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Physical copies of games? We don't even have physical copies of ventilators.

Good thing Hollow Knight: Silksong will descend from the heavens, having nothing bad about it and thus will end Yathzee's suffering as he jams forks into his eyes, concluding his reviewer carreer, as the prophecy fortold.

2:00 Didn't Yahtzee say he hated Bori and the Primed for Tits' ending because of the deaths in it just being undone by the end? He compared it to Bambi's mom being brought back to life at the end of the movie.

This comment was not redacted by the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China, long may it endure.

I feel like Yahtzee's humour has grown up along with me. The early videos lean super heavily on just being grotesquely arsey, whereas now it's more brutal analysis with good-spirited grumpiness and rapid fire metaphor gags. Like I could share this to my Dad, and he'd laugh even though he's not really into games.

Young Yahtzee is the cutest thing I've ever seen.

For me, this game was about growing up and becoming a parent. (Or, at least, rising up to carry on the legacy of the previous generation, and passing on a better world down to the next generation.) The theme permeates the whole game end-to-end. I thought it was fantastic, and nailed the climax.

This comment is in no way meant as a criticism of the Chinese government.

3:18 orienteering isn't illegal in China but cartography is

This game is one of the rare examples of how simplicity can be elevated to completely new levels by some external factors. In this case, is the soundtrack - seriously, whatever the studio/Microsoft paid Gareth Cocker to write the music for this game, it should've been twice as much because he took the plain (almost boring) and overused cliche of a tiny small child-animal in a big and scurry world and elevated it to a whole new level. Music dictated the tone of the game, it painted feelings, relationships between characters... when you fought a heroic fight with big ass monster the music portrayed both your heroism of fighting that monster but also gave a massive scale of how big and scurry the monster is. The game itself is pretty good, but if you add truly the awesome soundtrack it had... it's something truly different.

2:08 Shoutout to the Destiny franchise, that's fighting this exact version of the Darkness for 6 YEARS

Ori: drive out the darkness and restore the light Yahtzee: ew shallow Dark souls: drive out the light and restore the darkness Yahtzee: now were talking baybeee

"It's not bad, there's just not much substance to it" -- my feeling on playing ORI 1 is that it's very beautiful, but has no personality--especially when you compare it to something like GUACAMELEE or HOLLOW KNIGHT. I enjoyed all three games' smooth platforming...but I *loved* being in the worlds of GUAC and HK. I'll probably pick up ORI 2 in the future, but I'm in zero hurry.

It’s probably just personal preference to me, but Ori was a nearly perfect game in my eyes. I couldn’t bring myself to hate anything about the game and it’s reliance on visual and musical storytelling for the emotional bits are some of my favorites in any storytelling medium. Will of the wisps did most of that but better. (In my definitely biased opinion) (Im going to assume that you’ve all played both games) Both games villains, while being just owls on the surface really changed the way I see some toxic people online and in real life. Kuro did kill a lot of spirits and removed that ball from the tree, but that’s because of the fact that it killed most of her kids, only being redeemed by an understanding between mothers. Shriek strikes fear into that entire land and killed a baby owl, but she hatched to dead parents and was ostracized by the other owls. She decided to spend her last moments searching for the love she never got. It’s what made me think about the the toxic person on the other side of the screen more or class jerk. You can’t just be toxic back because you can’t solve anything that way. I will never forget what the first game taught be back in high school when it came out, and I won’t forget how it reminded me now.

I'm watching a famously negative crotchety old man nitpick over one of my favorite games I've ever played. I have only myself to blame.

To be fair, many people unequip the sword in favor of the hammer. But, yes, your weapon slots will rarely change outside of the required traversal of the area and the constantly hot-swapping third key.

So just to help some people out and clear up some confusion, because I’ve seen a lot of people asking about both of these: 1: This video was released last week on the Escapist website, so of course it’s not an April Fools joke. All the episodes are uploaded to KZfaq a week after they’re actually released on the Escapist website to encourage people to watch them there. 2: He’s already done the review for Doom Eternal; it was released today on the Escapist website, and no it’s not an April Fools joke either. It’s actually released, and it’s an actual review.

This was the first time in many years that a joke made me spit out my coffee. Well played, sir.

Absolutely masterful critique, well done

I still buy physical copies with exception to "always online" titles and the rare digital download only title that is good enough for me to ignore consumer rights

1:13... exactly the kind of quality commentary I've been looking forward to, as have you, dont deny it :)

The day Yahtzee reviews Roller Coaster Tycoon Marks the day I sold my soul for a cupcake.

The map complaint is confusing. In the Hollow Knight review, getting a blank map was criticized because it meant buying a map was pointless at all, now when you get a map that's actually filled in that's bad because it doesn't encourage exploration. Like I get that the whole point is to find stuff to pick apart but I thought consistency was kind of an important thing.

You really should check out Dust: An Elysian Tale. Made by 1 guy over 4 years, fun gameplay, nice story and characters, fucking beautiful, and Yahtzee would either love it or rip it to shreds. Probably both.

Considering Yahtzee's general opinion on sequels, I'm dying to watch his review of Silksong... whenever that game comes out. It's gonna be priceless.

Alright one thing to point out that should be noted is the respawn system in the 2nd game is way less annoying. Setting a checkpoint is level based/ set locations versus having to use the currency to set a new checkpoint. I remember if you died enough times in the first one you could be seriously screwed in a difficult section.

Every week my anticipation for the Doom eternal review grows.

I'm surprised that yathzee didn't mention that the ending practically means that Ori is the equivalent of a mystic tree sperm

I wonder if he's ever gonna do another mobile apps review... I just wanna hear him rip up RAID: shadow legends.

That line about "Giant spider bosses in metroidvania games are like turret sections in shooters, in that they are officially the point where the designers ran out of ideas" really hit home, and I laughed for a minute straight, and for the first time in a long time (outside of a youtube tutoria) I desperately and gleefully slid the playhead back to hear it a few more times, just to laugh maniacally at the truth of it. In times like these, that kinda makes a huge difference in the day, and also compelled me to type this unnecessarily lengthy thing to let you know that I appreciate and solute you, and having been a huge fan for a very long time, my gratitude is a long time coming.

Today on April, Yatzee attempts to be kind. It's going half well.

I have been exclusively binging zero punctuation during the quarantine.

I mean, seriously, when the first time the shadow of the new "owl" appeared I was really wondering: Didn't she die in the last game? Why is she back and why is she angry again? And then "Oh, it's another owl that is just evil, but actually not and I am now supposed to feel sad about him." I like the gameplay, but like Yahtzee I find the story really boring and since they even added more cutscenes, it was even more annoying. Especially when they show the family that starts in the beginning travelling to you. So wait? I am exploring several different areas, fight bosses, collect the wisps and build up a whole settlement and they are still so slow they only arrive at the end? Why even show me that then in the first place?

I swapped out the ordinary attack (sword) for the other ordinary attack (hammer), because I personally liked how it felt to use the hammer, even though it's much more likely to get me hit.

Well done sir. I am still laughing about, "Tinker, tailor, soldier, cat-rabbit-thing.".

A lovely fun game of good quality with a soundtrack trying to make it feel significantly more epic which isn't a bad thing, but it starts being more apparent how basic written some of those epic moments are when you're reading over the details of them in text format

So basically they did that sequel thing you mentioned in one of your other reviews (I think it was Dark Souls 2 or 3) where they didn't use the original as a springboard and instead wallowed around in the original instead. Sounds like they missed a potential opportunity to have the owl as a primary focus to get through the levels which is disappointing.

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Id love to see reviews for classics like altered beast and golden axe. Clearly old games, not necessarily interested in nostalgic reminisces, just old games dealt with honestly with the knowledge of current game culture taken into account

1:36 I'm guessing Yahtzee knows what the big plot twist is regarding that slightly scarier owl.

Very dead honest review. Accurate, like holy shit this game can be fucking fantastic and then like 30 minutes later I'm banging my head on my desk because of how frustrating that one time trial race quest thing was. Yeah the story is a lot more shallow than blind forest's story was too. Still though, amazing game to be in awe in for 2 hours, leave in frustration and then come back to give another crack at it. Highly recommend it, really, worth it.

2:45 *laughs in freedom*

I find it funny that this has made me laugh most today. ...think about it.

Not surprising the sequel would lack creativity considering the original had none. The items were glowing lights, the enemies were glowing lights, the hazards were glowing lights, the scenery was glowing lights, & the challenge was a combination of figuring which glowing lights to touch & figuring out how to get past a part where you have to get past a sea of spikes but they're all off screen & either there's no platform to reach or it's even further off screen. I never figured that part out.

Can’t wait till the HL Alyssa review

Hey, the ending credits are back!

The lack of a minimap made me go crazy

For Yatzhee Ori is the game that he should really like and he kinda does but not really.

This isn't Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

I feel like a lot of big multiplatform games these days haven't been good with the UI for using all the damn tools and moves and things that they give you, so if you want to try a bunch of different things, you gotta do a lot of reassigning things in menus and you better be ready to reassign things back if they don't work. I'm sure there's some great things in there that I'm not using, but they're lost in a whole forest of options.

I enjoyed fluttering around as a light ninja. Endgame zipping around is far more thrilling than the previous game.

I just realised you can put the speed down to 0.75. I was never able to keep up before. Phew!

Yahtzee: "...Ori and the Walkers of the Crisps..." Me as an American that has been to the UK: "I understood that reference!"

Good shit. Love ya Boi

‘It was the will of the wisps that life begin anew’. Great game minus the glitches. Hope it comes to Switch.

The Will of the Smiths! Lol! Well done

One of my main issues was the buttons, or the lack of. I used a keyboard so I had about a hundred buttons let me fucking use them.

1:13 yah, i been saying this

Liked just for the mcgriffin pun.

Ori and The Way of The Wank I'll be damned if that wasn't a beautiful title

Please review Hyper Light Drifter.

Ori games: First impressions: OMG! It's gorgeous! Second impression: That's it? A platformer with same platforming gimmicks, since the dawn of platformers? >.

the Sonic fanart thing does explain a Lot, actually Looking at that shit is like staring straight into the Face of Cthulhu itself •

I agree with your points 😀

may the sorghum harvest be bountiful this year

I thinks attacks assign to 3 buttons address a problem a lot of people have with the first one. Too Manny abilities and bottom presses to remember. People forget other skills they have very easily. And lets be realistic, Hollow knight become the new base but all it core aspects have been done already. Not necessarily because hollow knight has it means it was taking as base. And if it does Ori traversal movement is much more expanded and worked on. Hollow knight is more directional, (up, down, left, right) while or is much more multidirectional with Angles and curves

Ori and the will to live

Is it just me or has the figure arguing with him become more prevalent in Yahtzee's reviews recently?

it would be funny if it was a u turn the game starting with a jaded ori, and throughout the game he finds that the world is not as bad. the twist ending is that all the people you were trying to protect the kid from, thought you were a bad guy, and were trying to rescue the kid from you.

0:32 Aww, babby Yahtzee!

What the fuck, Yatz, you can't just spring inflatable hedgehog scrotums on us like that. It really aggravates my PTSD

Hey Yahtzee you should try avernum

can i play it with the mouse and keyboard ?

I appreciate that you actually give opinions instead of half baked observations. It also pisses me off when a review spends half the video explaining the plot and basic direction of the game before saying Ye GaM pLei SmUuTh gUd GaM LoOk PrEtTy.

Cool video!

Love you Yatzee but I also love Ori so I held my Breath and watched anyway.

I love the Ori games but I admit that I'm heavily biased and ignore its flaws. Something about the art, music, and setting takes me back to childhood discovering my love of nature. Its like My Neighbor Totoro is getting injected straight into my veins.

I would actually not mind having Ori as a lamp, because spirits don't seem to die as much as man made lamps do. Plus, I'd actually have someone/thing to talk to other than my computer screen or my father once a day to tell him to stop pissing vinegar.

Excuse you! You team up with Ku twice! But really, this game is awesome. It's those fast paced platforming while being chased that's so much fun to me. The combat is fun even if you have to pause to switch out moves. I know this is your style of review, but if you paid attention you would know that the big owl is scarier because of the 'darkness' which is corrupting everything. It's more then "dark is bad" because we see what its doing. Her egg gets corrupted, basically deforming her. Ku's wing is deformed. Anyone who stays in the 'darkness' to long turns to stone. And The ending once it's all done parallels the start of the first which is always fun. The game is a great platform rpg hybrid. And while the story isn't original it puts a cute spin on things. Contrasting the darker side of things with pockets of joy around the world.

You may laugh at the Chinese government having something against maps, but I used to intern for a publisher (won't say who) who did a lot of printing in China and I learned that the Chinese government will not print a book if it has any maps or anything they think looks like maps in it.

Is there an editing mistake at a bit after 1:10 or am i just not listening right?

You are, in all honesty, right to be suspicious! I'll give it three days before you can find it on rule34

I think the best way to describe this game is Not Yatzhee's thing .

Santa isn't... WHAT?!?

If youre not wearing your grumpy pants then youre not paying attention!!

giant spider alert (again)

I'll explain this game in a way that you can understand DC comics has things called The Green lantern and THE GREEN the story of this game is THE GREEN versus THE ROT and THE DARKNESS is just a by-product.

What are the odds that You Know Who actually forces an apology out of him?

And he certainly didn't play it on xbox because he didn't mention the constant frame rate drops and glitches. I completely agree with him. This is ori and the blind forest 1.5

it's a perfect and my favourite game of all time love u moon studios

A dumb comment, but liked that there were no spoilers in this one

You can tell Yahtzee is really trying to not sound negative lol

I will say getting rid of the saving points wasn’t a great idea I think

The line "But come on! Like anyone buys games in boxes, from shops, like a TWAT" caught me completely off guard.

The map comment is appropriate because private cartography is actually illegal in China

So this isn't the April fools Day special

Anybody spot the Fancy Pants reference?

Modern Sonic fan art, and the people behind it, could very well give you homicidal nightmares. Its almost understandable why you'd be cautious about the Ori games if thats what you think of when you see Ori.

I feel the same about Superhot. Incredible, super fun gameplay, especially in VR. But if you factor in the "story" and what it's trying to say as an art form, god fucking dammit is that game pretentious. I wish it was just a contextless arcade-mode fun thing if it was going to be so far up it's own ass with the narrative. That fucking "contact your friends with this phrase: it's the most innovative shooter you've ever played in years!" ending REALLY pissed me off.