people with disabilities are about to get mind controlled by the excecs and he's worried about the bonus
I don't think being worried about getting paid is being pro corporation. If anything being pro corporation would be to go "understandable the corporation needs the money that would've gone towards my bonus, I can deal"
@@nahuel3433 It's still being on the side of corpo culture I mean, wanting only better people in charge, and not questioning why Zanzo is even allowed to do that. That's not even getting into the subject of Roquefort, but that's spoilers.
@@FaelumbreProject the game in general isn't against corporations as a concept. It's against corporations being all about profit. And that we should eat the managment if they step out of line.
@@FaelumbreProject Oh but for the main point. Having a corporate mindset is still not bbeing pro corpo. So i disagree that Macarone is. At least in its current shape. He definitely simps for what it used to be.
The color association makes sense, but I do wish they could have used different words besides shield and barrier because they are so similar. Maybe just call the barrier z-shielding? Thats what it is, after all. Or Z-Barrier. Just something to make it pop more in the attack/special descriptions.
Didn't Woolie say that the upgrade equipping system in this game is like the chip system from NieR: Automata? Sorry, but in what way? You just slot upgrades into slots, that's not really exclusive to Automata.
Woolie can not let something stand alone it will always always be compared to something no matter how far he has to reach. Him and Pat are both like this.
everyones talking about the shields, but at 30:54 woolie is just standing on the solution to the platforming hes looking at. forgetting that this generator was something used in a previous level
Are… you talking about the fan used to pop out the platforms that they’re talking about? Cause Reggie’s right, that’s a Red assist point for NG+, not a generator you activate with rhythm prompts like in previous stages.
Jesus. I know I give Woolie a lot of shit for not understanding the most basic of game mechanics sometimes, but how did he seriously not understand that the blue girl destroys the blue shields and the green man destroys the green armour. The game tutorializes you on it twice for each partner and you have multiple cutscenes where they pretty much directly rub your face in it, before forcing you to use it in gameplay. I guess the fact that there's Shield (Guard Meter) Shields (Blue Bubble) and Z-Shielding (Walls/armour with red cracks) makes it a little unclear, but that only applies in text. Visually and in gameplay, it could not be more clear.
chat's just straight-up wrong here. the z-shielding IS white with red, and part of why this bit took so long is that chat kept saying it was about colors when that's only loosely true (it's true for peppermint and the other one). it's crazy to me that this comment section also has this weird belief that what's white is actually green.
All the enemies with Z-Shielding are green, which is what everyone is talking about. So if you seen a green enemy and can't hit it, it's Macaron time. It is color coded toward him in that sense, and choreographed pretty well. Though I dont blame Woolie for getting confused between the wording of barriers vs shields, and thinking maybe Macaron could break blue barriers as well. They tried it, saw he couldnt, and learned how it works. No big.
@@hyperventalated pretty sure the final boss isn't green. when you need to break that character's z-shielding, you look out for the attack bounce, the white armor, and the red cracks.
@@voyagerwitch You *also* need to use Mac against red-with-white-stripes. That doesn't negate that enemies with green coloring are Mac-vulnerable (and not, say, Peppermint-vulnerable), though.
@@cybergeek11235 maybe, but it's not what i would think of after only having one example, unclear language on the game's part, and not having tried peppermint on z-shields first to see that everyone has their own specialty. under those circumstances, the chat shouting about color coordination is just distracting and unhelpful.
Y'know I was about to give Woolie grief for the color coding stuff like everyone else but my tolerance is REALLY high after watching Maximilian play Metroid Prime. Cool dude but man. His IQ is double digits.
WoolieVS continues to break a new ground in terms of LP's by being THE ONLY LP to not get that Macaron can't break barriers.
Woolie failing basic color theory makes me wonder how he did his first run of DMC Devil May Cry where that was mandatory.
35:06 In this episode, Woolie fails basic color association.
feels like the evolution of the Left and Right issue he had.
And this is after Pat told him about it on the podcast
@@zombine64 When did that happen?
He failed shape association too, along with reading comprehension too considering the game literally tells him about these mechanics. The latter shouldn’t surprise me with Woolie at this point, though.
Jeez, Little V was right. Woolie really DOES have the worst fans. Chill TF out, let Woolie make some mistakes. He's a lot better at these games than almost all of you.
I gave woolie the benefit of the doubt after two attempts of trying to break blue shielding with Mac, but holy fucking shit my guy
I love that Zanzo's whole theme as a villain is a stand in for toxic, unsustainable video game development. CNMN's "Immature creative vision" line is spot on.
It's not just Zanzo. Head of QA (Rekka) is is an overworking slave driver, head of marketing (Mimosa) is a self obsessed ego-maniac, head of finance (Roquefort) is a shrewd "I don't care if increasing the budget by 1% increases quality by 100%, you're not getting any more money" type, and guy at the top of it all (Kale) has done nothing to earn his position and takes credit for accomplishments at the company that he had nothing to do with
They're all peak corporate assholes (except Korsica, she's great). I'd say they're all a parody of certain aspects of game development, but I don't think these things are unique to game development, this works as a parody of business in general (though I'm sure the devs of this game are writing what they know, which naturally is game development)
@@IronMan9771 Kale is the funniest one because his entire plan is to mind control people so he doesnt have to think up new products, when the mere premise of functional cybernetic enchacements will get him a river of money
Hes literally just a slacker who makes things easy things more complicated by trying to get shortcuts around it
Woolie couldn’t see the colors after they turned off the lights
so true, king
The shield was still glowing blue though, indicating that he should use Peppermint, lol
@@AstralMuffin105 Nah, lights killed him
Woolie really had a "what does it do in swordmaster?" moment towards the end there lol
Blue lady breaks blue shield. Green man breaks green shield. It don't gotta be more complicated than that.
Edit: Yes Reggie, it does matter what color it is. lol
Woolie Will Overthink It
@@The_Devil_Breaker_Woolie Will Figure It Out (Maybe) ((Eventually))
And the small robots there were yellow/orange. Not also green
During the cut, twitch chat was trying to tell him that it was color-coded but he was insisting that the Z-shields were RED, so the green macaron thing didn't make sense. Basically, he was focused on the red cracks there rather than the green armor.
@@DoctorHam Woolie Will Insist He's Not Wrong
Reggie seems like a very gentle and kind person, and that's a good thing, don't get me wrong, but sometimes Woolie needs somebody to yell how the game works at him xD
The same applies to Reggie. Watching him play the first Mass Effect without understanding basic mechanics after dozens of hours of playtime was torture.
It's not crunch, it's ✨Vandelay Magic✨™!
I swear, Woolie has to relearn how to play any game that isn't a fighting game every time he picks up a controller, and often DURING GAMEPLAY.
The decaf gag is my favorite throughout the entire game. I wonder if they'll remember the letter when it comes up again.
Definitely one of my favorite gags in the game. The decaf thing keeps getting brought up till the end of the game and it turns out it was a robot's last "f*k you" to the company that you may just not get if you miss the area with the message
Same! I was so pleasantly surprised when it was brought up in actual cutscenes, and became a game-long joke.
“There’s only Decaf” is my fave running joke in this game.
Understanding that "shields" would make one think of forcefields too, I'm genuinely surprised they didn't pick up the color coordination between Macron and Z shielded enemies, and Peppermint and Forcefield enemies.
I noticed he was the only person I've seen so far who didn't try using Peppermint to break the z-shielding. So he missed half of the tutorial of "different assists for different armors".
But yeah if after the first it doesn't work then you switch it up, especially when it's the same damn energy barrier all the other enemies had.
Also, PAT EXCLUSIVELY told Woolie so in the podcast “Guitar Nero” not too long ago. Woolie himself was like “eh, I don’t like that there’s color association”… only to forget color association here. Haaaaaa……
@@Riggs_The_Roadie he also when looking at the tutorial for mac breaking shielding thought that Peppermint OR Mac could destroy shielding out of nowhere.
The fact that you have to kill Zanzo...'s budget is a pretty fun twist.
5:41
This is the most important note in the game, remember this note.
This note has rippling consequences throughout the narrative
I am not joking
"Do you want everyone in this company dead?" a yes that only resonates as hard as Chai's lack of hesitation murdering Rekka
Legitimately.
Trust him. It's worth it later on.
i played the whole game and this is completely flying over my head
Since its clearly going to continue to happen throughout this LP.
Woolie, know we shit on you cause we love you! You're like our himbo brother when you aren't our wise uncle and that dichotomy is a big reason why we watch you.
Unless I'm mistaken it looks like they labeled everything for convenience. Cracked looking textures are for punching, blue shields are for shooting.
I love you guys with all my heart...but that shield segment was excruciatingly painful. I had to skip through it to avoid yelling at my computer screen lmao
Oh, I just realized what the joke is with the four mondays. If you do the four mondays in a row and proceed with the rest of the eight day week in order there’s no weekend. Brutal.
He will try to use the red assist on thosue z barriers in the future
Attack the corpo's where it hurts... their wallets.
And their coffee machines
The decaff prank got all the way through to Woolie and he lost concentration big time on that colour thing.
Woolie tries to use Mac to break barriers over and over again hurt but that's why we tune in.
I've said it before, but sometimes Woolie plays games completely fine, and other times he plays games like he's never touched a video-game before in his life.
Very nice of the editors to leave in the moment when woolie fucked up the door as opposed to just the one where he nailed it
Everybody here is stuck on 'Macaron green Peppermint blue' but he does get it by the end. I'm worried Woolie still doesn't fully understand the 'Stun Gauge'. Larger enemies with Stun Gauge can't be staggered or lifted until the gauge is 'broken'. The enemies themselves will still take damage, but Chai's attacks won't interrupt theirs. I believe fighting games refer to a similar effect as 'Super Armor'. So, until the Stun Gauge is depleted and broken, larger enemies have Super Armor.
That was actually one of his mistake points in that he internalised stun gauge early in the game as Armour, so getting introduced to Shielding thew him though a loop cause he through that stun and Shielding were the same or that one directly linked to the other.
Okay the whole color coordination thing wasn't as bad as I expected from when I read the comments, I thought he died like 3 or 4 times to that mistake
Yeah RUclips got it easy. The little cut at 38:34 was 6 minutes of twitch chat having to Re-explain the game mechanics of Stun, Shock, Barriers and Shielding for Woolie to function like someone who has played video games most of his life.
DarkSydeWoolie with that "Blue barriers can be destroyed by the green man who was introduced by breaking Z shields" and the complete misunderstanding of the word "shield"
It's literally color coded so you don't get confused or misunderstand what partner works against what.
Did he really say the orange SBR01 are green at 40:15 ? Is he actually legit color blind? WHAT IS HAPPENING
They DO have green on them. What are YOU talking about
@@The_Devil_Breaker_ They're literally orange and grey, where on their body are you seeing green???
@@lightsabreclasher IN THE VIDEO. ON THE TIMESTAMP YOU GAVE
Apparently Zanzo turning down the lights to take away Chai's advantage actually worked
@@The_Devil_Breaker_ The green tint is from the AR filter. They're the same basic mooks you've been fighting all game; they're only orange and grey
Woolie shooting a robot that may or may not have sentience: YEAH, FUCK YOU! THAT'S WHAT AM TALKING ABOUT!
Woolie: *explaining the difference between force shielding and armor in Mass Effect*
Also Woolie: *utterly baffled by the concept of different types of enemy protection*
Defect, with a hard T
The fact that the company knows Chai's name since level 2 and still call "it" the defect really drives home the dehumanization/ableism, glad Reggie picked up on it quick
4:07 Ok, that got a good laugh outta me XD
All of us who played Elden Ring experienced it!
Woolie vs Assumptions continues to be the most entertaining side-show on the channel
I guess it's the Barret comparisons but it's a funny character flaw that despite the plans, Macaron is very pro-corporation. His new friend + a bunch of people with disabilities are about to get mind controlled by the excecs and he's worried about the bonus
I don't think being worried about getting paid is being pro corporation.
If anything being pro corporation would be to go "understandable the corporation needs the money that would've gone towards my bonus, I can deal"
@@nahuel3433 It's still being on the side of corpo culture I mean, wanting only better people in charge, and not questioning why Zanzo is even allowed to do that. That's not even getting into the subject of Roquefort, but that's spoilers.
@@FaelumbreProject the game in general isn't against corporations as a concept.
It's against corporations being all about profit.
And that we should eat the managment if they step out of line.
@@FaelumbreProject Oh but for the main point. Having a corporate mindset is still not bbeing pro corpo. So i disagree that Macarone is. At least in its current shape. He definitely simps for what it used to be.
mac is seriously a mook. same goes for peppermint and chai to an extent, but let's just say the ending made me angry.
I can't wait for the coffee dialogue bline. See if they remember.
The color association makes sense, but I do wish they could have used different words besides shield and barrier because they are so similar. Maybe just call the barrier z-shielding? Thats what it is, after all. Or Z-Barrier. Just something to make it pop more in the attack/special descriptions.
z-shielding is called that because every time you see it there's a crack that makes a z pattern. oh, also because zanzo made it, i guess.
Call it z armor?
Hearing an English character say "rahwt" instead of "root" for "route" is the biggest giveaway.
Didn't Woolie say that the upgrade equipping system in this game is like the chip system from NieR: Automata? Sorry, but in what way? You just slot upgrades into slots, that's not really exclusive to Automata.
Guy who has only seen Boss Baby, watching his second movie: “I’m getting some real boss baby vibes”
Woolie can not let something stand alone it will always always be compared to something no matter how far he has to reach. Him and Pat are both like this.
The worst part watching these LPs is seeing what stuff you missed and cringing so hard at the FOMO.
everyones talking about the shields, but at 30:54 woolie is just standing on the solution to the platforming hes looking at. forgetting that this generator was something used in a previous level
Are… you talking about the fan used to pop out the platforms that they’re talking about? Cause Reggie’s right, that’s a Red assist point for NG+, not a generator you activate with rhythm prompts like in previous stages.
I do wonder if the fake chip is a magickarp like chip where it is usless until you max it out
Considering it seemed to only have the one level, no, it's just a troll.
Damn Woolie not to be mean but that was basic videogame theory, you had like 4 hours of Peppermint breaking shields for you.
Chai: all right
Woo:revenge of woo
Jesus.
I know I give Woolie a lot of shit for not understanding the most basic of game mechanics sometimes, but how did he seriously not understand that the blue girl destroys the blue shields and the green man destroys the green armour.
The game tutorializes you on it twice for each partner and you have multiple cutscenes where they pretty much directly rub your face in it, before forcing you to use it in gameplay.
I guess the fact that there's Shield (Guard Meter) Shields (Blue Bubble) and Z-Shielding (Walls/armour with red cracks) makes it a little unclear, but that only applies in text.
Visually and in gameplay, it could not be more clear.
Only the z shields are ever referred to as shield in text. The blue barriers are always "barriers". The red gauge is always a "stun gauge".
chat's just straight-up wrong here. the z-shielding IS white with red, and part of why this bit took so long is that chat kept saying it was about colors when that's only loosely true (it's true for peppermint and the other one). it's crazy to me that this comment section also has this weird belief that what's white is actually green.
All the enemies with Z-Shielding are green, which is what everyone is talking about. So if you seen a green enemy and can't hit it, it's Macaron time. It is color coded toward him in that sense, and choreographed pretty well. Though I dont blame Woolie for getting confused between the wording of barriers vs shields, and thinking maybe Macaron could break blue barriers as well. They tried it, saw he couldnt, and learned how it works. No big.
@@hyperventalated pretty sure the final boss isn't green. when you need to break that character's z-shielding, you look out for the attack bounce, the white armor, and the red cracks.
@@voyagerwitch You *also* need to use Mac against red-with-white-stripes. That doesn't negate that enemies with green coloring are Mac-vulnerable (and not, say, Peppermint-vulnerable), though.
@@cybergeek11235 maybe, but it's not what i would think of after only having one example, unclear language on the game's part, and not having tried peppermint on z-shields first to see that everyone has their own specialty. under those circumstances, the chat shouting about color coordination is just distracting and unhelpful.
@@voyagerwitch the final boss isn't green because he's the final boss. You know, the final challenge of your skills where they make things harder.
Woolie sitting in front of a powerbox at 30:10, and wondering whut do, causes me pain.
You mean the thing that is activated only by the assist he hasn't gotten yet?
Y'know I was about to give Woolie grief for the color coding stuff like everyone else but my tolerance is REALLY high after watching Maximilian play Metroid Prime.
Cool dude but man. His IQ is double digits.