Lies of P & Chants of Sennaar (Zero Punctuation) 

Hope he brings up the joke he made way back in MK9

jesus fuckin british

😂😂

Why bother when your best employees left... or were fired.

Maybe...kinda....yes. Yes, it is.

He even has an arm capable of spewing different elemental powers that some crazy robots are weaker to than others.

​@@sheodagana2863one is even a gun

I wouldn't mind seeing what Megaman looks like with a gloomy Souls-like aesthetic. You could start a level with Guts Man popping up on the intro screen, looking all shiny, energetic and threatening, and then you get to the end of the level and he's all rusty and creaky and trying to destroy everything.

Then we've gone full circle. Pinocchio inspired Astro Boy, which inspired Megaman, which inspired Lies of P.

As a native French speaker, his pronunciation was far from being fully correct so I'm not sure he does know how to say it properly, lol.

Henry Cho, a Korean American comedian(who grew up in the south and has southern drawl which makes his bits really funny) was talking about how his dad spoke 5 languages. He just didn't speak them well. And he knows how the word "quiche" is pronounced but still likes to call it 'quickie' when ordering one. So no @MarkHogan994, he's probably mispronouncing the language on purpose.

​​@@MarkHogan994oh, he does speak French. No idea how fluent he is, though. Maybe he accidentally got the Duolingo Quebec edition

​@@MarkHogan994 Sorry for your loss

He's also pronounced A La Recherche Du Temps Purdu correctly before, to his credit. (In his Mass Effect video, for those who are interested)

Ya you need to stop a war from happening or something like that...yes the game lets the war still happen or lets you make things worse and get this lets you feel like a shit bag all on your own.

It's not a final boss fight as much as a set of puzzles you get given before you're expected to do them. The intended progression is probably learn all the languages > hit the final area gate > go back and do the translations, but you can do them earlier if you'd want.

It's really interesting because some of the languages don't have direct translations. For instance, in one language the word "Impure" was normally used to refer to a different society of people in one language, but you had to use the word as a translation for the word "monster" from a language from a society higher up the tower. The ways you had to reevaluate your preconceptions to be able to get the message across to these different people was fascinsting.

@@goldra8409 Maybe the better term is final test of skill.

Fawlty, otherwise the anagrams would be different!

Realistically if Fawlty Towers were adapted into a game it'd be a parody of restaurant management games.

The chainsaw is Manuel

“All it needs is a lick of paint” 🎨.

Don't talk about ze war!

"Fight!" "Love?" SMASH "Love fight"

I as well love to see this

Wait, there’s actually a fighting game based on Les Miserables?

@@Ishma3l it got mentioned in a Slightly Something Else podcast a few months ago. Look it up - it’s real.

@@Ishma3l I wouldn't be surprised if it was Japanese. They made a JRPG where the main character is a real life Polish-French composer Frederic Chopin (and his special attack is named Orzeł Biały, which is Polish for "white eagle", a.k.a. Poland's coat of arms). Making a fighting game with the characters from a French novel from the 1800s doesn't seem that far fetched to me.

Honestly better. I rewatched an old one recently and Yahtzee honestly used to go for more low hanging fruit in terms of jokes

Some of this consistency is the problem with Zero Punctuation. I play games all day every day and in the time I thoroughly played BG3 and Starfield in a row (280 hours and 300 hours or so respectively), Yahtzee has made those reviews plus another 6 games and 4 whole other videos. Combined with posting the thickest take about BG3's romance options based on his limited and misunderstood experience. There's zero way he got to really play and appreciate those games. The rapid pace of these reviews just makes him sound like a casual and falling in the pitfalls of "game journalists" pronounced in the same way the ones who couldn't play Cuphead were pronounced. I've been watching Yahtzee for a very long time and I get the comedy is the focus but it's grating on me when he thinks he can review a game in a week. Quite a lot of games are way longer than the total hours in a week, not even mentioning truly exploring and experiencing them fully.

​​@@albert2006xpI would not really rely on his "reviews" for as the basis of my decision-making - he has a rather narrow taste and he does dislike a lot of genres. Like, I wouldn't go to ZP to find out the objective quality of a new cRPGs, or RTS, or 4x games, or MMO, or co-op game, or any type of multiplayer game, or most of the not massively popular new indies, for example. It's more like entertainment to me, and he does make good points occasionally. Also, reviewers barely every play more than a couple dozen hours of any game Escapist has more going on now than just ZP, which I really appreciate. I usually get my "opinions" on new titles and recommendations from reddit and elsewhere on yt, and, like steam reviews metacritic and so on

The animation quality has aged like wine.

​@@albert2006xpto be fair, you don't really need to play a lot of starfield to come to the conclusion it's not great.

BEAUTIFUL XD

we're so back

I'd only say 2021 was a bad year for gaming, 2020 was great and 2022 was at least an above average year.

One of the best he's had in a year

Without a doubt, Baulder's Gate 3 is going to be his best game of the year. He broke character in his own review of it and actually praised a game. That says a lot.

@@fieryrebirththen he did an extra-punctuation about sechs in games and cited Baldur’s Gate and Cyberpunk as examples of unnecessary inclusion of sechs.

Sounds like it did what I was hoping Heavens Vault would do: Actually put our mastery of the language to the test. I was getting hyped for a “final boss” where you’d have to translate like an entire paragraph or page worth of writing with like complete sentences and stuff, so you can imagine my disappointment when it railroaded me into the endgame way before I was ready by incessantly pestering me to check out this one place I didn’t realize was something I wouldn’t be able to come back from, and then dropped me on a desert planet where I did some dialogue tree stuff with a machine and then the game ended. I was left wondering what the point of the whole language thing even was if the game gave no more importance to it then some gimmick.

@@Excelsior1937 I enjoyed Heaven's Vault right up to getting to the end. Then I was disappointed enough I never wanted to try it again. Though I was feeling fatigue before that point anyway because pioting the ship wasn't as viscerally fun as the ship in Outer Wilds (not that I expected it would be, but feels are feels).

but honestly would "Omissions of Basil" make it out of early access?

You'd have a mount to travel around with called "Dragonfly" 😂

I would love a boss fight where you have to throw the ingredients of a Waldorf Salad at a big boss.

That’s probably easier, just get a picture of the skyline remove the sky and blackout the rest.

As someone who loved JSR and JSRF, I will 100% say BRC is worth it. Yes, they go out of their way to even make it look like a Dreamcast era game and the core gameplay loop is absolutely the same, but it's just as fun as JSR ever was. Why go back and play JSRF a 50th time when you can get the same kind of vibes but with *new* maps, *new* characters, *new* music, and a *new* story (which was surprisingly good imo)?

Finally People who understand how good BRC is. The fact that it is basically an extension of JSR is exactly why I love it

@@darrienjones8917 I've been wanting a sequel/reboot/remake/knock off of the Jet Set Radio's games longer than I was waiting for Shenumue 3 to finally come out. I can't wait to jump in. Still trying to figure out if I want it for PS5 or Switch.

Books go into public domain after 70 or 100 years or so, so there's light at the end of the tunnel for the very patient. Assuming we'll still have software then to run these things, which is not an issue with books.

@@Lttlemoi Heck, that IS a problem for books sometimes. All they have to worry about is language and societal ideas changing, assuming mildew doesn't do them in first I suppose. The languages software use, meanwhile, get replaced and altered at a far faster pace. To say nothing of hardware changes...

If I had a nickel for every time Yahtz mentioned Jenny Agutter, I'd have two nickels...which isn't a lot, but does his wife know?

right on, enemy variety is stellar and the bosses are incredible

If Chants of Sennaar appeals to you, you might want to give Heaven's Vault a try. Another translation-based game with small sections that annoyingly delve into entirely different genres!

@@juanjuri6127 Thanks! I'll take a look at it.

The translation bits were arguably the coolest part of the game; unfortunately there are only 6 puzzles where you do it

@@octochan Aw. That kinda sucks.

Actual liguists were involved, as the languages really have inspiration in actual grammars. That said, since it's a game, you are translating simple symbols, instead of something with a bunch of particles, or having to deal with tenses and verb conjugation. So sentences are more like 'I am warrior' and 'Monkey hates grapes' than anything super serious. The closest thing to symbols that are pure grammar is whether plurals involve repetition, particles preceding the object, or particles that come after the object.

a true crime

Yeah this is why I can't really trust his opinion on anything anymore. Like I still enjoy the witty fast paced reviews but they are just wrong half of the time because he didn't actually experience half the game and just gave up after a couple hours (probably because he has too much on his plate, no shade to him).

not enjoying outer wilds and enjoying bioshock infinite are to this date I think the only 2 things that have suprised me with zp (although it's sad to see him dismiss lies of p as another souls like when in my opinion it surpasses dark souls)

I mean he did, but didn't like it

@@mogullll what does the game do better than dark souls? in my experience, everything was just a worse version of dark souls but i'd love to hear your opinion.

I mean the game mentions the plague right at the start and has a dead zombie in an alley between the first and second boss

Should just be glad we didn't fight shaky puppets the entire game, woulda got pretty old. That is, until even the gooey hairy swamp monster decides halfway into the fight that it's gonna be a shaky puppet too.

@@Stormthorn67 Guy didn't read or listen. He spammed R1, and compared.

I too have seen that Will it Kill episode

Now I need this

@@user-te2zq6tb9k I'm... not even sure what you are trying to say.

I just passed the door guardian into what I think is the final area. I was really surprised that he fell off at either the dark rabbit brotherhood 1 or 2 fights. Which if he fell off at the first then you're missing a large portion of the game. I was really interested in what he thought the end of the game was like. I think that personally that the game starts to pull its punches after the green barren swamp monster.

you cried laughing about it tho?

having to translate everything to "ok so thats the bonfire, thats the estus flask, thats the ....." gets a bit repetitive after a while.

At least those words are unique to the dark souls lore. Games have been calling it Str/Dex since 1st edition D&D and Atari games. The only reason to even attempt changing that is localization problems, because while probably every language has the word "Strength" in their own language. I don't know if Dexterity and constitution actually exist in other languages. They barely exist in the English language and might have faded to obscurity if D&D didn't exist. @@asmosisyup2557

Finished it yesterday. Its around 30 hours, not 60. So dont worry it being 'quite' so long. Also I died a hell of a lot. MIghtve been 20 hours if I was better at the bosses etc. A few of them at the end took me 2-3 hours each...maybe more

⁠yay for plasma donations! The first time I donated blood I thought I was dying and then vomited on the very nice nurse but I plan to do it again because I got biscuits out of it

Lies of P is absolutely solid but it definitely has that essence of souls stale. I was getting it late game of elden ring so it's not like it's a problem with this particular game. Souls games is a really tired genre now. It's fallen into the same trap as anything else does. It came out just a little too late where people just aren't as into it as they used to be. That said unlike elden ring (and the opposite to yahtzee) I could actually be bothered to finish lies of P.

Some people aren't as in to the genre, maybe, but then others still very much are. If it's your preferred genre of game you aren't likely to get sick of them. It's like being a huge fan of racing and then suddenly saying "nah, I'm bored of racing now". The other thing I hear about Soulslikes is people saying "why does everything have to be Soulslike? I'm sick of Soulslike" like it's being shovelled on to the market in the manner of freemium mobile games. When you actually look at the average year's releases, out of the hundreds, if not thousands, of games released maybe 3 or 4 of them are Soulslikes. And that's considered a good year for fans of the genre. There really aren't that many that come out so I don't know where people are getting the whole 'stale' and 'fatigue' angles from.

@@RufusOmega it's not so much about quantity of them and more so "same game, different skin". That's not even a problem with lies of P specifically. Bloodborne is exactly like that as well as sekiro. If you're a die hard fan, of course you wouldn't care. But if you only like to dabble in the series here and there you'll be forgiven into thinking it's a stale genre.

Valjean vendetta!!!

Lies of P is trash and there is no competition with Fromsoft.

@@P0nderProductions What a shit take lmao

No clue. Been trying to figure this over out myself. If it's a joke, I'm not getting it. If it's not a joke, I'm not getting it.

Dr. Monroe is my podiatrist. He does good work. Does P get bunions?

@@barrett8637 haha I meant Dr Moreau

Unfortunately, there was a programming error where the Third Law of Robotics would - on a Mon / Thurs / Fri schedule - spontaneously change to "a robot should ignore all bananas, except when it conflicts with shrimp salad sandwiches." We regret the inconvenience.

This falls apart since Lies of P and most “Souls-likes” aren’t just “like” the Souls games but are outright apeing them in terms of mechanics with only marginal differences. Those marginal differences also make the games worse. Code Veins “unique” class system, Lies of P copying the Rally Mechanic and making it suck. It’s almost like copying certain mechanics of Souls games without adopting fromsoft’s design philosophy doesn’t work.

@@sincereflowers3218 Except that’s exactly what they did in Lies of P: they did emulate the design’s philosophy in a way that I think was a loving homage that still delivers a unique experience unto itself. I think it’s really regressive way of thinking to look at games like Lies of P or Code Vein and just boil them down to “copying Dark Souls but worse.”

I'd even say it's better than some of the From entries, most notably Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2. And Demon's Souls, now I think about it.

​@@RufusOmegaAbsolutely not. Not being elitist, I just thought the game was nowhere near as well designed as any DS game, nor did it have as much enemy variety or many good bosses. Its not a terrible game but it and even the worst Souls game are worlds apart

I thought it was better than all of them to be honest

Well I'm just going to have to hard disagree with you there. Lies of P is way better than some of the early From entries in terms of smooth and responsive combat, story and world design. And obviously the graphics are a lot better. The little touches, that don't affect gameplay, are really nice too; just little details in the world and some animations. It's understandable that Lies of P would be so polished and competent in comparison; From did come up with the concept and were learning as they went with the early games, whereas Lies of P has all that back catalogue to look at right from the off. Of course, it's nowhere near as good as From's more recent games, like DS3, Bloodborne and Elden Ring; that's where the real mastery shows.@@Cpt_Ace_Welt

@@RufusOmega My main problem with the game is that compared to the Dark Souls games the combat feels neither smooth nor responsive, the world design is arguable because it depends what you mean by that. If you mean the way it looks, thats a personal thing. If you mean level design, I can't agree with that. The level design and enemy variation felt very simple and limited, there only level I really found interesting was the factory, the rest were just kinda plain and the enemy placements felt thrown in with little consideration. The enemies themselves either took 3 hits or 30 hits to die with no inbetween and the style of "Small enemy, ranged enemy, big enemy" and thats it never seemed to go away. It felt like alot of enemies were just old enemies with a new coat of paint. Again, its not a bad game, but its not a masterpiece by any stretch. It has interesting new mechanics like the legion arm and the weapon disassembly, I just wish more focus had been put on those and you had more incentive to use those mechanics

@@user-te2zq6tb9k clearly you haven't played it, it doesn't get darker- it starts off with the puppets murdering everyone how do you think it could get darker than that?

@@SpartonWolf I'm just not 12 years old. Ooh, the puppets are killing people. I did all this to save my dead son. It's been done a million times, and better.

@@user-te2zq6tb9k its ok my dude, not everyone can have good taste!

Looks good but is totally broken and unbalanced. Nerfed dodge, broken strenght builds, no poise for you, but poise for enemies, ridiculous weights, unpredictable bosses.

@@warrensmith7690 Have you played the game at all or are you just repeating taking points that conform to your preconceived flaws of the game? It's very hard to evaluate game feel just from watching videos. I think the criticism that too many move abilities are locked behind progression is valid, but this game is far from an unpolished mess. It is a stand out in the genre because a tremendous amount of work went into the thousands of little details that are required to produce a game of this level of quality.

​@@warrensmith7690I get the strong feeling that you're just parroting points you found online without ever having played the game yourself

​@@thatsewerguy6385 the guy probably watched some videos and determined he didn't want to spend 50 bucks and decided he wasn't going to like it, what's the problem there again?