Robotina's dialogue is like 40% "I have an infinite capacity for knowledge. I know everything. Did i tell you that i know everything?" yadda yadda yadda. And then 60% "I don't know this. I have no knowledge of this. This is beyond my comprehension. You fucked up, Alex. This is all your fault. That's why yo mama dead" What a horribly written character.
I am Sammy park(semi pak), I am Vella wilde, I am the cat, I am Michael, I am you, you are we, I am God's brothers sister. This is her dialog in a nutshell
@@Maloz-se1rf lol that reminded me of God’s speech to Father in FMA:B but without any of the actual depth and intellect in that speech. Wouldn’t be surprised to find out if the dev tried to watch a bunch of anime to try and be deep.
I’m just imagining as all this is happening Alex YIIK is still standing in the parking lot, staring out into space as Rory is telling the others how he doesn’t feel safe around Alex YIIK after he tried to kiss him.
Alternatively I could also imagine Alex doing the exact same thing, but his friends are smacking him with their weapons trying to wake him up out of his trance state.
@@DatOneCat Michael: Should we keep going? Vella: He said to hit him until he gave the signal to stop. Rory: Did anyone hear the signal? Vella: Well, he was whining for a while... Michael: Do you think whining was the signal? *Rory whacks Alex's unconscious body with his protest sign* Michael: Hey, whoa, easy. We should wait a second or so... *Everyone starts wailing on him again* Michael: Hey, guys, come on...oh well... *Michael joins in*
Yes, but I would do it in a way where the torture would be sudden and unexpected, at random times of day so I could hear him utter his classic catchphrase, “WHAT IS HAPPENING?” and see him do the ‘Alex YIIK pose’.
This is more accurate than what you think because the world being destroyed represents Alex's life slowly going to shit because he's unwilling to act like an adult and keep running away from responsibilities.
I love roboobia's emotions, red eyes, blue eyes, yellow eyes, same goes with the mouth... Also love how her clavicles are convenient handles you can toss her of the bridge with.
I've gotten weirdly invested in the story and wanna see where it goes but I could never sit through or play the actual game myself, Thank you boys for taking one for the team and playing through this captivating trainwreck for us.
@@kirbyfan4 oh dont worry i have 0 expectations for the story, by invested i meant more like when you watch a bad movie just to see what wacky shit happens lmao.
There are two types of people: "Play a different game omfg you are beating this horse dry out of it's life essence" "It's always a good day when there is a YIIK upload :) "
I know this game is supposed to be a deep look into Alex Yiiks psyche or whatever but getting deeper into this playthrough I'm just trying to figure out what's up with the dev because WOW.
@@PaperThin_ idk about the same room but she did die during development and apparently affected a lot of the ending. They ended up reworking the whole ending and the dungeon they just cleared.
@@amuro9624 They probably weren't in the same room as her for sure, but Im pretty sure that they did have to move to her place for awhile because of her rapidly deteriorating health.
@@skullservant4417 Haha! I get that a lot. I've had people think it was a cheesy nickname I gave myself only for me to say it's GaRNer and then they feel stupid XD
When he went off about thinking of a satellite, he was just dissociating. All of this is just Alex in a coma dream after getting hit by a car while getting groceries for his mom.
Vella: *calmly explains a thing. Alex: "VELLA YOU NEED TO TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON." Essentia 2000: *Presents various figures of light in a satanic room that has a copy of himself handing on a pentagram with fire spouting out of every angle while she explains his biggest flaw of destruction. Alex: "Oh boy, I don't understand."
Holy crap they whooped that boss. I don't know how the values started working at their level, but even Yuuzu's first form has well over a thousand HP. I was a little underleveled going through that so it was kind of a slog, so seeing them wreck his shit is both frustrating and cathartic. I am literally vibrating with motion right now.
strength is super broken along with LP toss, basically just always focus strength stats as your highest and you'l be unstoppable eventually without even need to grind THAT hard
cant get over how poorly done everything about yuzu is okay also, all the important female characters are just the same character, who's a perfect robot girl whose sole purpose is to tell alex how special he is and how much she loves him, alex (the most undeserving character) is actually the most important person in the multiverse. this has to be self-insert, right?
Up to a certain point, yes. I don't think the author would want to fully insert himself in a multiverse where he is responsible for the destruction of every reality. Then again, there's a hot robot.
@@mabe4322 I don't know, the thing that makes Alex so infuriating is that everything bad is too believable and transparent, lengthy dialogue ect, this is what the creatior thinks is cool and is how they want to be seen
Honestly if Alex was a dik the whole game it would be funny I think dikish characters can be good if you give them the skills and reasons for why they are a dik like Kabia from yugio but Alex is to much of a uninteresting nerd who seems to be a jerk for no reason and the story takes it’s self way to seriously for that.
There it is: The character that very obviously reflects an actual death is actually the main protagonist’s girlfriend from an alternate universe and a literal plot device
That's a stretch. And the reason Sammy is in the game is because Alex is trying to chase after her to escape reality. It's a criticism of people who obsess over true crime story without actually caring about the victims. He literally spells it out in this very episode.
@@amuro9624 that’s probably what it *actually* means, my reading’s just really uncharitable. I just connected it with this specific Alex being considered “one of the better versions of Alex” (which I could also be way off, its been a while)
@@Max-kv1xm Imagine it this way. What if your dead family member or loved one was in a game without your permission. If you say you'd be okay with it most aren't and that is the issue.
Well just prior to the fight, she mentions how she has weird blanks spots in her memory regarding the man, so she either doesn't remember or purposefully blotted out her own memory of that lifetime. That or she's lying about it.
@@ImusakHctividar She is lying Sorry for da spoilers but Essentia is actually evil and the whole plot up to this point was her evil plan to lure Alex into the soul space, to do some shit idk They had a better ending in mind but changed it after dev's mom passed under the emotional influence
If that one hour fight felt meaningful and engaging, maybe I'd pick the first one but this is YIIK, so I'd say long fights are worse because it's boring and it holds you back from getting to LOL at Alex YIIK being a massive freaking nerd.
Meh, in both case you get faced with a slog, whether it's a fight or the story the game still draws out in length. At least the shorter fights mean you have to spend less time suffering those animations.
this will be lauded as one of oneyplays bestest series you just watch. also, i'd really enjoy it if detroit: become human came back - really liked chris' approach
small part that is often overlooked is how 2000 is manipulating you to make her choices. contant moments of "stop asking questions" and "don't open that door" gives it away
The original ending was so much better. I get that the dev's grief affected him, but it would have been better to keep an optimistic ending rather than a "nothing mattered at all" ending that just leaves you pissed off.
@@lilcritic3260 Alright, ending spoilers: All of Alex's party die to the final boss (which is of course a big evil alternate Alex). He then literally pulls the plug on reality to defeat the final boss, ceasing everything's existence forever. Nothing matters. The original ending was going to be a happy one, but after losing his mother the dev went "fuck everything" and decided to make it bleak as fuck. While the original ending still had that Yiik wordiness, it was an actual payoff. Also, because of the ending change, a ton of what Essentia is telling Alex in this part of the game is a lie (rather than her telling the truth and genuinely being on the side of good).
I can't believe we're still getting videos with Ding Dong & Julian 3 months on. I genuinely thought they'd only be back for maybe a handful of videos like Ding Dong's previous visits. I dread the day Tomar finally regains his full power and banishes them back to the void.
Alex: how can I destroy reality? What power do I have that can do that? Robot: inaction is the same as action. Neutrality is the same as picking a side. What the fuck kind of answer is that? Did the creator hit his head when writing this scene?
It means him not doing anything can destroy it. Is that really hard to understand? It’s like watching some poor lad get slugged by a jerk and you just standing there watching him take it and not doing anything. Silence is violence
It's supposed to mean all of us have the potential to destroy simply by not doing anything. Not Alex specifically. It's still a really weird and dumb thing to write. Alex's arc has never been that there is a bunch of stuff going on, but he won't get involved. He's actively involved in a bunch things that have almost nothing to do with him. He isn't neutral about anything they've introduced in this game. This only way this kind of works is if at the end of the game, Alex realizes he needs to get involved in 2000 politics and get Al Gore elected. Which is the most bizarre "message" a game could have because no one has a time machine. It's just really really bad writing.
@@buhgingo2933 How could silence be violence if he himself has no say or possibility of knowing what the violence is or how to stop said violence. It's dumb because even RoboVella doesn't know what's actually going to happen, so why would "Alek's inaction" be the same as watching some guy get his ass kicked?
"What powers do I have that could lead to this type of devastation!?" Remember that penny you decided against picking up 5 years ago? Had you picked it up the butterfly effect would have staved off the apocalypse. This is all on you alone because of how special you are. I have told you all this so that we might dwell upon it in futility and kill 20 minutes. Come now, we have a long journey ahead to build dramatic tension before I resume my lecture about how shitballs crazy this all is and how only you can help.
i love watching the guys play yiik so much i really hope they finish(ed) it! it's the perfect amount of paying attention to the game when i want to know how a plotline is progressing and then ignoring it when it's annoying so i just listen to the boys
I really have to commend them for making it this far, I would have either stopped entirely or I’d just be skipping through all the dialogue at this point.
6:55 I'm not one to defend this game, but it just looks like the rib cage is at a very similar angle to the arm, despite her tum-tum being more vertical right up until then. Along with the detail of her outline being a similar color to the dark green, so it looks like her torso extends further back behind her arm It's more convincing without the close-up for sure, so I get why it looked that way. I always think of these things when I draw or look at other drawings. The idea of having details that, while fine on their own, end up creating an illusion of sorts that wasn't intended. The faces you see on cars is a good example in the sense that each part wasn't put there to intentionally make a face, rather they happened to match up like that. It can be easy to miss for sure, but it's like when you accidentally draw a shlong just because that's how everything *_lined_* up. :3 Seriously, though, my art classes never mentioned such a thing (not referring to shlongs), because there are times when you have to slightly alter something, because the added lines from their hair make it look like they have a droopy eye, as an example. I'm not saying this because they need to know or whatever, I just find the idea of accidental illusions (that word might be over-selling it, but you get my point) interesting and that it's something that any artist should look out for, since it makes you feel mighty dumb when you finally do.
I'm unironiclly endeared to the story and even Alex at this point. Certainly the writing could've been better polished to say the least, but I really like the weirdness of it all. It puts forth some interesting ideas with the whole parallel selves concept and etc, but unfortunately in a rather clumsy manner. vibratingwithmotion/10 looking forward to more!
I like the character designs and the world but the writing is like something I would have written in sixth grade and the dungeons and combat are dull. I think the other guy is right, you've got stockholm syndrome.
im in a similar boat; im trying to give it the benefit of the doubt and read into the story to see what the author could be alluding to, but every 5 minutes my eyes glaze over. these kind of games benefit from having multiple endings or hidden themes. if this was as post-modern as it claimed to be, i'd love to see a situational ending for having enough money in your pocket/helping mom. economy is booming in 1999, but your mom missed out on investing because she sent her kids to college. now she's out of a job and needs you to come up with $20k. dont make it obvious, but let it be a bonus if you manage to do it. i dont know much about this game, but there are at least a lot of lessons to be learned from its failures. i dont even mind the main character being a pretentious asshole; the player doesnt need it to be a self-insert. laugh at the man-baby. there are so many things that are close to being good, but the core elements of gameplay are too rough.
@@kenwynnelson6340 there's an alternate ending where Alex finds Sammy and gets a job. It's considered a bad ending by most people because chasing Sammy is a bad thing in the first place.
@@amuro9624 wasn't that ending like a weird developer thing and non-canon? Many characters in the building refer to themselves as cut content, Rory's ghost is there, and the Sammy that appears in that ending is also a strange ethereal glowing being that refers to Alex by the player's name, not his. The guy who mistakes Alex for the intern also uses your entered player name and not Alex's. Alex doesn't speak at all during it either. I can't really take it seriously as a legitimate ending.
Fuck, out of all the information that robot has learned from all the different realities, what a paradox is isn't fucking one of them. Just in the final conversation she contradicts herself a few times.
This game is good because Commander Gotou is in it, and he says a meme I know, and he got in teh robutz, and video games aren't a waste of ti- oh hey, look, a Two Brothers reference over there!
With every YIIK video posted on the internet my soul gets closer and closer to leaving my body to enter the soul space. I thought about it long and hard.. even longer and harder as every micro second of the ever pacing time flowed through my reverberating mind.. when can I reach the final conclusion of why my chubby is so thick and flubby.
Ok so that 20 minute essay on the most basic moral shit ever can be summed up as "People feel guilty for being responsible for a problem, even if not directly, and we often argue defensively on our behalf in order to maintain our good appearance and approval." This game tries so hard to be deeply philosophical, but comes off with a narrative more shallow than a puddle.
@@amuro9624 Lisa: The Painful is a good example, it basically teaches you the significance of "the ends don't justify the means." I personally don't think a game needs to be philosophical in order to have a great story, but if it absolutely has to say something at least make the message stand out in an acceptable way.
I wish this was like that one Jet Li movie called The One and some sort of crazy ninja Alex shows up from one of the other dimensions and kills Alex Yiik to make himself stronger.
@@Lime30373 I dont think i have ever seen a true indie spiritual successor to Earthbound. Anytime a dev claims that, they usually mean they tried to copy Mother 3.
9:36 Alex yiik asking incredulously if he’s ever hurt any of the woman like Vella before-because he has “no way of knowing with any certainty”-is such a weird highlight of bad writing and self absorbed thinking because, NOT THAT LONG AGO, the Vella in HIS CURRENT REALITY straight-up told him that he was being an asshole and hurt her when he was doing all that shit with the album😂 so uh… the answer is yes, and he also not only *could* have know, he *should* have known, because she told him point blank loll
Taking your 'friends' with you to the soul space to avoid the potential destruction of the universe, and knowing this because you have glimpsed into other parallel universes. That sounds like a story a cult leader would tell just before handing out the death tablets.
i'm not sure if it's intentional, maybe it is, but i find it weird that essentia is the only woman in the game who has a 3d model that isn't horribly ugly. maybe it's supposed to be about how she's the woman alex loves the most and thinks is the most pretty.
6:24 I actually really like the writing here. While most people think of that on a daily basis, Alex YIIK is a bit narcissistic. Narcissists don't recognize that their being defensive further hurts people and actually do need to be told this
I'd been waiting from episode 1 for them to start abusing LP Toss. Some things have changed since TehSnakerer did his review on YIIK, but glad to see some things haven't.
Thank god I didn't try to go blind into trying to play this game myself. The only thing that makes this thing bearable to me is the boys' impressions of Alex Yiik.
![Seungmin "그렇게, 천천히, 우리(As we are)" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kAzmhLHePqU/mqdefault.jpg)
"You did something wrong in a parallel universe so feel bad about it" has strong Tiny Hitler vibes.
Don't worry, there's more to it. It doesn't make more sense, but there will be more.
If you had a parallel Alex would you torture him
@@unoriginalname2016 actually YES. Hell it doesn't even need to be a parallel Alex.
@@unoriginalname2016 easily.
@GigiGiga uWu
PLOT TWIST: Alex has been imagining this whole adventure while he stood in the dairy aisle at the grocery store
I literally just commented something super similar haha
@@deadlikedisco4726 haha great minds
If he got the groceries that would instantly redeem his character
Forever stuck in grocery mind hell
that be the best ending
Robotina's dialogue is like 40% "I have an infinite capacity for knowledge. I know everything. Did i tell you that i know everything?" yadda yadda yadda.
And then 60% "I don't know this. I have no knowledge of this. This is beyond my comprehension. You fucked up, Alex. This is all your fault. That's why yo mama dead"
What a horribly written character.
Dead as hell
I am Sammy park(semi pak), I am Vella wilde, I am the cat, I am Michael, I am you, you are we, I am God's brothers sister.
This is her dialog in a nutshell
@@Maloz-se1rf I am you and you are me and we are all together
@@tivvy2vs21 See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly
, I'm crying.
@@Maloz-se1rf lol that reminded me of God’s speech to Father in FMA:B but without any of the actual depth and intellect in that speech. Wouldn’t be surprised to find out if the dev tried to watch a bunch of anime to try and be deep.
I’m just imagining as all this is happening Alex YIIK is still standing in the parking lot, staring out into space as Rory is telling the others how he doesn’t feel safe around Alex YIIK after he tried to kiss him.
Alternatively I could also imagine Alex doing the exact same thing, but his friends are smacking him with their weapons trying to wake him up out of his trance state.
@@DatOneCat
Michael: Should we keep going?
Vella: He said to hit him until he gave the signal to stop.
Rory: Did anyone hear the signal?
Vella: Well, he was whining for a while...
Michael: Do you think whining was the signal?
*Rory whacks Alex's unconscious body with his protest sign*
Michael: Hey, whoa, easy. We should wait a second or so...
*Everyone starts wailing on him again*
Michael: Hey, guys, come on...oh well...
*Michael joins in*
If you had a tiny Alex Yiik, would you torture him? He is a exact copy of the Alex who destroyed several realities.
Yes, because either way, he's a horrible person. So I won't feel guilty anyway.
Yes, but I would do it in a way where the torture would be sudden and unexpected, at random times of day so I could hear him utter his classic catchphrase, “WHAT IS HAPPENING?” and see him do the ‘Alex YIIK pose’.
I'd make him play YIIK
I'd make him go buy groceries.
If I had regular Alex Yiik I would torture him.
"Alex, your reality was doomed to destruction the moment you failed to pick up groceries for your mother"
"Damn, talk about butterfly effect."
“if she had the milk she needed that day she wouldn’t have been fired from Dimensional Destruction Defense Inc. by King DiDeDe.”
His universe was doomed the moment his dad forgot to check if he had wiped the toilet seat properly.
XD
This is more accurate than what you think because the world being destroyed represents Alex's life slowly going to shit because he's unwilling to act like an adult and keep running away from responsibilities.
Alex: "Is this the first time I ever harmed someone?"
Rory: I'm standing right here!
I totally read that in their voices involuntarily 😂😂
@Stellvia Hoenheim wot
@Stellvia Hoenheim I can appreciate the sentiment, but I don't think it's much applicable here.
@@belottov He wasn’t being serious
"He hurt me right here! Right where we're standing!"
I love roboobia's emotions, red eyes, blue eyes, yellow eyes, same goes with the mouth...
Also love how her clavicles are convenient handles you can toss her of the bridge with.
Got a guffaw out of this, nice.
*slaps the destroy reality button* What's the point of this reality if Rory rejects my tender kisses?
So really it's all Rory's fault. What an asshole.
Did you have to call them tender
@@BranJohn98 I can see no better descriptor.
Alex: Well, actually, I'm not certain if he was Japanese, but he was very.... Exotic
God, I WISH he said that so badly. It is so in line for him.
"""VAGUELY ETHNIC"""
💀
I'm really glad that this video starts with having the Essentia 2000 self destruct for absolutely no reason
I've gotten weirdly invested in the story and wanna see where it goes but I could never sit through or play the actual game myself, Thank you boys for taking one for the team and playing through this captivating trainwreck for us.
I don’t even know what’s happening in the story anymore, I’m just watching to support Oney, Ding Dong and Julien haha
Don’t get your hopes up, the ending is just the dev going “nothing matter you dumbasses should have played my other game”
@@kirbyfan4 oh dont worry i have 0 expectations for the story, by invested i meant more like when you watch a bad movie just to see what wacky shit happens lmao.
What's the story Brett? Explain it.
@@theperfectdoug Ginger man find woman and screams at everyone he meets.
There are two types of people:
"Play a different game omfg you are beating this horse dry out of it's life essence"
"It's always a good day when there is a YIIK upload :) "
The duality of man
tbf that was kinda me with KH2 lol
i like YIIK, tho
I like this but I WOULD like to see more it takes two with tomar and lyle
@@paplinko straight from the tomyle farm
@@Caderfixloxa plus I wanna see more book markiplier antics
I know this game is supposed to be a deep look into Alex Yiiks psyche or whatever but getting deeper into this playthrough I'm just trying to figure out what's up with the dev because WOW.
His mind is wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle
Didnt the dev have to work on this game in the same room as his dying mother?
@@PaperThin_ idk about the same room but she did die during development and apparently affected a lot of the ending. They ended up reworking the whole ending and the dungeon they just cleared.
@@amuro9624 They probably weren't in the same room as her for sure, but Im pretty sure that they did have to move to her place for awhile because of her rapidly deteriorating health.
fr
"As she stared at me with her emotionless face"
1 minute later
"I was able to read the robots face"
This game is giving me autism
"She left without saying a word"
Essentia 2000: Blah blah blah
I already had autism but this game isn't helping any.
@@RoninCatholic I have autism but this game is helping me realize I'm not as screwed up as I think.
@@AMVpurgatory I thought your name was Matt Gamer ngl
@@skullservant4417 Haha! I get that a lot. I've had people think it was a cheesy nickname I gave myself only for me to say it's GaRNer and then they feel stupid XD
When he went off about thinking of a satellite, he was just dissociating. All of this is just Alex in a coma dream after getting hit by a car while getting groceries for his mom.
Pfft, like Alex would get groceries
He was skulking around town thinking about groceries before getting hit
Wow that would be something!
@@bojackbovine4596 He was hanging around the arcade hitting on high schoolers.
He starts grabbing his head and screaming while Paulie Walnuts complains about his testicles
Vella: *calmly explains a thing.
Alex: "VELLA YOU NEED TO TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON."
Essentia 2000: *Presents various figures of light in a satanic room that has a copy of himself handing on a pentagram with fire spouting out of every angle while she explains his biggest flaw of destruction.
Alex: "Oh boy, I don't understand."
Uh, it's called good writing, sweaty.
You can tell the games feels like wading naked trough an ocean of jello because they think they did two episodes
Whaddyou mean
I think they just expected the dungeon to be its own episode and not 2 episodes and a half
I don't blame them for the intermission.
@@84everfan90 12:32. Plus, they also asked each other if they did a sync test.
I imagine that’s what it feels like actually playing it. having to listen to all that dumb dialogue and exposition for like 10+ minutes straight
NG+ where the only difference is every time someone asks a question The Essentia 2000 looks at the camera and says “This question is irrelevant”
Holy crap they whooped that boss. I don't know how the values started working at their level, but even Yuuzu's first form has well over a thousand HP. I was a little underleveled going through that so it was kind of a slog, so seeing them wreck his shit is both frustrating and cathartic. I am literally vibrating with motion right now.
strength is super broken along with LP toss, basically just always focus strength stats as your highest and you'l be unstoppable eventually without even need to grind THAT hard
cant get over how poorly done everything about yuzu is
okay also, all the important female characters are just the same character, who's a perfect robot girl whose sole purpose is to tell alex how special he is and how much she loves him, alex (the most undeserving character) is actually the most important person in the multiverse. this has to be self-insert, right?
Up to a certain point, yes. I don't think the author would want to fully insert himself in a multiverse where he is responsible for the destruction of every reality.
Then again, there's a hot robot.
@@mabe4322 I don't know, the thing that makes Alex so infuriating is that everything bad is too believable and transparent, lengthy dialogue ect, this is what the creatior thinks is cool and is how they want to be seen
I mean that's kind of the point of essentia. She's the idealized version of Vella/sammy to Alex.
Honestly if Alex was a dik the whole game it would be funny I think dikish characters can be good if you give them the skills and reasons for why they are a dik like Kabia from yugio but Alex is to much of a uninteresting nerd who seems to be a jerk for no reason and the story takes it’s self way to seriously for that.
@@peridusk6128 wait you think the author is trying to write Alex as a cool character?
Dingdong before: "no don't do that"
Dingdong now: 14:18
The YIIK effect
@@RasmusKudahl makes you the worst dimensional version of yourself.
@@crackedemerald4930 it makes you as unlikeable as the characters
@@Jvaleezy and gives you your own thing. Like Carlos.
Alex:how could I possibly have the power to destroy reality?
Essentia:silence is violence alex
Me a mute: ...
There it is: The character that very obviously reflects an actual death is actually the main protagonist’s girlfriend from an alternate universe and a literal plot device
That's a stretch. And the reason Sammy is in the game is because Alex is trying to chase after her to escape reality. It's a criticism of people who obsess over true crime story without actually caring about the victims. He literally spells it out in this very episode.
@@amuro9624 never thought of it that way. Thanks YIIK expert!
@@amuro9624 that’s probably what it *actually* means, my reading’s just really uncharitable. I just connected it with this specific Alex being considered “one of the better versions of Alex” (which I could also be way off, its been a while)
so fucking what? you cant base stories on real life events anymore? why is everyone so pissy about Elisa Lam and YIIK
@@Max-kv1xm Imagine it this way. What if your dead family member or loved one was in a game without your permission. If you say you'd be okay with it most aren't and that is the issue.
I LOVE BEING IN YIIK!
THAT'S MY BEST FEELING!
You’re not in YIIK
I LOVE BEING YIIK!
@@buhgingo2933 in a parallel universe I AM YIIK
@@deuone in a parallel universe I am Vella YIIK
the exposition lasts longer than the fight, it's amazing
Remember when it was vice versa
It is the real fight
Tip: YIIK is NOT a waste of time
Especially if you don’t play it!
I actually see these episodes as a well documented car crash in game-form which you can learn from
One minute wasted in YIIK feels like a WIIK
Tip: pleeeaaaassssseeee don’t uninstall this game pllllzzzzzz :)
Someone needs to mod this game so that Alex always has the option to kiss the character he’s currently talking to
Turn it into a dating sim, genius
Make a mod where he gets groceries and can kiss them too
@@bojackbovine4596 Also a mod for getting a job.
YIIK: Chulip Edition
can always press x to kiss and the animation and sound effect play
Somebody should tell the Yiik writer: “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
I personally like the K.I.S.S. method, Keep It Simple Stupid.
@@tehskullmunkymedia594 y....you like the kiss method?
*Blushes
*Closes eyes
*Puckers lips
@@skinnysnorlax1876 *shits
@@skinnysnorlax1876 *Hides beet-red face behind hands*
@@RobbieRothschild *hides beet red hands behind face
My god, Alex is the most insufferable video game character ever
Explain plz
@@KevinGsWK hippie
@@mislavkrznaric1635 is that seriously all it takes?
@@KevinGsWK of course not
Explain plz
>Exists in and therefore has all knowledge of all possible alternate realities
>Doesn’t know who the funny Japanese man was
What great writing
Well just prior to the fight, she mentions how she has weird blanks spots in her memory regarding the man, so she either doesn't remember or purposefully blotted out her own memory of that lifetime. That or she's lying about it.
@@ImusakHctividar If she doesn't remember him, what's he doing there with his own mechsuit?
@@Porkey_Minch My interpretation is that she's lying to Alex and this is foreshadowing for later story stuff. Or it could be a dev goof.
@@ImusakHctividar
She is lying
Sorry for da spoilers but Essentia is actually evil and the whole plot up to this point was her evil plan to lure Alex into the soul space, to do some shit idk
They had a better ending in mind but changed it after dev's mom passed under the emotional influence
Jesus is gonna come back before they finish this game
I asked my dad what he would do if he had a Tiny Hitler, and he said he’d put him in his pants and fart, “gassing” him.
Yay for Jesus
I liked it, and I'm NOT a hooligan
@GigiGiga ugh
Hope so
I'm not sure which is worse, ending all fights instantly or one fight lasting 1 hour
I prefer the shorter fights. A YIIK fight lasting for an entire episode isn't very fun.
If that one hour fight felt meaningful and engaging, maybe I'd pick the first one but this is YIIK, so I'd say long fights are worse because it's boring and it holds you back from getting to LOL at Alex YIIK being a massive freaking nerd.
Yes
Meh, in both case you get faced with a slog, whether it's a fight or the story the game still draws out in length.
At least the shorter fights mean you have to spend less time suffering those animations.
Objectively the latter, nobody is playing this for its robust and dynamic battle system.
this will be lauded as one of oneyplays bestest series you just watch.
also, i'd really enjoy it if detroit: become human came back - really liked chris' approach
Alex power of destruction is that his pretentiousness is just that massive
Alex could’ve avoided all of this if he just went grocery shopping…
I really hope dingdong makes chris sit through all of the endings
That'd be cool, since the KNN ending is actually pretty cool
there’s multiple endings???
Every time I see a new Yiik update, I scream “YIIK, AHHHH” at the top of my lungs. Nobody questions it anymore
at a certain point in the game, the strength stat breaks, it's unclear if this is actually intended or not
so it isnt
This series is turning out to be one of my favourites on the channel. Great work guys!
he was rory in a alternate universe
Instead of “No one cares about your dead sister” it would become “Everyone cares about your dead sister”.
In an alternate universe rory tries to kiss himself but his leg mom hops in and catches him in the act
@@darksamich1173 i HATE how reading that just conjured an image of it in my head ... FUCK
i can not fucking believe it has taken this long for the story to finally present to you the reason for the journey in the first fucking place
I feel like the life bar thing was probably unintentional but was left in because it was neat.
Alex really doesn't strike me as a person who would ever amount to anything ...let alone a reality bending, multiverse-ending being
small part that is often overlooked is how 2000 is manipulating you to make her choices. contant moments of "stop asking questions" and "don't open that door" gives it away
I love their immediate interpretations of the character sprites
"Hmm... I'm dying"
This game just comes in one ear and comes out the other with the stupid exposition dialogue
I needed my daily dose of YIIK, thank you for spreading the joy Chris.
I'm like 90% sure the Japanese robot man has a female Japanese name
Tell
Is Yuzu a girl's name?
@@vivvygipe9605 I'm pretty sure but like I said 10% doubt
thats it, yiik destroyed gender roles
@@vivvygipe9605 Google tells me it can be either or but it's more often a girl's name. Also the word for a citrus fruit ...
(end of game spoilers)
they're gonna be so mad when they get to the end of the game and find out that none the story mattered at all. i can't wait
What is it all like a dream or some shit?
The original ending was so much better. I get that the dev's grief affected him, but it would have been better to keep an optimistic ending rather than a "nothing mattered at all" ending that just leaves you pissed off.
@@lilcritic3260 Alright, ending spoilers:
All of Alex's party die to the final boss (which is of course a big evil alternate Alex). He then literally pulls the plug on reality to defeat the final boss, ceasing everything's existence forever. Nothing matters. The original ending was going to be a happy one, but after losing his mother the dev went "fuck everything" and decided to make it bleak as fuck. While the original ending still had that Yiik wordiness, it was an actual payoff. Also, because of the ending change, a ton of what Essentia is telling Alex in this part of the game is a lie (rather than her telling the truth and genuinely being on the side of good).
I can't believe we're still getting videos with Ding Dong & Julian 3 months on. I genuinely thought they'd only be back for maybe a handful of videos like Ding Dong's previous visits. I dread the day Tomar finally regains his full power and banishes them back to the void.
At this point the episodes are just the fellas letting the game talk for itself and allowing us to experience the same pain they went through.
Chris is like the Yiik KING of jello at this moment. he is seriously jelking rn
Alex: how can I destroy reality? What power do I have that can do that?
Robot: inaction is the same as action. Neutrality is the same as picking a side.
What the fuck kind of answer is that? Did the creator hit his head when writing this scene?
It means him not doing anything can destroy it. Is that really hard to understand? It’s like watching some poor lad get slugged by a jerk and you just standing there watching him take it and not doing anything. Silence is violence
@@buhgingo2933 Nah, you're a fascist. You want control over people's agency.
@@shorewall what
It's supposed to mean all of us have the potential to destroy simply by not doing anything. Not Alex specifically. It's still a really weird and dumb thing to write. Alex's arc has never been that there is a bunch of stuff going on, but he won't get involved. He's actively involved in a bunch things that have almost nothing to do with him. He isn't neutral about anything they've introduced in this game. This only way this kind of works is if at the end of the game, Alex realizes he needs to get involved in 2000 politics and get Al Gore elected. Which is the most bizarre "message" a game could have because no one has a time machine. It's just really really bad writing.
@@buhgingo2933 How could silence be violence if he himself has no say or possibility of knowing what the violence is or how to stop said violence. It's dumb because even RoboVella doesn't know what's actually going to happen, so why would "Alek's inaction" be the same as watching some guy get his ass kicked?
I wish these episodes were a bit longer considering how plot heavy they are.
ermmm dialogue heavy... wouldnt actually call it plot
@@RagbagMcShag You right. Plot? More like PLOP... OF SHIET!! DIS GAYME IS ANAL SAUCE!!!
"What powers do I have that could lead to this type of devastation!?" Remember that penny you decided against picking up 5 years ago? Had you picked it up the butterfly effect would have staved off the apocalypse. This is all on you alone because of how special you are. I have told you all this so that we might dwell upon it in futility and kill 20 minutes. Come now, we have a long journey ahead to build dramatic tension before I resume my lecture about how shitballs crazy this all is and how only you can help.
"Do you know why this is happening viewer?" Is what I expected to hear from Alex
i love watching the guys play yiik so much i really hope they finish(ed) it! it's the perfect amount of paying attention to the game when i want to know how a plotline is progressing and then ignoring it when it's annoying so i just listen to the boys
This has been such a fun journey, glad Dingus & Julius came back for this.
I really have to commend them for making it this far, I would have either stopped entirely or I’d just be skipping through all the dialogue at this point.
Can't wait for the 11 hour complete series
6:55 I'm not one to defend this game, but it just looks like the rib cage is at a very similar angle to the arm, despite her tum-tum being more vertical right up until then. Along with the detail of her outline being a similar color to the dark green, so it looks like her torso extends further back behind her arm It's more convincing without the close-up for sure, so I get why it looked that way.
I always think of these things when I draw or look at other drawings. The idea of having details that, while fine on their own, end up creating an illusion of sorts that wasn't intended. The faces you see on cars is a good example in the sense that each part wasn't put there to intentionally make a face, rather they happened to match up like that. It can be easy to miss for sure, but it's like when you accidentally draw a shlong just because that's how everything *_lined_* up. :3
Seriously, though, my art classes never mentioned such a thing (not referring to shlongs), because there are times when you have to slightly alter something, because the added lines from their hair make it look like they have a droopy eye, as an example. I'm not saying this because they need to know or whatever, I just find the idea of accidental illusions (that word might be over-selling it, but you get my point) interesting and that it's something that any artist should look out for, since it makes you feel mighty dumb when you finally do.
"He can't destroy a THING without his glasses!"
"Mega Bot used Heal! There is a series of beeps and boops coming from its head."
...Eh, you didn't miss much.
Why does Alex keep moving his lips during his inner monologues.
No, that wasn’t a question.
I'm unironiclly endeared to the story and even Alex at this point. Certainly the writing could've been better polished to say the least, but I really like the weirdness of it all. It puts forth some interesting ideas with the whole parallel selves concept and etc, but unfortunately in a rather clumsy manner. vibratingwithmotion/10 looking forward to more!
Stockholm syndrome
I like the character designs and the world but the writing is like something I would have written in sixth grade and the dungeons and combat are dull. I think the other guy is right, you've got stockholm syndrome.
im in a similar boat; im trying to give it the benefit of the doubt and read into the story to see what the author could be alluding to, but every 5 minutes my eyes glaze over. these kind of games benefit from having multiple endings or hidden themes. if this was as post-modern as it claimed to be, i'd love to see a situational ending for having enough money in your pocket/helping mom. economy is booming in 1999, but your mom missed out on investing because she sent her kids to college. now she's out of a job and needs you to come up with $20k. dont make it obvious, but let it be a bonus if you manage to do it.
i dont know much about this game, but there are at least a lot of lessons to be learned from its failures. i dont even mind the main character being a pretentious asshole; the player doesnt need it to be a self-insert. laugh at the man-baby. there are so many things that are close to being good, but the core elements of gameplay are too rough.
@@kenwynnelson6340 there's an alternate ending where Alex finds Sammy and gets a job. It's considered a bad ending by most people because chasing Sammy is a bad thing in the first place.
@@amuro9624 wasn't that ending like a weird developer thing and non-canon? Many characters in the building refer to themselves as cut content, Rory's ghost is there, and the Sammy that appears in that ending is also a strange ethereal glowing being that refers to Alex by the player's name, not his.
The guy who mistakes Alex for the intern also uses your entered player name and not Alex's. Alex doesn't speak at all during it either. I can't really take it seriously as a legitimate ending.
This is like going through torture you just barely have the pain tolerance to take.
Fuck, out of all the information that robot has learned from all the different realities, what a paradox is isn't fucking one of them. Just in the final conversation she contradicts herself a few times.
As soon as they started talking about Alex's alternate selves I thought "oh hes the guy who cheated on vella or whatever the fuck happened"
I feel like "WHAT THE F**K IS GOING ON!?!?" is the best and most resonable response to this game
DAMMIT! Why’d they have to mention the arm. Can’t stop staring at it
almost the entire episode is dialogue
OneyNG please do not bully pink MegaMan, the time stopper is good it helps me beat quick man's stage
This game is good because Commander Gotou is in it, and he says a meme I know, and he got in teh robutz, and video games aren't a waste of ti- oh hey, look, a Two Brothers reference over there!
With every YIIK video posted on the internet my soul gets closer and closer to leaving my body to enter the soul space.
I thought about it long and hard.. even longer and harder as every micro second of the ever pacing time flowed through my reverberating mind.. when can I reach the final conclusion of why my chubby is so thick and flubby.
vibrating with motion?
Ok so that 20 minute essay on the most basic moral shit ever can be summed up as "People feel guilty for being responsible for a problem, even if not directly, and we often argue defensively on our behalf in order to maintain our good appearance and approval." This game tries so hard to be deeply philosophical, but comes off with a narrative more shallow than a puddle.
Tell me one game that thought you some moral lesson you hadn't figured out yet
@@amuro9624 Lisa: The Painful is a good example, it basically teaches you the significance of "the ends don't justify the means." I personally don't think a game needs to be philosophical in order to have a great story, but if it absolutely has to say something at least make the message stand out in an acceptable way.
I like how as this series goes on, the amount of us willing to put up with it keeps dwindling.
When i saw this uploaded i put down my alex yiik funko pop, crinkled my toes and giggled with glee.
I can't believe that they are still playing this shit. Can't wait for the next episode
12:28 Julian does a wonderful Zach impression
I'd rather they finish this game than get an unfinished "complete" series later
Oney plays YIIK is all I look forward too in my down time. This series is beautiful.
*to
@@drownedhill3829 *tooo
@@drownedhill3829 in your doomed timeline?
I want them to finish the game, just to realize how bad it really is-- Who am I kidding, they'll still defend it...
I wish this was like that one Jet Li movie called The One and some sort of crazy ninja Alex shows up from one of the other dimensions and kills Alex Yiik to make himself stronger.
2 dislikes already, looks like we've got some Anti-YIIKS.
That's the creator and his dummy account.
That's Alex's mom pissed that she didn't get groceries.
Alex Yiik is the kinda guy to just play The Phantom Pain and only TPP and claim he's the "biggest Metal Gear fan" in existence
He’s the kind of guy to gush about how great Earthbound is without actually playing it. Or maybe that was the guy who made this game…
Alex YiiK is the kind of guy who spends $400 a month on onlyfans and then rants about how he hates women on /pol/
@@Lime30373 I dont think i have ever seen a true indie spiritual successor to Earthbound. Anytime a dev claims that, they usually mean they tried to copy Mother 3.
Alex YIIK is the type of guy to only play Yakuza 0 and gets his information on the rest of the series on the subreddit.
Everytime Ding Juli and Only play - "I need to wake up"
*_Immediate Funny screams_*
9:36 Alex yiik asking incredulously if he’s ever hurt any of the woman like Vella before-because he has “no way of knowing with any certainty”-is such a weird highlight of bad writing and self absorbed thinking because, NOT THAT LONG AGO, the Vella in HIS CURRENT REALITY straight-up told him that he was being an asshole and hurt her when he was doing all that shit with the album😂 so uh… the answer is yes, and he also not only *could* have know, he *should* have known, because she told him point blank loll
That boss battle was pretty cool. The music was really nice and the girl-robots beat rush is really cool.
DD and Julian's laughs fill me with joy :) I'm so happy we get to have them on the channel again, even if it's temporary!
Alex YIIK is like those people that are incapable of self-reflection tried to write a character with a redemption arc
I can’t believe this series is so long I’m gonna have to watch every episode i missed
So Alex's arch nemesis is a Japanese war criminal who experimented on maruta.
a yes, the great multidimentional gasslight argument, a question for the ages.
Taking your 'friends' with you to the soul space to avoid the potential destruction of the universe, and knowing this because you have glimpsed into other parallel universes. That sounds like a story a cult leader would tell just before handing out the death tablets.
i'm not sure if it's intentional, maybe it is, but i find it weird that essentia is the only woman in the game who has a 3d model that isn't horribly ugly. maybe it's supposed to be about how she's the woman alex loves the most and thinks is the most pretty.
6:24 I actually really like the writing here. While most people think of that on a daily basis, Alex YIIK is a bit narcissistic. Narcissists don't recognize that their being defensive further hurts people and actually do need to be told this
"Alex, why?"
"BECAUSE I'M ENJOYING A TREAT DERRICK!"
I'd been waiting from episode 1 for them to start abusing LP Toss. Some things have changed since TehSnakerer did his review on YIIK, but glad to see some things haven't.
Thank god I didn't try to go blind into trying to play this game myself. The only thing that makes this thing bearable to me is the boys' impressions of Alex Yiik.
7:02 it's not a mistake. that's where her ribcage comes out. you'd think two artists would be able to tell.
I love how much Chris loves the horse head nebula :)