GRIS - A Brief Review (2018) 

I just want to let you know, cause it's funny, IGN did a review of this and everyone in the comments is pointing to your much better review instead. Well done mate.

Totally different style of game, but I'd love to hear your take on Cross Code some day. Beautiful review of a beautiful game, love what you do and the way you do it brother.

Ok. You got me. To not only buy the game, but also a Switch!

I bought this game based on your review. Thought you should know. Thanks!

Hello o/ sinse you enjoyed this one, you should check Gigantic game's games. Idk about bastion, didn't play it but Pyre and Transistor are fantastic. Also new game is coming up soon so yeah ^^

Holy fucking shit I just found out IGN gave this game a 6.5, 6. fucking 5, who ever did that deserves a death sentence

WTF IGN??? Have you no soul? Look at it!

@@professorgenki6065 sounds about right to me. The game had no challenge and the art was only good in some parts. It was nothing extraordinary

@@guy3480 yeah, to you, but certainly not to me and the majority pal look it up

@@professorgenki6065 just because the majority thinks its a masterpiece doesnt make it so. Ive played it and i found a lot of the textures to be low res with ugly aliasing and the gameplay had a lot of waiting and slow movement

One of the best comments i've ever seen

It's pretty erotic expression, hmm..

Not to be 'that guy' (5 years later lol), but this developer (Nomada Studio) didn't make Genital Jousting. You're thinking of the publisher (Devolver Digital). And yeah, they've got quite the eye for indie gems 😂

Sometimes we don't we get tired of it

This game's easy going nature and visually artistic nature is truly a breath of fresh air.

@@roguespartan2854 I have cried in the end :(

Lol, I did the same, but I heard about this game from another reviewer lol, and wanted to check it out.

@@VitorLuisbadreligion I was just about to ask if I was the only one who cried at that point in the game :D

Hope you enjoy it mate

I agree, my favorite youtube reviewer's are these guys, acg, worth a buy, and boomstick gaming. Gamespot and ign reviews are severely lacking and uninspired.

Dudeee same, like with those 2 minutes and a half he told me enough to buy the game in that exact moment

The Academy Award I’ve heard this was published by Devolver and only the thumbnail of this video was enough for me to go and immediately buy it on GoG.

I did the same. stopped halfway through, played it and came back to finish this video. It is a beautiful game and one of the best for what it was made for.

0/10 IGN too much A E S T H E T I C

1/19 IGN Not call of shit or battlecrap

-10/10 No Microtransactions Kotaku

6.5 just saw that lololol

Not for ps4? Just pc and switch?

Here here.

Same here. I just bought it.

It's also "gray" in French but is pronounced "gree" in that!

Ya, Im not calling it grease...

Thank you Preston, very cool

@Preston Garvey It's gris in Spanish all the same, you think only in spain they talk spanish?

In fact, Catalan national television made a mistake while giving the news about Gris winning an Game Award, and they showed images of Grease (2002) for DS.

AAA developers Just care about the graphics looking good and how to monetise their game indies are awesome

You could argue that Gris looks better than most AAA games, as well as having great audio, animations, as well as a very creative world and story.

Game is very much an artform, and probably the richest of them all. Games are art, its important to not separate the two, so one day they are recognized as such in the mainstream.

They compare it to Celeste because....I actually have no idea why the compare it to Celeste. That review was tragic.

@@SkillUp A RU-vidr who reads comments!? Those are rare. It's dangerous to enter the RU-vid comment section.

@@SkillUp I find it interesting that ppl still look at ign for if a game is good or not.

IGN are the EA of reviewers

@@SkillUp Dude I really respect you and your work, but did you read that article? They didn't compare it to Celeste, they used Celeste as a back drop for what a great platformer looks like in 2018. You are trying hard to hate on IGN and it shows right here.

The_Lost_Son skill not shill...

@@ItzKamo thats a woosh right there

John Beara Tokyo r/whooosh

@@ItzKamo r/whooosh

John Beara Tokyo Lol

Jathan Harper same here. My favorite reviewer

Same, just bought on switch.

You really should finish it. The ending is so good.

My thoughts, too, word for word. Thank you, Skill Up.

for a beginner would you say - will this game be easy? I'm not really a big gamer but it's mesmerizing and I want to try but I'm not gonna enjoy levels impossible to beat. My favorite games are like lego for playstation cause it's slow paced and satisfying ^^ what's your opininon?

weronikashysha This game holds your hand as you play. Granted there are a few puzzles to solve but hardly anything worth worrying about. Definitely go for it !

@@23dsteel thanks so much! I needed that last push. Bought the game and completed it, must say - it was beautiful and just my pace! Looking forward to games from this studio :D

It'll pair perfectly with my transistor vinyl

IGN is alive? what is IGN anyway? Ignorant Gaming Nonsense?

Same watched for a minute and then went and bought the game. Worth it

got no money atm, but already put in my wishlist

I was going to say something like this but then I decide to scroll down the comments. "Sure someone already did it." =)

Me too! It was well worth it. Great recommendation

From The Void They’re probably making another Far Cry expansion

Imagine how much talent is left at Ubisoft now that they lost these guys...oh wait...don't have to imagine, we can already see for ourselves.

How are you finding it on Switch so far? I am torn between getting it on Switch or PC. At least first... ;)

At first I thought you said flawed review haha

I went ahead and bought the Switch version as well. Depending on how it goes I will likely add it on PC as well after Xmas.

Please let us know how it plays. I actually cheered when you said it was on switch!

Cheetarah So far it has been pretty nice. Only played it undocked which raises a few issues when the camera pulls back for a great view. Being docked on a larger screen may well be best. Nice stylised look. You can really see the artist ideas behind it. Now I really need to dig out and set up the dock for it.

lmfao this is great

I feel the exact same way. So excited to play this now!

Same here. Finished the game and I´m glad I had experienced it without any spoiler.

^ This. Had to stop watching. Went to go get it. I'll be back later...

That's exactly what I'll do now.

Biggest Mikey hey i absolutely love this game but just a warning for you both if you haven’t played it yet! this game’s main themes tie with personal loss and the grieving process. while i do absolutely recommend this game, i also recommend that you both heal and wait until you feel ready! im sorry for your loss

I can second this. Just beat Astrobot and it truly is 'one small step for games. One giant leap for games'. It's a fantastic game in general, but is an absolute eye-opener for what VR can do. Never experienced anything like it in my life and buying a PSVR for it was worth every last penny and more.

Oh buddy wait until you see the ending, really recommend you play it if you didn't already.

I broke down crying once I realized the meaning behind the game. It resonates with me soso much.

HAHHA This made me laugh. So true.

Misinterpretation of what he says what he meant games are all heavy made like FPS games

Domt forget about escapist

Just like Nier: Automata came out of nowhere and blew me away, this game does the same, except I was looking forward to it this time, and it is in my Top 3 GOTY's list. And I couldn't agree more with you, it is a high contender for Audio Design and Soundtrack already, maybe Art Direction as well. Hopefully it will get more attention.

I know right!

5 wallpapers per second

Ha, it was actually 10:03 in the final edit, but I thought it looked scummy so I cut it back to sit under 10 mins. Didn't want the discussion spoiled with 'nice 10:01 brah' comments.

@@SkillUp fair point! Thanks for the great vid. I'll be grabbing this and following the studio from now on,I'd never heard of it before tonight

@Michael Dust wow great input man,thanks for taking the time to smash the caps lock and type that out

@@ra7en114 He does his best.

Yeah since Skillup talk about the biggest boat in the world in one of his reviews, I knew his intelligence is quite high.

Koncz Dávid yes, he’s very passionate and that’s why ACG and him are my go to. ACG is great at telling you what you’re buying and Skill Up tells me how much a game will mean to me on a deeper level. He’s the one that convinced me to buy Nier Automata even though I don’t like anime and It was a great decision and I absolutely loved that game. He’s got my trust.

5.9 for alien? It must have been too scary for the beta who reviewed it.

Goat simulator

to be fair, you have to have a very high iq to understand skill up reviews etc etc.

にゃあエイリアンMeowAlien Video games are the pinnacle of art, IMO. They encompass music, cinematography, painting and sculpture (2D and 3D), photography, architecture and literature (storytelling). And unlike any other traditional art, they allow the person who experiences it to be part of it and shape it as it evolves. And unlike any other type of art form, we have to actually live it to get to the end (in books or movies or songs, we can skip to the end and read, see or listen to the finale).

The "video games are not art" thing was a throwaway line from Roger Ebert (who then said he regretted it because of how personally so many people took it), not some sort of industry wide artistic pushback :p

Ikr , not many people talk about it , even on indie game categories , probably my game of the year for 2018

Side effect of being in early access for too long.

It just needs to come out on Switch. And as a physical copy, haha

Stfu if you don't even know what abstract paintings are

@Mac Mcskullface don't bother man, people that think a type of art is a very specific thing or style don't actually know what that type of art really is themselves. also since this guy thinks i was calling this game an abstract painting, which isn't the case because... well... it's a Game? pretty obvious if you think about it

I recommend Rime, Omg it was one of the best games I have ever played in my life, the story, music and the art was phenomenal, plz check on it you will be surprised

Played abzu for 5 minutes, then just stopped when I almost fell asleep. I understand why people like these type of games and that’s awesome, but I’m not interested. In my opinion, I find these games boring.

@@lunarveggie this isn't abstract art that is a fact

I remember that game, I cried seas.

Ugh… “What Remains of Edith Finch” is such a great game 🤧🤧😪

What remains of Edith Finch.This game was astounding,it was one of the games that really made me cry

Mike Lindsey yeah I know who you’re talking about I saw this and checked IGN and saw the co,meant IGN:6.5 Me:really?

@@Retrosenescent I don't hate IGN. They are the gaming equivalent of Entertainment Weekly: they have colorful graphics, hot takes, a daily segment with an attractive female host (Sydnee!), flattering interviews with gaming luminaries, unboxings, etc. But they don't have a 'voice', and if you want anything close to actual criticism of games or the gaming industry, then please look elsewhere. In many ways they are an extension of the industry itself. But IGN is fine to me, because I recognize and accept them for what they are. My issue with the IGN review of Gris is what I often find objectionable in many reviews, and something I often note in movie reviews: that the reviewer isn't basing the review on what the work itself presents, but on what they _expected_ the work to be. I recall reading a review of the movie Crimson Peak, and the writer gave a poor review because the movie wasn't 'scary enough'. Now the director, Guillermo Del Toro, stated publicly - many times - that what he was looking for in terms of feel with that film was that of a Bronte novel. So more 'Jane Eyre' and less, say, 'The Conjuring'. Saying that the movie isn't 'scary enough' therefore isn't a critique of the movie. It is, at best, a critique of your own expectations vs the movie that you actually watched. It is a critique of yourself. In the IGN review, Dan Crowd tips his hand early on by comparing the game to 'Celeste', a beautiful, well-crafted and very challenging platformer. Gris isn't Celeste, nor is it sequel to Celeste, and doesn't have any relation to Celeste apart from the fact that a.) it's pretty and b.) it's a platform game and c.) it's an indy game. But yet it's compared, and compared in such a way that the Celeste is the bar. And based on this bar, the game falls short. 6.5 out of 10. But this isn't really a critique of the game that you played, it is instead a critique of the game that you expected to play. It's a critique of the game that you actually didn't get to play. That really doesn't tell us much about the game itself. Therefore, your review is not particularly useful. Not only is it not a good review, it's not even a review. This IGN review gets 1/10.

That part is literally just art while that game has obvious sexual innuendos that will definitely get the video demonetized.

Nezzen I don’t think the RU-vid algorithm is capable of determining if detected nudity is ‘art’.

@@notapplicable7292 it's actually can. cause YT's algorithim isn't working well at all.

Because its under 10 minutes.....??? You dont get ads under 10 mins...🤦‍♂️

The sexist google algorithm is more likely to flag penises because anything male is automatically "evil."

Hey, this guy :P

Skill Up It’s been too long!

Get over yourself. Jesus Christ. "make me hopeful for the future of gaming as a whole" the gaming community is better than it ever has been. Just stop.

The Merovingian o shut the fuck up