A Plague Tale: Innocence (Zero Punctuation) 

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Firstly: Rats are adorable even if I did sometimes lie awake at night wondering if they my own pet ones were secretly conspiring to rip my supple flesh from my bones while I lay vulnerable beneath my bed sheets. Secondly: You should read "The Rats" by James Herbert I get the impression you would enjoy his work. Then you should read "Lair" and "Domain" the sequels because the second one is hilarious and the third one is set in a post apocalyptic setting which was adapted into a terrible film that did no justice to the book. Thirdly: I get the distinct Impression you dislike rats...all the more reason to read James Herbert's books.

Are we getting a stream today or does Yahtzee still need time to recover from E3?

I'm just praying that either next week or the week after that, Yahtzee reviews Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

Review Pathologic 2, you coward. I double dare you.

Yes, but fortunately, Amicia isn't into religious delusions...

Clever!

Damn.

Joan was dope af, to bad she essentially was betrayed to make peace. Getting burned and all the jazz.

Bird_Dog You fedoras are as bad as the religious fundies.

Or just the average JRPG.

Sounds kind of like Ico to me

Well we have one game with a child and a huge "animal" called The Last Guardian.

Already done, A Bird Story. (good game actually. Well, good story-based walking simulator at any rate.)

You could argue that this is a good portion of the plot of Sonic Adventure

He's a wordsmith.

I also like how he said "breast high wall" instead of "chest high wall".

Are we talking Plague of Gripes? Cause in that case: Sure, that's about right.

God damn it I'm so dense. Totally missed it.

@@TheBaesment I heard it and said... "wait a tick" and rewinded to make sure

@@hydra7427 Clearly, just look at the Sonic movie

That's the joke.

That's what sprang into my head, I'm pretty sure the English won that one.

I'm glad I wasn't the first to notice that.

@@gunfaceUK Oh, I suppose that might make more sense.

@@Mirmisian Honestly if the English found that the already extremely potent combination of Archers and dismounted could be improved if they gave slingshots to little bastards and threw them somewhat near the enemy and only used the actual disciplined, trained and equipped English army as last resorts, plus according to this game French soldiers would shove their swords through toddlers if they saw them and that means more people will join the British to kill those child murdering bastards

Honhonhon gets me any time in any context :))

@@ccotunai is that the French hahaha?

@@chexmixkitty allegedly, that's how some french would express pretentious laughter is writing. The brazilian Jajajajaja is a close second :))

@@ccotunai xaxaxa

@@NihilistAlien Je suis Français, imbécile.

I'm confused, can you please define?

@@nullpoint3346 when my gf be cheating on me with her gf, I like to watch while one of them puts a fake beard made from my shaven back hair and roleplays a serious hairy dad protecting the other one. They never really fuck, just scream at each other and brood over killing imaginary zombies, but it sure as hell gets me going I tell you

Alejandro Silva ahh makes sense

@@AlejandroSilva-mr7yy relateable.

Alejandro Silva I just came thinking about it

Literally laughed out loud, that was very well done!

American Tail* Sorry to be THAT guy...

Well, didn't the latest Hideo Kojima game feature Norman Reedus escorting a fetus?

@@blondbraid7986 It's true, we graduated to serious hairy dad and his BB.

Next logical step must be a fetus guiding a semen through the womb, trying to solve zelda-esque puzzles near the vagina

Oh I remember that game! Norman Reedus and the Magic Fetus right?

But they had to fight at all is needing vengeance.

The First Battle of Agincourt was a victory for the brits, the second one was a humiliating defeat for the British at the hands of several french armies, one of which was the "large group of peasants with heavy sticks led by Joan of Arc"

@@BaelPenrose I mean We did kill her, that technically counts as vengeance but, I'm never one to complain about more. I might be a Scot but still

Tabris wasn’t Joan of ark like 19? Basically proving Yahtzee’s point that all the French needed were young ill equipped girls

Glad I checked the comments before saying the exact same thing.

Come to think of it ICO is about a young child escorting another young child

Eh, Pokemon aren't serious enough. Although I'll give you the hairy part.

Vultiidsah The Memelord Inventing new varieties of shortstacks, mostly.

I mean it worked for Dishonored... >_>

@@Eisaku2 Except this game doesn't give you grief for killing off reprehensible human scum. The game doesn't pretend your killing a couple dozen people will vastly effect the status quo when there is a plague that is killing millions.

So, a reversed Version of Sonic 06, with Princess Elise actually being a little bit competent? Sure, could be fun.

And then the next evolution would be playing as a hedgehog and saving even smaller animals and then we're just back to Sonic

@@The_Jovian So then our this game was just a sonic pre-pre-quel.

And we've had a few "older cute animal escorts younger cute animal through world of unrelenting horror and violence" games (Shelter springs to mind), so a small kid escorting a cute animal is the only missing link in the serious hairy chain.

You should play Ghost Giant then.

I'm the giant rat who makes all of the rules! Let's see what sort of trouble, we can get ourselves into! :D

I seriously thought u meant showing her the game. And her laughing at the sight of people being eaten alive by hordes of rats

Serious Hairy Dad: The Motion Picture

Don't forget when they rebooted the franchise in 2005 with: Serious Clean-Shaven Young Adult Hairy Dad

@@SPARR0E And now it looks like we won't get: Had no hair to begin with rescue reboot

@@MrLunithy Sorry to break from the joke, but how do you mean? Isn't the show coming this year?

@@SPARR0E Apparently ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2F4x7uCkCb0.html

I didn’t notice it being out of place. I would have believed that that was the usual term for it (with “breast” meaning the general area of the chest rather than specifically specifically the, err, more prominent way it tends to be in women) if it hadn’t been pointed out. Haha

apparently the Brits did win the first battle. and then they got their asses handed to them by Joan of ark.

Yes, revenge for Orleans doesn't have quite the same name recognition.

British? GTFO.

He could have been working on the road via laptop. Regardless the man has a great work ethic.

Maybe work makes him forget having spent several days surrounded by filthy nerds

He probably recorded this in advance. Not particularly a new game. He's probably just gotten back to the usual review work now.

All videos are uploaded a week earlier on Escapist website

The french got blood on english uniforms \_(ツ)_/

@@jean-christophe8649 Oh yeah thats fair then

MalevolentDivinity Yeah, in any game with infinite respawns, you lose the terror pretty quickly. But if there’s someone else that could be affected by your mistakes, that’s where things could begin to get tense. Unless them dying just kicks you back as well, in which case they’re frustrating instead of tense-making.

Oscar McCormack Oh god it’s happening. Prepare for the coming of the Kwisatz Hadarach: supremely nice but nihilistic as all hell.

@@TheCorrodedMan MUAD'DIB!

@@TheCorrodedMan So, in other words, your average upper class British person? Also, obligatory THE SPICE MUST FLOW.

I must not fear, fear is the mind killer.

Stephen Confident Crowshaw!!!

I enjoyed the story all the way until the end of Hugo's chapter. The rest of it is... uh. They failed to answer quite a few questions (like why some of the corpses at home were left undevoured) and to this day I just don't get what passing the first Threshold was even supposed to do.

Only when it's unexpected.

He became Serious Bald Dad halfway through though.

Revenge for having to get out of bed that day.

Revenge for time wasted? Revenge for missing the mandatory afternoon tea?

"we"

@@wargamingrefugee9065 Or it was a spin on the usual chest high walls considering the main character is a female.

@@Shaymin0 or it could be both

What even is there to say in a review? Yeah, it's a creative themepark management game, if you like those, you'll like RCT. The summary is the review and everything else is wallpaper.

Doki Doko Literature Club! I remember going through part one and thinking about how cute and funny it was. Then I got to part 2, and the spin about him selling his soul for Monika made it darker.

@@emmapopovic-bogdanich1991 I'm doing a Let's Play of that game on my channel if you wanted to look at it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-taa-kH3iHOE.html

"2d dimension" seems a little redundant to say...

It's really not though.

They were always there on the Escapist website versions. It's RU-vid that removed them.

I'm glad I wasn't the only person confused by that Joke

Agincourt

@@NostraFnDamus whoops I knew I screwed the spelling up >.

I was equally baffled, but then I realized that the English got all sweaty slaughtering half the French nobility and he's still put out about it.

@@rejvaik00 mmm not really, normandy was an english territory then, so the norman descendents, where on the english side

Hey-Oh!

He was actually pretty charitable by Yahtzee standards. If more than 1/10th of a review is spent on talking about the things a game did right, he probably doesn’t hate it.

@@brian3634 And that is why Psychonauts is the best game ever.

A Gantt Chart.

He has harnessed the power of sarcasm and ambivalence into a new form of energy for which only he can wield.

Just because something is old doesn't make it high brow and almost by definition a pulp author is definitely not.