I do not ask for peace, rather I ask for war to have a purpose. If I wanted peace then the solution would be lying in a drawer by my bed. ~I forget who
@Sailor Italy: You don't play enough JRPG then. This is kiddie opening compared to the weird shit that happens in some other JRPGs. It often involves your sister or some magical weapon-girl-you're-definitely-not-going-to-bang-but-we'll-make-her-half-naked-anyway.
I literally had to pause the video so that I could look up the intro to Ni No Kuni 2 because there was no way in hell that I was going to believe that what you described was actually the real beginning of the game... I was wrong, that absolutely was the beginning of the game...
The President was a better main Character, if we had been left as a President Kickass to help Evan grow, and teach him how to properly rule it might have made things more fun for my taste, also this game's art style is nice
His country is nuked and everyone he loved presumably died but 2 seconds later he is going on adventures with a child. I played a bunch of the game but as the intro suggests the gameplay is as half-baked as the writing.
@@thelinedrive Ditto. And not to spoil too much for people that haven't played it but despite the game's bulk being about Evan and his goals, Roland is arguably more important to the end sequence.
I mean... that's basically kind of what we do? I mean as long as Roland is the one you're predominantly controlling that's pretty much exactly the game.
3:44 For some reason, I love how Yahtzee's visual for dodging is always a backwards somersault. Not a flip, a dash, or even a forward somersault; it's always a backwards roll. I just always get a chuckle out it.
Would have been cool if he could only use his gun a certain number of times in the whole game. That would have made sense and would have added some strategy
So having a super weapon that can straight up murder anyone and anything in one shot, in possession of a man from a strange far away place who has inserted himself into the political system. "are we the baddies?"
I like how Yahtzee gave the cat-prince kid the Roblox sword at 4:37 That's like the most "meh" medieval videogame weapon anyone could have, fits his description of the prince really nicely.
This is the first time in watching all Zero Punctuation since the first review I couldn't tell if the story was actually how he said it was or if he was over-exaggerating in his usual over the top style.... *he isn't kidding.*
one thing i really enjoyed is that opening cut scene exactly:"oh boy, a democratic and a monarch leader working together to reclaim their kingdom? I'M SO INVESTED"
Now I want a game where you play as a modern gun weilding character sent to a fantasy world, and proceed to take over the world with your modern weaponry.
xerxBreak You should warn people man. Drifters is like berserk. Really good, but it's on hiatus so much that ones grandchildren will read it to you on your deathbed.
The opening of this game is beyond epic, but he's right it settles into less than epic for the rest of the game, however I find it very good. It was really fun. Sadly you can't go through your whole life comparing everything to Persona 5 and EarthBound. You'll never have fun again.
Lens Hunter yahtzee just generally doesn't like jrpgs so the game was kind of doomed to some kind of paddling. Those two are just the exceptions that prove the rule
I didn't believe that Yahtzee was telling the truth about the start of the game so I had to go look for a cutscenes clip. Holy shit that is a messed up start to a fantasy anime game.
Satch Boogie No, it's Extinction and Attack on Titan 2. Check the Escapist. www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/117196-Extinction-and-Attack-on-Titan-2-Zero-Punctuation
Isekai anime are all the rage right now. A show starting with this "US president starts new kingdom in another world as a precocious and badass gun-toting child" premise is just begging to be made.
I platinumed this game and thoroughly enjoyed it. God damn am I laughing my ass off though. This shit is hilarious. (and you are absolutely right about Hydropolis being totally fucked over btw) Excellent job sir.
I recently started playing this game (I know, I'm late to the party lol), and yeah....that opening sequence was very much _NOT_ what I was expecting! The funny thing is, it's never brought up again throughout the entire story, and President Kickass never speaks about it, never shows any worry or regret about being whisked away after his country got _literally_ nuked, or expresses any real desire to ever return home. In fact, he's very quick to say "I'm staying here" (like, within the first 10 minutes of being there). Does he even have a choice in the matter?!? He's just like "well, I guess this is my life now...." He does however, mention a couple of times that he had a son in the other world, but, fuck him, I guess? He's not important anymore now that President Kickass is an important part of a catboy-led fantasy world.
"Revenant kingdom is unfortunately not a game about society run by rocket launcher wielding giant skeletons" Oshit I better get a start into doom modding. That or rip the sprites for unity at the very least.
i kinda want a game where your first goal is to "take back the world from those who have corrupted it" and start doing, only to slowly realize that your the bad guys, the evil empire. but you and the character your playing as are both in too deep to turn back now.
Ooo, ooo, and then you can go to "At least we can maybe fix this when we are done", but then the game ends with you being assassinated, dooming the world to be under an iron fist for god knows how long
Other games: *begin with an intro, usually describing the story and characters to make us want to play.* Ni No Kuni 2: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GETS FUCKING NUKED AND THEN ICES SOME MICE IN A CASTLE WITH A GLOCK.
I don't usually play these kind of games but I finished ni no kuni 2 the other day and absolutely loved it. That said, every single criticism here is pretty much 100% right
What surprised me most (apart from that insane intro) was the "britishness" of the game. around half the characters have various accents from the UK and they use words like dozy and grubby. It's insane and i love it
I was waiting for the moment where he would mention the fucking nuclear missile at the beginning of the game. I was equally baffled by how out of nowhere it was and couldn't help but laugh at how the game just shrugged it off like it was nothing.
Someone explained to me what happened at the beginning of the game several weeks ago. I thought it was weird, but Yahtzee explanation really sold it to me. I want to play this now.
I tried to play this. And I did. Through the water kingdom part. Getting that far was a massive struggle that took me weeks. Not because the game is hard (even on the hardest difficulty I was falling asleep). Not because the game is slow (it's not, really). No, the problem I had was just how painfully, migraine-inducingly naive Evan is and how literally no one dropped a logic- or wake-up- bomb on his head. Not to mention his guardian thing.... I felt like that thing was made to intentionally insult the player and try their patience for how much stupidity one person will tolerate.
While obviously the prologue to the game is just straight up bananas, the fact that from all of the possible presidents he chose Bill Clinton for the visualization... it somehow makes it even more crazy.
![Felix "Unfair" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Oswujxm2Ag0/mqdefault.jpg)
Virgin protagonist: *gets Isekaied by truck-kun*
Chad President: *gets sent to a fantasy world via a nuke*
President Kickass: Why are we helping the fish-people?
Prince Naive: ... For the fish oil?
President Kickass: The fish *WHAT?*
*americans harder*
ZP credits quote
" everyone is always on about world peace, but the moment you point out graveyards are pretty peaceful, suddenly you're the bad guy"
Gonna play a Necromancer in a D&D campaign and use this exact quote.
I do not ask for peace, rather I ask for war to have a purpose.
If I wanted peace then the solution would be lying in a drawer by my bed.
~I forget who
That isn't true in BtVS.
"Everyone is on about this world peace. I'll settle for a peice of the world"
~ me
That opening sounds like the most insane opening to a JRPG ever
Sailor Italy I thought it was a metal gear for a sec.
Had to do a double take myself
I thought he was joking
Sounds like an slightly original isekae
@Sailor Italy: You don't play enough JRPG then.
This is kiddie opening compared to the weird shit that happens in some other JRPGs.
It often involves your sister or some magical weapon-girl-you're-definitely-not-going-to-bang-but-we'll-make-her-half-naked-anyway.
Wait, that can *NOT* be how that game starts. Let me look this up real quick...
_...holy shit._
You'd have to be on DRUGS to be this high!
I'm 6'5'' high.
did exactly the same thing. Cannot believe my eyes... its beautiful.
Someone call Volition, I know what their next Saint's Row game should be; Saint's R(ow)PG
@Pause4011 Rated definitely *NOT* PG.
Ha, jokes.
I literally had to pause the video so that I could look up the intro to Ni No Kuni 2 because there was no way in hell that I was going to believe that what you described was actually the real beginning of the game... I was wrong, that absolutely was the beginning of the game...
I hear about this start: Didn't believe it
I watched Yahtzee review: Didn't believe it
I watched opening cutscene clip: I still don't believe this!
believe what.
@@jekblom123 I suspect he/she means the opening scene of the game :D
It's utter nonsense... beautiful, crazy, unprecedented nonsense though ;)
I did not have sexual relations with that catboy.
Nope Nopington Sure you didn't Mr. President
I'm a dog boy person
Nope Nopington best comment ive ever seen
opli gangaa Thank you!
Nope Nopington It's the swordonomy, stupid.
RE:CLINTON starting life in another world
Pyrus
Under appreciated joke right here.
Pyrus only LN reader will understand...
Lmao
Team Felix 4 life
Hillary: I love you Mr Bill
Bill: I love miss Lewinsky
My Bill Clinton can't be this cute, The anime
this needs to exist for real, I'd buy 10 copies of it, all just to see the wacky adventures of Bill Clinton.
the live action drama was better
Yare yare
there is and I swear I am not making this up a visual novel called "My Girlfriend is the President"
wurmsrus I've read it. It seems to be self aware for like half of it, then sort of plays it straight for the rest.
*"ILLUSTRATION REDACTED"*
Didn't realise you were a gaylord too
Thank the fucking lord!
Oh hey its you.
Love your videos
FUCK ME UP THE ASS WITH AN AK47!
I never thought I needed a badass anime Bill Clinton teaming up with a dogboy king to conquer the world in my live until this video.
WOLF36554 catboy, you mean
The President was a better main Character, if we had been left as a President Kickass to help Evan grow, and teach him how to properly rule it might have made things more fun for my taste, also this game's art style is nice
Eh I disagree. I actually really like Evan as a character and have been playing as him. It's a little jarring though.
His country is nuked and everyone he loved presumably died but 2 seconds later he is going on adventures with a child. I played a bunch of the game but as the intro suggests the gameplay is as half-baked as the writing.
I mean I basically switched over to Roland as soon as I could at every opportunity so effectively that was the game for me.
@@thelinedrive Ditto. And not to spoil too much for people that haven't played it but despite the game's bulk being about Evan and his goals, Roland is arguably more important to the end sequence.
I mean... that's basically kind of what we do? I mean as long as Roland is the one you're predominantly controlling that's pretty much exactly the game.
3:44 For some reason, I love how Yahtzee's visual for dodging is always a backwards somersault. Not a flip, a dash, or even a forward somersault; it's always a backwards roll. I just always get a chuckle out it.
Dark souls thing
@@iliketheforbiddenfruit6946 I thought it was witcher
TL;DW "President Kickass is a smooth and fantastic hillbilly who should be declared Emperor of wherever we are."
Would have been cool if he could only use his gun a certain number of times in the whole game. That would have made sense and would have added some strategy
Right up to the point where you finish if the last boss only ever having used one bullet to try them out.
And if you never used any bullets you can empty a clip in the final boss's ass and that's it
Lol yeah, sure just Indiana Jones this shit have the boss be all bad ass twirling some world ending weapon. Then just boom, headshot world saved!
The fantasy equivalent of "Gat out of Hell"'s; "I'm going to shoot the Devil in the face."
"Ima shoot the Demon-lord in the face."
So having a super weapon that can straight up murder anyone and anything in one shot, in possession of a man from a strange far away place who has inserted himself into the political system.
"are we the baddies?"
President Badass has my vote.
What about Deez Nuts? His argument was more more compiling.
1Piecer
I fully respect those who voted for him. I just prefer a man of action.
As long as President Badass doesn't actually look like Clinton I'd vote for him. Sounds like a real go-getter.
FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!
It's President Kickass. President Badass is the other candidate.
You won with the "Sire, the people demand karate lessons" line imho.
It's time for America to move to an entirely Power of Friendship-based economy!
Ye, I found it a bit disappointing that the main character was not mister president, but it was at least bearable.
Enjutsu7 Well you could control roland.
Enjutsu7 If you want.
I did, but the brat is still the main focus of the game.
At least he isn't useless. The game let's him be pretty good at swordplay and magic without anyone having to teach during the story.
I like how Yahtzee gave the cat-prince kid the Roblox sword at 4:37
That's like the most "meh" medieval videogame weapon anyone could have, fits his description of the prince really nicely.
"going full Ash Williams" is exactly the kind of game we need!
But Evan's primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and... things...
This is the first time in watching all Zero Punctuation since the first review I couldn't tell if the story was actually how he said it was or if he was over-exaggerating in his usual over the top style.... *he isn't kidding.*
one thing i really enjoyed is that opening cut scene exactly:"oh boy, a democratic and a monarch leader working together to reclaim their kingdom? I'M SO INVESTED"
Futurama references give me life.
OH YEAH? WELL I'M GONNA CREATE A NEW LIFE! WITH BLACKJACK! AND HOOKERS!
Yeah well I gonna create a new kingdom with blackjack and hookers in fact forget the kingdom
I wish I could have been in the room for the game's pitch meeting.
"Okay, so the American President--"
"Let me stop you right there..."
Now I want a game where you play as a modern gun weilding character sent to a fantasy world, and proceed to take over the world with your modern weaponry.
Theres a manga/anime about that, kinda
its called Drifters
And then run out of ammo two minutes in...
James Ker except in this game there is a tool that automatically reloads weapons.
Aleer1000 what I've wanted for a long time
xerxBreak
You should warn people man. Drifters is like berserk. Really good, but it's on hiatus so much that ones grandchildren will read it to you on your deathbed.
Yeah? Yeah well yahtzee backwards is eezthay which... uh... sounds stupid
ha take that
sounds like pig Latin.
eezthay
eeztay
eezay
eazay
eazy
Yahtzee is easy. Ha, take that!......the hell am i doing with my life?
Truly you have offended this man's honour
Yes
You're so VANE. You probably think this game was about you
1:00 I'm sorry what? I had to rewind the video to see I wasn't seeing hallucinations.
My fav part of every Wednesday right here
1:27 Ni no Coup-ni
It still blows me away that Yhatzee liked Persona 5.
Top 5 of 2017
You never saw it coming
He likely likes that people shoot themselves in the head in persona games.
They don't shoot themselves in 5.
90 Lancaster Nor in 4
to quote a well known jrpg
"i've been waiting for this"
The opening of this game is beyond epic, but he's right it settles into less than epic for the rest of the game, however I find it very good. It was really fun. Sadly you can't go through your whole life comparing everything to Persona 5 and EarthBound. You'll never have fun again.
Does that include your Wedding Night ?
When I have one I'll let you know, but she is aware of how much I love Persona 5.
Lens Hunter yahtzee just generally doesn't like jrpgs so the game was kind of doomed to some kind of paddling. Those two are just the exceptions that prove the rule
Yeah I'm aware of that. But usually that means when he says something good about one, that should speak volumes.
I didn't believe that Yahtzee was telling the truth about the start of the game so I had to go look for a cutscenes clip. Holy shit that is a messed up start to a fantasy anime game.
+CccpEntertainment Kraftz are you mad?
Next week Dad of war
Satch Boogie Nooooope
Sadly it is attack on titan 2 next week :'(
Dad of Boy
Satch Boogie No, it's Extinction and Attack on Titan 2. Check the Escapist.
www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/117196-Extinction-and-Attack-on-Titan-2-Zero-Punctuation
So next week ON THE ESCAPIST Dad of War.
Please start releasing more videos, my dude! I love your commentary and reviews, and just watch the old ones for pure humor!
It’s nice that he acknowledges persona 5. Almost brings a tear to my eye :’)
Just started listening to your audio book will save the galaxy for food.
I really love it, well done!
Ok, your summary of the beginning of this game makes me want to actually buy it for myself.
So many of you thought he was lying about that intro. You amuse me.
The start of this game sounds like it would be good Saints Row 3 DLC.
Props on the Evil Dead reference inside the review for a sweet-and-lovable looking game.
yeah I thought the same thing. The revenant from doom. A kingdom run by rocket launcher wielding skeletons.
I've just gotta say it, JRPG Bill Clinton is my kinda president.
Hands down the best game review ever.
“Take over the world.... for peace.”
Madara Uchiha 101
Hello Koko.
I honestly thought you were kidding about the whole president thing. I am both baffled and impressed.
power of friendship is the cornerstone of anime and JRPG, let us not forget that.
... "don't worry you didn't flip two pages" XD yeah didn't see THAT being the intro.
Isekai anime are all the rage right now. A show starting with this "US president starts new kingdom in another world as a precocious and badass gun-toting child" premise is just begging to be made.
Sounds like President Kickass and Vaas Farcrythree need to join forces and demand a better game to be in.
Vaas Hewillslaveyourass*
Vaas was overrated and not even the most interesting character in Far Cry 3
Thaaaaaank you for mentioning how unfathomably illogical the end to hydropolis was! It's like they didn't even try to have it make sense.
I platinumed this game and thoroughly enjoyed it. God damn am I laughing my ass off though. This shit is hilarious. (and you are absolutely right about Hydropolis being totally fucked over btw) Excellent job sir.
I recently started playing this game (I know, I'm late to the party lol), and yeah....that opening sequence was very much _NOT_ what I was expecting!
The funny thing is, it's never brought up again throughout the entire story, and President Kickass never speaks about it, never shows any worry or regret about being whisked away after his country got _literally_ nuked, or expresses any real desire to ever return home. In fact, he's very quick to say "I'm staying here" (like, within the first 10 minutes of being there). Does he even have a choice in the matter?!? He's just like "well, I guess this is my life now...."
He does however, mention a couple of times that he had a son in the other world, but, fuck him, I guess? He's not important anymore now that President Kickass is an important part of a catboy-led fantasy world.
"Revenant kingdom is unfortunately not a game about society run by rocket launcher wielding giant skeletons"
Oshit I better get a start into doom modding. That or rip the sprites for unity at the very least.
Loving this one, great characters, story, music, combat could be a little tougher
I can't start a decent day without some vinegar and salt in my day. Thank you, you complete my afternoon
I thaught Yathzee was making that bit about the president up........
i kinda want a game where your first goal is to "take back the world from those who have corrupted it" and start doing, only to slowly realize that your the bad guys, the evil empire. but you and the character your playing as are both in too deep to turn back now.
Ooo, ooo, and then you can go to "At least we can maybe fix this when we are done", but then the game ends with you being assassinated, dooming the world to be under an iron fist for god knows how long
That description of the story almost made me want to play this game.
I think the writers made president kick ass but then got told that the cat boy was the protagonist and made him a twat out of spite
"The prince declares he's going to found a much better kingdom with blackjack and hookers"
I see that Futurama reference.
1:52 Heh...love that Futurama reference.
Whenever I hear “revenant” I always think of the Doom Revenants. Glad I’m not the only one
Other games: *begin with an intro, usually describing the story and characters to make us want to play.*
Ni No Kuni 2: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GETS FUCKING NUKED AND THEN ICES SOME MICE IN A CASTLE WITH A GLOCK.
Such a damn shame he never played the PS4 remake of Metal Wolf Chaos
This review was: Spot on!
I don't usually play these kind of games but I finished ni no kuni 2 the other day and absolutely loved it.
That said, every single criticism here is pretty much 100% right
I wonder if Yahtzee has read Jojo. There's some real good president shenanigans in there
Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom is dangerously cute
President Kick-Ass that is the funniest thing I've heard all day
"Have you tried solving everything with the power of *friendship?* Usually works for me! _Fukin` cheaper than fossil fueles_ ..."
*dead*
Ash Williams for President 2020.
I wish Roland was the main character... I love him so much.
*And so it begins.*
I genuinely thought you were joking about the president city explosion until I googled it and found that is indeed how the game begins.
I was totally unaware Ni no Kuni got a sequel.
Neat.
For those of you wondering I checked, and remarkably Hideo Kojima is not credited on this game.
What surprised me most (apart from that insane intro) was the "britishness" of the game. around half the characters have various accents from the UK and they use words like dozy and grubby. It's insane and i love it
I gotta say the explanation of the intro was 100% accurate to how I feel
I fucking died at utter nonsense, the upside down face really got me for some reason.
I was waiting for the moment where he would mention the fucking nuclear missile at the beginning of the game. I was equally baffled by how out of nowhere it was and couldn't help but laugh at how the game just shrugged it off like it was nothing.
God the intro is such a fucking crack fueled fever dream, i love it
Someone explained to me what happened at the beginning of the game several weeks ago. I thought it was weird, but Yahtzee explanation really sold it to me. I want to play this now.
badass president!
henlobish too bad we got President Dumbass rather than President Kickass
*Mashing* attack - nice one, that was new.
its three in the morning, what kind of madman is up at this hour
2:33 You can't escape it...
Have you tried friendship? It's that new rock on the streets.
The metal wolf chaos of anime jrpg's
I loooved that ending.
Woo new vid of zero punctuation
you punctuated the "Woo"... well that and the spaces... youcallyourselfafan
I actually forgot that a new Zero Punctuation episode comes out on Wednesday, what an amazing surprise for a birthday
Well this made me interested, might buy it on sale later
Props for the Futurama reference
I tried to play this. And I did. Through the water kingdom part. Getting that far was a massive struggle that took me weeks. Not because the game is hard (even on the hardest difficulty I was falling asleep). Not because the game is slow (it's not, really). No, the problem I had was just how painfully, migraine-inducingly naive Evan is and how literally no one dropped a logic- or wake-up- bomb on his head. Not to mention his guardian thing.... I felt like that thing was made to intentionally insult the player and try their patience for how much stupidity one person will tolerate.
So we finally have actual combat at the cost of... everything else?
What do you mean everything else?! That prologue is better than pretty much the entire story of the first game
Honestly, everything before hydropolis is good. The story gets a bit off putting during and after that chapter.
Rufus V
To be fair, that only happens on the overworld, and the transition takes like 5 seconds max.
What did it cost?
...everything.
I enjoy this series
The Power of Friendship™
I need this game now (adds it to the ever growing "to buy" list)
While obviously the prologue to the game is just straight up bananas, the fact that from all of the possible presidents he chose Bill Clinton for the visualization... it somehow makes it even more crazy.