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Ooh that's a good name

Yahtazee Tries can also contain the same double meaning. As in, "News just in~! This afternoon, well-known gaming critic Yahtzee Crowshaw tries Bluey: The VIdeogame for manslaughter, arson, and general loitering. Tune in!"

Totally agree. BGM really felt at odds with the content

lmao nice one

That is such a goood name

Be the change you want to see in the world

Not with that attitude, you won't. You could always [STATEMENT VIOLATES TERMS OF SERVICE]. Amazing what can happen when you no longer care about what the law says.

I mean, PG literally means parental guidance... Not "sit your child in front of it alone"

How I ended up enjoying My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with my oldest and now Bluey with my youngest. A good kids show keeps the parents entertained too.

@@athleticgravy1 In the case of Bluey, it can even inspire new revelations as a parent and insight into how their kids learn while playing. I will say I'd much rather kids watch Bluey than some of the other things out there marketed towards kids, just because Bluey trends towards learning and empathy over gimmicks.

like Avatar the last airbender

@@Foxxie0kun teach dem kids something valuable instead of letting their brains rot from excessive "skibidi toilet rizz ohio gyatt fanum tax"

That is what it is, basically.

I bought it after seeing it here. I like it. I disagree with Yahtzee when it comes to the bits where Laika's momentum slows down. Because the traversal mechanic is so engaging and the music is soothingly folky I think these bits work.

I had the exact same question. The short answer is because Ludo Studios (creators of Bluey) don't hold global distribution rights for the IP, BBC do. So really it would of been the BBC who chose the developer and publisher. Problem being they went with an "established" name (Outright Games), while they have quite a history with devloping games based on existing IP (Ben10, Transformers, Paw Patrol, and Peppa Pig), they aren't that great at making what most would consider "a good game". So yeah, now we have whatever this is.

@@SyntaxNation86 Capitalism at its finest. Thank you for the information all the same.

@@SyntaxNation86 It's hilarious to me that the "established name" is a studio I've never heard of, in my multiple decades of playing hundreds and hundreds of games. I guess I've got a bit of a blind spot for shovelcrap developers... one hopes some companies will know better, but I doubt it. Competence is not a requirement for inordinate authority, in our society.

Bluey merch all goes to the British, Australia is actually screwed over with Bluey. Like we didn't make this game in Australia, the BBC got it made somewhere else.

They say it’s from Monaco…

WHERE'S THE WALRUS PIT

Wait, Greasy tales got into the industry? Huh, good on him.

Wheres the WALRUS PIT

THE WALRUS PIT, WHERE IS IT?!

Seriously. This whole video was great, but that bit had me rolling with laughter. Great work by the editors.

That's cool actually, thanks for the info. I will say though that I'd have preferred if the game told me that before I wasted two hours on the bloody crab boss.

They worked that out eventually on the livestream

People are aware of the indicator, but it's not always that helpful in the middle of a high flying firefight when the game routinely makes the reticle disappear when you're not actively aiming at anything. The player's eye is most driven to focus on Laika herself. And it should be. Making sure you can tell if she's about to smear her brains like coyote confit on the ground after flipping around ass-over-tea-kettle is an important part of it. But it's just a part. You also need to make sure to angle the bottom of your bike to block return fire from enemies as you go too. Not to mention how none of this is helped by the camera zooming in and out of the action at odd times or Laika getting smeared all over with viscera like she crashed into a raspberry jam factory every time she makes a kill, making it nearly impossible to tell mid-air if she's right-side up and facing left or right. All of this could be fixed quite easily if they would just recolor the player model more distinctly and lose the excessively obfuscating blood splatter all over it.

Wow I literally 100%ed that game and never noticed the cursor changing lol. Oh well.

Heyyyy i recognize that Ghosts reference

@@zachflag6506hello fellow veteran ZP watcher

Yeah i would consider looking into whether the music should stay or not in future installment. I would like to hear more from the games audio. Only food for thought from me second wind.🙂

We've tried it without music before and it just feels too dry. Can try different background tunes to see what works though. Good feedback.@@nicklager1666

​@@SecondWindGroupI personally liked the addition of the music ngl lol

@@SecondWindGroup I agree, the intro music being on the whole time was distracting.

@@SecondWindGroup i guess using in-game music is just asking for trouble with copyright demons

And it has dogs, he loves dogs.

They already play games and apparently enjoy Mario

Freddi Fish as well! The Switch ports are splendid works of art by the Monkey Island team.

@@ShadowForksGames Most of Humongous Games (RIP) was made up of ex-Lucasarts staff

@@ShadowForksGames Is this one actually legal? ...wait, I think it was Spy Fox that had the illegal Wii port.

@@THB192 yes! Humongous published it. They do great work, I'd love if they made new point and click games.

same, good game, great story, but I really felt that the last levels really dropped off in quality, and the ending was rushed. also, the cutscenes were so screaming fast and abrupt it was like they were embarrassed to show them.

absolutely loved Laika and the soundtrack

@@bugjams I can't blame him. Because when the most prominient examples of "cute animal characters" also trying to have a more "heavy" story are Sonic and Freedom Planet, and the fact that the former has a fanbase of easily-triggereable snowflakes (even though I could say both share the same fanbase) doesn't help to even consider give a chance to any other similar contender. Not to mention that balancing light-hearted and mature themes is more trickier than it looks, which is something that both of those didn't knew how to do. (or if it was necessary to begin with) Must say though that story is a reason I'm at least interested on checking out Laika eventually. Didn't played the demo, but from the few things I saw about it it seems that at least Laika feels like it knows it's tone and that it wants to be a more violent game, unlike Freedom Planet which goes with "let's get this diabetes-inducing-furry-shantae into a torture scene where she's electrocuted to the point of being literally burned, and then put her on a bath to remove everything like nothing happened" and "let's turn her new even-more-diabetic-dog-rabbit-friend into a giant monster, force here to fight and try to have a very dramatic death scene, and them she's fine at the end anyway".

I feel that. Absolutely LOVED the game, some scenes really caught me off-guard in the best ways, but at times I felt there were parts missing and the entire finale area was really brief in comparison to everything else. I get what they were trying to go for with the final sequence, but it REALLY pissed me off how the game ended. Excellent journey, but I'm just going to imagine it ended differently. I don't know how they managed it but it felt both too short and too long at the same time, hope we end up getting an expansion or a sequel that knocks down all the dominoes they set up. Favorite part I'd say, without spoiling, would be the lighthouse. Absolutely fucked me up, such a beautiful moment.

I think the game has universally positive feedback, it's in early access or something like that. I mean, I agree that the game looks super convoluted, overdesigned, hard to get into, but it seems to be doing quite alright. It kinda reminds me of Cruelty Squad, which is intentionally super jank but was the first hit game developed in Godot

I'd advice you to just let it all go. The more you think about it the more it weighs on your conscience. The less obsessed you are with making a game just like the ones you like _or_ *avoiding* making a game like the ones you don't like, the better. Best case: you create something like Pizza Tower, worst case: you make a mess, but learn something from it.

Fortune's run is really good, it's just not very well served by being put in front of an otherwise uninterested stranger for an hour.

Couldve been yahtzee's camera or internet limitation, he might not be able to get a good enough bitrate on either

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This is my hope as well, I'd love to see him do a ZP of the game! Fingers crossed!

I agree. I totally understand the appeal of streams, but their length and pacing isn't for me. I much prefer these sort of edited best-hits kind of videos.

I mean what else could Yahtzee say about a game that has nothing but subtext?

Agreed, like they went Vector Man + minimalism + constellations/stars for the theme. Also, I was curious so I looked: Vector Man 1 and 2 are available on Steam, for $1 each! :O

Wish you a lot of fun on it when you do. Like other indie games, such as Clash: Artifacts of Chaos, Soulstice, Genokids and Cookie Cutter, a game like Laika would benefit very much from word being spread on it.

Good feedback, we'll continue to adjust as we go!

While I admit that the vibrating wasn't necessary, there were comments back in the Escapists version of this that we need an indicator for when Yahtzee's voice over is talking compared to the original stream. With your comment, we've officially come full circle.

Okay no that's probably right, but maybe slightly smaller and less vibratey lol

Seconded, the graphic with the megaphone was unnecessarily big. Love the new show!