Maneater (Zero Punctuation) 

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Man , honestly wasn't expecting them to make a sequel to Jaws Unleashed.

Just finished the game myself, and it's definitely a power fantasy game. The best moment was when I became an adult and practically inhaled two predators that used to give me so much trouble in a row. Just bite, bite, bite until they're giblets.

Came to see if all profanity was replaced with the word, 'RU-vid.' While disappointed, I'm simultaneously happy to see that this didn't need to get edited.

We're back to uncensored swearing

Personally, I hope this is the beginning of a series of games based on the death vignettes from What Remains of Edith Finch. I want to see if they can make a game about a tree swing that throws children off of cliffs.

You'd think Yahtzee with his absolute hatred for other human beings would love the idea of freely chomping them down but I am once again astounded by how lovingly unpleasable he is

Wanted to finish the video. Then watched that Darrel & hall 80's hit first. Thanx 👍

2:05 Shark: Stop, just stop man, it's not worth it. Limbless Shark Hunter: This is just a scratch.

You know, in Sniper Elite you can at least check something interesting about the guy you're pointing a gun at, before turning his hopes and dreams into jam from 300 meters away. One I fondly remember was a bloke who thought somebody was stealing some of his chocolate, later that mission I found somebody who was stealing his mates chocolate...

This is a ps2 game that travelled through time to the modern day. I'm saying this in a good way.

"Fish Police" was an actual animated series starring the late John Ritter. It was made to compete with "The Simpsons." I can't help but feel an opportunity to use a cut-out of the John Ritter character was missed, here.

Honestly this game was an absolute blast, I loved the upgrades, the humor, and atmosphere. I just wish it was a bit longer.

but is there at least an "im gonna need a bigger boat" jaws joke? when you get bigger and get into a boss fight?

"That guy who plays the dad in Rick and Morty" Cyril Figgis: Am I a joke to you?

I enjoyed everything about this game. I beat it in 10 hours exactly, but it was an enjoyable 10 hours. It really just seems to be a game that you either love or hate.

Yahtzee should retro review Jaws: Unleashed.

Jokes on you the song was stuck in my head the second I received the notification

"shark souls 10/10"

The shark with the trademark hat made my day

I wasn't expecting an existential crisis of this sort today, questioning life, existence, and all choices I have made until this point but.. "Wipe both ways"? What?

Naming every game level after a weak pun kinda feels like a "Jerry Smith" thing to do.

"Cave-at Emptor" Genius.

"It's like needing to unlock the ability to wipe both ways." - Why does he have to call me out like that?

So... what you're telling me is that this shark hunter fellow is really just some incarnation of Monty Python's Black Knight?

So its a 3D version of that shark game on the appstore? And by extension every single one of the hundreds of flash games where you are a shark and you eat stuff to get bigger to eat more stuff

This sounds like the type of game that i'll be forgetting in a couple of days. Just like shark movies

Jokes on you Yathz, I've never heard that song so I can't have it stuck in my head.

the shark with a hat... all i can think of is toy story when the shark steals woody's hat. LOOK EVERYBODY, IM WOODY. HOWDY HOWDY HOWDY.

I truly appreciate your style of sarcasm, it's a breath of fresh air.

I want to play this so bad, as I've gotten older I find I enjoy these offbeat AA games better than a lot of AAA titles that are supposed to blow my mind. Deadly Premonition, Earth Defense Force, Terminator Resistance, etc.

the complaint where you need to unlock 'weak enemies fear you' is more valid than you'd think. I remember playing Freelancer almost a decade ago now and in that game weak enemies start running away from you once you get enough firepower. You can even hear them say things like: "Retreat, I don't like the idea of being mowed down." or "Run, they've got too much going for them" Added a little personality to those otherwise fairly repetitive encounters

Hah, you fool! I already had "Snake Eater" (Snake Eateeeeeer!) stuck in my head reading the title, your attempts to earworm me have been thwarted by me earworming myself!... goddamnit, now I have to listen to a 3 hour loop of Snake Eater (SNAKE EATEEEEER!!!)

"Whoa, here she comes, she's a Maneater."

When you’ve watched Yahtzee for 5 years you expect him to bring up 80s classics

I think this game has the workings for a great sequel.

This game just made me wish I still had the Jaws game on PS2.

I found the early "Eat X Number Of Fish To Level Up" missions to be a challenge because they peppered the school that you were supposed to chow down on with predators, and in the first area, that meant gators, which were level 8, and you were a long way from level 8 at that point. But like many Open World games, the solution to that was simple: Go complete missions elsewhere until you're high enough level to deal with them.

An underwater Arkham would be a great premise to design a shark game around: I'd make it where gnawing on your victims, dragging them around and "playing with your food" would build it up a meter. Killing them when the meter is almost maxed out would give you the most "points" or what have you; If it maxes out, that's when they die of blood loss / pain / shock / etc. (Think of the opening scene of Jaws, how he could have eaten the girl in two bites, but did the whole "dragging around on the surface" thing first.)

That's like in Pokemon red you go back to pallet town with your team of level 90-100 Pokemon and run into a low level Mon that refuses to let you run away

Jokes on you Yahtz this song has been stuck in my head since MGS5!

Before the video even started I was thinking that I'd be disappointed if there was no Hall and Oates reference, so good on ya for knocking it out right away.

Possible narrative explanation for the body part customization. Instead of a natural shark, the game could focus on a man-made shark that was bio-engineered by a scientist with tons of money and time and a crazy plan for how to stop oceanic predators from taking over. Converting rpg features into an artificial apex predator.

Honestly 'Out of Touch' is the H&O song I get stuck in my head way more often

Welcome to trending Yahtzee! You've deserved it for a long time!

I think of this game as a lesser version of the 2005 Jaws Unleashed game. The game wasn’t THAT much better but at least it had a lock on system and decent progression

When you mentioned power fantasy I thought you might say "and why get a new game when in prototype you can eat people AND body slam a tank...

This game reminds me of an old flash game i use to play. Cant remember the name, i do know there is an Aussie Version (kinda) where you're swimming along as a shark in an old Mario level and you jump and bite things out of water starting from humans, to horses, to people in cruise liners to eventually bringing down Alien UFOs into the ocean ... That concept alone seems more fun than what this is

0:54 I was already giving my WTF face. How could have such an awesome concept, and waste it?

I feel like the third cave feminism joke is some developers way at getting back at someone on twitter who said they should call the game man and woman eater

As always, Yahtzee summing it up like it is. Don't ever change, mate.

Ya know what I would play? A game where you're a Reaper Leviathan from Subnautica hunting down would-be marine xenobiologists encroaching on your territory.

Hall & Oates truly are one of music's best duos.

What a great way to start my Wednesday

You know who loves this game? 9 year old boys. Kept mine good 'n happy for 6 hours.

The point made about the barracuda is on point. Go back to the river area when you're the size of a bus and those freaking muskies are like "MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU". Why did that one skill have to be a skill you unlock at the end of the game? No reason for it.

Barracuda: *sees a psychic megalodon nonchalantly swim past, bits of destroyed ship flaking off its massive bone-plated hid)e* Anything smarter than a half-dead lobster:*makes themselves scarce quickly* Barracuda:I CAN TAKE THIS WIMP!

WIPING BOTH WAYS: back and forth and in and out. That's Z axis wiping!

Jokes on you, Yahtz. I’ve always got Hall and Oates songs stuck in my head.

Yeah even I started to get uncomfortable about how much you take away from Scaly Pete. Lol it was like the shark had a check list of his most important beloved things. I hope they make a sequel just so I can face off against him as just a head.

This sounds like the first evolutionary stage of Spore

Fuck me man... I remember Yahtzee from back in the day and didn't even realise he was still making videos!

2:08 "Well, it was me first day with the hook."

“I’m going to be a war correspondent” lol

The hook as a hat prosthetic was very good

"I have a hunger for hands"

I love the "Fuck off I'm huge" sign. And that enemy problem reminds me of how the mother 2 and 3 games let you bypass lower level fights

Tripwire neglects Killing Floor to make Jaws Unleashed 2. This is truly the worst timeline.

#24 on Trending. Congrats Yahtz and Escapist! Now tell RU-vid to get off their high horse and stop censoring and demonetizing videos that have language and content more mature than Jake Paul learning about holding more than 2 thoughts in his head at once. Last week's Episode was almost unwatchable with the constant injection of [RU-vid] delivered in Yahtz's impression of Josh Brolin every 3rd sentence. Or, you could do the smart thing and backup your videos to Bitchute, where Big Brother RU-vid has no sway and everyone is as free as the hairs the Manscaper people keep telling us to mow down. Backup can be made automatic and stress free. Just link your RU-vid and Bitchute account and bam, instant backup, free of censorship. Nothing to lose. A whole new world of wonder (and Alex Jones) to join.

I enjoyed it, at least it's something different from the usual stuff... Though for 40€ it was a bit expensive, considering I've 100%-ed the game in 14 hours.

that shark with the zero punctuation hat is cute

Dragon Quest 11 does this thing where enemies on the over world straight up run from you if they see you. Either it's triggered by your level relative to the map you're on or the game taking in your overall stats compared to the mobs in the area.

This sounds like a flash game I used to play a lot. Main difference is that progression went from teeth to giant battle axe.

If they were going the incredulous and ridiculous route, with shark limbs and weird superhero powers, then they should've added crazy difficult boss challenges with a crazy difficulty curve after you beat story mode like a megalodon, or colossal squid with weird powers, mosasaur, ningen, the sentient dolphins from Hitchhiker's Guide, or the Loch Ness monster to counter Yahtzee's argument of dull easy fights.

1:58- Yahtzee sounds genuinely concerned and upset for a brief second. As if the nature of the game actually broke through his usual jaded mindset and gave him actual pause...

Not totally sure why, but I feel really motivated to start my training as a war correspondent.

I had that song in my head the entire time I was watching a lets play of it.

0:37 ... "Daddy would you like some sausage?" I'M SORRY. I SHOULDN'T HAVE.

Yeah there were some strange things overlooked in this game. Like the predators that attack you despite having absolutely zero chance at even hurting you. World of Warcraft came out in fucking 2005 and even that game locks aggro for anything 10 levels below you.

You feel like a Shark: IGN

I wanted to ask. Will you be playing or at least reviewing destroy all humans remake and psychonauts 2 when they finally come out?

I've never heard anyone alternate a long and short a in a word like masterclass before.

I laugh every time he says, "Fish Police". God help me!

oh I love the roasts everytime

LOL at the "war correspondent" running gags and the limbs getting eaten off! Also LOLed at the "eat 10 humans" bit. Also: Catch the Cave Ranting and Caving Cavings Account Mexican Cave Home of the Cave Cave the Date Cave-at Emptor Britannia Rules the Caves Third Cave Feminism Lvl 1 Lvl 3.8 Lvl 9,721 XD

Hey Yatz! I don't know if you get these, but I hope you do a Zero Punc on FNAF VR. I know it's FNAF, but even with the friken' jump scares, it really accomplished that dark atmosphere you love so much. I figure with you being Pro VR, this puzzle horror game might be up your ally. There is ALOT of lore, so you may want to hit the cliff notes for it to get a full understanding for what has transpired in the universe. You will still rip it a new one, but that is why we love you! I can't wait to see it if you do!

Guys I think Yahtzee wants to become a war correspondent

Maneater is my best friend’s ringtone.

Love you Yahtzee and love the vid, this one hurt though cause I LOVED Maneater and I hope it gets enough support and sales to warrant more.

I think i'll grab this one if it's A: $20 OR B: On Games pass (or whatever else)

Accountant shark with a calculator should be a playable character.

I can’t be mad at a game like this in the climate of games we have now. A bunch of stuff that takes itself serious, doesn’t hurt to see something so casual like this.

The fact is doesn't have a lock on is insanity. Yes, you can HOLD down R3 to keep track of your track, but who the hell wants to HOLD the button down instead of toggling it? The other annoying thing is anytime you're near the surface of the water, it'll snap you to the surface like a magnet, which is super annoying when trying to fight in shallow water and needing to press X every time to dive back down.

The narrator IS the dad from rick and morty! I thought so.

Good to see Mr Krabs started a new life as Dr Crab

Yahtzee must now make a Shark game now.

5:02 it still surprises me that devs till do this, back when I was playing wow ied be running along on my mount when the fight music would start playing and ied get dismounted by a mob that's only able to hit me if it rolls a national 20 3x in a row I'm like ""really is your life so horrible that your committing death by player? I aren't even getting XP from you and selling your giblets own even pay to wipe the dust of my armour now go away"" so I walk off with it still holding on to my leg before I get board of been this slow and slap it across the head. And as far as I can tell this happens in every open world game mobs just have no sense of self Preservation, I mean I don't want them running away as I'm trying to eat them but it's like a fly deciding it can take a human in a fight.

It's probably just because I'm a philistine, but despite having heard the Hall & Oates song in question, whenever "Maneater" comes up I still think of the Nelly Furtado song first. That would arguably be the more appropriate song if the shark is actually female. As for the game, so basically it's "not great, not terrible" then? That is basically what I expected as soon as I learned of the concept, which reminds me of some "ancient" computer game I can't remember the name of, at least before the mutation aspect that would make one fit in with comic book superheroes start.

Finally he is talking about this great fun game. Completed it 100%

there's a flash game called Florida Shark I think, part of a series of flash games. You play as a shark aand you eat everything. It's super fun, wacky and its FREE. Play it on Newgrounds.