So in summation, the Bad News is that Salt & Sanctuary is just 2D Dark Souls. This is also the Good News.

"when you die, you lose all your salts...well that's counter intuitive because when I die I get pretty fucking salty" I lost it at this point...Lmao!

Just so anyone reading this knows, gold does have a late game use. You have to get the 'leader' vendor, and hand in certain items to level up your faith to your chosen icon. If you do that, vendors at your icon sanctuaries will sell more advanced items, spells, weapons, upgrade materials, etc.

The exciting sequel to Pepper and Paradise.

3:43 Well this aged surprisingly well

Yahtzee does your back hurt from carrying the Escapist?

3:39 oh boy, there's a metaphor that made this a wonderful time to rewatch this video

It's been a thousand years since Yathzee loved a video game!

"And that's how easy it is to fall to the DARK SIDE", I really liked that line

"Someone who wasn't very good at anatomy but considered it very important that there exist a picture of furry Jesus Christ trying to free his knob from a stillborn foetus." Wot.

"You are drowning in semen.Oops, you are a drowning seaman." Oh God, this had me laughing more than it should have.

1:48 "You can't put souls on your chips." You, sir, have never taken the soul of a LoL player. They're nothing BUT salt.

Not really a great sword when it's only half an inch.. ;)

have you ever watched a zero punctuation video without audio and wonder what the hell is going on.

wuh, wow, a recommendation.

Jesus Christ, that tear gas analogy!

3:43 Damn. That line hit me across the face like a fucking truck.

MORE KNIVES YAHTZEE YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH KNIVES

First off, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck the Tree of Men and The Witch of the Lake. Secondly, this game is good.

2:05 This is actually a plot point. To quote one of the "bible" verses in the skill tree, "The day may come when gold is like stones, but Salt is the most precious thing of all." The game is set during Ragnarök, where the gods are dying and all their works come to naught. Very few vendors charge gold because it's so devalued people are using salt, the substance the gods, in this mythology, made peoples very souls from.

". . . and your character goes flying gayly across the screen like a happy little tear gas canister at a protest against police brutality" God we still dealling with that simile being true

Daggers in this game are so much fun. Square triangle combo for a boss kill is so cool when it goes slow motion with the kick flip

Do an 'I HATE MARS BARS' episode, wait, wrong channel.

Sooo... I guess this is a... positive... ...review?

"This is dark salt!" "Get Dark Soul Three!" "Dark soul?" Anyone else who played this, we all know why we're here

Sanctuary ? Hey i know that place

I feel like the dark souls clone comparison is diserved here. Remember when people said Terraria was a clone of Minecraft. Sure you can chop tree and build houses in both games but ultimatly both games focus on two different things. Terraria on bosses and minecraft on resource managment. Salt is trying to be like dark souls but in 2D and it does it well. Good job salt.

"you are drowning in seamen" yaaay! "nope-" DAMN IT

Yeah, the bug with the final boss is both hilariously unfair, and incredibly easy to get shoved into. Happened to me on both my playthroughs.

Actually, the first boss in Salt and Sanctuary is not impossible, it is very possible to kill - you just need to be good enough.

Knowing that Yahtzee will one day review *HuniePop* it fills me with determination!

The score of the last area and boss were really fantastic

0:53 Wait did Yahtzee just take a potshot at fucking "Jack" of all things?

I've recently been messing around with the Playback speed feature. at x0.5 speed Yahtzee sounds drunk like he's slurring all his words and it's pretty funny.

Yah Chibi Dark Souls is a perfect description.

Salt and Sanctuary the only game where you get stronger by getting SALTY!!!

Zero Punctuation band name of the week: Six Piglets In A Duffel Bag.

Wait, so was that a "I like it." or a "I hate it." 'cause I can never tell the difference with him.

when i got flung off the edge by a hangman in the red hall of cages and hit my head on about 5 platforms all the way down, flipping my character about 10 times before landing on my stomach with a dull thud. only to get up, hit the elevator lever and skip half of the hall due to luck, 10/10

wow I haven't heard him sound this giddy since portal. which is a compliment.

Bloodborne isn't Dark Souls-esque, it IS Dark Souls just with different gameplay aspects and lore.

3:43 Damn! Talk about foresight

3:43 huh i guess there was a reason to suggest this video to me now

I’ve been binging all of these videos and This one is my favorite

I personally love the art in SAS

Lmao, "Furry jesus trying to free his knob from a stillborn fetus." I love you Mr.Croshaw

4:26 lol Did Yahtzee burp in at the end of his line and not want to do a second take? I'm not complaining. I'm cheering in fact but I just want to know!

I've seen that ad for The Last Guardian where the kid jumps the broken bridge so many times that it is forever embedded deep within my memory and even my bones for all eternity...

Zero Punctuation reviews are one of the few things I look forward to on Wednesdays besides the pies, masturbation, and video games.

So it's Dark Souls meets Metrovania

3:43 Legit thought this just came out.

Yep, honestly, having played the game myself, I agree on pretty much every single point. Good job Sir Croshaw.

Well that was a surprisingly positive review.

Do you think Yahtzee has gotten over his Dolphin fetish?

i literally just finished playing salty, and hilariously enough, I beat the final boss in the exact same way as Yahtz apparently, I picked me up, placed me in a wall and I preceded to hammer him into fine faster from the safe and warm embrace of concrete

This is the best zero punctuation video. Period.

but yahtzee, a hylaf-inch long greatsword isn't very impressive

that must be a tiny greatsword ;)

The pike wheelchair killed me. Toooo fucking good

One note on the gold part of this review, as you rank up your sanctuary through a Leader blacksmiths and the like will sell more items that often cost more gold such as The Mountain Breaker which costs 200,000 gold.

Chibi Dark Souls? Yup, sounds about right. And he likes it too? When was the last time he recommended a game?

2:05 REALLY late of me, but as for the use of gold: Gold is used to purchase locks of hair and other mainline upgrade materials in the top right of the thunder castle, as well as large crates of salt, the only way to ensure you have a stockpile of salt that won't vanish when you die. Gold is also used to purchase bullets, and bullets (with an adequate build) completely break game balance in your favor.

That happy tear gas canister XD

The "oh no please don't I hate to manually pull my trousers down" made me laugh a bit more than it should've. I think.

The important thing about the money is that you can use it to A) Buy more salt at a kinda shite exchange rate and B) Use it to buy upgrade materials for when your sword gets bumped down a level for transmuting it

Some people call games like Salt and Sanctuary 'Soulslike'. Implying that Dark Souls defined a genre of its own.

Gold can actually buy useful things, like weapon buff consumables, spammable throwables and spells If you can't find them on the world and some weapons like the axe of splendor

you cant just make a stroke joke out of nowhere like that, i couldnt breathe for a solid minute

Dark Souls truly is the best thing since tummy rubs

Still eager to see it hit Steam.

HAHAHA that final line

I love how he pronounces "flingning fuckery"

Yahtzee having fun with a game again, there is hope for 2016! But seriously, very funny, very fun, mucho appreciate!

Ever since I Hate Everything got the "I hate Mars Bars" thing rolling I've thought you two should have a head-to-head debate about Mars Bars. do it or the internet dies

Always a riot!

I just started playing this recently (maybe I'm 1/3 through? 2/5? I dunno how much of the skill tree you're supposed to get through) and came back to watch this review having half-remembered it from all these years ago. One thing I can say that you might have missed is that Gold can purchase bags of salt from a vendor that you install in a sanctuary. It's ridiculously expensive of course, but it's a use for it, and seeing it made me wonder whether I should be accepting my gold supply being whittled down as I explore new areas or whether I should just buy bags of salt since the last major purchases I made I found a set or armor practically identical 2 minutes later. I think your comment on the use of gold is going to make me spend all my gold on bags of salt. (It's possible you didn't explore enough to find any merchant statues - I make sure I explore EVERYWHERE and there are quite often those statues in little side paths)

mars bars are becoming more popular now

I don't know if I laughed harder at the juxtaposition of "drowning in semen" and "a drowning seaman," or the visual for drowning in semen XD

what kind of pie? chicken pot pie? beef and ale pie? fisherman pie? kidney pie? pork pie?

This video's intro music is rad!

It was missing a dedication to Douglas Uppity

I haven't been the same since the stroke top kek

I appreciate the very specific reference to one slightly obscure episode of Star Trek. It makes me feel smart.

Not even a mention of magic in S&S? I was fully expecting some form of "wave your twiddle stick around till suddenly you find the spell that let's you ejaculate fire, and proceed kill everything with your flaming seamen". Still fantastic review Yahtzee. I eagerly await the DkS3 review.

The beauty of this series is that i can watch a video on a game i've never even heard of and come out of it with my opinion entirely made up without even needing to play it

Oh shit... I GET IT!!!! ZERO PUNCTUATION, BECAUSE HE SPEAKS VERY FUCKING FAST! Yep... My brain is toast now

I got an ad for the new Doom...can't wait for him to review that game

i couldn't finish my drink until the review was over or else risk choking on and spitting it back up

Salt and Sanctuary sounds like Tumblr. A sanctuary full of salty people?

Soulslike.

3:36 aged like fine wine

"Flinging Fuckery" Yep I'm using that one in the future 😂

So far I think this game gives me more fun than Nioh. This game really nails it, perfectly merging the fun plat-forming and Dark Souls element. The art-style is beautiful , the combat is beautiful, everything (except music) is just perfect! Haven't play a plat-forming this fun for ages. This game proves that graphic really doesn't matter if the game mechanic , art-style are solid!

uhhhhh... The Time Machine cannot teleport!

2:08 - I remember when a regular size Mars bar was 25p. That was about 18 years ago. Look what's happened to the world since then.... A shame.

I thought these were two different games judging by the title. Then got confused. Amazing.

This game makes me both salty and lose salt at the same time, my body is utterly confused

The game doesn't have a map? That's a shame, for as we all know it helps to have a map!

I played this with my friend's kid today. It was actually pretty good, if kind of annoying trying to navigate around.

Actually money can be usefull to buy either temporary damage boosters for boss fights or ingredients for upgrade if you can't find any. Also NPCs also provide boosts to the aera you're in.