Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (Zero Punctuation) 

As someone who has played almost exclusively Bowser in every Mario Kart, Smash Bros, RPG, Sports game, and even bought the Mario Party where Bowser was playable after skipping the last 6 or so... I agree

In this game yes. He has a bazooka and windup drones as his weapons which both blow everything up. I try to use him every chance I can since he removes cover and the drones are useful as cannon fodder to enemy fire. Good thing they got rid of friendly fire in this game or half of the characters could kill everyone with there attacks.

Because he's always the most interesting character in any Mario game

Adding Boswer as a playable character has been a huge thumbs up for me. Feel like he never really gets credit for anything so when there is a chance for him to get credit in a game like this I always go straight for him. Also I ditched the mains first chance I got. My default 3 were Boswer, Rabbid Rosalina, and Peach. Best combo all the way.

This is the most I’ve ever agreed with Yatzee. From Bowser as a playable character, to the weird menu screens always closing. The only criticism I have is that I found the first game challenging at times and this one felt like a walk through. I wish they hadn’t cheaped out on an opening cut screen. Will the DLC be Zelda themed?

Reasonable Horse 2024.

I welcome our Reasonable Horse overlord

Pewh.. I'm not alone! I like that horse, very reasonable fellow!

@@kadosho02 Seems Reasonable

Yahtzee had once promised to never use running gags because they're a lazy form of comedy...

“You’re a bad guy, but that doesn’t mean you’re a bad *guy*”

Bowser is an antagonist, not a monster.

if more villains were good parents, you wouldnt have annoying arcs were the child of a villain winds up allying/hooking up with the protagonist.

I mean he’s raised like 10 kids. Got to be pretty good.

@@mrbubbles6468 The Koopalings retroactively aren’t his kids anymore according to Nintendo

And then straight away being hit with the old thrash metal intro

It does make the thrash metal hit harder, though

I always mistake it for an add and start searching for the skip button.

Just make game and if possible sexually harass your coworkers for promotion opportunities seems to be the Ubisoft way.

Because its not the "standard" Ubisoft that had the lead on this project but the italian branch, Ubisoft Milan

Its stupid to blame overworked ubisoft employees on every bad game they work on. Have some brain

@@turkeyswag2831 I thought you were making a Mario is Italian joke for a minute...

I say the same thing about Fenyx. Might have definitely started as “make a BotW clone!” but it had so much personality in the end.

thats just wheat happens sometimes.

@@Wargaminggirl Indeed, wheat happens sometimes. It happened with Popeye and Olive Oyl too, didja know she used to be the main character? And it only took like a week before Popeye was seen as the more entertaining character!

Rayman was still the protagonist in the 2nd game, but his role diminished a bit, and did even less by the 3rd game. By the 4th game (Rabbids Go Home, which is a pretty good game BTW) they were the protagonists and Rayman was nowhere to be found until his return a few years later in his own series.

@@stigrabbid589 True, but like in this game with Mario, you didn’t have to play as Rayman and just be a Rabbid in all the minigames. And let’s be honest: we all played the Rabbid cause they had better costumes.

I didn't even realize rabbids and Rayman were from the same franchise. Poor Rayman indeed.

I gotta admit that pumpkin spice joke did get a chuckle out of me, though

I laughed my ass off at the first Pumpkin Spice joke. It was moreso the Key and Peele problem where a joke is repeated and dragged on so long by the end I was groaning. The game did that a lot of times not just with Pumpkin Spice and may be its only writing-based flaw. The only running gag that didn't get old for me was anything involving Rabbid Mario.

@@Dyskresiac The main thing I wish is that, having played half the worlds so far (in case this improves in the latter half), I wish the Mario characters were a bit more involved in even the comedic cutscenes. Kingdom Battle was pretty good about their presence, whether as a straight man like Mario staring at Rabbid Mario breaking out a Lute, or part of the zany elements like Luigi trying to sneak a peak at Rabbid Peach's pictures after the World 1 Boss. Sparks of Hope, while funny to me, moreso has the Mario characters there for the story cutscenes, but generally leaves a lot of the side-talk and flavor dialogue to the Rabbids. It feels a lot more like the Mario cast being swept up in a Rabbids adventure than the Rabbids colliding with their world as Kingdom Battle managed for me.

@@papershadow There are side quests that give every character enough time to shine. I feel by the end though it isn't due to differential in screen time so much as it does memorable moments. Those sorts of themes you talk about are replicated but I feel they lack the punch the second time around.

@@papershadow its unfortunate because the rabbids are never my favorite part of whatever franchise there apart of lol

Are you sure?

@@shiv3rcubesolver664 yes?

When he admitted that he cried while playing Spiritfarer (which I also did... because bloody hell that game is heavy), I was like... oh wow. This dude is human. An amazing writer of a human for sure, but still a human. Very wholesome.

@@mitchelldurward8863 same!

I thought that coupon expired

Yahtzee says "UwU" unironically. The world ends.

@@abloogywoogywoo ...with you

@@Dragonsamuari ...wu

I remember it as well. When I replayed Mario Sunshine a year ago, I realized the trick to making it easy (well, a lot easier; I still nearly ran out of health): the manta can only be over objects; it cannot be underneath them. Have Mario stand underneath any roof/ceiling/tree and it can't touch Mario.

Why I have nostalgia for that horrid game I'll never know.

@@abloogywoogywoo i recall it as a good game, and the level was not that bad ones I came back to it...... 10 years later

@@abloogywoogywoo Probably because Mario Sunshine was a good game that was an unfortunate victim of rush (it and Wind Waker alike due to Nintendo having needed to get new Mario & Zelda titles onto the GameCube as soon as possible due to the GameCube's disappointing sales numbers).

I always just hovered like crazy, the one i got flashbacks is the lava goo and i only beat it cuz i saw how if you dunk in the river, it will make enough of a path to cheese and recover FLUDD.

Same as someone who finds the word silly and tries not to use it even mentally. Rather fitting that the end slides of this one parody a zombie infection given this word feels like the verbal equivalent of one at times, like this is _Pontypool_ or something.

I came in comments to say exactly the same thing.

yup

Months of playing D&D with a character called "Yeet" has desensitized Yahtzee to the word.

Came for this comment for sure 😭

Yahtzee will probably keep it out for that very reason, he’ll lose all his anti-mainstream credentials

To be fair, he said that he would've put Odyssey in his top 5 of 2017 if not for a Hat in Time. He acknowledged that it was one of the year's best games, he just didn't want to flood the list with cartoon-y platforming games.

It would also be weird for a Ubisoft game, which are generally shoo-ins for blandest.

Then the third time goes a bit too experimental, someone forgets to, ahem, "work something out of their system" before they start writing, someone definitely takes some shrooms, and then Nintendo big men come bleach everything and everyone starts to hate it. Every. Damn. Time.

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 I mean, yeah. Don't remind me. Though I don't think a third game would come out for this cross over. I mean, by all standards, the story is done and over, taking in account the dlc possibilities. And to say there's another surviving fragment of the incident from the first game would be just horse shit.

I read this in Yahtzee’s voice. Well done sir!

@@Raines1911 thank you.

What was wrong with Kingdom Battle? Secondary Weapons, Secondary Skills, relatively balanced fights, a Couch PvP mode, references galore, creative jokes, tolerable Rabbid shenanigans, and some of the most hilarious enemy designs I've ever seen: - Ziggies are just fun to shoot. They sure talk a lotta ship for basic enemies in one-turn-kill range! - Smashers are one of the best mid-gameplay punchlines I've ever seen. A tank that's also a melee glass cannon that's also a speed demon if you don't play your cards right? Somebody's getting bullied, and it's either you or the Smasher! - Peekaboos, the sniper enemies...have Magnet Dance. It sounds like a _terrible_ moveset to play with, and it's a good thing making that garbage work isn't your problem!

Fitting nowadays, isn't it?

I feel like having King Boo be an Assassin would be a cheat of sorts. considering he can go completely invisible

@@Royal__Kitsune maybe he'll be forced to stop in place if he's in his target's FOV regardless of being invisible?

@@Royal__Kitsune I was thinking for the sake of gameplay its an ability you need to unlock. As Ubisoft games love their ability trees.

@@nicklager1666 Ohhh true, its late where i am so i took you literally. my b

when you think about it, the plot of Far Cry 3 isnt too different from the plot of super mario. Jason - Mario Jason's brother - Luigi princess Peach - Citra Bowser - Vaas

That would be cool to have Rayman help the Rabbids instead of fighting them in my opinion.

@@stigrabbid589 It's gonna happen. Ubisoft released a DLC teaser before the game even came out confirming Rayman as a playable DLC character.

It would be unreasonable to deny him.

Yoshie's Cookie. I had it for the SNES and apparently it was also released on the NES.

I played that one! XD

Lazerpig probably. Ssethtzeentach.

@@awesome7067 Sseth is aboslutely the guy that doesn't always show up but when he does he is on enough meth to kill an elephant

I’m just wondering if he would be elected king of all the pessimistic RU-vidrs, or just king of all the pessimistic gamer RU-vidrs.

Critical Drinker for movie reviews

RedLetterMedia boys for sure

A small, mildly ashamed part of me unironically thinks it's a cool name, and I know exactly how that sounds. It really does just speak to the edgy teen boi in me in the most direct, simplest fashion possible.

There is also FFIV Edge, which despite is name is more of a typical anime character.

It's weird that the portals don't give you that info, especially since I remember the first game telling you what types of enemies are spawning through the tacticam. I feel like this game withholds a lot of info from the player compared to the first game, like it doesn't take drop down ledges or pipes into account when showing you enemy movement, and it never tells you what the elemental effects actually do until it finally gives you the tutorial on it. Like I had to look up what shock and ooze actually did because it wasn't all that clear in game, and even then it took me a while to realize the ooze effect spreads to others by touch.

Honestly, I liked it. It's a little annoying yeah, but it adds a bit of surprise and challenge to a game that's otherwise way easier than the first.

When i did it in the past and last year, i would just use hover spam and the spin move.

The best quote related to this by something like the fact that the very old often relegate back to the very young on their attitude and sense of the world. I suppose sometimes I can be a good thing and sometimes a bad thing depending on the circumstance!

This game is getting Rayman DLC...that doesn't actually feature Mario. So yes but also no.

@@lewa358 honestly, I dunno what's worse: trying to smush two distinct IPs together or turning everything into a shared universe.

@@GallowglassVT Honestly at this point I'm just happy that someone remembered that Rayman exists.

@@lewa358 the third game was and still is one of my all time faves. I honestly rank it as one of the best platformers ever.