Yuki Haruto I'll be honest, I wanted to see Yahtzee's Nintendo Switch Review to see if he would make a reference to his Color Splash Review in which called the then newly revealed Switch the NX... But no such joke occurred during the beginning of the video.

J. Hanna if you're going to bang an animal, why not a Dolphin?

+homesponge He did a review on the Switch. It's included in his review of Breath of The Wild.

Oh crap, I wasn't the only one having that "Did He just share his sex life with us?" moment !!!

Yuki Haruto He has a girlfriend you know.

or PAINKILLER! PREPOSTOROUS!!

Aubrey Westhusing BULLSHITE

He likes Portal. *runs away*

No wait, maybe he even likes Shadow of the Colossus! Or even Thief 2! Who knows he might even like Prince of Persia or Half-Life!!!

But WAIT does that mean he doesn't actually like ride to hell retribution How is that possible?

Yeah, it's a bit of a hidden gem I think. The game is pretty incredible if you like melancholy atmospheres, slower but more strategic combat, and heavy exploration. And if he thinks the difficulty curves down he clearly hasn't ever fought Failed Champion or The Radiance. Or the more recent Nightmare King Grimm. Biggest thing though, I can't believe how they managed to make a giant cave have so many aesthetically unique areas.

That's how I feel about my Thai sex worker "wife".

@@Dliciousization I think the difficulty curve changes, going up over time as a whole but doing down against individual enemies. Early on it isn't that hard because enemies just don't have that many ways to hurt you besides contact damage (plus you have plenty of windows for healing and the enemies have small hitboxes). Hell, I don't think I died early on at all. Lategame you can just tank or move past most of what would otherwise hurt you. Dash does make fights easier, as do a number of charm pickups. At the same time, enemies also start getting stronger, some can deal double damage and some have some nasty tricks up their sleeves. Later on enemies get tougher and the dash becomes a thing you need. Shade Dash allows them to start pitting you against *real* fights, like NKG, the Radiance, and the Godhome bonus bosses. (It also helps in the Colosseum of Fools...)

Ar0474 I bought it and hated it

@@johnelam23 keep playing

Hollow Knight is simply one of the best platforming games ever made imho. And I've been platforming since 1982.

Deepnest still gives me nightmares

Dude screw the Deepnest. Straight up.

Stone Sanctuary, The Abyss and the Soul Sanctum are such fucked up places

The soul sanctum is also pretty creepy imo

So it's basically Portal where the fight against GLaDOS is the first mini-boss?

*jots that idea down*

Dark Portals. Oh, opportunities for sex jokes that this name inspires.

I thought his all time favourite was the Thief-series (Well the first few at any rate)?

It won't be his dream game, because he'll complain its a portal/dark souls rip off

i think we're all kinda shocked as well

Gee, it's not like he's ever liked a game beforehand.

What about Portal?

I got a letter. The name on the envelope said 'Silent Hill 2'. A Japanese horror game's name... It's ridiculous, couldn't possibly be true... That's what I keep telling myself... Surely a Japanese horror game can't appeal to Yahtzee.

Obadiah Fraiser And Undertale, Doom, Psychonauts, Bioshock, Metroid Prime, Titanfall 2, Spec Ops: The Line, Fantasy World Dizzy, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Wind Waker, EarthBound, Bioshock Infinite, Papers Please, etc. etc...

While I think that HK is a good game, the whole 'encouraging exploration' thing is only a plus if the game world itself is very interesting. Even then, monotony can set in if you have to keep backtracking over the same areas and it can kill any atmosphere the game has going for it.

@@Bragglord Even though the game has similarities to DS it's still an entirely different genre of game. It's a mertoidvania which means a lot of exploration and backtracking. Also I find it hard to describe Hollow Knights exploration dull when half of the abilitys and most of the areas and bosses can be skipped or barley explored to beat the game. So that means discovering many different enemies, bosses, power ups, and entirely different play styles in charms is all reward for exploration.

Enemy variety, telegraphed attacks, bosses that have a phase 2 that builds on phase 1... I think you've just described most video games?

gophermanX WHERE?!

elix485 spoilers... All I'll say it's dark

gophermanX Oh. Are you talking about the Shade Cloak?

not a dodge roll tho

Shade cloak has a much longer cooldown than a dodge roll and it can't be used to 100% avoid everything. The length of the i-frame duration is pretty short. It really isn't a dodge roll whatsoever. We should all just accept the fact that the entire video is a joke. Team Cherry's main inspiration wasn't from Dark Souls either. Hell, the devs haven't even played any game to completion. So to say the game is DS inspired is ignorant to say the least.

Hero Of Rhyme I dunno. TEiN has even more cheap difficulty than Hollow Knight and Dead Cells combined. Being so monstrously hard may detract some fans.

Then in comes Cuphead, then the game shifts dramatically

BlazeHeartPanther Blaze Cuphead is complete dogshit compared to Hollow Knight.

Whoa, I never said that. Cuphead has as much quality as Hollow Knight.

Honestly, Hollow Knight is a much more enjoyable and longer experience. I know that it is simply your opinion but I don't think you would be saying it has as much quality if you actually 100%'ed HK. He is actually right to an extent. Cuphead does seem like dogshit when compared to Hollow Knight. Not saying Cuphead is bad, it's an 8/10 in my book but HK managed to exceed normal expectations and ended up being a near perfect 10/10 experience. There are some minor nitpicky problems so I would probably just put HK at a solid 9/10. The world and how it was just perfectly laid out just resonated with me so well. The story hidden in the world isn't even a cliche one either. Not going to say much to avoid any spoilers but as an overall package the game is amazing.

Nikola Janevski hunters grenade

Nah, dude. Ice blast and fire brands.

hunters grenade works wonders

@@xenogorwraithblade2538 Got both, and the barrier shield, if that's rare. And I didnt use hunter grenade to get it. Is the infinite bow rare? Thought it was mocking me when it said "the last shot is critical", until i used it.

The important question here is "so you have 100 hours in the game, how many times have you actually finished it, and how many boss cells are you on?" As i've finished it about 10 times, and have a mere 2 boss cells after more like 200 hours...

That's why you should have district heating instead. In fact this is the reason Denmark does so well on the pro level. We have district heating so no one is distracted by their water heater because they don't have one.

hedgehog3180 Now that's just not possible. Everyone thinks of water heaters

I read it in Yahtzee's voice and got quite amused. Good job, dear sir.

He did say something about a stroke

Yea I'm wondering why he thinks the dash was a power spike... that's like, the very beginning of the game. I know he has a lot of reviews to do, but it does seem like he barely scratches the surface before reviewing them.

@@justinz9225 Because if your reactions times are good enough, mobility is overpowered as hell. Can't die if you never get hit.

5 hours, it took me 5 hours to finish the white palace

@@Pheonix19581 now do path of pain :)

Yeah. The normal enemies maybe cheesed by dash but it doesn't work on boses. The different builds is a lot more fun in HK than DS. Cause you really have to think of how to allocate you slots. And besides hollow knight's small enemies still do the same damage which makes it brutal if youre not careful.

Yahtzee has the power of removing any hypelens that I may have to a game by force, if needed

Dishonored may have been the hardest hit from him, still love both though

This will be bloodborne 2's lore.

Deepest lore. pardon, _vore*_

I'm not sure whether to be disturbed, horrified, offended, or amused....

I am disturbed in an intriguing way

+Battle scared Alien to quote jonny brovo "i'm sickened but curious."

Only harder. -_- Edit: *NOT* in a good way.

Yeah he only says that like eight times in the video.

Yeah, it's pretty dumb, the developers themselves have gone out of their way to say they weren't trying to replicate Dark souls.

@@jackgarcia5926 Whether they wanted it or not, the two games feel very similar. Sure, there are major differences, it's not like Hollow Knight is a ripoff of Dark Souls, but the grim and lonely atmosphere, the way the story is told, the death mechanic, the themes of decay and struggling against the inescapable entropy, the abundance of side paths and optionnal areas, the insistance on imposing, dangerous bosses that you have to learn the pattern of the get past and of course, the difficulty... All of that adds up to make the two games feel very close and I doubt Hollow Knight would have looked the same if Dark Souls didn't exist. It's definitly an inspiration. And, to make this clear, I'm aware that none of the elements I just listed are unique to Dark Souls. But when you add them all together, you get something that looks like a Souls game. Also, saying HK isn't like DS because it's a metroidvania forgets that DS is almost a metroidvania and was certainly inspired by the genre mixed with RPGs. The sprawling open-world with an abundance of side paths that you have to explore and backtrack through once you unlocked new areas is not something From Software invented.

The only real gameplay similarity is recollecting your "souls" (geo) when you die. And I guess the general boss-centric thing, and the all-connected map. Those seem more general features rather than Dark Souls specific.

It is slightly telling how much suicide comes up in his early work. What with the ending puzzle in Trilby's notes, and the whole thing with the High Ones in whatever that space game was called, or that fucking random corpse just hanging off a tree for no reason in The Trials of Odysseus Kent. I suspect that Yahtzee badly wanted to kill himself, at least up until he figured out what a vagina is at age 30.

Nah, son: he a Protoss now.

I could definitely see Yahtzee pulling an Ayreon-esque Electric Castle Experiment; putting a bunch of dishevelled gamers through a gauntlet of his reviews to harvest their emotions.

He also sounds like he wants additional pylons. Perhaps for previously mentioned ass-shoving.

TheLegendaryVGA96 I agree

Thankfully that's as optional a part as it can be :) I really like when games includes these things, it usually forces you to try out a lot of tactics you haven't tried before. That being said I can understand people complaining about the white palace platforming "mini game" sequence, but I actually didn't mind it much, maybe because I used hiveblood :P That's optional as well, but it breaks with what you've been doing all game AND is required for beating the "true final boss".

Michael Rasmussen | No, Arena of Fools is not optional because every part of the game must be played because it is such a great game. Atleast in my eyes, I HAVE to beat it.

Try doing it on steel soul mode, might give legitimate PTSD.

Still need to finish that last fucking arena challenge to 100% the game and as a result I haven't returned to it in a fucking month.

Kevin Gallagher Ah the arena is nothing compared to Nightmare King Grimm I still think about him, he consumes me. He literally gave me PTSD.

Finally Dead Cells!

finally hyper light dri- oh wait why hasn't he done it yet

Agreed

Fancy Manticore Lol given his talk on Nier, I don't expect anything good for hyper light drifter.

you never know... that dog seems to be turning him soft

Dead Cells takes on the pixelart exceedingly well. It's a filter over 3D (which at the time of production wasn't popular, but did gain some attention as it progressed) which makes the whole art seem far more lifelike and fluid than other pixelart games (such as Catacomb Kids). The background/foreground art in Dead Cells is by far the most gorgeous thing I have seen in a 2D game, even surpassing Hollow Knight in its gloomy, toned-down atmosphere, akin to that of Darkest Dungeon. Plus, it's variety. Sprites can evolve into hand drawn or grow into a beautiful fluid thing. Or even stay the same and still prove itself well made and fitting (TBOI, Risk of Rain). Variety is the spice of life.

I know I’m late but I just wanted to point out that’s completely not how art develops. Styles don’t die as the period ends or new technology is available. If it looks good, it doesn’t matter if there’s a more technologically complex style.

If there are three things humans are good at it's - recognizing patterns - comparing unfamiliar to familiar - messing everything up

Hollow Knight is like Dark Souls in the sense that it has rest points and is difficult and that's about it really. Dead Cells is somehow even less like Dark Souls. It has big dudes in armor..I guess? Well you play as an undead presumably so I suppose that also counts.

Alu- Card Yeah that's what everyone said about Undertale, and I thought it was dogshit.

I'm leaving a comment here just to watch on the off chance that this comment chain explodes *grabs popcorn*

To be fair, the undertail fanbase is horrible. Hollow knight is more like a sleeping hit, its a very good metroidvania. Same thing with salt and sanctuary.

As much as I want to go down the well worn, heavily opinionated tangent of "blah blah blah, u didn't like a game I liked so you I hate you" Having lately gone off of the high of loving something very much and now being able to coherently listen to criticism of it, I would honestly much rather neutrally hear your reasoning for disliking the game.

+Stock090, Maybe it's just me, but I really don't get why people hate on fanbases. The Undertale, FNAF, Sonic and Minecraft fanbases are nowhere close to the like of Steven Universe, where actually aggressive things happen, and the hate of that fanbase is actually justifiable. It just seems to me like people wasting their time of day hating on people for being passionate about something on the internetz. You don't see people lamenting the fanbase of Dark Souls, but probably because it's the better accepted fanbase. Undertale is a good game. The story is good until up until the last bit of the normal run, where it becomes a cheese-fest and the music becomes insufferable (Hopes and Dreams *shudder*), but you can understand why people love it.

Especially given that a lot of the story is told in a fairly passive way from the remains of areas and brief notes rather like Dark Souls. Ya know along with being a once thriving Kingdom ravaged by plague.

I’m still convinced that the only person who actively hates Hollow Knight is that one guy who said it was a rip off of Ori.

CrabJock 100% agree, it’s just far too repetitive

Someone clearly hasn't played Rise of the Giant DLC or progressed beyond BSC 2

How do you feel about it now?

Go play hollow knight

“I understood that reference!”

HK is hard as fuck.

Hk is like, significantly harder than dead cells

@@harrylane4 they are both really hard but uh Have you heard about 5BSC in Dead Cells?

I would say that bouth games right now are masterpieces. Dead cells for me was first ENJABLE rouge lite/like for me and i just bought it after i finshed 100% achivements for Hollow Knight and you know THEY ADDED PURE NAIL INTO Dead Cells and plays same as in Hollow knight.

Azurite I originally agreed with you but I began to wonder. Is Hollow Knight a Souls-like Metroidvania or did Dark Souls just take several elements from Metroidvanias that nobody saw? The looping back around and backtracking of Dark Souls is quite similar to Metroidvanias right? Of course Dark Souls using stamina is quite unique though.

I guess what Hollow Knight borrowed from Dark Souls is mostly the vast, grandiose world that once reach a golden age but is now dying of a slow, silent and drown out death, where you meet various characters each having their own adventure parralel to you and who have to struggle with not giving up hope and surrounding themselves to the madness that reak throughout this land's very own air. Not so much the various Metroidvanias elements that aren't so much associated with Dark Souls since they've been pretty much integrated to the gaming landscape by now. Also, when you die, you have to go back to the place you died in order to recover your currencies, and if you die before, you lose them forever, and the ennemies are mostly undead, hollowed version of the mens they once were.

Hollow Knight nailed the Dark Souls atmosphere like no other game did, including games that tried much harder to imitate Dark Souls.

Bingo, the Dark Souls comparison is mostly present in the atmosphere. The actual game mechanics, not so much. But there's quite a bit more to a game than just the gameplay.

@@ManoredRed which is interesting, cause the developers insist that dark souls wasn't an influence on the game.

Dead Cells: You are a moss-monster running around in a corpse killing zombies usually with fire but not always while looking for blue-prints that never drop when you want them to but always do when you turn the corner and die anyways losing them and having to recollect them You also take dead cells from enemies to get new items Most shields suck and firebrand is amazing

Balanced blade is love, balanced blade is life

Throwing Knife for days, especially with the 2x damage done/dealt. RANGE LIKE FUCK AND MURDER ALL THE THINGS

Shields are amazing once you can time them right. They are the best anti-boss weapon (and vs many enemies that does huge ammouns of DMG, like the pirate)

Yea but Why use the shield When you can expertly dodge roll and mow through them with FireBrand or Throwing Knife?

Stevey Hooves did you try it? How did it go?

Thought so to practiced and practiced some more and beat it except pantheon of hallownest.

Sorry to say, but he would probably ditch you.

He'd probably shove a lego build up your ass. ;)

One thing is certain, he wouldn't let you play Kirby epic yarn.

Sainsbury's Chocolate Chip Cookie I want him as my daddy *lenny face*

Unless you're like Dark Souls then I don't think that he'd like you very much.

But none of them are roguelikes.

Mate, Gungeon is a roguelike. A difficult game with a randomly generated map, in which, if you die, you must start from the beginning.,

RedNarwhal got it for years and still never made it even to the final boss

Turtle Mind Games Or better yet, Nuclear Throne.

Turtle Mind Games In a stream he briefly said it was somewhat repetitive

enter the gungeon will always look to me like a nuclear throne clone

dark, are you talking about EtG or NT?

tomerca10 I've played about 40 hours of NT and 80 hours of EtG and can wholly say they are very different games. Nuclear Throne is more hectic and puts emphasis on target priority and your reaction time. Enter the Gungeon on the other hand is a game that requires planning ahead and making the most of what you have. Enemies in Enter the Gungeon tend to be more methodical, whereas Nuclear Throne's enemies tend to be more spastic and spontaneous. Both games have a very different flow, and have a unique feel when playing them. TL:DR - Nuclear Throne is a spastic twin-stick shooter rogue-like, whereas Enter the Gungeon is a room-based resource management rogue-lite akin to The Binding of Isaac.

troupe*

Toki Wo Tomato Considering stamina management is about the only thing that differentiates Dark Souls from other Hack'n'slah games, I wouldn't count the combat as THE defining aspect of the game.

Not to mention, the HK devs have made it clear that Dark Souls wasn't a direct influence, though perhaps Yahtzee didn't have this info when he made this vid.

Why? it's cool to compared and the same creators of Dead Cells said something about inspirations to Roguelike/Castlevania/Souls games in this last about the combat. You can see that in the home page of Dead Cells Hollow Knight obviously has inspiration to Metroid, Zelda and Faxanadu, but when you play you can see stuffs and unfortunately for other games you think in Dark Souls sometimes. The Shade in Hollow Knight and Bloodlines in Dark Souls and the entery world. Not simiralitys in mechanichs or combat system. Hollow Knight is different to Dark Souls but have something like souls. Magic essence of this game in the purity essence inside in the entiry game. I love Hollow Knight so much. Have something about narrative and other stuff.

I know, I love the game Dark Souls as well. But it is getting rather annoying that appears to be the ONLY game that exists anymore.

I understand that but i prefer see the impact in the community this game what neccesary was for the industry too. It's weird and well when something become a meme can transform to annoying people to compare to all. Remind the case of Crash Bandicoot and the comparation in one review was a disaster.

Thumbs up for reminding me of Divine Divinity. One of my top five of all time.

Glad to meet someone else who plays that game. :)