Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Zero Punctuation)
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2021
- This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Kena: Bridge of Spirits.
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Ah, I see.
Why no subtitles in this video?
They really help
Please put them back
thank you for reading :D
hey will you guys please review Bravely Default 2 as its coming to steam now.
@@krisvsthew0rld As are we. We already notified the parent company. Sorry.
@@tejasgarhewal7509 The person that did them got a new job, so we're working on replacing them. Might be a couple weeks.
“Possibly bitten by a radioactive team fortress 2” hit me like a supersonic dump truck
"Dump Trunk" is a hilarious word for a vehicle.
That shit got me outta nowhere lol
as someone who has a bit of a hat problem I know the feeling, and there is help out there, hopefully
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth *DUMP TRUCK*
Either Yahtzee's writing has gotten funnier or I have gotten so old in lockdown that I find his old man rants funnier than ever.
Probably a little of both.
He was pretty on point in this one
Who you calling old?
He beat the game in like 2 sessions, so he probably had a lot of time to write a script
Lockdown or no, this here is some prime Yahtzee.
The quick, deadpan delivery of that first Korra joke was brilliant. I was actually thrown for a second before the punchline came back around and slapped me in the face and made me feel like an idiot. Bravo.
He is the absolute master of his craft.
Now if only I could remember the name of the guy from Superman... I think it started with an S.
Same. I got as far as thinking 'Actually what was her....' before it boomeranged me in the back of the head.
Yeah that was a good one.
I'm pretty sure her name is "Legend" from "Legend of Korra"
I thought it was "of".
@@ToaArcan I thought her name was "Joe"
It's actually "Will Smith" since it's a sequel to "I am Legend"
The Korra of Legend
@@atijohn8135 Joe mama?
"What's-her-face from Legend of Korra"
I think her name might be...Legend? That sounds right, yeah
That's Zelda you dimwit
Oh, I remember now! She’s now Asami’s girlfriend, right?
...Metroid's a girl?
That the literal twin of Ray the
Last dragon
Every single other review on this game, goes on about how beautiful the Pixar style graphics are, Yahtzee complains about how the big eyes keep him from enjoying the game. Never change Yahtzee.
Yahtzee compared Kirby to a lump of hernia so yeah
"Jesus fucking Christ, the gerbil got into the helium cupboard!" Man I don't even, rolling at that line.
Never thought I'd hear Yahtzee referencing "The Legend of Korra".
Yet I never caught her name just like Yahtzee did. What IS her name anyway? Such a mysterious mystery...
"The Legend of Korra was a bigger dissapointment than my son." Mr.Plinkett.
Or the Brigadier
@@HattaTHEZulZILLA86 I think her name is Zelda, idk I never watched it.
Twice in the same review!
This says more about the current gaming ecosystem, but I was impressed they put out a playable game. After how many failures have been being released it was nice to see a fresh studio put out a playable game.
Yeah, he was like "It was fine" and I was like "oh, Game of the Year then?"
I'm just happy it wasn't an Early Access title.
The bar has dropped so low lol
@@alldayagain At least 2021 was an indie game that won, It Takes Two
"It's playable 9/10, subverted all expectations."
Hopefully Yahtzee got all the markers back out.
Otherwise he'll just have an intelligence surge in 15 years, before eventually deciding to put them back in.
One of them is now a festering tumor pushing on parts of his brain. It shall keep him in the Old Man Yells at Cloud mode for many years to come. Thank goodness.
"couldn't give two pumps of a second hand fleshlight," is *chef's kiss*
Jonathan you freak. 😆
"Or aggressively defend in the RUclips comments of video reviews by people who couldn't give two pumps of a secondhand fleshlight for your opinion."
"With the manipulative dough eyes that are so gigantic, if you intend to get lost in them, you'd should probably pack 12 days of provisions."
Every video has so much gold that gold is pretty much free.
It's supposed to be doe eyes, like the innocent eyes of a deer, rather than dough eyes, like the innocent eyes of an uncooked loaf of bread
@@ichijofestival2576 Thoughtless people pouncing at the chance to show off their critical thinking skills by humping the hay in the bandwagon.
I agree Yahtzee's an entertaining reviewer, and I love his style. But the rampant apologists screaming at anyone who dares criticize him are just projecting what they accuse everyone else of doing. Being butthurt and responding in kind.
@@macmcskullface1004 That's a deepcut historical reference I didn't expect haha
Yahtzee used to come from the Edmund Blackadder school of extended metaphors, thankfully he has now made them a thing of his own.
Mansa Munsa references abound! This pleases me
"...and what's-her-name from The Legend of Korra."
Dammit, Yahtzee, now you made me forget the name of that boat from Titanic!
You mean the boat that also appeared in the lesser-known animated movies The Legend of the Titanic, its sequel In Search of the Titanic, and the unrelated Titanic: The Legend Goes On?
@@KeithFraser82 I think you mean titenic, the legend goes on.
This game is what happens when a bunch of Cinematic Artist get together and say "let's make a game!"
Yea with no writers and no real aspirations for making the gameplay interesting. Unfortunate but I rly hope they get another shot at making something better in their next game.
Which is exactly what happened.
Ember Labs is a studio that primarily made short 3D animated commercials, and that "Terrible Fate" Zelda fan short from years ago.
I will say, for a studio's first game, it's not bad. It's just something you've played before if you've touched any platformer from the 2000s.
@@HiddenGemsReviews
Honestly that’s what I’m looking forward too!
3D platformers have fallen by the wayside in favour of 2D and it sucks! And the 3D platformers that are around are very Nintendo-inspired.
Nothing wrong with that but I feel the Sony 3D platformers had a unique feel and identity, the Jak series, Ratchet And Clank and Sly Cooper all play differently but have a similar feel compared to something like Mario.
I miss those platformers! Now Sony is more focused on doing boring, walky talky movies that pretend to have gameplay. Kena is just the game I need for my itch! And I hope it’s successful enough to inspire more games to take that approach to game design.
I haven’t played it yet so it’s possible I’ll be disappointed but from what I’ve seen and heard from fans, its exactly what ive wanted.
@@chazzergamer I enjoyed it myself, for exactly the reasons you listed! It's nothing amazing, but I was never bored the whole time.
It's also being sold for $40 instead of $60, so some reviews judging it by AAA standards is just silly.
@@HiddenGemsReviews
I would give anything for a modern, AAA 3D platformer.
I can imagine Kena with the size of Horizon: Zero Dawn and my mouth starts to water!
"What's her name from The Legend of Korra."
Yahtzee please, I'm in stitches.
as always the most damming fact comes in the credits.
"There isn't even a bridge in it"
in a game, called "Bridge of Spirits"
i havent played it, but im going to guess that kena herself is the bridge, since shes like, connected to the human world and spirit world. if so, turns out that legend of korra reference was more apropos than we thought.
This looks to me like a buy during a sale. I want much more linear games as of late and honestly being able to 100% a game in a reasonable amount of time feels much better than 100+ hours of no "ending" on AC Valhalla
I think it released at 40$. It is more of a proof of concept in the form of a finished product for a new developer than a real attempt at a AAA title. though... from many accounts I've followed it might be closer to a AAA title than some AAA titles.
@@McGeistly its a good AA game. something reviewers keep asking about all the time... its not amazing, its not best game of the year, but its also not mediocre. its a good, zelda like game that looks like a pixar animation.
I feel that, I love my monstrous 100+ hour completion games even some of the more repetitive ones, but the market saturation is getting ridiculous and leading to completion withdrawal when I spend all my time on one game without getting anywhere near done instead of a nice quickie like Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom or something, that I can complete in about a week but it's fun and memorable.
Longer games are fine if they have good pacing the problem is if you have good pacing in a longer game you have to have a ton of content
Thing is... i finished the game around the 10-12 hour mark... and i was actually fairly bored in the last third of the game.
Its always nice when a game isn't designed to be a 100+ hour grindfest but honestly, something about Kena just deflates very quickly after the first few charming hours.
Atleast Ryse Son of Rome & Order 1886 had the good graces to wrap up after 6-7 hours.
It's a bit of a joke in itself that this game is apparently so bland that there's no real reason to reupload it just to fix the "Lost in Random" typo at the start despite Yahtzee actually disliking that game as opposed to this one, character design aside.
I'm getting "high score on this years bland list" vibes, all the more impressive for it not being a ubisoft sandbox.
I'm not sure, I feel like the game is in a limbo of competent enough, not trying too hard but also not delivering anything special. its too decent to call it bland but too... simple to call it good.
@@danilooliveira6580 That might just make Yahtzee forget about it, which would give it the upperhand on the blandness competition
@@danilooliveira6580 I tried the game and I have to say after the first 40 mins or so I don't desire to keep playing, the game seems to be geared towards kids around the 5-10 years range so it's no surprise adults won't find anything remarkable about it.
@@BombaJead For me it's definitely not. The story while simple has some deeper and darker themes underneath the cuteness and the gameplay I found brutally hard. I'm not that good at video games but at least I manage to finish almost everything at normal difficulty but this I had to go easy for most boss battles.
I'm more under the impression that it will be on the low end of the top 5 best games. Or at least honorable mention.
"Kena: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart" was what finally killed me XD
Thank you, scrolling through the comments section I'd hoped someone got it.
Having the whiteboard marker on Yahtzee's face for a solid minute is one of the better sight gags in recent memory.
"Normal proportions, normal proportions, normal proportions, JFC! the gerbil got into the helium cupboard"
Root vegetable sized Tam O’ Shanter is actually the first five words of my subliminal kill-phrase. Lucky there’s still two more to go before the sleeper-agent rampage kicks in.
Are the last two "cells, interlinked"?
@@KeithFraser82 *stares blankly, grabs a kitchen knife and backflips out the window*
Funny you referenced The Legend of Zelda since this studio was an animation studio before making this game and they created the Majora's Mask Terrible Fate animation.
That video was awesome, and bloody terrifying
My biggest complaint with this game by far is the healing system. Most of my deaths happened because I had to take my eyes off of the murder tree in order to try to find and lock on to the flower half way across the arena.
Wait a sec, you heal with a flower? What?
Woah...I personally enjoyed Kena. I think it was a breath of fresh air out of all these open world empty games. I mean this one was empty too, but at least it was short and focused towards the story. The enemies were interesting too.
XD why did "what's her name from Ledgend of Korra" slay me XD
Every time I see this game, I'm reminded that I need to give the Ori games a go.
Don't bother, it's got awful controls for a platformer, you set your own savepoints so you're fucked for saving often to avoid repeating bullshit, and the "story" is predictable from the first minute.
@@asddsa8203 say what you want about the story, it's almost universally agreed the platforming was stellar and the checkpoint thing is a complete non factor. Definitely worth a play
They're quite good, especially the sequel. It really improves upon everything from the first game, although the story feels like a re-tread of the first one, which was disappointing.
If you start the first one and don't like it, just keep going, it gets better as the gameplay gets more interesting. The sequel, however, immediately feels great to play and I enjoyed it more consistently. I would highly recommend both (at the very least, play the sequel).
@@asddsa8203 saying Ori has bad controls is objectively wrong. Ori controls wonderfully
"Doesn't fuck anything up" - Good enough for me, now I only need a PS5, somehow...
Epic game store?
You can play it on the ps4 as well, and honestly it's still really good. Incredibly well optimized
I hear a lot of people comparing AC games and other action-adventure AAA games as "comfort food" meaning a game that is nothing extraordinary but something fun and easy to get into. Well I think that is exactly what Kena managed to do without any of the bullshit shoved into AAA games like the mandatory crafting system, useles rpg progressions etc etc. All in all a short and enjoyable experience to do in a weekend.
Considering the studio that made it (Ember Lab) primarily did work for commercials and that Terrible Fate Majora's Mask fan film from a few years ago, I'd say it's not bad for a studio's first game.
If you played any platformer from the 2000s, it's nothing special, but going from a CG production studio to game development could've gone so much worse.
The problem with that argument is you can only get away with it if you’re just making short films.
I don’t give points to art styles because, In the games industry, you have to do more as a good art style is secondary to more important things. Like level design and story.
@@NathanCassidy721 I'm...not sure what you're trying to argue.
I didn't mention the art style, level design, or story at all. I only mentioned the studio that made it, what they've done, and how it's not too shabby for their first game.
I wasn't even making an argument. I was only saying that similar studios that did the same thing in the past (i.e. BAP Interactive) made much, MUCH worse games.
@@HiddenGemsReviews I think I had that argument on my mind in response of another comment.
But my point was the size of the studio doesn't make you special because there are literally MILLIONS of studios with similar stories. And you only get more irrelevant if you make a mediocre game.
@@NathanCassidy721 Now that I can agree with, which is why making your game stand out in this day and age is more important than ever.
I think Kena and Ember Lab will do just fine, regardless. They had quite a lot of hype and build up by the community, and reviews have been generally positive all around.
lol, "Root vegetable sized Tam o' Shanter" got me. 😂
I couldn't give two pumps of a second-hand fleshlight about your opinion is now a thing I will say to people. Thank you, Yahtzee.
Ahaha - so many good bits in this! The character design analysis and Seth Brundle telepod moments were especially good!
"Restoring life and teal-ness to the land" too!
I did notice that 'lost in random' title error straight away though! Hope all our lovely comments arent nuked in a reupload to fix it
Gerbil in a helium cupboard caught completely offguard
I do find Kena Bridge to Terabithia to be middle of the road not good not bad. It feels good though with a game that arent a huge Ubisoft sand box.
Japanese/Native/Vikingesque makes me think of the Ainu people that live in Northern Japan and Russia. Though I dont know if they were the direct inspiration.
The little burrowing terrier sounds a more interesting character than anything the game developers could come up with. A tam o shanter hat on a border terrier would have sold me on playing :keen as a bag of spigots.
"What's-her-name from Legend of Korra" made me laugh more than it should have
I also realized the resemblance to jade! I'm so glad someone else did
This art style is what some are calling the "Instagram effect", people have become so accustomed to filters that they actually find that attractive. There are reports of people requesting cosmetic surgery to look like this. It's also speculated to be the reason why new cars have such exaggerated, ugly grills.
not just ugly grills, absolutely lethal for anyone they hit that isn't themselves in a car, too!
I always forget that he does the "HURK" thing for semi-colon titles and it always makes me laugh.
Did not expect the Doctor Who reference
The title is still lost in random on the intro
Whoops, our bad.
@@theescapist no worries figured I'd let you know before it goes live
@@lucasroote1563 Live now, too late haha.
@BananaPeach Yes, if we take down the video we lose all the comments and views so people will be annoyed either way. Errors happen, it'll be fixed for public release next week.
@@theescapist The narrator: "it wasn't."
Still, for a first time studio I find this game quite impressive.
honestly just looking at the boxart I was thinking he'd make visual comparisons to Raya and the last dragon.
I had to google it to know what that is so its safe to assume he doesnt know it awell. Hes aware of frozen though
To be fair, it's damn near impossible to avoid Frozen because of how much Disney and everyone's daughters shoved it in our faces. Raya is fun but didn't get close to the mainstream as Frozen did.
You mean Disney's Avatar?
@@MrKubahades Yes, Yahtzee is aware of Frozen and that's about it, which is why he compares the visual style to Pixar when it's a lot closer to Dreamworks.
Tore this one apart more than I expected lol, I really liked Kena
I don’t think he really did, seemed more nit picky because he thought it was average.
I for one loved it because I’ve been following the teams that collaborated on this for several years: Art of Vic (art style), Theophany (music and sound design), and Ember Labs (animation).
@@Sharkwizard Yeah, it seemed like a recommendation if you like the story/style!
Think the main issue is it's not his cup of tea. As he points out at the end. Pretty sure this game is geared more towards younger audiences and people who still are naive enough to have the ability to be optimistic. My critique of the character design on the other hand isn't that it's "Too cute", but the main character is kinda bland in it's design. (Kena looks like a random background villager from the Korra or Avatar series)
My take from this video is that it's just a mediocre version of horizon zero dawn and there's no point in it? Didn't sound great or awful but not worth playing?
4:43 ironically Frozen 2 did try to infuse the same overwhelming spiritual edge.
I rarely laugh out loud at videos, but "Jesus f*ing Christ the gerbil got into the helium cupboard" actually had me in stitches. You did it again, Yahtzee
"What's her name from legend of Kora."
Idk why that killed me lmao
Possible candidate for one of the 2021 "Blandest" award winners?
Im surprised Yahtzee didnt comment on the "classic" style of building up your skills before *spoiler warning* having them taken away for the first half of the final boss
I absolutely HATE that formula in games. I got nothing really clever to add except it's old and trash. Half-hearted rant over.
Choked on my drink a bit @4:56. Hilarious!
Love your sense of humor and delivery Yahtzee, thank you for your hard work!
The Native art geek in me really appreciates that Zuni owl :)
"Poorly thought out wank accident" is going to be the name of my band
Future people will have long forgotten about TF2 but they will still make reference to it when hats are discussed. It is inevitable.
That last joke. Best you've done all year.
Trying to pick out a game for my partner for xmas and trying to decide if Yatzee's reviews are helping or making me judge everything more aggressively than I should
Tater Tot dress-up is now the only thing I want to do with my life.
"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST !!?.
_looks like the Gerbil got into the Helium cupboard _*_again_*
LOL I've never cried so fast .......
I can't help but feeling not comparing it to Spiritfarer was a big missed opportunity here...
“That’ll teach me to stop dating dolphins”
Yeah, right. You’ll be back; you always are.
What could be happier than heliums and gerbils? They go together like strawberries and cream!
4:50 This bit got me. I knew it was coming and it still got me.
"Normal Portions, Normal Portions, Normal Portions, Jesus Fucking Christ, Gerbal gotten into Helium Cabinet!" 🤣
It was $40 bucks, and it was the studio's first game (when all they were known for were Majora fan animations). Well worth the price, I still think they knocked it outta the park. They successfully shipped a functioning product.
It's their first game? By first game standards this is top notch quality content ngl
@@LyaksandraB Ah, you're the kind of "person" who's considers one food critic's word as gospel. Looking at one bad review and declaring that the restaurant is utter trash. Thanks for making the world more pessimistic than it needs to be.
"They successfully shipped a functioning product."
And boy, was it bland.
Maybe they'll take some risks with their next game... but then again, cute pixar faces sell fairly well... so why bother? I'll forgive the bugs if they actually try some inspiration for the next one. Something, anything new or exciting...
cuz I like pizza as much as the next guy. But after playing Kena, this game felt like eating a cute, well-made lil pizza... for the 7th night in a row.
Thank you, Yahtzee, for the shout out to Nicholas Courtney. It brightened My day!
I have a new concept, a platformer where you go around clearing all the bad dead red stuff from the map then halfway through you find out you are killing previously immortal beings who where just living a fine life on their own.
But all your citizens attacked me!
Yes! We can't die a smack across the face is our polite hello!
if the protagonist makes up for doing this in the end, you could call it red dead redempt--oh wait
It had "generic third person action game" written all over it... but that didn't stop every person already bored of their PS5 fawning over it.
I've never made a comment fawning over it lol... But as a PS5 owner who has bought the game and not played it yet, I'd like to defend the logic...
I have no interest in watching pixar or Disney 3d animation...
But I think I can speak for our hobby enthusiasts in general, when I say, I think we all have been waiting a long, long time, to experience games that truly deliver on actually looking like these high quality animations.
(this game is made by an animation studio as it goes)
And yeah man, it seems like this is one of the very few, to deliver on that promise.
I was hyped for a similar launch title released on the xbox 360 back in the day as well for the same reason... Began with 'K' as well I think.
As it stands, the only other option is Rachet n clank, and I refuse to play Sonys game, of paying their thieving prices for their 1st party games this gen.
I really like the rachet series... But I refuse to pay their full price for it. It simply isn't worth it.
Kena doing what it does, for 35 at launch, half the price of RnC... Is completely worth it, I don't feel ripped off, so I supported the indi studio.
I refuse to buy returnal or anything else at their RRP.
I have digitised my ps4 collection, but every ps5 game I have has been purchased on disc and 2nd hand, a while after release.
Sony can get their greedy mits out of my pockets. Unless their giving me a handy, they can gtfo.
Apologies for the need to defend.
But really the likes of fanboyism has nothing to do with the defense of this game I feel. Imo.
Peace.
@@Quasiguambo All Well and Good if you didn't have that level of animation done as well if not better a game generation ago.
But with Sony for plenty of them it likely does come right down to fanboyism's and claims of "Mah Representation" as much as anything else.
It was praised by everyone for like a week and after that nobody even mentions it anymore.
@@Quandry1 Mmm. Perhaps I wasn't clear about what I meant...
Which game are you referring to?
@@shawklan27 People talk about games a lot when they first come out, and then they tend to not talk about them so much because other things have now come out.
The title does kinda inspire me: I'd love to see a game where the "moral choice aspect" allows you to either drink spirits or encounter spirits (so you either get one of those "my character only responds to the controls half the time" effects that makes you stumble around a lot, or you get the classic "everything's a bit blurry" that comes from fear-induced sanity loss. ;)
"Big eyes"? Just judging by the thumbnail I think yahtzee might just be going insane
"Doesn't f*** anything up."
Well… I really like the game, but I'm astonished the controls aren't mentioned here. At least if you're playing with keyboard and mouse there are some really questionable choices.
I mean… Shift to aim with the bow? Making block/parry a button you have to *hold down* (yay delayed blocking)? *Really* ?
And I have to say I really get enraged when a game starts ignoring inputs in a tense fight (like not aiming the bow although it's supposed to or *not firing a completely drawn bow for some reason* ).
Ahem. Besides that, I really had fun with it.
Shift to aim makes sense to me, but I mostly play vehicular combat games as opposed to the fps.
Doesn't most good games have you hold down the block button? Having the block button be toggle is just odd.
@@Keyecomposer Sorry if I was ambiguous. I'm not looking for a toggling function.
The block button in Kena (e) has two functions: Tap it, and you release an "energy ping". *Hold it down* , and you block. This means that every block is delayed while the game tries to figure out whether you really want to block or not. That was what I was referring to.
Some games are just never going to play as well with mouse & keyboard as they will with a gamepad. I don't understand the dogged insistence that some PC gamers seem to have for ALWAYS using mouse and keyboard for EVERY game, regardless of whether the control scheme lends itself to that sort of input device or not. It's not like you can't use a regular controller on PC.
@@Highlander77 Good point, although I'm not sure I agree for Kena. At least my playstyle relied heavily on the bow, and I've yet to see any aiming controls for controllers that don't pale in comparison to the accuracy of a mouse.
However, it might also be important to note that I tried controller-based controls at the beginning, and the game failed to correctly detect mine. I got the controller popup from steam, but the game wouldn't react to any button presses.
This might be an issue with my model, though. I switched to a nacon controller after my last xbox gamepad broke. Although it's supposed to be xbox gamepad compatible, this wouldn't be the first game with such issues.
Completely agree with the thing about the hats. The only currency in the game and you use it to buy hats for your little minions that you can barely see throughout the game anyways....was so pointless
Another extremely funny episode which has extended my vocabulary by: I couldn't give two pumps of a second hand flesh-light...
This was probably the densest episode in awhile. An entire bit about potato species names and that's only the halfway point.
"There isn't even a bridge in it"
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart mention made me beyond happy
"What's her name from Legend of Korra". Yes, who is that mystery main protagonist.
We need a ZP on Metroid Dread!
First time in a while that the "Yahtzee shags dolphins"-joke made a comeback, it's like seeing a friend from high school again
you got me with "One part what's her name from Legend of Kora"
"Whatshername from Legend of KORRA" got me :D
I remember watching the trailer ages ago, and practically thinking the same thing about the artstyle.
It has that "Generic CGI Movie" aesthetic every CGI movie now has since Tangled was released. I dislike it about as much as I dislike it when games go for a realistic aesthetic. It's boring!
I used to hate low-poly 3D. Back when the PS1 was new, I just thought to myself "Why would you bother making your game 3D if it's going to look this bad? Just make it 2D!" Nowadays though, I love the unique aesthetics they all have!
I now love what I used to hate! Think about why that is. Because I'm telling you, it's not nostalgia.
Maybe you just have contrarian syndrome where you just hate whatever the most common or popular style is for being whatever is most common or popular
@@shipkipsamazingchannel3248 Ok, yep, that's absolutely true. I mean, there are some things that I like that are really popular and common, for example, I do rather enjoy the Marvel style of storytelling, despite how overdone (and admittedly bland) it is. But yeah, I will be the first to admit to generally hating things because they're too common and/or popular. I won't even try to give a lame excuse. If I hear everyone liking something, the hipster in me makes me want to not like it. (Until I actually play it or watch it myself, in which case I tend to change my opinion. That being said, I think contrarian syndrome is the perfect description for me.)
But still, it'd be nice to have a bit more variety in the aesthetics of CGI. I understand that most people like this Disney/Pixar style. But most people also like football as well. So maybe we shouldn't be trying to make the perfect pasta sauce, if you know what I mean.
Never thought I’d hear Yahtzee drop a brigadier lethbridge stuart reference but hey there you go
Hey, wait a minute, the title card is from last week's review.
The main thing that made me reluctant was living in a post-Spiritfarer world.
No Yahtzee, you're not the only one who's noticed that corporate realistic-bod-cartoon-face style that's been creeping into video games the last few years. I don't know what about it irks me so much
Name a few, I’m just curious
For me it’s just formulaic.
They took an art style that was original and interesting and coy/pasted it to the point of it being generic. Only because it’s a decision made by EXECUTIVES rather than CREATIVES.
A lot like what the Music Industry did to Hip Hop/Rap.
@@jacopovilla1590 That Ubisoft BotW clone, Fenyx: Something something
"I am Fish" is a recent example of Pixar face rigs. After all, it is clearly inspired by Finding Nemo.
uncanny valley mostly
"A machete to twerk!" 🤣🤣🤣
1:07
Now that's comedy!
1:06 "One part what's her name from The Legend of Korra". I'm pretty sure it's Aang
I hope someone is tricked by my shitty joke about not getting the joke
two pumps of a second hand fleshlight is one of my favourite lines hes ever said
“Tater tot dress up” - not sure why but this just really got to me for some reason 🤣
Is it weird that I think the idea of some roaming magical janitor could be an enjoyable game idea? And staying as uninvolved with the various side-plots as possible is the primary narrative challenge?
"Hello, is this Mr. ......Grimhook? Sorry for the sudden call. I'm Kimi Jean with System Maintenance Control. We've been informed of a Leyline rupture near your residence. ......Oh? That's no hell gate sir, it's a ruptured negative energy Leyline. Anyway, we're legally obligated to inform you that we'll be sending a Leyline Repair Associate over soon to get that sealed up. For your own safety please stay out of their way..."
Great work as ever, please review the procession to cavalry. Literally saved 2021 in gaming terms for me.
Props on the coy Doctor Who side character reference.
Love the Dr. WHO reference.
2:11 a certain platypus comes to mind
You won me over with the Tam o' shanter reference, but I don't quite know why.
*intro* bursts my eardrums
*Yahtz starts talking* is he whispering?