Yeeeees I really miss that stuff when the gaming world was a bit more offline. I want stuff like Moon Gravity! More Big Head Mode! More silliness in cheat codes!
@@Dragonatrix That and the 'shoot a crab with a gun' achievement were the last ones I got, because I am a masochist who absolutely refused to make my life easier whenever I hit a roadblock. I also disagree with Yahtzee about the areas looking samey (I guess he only played the first few hours or so). I think the further you get through the game, the better the environments are.
I've yet to meet anyone who doesn't repeat any mention of Somerset with their own _zom-er-zet,_ its just a reaction, like pointing out a field of cows during a car ride
@@matthewmuir8884 He was on their most recent podcast. For people reading this in the future, it's the one where they discuss Athens inventing democracy.
3:50 so... Funny thing about that James Acaster clip from Great British Bake Off: in his standup special Cold Lasagna Hate Myself 1999 he explains that he genuinely did have a meltdown and was being completely sincere in that moment. So ironically the clip meant to indicate GBBO wasn't real happens to be one of the moments that is quite real.
Botany Manor looks like someone played The Witness and said, “Oi, mate, jolly good artstyle, I say, but that’s a little too much gameplay for moi taste, righty-o.”
When saying Pools could be written off by cynics as a tech demo for the Unreal Engine, I thought the joke would be “but they’d be wrong! It’s a tech demo for the Unity Engine!”
Another Crabs Treasure was easily the funniest, most well written, and generally super duper fun souls like I've played all year. The game oozes passion from every bit and I am so glad to hear Yahtzee recommend it. Hope we get a FR indie double bill on it
The joke about it being the result of cozy game inbreeding followed by the Genteel joke had me burst out laughing at work. One of my favorite Yahtzee jokes.
"Makes you wonder though. How many elements can you remove from the Dark Souls formula and still call it a Souls-like?" I sense a topic for a Semi-Ramblomatic.
I'm from SomErset and I've moved to Germany. I very much enjoy laying on the Somerset accent real thick to confuse the hell out of people who have never encountered the farmeriness before. Definitely didn't expect to see Somerset mentioned in your vids, and hearing Frost try the Somerset accent was adorable and surprisingly good
They are mentioned prominently in the video. It's the Jesse that we don't often see the face of because they are too busy doing excellent video editing.
Yahtzee, Another Crab’s Treasure gets *much* darker later. 2/3 of the way through the adorable crab accidentally screws over all his new friends and has a straight up suicidal mental breakdown, and it’s bizarrely well done.
Didn’t expect to see James Acaster in a Second Wind video, but somehow "Yahtzee, therefore Britain, therefore great British bakeoff, therefore james acaster" makes perfect sense
My goodness, the delivery for all of this is really good. This is impossible to timestamp the thoughts with hilarity, as the editing is way too good. *Wheezes* 0:16 - Beat Slayer beginning! (With Frost) 0:43 - Character design judging 3:09 - Botany Manor Beginning! (Still with Frost boi) 3:44 - Yahtzee telling someone to piss off. 4:10 - Somerset accent + cameo from JM8! :D 5:12 - Topic on Scones + another JM8 cameo. 6:28 - Toffee barko cameo. 7:06 - Oh no! We lost Frost. (And he never came back... /J) 7:12 - Pools!! Intro (With EIC Nick?? :0) 8:07 - Sliding down a slide! Again again!! 9:12 - ...modern art ey? 10:36 - Jesse S's favourite edit. XD 11:35 - Another Crab's treasure intro! (Nick is still here...) 12:30 - Nick's sadistic streak is showing... (/J) 13:30 - Doggy stare off 14:16 - Yahtzee pun. (That smile-) 14:30 - Gun mode let's go!! 15:01 - Other audio snippets. (Very...uh...interesting conversations...)
obviously the correct way to make a scone is to first whip the clotted cream and jam together then apply the mixture to the scone bonus points for if your mixture looks like congealed blood :)
“It’s not Yahtz being old, it’s Yahtz being British” Frost truly understands the character and what makes it work, I hope he’s able to explore new depths with this season
As someone who gets the creeps from swimming pools, "Pools" is extremely unsettling just watching someone play it. It is specifically the drain at the bottom of a pool and the filter flaps along the sides that give me the creeps, but I also don't like it when they're filled with dark water like in the game. I won't swim in a pool unless other people are in it (can't just be sitting around the pool, they have to be swimming as well). I'll happily swim in the ocean all day long before I swim in a pool. I'm holding off on Another Crab's Treasure just for a bit since I'm having a bit of Soulslike fatigue as well and I have so many other games to play as well. It's definitely on my wishlist and I am looking forward to it when I'm less fatigued of that type of game.
Funny enough I too do get the creep from pools, but because of the tiling. IDK, just don't like walking on it in bare feet. But honestly that "game" really does seem like you either have a phobia it happens to tick, or you're just on a vacation doing nothing in it.
"It's a puzzle adventure game, in the sense that the Great British Bakeoff is reality television." Smash cut to James Acaster absolutely not joking about having a breakdown.
Only ever had scones with a sort of frosting on top, so probably not very traditional. If I had to guess cream then jam sounds like the way that would hold together better.
Love the editing and extra jokes on these things, like the Currywurst drops bit, and the Tails the fox edit 😀 Good to watch the best bits of these streams back again in compilation form too! I particularly liked the discussions of highbrow modern art VS Nick's artistic tastes in the 'Pools' stream - more of that should have made the cut 😛
As a Cornish lad I died laughing that just from the mere mention of Somerset, we somehow get dragged it into this with our ancient rivals over in Devon. Never thought I'd hear it on a second wind video 😅
Whoa, that Pools game is exactly something I've always wanted when I was a kid. Always loved water, so I wanted a game where you just swim a pool. Unfortunately, looking up "pool game" didn't show any results relevant to that. I sorta forgot about it until the Backrooms and liminal space games became a thing. Somehow, the vast empty atmosphere and deep, strange bodies of water appeal to that same desire in ways I can't explain. But I've since been wanting to play them just for the weird, endless water, but without any threats. This is somehow, exactly everything I've always dreamed about. Thanks for introducing it!
To quote Bob Ross "Thin sticks to thick better than thick sticks to thin." I've never had clotted cream so I don't know the correct answer. But the correct answer is which ever is is thicker/heavier goes down first.
Seems like Pools is the kind of thing that would only really achieve its goal of being a horror game in VR, because the degree of removal between you and the monitor definitely makes it less creepy.
Please continue to provide "out-of-context" voice clips on the outro patreon wheel. Would also be something worth waiting around for if we have post-video sponsors
The pool game reminds me of those horror TikToks with the music playing that sounds like they don't want you to take their margarita. Like you'll walk into a pool with a random toilet then turn around and there's a giant duckie charging after you.
Considering the setting, all the colorful stuff in Crabby game being waste, plastic, etc, it might just be the most grim and miserable of all the souls-likes. Or is it a shoals-like?
14:51 Hm, FROM's very own Sekiro is often denied the title of Souls-like and we do have games occasionally described as Bloodborne-like or Sekiro-like specifically, even though _nobody_ denies BB its soul-fullness The further one strays from the elements present in Souls games the more vibes-based that argument becomes. In the end it's all "what Cultural Touchstone does this resemble most?"
I think I actually prefer this series over Fully Ramblomatic, because I’m generally just more interested in first impressions than reviews of entire games unless I have a specific question. A game ending well is nice, but it being interesting throughout is essential. Let the quality of the ending be a surprise I say, I want to know if it’s just me or if it’s the game’s fault I’m not engaged.
