En Garde! & Blasphemous 2 (Zero Punctuation) 

Yep, called it, you removed the free early preview in favor of monetizing it. Automatically generated AI articles not bringing in enough cash?

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shut up

i wonder how much overwhelmingly negative feedback it's gonna take for you guys to let go

Any chance you could make a Zero punctuation playlist on the channel? I have never and will never watch any of your other content. I and most others are only here for Yahtzee, surely that's reflected in your view counts?

You rock! Thanks for the great game and hope Yahtzee gets to review more of your stuff in the future!

Any plans for a port to ps5 or switch?

En Garde sounds fun indeed. I love clever environmental combat, and the atmosphere looks delightful too!

I'm excited to try your game! Some short sweet swashbuckling sounds simply sensational.

your game is amazing!!!! can't wait to see what you guys make next

As a kid, I always dreamed of a game where you could improvise silly shit like this. Feels like something arkane would make if they stopped being so in love with wacky superpowers. Dark Messiah was almost that kind of game at times.

Same for KUNG FU GAMES

@@rich520 yes absolutely! Some of the best parts of Hong Kong-era Jackie Chan fights were how the environment got used in the fight, I want a game where I can Police Story someone through a glass display case or Project A their hands in a bar table flap

​@@uishy340let me knock on a door so that the person living there knocks my opponent over when they swing the door open

Hell in assasins creed 3 when u fight your dad at the end of the game. U can only damage him with the environment. Not nearly as indepth, since u really just had to counter him near an object. But you'd throw him into crates, break a bottle over his head. It made it pretty intense

Sanctum led to the eventual creation of Goat Simulator?

​@@PokecrafterChampionyeah, Goat Sim started as a silly holiday project where the team played around in the new fancy engine they had just started using. They put up a mock trailer (never intending to make a proper game) which went viral and convinced them to make an actual release :D I went to the same uni as they did and they had a two part lecture on how to make games (sanctum 1/2) and how not to make games (goat sim). Highly informative and occasionally hilarious :)

@@SimuLord They also started their own publisher, Coffee Stain, that published Songs of Conquest and Valheim. And Deep Rock Galactic maybe? And yes, Coffee Stain Studios is one singular studio currently working on Satisfactory, and Coffee Stain is the umbrella company that does publishing and own several subsidiary studios. Including the original, and the one currently making Goat simulator 3. Because that's the wonderful chaotic energy they bring to the world.

@@Stukov961 I thought the original was the one doing Satisfactory? or is that team pulling double duty?

@@aboreal Yeah, Coffee Stain Studios, the original, are the ones making Satisfactory. Their (former, sadly) community manager Jace lays it all out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8CilfQ1FeVg.html

I bought it for the concept alone. Saving it for a rainy day when I'm no longer playing BG3 or whatever other generation-defining game came out this year.

I just hope the next game doesn't turn into a Niddhogg 2 situation.

I hope more people buy it, but not because I want more of it, its really not my thing, but because I want to see genuine games that are uncomplicated fun being rewarded for their effort.

If it was free, more people would try it. Not paying for that

Having never even heard of it until this review, I must say it's so thoughtful for Hurricane Adalia to have put out a fun game before it made landfall. (Yes, I know it's spelled slightly different.)

Blasphemous is just a "living in Spain Simulator"

@@ramonmujica3193 no, only Andalusia

That's a very good point.

You've essentially described Pac-Man

@GreyWolfLeaderTW Maybe 1 can be tense but 3 is Stardew Valley level cosy and I love it so much. It really doesn't get enough love as a series

Yahtzee won't like Pikmin 4 just because it's a Nintendo game and he can't help shitting on Nintendo.

@@ramonmujica3193 i mean, being harsh and perhaps a bit unfair is his review style i would hardly say he's biased against any one company

As he said in his Pikmin 3 review, he's not really into games with a twee aesthetic. Probably one of the reasons he avoids Kirby games like the plague.

@@emiliocerchiaro4386 Aw shit. Anyone who doesn't like Kirby is a p.o.s. in my book.

According to the story he dragged the bar owner outside and made him pee on the same electrified plate.

Uh, even as someone who doesn't care much for dogs, that doesn't sound very "fun". Poor dog. If true, then the asshole owner definitely deserved it.

Errol Flynn absolutely loved that dog. Slightly less fun fact: The poor thing sadly met its end while on Flynn's yacht, it fell or jumped overboard (it was theorized that it had jumped in after a fish when no one was looking and drowned). The dog's body washed up on the California shore three days later and Flynn was so distraught over it that he didn't want to go and claim the dog's body immediately after it was discovered. This in turn led to a gossip rag columnist writing a scathing (and probably actually libelous) piece claiming that Flynn didn't actually care about his dog. Flynn, noted for his temper, was absolutely furious. He got drunk, went to the reporter's house and beat him unconscious. When the police had arrived, the reporter's wife had stabbed Flynn in the ear with a fork.

My (admittedly limited) knowledge of Errol Flynn suggests that a lot of stories about him end with “and then he kicked seven shades of shit out of someone”.

@@samueldixon9028 From what little I "know" about him, which I guess now includes being in a group of celebrities with supposedly magnum dongs, yeah he got in a quite lot of fights for someone who otherwise people seem to speak rather well of.

Judaism requests to be left out of this, please and thank you. Over-the-top acts of repentance really are basically a Christian thing.

i have hardly played the everliving hell out of a game like out of blasphemous 2. liked the first a lot, second one tho is, for me, much better even than the first one. i actually like every aspect except maybe some rare unintentional juggling by some enemy contact damage.

it's a really weird point he chose to hinge his whole argument on. the renaming of the bars and potions and shit. literally every game does this lol. what a stupid point to try and make

Sometimes it's an actual _relief_ from painfully smug self-aware "humor." Looking at you, _Sacred 3..._

It might honestly be my GOTY. I've sunk about 16hr into it just over the weekend.

Idk, it comes off overbearing

Same

I also made the mistake of what Yahtzee said about him. Never again.

I hope there's a sequel.

Unlike Errol Flynn's penis. Which apparently was excessively long.

@@thusnameddigital9397 Errol Flynn 2: The Engorging.

The upsetting visuals rightly get a lot of attention, but she was one of a few places where the sound design really messed me up too.

She's also replacing the kid with an old man coming out of his chest and the bile fountains.

Dude, if you keep upgrading your health she goes ~beyond topless~

She's doesn't just peels her face off. She peels everything off.....

Suddenly I do not want to play this game even more.

I remember when I played the first Sassy Assassins' Credo game, way back in the before-time in the long-long-ago, it was all new and fresh and exciting to me. Wasn't a huge fan of the murdering, but the cool combat and counter-kills and whatnot were a lot of fun, and exploring a bunch of big cities looking for things to help in my next major mission was... hmm. Was that ever really fun? Not sure. But it was kind of a neat idea, when it, too, was new. Problem being, those things are very dead horses now. Time for a change!

“Controversially fun” could also mean “the gameplay is engaging and the graphics are great, but the fans are homophonic misogynists, the developer might be a nazi, and the studio worked its employees to the bone for peanuts, and then fired them all after launch”.

There is only one real answer to all those questions; And the answer is one that most people don't like. Because it requires doing more of the thinking thing. And brains are lazy. The answer being, it depends on the implementation. Difficulty levels can be something like Bethesda's "solution" of adding or subtracting arbitrary amounts of stats in a menu. Which is bad. Or it can be a dynamically changing moveset for enemies like in God Hand, which tailors the difficulty to the player's skill at the game. Which is kind of good, with some issues. Alternatively, it can be reliant on the equipment you chose that prepares you for the next few encounters, like in the Souls games; Which only has the issue of not properly communicating what kills you besides damage or getting knocked off. Grinding is entirely dependent on the gameplay loop. If you enjoy the loop of Monster Hunter (any of the games), then the grinding will feel great. But if you don't like the core loop, then the grind is going to be a deal-breaker for you. There is also the question of how much grinding you need to do to achieve certain goals you might have. Hell, Warframe has examples of both good and bad grinds. Farming one character takes doing a certain mission that most people hate. That would be a bad grind. Another character would make you do a mjission type that is generally considered fun, which is great for most players. And open world works similarly as well. If it's a big empty field with a few procedurally generated trees? It will feel bland VERY quickly. If it's a hand-crafted setpiece that you can traverse, with it never really feeling illogical (which is a lot of effort, mind you), then a game being freely traversable will feel like a major enhancement. The reason why I'm not bringing up examples here is because I'm not sure I have all that many examples for the good cases. Elden Ring comes close, but even that game suffers a bit from having bland segments of boring linkage between some places. Though bad examples are dime a dozen.

​@@OzixiThrilloh, for the open world bit I got a good example: Everspace 2. It completely cuts down the worst aspect if a lot of other games set in space, that being the vast emptiness. The game gives you set of handcrafted areas instead, which usually are filled with opportunities for those that are willing to look, while at the same time being relatively simple to navigate if you are in a hurry. The entire game is structured so that you will constantly find things on your own. And when it comes to bad examples, any of the more recent need for speed titles are perfect, because every time I play them I think "why can't I just get a menu instead?" If you want to start a race you have to drive there, but without the whole "racing" part driving around just feels too shallow and the areas are too uninteresting. It feels like all the tracks having to exist together limits the fun and creativity of them on their own. I'd rather have a menu to select them from. My personal opinion is that in a good open world you don't want to fast travel, in a bad open world you'll almost exclusively fast travel if possible.

In this case it means "doesn't have grinding, difficulty, or open world" -- let's try not to cast the sheer majority into the victim role when they get everything they want on a weekly basis and with almost every single new Title that's hit the figurative shelves in the last 15 years.

For free? You usually have to pay for that kind of treatment. Sounds like someone's scared of a deal.

As a (european) spanish, it's quite nice living here once you get used to the ocasionalrain of blood

Joke's on you, that song never left my head! :p ... HELPME

I don't want to explain to the priest what Blasphemous 2 is when I have to confess my sins so I'll skip it.

As excellent as the first, and improved on so many bits of the first I didnt like. This is how sequels should be handled, im loving it

It didn't change my opinion from the 3 minute review for the most part. I'll probably pick it up at some point.

I came here because I thought I read "drive someone to buy that small studio" and was ready to look under the floorboards for the giant monkey's paw the gaming community is built over.

@@kingbaard5395 totally - I think they're largely aligned. But Yahtz has a bigger platform.

Yeah, god forbid a game has a bit of creativity. Pans Blasphemous 2 for being a Symphony of the Night clone but complains that it doesn't use words like health and mana like every other game, and calls the war censor a mace. I can't even tell if he liked it or not?

Since he is not familiar with the topic, he labels it as pretentious, wich says a lot, honestly. I am spanish and don´t find it pretentious at all.

Also Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

You can't enjoy something unless Yahtzee does? That's a strange way to live life

@@aelechko You have missed the point by so much, it's actually impressive.

@@aelechko Try reading that again. They said faith in humanity is restored, that is orthogonal to enjoying something.

@@bramvanduijn8086 no I read it correct. How could your faith in humanity be restored because a person you don't know found something fun. He's found plenty of games fun. Why would it shock you that he found a fun, interesting and unique game fun? The issue is the majority of people using the language severely incorrectly. That combination of words means OP would have no faith in humanity if Yahtzee didn't find it fun. Having one man's opinion of an indie video game affect someone else's view on an entire species is fucking ridiculous. So no, I didn't miss the point at all actually.

@@lastsinnersa8002 no I didn't. I explained it on someone else's comment. Short form: if a stranger's opinion on a video game affects your view on an entire species you're absolutely ridiculous. So what if you found it fun and he didn't then by proxy it isn't fun to you anymore? Go watch the extra punctuation on review scores. You're basically doing that.

to hell with you now I have it in mine

I Know How to get it Out!. DuckTales Theme 🙃

@@gokusondbz you're a real one. Keep it up

Yeah, they started making Fatality level moves into regular specials. There was one from 9 or X I think that ivolved firing two arrows directly into your opponent's eyes and then violently ripping them out. And then the fight just carries on as usual, as if the loss of their ocular organs is but the slightest of bothers.

​@@vigorouslethargyPretty sure you're thinking of Kung Jin's in _MKX_ since no one else uses arrows in general (weirdly) outside of Nightwolf sometimes and maybe Rambo. But, yeah, X-Rays in the more realistic games are pretty goofy.

@@MusicoftheDamned It's a good mechanic for fatalities. But it was back when Street Fighet IV revitalized fighting games, so MK wanted their own super moves, only more gory.

@@CalciumChief Yeah, X-Ray moves would be fine-ish for their intended purpose if a lot of them *weren't* pseudo-fatalities (and NRS & WB hadn't been assholes about forcing some of its workers to look at realistic gore for research). If the X-Ray moves only showed breaking bones (that weren't someone's spine...or skull) or just involved big powerful attacks that made sense for the fighter to not be able to pull out regularly, then they would probably work better. The problem is that as they are now they're just redundant to fatalities and brutalities while simulanteously becoming goofy since given that they *don't* kill in game so obsessed with killing the opponent even when the majority of such moves look like they should kill or at least horrifically cripple the opponent. It's perhaps a bit unfair to single Mortal Kombat out for this general since a lot of other less violent fighting games have attacks--hell, regular throws--that just snap people's necks for instance, which has always weirded me out. The issue is more that Mortal Kombat *itself* now calls attention to the weird and silly disconnect basically every time that an X-Ray | a Finishing Blow (?) connects since, as you said, the emphasis on realistic gore just makes it even sillier when people get back in a series where people get violently killed frequently and often by lesser things too.

Yeah, Mortal Kombat has been boring the last few games now. They were always gory, yeah, but in a ha-ha over the top fun weird way, not in a "make our art department vomit" way. What exactly are they trying to say/accomplish by trying to have the most realistic gore that they can? In what way does it benefit the game design or the overall experience?

Can you freely swap weapons once you have more than 1? Looking forward to playing 2 the next chance I get.

@@corywertz9268 Yes but you have to choose one then find the others in game. You get all of them fairly quickly though since each weapon is linked to a traversal mechanic.

@@InMaTeofDeath Sweet, thank you. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't a loadout sort of thing where you have to select one at a time at a Prieu. Not that I wouldn't play if that were the case anyway XD

I managed to get one of the decent endings, but once I realized I had to play the whole game again to do one unintuitive thing to unlock the boss fight where you kill God I couldn't muster the enthusiasm. It'll just have to wait for the next play through

I would like to believe that En Garde gets to be a success and they make a sequel or follow up where it's a bigger scale game using the same combat to tell a bigger story.

I was overjoyed when We Love Katamari came out for Switch recently for this reason💕

Inigo Montoya's from The Princess Bride, not Zorro.

Maybe they should’ve called them that then

"How was I supposed to know it was a truck and not the city of Tacoma just based on its appearance?"

For real, i was starting to get really annoyed with them in one of the areas, but then right after i proceed to delete the healthbar of the two last bosses. It really is a "the rich get richer" kind of weapon,if you can just not get hit it does the most damage out of anything in the game. That said, it really feels like two toothpicks if you do get hit, and the riposte being bugged is horrible considering its a main mechanic of the weapon

With all the dialogue and the words and images on screen, I almost watch the episode twice every viewing because I'll hear what he says, then have to go back re-watch or read the animations and words/images on screen xD

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Yeah, that music was never good nor does fit the tone of ZP, should just be a quick chiptune (at reasonable volume)

​@@D-G1N-R8Dunno where it came from but it's become something of a staple over the decade+ since ZP started. I actually think people complained about it when a video ended with a sponsor instead of the guitar theme lol.

We the viewers demand to be punched right in the face by a screaming guitar riff at the end of every video, and personally I find it fantastically aggressive and invigorating. YMMV, widely.

Normally it isn't this loud. I like the music as it is, it rocks.

I think I enjoyed Hollowknight for being a bit faster. I almost 100%ed (112% in hollowknight's case) it but in Blasphemous I found diving into the game's art and historical inspirations more interesting than aiming for the harder endings

I "love" Catholicism for its horror vibes. I also played the first one to death and will also pick up the second one eventually.

Many people are very uneducated when it comes to the middle ages and early Renaissance, and picture the spanish catholic church of that time for all Europe over a millenium. You know, crazy Inquisition stuff that actually was very localized both in time and space.

You mean to tell me that Europe isn't a monoculture and some places are architecturally, culturally and socially different from others? Next you'll say Africa is a continent & no a country.

I just looked it up, apparently it comes from, foulr. Which means to cover ones tracks. Curses, foiled again. =(

Probably Iron pineapple he does alot of the souls like lists

It’s also in a class of its own when it comes to that style. Like, most metroidvanias are inspired by something in the video game space or at the very least, Anime and cartoons. Blasphemous draws its inspiration from Spanish catholic art.

Oh I've seen that, a sword fighting game that very much portrays the feel of Princess and the Bride, Zorro, Three Musketeers swashbuckling dueling

@@eatingpancakesrightnow2786 Yeah. I wish they'd add Zorro to that game if I'm honest. I was a HUGE Zorro fan when I was a boy. Read some of the books, watched any Zorro movie I could on cable. Good stuff.