Except it isn’t! There is so many other games he could’ve played. And there’s loads of things he skipped over in the past that I bet people will be loving to hear his opinion on. I kind of assumed the point of FR/ZO was the show games as art. And to give each one an honest end introspective review. I’m just confused why he played a game he evidently was turned against from the word go it just seems cynical. He doesn’t particularly like anime, doesn’t like JPG is a bit reductive when describing the characters and plot and kind of seems to have his sites set against the game from the word go. People are allowed their own opinion, of course! But this review felt mean spirited.
You know, I can't think of any examples of real intimacy in games comparable to that article's example of Poltergeist. The closest thing I can think of is Asgore and Toriel from Undertale, and they're already long broken up by the time of the game. (Also, they're goats.)
That is so perfect! These games flirt like mad, but never actually put out. there is grinding, or cooldown timers, or 3 types of currency you need to collect, or some other garbage keeping you from just enjoying the game.
@@PoorMuttski They'd probably be more successful if they actually did that, and weren't afraid of Fox News cultists attempting to give their studio the Charlie Hebdo treatment.
@@user-kh3jj4rx2v Good news, going by the anatomical defenition of horn, Rhino horn is no horn. It's just some densely glued together nose hair, I think you can make a living on that.
Okay but dressing up characters in identical towels and bathrobes sounds like an excellent artist challenge to rally up their silhouettes and personalities, honestly
The way Yahtzee describes this game is giving me flashbacks to "The Place That Sends You Mad" from The Twelve Tasks of Asterix. Basically, Asterix and Obelix have to retrieve a certain form from a bureaucratic liminal space and get constantly sent between departments by the mind-bending Roman bureaucratic system, and they only break out of it by turning the system against the people working there, sending the occupants mad for a change.
"Oh Captain!" she shouted breathily, her voice like the tinkling of a flute. "Have you been watching me in the bath again? Naughty!" She waved a finger at him, and her slender bosom heaved with maidenly ardour, threatening to escape from the kimono barely clinging to her damp alluring form.
And here I was hoping for a dating sim set on a Victorian era cruise ship where every route has you competing against a man implied to be the woman's half brother. You unlock the secret route via flirting with the man
Don't know if anyone needs to know this, but "Wuthering" can mean "characterized by strong winds" - which explains the "Wuthering Heights" title. Presumably, "Wuthering Waves" employ's Yahtzee's definition of the word.
A moment where you have to wait in a room for a few minutes while a character does something off-screen? That reminds me of that one time in Hunt Down the Freeman where some guy working for the Combine goes off to a meeting with Breen and tells you to wait in his office, at which point they actually make you wait in his office for severaly minutes with absolutely nothing to do.
@@stevethepocket And that's the important difference: It's a secret ending. Entirely optional. These two games force you to wait and do absolutely nothing to progress.
Makes me think about the Crab Rangoon scene in the beginning Far Cry 2 (I think). Except there actually waiting is the secret ending and rather cathartic. (You're supposed to not wait to play the game.)
"and Yahtzee's so starved for new releases he's playing sh*t like Wuthering Waves" The tones at the end just made it clear how Yahtzee already thinks about the game.
the problem with limbus company is that it's an interesting visual novel that's constantly interrupted by this weird combat thing where you fight the people you're talking to
@@incompetencelogistics8924 well, thats a problem from a certain perspective i suppose. i quite like the gameplay and also the story, and would def prefer to have both than to have only one. other likely will have differing opinions on it, yachtzee for instance is quite established as not liking visual novels, so maybe his opinion would be the opposite of yours
@@incompetencelogistics8924 Also finally a Gacha with difficulty based on mechanics; Rather than bosses being stat sticks, you beat by having bigger number. Their games just has shit explanation of the mechanics; I was stuck in 4-48 for the longest time, until I realized it's better to run with 4 good clashers to have more skill slots for good units, rather than bringing 7 units.
I think the representation of the anime babes as hot dogs with big eyes and stupid hairdos may be the best visual metaphor I've ever seen for that kind of character. Slight cosmetic variations and notionally different personalities, but ultimately functionally identical, mass-produced junk to be consumed without thinking.
It's a good metaphor - there's nothing wrong with wanting hotdogs now and then, even genuinely enjoying them, but there's no pretending they're something they aren't. It's like buying the cheap store brand peanut butter not because you have to, but because you grew up with it and it reminds you of something comfortable and familiar. Only with brightly colored hair and enormous tits. :)
They aren’t identical lmao they are better then most western trash too Crazy how anime games are the only games that drop that are actually decent aside from indies
@@Harshworld100as someone who really enjoys Honkai, Genshin, and Wuthering I think he was pretty on point here but at the same time these games are everything he hates about the industry
I guess he had to do it at some point. Can you truly trust a reviewer who hasn't at least tried all the popular game genres? No, you can't and now that he has done a proper gacha review he has once again improved as a game critic.
I'd think so. In his DDLC review, he admitted that Sayori's suicide got to him a bit, before the ensuing rather overdone creepypasta started losing him again.
I always wonder "have gatcha players never heard of DeviantArt or Newgrounds?" Gambling for anime jugs just seems like fapping with extra steps and if the interactivity is important then there's better options that are actually games like Kobold Kare or Princess and Conquest.
@@PlebNC My suggestion has always been buying anime girl figures from obvious bootleggers to scratch the apparent anime titty gambling itch. You'll get shit casts, or nothing will arrive at all, or just lower quality over all, but every now and then you'll score it big, and you'll have a physical object at the end of the day instead of a jpg in a server that will inevitably be shut down one day.
@@PlebNC Honestly the problem isn't really the gambling for anime tits. It's the fact that this shit costs an insane amount of money. A single 5 star character could cost you a minimum of 200$. (Technically a minimum of whatever it takes for 1 single pull, but obviously you'd have to be lucky) To make this 5 star character even stronger, you need 6 more copies. That's a whole 1200$ for more power for your pixels. And that's not including everything else you could spend on or more characters. I'm enjoying the fuck out of the game though. There's enough stuff to do as a f2p player that you can hop in and hop out and just leave it at that.
@@TheAwkwardGuy Every now and again I think "y'know, i've put a decent amount of time into Genshin and the story is interesting enough, maybe i'll spend some money, upgrade my characters", only to remember that I could literally go buy Bloodborne and a PS4 to play Bloodborne, and it'd still be cheaper than a single Constellation.
i mean it isn't? There is so little similar to genshit that its crazy you even compare it. Also what an insult genshit is a horrible, badly written, badly managed game.
@@GikamesShadow eh, on second thought it was probably less trying to avoid unfavorable comparisons and more just to try and dissuade people from going all “genshin killer” about it which unfortunately didn’t stop people. I can’t exactly blame Yahtzee from misinterpreting it, after all he’s about as far away from the intended audience as one could possibly be, and has absolutely no idea what’s going on in the gacha game space XD
@@Xaveze Honestly his interpretation of the game was clear he wanted to make the video more satirical than factual. Because he doesn't mention the men audibly and ignores the plot points that involved them. Which is fine. Because tbh i never expected Yahtz to like a gacha game, let alone one that will give him PTSD of genshit. Either way the video was very entertaining.
"Then she turns around and walks out with her bum bouncing like two fat bulldogs arguing over a ham sandwich." You know Yahtz. I've been watching you for a loooooooong time now. Like. Fuck well over a decade. We've both moved countries since we've started this complete non relationship. Hell I moved countries twice. We've both gotten married. You've gotten a small dog. I got three large dogs. We've changed a lot over the last decade and a bloody half. And every now and then, I'll admit, I doubt you, just a little. Wondering if you've maybe lost your touch just a bit. If, for whatever reason I'm finding you slightly less funny than I used to. Then you drop something like this completely straight faced and I nearly crack a rib and my faith is restored. Keep up the good work mate.
Of interesting note, in the earlier betas the girls who meet you at the beginning were more skeptical of you, thought you were possibly an enemy and stuff, and apparently the early testers just hated it so much it was replaced with them being your simpering biggest fans from the moment you met them. ... So apparently the vapid blandness of the opening interactions is what "the people" want. A story where your character has some interpersonal tensions with people they've met to overcome, and gets thrashed by an early boss so they have to find their footing and such? Nah, nah nah nah, start out as an unstoppable super hero who everyone loves, generic power fantasy is the only taste people want -_-
If there's one thing I've learned during my years in Gacha Hell, it's that Chinese gamers, more specifically the ones who play gacha games, are the whiniest demographic on the face of the Earth.
Truly, the drought must be droughty. Did not expect Yatz to cover this. However, to explain the appeal: Numbers go up make dopamine go wee! Numbers go up for HAGs (which is an amusing acronym for Hot Anime Girls) make dopamine *and* little Stormy Jr. go wee!
Honestly, it beats me every year. The entirety of videogame industry is like "Hm-m-m, it's summer, kids are free from school and adults are more likely to take a vacation... oh, I know! Let's NOT release any gоddаmn videogames until September!"
It’s incredible how there’s so many visually appealing hot anime girl games yet every porn game on Steam is a loving tribute to the Uncanny Valley. They put this much effort into not showing nudity when they could just be honest and make a game where you do sex stuff that doesn’t look like Pivot animations starring photorealistic stickmen.
Societal stigmas are weird. "You can be as titillating as you want as long as you never show nipples" is so weird and hypocritical -- and it causes people who DO show nipples to immediately be exiled from polite company. And that's why genuine cornography doesn't get to have a budget. I was hoping Game of Thrones might be able to shake up the society a little, but we've still got a long way to go
Unfortunately a lot of that comes down to lazy devs cashing in on the coomer market(understandable considering that the developer of the highly divisive Summertime Saga makes about 60k a MONTH on Patreon), but it turns out art is hard and free asset packs for naked goblins on the Daz3D marketplace are easy. On rare occasion a game will come out in that sector that's high effort, well drawn or well modeled, and either tells an interesting story or is mechanically sound, and it gets three purchases and one refund because it's not cheap, trend-chasing slop being pumped out en masse. It's honestly a shame because a visual novel I thoroughly love gets roundly ignored in broader circles because of these issues, but on the other hand I'd rather the dev stick to their guns and keep pumping out a frankly bonkers story that managed to make me laugh, cry, and confront the dark heart of familial bonds in the stretch of about three hours.
@@PikaPenny17 It's called Out of Touch. Still not finished, about halfway there per the dev, but it gets very regular updates, manages a lot of charm with Koikatsu models, and has a pretty great OST if you vibe with vaporwave.
Mostly agree, though I don't think the point about spending money is the games fault entirely since it has the option for F2P. I see it more as a lack of self control of the person playing gacha games, if they know they have a problem; there are other games that are less tempting or one time purchase. I think the average gamer spends more on other games also, than how much people meme players for gacha. Like, I've played gacha for years at this point and not spent nearly as much as I have on MMRPGs in the past. For the last half year, I've been entirely F2P due to work paying me less. I've not missed out on any content, since it is free, and can still play with friends. Compared to something like when I played WoW/FFXIV - not only was the sub required to play, you had to buy each expansion separately at a ridiculous price, plus any overpriced mounts/pets/mogs. I would spend around $240-$300 a year minimum just to play with friends. In the other - gacha for me has been around that much ACROSS 4 years of playing, comparatively. I could also choose when to pay & the pricing is either comparable or less than MMRPGs. It just kinda bugs me that people rag on some gacha aspects after only seeing what whales spend, but then don't look at how other games milk as much money if not more from their average player base and no one bats an eye, let alone, that whales in those spaces spend ridiculous amount on figurines, etc. too. From just the money aspect, it feels.. disingenuous or misleading. Having been on both sides, I think that is what bothers me a little bit.
Seriously. They trash on gacha so much and then buy battle pass in valorant every month or buy skins in mobas or league. It might be hard to believe, but vast majority of gacha players probably spend like...50-100$ max on a single gacha game per year. Which is really not that crazy since gachas are live service and go on and on until you get bored, vs a single 100 hour game you pay for 60$ or something
I don’t like the predatory nature of the games, but I’m also getting a bit annoyed with disingenuous takes on games like Genshin. I’ve put more hours into it than any other game in the last decade, and still enjoy my time. I’ve spent over the 3.5 years I’ve been playing, probably 300-400 dollars. Mostly welkin, sometimes the pass. A few crystal packs. I’ve also put 1000+ enjoyable hours into it. I have bought 60 dollar games that have given me 20 hours. I don’t think price is the only metric for looking at a game, but I think it can say something about a gacha’s quality. I’ve been patient, I have nearly everything I want. Honestly, I think being a whale would trivialize too much. Also, unlike shit mobile games, you can do every genshin event the last day and get all of the rewards. There is no extra currency there to buy either. My biggest complaint is I wish they would rerun these events. Because unlike other shitty gachas, genshin doesn’t sell those past event weapons. But let’s take a game I also play, Destiny. That game is 100 a year for everything. If not buying that pack, it is pieced out even more greedily. Every event has a card they want you to buy. Every armor set is 20-30 dollars. Transmog costs money after a bit (especially painful to new players). The free things are barely a taste. That game makes me want to reach for my wallet more than Genshin, which is wild. Also it has been a technical mess the last year and a half. My dailies and such can take forever to complete. Genshin takes 5 min. Genshin doesn’t put a ton of “buy this banners” in my face when I boot up, Destiny sure does. Destiny is not f2p In reality, with patience, you can 99% of what Genshin offers purely free. If you try and like it, I’d suggest the 5 a month for Welkin. It’s a good comfort game that doesn’t demand all of your time. Don’t do it if you have a problem gambling.
The vast majority of your points are completely valid, I'm not gonna contest them since honestly no point as you are correct. I do want to point out that having now played the Genshins and StarRails, I am extremely disappointed to say, they do (occasionally) actually have far better story and writing than any other game I've played lately, even the ones who claim to care about writing. Despite having my eyes roll around in my skull at all the painful fan service and stupidity, they still manage to produce actually moving and engaging stories not infrequently. Which is still way more often than I get from most games these days. No joke, several quest in Genshin and Star Rail (Not Wuthering Waves), have made me literally cry, in real life, tears from my face. Some quests are tragic, or beautiful, or just moving. Star Rail especially frequently makes me laugh and cheers me up, it's writing is often very Disco Elysium-esque. I interacted with a trashcan that had fallen over next to another trashcan and was treated to a tragic story of a trashcan passing before their time and the trash they left behind. These are things I value very highly when I spend time engaging in a vidyagame. So much wants to emotionally deaden us these days, I like to celebrate the things that don't. Obviously some gold emerges from other studios, usually studios named Supergiant Games. I love those when they do happen. Mostly wanted to make this post for people who genuinely wonder *why* some of these games do well, this is the reason for me. Not trying to convert anyone or anything, just provide a opinion for the curious. The other reason is the demonic monitization but that is pretty well known about. If anything I am actively disappointed that this is the state of things.
Oh, certainly. I have been playing Genshin, and off the top of my head, I got quite weepy during the Thelxie event with Freminet. I cried. It was quite touching. Problem is, there's a story with a lot to chew on, and characters who can be quite engaging, but a game like Genshin doesn't seem allowed to treat them right. Whole lore-heavy events passed long before I picked the game up. Entire characters and their stories are unavailable to me in-game because they just haven't had a banner since I started playing. Sure, I could read the wiki, or watch uploaded videos of past events, but the point to playing a game myself is to experience them myself, in my time and at my pace. Even ignoring how the plot has to go glacially slow so the game can last for years, or the characters not being able to grow into the power I'm supposed to believe they 1) had and 2) are regaining, so much of the game has to spin its wheels or put its toys back in the cupboard. Where's another in-game chapter on Klee, for instance? Nowhere; here's a chapter on Chlorinde this patch, and one coming up on a nurse in about a week maybe. You want another chapter about Albedo or something? Can't have it, we need a new character, not an old one. Frankly, I'm surprised Cyno got a chapter 2 at all, I thought they would only do that for archons, and not even all archons. I enjoy the story we get, but that feels more like passionate creatives managed to sneak some goodies out to us, rather than the goodies being the point. The fun characters or neat considerations make me sad, because all the stuff I enjoy is being held in the grasp of a monster that wants my credit card information.
I'd give it props, maybe even a chance, if it wasn't a Gacha game. The fact that a good story is trapped in a game with such a horrible form of monetization is stupid, no amount of good story will make me play a Pachinko machine.
@@danielschallert1738 Honestly these are all very valid points that I myself have felt and agree with. Guess I'm just at the "I'll take what I can get" stage right now. I actually especially agree with it feeling like some good writers get to sneak great stories in statement, I've noticed that too. edit- I will say Star Rail is... sort of better about this? I mean they aren't but the entire concept of star rail is built on the concept of what it is to be on a journey, and have people come into and out of your life while leaving huge impacts on you long after they are gone. As such, it works better, even if the fault is the exact same. edit2- Honestly I feel a bit bad because I feel like my response comes off as dismissive and it is not meant to, you just wrote a well argued comment so there isn't much I can actually say in response! I do actually really appreciate it though, I did not expect that and you have given my faith in humanity a boost. @jwithextrajj Yeah that is entirely fair and honestly the right choice. I guess my only small defense I can have of me playing is I'm not feeding money into the hate machine, though I do know just playing it is a small contribution itself. I guess I view it as taking as much as they are this way.
@@jwithextrajj Honestly it really isnt' that bad...if we're talking about Genshin. The FOMO in this game is not too strong because most of the 5* (the legendaries) are often worse than the best 4* (the common characters). Of course there are some really good 5* but they're few and realistically obtainable. And the game is not so hard that you're locked behind the paywall in some challenges. So you can definitely play Genshin without spending and have fun. Only for Genshin though (maybe Star Rail too?). Now the whole gacha greediness is true for the other games. I think FGO is the worst out of them.
Rule #1 of Promoting Your Game: NEVER compare it to other similar games! That'll just lead your potential audience to your competitors or worse, spiritual predecessor.
Mostly I was just hoping he'd comment how wuwa also has a grappling hook, but considering it has a massive budget and a legion of people working on it (by comparison). The grappling hook is objectively worse and less satisfying than the one in CRABS
To answer Yatzees question: I think those games is to give the porn you search later some context / attachment to the characters by the sheer amount of time you spend with them during gameplay
That and you’re more likely to spend hundreds of dollars going through gatcha banners trying to get the one special big boobed porcelain doll you want.
For the overly sensitive people who somehow got mad at his _Selaco_ review last week, *this* is the type of review Yahtzee makes when he *actually* dislikes a game.
Yahtzee's remark "they say it's not Genshin Impact - meaning it is EXACTLY Genshin Impact" is WAY more correct than he even knows. Speaking as someone who has put a considerable amount of time in Genshin (I love gambling), Wuthering Waves is like if someone took Genshin, handed it out to all the interns at the office, and said "Can you make this again but technically legally distinct?" It wants to be the successor, the usurper of the "Shitty Gacha Anime Game" title, but somehow manages to be SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE despite copying it beat-for-beat in literally every category. This is not an exaggeration; the menus, the buttons in the menus, icons, in-game currencies, and even all the little UI elements are BLATANTLY lifted straight from Genshin for literally no reason other than to copy. Seriously, look up a comparison - it's like you downloaded a PNG of Genshin's menus and used the bucket fill tool in Photoshop to change the colors. It doesn't help that the game markets itself in advertisements on social media as "Genshin but better" - cooler traversal, better combat, more mechanics, etc. Its entire identity is specifically crafted to compare itself to Genshin and somehow it still manages to lose. Don't even get me started on the story - they started posting job offers for writers literally the day after the game went live. That should tell you all you need to know.
You know, I'm pretty sure that's a similar story to Demon's Souls being functionally rebranded Dark Souls... And then Elden Ring, really. Same basic skeleton, reused with a new set of skin. Primary difference seems to be that Fromsoft improved with each outing. Well, that, and I assume Genshin and Wuthering are made by different people.
That is the inherent problem of anything trying to be a Genshin killer. For all the rip off accusations you can make for Genshin, it was copying other games, for gameplay, and marketed itself as a game first and foremost. It tried to compete in a market with full price open world and action games, and saw great success. Wuwa tries to compete in the space occupied specifically by Genshin and ToF, for some reason.
@@Umbra_Ursus This is a Chinese game so these practices are not at all surprising. Genshin Impact took the gacha world by storm and to the average Chinese tech company, all they do is just "copy that". There are like 3 other gacha games that use Genshin's assets.
@@fieryrebirth Can't really say those practices are just them. Correct me if I'm wrong, weren't there periods where everyone wanted to copy Doom, or Half-Life, or Halo, or GTA? Pretty sure Genshin Impact is just the newest leader to follow.
My crackhead theory for all the sexy characters in otherwise normal games is that they inspire a lot of fan art, which acts as free promotion without having to officially publish objectionable material
It's also just the art style it uses is extremely common in AI and not common for these videos. I was watching at 1.75x and it still popped off the screen for me screaming "AI."
The whale at the end is also suspicious You'd think a series well known for using royalty free stock assets and such a minimalistic artstyle wouldn't need to stoop that low. I am so dissapointed. I vowed to block and ignore every creator that uses AI in any capacity... but I don't know if I have the will to do what I must.
@@formorian5 im not sure if i'd say "royalty free stock assets" and more like "clipped pngs from google" and with how much ai slop exists, accidentally grabbing a piece of AI "art" from google is very possible. i doubt he generated it himself even if it does suck that its there
@@formorian5 What's with the personal vendetta over the use of AI in THIS scenario? Did him using an AI image (or if he generated it) somehow hurt anything or anyone? Genuine question here.
Yahtzee is me, apparently. I've never gotten the whole "ecchi tease" thing that everyone seems obsessed with. Like if I want porn, I go get some porn and then I go back to just looking at people as people. I never got the appeal of living your entire life in porn mode where all non-porn must contain a bikini babe lest your brain perceive reality for longer than thirty seconds.
Honestly, that sounds like torture to me. Don't get me wrong, I like to launch the rocket myself on occasion, but forming the environment to be constantly stimulated by things even as mundane as a mousepad? Insane. A man has got to have some time away from porn mode, or the brain will start to rot.
There are two separate issues here: first there's trying to turn everything into sexually stimulating material, which I dislike as well (hate when supposedly "serious" art is overly sexualised) but then the other thing is softcore porn / erotica vs hardcore porn. Like, I myself like looking at beautiful sexy people (softcore), but generally don't care as much about watching people fuck (hardcore). The tease is the porn, to me.
I mean I consume everything around the romance usually. But for this game it was written like a generic power fantasy and one of the big features everyone celebrated about this game was the skip button.
@@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5 Anime, Quintessential Quintuplets. You can only tell them apart if you truly love them. Or stare at their asses long enough.
@@jack_reaver Normalization of AI images of any kind should not be tolerated or accepted. Even outside of obvious reasons, they're still legally dubious at best and until the courts come out with official rulings on them he's putting the whole channel at risk by using them.
I fundamentally don't understand this game...I have played Bayonetta and Breath of the Wild, and other similar games which have mechanics borrowed by WuWa and Genshin Impact but far worse because it's designed to meter out the fun and progression to keep you playing every day. The only reason I can think to play WuWa and Genshin impact is because your friends play it, or you have a gambling problem, or you like anime girls too much. Because the story is ass too.
We never got a genshin ZP, I assume because someone on the same channel covered it already and said it was really good, but I'll take this as the next best thing, most of the points he made apply to both games.
My thoughts maybe this just isn’t for you. Because evidently some people find this kind of game enjoyable. And as somebody who likes Genshin impact but has yet to try this game, I’m wondering if you’re being a bit reductive when describing the characters. Genshin got the same criticism. But I found it characters to be interesting and it’s plot to have an actual core theme. Like criticising the separation of church and estate and asking what makes a justice system truly fair in a world with instant access to information. My point is, maybe considering you’ve said in the past that you don’t particularly like over the complicated RPG and have expressed that you’re not into anime, why are you playing this? You say you starved for games but there’s 100 things I’ve skipped over that I bet people would be interested in hearing your opinion on. Deliberately reviewing something that you probably won’t like anyway seems contrary to your own philosophy of treating games as the art pieces they so often are not given the chance to be. PS, I’m Polish so apologies for the spelling .
@@raksjaja going to be honest, I didn’t really understand what you were saying. I thought you were being sarcastic. But fair enough I think that’s just a language issue. Again, as I said, I’m Polish so some English goes over my head . ✌️
Maybe he's going through that with his kids. Or maybe he doesn't consider if different enough from the GameCube original to warrant a followup since he gave that one a retro review back in ZP.
@@StevenUlyssesPerhero it really isn't. It's great but it's the same general game with a new coat of paint, a couple mechanical changes to make you not Power Bounce literally all the time and maybe make you willingly use the bonus partner, and a couple bonus bosses for the people who are old enough to realize how easy it is to snap the game over your knee after all these years.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices how absolutely random this anime clothing is, like the clothing has to be a character itself and needs 16x the detail of everything else, covered in random tibits of completely useless shit like "hey, I'm gonna put a ribbon in my arm, wear asymmetrical socks, have 3 hair clips all on the same side, wear an elbow pad specifically on only one of them and my beanie will look line a neapolitan ice cream".
That kind of random-ass fashion sense has been around in animu style games for quite a while now. As an example: Guilty Gear's fashion throughout its existence is something to behold, though there's some charm and consistency with the themes each character has, the rummage sale rejects they are. It reminds me of Kingdom Hearts attire choices: why the crap is Donald Duck's hat made of friggin' zippers? What's with all the belts on everyone and why does one have eight all over?! Nomura, what is up with your costume design?
4:27 okay but why use AI "art"?? I love this channel, but surely the whole point of it was being pro creatives, right? Art theft is kinda the opposite of that and that's all AIGI really is...
Good punchline, but no joke one of those squeezable mouse pads was just the right sort of support my wrist needed after I was in a boating accident. I was able to play games at my computer instead of just sitting there staring at the ceiling. So, what I'm getting at is the best place for an injured wrist is between a nice pair of breasts.
Jesus, the sausage image on the left at 4:26 is so AI generated that I find it hard to believe a modern model made it. Seems like the kind of AI generated image that a model from late 2022 would spit out.
To the replies on this comment: oh no! They didn't pay for (or outright steal) stock images for the purposefully low effort presentation of this video! How will those starving artists ever survive!?
It's so darkly amusing to me that the biggest selling point Kuro games possibly had to appeal to Yatzee was the story, which they eviscerated after the CN player base threatened to have them and their families sent to the gullag by the secret police, because the girls were too mran to them and it made their ePEENs feel small and the unsettling 'furry' (who was intended to be slightly uncanny) was too scary and rude.
@@somebonehead if i read the situation right based on reddit comments (take this with the biggest grains of salt) Basicly in the beta story, the 2 HAGs you meet at the start of the game weren't as supportive of you as right now (saw some screenshots of the red head cheery girl pointing a gun at mc), CN criticized the story, now whether it was because they were big wusses or maybe the story was being a bit too much mean to you, as in it broke immersion, that's for you to decide. anyways, WuWa devs after seeing the criticisms decided to do a complete 180 and have the HAGs be VERY nice to you, leading tot he story we have now.
@@blahblahgamer827 The world in the beta was basically openly hostile to you for no real reason with none of the characters appreciating any of the things the MC did, and a character (who I think was removed from the game) basically killsteals a boss, gets all of the credit, and then asks why you were even there. The actual criticism was that everyone was so hostile that it made the players not want to help them and was, as you said, that it broke immersion. It was on Kuro to change it to what we have now.
Were the couple machine-generated images some too-subtle joke? I enjoy the whimsy of this series' use of stock cutouts and having those weird distorted images kind of takes away from that whimsy.
Oh, so Wuthering Heights is like bracing tundra or a shocking expanse or jarring cliffs. Barring a natural disaster the terrain can't literally hold or electrocute or shake you, but it produces an emotional reaction you describe in those terms.
seeing yachtzee making a gacha game review makes me wonder how a Limbus Company review would go like. it's very much a gacha game but lacks many of the common tropes and issues with them (not that its perfect or exempt from critisism, just that the common pitfalls and critiques dont really apply) i doubt it will happen tho, it released last year and i dont think yachtzee will go back for something like that, not old enough to be a retro review and not culturally relevant enough to demand a late review
In an alternate timeline, a more meat-headed Croshaw adopts the name "Yachtzee" and makes videos where he over-reacts to video games and gaming news, eventually becoming a suck-up influencer.
Never expected you to review this, but I also never expected to randomly try it out for myself about a week ago. And while I have some fondness for the aesthetic and some patience for a bit of early game tedium, it really felt like quitting early while I was bored would be the winning move, rather than quitting 20+ hours in while I was bored.
its def AI, but the question of whether *he* used AI for it is not as clear, im thinking no. mostly because the vast majority of PNG cutouts are obviously not made by him, so why would he specifically make a hotdog stand. its more likely he just got it from google and thought smth like "good enough" or didnt notice
The drought season must have been so bad this year
its of biblical proportion
Even if Fallen Aces just came out and everyone’s sleeping on it
Actually, quite a lot of stuff came out. But he covered it in Yahtzee tries sooooo idk
It REALLY is. I don't even like dark souls/elden ring and I'm actually super excited for the DLC tomorrow because it's SOMETHING.
Except it isn’t! There is so many other games he could’ve played. And there’s loads of things he skipped over in the past that I bet people will be loving to hear his opinion on.
I kind of assumed the point of FR/ZO was the show games as art. And to give each one an honest end introspective review.
I’m just confused why he played a game he evidently was turned against from the word go it just seems cynical.
He doesn’t particularly like anime, doesn’t like JPG is a bit reductive when describing the characters and plot and kind of seems to have his sites set against the game from the word go.
People are allowed their own opinion, of course!
But this review felt mean spirited.
"Everyone Is Hot but No One Is Horny" as applied to video games
You know, I can't think of any examples of real intimacy in games comparable to that article's example of Poltergeist. The closest thing I can think of is Asgore and Toriel from Undertale, and they're already long broken up by the time of the game. (Also, they're goats.)
We need the french cartoons of video games
That is so perfect! These games flirt like mad, but never actually put out. there is grinding, or cooldown timers, or 3 types of currency you need to collect, or some other garbage keeping you from just enjoying the game.
@@PoorMuttski They'd probably be more successful if they actually did that, and weren't afraid of Fox News cultists attempting to give their studio the Charlie Hebdo treatment.
It’s perfect for boys who like the big titties but are absolutely terrified of real world intimacy.
'Man cannot live on horn alone' - Yahtzee, a few years back
I seem to recall him retracting that statement in the very same video, as the alternative was knockoff silent hill sequels...
@@user-kh3jj4rx2v Good news, going by the anatomical defenition of horn, Rhino horn is no horn. It's just some densely glued together nose hair, I think you can make a living on that.
Okay but dressing up characters in identical towels and bathrobes sounds like an excellent artist challenge to rally up their silhouettes and personalities, honestly
he got WAY further in the game than I ever expected him to
He's a professional
Father means dad, further or farther is what you mean.
I know correcting spelling and grammar is so 2008 but sue me.
*farther
Sorry
ikr, he got past the login screen
It gets more tedious afterwards. I doubt he progressed any further than the freakin mcguffin part.
Oh god, the mention of that "one email you don't use except to sacrifice to the gods of spam and phishing scams"...SO. DAMN. TRUE...
"It's not Genshin Impact"
WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO
Yes its not because its leagues better than that trash
@@jlev1028 That's a paddlin'.
Great movie
@@YOUHUOUGGHHH Better gameplay wise, yes, but the story, technical competence, and a lot else is worse
Don't you mean WUWA WUWA WUWA
The way Yahtzee describes this game is giving me flashbacks to "The Place That Sends You Mad" from The Twelve Tasks of Asterix. Basically, Asterix and Obelix have to retrieve a certain form from a bureaucratic liminal space and get constantly sent between departments by the mind-bending Roman bureaucratic system, and they only break out of it by turning the system against the people working there, sending the occupants mad for a change.
SHE BREASTED BOOBILY TOWARDS TEH STAIRS AND TITTED DOWNWARDS!
Look sometimes bras get very sweaty and you do things boobily for a bit, it's perfectly normal.
"She was slenderly voluptuous as she billowed like a curvaceous sylph across the deck towards Captain Isekai."
"Oh Captain!" she shouted breathily, her voice like the tinkling of a flute. "Have you been watching me in the bath again? Naughty!" She waved a finger at him, and her slender bosom heaved with maidenly ardour, threatening to escape from the kimono barely clinging to her damp alluring form.
@@KeithFraser82reddit humor
The horse joke made me say "Jesus fucking Christ" out loud
That’s gotta be in his top 10 gnarliest analogies lmao
I cackled.
"P...please not like this" broke me fundamentally
Yeah I don't usually get surprised by Yathz anymore but jesus fucking christ
I thought "One whole horse? Those are rookie numbers."
2:06 Ah yes, your rainbow dash in a jar is very impressive, now watch this!
No stop 😂
why did you have to bring thus up??? WHYY?????
And here I was hoping for a dating sim set on a Victorian era cruise ship where every route has you competing against a man implied to be the woman's half brother.
You unlock the secret route via flirting with the man
Don't forget to try the special Python Mode where all the dialogue is in semaphore!
Ah, Chinese anime. Yahtzee's oldest nemesis...
More like frenemy at this point
Well it that 2000s critic in him
Friends tô lovers in The omegaverse
@@AbdiHassan-jq2ln just like in all my favorite Anime
Spunkgargleweewee was earlier, I believe.
That goddamn horse joke.
Seemed pretty Reasonable if you ask me
How many equivalent horses did you bury in your lifetime lads
Joke?
not the jar 😩
Don't know if anyone needs to know this, but "Wuthering" can mean "characterized by strong winds" - which explains the "Wuthering Heights" title. Presumably, "Wuthering Waves" employ's Yahtzee's definition of the word.
I am currently resisting the urge to make a Limbus Company reference and failing to do so.
Does it mean Waving Waves then ? Inspired.
@@sciencey2858I am one of the 13,000 project moon fans summoned to your location. Prepare accordingly
the game terminology and lore revolves a lot around sound, vibration, resonance etc. So the title makes sense.
I discovered this recently while reading The Secret Garden, the maid character teaches Mary what it means.
A moment where you have to wait in a room for a few minutes while a character does something off-screen?
That reminds me of that one time in Hunt Down the Freeman where some guy working for the Combine goes off to a meeting with Breen and tells you to wait in his office,
at which point they actually make you wait in his office for severaly minutes with absolutely nothing to do.
@@stevethepocket And that's the important difference: It's a secret ending. Entirely optional. These two games force you to wait and do absolutely nothing to progress.
Makes me think about the Crab Rangoon scene in the beginning Far Cry 2 (I think). Except there actually waiting is the secret ending and rather cathartic. (You're supposed to not wait to play the game.)
@@pieterfaes6263 It was Far Cry 4. Ironically, that's the best ending you can get.
“Waifucentricity” is a great word that I will be inserting into my conversations. Thank you for that
It was appropriate on several levels that the advert I got with this video was a Domino's advert headlined "The Ultimate Spicy Sausage".
Omg the absolute irony 😂
The "Not like this!" caught me mid-inhalation and nearly caused me to choke 😂
"and Yahtzee's so starved for new releases he's playing sh*t like Wuthering Waves"
The tones at the end just made it clear how Yahtzee already thinks about the game.
I mean we all knew that before the video even started.
This was just catharsis for Yahtzee. He went in knowing this game was going to be filled with garbage to make jokes about.
Seeing that thumbnail is like coming home and seeing blood dripping from the fridge door.
Him talking about a gacha game and briefly referencing Wuthering Heights is probably the closest we'll get him to do Limbus Company.
the problem with limbus company is that it's an interesting visual novel that's constantly interrupted by this weird combat thing where you fight the people you're talking to
@@incompetencelogistics8924 well, thats a problem from a certain perspective i suppose. i quite like the gameplay and also the story, and would def prefer to have both than to have only one.
other likely will have differing opinions on it, yachtzee for instance is quite established as not liking visual novels, so maybe his opinion would be the opposite of yours
@@incompetencelogistics8924 Also finally a Gacha with difficulty based on mechanics; Rather than bosses being stat sticks, you beat by having bigger number.
Their games just has shit explanation of the mechanics; I was stuck in 4-48 for the longest time, until I realized it's better to run with 4 good clashers to have more skill slots for good units, rather than bringing 7 units.
God I wish I feel like Yahtzee would have a begrudging enjoyment of limbus
project moon mentioned
o7 glory to project moon
I think the representation of the anime babes as hot dogs with big eyes and stupid hairdos may be the best visual metaphor I've ever seen for that kind of character.
Slight cosmetic variations and notionally different personalities, but ultimately functionally identical, mass-produced junk to be consumed without thinking.
It's a good metaphor - there's nothing wrong with wanting hotdogs now and then, even genuinely enjoying them, but there's no pretending they're something they aren't.
It's like buying the cheap store brand peanut butter not because you have to, but because you grew up with it and it reminds you of something comfortable and familiar. Only with brightly colored hair and enormous tits. :)
And with a similar effect on horse well-being.
Yeah, Genshin has a lot of problems, but character design is one of its greatest strengths, because it's the complete opposite of that.
They aren’t identical lmao they are better then most western trash too
Crazy how anime games are the only games that drop that are actually decent aside from indies
You’re just a xenophobe
Wuthering Waves before Genshin Impact is so funny
Yahtzee is reviewing a Gatcha game?
The summer drought must be really bad this year
@@Harshworld100as someone who really enjoys Honkai, Genshin, and Wuthering I think he was pretty on point here but at the same time these games are everything he hates about the industry
Wouldn't call it "reviewing" as much as "taking a giant steaming dump on"
You must be new to Yahtzee's videos
I guess he had to do it at some point. Can you truly trust a reviewer who hasn't at least tried all the popular game genres? No, you can't and now that he has done a proper gacha review he has once again improved as a game critic.
5:05 the face that will pop into my brain whenever i do something dumb
Let’s make that a meme: “live Yahtzee reaction”
To be fair the scientist wasn't a hot anime babe but a hot anime dude
5:27 Is... is that a DDLC Monika mousemat he's holding? I wonder if Yahtzee remembers that...
Nah, it's...
JUST MONIKA
@@KernelLeakSo then it's Monika geez
@@BJGvideos Tell us that you haven't played Doki Doki Literature Club without saying that you haven't played DDLC...
I'd think so. In his DDLC review, he admitted that Sayori's suicide got to him a bit, before the ensuing rather overdone creepypasta started losing him again.
@@KernelLeak "Just Monika" is Monika. They're not different people.
They call them gacha games because when you empty your savings account only to not get the waifu you wanted the say "haha, gotcha!"
I always wonder "have gatcha players never heard of DeviantArt or Newgrounds?"
Gambling for anime jugs just seems like fapping with extra steps and if the interactivity is important then there's better options that are actually games like Kobold Kare or Princess and Conquest.
@@PlebNC My suggestion has always been buying anime girl figures from obvious bootleggers to scratch the apparent anime titty gambling itch. You'll get shit casts, or nothing will arrive at all, or just lower quality over all, but every now and then you'll score it big, and you'll have a physical object at the end of the day instead of a jpg in a server that will inevitably be shut down one day.
@@PlebNC Honestly the problem isn't really the gambling for anime tits. It's the fact that this shit costs an insane amount of money.
A single 5 star character could cost you a minimum of 200$. (Technically a minimum of whatever it takes for 1 single pull, but obviously you'd have to be lucky)
To make this 5 star character even stronger, you need 6 more copies.
That's a whole 1200$ for more power for your pixels.
And that's not including everything else you could spend on or more characters.
I'm enjoying the fuck out of the game though. There's enough stuff to do as a f2p player that you can hop in and hop out and just leave it at that.
@@PlebNC it's not for fapping, it's the Skinner boxes, just like when ppl gets a purple or gold in live service grindathorn.
@@TheAwkwardGuy Every now and again I think "y'know, i've put a decent amount of time into Genshin and the story is interesting enough, maybe i'll spend some money, upgrade my characters", only to remember that I could literally go buy Bloodborne and a PS4 to play Bloodborne, and it'd still be cheaper than a single Constellation.
Jesus they actually said “it’s not like Genshin Impact”? I mean I love the game and even I find that kind of pathetic.
More than likely not as this video is filled with misinfo about the game
Source: an active player who hasn't spent a dime
i mean it isn't? There is so little similar to genshit that its crazy you even compare it. Also what an insult genshit is a horrible, badly written, badly managed game.
@@GikamesShadow eh, on second thought it was probably less trying to avoid unfavorable comparisons and more just to try and dissuade people from going all “genshin killer” about it which unfortunately didn’t stop people. I can’t exactly blame Yahtzee from misinterpreting it, after all he’s about as far away from the intended audience as one could possibly be, and has absolutely no idea what’s going on in the gacha game space XD
@@Xaveze Honestly his interpretation of the game was clear he wanted to make the video more satirical than factual. Because he doesn't mention the men audibly and ignores the plot points that involved them. Which is fine. Because tbh i never expected Yahtz to like a gacha game, let alone one that will give him PTSD of genshit. Either way the video was very entertaining.
Genshin Impact is fucking dogshit.
As a writer forced to follow trends, I respect the way in which Yahtzee is keeping topical in the algorithm without compromising his acidic takes.
"Then she turns around and walks out with her bum bouncing like two fat bulldogs arguing over a ham sandwich."
You know Yahtz. I've been watching you for a loooooooong time now. Like. Fuck well over a decade. We've both moved countries since we've started this complete non relationship. Hell I moved countries twice. We've both gotten married. You've gotten a small dog. I got three large dogs. We've changed a lot over the last decade and a bloody half.
And every now and then, I'll admit, I doubt you, just a little. Wondering if you've maybe lost your touch just a bit. If, for whatever reason I'm finding you slightly less funny than I used to.
Then you drop something like this completely straight faced and I nearly crack a rib and my faith is restored.
Keep up the good work mate.
5:04 A rare Yahtzee emote that has him visibly grimiacing. Man this one must have been a stinker.
He looked like Steve from American Dad
I mean it's "Chinese knockoff genshin", of course.
@@R3GARnatorbut Genshin was already changed.
Of interesting note, in the earlier betas the girls who meet you at the beginning were more skeptical of you, thought you were possibly an enemy and stuff, and apparently the early testers just hated it so much it was replaced with them being your simpering biggest fans from the moment you met them.
... So apparently the vapid blandness of the opening interactions is what "the people" want. A story where your character has some interpersonal tensions with people they've met to overcome, and gets thrashed by an early boss so they have to find their footing and such? Nah, nah nah nah, start out as an unstoppable super hero who everyone loves, generic power fantasy is the only taste people want -_-
If there's one thing I've learned during my years in Gacha Hell, it's that Chinese gamers, more specifically the ones who play gacha games, are the whiniest demographic on the face of the Earth.
Truly, the drought must be droughty. Did not expect Yatz to cover this. However, to explain the appeal: Numbers go up make dopamine go wee! Numbers go up for HAGs (which is an amusing acronym for Hot Anime Girls) make dopamine *and* little Stormy Jr. go wee!
Numbers go down on Visa make Mommy and Daddy go not wee! Numbers go up on national reserve make CCP Politiburo go SUPER wee!
So, you're the problem
@@KaneA87 Not gonna pretend I'm not.
@@aidangordon2713 I still spend more on DoorDash than I do on gacha, so I'm pretty sure I'm a net positive for 'Murica.
@@KaneA87 What problem?
Honestly, it beats me every year. The entirety of videogame industry is like "Hm-m-m, it's summer, kids are free from school and adults are more likely to take a vacation... oh, I know! Let's NOT release any gоddаmn videogames until September!"
1:45 That's the Only Six Faces trope for you.
Yall aren't ready for the "games made specifically for vtubers and vtuber sponsorships" era of gaming
5:05 MOUTH SPOTTED
God, I love yahtzee going all out without having to worry about monetization
Lots of laughs in this one even within the first 2 minutes haha!
Props for the "white wee-wee" term too! Ahh, the 'Gay Daleks' on TV Offal....
Why does this feel written by a bot?
@@stiner2829 because it is, ive seen it several times here
3:19 I CANT 💀
It’s incredible how there’s so many visually appealing hot anime girl games yet every porn game on Steam is a loving tribute to the Uncanny Valley. They put this much effort into not showing nudity when they could just be honest and make a game where you do sex stuff that doesn’t look like Pivot animations starring photorealistic stickmen.
Societal stigmas are weird. "You can be as titillating as you want as long as you never show nipples" is so weird and hypocritical -- and it causes people who DO show nipples to immediately be exiled from polite company. And that's why genuine cornography doesn't get to have a budget.
I was hoping Game of Thrones might be able to shake up the society a little, but we've still got a long way to go
Unfortunately a lot of that comes down to lazy devs cashing in on the coomer market(understandable considering that the developer of the highly divisive Summertime Saga makes about 60k a MONTH on Patreon), but it turns out art is hard and free asset packs for naked goblins on the Daz3D marketplace are easy. On rare occasion a game will come out in that sector that's high effort, well drawn or well modeled, and either tells an interesting story or is mechanically sound, and it gets three purchases and one refund because it's not cheap, trend-chasing slop being pumped out en masse. It's honestly a shame because a visual novel I thoroughly love gets roundly ignored in broader circles because of these issues, but on the other hand I'd rather the dev stick to their guns and keep pumping out a frankly bonkers story that managed to make me laugh, cry, and confront the dark heart of familial bonds in the stretch of about three hours.
@@travisbarnes7847Not going to tell us the name of the VN?
@@PikaPenny17 It's called Out of Touch. Still not finished, about halfway there per the dev, but it gets very regular updates, manages a lot of charm with Koikatsu models, and has a pretty great OST if you vibe with vaporwave.
Damn, Pivot animations...that brings back memories.
Mostly agree, though I don't think the point about spending money is the games fault entirely since it has the option for F2P. I see it more as a lack of self control of the person playing gacha games, if they know they have a problem; there are other games that are less tempting or one time purchase.
I think the average gamer spends more on other games also, than how much people meme players for gacha.
Like, I've played gacha for years at this point and not spent nearly as much as I have on MMRPGs in the past.
For the last half year, I've been entirely F2P due to work paying me less. I've not missed out on any content, since it is free, and can still play with friends.
Compared to something like when I played WoW/FFXIV - not only was the sub required to play, you had to buy each expansion separately at a ridiculous price, plus any overpriced mounts/pets/mogs.
I would spend around $240-$300 a year minimum just to play with friends. In the other - gacha for me has been around that much ACROSS 4 years of playing, comparatively.
I could also choose when to pay & the pricing is either comparable or less than MMRPGs.
It just kinda bugs me that people rag on some gacha aspects after only seeing what whales spend, but then don't look at how other games milk as much money if not more from their average player base and no one bats an eye, let alone, that whales in those spaces spend ridiculous amount on figurines, etc. too.
From just the money aspect, it feels.. disingenuous or misleading. Having been on both sides, I think that is what bothers me a little bit.
Seriously. They trash on gacha so much and then buy battle pass in valorant every month or buy skins in mobas or league.
It might be hard to believe, but vast majority of gacha players probably spend like...50-100$ max on a single gacha game per year. Which is really not that crazy since gachas are live service and go on and on until you get bored, vs a single 100 hour game you pay for 60$ or something
people just like to hate on gacha games without trying it out
I don’t like the predatory nature of the games, but I’m also getting a bit annoyed with disingenuous takes on games like Genshin. I’ve put more hours into it than any other game in the last decade, and still enjoy my time. I’ve spent over the 3.5 years I’ve been playing, probably 300-400 dollars. Mostly welkin, sometimes the pass. A few crystal packs. I’ve also put 1000+ enjoyable hours into it. I have bought 60 dollar games that have given me 20 hours. I don’t think price is the only metric for looking at a game, but I think it can say something about a gacha’s quality. I’ve been patient, I have nearly everything I want. Honestly, I think being a whale would trivialize too much.
Also, unlike shit mobile games, you can do every genshin event the last day and get all of the rewards. There is no extra currency there to buy either. My biggest complaint is I wish they would rerun these events. Because unlike other shitty gachas, genshin doesn’t sell those past event weapons.
But let’s take a game I also play, Destiny. That game is 100 a year for everything. If not buying that pack, it is pieced out even more greedily. Every event has a card they want you to buy. Every armor set is 20-30 dollars. Transmog costs money after a bit (especially painful to new players). The free things are barely a taste. That game makes me want to reach for my wallet more than Genshin, which is wild. Also it has been a technical mess the last year and a half. My dailies and such can take forever to complete. Genshin takes 5 min. Genshin doesn’t put a ton of “buy this banners” in my face when I boot up, Destiny sure does. Destiny is not f2p
In reality, with patience, you can 99% of what Genshin offers purely free. If you try and like it, I’d suggest the 5 a month for Welkin. It’s a good comfort game that doesn’t demand all of your time. Don’t do it if you have a problem gambling.
@@OriontheLad agree 👍🏽
okay the credits gag is especially dark today lmfao
The vast majority of your points are completely valid, I'm not gonna contest them since honestly no point as you are correct. I do want to point out that having now played the Genshins and StarRails, I am extremely disappointed to say, they do (occasionally) actually have far better story and writing than any other game I've played lately, even the ones who claim to care about writing. Despite having my eyes roll around in my skull at all the painful fan service and stupidity, they still manage to produce actually moving and engaging stories not infrequently. Which is still way more often than I get from most games these days.
No joke, several quest in Genshin and Star Rail (Not Wuthering Waves), have made me literally cry, in real life, tears from my face. Some quests are tragic, or beautiful, or just moving. Star Rail especially frequently makes me laugh and cheers me up, it's writing is often very Disco Elysium-esque. I interacted with a trashcan that had fallen over next to another trashcan and was treated to a tragic story of a trashcan passing before their time and the trash they left behind. These are things I value very highly when I spend time engaging in a vidyagame. So much wants to emotionally deaden us these days, I like to celebrate the things that don't.
Obviously some gold emerges from other studios, usually studios named Supergiant Games. I love those when they do happen.
Mostly wanted to make this post for people who genuinely wonder *why* some of these games do well, this is the reason for me. Not trying to convert anyone or anything, just provide a opinion for the curious. The other reason is the demonic monitization but that is pretty well known about. If anything I am actively disappointed that this is the state of things.
You spend a lot of time on Gaia Online, huh?
Oh, certainly. I have been playing Genshin, and off the top of my head, I got quite weepy during the Thelxie event with Freminet. I cried. It was quite touching.
Problem is, there's a story with a lot to chew on, and characters who can be quite engaging, but a game like Genshin doesn't seem allowed to treat them right. Whole lore-heavy events passed long before I picked the game up. Entire characters and their stories are unavailable to me in-game because they just haven't had a banner since I started playing.
Sure, I could read the wiki, or watch uploaded videos of past events, but the point to playing a game myself is to experience them myself, in my time and at my pace.
Even ignoring how the plot has to go glacially slow so the game can last for years, or the characters not being able to grow into the power I'm supposed to believe they 1) had and 2) are regaining, so much of the game has to spin its wheels or put its toys back in the cupboard. Where's another in-game chapter on Klee, for instance? Nowhere; here's a chapter on Chlorinde this patch, and one coming up on a nurse in about a week maybe. You want another chapter about Albedo or something? Can't have it, we need a new character, not an old one.
Frankly, I'm surprised Cyno got a chapter 2 at all, I thought they would only do that for archons, and not even all archons.
I enjoy the story we get, but that feels more like passionate creatives managed to sneak some goodies out to us, rather than the goodies being the point. The fun characters or neat considerations make me sad, because all the stuff I enjoy is being held in the grasp of a monster that wants my credit card information.
I'd give it props, maybe even a chance, if it wasn't a Gacha game. The fact that a good story is trapped in a game with such a horrible form of monetization is stupid, no amount of good story will make me play a Pachinko machine.
@@danielschallert1738 Honestly these are all very valid points that I myself have felt and agree with. Guess I'm just at the "I'll take what I can get" stage right now. I actually especially agree with it feeling like some good writers get to sneak great stories in statement, I've noticed that too.
edit- I will say Star Rail is... sort of better about this? I mean they aren't but the entire concept of star rail is built on the concept of what it is to be on a journey, and have people come into and out of your life while leaving huge impacts on you long after they are gone. As such, it works better, even if the fault is the exact same.
edit2- Honestly I feel a bit bad because I feel like my response comes off as dismissive and it is not meant to, you just wrote a well argued comment so there isn't much I can actually say in response! I do actually really appreciate it though, I did not expect that and you have given my faith in humanity a boost.
@jwithextrajj Yeah that is entirely fair and honestly the right choice. I guess my only small defense I can have of me playing is I'm not feeding money into the hate machine, though I do know just playing it is a small contribution itself. I guess I view it as taking as much as they are this way.
@@jwithextrajj Honestly it really isnt' that bad...if we're talking about Genshin. The FOMO in this game is not too strong because most of the 5* (the legendaries) are often worse than the best 4* (the common characters). Of course there are some really good 5* but they're few and realistically obtainable. And the game is not so hard that you're locked behind the paywall in some challenges. So you can definitely play Genshin without spending and have fun.
Only for Genshin though (maybe Star Rail too?). Now the whole gacha greediness is true for the other games. I think FGO is the worst out of them.
I was not expecting this.
BTW, the triple dots in a triangle while saying "ergo" is such a classy touch. High quality as always, cheers!
Rule #1 of Promoting Your Game: NEVER compare it to other similar games! That'll just lead your potential audience to your competitors or worse, spiritual predecessor.
he’ll review anything to deny that one guy his binding of isaac review lmao
You know it's bad when Yahtzee doesn't even mention the grappling hook
He did, but in a very off-hand manner that took my by surprise. The game bored him so much, he couldn't even get excited over the grappling hook.
@@sageoftruth Bloody 'ell, you're right ( 3:53 )
Mostly I was just hoping he'd comment how wuwa also has a grappling hook, but considering it has a massive budget and a legion of people working on it (by comparison). The grappling hook is objectively worse and less satisfying than the one in CRABS
So there IS actually a grappling hook. Yahtzee didn't just imagine that feature into existence to stave off madness. Gotcha, thanks. I wasn't clear.
"How it applies to heights...."
*LIMBUS TIME ACTIVATED
I cant believe that you reviewed wuthering waves before genshin haha
2:08 "Mr. Ed's execution was neither fast or merciful".
To answer Yatzees question: I think those games is to give the porn you search later some context / attachment to the characters by the sheer amount of time you spend with them during gameplay
That and you’re more likely to spend hundreds of dollars going through gatcha banners trying to get the one special big boobed porcelain doll you want.
Don't play gatchas but they sure do get a lot of high quality doujins
You nailed it ! With the pron refrence.
4:26
Yahtz, why are you using AI images here? It's looks so distracting in how bad it is.
Oh a good old game to rage on. Beautiful. Also that poor horse.
For the overly sensitive people who somehow got mad at his _Selaco_ review last week, *this* is the type of review Yahtzee makes when he *actually* dislikes a game.
that's gotta be one of the best credits gags in a while
Yahtzee's remark "they say it's not Genshin Impact - meaning it is EXACTLY Genshin Impact" is WAY more correct than he even knows. Speaking as someone who has put a considerable amount of time in Genshin (I love gambling), Wuthering Waves is like if someone took Genshin, handed it out to all the interns at the office, and said "Can you make this again but technically legally distinct?" It wants to be the successor, the usurper of the "Shitty Gacha Anime Game" title, but somehow manages to be SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE despite copying it beat-for-beat in literally every category. This is not an exaggeration; the menus, the buttons in the menus, icons, in-game currencies, and even all the little UI elements are BLATANTLY lifted straight from Genshin for literally no reason other than to copy. Seriously, look up a comparison - it's like you downloaded a PNG of Genshin's menus and used the bucket fill tool in Photoshop to change the colors. It doesn't help that the game markets itself in advertisements on social media as "Genshin but better" - cooler traversal, better combat, more mechanics, etc. Its entire identity is specifically crafted to compare itself to Genshin and somehow it still manages to lose.
Don't even get me started on the story - they started posting job offers for writers literally the day after the game went live. That should tell you all you need to know.
You know, I'm pretty sure that's a similar story to Demon's Souls being functionally rebranded Dark Souls... And then Elden Ring, really. Same basic skeleton, reused with a new set of skin. Primary difference seems to be that Fromsoft improved with each outing.
Well, that, and I assume Genshin and Wuthering are made by different people.
That is the inherent problem of anything trying to be a Genshin killer. For all the rip off accusations you can make for Genshin, it was copying other games, for gameplay, and marketed itself as a game first and foremost. It tried to compete in a market with full price open world and action games, and saw great success. Wuwa tries to compete in the space occupied specifically by Genshin and ToF, for some reason.
@@Umbra_Ursus yeah, Genshin and wuwa are different companies
@@Umbra_Ursus This is a Chinese game so these practices are not at all surprising. Genshin Impact took the gacha world by storm and to the average Chinese tech company, all they do is just "copy that". There are like 3 other gacha games that use Genshin's assets.
@@fieryrebirth Can't really say those practices are just them. Correct me if I'm wrong, weren't there periods where everyone wanted to copy Doom, or Half-Life, or Halo, or GTA? Pretty sure Genshin Impact is just the newest leader to follow.
My crackhead theory for all the sexy characters in otherwise normal games is that they inspire a lot of fan art, which acts as free promotion without having to officially publish objectionable material
That one AI generated asset at 4:26 is so distracting for some reason, I think it's the "Breas".
Anyway, cool review. Here's a like.
It's also just the art style it uses is extremely common in AI and not common for these videos. I was watching at 1.75x and it still popped off the screen for me screaming "AI."
The whale at the end is also suspicious
You'd think a series well known for using royalty free stock assets and such a minimalistic artstyle wouldn't need to stoop that low.
I am so dissapointed.
I vowed to block and ignore every creator that uses AI in any capacity... but I don't know if I have the will to do what I must.
@@formorian5 Why. Why is using a perfectly fine tool such a dealbreaker?
@@formorian5 im not sure if i'd say "royalty free stock assets" and more like "clipped pngs from google" and with how much ai slop exists, accidentally grabbing a piece of AI "art" from google is very possible. i doubt he generated it himself even if it does suck that its there
@@formorian5 What's with the personal vendetta over the use of AI in THIS scenario? Did him using an AI image (or if he generated it) somehow hurt anything or anyone? Genuine question here.
Love that he specifically picked DDLC Monika for the mouse pad gag at the end, I don't know why but it feels ~poetic~
I got 90% of a way to a genuine spit take from the horse joke.
what did he mean by this
Yahtzee is me, apparently. I've never gotten the whole "ecchi tease" thing that everyone seems obsessed with. Like if I want porn, I go get some porn and then I go back to just looking at people as people.
I never got the appeal of living your entire life in porn mode where all non-porn must contain a bikini babe lest your brain perceive reality for longer than thirty seconds.
Normie detected
Honestly, that sounds like torture to me. Don't get me wrong, I like to launch the rocket myself on occasion, but forming the environment to be constantly stimulated by things even as mundane as a mousepad? Insane. A man has got to have some time away from porn mode, or the brain will start to rot.
There are two separate issues here: first there's trying to turn everything into sexually stimulating material, which I dislike as well (hate when supposedly "serious" art is overly sexualised) but then the other thing is softcore porn / erotica vs hardcore porn. Like, I myself like looking at beautiful sexy people (softcore), but generally don't care as much about watching people fuck (hardcore). The tease is the porn, to me.
I mean I consume everything around the romance usually. But for this game it was written like a generic power fantasy and one of the big features everyone celebrated about this game was the skip button.
I don't like the "ecchi tease" thing either, that's why I play games with nude mods.
No teasing
Today, we learned Yahtzee would fail the Quintuplets game.
Wuzzat?
@@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5 Anime, Quintessential Quintuplets. You can only tell them apart if you truly love them. Or stare at their asses long enough.
@@Citan005 Same thing, really.
@@Colopty this guy gets it in.
guys, what's up with using gen AI images in the edits like cmon some solidarity here?
Not just solidarity, hypocrisy considering what Second Wind was born out of.
@@jack_reaver
Normalization of AI images of any kind should not be tolerated or accepted. Even outside of obvious reasons, they're still legally dubious at best and until the courts come out with official rulings on them he's putting the whole channel at risk by using them.
get over it
I fundamentally don't understand this game...I have played Bayonetta and Breath of the Wild, and other similar games which have mechanics borrowed by WuWa and Genshin Impact but far worse because it's designed to meter out the fun and progression to keep you playing every day. The only reason I can think to play WuWa and Genshin impact is because your friends play it, or you have a gambling problem, or you like anime girls too much. Because the story is ass too.
I liked Botw so I played Genshin and liked the art style world and lore so i stayed.
The post-credits gag got me totally by surprise
his actually being nice, he didn't mention all the bugs. but he probably should have mentioned the boss fights
We never got a genshin ZP, I assume because someone on the same channel covered it already and said it was really good, but I'll take this as the next best thing, most of the points he made apply to both games.
Yahtzee should play Cryptmaster I think he'll love it
My thoughts maybe this just isn’t for you. Because evidently some people find this kind of game enjoyable.
And as somebody who likes Genshin impact but has yet to try this game, I’m wondering if you’re being a bit reductive when describing the characters. Genshin got the same criticism. But I found it characters to be interesting and it’s plot to have an actual core theme. Like criticising the separation of church and estate and asking what makes a justice system truly fair in a world with instant access to information.
My point is, maybe considering you’ve said in the past that you don’t particularly like over the complicated RPG and have expressed that you’re not into anime, why are you playing this? You say you starved for games but there’s 100 things I’ve skipped over that I bet people would be interested in hearing your opinion on.
Deliberately reviewing something that you probably won’t like anyway seems contrary to your own philosophy of treating games as the art pieces they so often are not given the chance to be.
PS, I’m Polish so apologies for the spelling .
genshin has depth....wuwa tries but....nyeah xD
@@raksjaja you’re entitled to your opinion, but I wish you had expressed it in a better way.
@@redhood1060 Eh? I was agreeing with you that Genshin’s story has depth and is actually captivating. Unlike Wuwa xD
@@raksjaja going to be honest, I didn’t really understand what you were saying.
I thought you were being sarcastic. But fair enough I think that’s just a language issue.
Again, as I said, I’m Polish so some English goes over my head .
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He knows he could have been playing the Thousand Year Door Remake right??
Maybe he's going through that with his kids. Or maybe he doesn't consider if different enough from the GameCube original to warrant a followup since he gave that one a retro review back in ZP.
He already did it when he was doing Zero Punctuation
Didn't he already do that one as back on Zero Punctuation as a retro review?
@@StevenUlyssesPerhero it really isn't. It's great but it's the same general game with a new coat of paint, a couple mechanical changes to make you not Power Bounce literally all the time and maybe make you willingly use the bonus partner, and a couple bonus bosses for the people who are old enough to realize how easy it is to snap the game over your knee after all these years.
@@edfreak9001 It seems like RNG is tuned to prevent you from dying at all costs, too.
I was literally going to play wuthering waves as I get this notification, seeing this is more important
See, that's Yahtzee for you. Informative and timely.
@@styfeneveryone's got their own tastes in games. Just because Yahtzee doesn't like it doesn't mean I can't like it.
The story is ass, but the gameplay is good so far
@@lykaios8336story gets better later but the beginning is... dear lord
@@GikamesShadow from "huge pile of manure" to "slightly lesser pile of manure" isnt that great of a change, frankly speaking
I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices how absolutely random this anime clothing is, like the clothing has to be a character itself and needs 16x the detail of everything else, covered in random tibits of completely useless shit like "hey, I'm gonna put a ribbon in my arm, wear asymmetrical socks, have 3 hair clips all on the same side, wear an elbow pad specifically on only one of them and my beanie will look line a neapolitan ice cream".
That kind of random-ass fashion sense has been around in animu style games for quite a while now. As an example: Guilty Gear's fashion throughout its existence is something to behold, though there's some charm and consistency with the themes each character has, the rummage sale rejects they are.
It reminds me of Kingdom Hearts attire choices: why the crap is Donald Duck's hat made of friggin' zippers? What's with all the belts on everyone and why does one have eight all over?! Nomura, what is up with your costume design?
This is the most accurate review of Wuthering Waves I have ever seen.
4:27 okay but why use AI "art"?? I love this channel, but surely the whole point of it was being pro creatives, right? Art theft is kinda the opposite of that and that's all AIGI really is...
probably just stole it from google images like all the other cutouts. sucks that its AI but i dont think he wouldve generated it himself
Heathcliff?
It’s me, Yahtzee.
LIMBUS COMPANEEEEEEEEEE
It's me, Cathy, I've come home
The sleeper agents are already here
what does any of this mean
Good punchline, but no joke one of those squeezable mouse pads was just the right sort of support my wrist needed after I was in a boating accident. I was able to play games at my computer instead of just sitting there staring at the ceiling.
So, what I'm getting at is the best place for an injured wrist is between a nice pair of breasts.
with how many hot anime babes out there, the serious faced villain guy in 3:35 cause whiplash, and seriously he's got the best face.
"Well Ackchuwally", "to wuther" means to blow with a dull roaring sound, or to whizz, or to make a rushing sound.
Jesus, the sausage image on the left at 4:26 is so AI generated that I find it hard to believe a modern model made it. Seems like the kind of AI generated image that a model from late 2022 would spit out.
The whale later in the video also looks very sus, with an extra eye and asymmetric fins.
@@Cyfrik Very disappointing. Yet somehow not surprising.
Second WInd of all people should understand the ethical concerns of AI, but here we are. Dissapointed in them.
To the replies on this comment: oh no! They didn't pay for (or outright steal) stock images for the purposefully low effort presentation of this video! How will those starving artists ever survive!?
@@paulsheldon8838 It's possible we misunderstood them all along, who knows.
While this review won't change my mind about playing wuwa, I do love how Yahtzee took this apart like abstract art😂
It's so darkly amusing to me that the biggest selling point Kuro games possibly had to appeal to Yatzee was the story, which they eviscerated after the CN player base threatened to have them and their families sent to the gullag by the secret police, because the girls were too mran to them and it made their ePEENs feel small and the unsettling 'furry' (who was intended to be slightly uncanny) was too scary and rude.
Mr. Raymond moment.
Uh, what? That's absurd. Can you tell me more?
@@somebonehead if i read the situation right based on reddit comments (take this with the biggest grains of salt) Basicly in the beta story, the 2 HAGs you meet at the start of the game weren't as supportive of you as right now (saw some screenshots of the red head cheery girl pointing a gun at mc), CN criticized the story, now whether it was because they were big wusses or maybe the story was being a bit too much mean to you, as in it broke immersion, that's for you to decide.
anyways, WuWa devs after seeing the criticisms decided to do a complete 180 and have the HAGs be VERY nice to you, leading tot he story we have now.
@@blahblahgamer827 The world in the beta was basically openly hostile to you for no real reason with none of the characters appreciating any of the things the MC did, and a character (who I think was removed from the game) basically killsteals a boss, gets all of the credit, and then asks why you were even there. The actual criticism was that everyone was so hostile that it made the players not want to help them and was, as you said, that it broke immersion. It was on Kuro to change it to what we have now.
@@orangepeel5661 So the writers just went from one extreme to the complete opposite extreme.
Besides that I had a bug where the entire game would freeze every ten seconds. This very accurately summarizes my experience as well
So glad you are independent now, here's a little of my money to keep it that way.
Were the couple machine-generated images some too-subtle joke? I enjoy the whimsy of this series' use of stock cutouts and having those weird distorted images kind of takes away from that whimsy.
If you’re that starved for play, and you also want to drive your head through a desk, I’d recommend Noita.
I haven't heard of it, I'll try it. Thanks for the recommendation.
Oh, so Wuthering Heights is like bracing tundra or a shocking expanse or jarring cliffs. Barring a natural disaster the terrain can't literally hold or electrocute or shake you, but it produces an emotional reaction you describe in those terms.
seeing yachtzee making a gacha game review makes me wonder how a Limbus Company review would go like. it's very much a gacha game but lacks many of the common tropes and issues with them (not that its perfect or exempt from critisism, just that the common pitfalls and critiques dont really apply)
i doubt it will happen tho, it released last year and i dont think yachtzee will go back for something like that, not old enough to be a retro review and not culturally relevant enough to demand a late review
Yachtzee? They don't make that much money he can afford a yacht, not even just in his name.
In an alternate timeline, a more meat-headed Croshaw adopts the name "Yachtzee" and makes videos where he over-reacts to video games and gaming news, eventually becoming a suck-up influencer.
@@NorthernSeaWitch oops
Never expected you to review this, but I also never expected to randomly try it out for myself about a week ago. And while I have some fondness for the aesthetic and some patience for a bit of early game tedium, it really felt like quitting early while I was bored would be the winning move, rather than quitting 20+ hours in while I was bored.
Please tell me you didn't use AI for the sausage stand at 4:26
he did lmao
its def AI, but the question of whether *he* used AI for it is not as clear, im thinking no. mostly because the vast majority of PNG cutouts are obviously not made by him, so why would he specifically make a hotdog stand. its more likely he just got it from google and thought smth like "good enough" or didnt notice
I really like the game but damn that menu bit was accurate
From ZP being sponsored by genshin(but yathzee himself refused to voice the ad) to yathzee doing a full episode of genshin
Capitalism bites us all
wasn't it honkai star railinstead of genshin?
When I saw yahtzee made a review of THIS of all things, I was stunned for a full minute. The content of the video was exactly what I expected.
"Free to play gacha games, not even once, kids."
Me who's currently playing Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel:
"Shit."
Tbf, as long as you're not trying to churn out a whole new deck every 20 minutes, MD is on the fairly generous side as far as gachas go.
Its not an anime waifu collector, its a Chinese bureaucracy simulator dressed like one!!
I love that you put yourself through playing this so we could have the amusement of watching this video.