Death's Door and The Forgotten City (Zero Punctuation) 

This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviewed The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/the-great-ace-attorney-chronicles-zero-punctuation/ Watch it early on RU-vid and support our content via RU-vid Memberships for $2 / month!

I can't tell if Yahtzee actually knows that the Forgotten City is originally a Skyrim mod or if he's just really on point.

The Forgotten City is probably so reminiscent of Skyrim because it literally is a remake of a Skyrim mod.

The entire comments section is just people repeating the exact same thing about forgotten city starting as a mod. Why do people keep saying it? Is everyone watching the video also stuck in a time loop?

I played The Forgotten City back when it was just a cool quest mod for Skyrim. Nice to see it get this attention!

I just realized that the reason The Forgotten City looks like a reject Bethesda title is because it was actually a Skyrim mod!

About "The Forgotten City", Yahtzee complained about being able to keep your inventory after each time loop, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if you did lose your inventory after each loop and had to acquire it all over again, he'd be complaining about THAT instead!

Oh, I thought the name was “Deaths door and the forgotten city”

For anyone wondering, the Melbourne coffee place with the amazing croissant french toast is almost definitely Hash in Hardware Lane. (The name is actually just #, this is the famously pretentious part of Melbourne after all)

Well The Forgotten City did start out as a mod for Skyrim so that's slightly accurate. 2:47

It's such a weird choice to have a guy go ahead of your character, get stuck, just so they could leave a note for the character. It's probably an artifact from the Skyrim mod, sure, maybe to amp up the player to the difficulty of the puzzle, but it does make the old archeologist look like a ponce.

I enjoyed The Forgotten City a lot while noticing a lot of the wobbly-Ikea-bookshelf qualities Yahtz alluded to. It doesn't overstay its welcome and has a nice payoff, and I actually loved how easy it was to break the economy by stealing money from that asshole merchant each loop.

The Forgotten City was one of my favorite "story" mods for Skyrim. After wading through a bunch of less-than-stellar story mods (I did one playthrough where I went a little mod crazy), it was a breath of fresh air. Interesting to hear that it now has a life outside of Skyrim.

Damn! I forgot to take my pet glacier for a walk & now there's a wet spot on the carpet!

Everyone else is talking about how The Forgotten City is a remake of a Skyrim mod, but I want to know if there's ACTUALLY an orgy at Yahtzee's place tonight. How is no one talking about this?

I love the existential crisis in that last frame that must have lead to the podcast discussion for this week.

I really liked Death's Door. It was a succinct and fun zelda-like game.

Probably been mentioned already, but forgotten city is a full game that started as a skyrim mod :)

I always like when you find a dead NPC who tried to get through the dangerous area you're about to enter writing in their death diary about what killed them and how aggravating it is, as you'll likely soon develop more empathy for their plight than the most tragic fair maiden or woobie character. Actually I'm surprised there aren't more messages in Dark Souls games that are like that despite the limited vocabulary: 'Careful of Basilisk (2539 Votes)'

As a big Hollow Knight fan, Death's Door really hooked me. It was charming, simple, and had a fun little story. I'd reccomend it.

Maybe Monty Python did it first, but the first joke reminds me most of Terry Pratchett's Men At Arms when Carrot and Angua go on a date to a dwarf diner and menu is comprised completely of rats served in various manners.

everyone else is talking about the games, and all I can think about is the end credits sequence of Yahtzee stealing a sandwich from himself in an infinite loop

was the this isnt skyrim reference intentional? the forgotten city was originally a skyrim mod a banger one that did time loop well before most everything he listed.

I believe you're thinking of Axil Coffee Roasters in Hawthorn

The Forgotten City also has some good endings and a class system. The classes can give you either a stat boost, extra dialogue choices or a gun. The endings can be boiled down to "the more effort you put into the game, the better the ending". The portal was opened by some old guy there, so you could theoretically just blow his head off and walk away. However the endings reflect upon the effort in your run. Just shooting old guy gets you the worst ending.

The forgotten city is funny enough a Skyrim quest mod I used to play back in the days. Was really nice.

Fun fact about The Forgotten City: It was originally a Skyrim mod, but after winning a Bafta, the creator decided to remake the mod as its own game.

Axil Roasters is the place in Melbourne which has the Crossaint French Toast, FYI.

I really enjoyed Forgotten city, but I personally found the big twist about the place to be somewhat obvious. The "everyone's doomed for one sinner's actions" thing threw me off for a bit, but the beginning had me figure it out like the easiest game of Connect the Dots. Seriously, what was I, a Mythology nerd, supposed to think when we wake up at the Tiber, with a woman in a black Hoodie and a rowboat saying she dragged us out of the river? And her name's "Karen?" That said, I did find it an interesting take on the idea of how cultures will adopt or take factors of civilizations from before their time, I liked what they did with that dude that tried before you, I like how they made the primary antagonist someone you speak to almost every cycle, etc.

It's weird to recognize all these games from Iron Pinapple's latest episode. Can we start considering Yahtzee a Souls RU-vidr yet? Heh.

The fact that you keep all your items is the one run kept my interest from completely checking out. Redoing the same thing over and over every loop in other games feels like drudgery very quick.

As a bird owner, I can tell you that they can be down right diabolical.

So anyone got word on that croissant French Toast place in Melbourne?

That jab at "The Forgettable Title" hit close to home for me since it took me a minute to realize Yahtzee was talking about the game that was a remake of the developer's popular Skyrim mod since I had indeed completely forgotten the title. Also made me wonder if that jab about it seeming like a piece hacked off a Bethesda game was a reference to that or just a funny happenstance.

Gonna be honest: I stopped listening and started getting hungry when he said “croissant French toast.”

the forgotten city was a Skyrim mod; a pretty popular one at that too, and now that I think about it you might have already known that given the specific reference to Skyrim....

Death's Door was a fun game honestly. Combat was interesting enough, with four range options you can switch to as you fight and optional charge/rolling strike. And the post-boss scenes were so fitting.

4:42 Can't say I enjoy having everything reset on every time loop. Ephemeral Fantasia (PS2) comes to mind here.

1:54 Anyone that has had to go to Melbourne irregularly knows this pain. We all have at least one place that made amazing food and we've never been able to find ever again.

The final gag made me chuckle a whole lot, didn't see the punchline coming.

THE MANY SHALL PAY FOR THE SINS OF ONE

I am playing through forgotten city right now and it's scary how on point this review is.

Take me to your feeder on the crows t-shirt - amazing.

Croissant French Toast sounds freaking awesome.

1:55 nice to see Yahtzee reference that he used to live in Melbourne, Australia.

1:28 the way you say "size" here has a very "I've pierced my foot on a spike" feel

Hope we get a review of ‘The Ascent’ at some point, would love to hear Yahtz’s thoughts on it.

The games name is deaths door. It features a crow as the main protagonist. If you excuse me im just gonna call my crow Brandon Lee and reminisce about what could have been if it wernt for that fateful day on the shoot of the crow.

Deaths Door> All the items to unlock the side routes were in different places etc. so I couldn't be bothered because I couldn't remember! The Forgotten City> Wouldn't it be nice if all the things reset every loop so I'd have to remember where they were? That would be challenging. Wat?

I want to hear more about the croissant french toast

Algorithm food nom nom nom

I know every motherfucker has already said this but- The Forgotten City looks, feels and plays like a reject Bethesda title because it started life as a Skyrim quest mod. One of the most famous and played mods in fact. The keeping inventory bit is probably a holdover from the mod where unless you had more health potions then gold, you HAD to keep your inventory because the best ending required you to break the law at least once. I heard they were making the mod into a standalone game but I never thought I'd actually see it done. Good on them to have the discipline to complete it.

It's entirely possible that the coffee place that torments Yahtz's vague memories is Axil Coffee Roasters.

I'm happy that Elsinore got at least a name drop. Very underrated game.

That was my favorite end credit scene ever!

something strangely wholesome about Yahtzee sitting atop the wobbly Forgotten City and encouraging it to keep going

2:45 the same concept was actually used for a very popular Skyrim mod

I think it’s cool The Sexy Brutale was mentioned, cool game. Kinda dissapointed that it doesn’t have its own video but otherwise a nice gesture

Played Death's Door after the 3MR. While I enjoyed it, it was way too easy. Didn't really have to master any boss patterns. Just dodge roll and hit until you kill the boss. I appreciated it not having the whole Dark Souls thing of having to go back and collect your money/redo all the stuff if you die, but the bosses were a bit too easy for my taste.

The Death’s Door character had its assignment involving the taking away the soul of the recently deceased stolen from it? Why am I reminded of Grim Fandango?

Haven't heard of these games but I love your analysis

Croissant French toast? Please expand on this concept.

*Zero Punctuation questionably ironic indie rock track of the week:* *Home In Time For Thundercats* by *Generic Present Day Chucklef__k*

Cant believe that skyrim mod i played all those years back got its own standalone game ngl

"Death's Door doesn't have a map" Well, nevermind then.

Missed opportunity - It's Roman Times had a more worthy font.

Tbf The Forgotten City predates all the games you mentioned except Majora as it was originally a Skyrim mod

Oh man, that skeleton gave me a great idea for a stinger on _The Forgotten City_ Immagine if there was a hidden *loop counter* that, after say, 255 loops, caused a sequence to run where your character starts loop 256, coughs, then falls over and dies of old age! The sting comes when you realize the game NUKED your savefiles while the cutscene was playing!!

Suggestion for a non-soul's like indie game: Paradise Killer. It's a lovely, Vaporwave mystery story.

When I saw the title I wondered if it was a video about 2 games, or a video about 1 game with a really long title.

Loved this

*Zero Punctuation prog rock album of the week:* *As The World Falls Apart About Your Ears* by the *Competing Labyrinths*

Very clever credits gag.

Croissant french toast sounds really good

I swear I played a Skyrim mod with EXACTLY The same Plot as the forgotten city

Pet glacier... gotta write that one down

Ok I complained about him talking too fast and some people pointed that it's called zero puntuation so it was par of the course. I can talk as if I didn't put a single comma in my sentences and still talk at a normal speed but I get that that's the gimmick of the series. It's not a very international people friendly series but they know what they do with their appeal I've resorted to changing the video speed to 0,85 everytime and it works so I guess that's a work around for anyone else having trouble with this particular problem.

Not going to lie croissant French toast sounds really good.

Well, I know what I'm doing tonight!

I can't believe Majora's Mask is over 20 years old.

Oh, we all know you would have complained if you couldn't take your loot with you and had to find it again every loop.

Souls! Souls! Souls! Souls! Souls! Souls! Souls! Souls! Wonderful soooouls! Lovely soooouls!

Anyone else already sorting the games Yahtzee’s reviewed this year into the Best, Worst, and Blandest piles? And taking bets on which ones will show up in the end?

It's ok Glacy, you go when you're ready. (Pets my pet glacier.)

As far as movie references go, that was pretty darn good.

Death's Door. I remember that, he changed his name to Bill Door and became a farmer. That was a good book, Reaper Man.

2:45, yes it is litterally a game that was hacked off a skyrim mod which goes by the same exact name and has the same premise

Lol O thought he was reviewing a game called "Death's Door and the Forgotten City". I was like "Title's a bit long, but it sounds interesting".

If Yahtzee wants to play a time loop game where you essentially reset mostly everything each loop for added challenge, he can try out House, a nice little indie horror game where you must find a way to stop you and your family from constantly dying in various ways. If he wants to go the visual novel route, then he can play a game where the main character time travels to an alternate timeline with sentient dragons that live with modern day technology called Angels with Scaly Wings. No, I'm not making that up.

If you don't walk your Glacier enough he'll leave a puddle on your floor.

That second game sounds super interesting

Forgotten Title sounded interesting. I might try it out

I wonder if Yahtzee's back hurts from carrying the escapist for a decade

Could you please do a mini review of Destruction Allstars !

The plot of the Forgotten City sound familiar... I do believe I have played a really great mod for Skyrim that was identical. And I mean Identical.

Where is the croissant French toast place?

Man, now I want croissant french toast. Thanks for ruining my life for the forseeable future yahtz

Word of advice to all of you commenters out there. If you're ever about to type a comment on a video, maybe check first if that comment has already been posted 10 million times already? Your time is valuable, don't waste it.

2:48 Didn't The Forgotten City start as a Skyrim mod?

Your place tonight? Ah shit, I'm at Ralph's! Wish you told me earlier, I lit all the candles and everything.