Hi-Fi Rush (Zero Punctuation) 

Yahtzee, please play destiny 2 raids they are the most fun and innovative thing in the social gaming space they are really that good and feel worth grinding. The rest of the game.

your ending

Is Hogwarts legacy going to be reviewed?

@@esteban280889 If it was going to it would have been this or last week. I don't think it's happening and I think that's a good thing. Rowling doesn't need more publicity.

@@esteban280889 Yes, next week.

This is literally the top highest form of praise from this guy. I'd be blushing like a schoolgirl if I was told this.

Even more right when you realize the game itself is a pretty on the nose satire on the current state of companies. They only care about profits and want to mind control people into buying useless products, QA and production that cares more about reputation and snuffing out naysayers than responding to criticism, R&D that needlessly wastes money, marketing that's just narcissistic and doesn't know what actual marketing is, and so. Even the robotic workers are calling out bad management and inhumane workplace practices.

@@vullord666 ngl, when you replace complaining workers with robots and ROBOTS start complaining, I guess that tells something about your managing skills XD

@@vullord666 It's hilarious how they managed to deliver one of the most damning critiques of modern corporations I've yet to see in video games. It's all petty power trips and self-aggrandizement even as the company barely holds itself together by inertia of the past. One of the funniest subplots is finding the notes that tell you why the coffee is now permanently decaf, because someone decided to pull "I'll make you quit rather than actually fire you" routine. Hell, the intended use case of the big bad's evil plan: they create the ultimate violation of human rights, not for some grand evil scheme, but because the product team can't be assed to keep defining good products.

@@Advon I think the funniest part is that this is done by BETHESDA, who's been running on pretty much skyrim and fallout alone for the past 10 fucking years

pretty sure this game will end on the top best

If it doesn't, I'll get the riot supplies ready.

@@danieltentori7523Tears of the Kingdom was a sequel, and he wasn’t a huge fan of the story, nor was he a huge fan of the RE4 remake, so this might top it.

​@@danieltentori7523 You get a gold star sir. Also I have a story to tell from the future...

thats how you know he cares

I like it. Knowing what the worst parts of a game is really helpful when deciding whether or not to play it

Tbf it's seems more like he's angry at Bethesda more than the game

He's going to be so angry about it being his 2nd best game of this year.

He's the most consistent than any other game reviewer

Someone put words to it

well he's mentioned previously that attempting to go at him from the other end doesn't work (i.e. Bayonetta)

It explains a lot if we think of Yahtzee as a video game playing cat.

@@meghanhenderson6682 is that because some people thought his fursona was a cat? or is that unrelated?

wait his name is a board game?

​@@kachosuffer7 Nickname

@@kachosuffer7 his real name is either Ben or Sam.

When you think about it, it's like being a cat owner.

@@rexblaze4 never thought of it like that but yeah it makes sense

I kid you not I have tried to explain to friends how I dislike the postgame of certain games overtaking the initial product and they just can't get why I don't like it. These friends just don't grasp that I prefer careful design, balance, and truly optional content over an ever escalating new content grind that eventually lumbers on for so long that it overtakes and replaces the main progression systems of a game.

or Portal.

I guess you forgot about how much he loves Return of the Obra Dinn

Or Elden Ring.

Don't forget Disco Elysium.

Or Cuphead.

Return of the Obra Dinn, surely. To the point that he keeps bringing it up as a reference in other reviews as to what various things *should* be like.

His review of Portal.

​​@@bensteinhauser784 Portal is a perfect game in his eyes

Portal, Obra Dinn, Undertale, Darksouls, Persona 5, the original minecraft reveiw (courtesy of zbs), Psychonauts (courtesy of harzak), Silent Hill 2 (courtesy of appleofdoom), and maybe Botw (courtesy of TheLegendaryVGA). Otherwise, yeah.

@@plumcave9942 don't forget the original minecraft review!

You can really feel the DNA of Rachet and Clank and Sly Cooper in this game.

and kinda even XBOX and Dreamcast huge Jet Set Vibes

⁠@@GraveRobbinJakeHonestly, it reminded me of classic God of War with its quicktime events and grand boss battles. I also felt that each PS2-esque game element Hi-Fi Rush takes inspiration from is perfected here; for example, I loved how they did the “apathetic selfish jerk turns into hero” trope compared to Ratchet and Clank 2002, it didn’t feel too abrasive for me, and I loved that Chai’s change has more room to breathe and be explored.

Yeah basically the only time not going on beat will really fuck you over hard is the post game with either the challenge rooms that have extra conditions like ending the fight with enough of a Just Timing percentage or the unlockable difficulty where you die if your combo meter's rating dips low enough.

Are you sure about that? I think the moments where minibosses lock you into a parry/dodge combo and force you to repeat their attacks perfectly or else kind of demand you to have perfect sense of rhythm.

So it's like when Amblin put Steven Spielberg's name of stuff just because he is the guy on top.

That's actually incorrect. Most of the creative drive (story, characters, tone) comes from its director John Johanas. Mikami-san was largely off-hands, with occasional supervision.

​@@MatanVil this. "Involvement" of well known figures in the credits of major media releases is a hugely efficient way to market things, without anything meaningful needing to be done in practice. His "involvement" is a marketing win regardless of if he ever put pen to paper, and since he is involved with the company they may as well slap his name on it.

@@semanticsman5192 for someone called "Semantics Man" you don't half talk a load of overly verbose shit.

@@BlueZirnitra Maybe it means it's all semantics man, what's the difference Sorry just have to put my devil's advocate coin in the sinkhole

Peak comedy moment

*wring

@@baroncosmos8324 ffs I’ve been spelling it wrong all this time

​@@repodan12 *rong

@@repodan12 It happens - not quite the same thing but I had a tendency to read certain authors (OK, really just Terry Pratchett) when I was too young to have come across all the words he used and, English being what it is, I ended up pronouncing them wrong for years because I'd invented my own pronunciation by accident and couldn't get it out of my head. The worst, weirdly enough, is a Yahtzee favourite: 'hitherto.' I stressed it the wrong way round and only pronounced the middle syllable (the one that's impossible to get wrong) right for _ages._

Peak comedy moment

I’m surprised not many people are talking about it

Let him cook. I shouldn't have said that. I should NOT have said that...

Are you sure your lips didn't just sand off

@Érick I'm a week later and only past three more levels, my lips are non-existant now. Still having fun, though.

You know you have a great game when you can absolutely suck and still enjoy yourself.

My major problem with Rhythm Master is when there's forced downtime during a bossfight... meaning your Style meter will go down... Meaning you can die because the Boss is in an immune state and refuses to do anything... Doesn't feel that hard, though, compared to Hard. I've definitely died more to forced downtime than I have straight up dying.

If you are still enjoying getting pulverised that's a sign of a good game in my eyes

Baby Driver was a direct influence for this, so you're spot on.

@@therealblackcerberus2371 Actually, Baby Driver weirdly wasn't, at least not overtly. Edgar Wright stuff in general was, but it started production before Baby Driver came out.

@@charcharmunr Because all influence upon a work STOPS DEAD if the creator is working on it, but hasn't released it, before the release date of the influencing work, right? RIGHT? Brain dead zoomer.

You’d think they’d figure that out by now after dumping embarrassing amounts of money into shit games no one cares about. Maybe they wouldn’t “need” to raise the price of video games if they focused on making them engaging rather than making them look good. If they made smaller games more often they could definitely make more money than blowing it all on a big game that fails miserably. Though like Yahtzee said at the end, it’s more than likely that they already know this. Even beyond Hi-Fi Rush itself, There have been so many remasters coming out recently it seems most game publishers realize how much better their games used to be

You’d think, but a slavering pack of subhuman investors would skin the CEO alive if they even implied that the company wasn’t trying to make every penny in the entire universe with every single game release.

that's my secret, Cap. I'm always mid tear

I doubt HiFi Rush was a mid tier budget game, animation is incredibly expensive, doubly so for (digital) hand drawn animation that this game regularly uses.

@@leonardchurch814 I'd argue that Hi-Fi Rush's budget is "small" and sold for cheap solely because the game didn't have to dedicate any of it's budget to marketing which is normally 1/3 to 1/2 of a AAA game's budget.

As far as I'm concerned it's a tie between hifi rush and pizza tower

@@tximistarissole That's certainly fair. The praises of Hi-Fi Rush apply to Pizza Tower too. Pizza Tower being an Indie game probably shifts the way people feel about it though. I feel like the general public just expects Indie games to be like that, so it's not as big of a deal as Hi-Fi Rush, to them.

... or you know, if players could get their heads out of the arses of AAA gaming then they'd realise there are already plenty of games made by indies and Nintendo that fit your criteria. There's nothing more nauseating than Hi Fi Rush players acting like this is a fresh new game concept because they (finally) willingly exposed themselves to it because it had a budget high enough and was on the "right platform" or made by a developer palatable to them.

@@paulrussell9632 I think the shocking factor is that hi fi rush came from a major publisher like bethesda.

HiFi is my GOTY and I don’t see anything unseating it for the rest of the year, even Starfield.

you mean there's furries that aren't lusting over the cat?

​@@Pyritie Tbf not all furries are degenerates. Sure, I am one, but still!

@@Pyritie Woah let's not think too wishfully now

@@Pyritie thats actually the worst thing coming from the fans: the throngs of 808 r34 despite the general consensus among fans that we are all Korsica simps

A few years ago, a game that could be considered a precursor to Hi-Fi Rush by name of No Straight Roads came out. Not perfect by any means, some'd say it's not that interesting as an actual *game*, but it's not a bad debut title for a new dev studio. And there is just as much love, style and awesomeness radiating off of it as with Hi-Fi Rush. Mainly in terms of the world, characters, and the *music*. All bosses have a default, EDM and Rock version of their theme that changes depending on how well or badly you do, and with the Christmas DLC and the Encore Edition, that's two more versions for every boss. That, and there's like... 573 credited pieces of fan-art you can find around the game as part of a special event lead-up to the Encore Edition being released.

@@jurtheorc8117 No Straight Roads? I'll have to check it out.

@@cyte112 I hope you'll like what you see! The devs are currently working on a game by name of Ondeh Ondeh, named after a kind of Malay dessert. It equally seems to have a great visual style to it.

​@@jurtheorc8117 Thanks for the NSR recommendation. I'm currently playing through it, and while I do think hifi rush is a better combo fighter experience, I'm having a great time with the game. Cheers!

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Which one was it referencing?

​@@OldBoothy Most directly, Ctrl Alt Delete (of Loss fame). But loosely, a few others (Real Life off the top of my head) fit the bill.

@@OldBoothy I read a lot of web comics back then, it seemed like a staple for most for them.

I think he's trying to kick the nihilism to the curb, considering our world's already shit as it is.

So... what'd you think?

oh trust me it's not just ctrl+alt+del

He's briefly referenced it before.

Was that the reference? I thought ctrl+alt+del was just a mediocre Penny Arcade knock off.

@@OldBoothy One of the main recurring character is a robot that was built by the protagonist.

Dude THIS. I've always been terrible at delay combos, but in this game several of my favorite combos ended up being delay combos.

tell that to my dumbass who finished the game on hard purely by using beginner light and attack combos as ı am too stupid to learn more complex movesets :P

@noobguy9973 one of my closest friends never saw the appeal fo combos until this game came out. I don't think you're a dumb ass, I just think you haven't put a ton of effort into trying to learn combos yet or trying to create your own. Once you do, your taste in games will change forever. And you will evolve into a hype beast!

@@Jabroni_14 I was never good at memorizing preset button combo's, ı am better at stuff that is simple but can be used with each other like abilities in DOOM Eternal or Ultrakill and sometimes at tactical stuff like CS. Preset combo's that can be done via button combinations ı was only able to do at Sleeping Dogs simply due to how easy and simple it was.

@noobguy9973 that's fair, tbh rote memorization works best when breaking the info down into smaller chunks. I was also never good at doing combos in fact when I took an iq test it said my memory was atrocious, but when I was 15 and saw a tournament of injustice and noticed players doing these crazy combos that weren't shown in the game, I decided I had to learn how to do one batmans combos because it looked so sick To this day I struggle to learn combos though whether it's making my own or memorizing someone else's, but once I do, it feels amazing to perform even better than doom eternal weapon switch canceling or doing crazy movement in a platformer or deep traversal system like Spiderman 2

Capitalism product :(

Pizza Tower is so cool. I hope it does well.

A real gamer

Yahtzee have barely anything to comply about after try his ass out to finding something to comply about? Yeah, that sound like a pretty safe bet to me.

@@simoneval2619 the dude literally gets distracted with all of the good qualities of this game and they distract from the insanely small negatives. Thats a good goddamn product

It is, despite the packed year

Strangely, I found it to be "fine".

​@Salmon Tim that's the harshest critique I've heard yet, the GOTY candidacy remains viable

Imagine a rythm game about ships and pirating.

Although he rightly called out the P5D (and thus by extension the P3D) game as rubbish, I do wonder if he ever got into the Persona 4 Dancing game, given his love of Persona generally and the fact that it had a semi-intriguing story mode based largely around a side character from the original game. Gameplay once you unlock the highest difficulty is honestly really fun, too.

I mean he was always big into his guitar hero it makes sense really

Or more likely he just enjoys good games in general.

Plus he specifically pointed that the music helped elevate P5 in his kind since it gave the combat rhythm game like feel

The fucking song choice for the final three levels was absolutely brilliant. Just an insane 2 hours of pure absolute hype

Oooh, that's some stiff competition, because Devil May Cry 5 exists. I think I'm going to give the win to DMC5, but *only* because Kale's second phase is kinda meh. If he maintained the same quality in all three phases he'd have the win.

I'd to think, but MGR:R's finale is probably my favorite. Keeping it in the same genre ballpark, God Hand (as mentioned in this video and my favorite thing with Mikami's name attached) has a fantastic proper final boss (the angra fight is a victory lap). Pizza Tower has one of the most satisfying conclusions I've ever seen, even if it barely has any plot threads to play off. Anyway -- it's pretty good. Especially on the front of showing the team finally coming together. Kale himself is a pretty good final challenge. Could have done with mixing the gimmicks of phase two in a bit better, but that's a relatively minor complaint.

Ditto. I remember my first IPod being size of a GBA

​@@chrisschirripa5917 my first mp3 Player was a creative! Lost it at a gym way back in 2011!

He's been doing ZP weekly for over 15 years now

Probably because he's been doing the show for over 15 years, back in 2007 MP3 players were still pretty popular. Now there's members of the audience that weren't even born when Zero Punctuation started.

That line made my back creak.

same. Grappling hook might be better, but it's usually the first or last thing you hear that stands out the most if it's good anyway.

interesting metaphor....

be careful now, i almost cut myself on the edge

@@MysticJem2016 Ok

@@MysticJem2016 it was funny

You're crying because he said it was good? Was your own opinion and experience not enough?

[Checks Wiki] ...oh, thank Christ, Bethesda only published it. I'm fairly certain that, had they had an idea _that_ straightforwardly good, it would have counted as all four Signs of the Apocalypse at once.