"what if a corporation could sever gods ability to speak" Is such a raw fucking line I think you could make an entire game just on that premise.

With the corrupt Navi idea. Would’ve been real cool and dark if in the Abandoned lab you find corrupted/dead Navi, specifically the ones from the flashbacks.

For an Avatar fan like me this was a dream come true. Pandora was just gorgeous to look at and fun to explore. If only the story was more focused. It felt like they introduced way too many characters in a short amount of time and then forgot about it. Great video btw. One of my favourite game essayists

That would be cool, feral Na'vi who gone completely mad due to being cut off. Turning into either brutes used in war with no mind or reason, just rage. Or psycho Na'vi who speak in broken sentences and do unspeakable horrible things to try and regain their connection.

You actually gave an interesting concept about RDA severing the blue bunnies connection to their god and have them become corrupted. You put more thought into it than the writers did.

About the racism on part of the navi, reminder that in the second movie Sully and his family suffer racism from the aquatic navis as well

In the game, about 65 hours in, I got an interesting piece of lore which the films and the game did not explore up until that point. I was just running around under the giant stone arches and one of the Na'vi NPCs said something along the lines of "What a beautiful day, I will write a poem about it later" As far as I can tell, this is the only indication so far the Na'vi have a written language

53:20 With the "Play God" I was immediately picturing some sort of 'artificial connection' where Mercer would be seen as the new Eywa and the animals were experiments attempting to sever and reconnect them but failing before doing the same to Na'vi once they figured it out (if ever).

Now I want A Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts game set on pandora. Being a human defying the odds and hunting the toughest that pandora has to offer would be sick as hell.

Honestly, the singing scene in the beginning really isn't that goofy given the context, since it's the Navi children refuting that even cut off entirely from their culture, they are still part of it. It's Mercer's reaction to it that makes it goofy since he acts like he's one second away from having a temper tantrum and running back to Mommy because "the evil Navi kids kept singing weird songs at him".

It's almost criminal how underrated this channel is, in comparison to the insane amount of skill and talent shown in these videos. I can only imagine the time it takes to make those animated sections. Not to mention the damn voice acting, absolute movie tier stuff! Keep up the incredible work Zenny!

This guy stealthed a more entertaining movie into a game analysis than anything Disney has done with Star Wars. That's talent lol

The older i get the more i enjoy watching game critiques rather than playing them myself - it helps that yours are always so engaging and entertaining!

5 seconds in and you're ALREADY killing it with the animations!

You gotta remember that part of Alma hoped the Na’vi children didn’t make it; it’s mentioned in a data log that can be found in a captured outpost iirc but basically she hoped that her past with the Sarentu and TAP would never come to light because else Jake Sully wouldn’t have let her stay on Pandora and if he found out in the years since she was afraid he’d kill her

The first avatar game already had a sequel set up where you were either a human who fought for the rda or betrays the rda, and a navi who sides with the navi or betrays them to go back to the rda.

Man that mission near the end with the Severed was crushing. I actually thought for a second we’d see a Severed Navi then realized where you were going with it. What a waste. (For some reason this comment was left as a response to someone? Wasn't mean to be.)

Okay so this is something that bothers me about the Other Avatar and it's the fact that despite how the Navi are supposed to be one with their ecosystems they don't share phylogeny with the rest of Pandora's animals. An example: every land dwelling vertebrate animal on Earth is called a tetrapod and has bilateral symmetry with two eyes, two nostrils, two ear, a mouth, and four limbs. Even tetrapods that have lost limbs due to evolutionary pressures such as snakes and whales still have vestigial elements in their bodies that hint at this shared ancestry. Humans have all of these and thus our connection to the rest of the animal kingdom is demonstrated in our basic physiology. On Pandora all of the vertebrate animals, the tetrapod equivalents, have six limbs, four eyes, two antennae, and breath out of ventricles in the sides of their bodies. All of the animals were designed by Wayne Barlowe who has a background in speculative biology with his Darwin-4 alien designs. All animals, except the Navi who feel like they were designed by committee in order to be as sympathetic as possible to a human audience. Along with a standard humanoid tetrapod design they have big innocent eyes. The irony of the Navi is that their design betrays their narrative function, they are not connected to the planet, they don't share phylogeny with the rest of Pandora's ecosystems because that would make them too alien and thus harder to sympathize with from the human audience perspective in a story where humans are the antagonists. Humans bad, aliens good, but the aliens can't be too alien or else how can humans relate to them? As a result the only animals the Navi share phylogeny with are the evil alien humans who are their sworn enemies. In a smarter story there might be a twist or message here but Avatar isn't that clever.

The stupid thing is the Avatar game I really want isn't really about avatars (and DEFINETLY ISNT ABOUT PLAYING A NAVI) at all. The game I really want is about the early human expeditions. Travelling around. Studying the flora and fauna. Flying the cool helicopters. Piloting AMP suits to clear vegetation and site research bases. Helping linguists and anthropologists travel to meet the Naavii and make contact. Bring in some of the weird stuff like the pandora worshiping genocide cult made up of RDA staff (the one that is sabotaging efforts to terraform earth back to liveable conditions, the ones that blow up the project Jake Sully was guarding resulting in his paralysis) and all that stuff from the supplemental material.

Here's a crazy idea concerning the idea of RDA severing the connection of Eywa of creatures: What if the player character was a working example of what it does to a Na'vi? I imagine this would require a lot of story tweaking and a lot of tweaking of the player character's characterization, but it could be something cool to experiment with. Have the PC perhaps be mindless and thoughtless. Let the early game hunting and gathering be influenced by this. You get standard quality stuff from what you gather hastily and sloppily as you just don't care how you gather things or how it hurts Eywa. As you connect with the clans, learn of your clan's past and ways of acting, and actually get to be a regular Na'vi, you slowly regain this connection. Introduce merciless and clean kills as a way not only show character growth, but also to reward players who take more time to do their hunting. Still let them have their painful, sloppy kills or hasty gathering for standard ingredients but reward players with higher quality ingredients for understanding, respecting, and connecting with Ewya. Plus, this could be a way to speed up gathering and hunting without totally showing aside the lore of a Living Proven God. Introduce this later when the player has more powerful weapons to make this easy, worth their time, and fun, instead of early game when they can't do the damage necessary to do what's asked of them. Plus, I think this would cool from a story standpoint as regaining this connection and truly understanding Ewya could be seen as truly 100% defying the RDA. They wanted you to be a ruthless killing machine with no god to answer or connect to and you refuse to be that on every level despite of everything they've done to you. Now, I write this and I will say I don't think the connection being severed is needed for something similar like this to work. You could just say due to being raised by humans 99% of your life, you don't get Na'vi ways or get the weight of who Eywa is, so you don't care about how you kill or gather. Have the PC learn similarly to how Jake did in the first film and have them realize overtime they've been going about things all wrong. I dunno, I'm just spitballing based on points you raised in your video. I don't know Avatar lore that well. I think the concept of something being severed from Eywa to be incredibly interesting and it's a shame they didn't run with it. I was very curious about this game and I appreciate the in-depth review of everything and how honest you seem to be with the high and low points of the game. Also I find your animations between segments pretty cool. They were well-spaced out and surprisingly engaging. I was worried they were going to take away from the review, but they absolutely did not. Very quality video you've got here.

Can’t remember the last time I was pushing myself to finish a game just because I saw hints of a good game there. Even Forspoken was less of a push to finish than Avatar. I went in with an open mind, but there are so many absurd design decisions. Thank you for managing to put your finger on why exactly it feels like that, it was kind of hard to work out.

What I love about your writing is I've never seen a single Avatar film nor any pre-release footage of the game but you weave your stories so brilliantly that I cannot look away for the full hour. Delving deep into character analysis while also addressing gameplay criticisms but leaving enough out that if anyone wants to play the game they still have reason to. The animations were superb and you can feel the love and passion that was put into the whole project. You truly do get better with every video, I can't wait to see what's next as you are skyrocketing into my favorite KZfaqr/Game Critic whatever title you prefer on this platform! Keep up the great work Zenny!

I think personally, the universe never appealed to me in the first place and i can't say i've even watched the second movie at all, so i didn't even know this game existed until seeing this review (Though that honestly goes to show how lackluster ther marketing for this was as well...) I am curious to see what the hell did they make now.

comment and like for the algorithm. Seriously. Nothing but respect for all the work you put in despite your low sub count.

honestly man i feel blessed having found this channel, it having under 10k subs makes it really unlikely to come across it, but wow. WOW. the quality of your content is genuinely unmatched by som5 5m+ game reviewers. love the animations. the love and work put into this is definately observable. love this

This is the first video I have seen of your and I have no idea what going on between the review segments but I'm invested

why are humans in Avatar always so damn cartoonishly evil while Na'avi are cartoonishly good? 17:40 exploring how Eywa punishes Na'avi which break her rules would be interesting. Like if Na'avi tried for farm crops or animals would Eywa send plagues and famines on them? 54:00 Na'avi or the animals losing their ability to think with a severed connection ... umm kinda implies a hivemind

god the sexy robot kept me staying but your analysis made me not want to leave, amazing work!

How the hell do you only have 15.8k subscribers??? The intro sequence/3D modelling alone is absolute FIRE.

istg the fact that you only have 8k subs continues to baffle me, this is MILLION SUB CONTENT AT THE VERY LEAST, 11/10 as always ty

My man your production quality just keeps getting better and better. Absolutely amazing stuff. Rock on my man!

Omg imagine if our sister is revived as a severed brute, the final boss in your story. Also why didn’t they have the song play out with the lyrics and also why would he let the bombs set off??? It takes away from his arc!!!

... Dude, you had me enchanted with your ideas on the broken down facility.

dear lord the quality of these videos so good glad you have kept with it!

It’s kinda fitting that a mid game with tons of potential but mismanaged creative decisions comes from a movie franchise of mid movie’s with tons of potential but mismanaged creative decisions.

Your videos are real entertainment. So many ‘reviews’ are clearly just copying the working formula and I love how you take your reviewer style beyond the formula.

Yeah, I called Aha'ri getting shot the moment the teacher told her to stop singing in front of the comically evil capitalist old white man. I started skipping cutscenes after I was proven correct. I also called Hat Boy's betrayal the moment I saw him still in TAPS gear after being freed; good to know the game's writing is about as predictable as I expected. The part that made me outright put the game down was going from zero combat experience to soloing large Walkers with a bow and makeshift arrows you'd have zero ability to adequately craft in-lore (not even a Na'vi survival training montage like Jake got; we just intrinsically know how to do all things Na'vi with perfect execution apparently,) and then literally the first Far Cry 3 Pirate Outpost I took out, the game glitched and I couldn't hack the coolant computer, functionally locking me out of the rest of the game.

What I find really funny about this game that no one talks about is your basically a child going on a murder spree. You were frozen in cryrochamber for 16 years and alll a sudden ur character has the mentality of an adult and I find it hilarious

My favorite bit of the video was ur take on what the beginning could have been Writing an appropriately emotional opening is tough and what u suggested was a good opening or at least a great foundation

Can't believe i said "Oh fuck off" with how they treated Alma like i get ubisoft ain't the best at writing nor is avatar as a whole but god that felt so pretentious well that and the whole poorly done twist of showing how messed up could be with forcing a cut connection between aywa and it's inhabitants, but other than that this was a great review i really dig the animations and the overall presentation was really good as well

I can't believe I am saying this, but I have a crush on the animated mech lady from a video game KZfaq essay (btw this video is fantastic and the animated story is so cool??? How do u only have 9k, that is insane)

I know that what i want is wishful thinking, but i really want to see in some form a interaction between the Avatar world and the Technology of AI, not the irl part, the sentient one. Like, imagine what the Na'Vi would think when encountering the literal counterpart of their ideology, were the power of technology was able to create a life in a way without any interaction with nature. And in the other side of the spectrum, what would the sentient AI think of the Na'vi when their ideology itself is centered around something that the AI think is useless or at least not as important to them. Trow a bit of emotions on the AI and you can probably get a great way to look at nature in the eyes of the beings that don't really need then for survival and what humanity would do to said nature if they finally find a way to completely server the dependency we have with nature.

Bro u really deserve more views. Its seen for everyone that u put alot of time, work and love in it. So man, thank u alot

You're so fucking awesome Zenny. I'm just so astonished at your assets and animation, *combined* with production quality, and being an actually great reviewer! I'm a big fan!!

This video gave me a better perspective on the story than the game itself did. I must say I admire the effort you put into your videos and the way you present it in such an engaging and thought out manner, not to mention the quality of your animations is really impressive. It's obvious you really put heart into it. I'm glad I found your channel in my recommended, thank you for your content

34:00 Actually, the British helped prevent America from using the metric system, a British Navy ship intercepted one of ours that had the guy that was trying to convince some of our Governing people to swap to metric, and the British as far as I know wrongfully kept the people they intercepted jailed until death from their captive conditions. So while this wasn't the only reason why we stuck with imperial, you guys definitely helped lol.

I know I'm a day late, but I'd been hoping for a new Zenny video for a week now. Am stoked. 💚

The algorithm has blessed me with finding this channel. This kind of content is exactly what I live for.

This is the first video of yours I have come across and wow are you under rated. The quality of this video is insane. May the youtube algorithm bless you brother.

Wtf this channel is insanely creative! I love this. Keep up the amazing work dude!!!

I am so happy I found your channel! Great video, hope this channel blows up in the future

i feel lucky to find your channel great work! You're narration is amazing and so fun to listen to AND WE GET THE ANIMATION?! Also imo, it would be much more fun if they made all the hunting/gathering animations, preferably quick but it might be hard to expect that from this game, and leave minigame (hopefully entertaining) for the cooking, maybe not 8 times in a row

I just randomly happened upon your channel today and have been binging the HELL out of your stuff. My GOD you're talented and such an entertaining presence to watch. You're gonna make it BIG in no time. And you've earned a new loyal subscriber in me who'll from now on, always be excited and looking forward to your content.

Uhhh I’m confused, how does this man ONLY have 13k. This is too good of quality for it to be 13k.

Bro, the level of quality and soul pumped into your videos only fills me with pure ire, for how the algorithm treats you. You deserve better.

I watched this video thinking it was a channel with at least 100K but only 10k?? WTF the quality is insane keep up the amazing work

15:50 Um... As someone who genuinely does not like these movies for well complicated reasons. I have to ask... Wasn't all that obvious? I mean the movie practically spells it out to you that Awa is their... I wouldn't say god as much as master. You could liken it to a world spirit. All of that was pretty implicit to the story. I personally feel the reason people don't talk about it is because well... It feels like a parallel story. Or setting lore. Its neat for sure, but given that its never actually addressed how the Navi God Awa can interact or meaningfully engage with the human miners on pandora. Honestly that is the biggest thing that pisses me off about Avatar is that their is so much wasted potential, and the movie overall comes off as a 'technology bad' 'nature people good' film. When it could have been so much more.... IF PEOPLE WOULD PUT MORE THEN TWO MINIUTES OF THOUGHT INTO THESE CONCEPTS!!!

Just found you man, and honestly? I love the way you do things! I'm a big time Avatar fan, so I was admittedly a little hesitant to see what you'd have to say, considering majority of people's opinions are "lmao Avatar bad" - so you actually being familiar with, as well as being a fan yourself was such a breath of fresh air. Your criticisms felt more than fair, as well. I adore this game and the Avatar series as a whole, but my thoughts more or less aligned with a lot of your own, which was surprisingly great. I agree heavily, that the the Severed concept was sooo damn cool, and I also wish they actually *did* attempt to involve some poor Na'vi, as messed up as it would be, lmao. Show us more RDA horrors beyond corporate greed and deforestation (which are absolutely egregious on its own ofc, but yk what i mean) Overall an awesome video in my eyes :] And to speak of Alma and her plot hole.... she never actually intended to go and save the Sarentu kids. She was a *coward* who didn't want to face the atrocities she had a hand in, even if yea technically, she hadn't meant for the Sarentu clan's massacre. She only saved us because Priya, that geeky pink haired chick, found life signs in the facility and wanted to check it out. Its revealed through those collectable datapad notes, which felt cheap ngl. But hey, it's Ubisoft man. 🤷‍♂️ ...I never once trusted Alma, honestly, and I wasn't all that surprised when the game made that big reveal. It was good, don't get me wrong, but it was also predictable ngl. She was a cold and clinical parallel to Grace Augustine, and she just gave me hella bad vibes. And again, dont get me wrong, she's a fantastic character- but she was just super sus and her motherly gestures and soft tone always had me either cringing or rolling my eyes. Teylan was absolutely wonderful- and the oh so obvious manipulation from Mercer and his fervent love of the RDA was painful / uncomfortable to watch, which was obv the point since you're meant to "reclaim / find your way" as a Sarentu and ditch the RDA's influence.... but still, damn. He IS also the youngest by the way, around 17-19, while the player is like... 21-22? I think, I'm not sure. But Teylan is for sure the youngest, so it makes sense *why* Mercer chose him to be his puppet. He was stupid, yes, but it absolutely made sense considering everything. I wish they did more with Ri'nela and Nor, but perhaps we'll see it (alongside more of Teylan) in the two planned DLCs?? Also gimme the other two kids from the prologue lmao- where tf did they go. Are they dead? What happened to them? I need answers Ubisoft! Sorry for the huge ramble- I have many thoughts about this game, clearly haha. But cheers! Eagerly awaiting your next vid :]

Just showed up and I gotta say I love the animation. Super cool. Super unique. Can’t wait to see this channel grow.

Brother in Christ I had just found ur content and I gotta say, Jesus how do only have 10k? Ur content is incredible man

Oh my lord the production quality combined with the thoughtful critique I definitely thought you atleast had 200k subs.

First videos of yours i watched, first of how are you still below 10 k, the critique is good and i appreciate the proper look at this game that was kind of unceremoniously thrown on the market to kind of die. Very dissapointed to hear the story elements arent that great but im also kind of happy to hear that the worldbuilding is actually pretty substantial. The hunting and fruit collecting for some reason feel very....90s french game design where the games were interesting but had a lot of very obnoxious gameplay mechanics that were almost nonsensical. As a animator i always appreciate the extra level someone goes to add animations to their reviews, be it for skits or otherwise. (tho ngl this being my first video of yours made the animated segments a smidge confusing ) In any case my point is great video, good effort put in, was actually shocked to just see your below 10 k subs, hope you keep on makin videos

Babe wake up new Zenny video dropped

So this is my first video of you and besides the animation outside the review being *chefs kiss* and VA I didn’t realize there was lore

You are actually an amazing content creator many of your videos deserve millions of views because of the effort you put into them I cannot wait for the next upload keep up the amazing work

Dang dude. Your idea about the second facility was very compelling. It's too bad Ubisoft was unwilling (able?) to go that far.

What the heck? I just came for a review and I’m finding myself watching the middle of some story that plays between with interesting characters that I am now confused about? Dang

Your named after my favorite franchises currency, you instantly gained my respect.

I love that feeling of finding a new high effort video essay channel

Never have I ever been so interested in a side skit

I really like how you also offer ways the writing team could improve the game (in this video and others)

This is a great critique of the game, I'm so glad to see someone talk about the story elements in so much depth. Most reviews covered the repetitive gameplay, but this allowed me to see how the plot actually played out, which is what I was most interested in. It's a shame it never gets fully realized because it does seem promising, but that along with the gameplay loop doesn't seem like enough to make the fun of exploring the world of pandora worth the purchase.

Bestie why are you so underrated, love your commentary and the animations 💙💙💙

Y'know, this is my first time watching this channel, but I'm really invested in the story between the actual video

Bro you got another 2k subs within the last 4 weeks... Your starfield video is really helping you out CONGRATZ!!

I never really watched the avatar movies before but the way you described the game and story really helped me understand how things in the Avatar world work, even if it wasn't a lot its just enough to make me probably watch the movies one day myself. And also the Algorithm Series.. God that ending makes me excited for what's to come, The animation also looked awesome and i can't wait for your next video! Much love and Keep going, you are doing great!!

Me personally, I’ve spent HOURS researching the world of Avatar so everything detail about this game is so intricate and beautiful, it really is for the fans

Incredible essay and animations!! Great work!

I'm glad I got recommended your starfield video, your videos are too high quality for such an unknown youtuber and I feel bad that youtube didn't recommend you sooner to me because your type of content is the exact shit that gets me glued to the screen. Better late than never I suppose, keep it up.

Yo I get an in depth game review and a dramatic story to go with it? Get this channel boosted into the algorithm now!!!

Very nice review. I really enjoyed my time with the game despite some of its shortcomings. I fully agree with you on the song, it's a shame that we don't have the complete version at the end. I have high hopes for the new region that will be introduced in the future dlc.

I have complaints with this game, but by far, the thing I dislike the most is that hunting on ikran is impossible, when hunting on ikran was the coolest thing in the movie, why would you make the animals run in a way that makes it impossible? Also, when you hunt too much young animals, you get the disharmony debuff, but since most animals you come across are young, you’ll always get the disharmony debuff, which stops you from calling your Ikran, and makes it harder to do everything.

It's crazy how good the production quality on the videos are yet the algorithm isn't picking up your videos. Like I'm interested in making animation, and I can't imagine how difficult it must be to animate for these videos while also writing a script and editing the video.

The food animation thing is so goofy, just have an option to skip the cutscene like botw/totk does

I played the original Ubisoft Avatar game when I was 9 and at the time I loved it. The story made sense to a 9 year old and visually entertained me as the movies did. However, that’s where the story in this game lacks. The story is great,if you were a kid… As an adult gamer I now look for storybeats that will hook me in. Make me empathise with a character and as you said “show me don’t tell me” what is going on. I can only hope that Ubisoft pays attention to the criticisms of its player base so that the next release could be so much better

Hey, this is my first time watching one of your videos, and I have to say, you are an amazing guy, so glad the algorithm showed me. Consider me a subscriber to you because I love your style!

Brilliant videos and keep up the great work

DUDE IM SORRY I- Ok first of all comment for the algorithm HOW are you not more popular SECONDLY, bro putting in the coolest animations in the middle of an already stellar review??? I got to like 30 minutes in and had to come down here to gush. BRILLIANT work my dude keep it up!!!

excellent video, thanks for making it, this game brings me to the edge of tears because of both how good could have been, how good it is, and how much it fumbles the bag on things that speak to my very own soul, I am torn.

Damn you're right. I did hate the song by the end of the video.

Subscribed, and commenting for the algorithm. Love your work. Your work ethic and passion clearly shows.

52:00-53:56 ... Hoo boy, that construeing of the second tap facility gave me chills...

@1:02 "you dont remember who you were... you're now a jolly little insect" insects have memories lol

the insane thing about the foraging is the fact that you can turn the picking minigame off in the settings. It prevents you from getting pristine loots, but it makes the game a million times faster. It really comes across that they spent a shitload of dev time working on it only to realize it made the game worse with how arbitrary the movements are and how often you do it, but didnt want that dev resources to be wasted. I hope thats how it went anyway

yooo this is way more than a review, this is an animation with a story as well as the point in hand, tis is content truly amasing.

Hm, after watching the game and gameplayvideos of A:FoP I think there is something like a clear message the Devs haven't made clear enough. Na'vi are more or less kind of stealthy, blending in with the nature of Pandora and so on. My best guess is, that the Devs wanted to convey this concept in the game, overdoing it. If you're a stealthgame player like me, you'll love this game. Sneaking around, avoiding combat where possible, ending it if it happens as fast as possible, is really good. It was never meant to be a shooter or "Action" game in that kind of shooty sense. At least, that's how it feels to me.

I wish I knew how long ago I subscribed to this channel. I went to hit the button and saw I was already subbed. Damn, somewhat concerning how bad my memory seems to be getting lately.

Why did they not just clone Navi if they wanted diplomats with no connection to Navi culture? I get that the avatar are expensive because they need to be tailor made so that a human can link up with them, but we can clone things now, surely in the future that technology would be even more advanced.

It would have been a good twist to have the option to join the RDA.