Mortal Shell (Zero Punctuation) 

Need a copy of Hellpoint to review? :P

Is wasteland 3 next?

Review ultrakill

He must've been watching old avgn vids recently.

@@bearman_1826 or Gabes stuff with Keepetclassy.

Hey dude have u finished the game or at least know how to get out of the ice area?????????

PEPSI MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

Yes, exactly.

Well, not all souls-likes are bent on that whole "inevitable doom" theme. The Surge, for example, was more about struggles of a blue collar worker, and also about consequences of unsustainable economic growth (depletion of natural resources, etc, etc.)

@@quint3ssent1a So the inevitably of economic collapse/enviromental disaster?

@@ProjectEkerTest33 I'd say it is about how humanity transforms everything it touches. In second Surge game there's wery powerful allegory, where you hunt a nanobeast in "nature's reserve", an artificial park built as a gravestone to extinct species of wildlife. Then some weird shit happens, and park is now crawling with dozens of lesser nanobeasts. This is your new "nature", Homo Sapiens. Do you like it?

Very insightful

Added alliterative appeal, gotta love it.

@@Andri474 I think you mean Added alliterative appeal is always an amazingly aesthetic achievement to add to an already astounding artistic articulation of attitude.

He is a writer after all 😏

Wordsmith eh? Now I am imagining a typing tutor style Dark Souls clone where you can upgrade your vocabulary at a guy called the Wordsmith and you Inventory is called the Dictionary.

Hey, older women are still allowed to have sex lives.

and thats where teh game loses points for me, because every teenager with a guitar can do that

I play guitar and I've never even heard wonder wall lol

Evering Hall we can’t all be gen z tho

I bestowed to you my greatest honour the 69 like

and that there's a secret ending where you just give up on fixing the world or whatever and strum on your guitar with your best mate forever

Especially when the things that make the original good being good comes from not knowing they're there.

The best way I remember the whole Dark Souls copy n paste was when yahtzee said something like 'It is an unfortunate fact of life in the world of entertainment that the unique is rarely successful and indeed that the successful is rarely unique. And when something happens that caused the stars to align and something to come out that is both unique and successful, it's all but a guarantee that it will not be remaining unique for very long"

That’s basically the entire Dark Age of Comic Books desperately aping Watchmen...

Though I have heard that MS is good

@@anomalocaris2593 It's quite good. I beat it in about 15 hours and I probably won't be going back to it, but I thoroughly enjoyed it while I was playing. It's a half priced, half sized game, and it succeeds at what it sets out to do, imo.

Oh good one!

Darks Soul

well atleast the name fits

Nice

..dude, don't rip of iron pineapple, when he said this about harken and his boring as shit adventure it was true... mortal shell had a passionate team behind it, and if you gave it a chance.. you'd see it's fairly deep. but i guess when your on the surface... everything looks shallow.

the long term hope to “learn the fate of the undead”?

@@atoonproductions Initially to break the curse of the undead (somehow) and later to rekindle the First Flame (or not).

Yeah, it's like the developers heard "Dark Souls doesn't tell the players anything, you have to discover it for yourself" and failed to realise that this is hyperbolic in the extreme (the game doesn't tell you _much,_ but it tells you enough to go on), so they declared "Yes, we too shall make a game that tells the player _literally absolutely nothing whatsoever_ beyond the basic combat controls tutorial!" Hell, I unlocked the parry ability when I acquired the Tarnished Seal (which is EASILY missable), and the game wouldn't even tell me what the fucking thing did or how to use it until I went and looked it up on the wiki!

Sony has decided to bring quite a few of the PS3/4 first party titles over to PC so its possible Infamous 2 will get a PC release, I hope so since it was quite fun.

Can we have both games...please?

Both those games, a new infamous, and a sequel to ghost of tsushima. Tomorrow please.

Sony probably would do that, just before announcing that Infamous 3 (yes, 3, with the Cole you know and love) will be a PS5 exclusive.

We all would....

Made me think of Bojack Horseman tongue twisters

It's called alliteration, and it's a common writing tool.

John Smith While that is true, it can be quite difficult to do it at length. Something Yahtzee is very good at.

It was one of his "best games of the year" in 2011, and he's pretty much only ever praised it since then. I don't think he's madly in love with it the way he is with Silent Hill 2, Painkiller, Half Life or Portal, but the shout-out here indicates that he still loves it. I guess if he were to create a tier list with games he's reviewed, those games would be on the highest tier, and Infamous 2 would probably be on the next one down. That's how I think about it, anyway. Plus, those other games are on PC already anyway. Infamous 2 is probably one of the only games he really likes that hasn't been made available on PC at this point EDIT - I forgot you brought it up while typing this, but yeah, Resistance 3 would probably also be in that second tier with Infamous 2. Probably also Far Cry 3 as well, and maybe the original Deus Ex.

I just air juggle people for sport.

Yes it does. All you have to do to get it is quit the game and visit your local bar.

Nah, that's one of the endings of The Bard's Tale

If you count pvp, i would say so.

@@spinyslasher6586 oof your right XD

@@spinyslasher6586 Not just an alternate but the TRUE ending of DS2 as DS3 references that ending and actions that could only happen in that ending in multiple item descriptions.

It’s the worlds first shell type game

Bastards

Pull you money out of oil and gas options lads I suspect a downturn in the coming dacade or so.

Cold Symmetry is a 15 people company, for such a small team they did an amazing job, I’m actually glad they left out a lot of mechanics just so they could focus properly on what they did keep. I really liked the game and see a lot of potential.

@@radu1337 You got stocks on Cold Symmetry or something?

howd you get that mini yahtzee as a part of your comment?

@@Royal__Kitsune I kidnapped him, cloned his DNA and loaded him into my phone. Now, he's always ready to appear by command

Or you could reply and click the smiley face to see him. Or, update your RU-vid app...

@@Timmy_T Your first answer was sexier. 😎 Let them live in wonder.

Curse you for making me curious enough to try that. I think my brain's melting.

2x is even worse

I ask that of this entire genre.

Fimbulmute yeah man replaying dark souls isn’t gonna give me the same feeling as I got discovering ash lake for the first time again. We need a new game

Guys, guys, I know, believe me, I know. The thing is, I didn't believe what Yahtzee said in his review about the level design and the swampiness of it all until I watched an LP of it. All I could think of was how much better the "Road of Sacrifices" in DS3 was and that was just ONE area. As always, YMMV

@sgt dornan The Surge kinda did the former. Instead of intrigue and hopeless quest we got a scathing criticism of late stage capitalism instead

@sgt dornan played a couple other soulslikes and yeah i kinda agree with this Surge has a great world and cool ideas but the way it does them and other things were flawed. Nioh 2 was annoying, complex and has enemies with weird tracking and kh2 levels of attack choreography imo. Blasphemous was pretty good, I thought Ashen was ok, haven't tried Salt yet, and Mortal shell doesn't really impress me that much imo the only one that stands on it's own and is equally awesome as fromsoft's games is Hollow Knight, but that's a different genre and has a few similarities so idk if it counts

Made me shed a tear if I'm being honest T-T

Nioh and Lords Of The Fallen and The Surge carved their own path using a From Blade.

@@taydrew2577 Yes I recall the ubiquitous Specific Bodypart Targeting in Souls games, and the Power Stance from Dark Souls 2 must have been where Nioh got the H/M/L Stances which totally weren't in Bushido Blade before. And that Souls* original feature of Socketing Gems was of course incorporated in the exact clone Lords Of The Fallen.

Honestly I miss the phrase. I feel like genres have become so bloated they've completely lost meaning. I usually just end up asking what's the closest comparable game anyway.

Ooh that'd be cool. There's even a plausible explanation for a good difficulty curve: it gets harder as you go because people realize there's some kind of possession going on so they just dismiss it if you make the person do something too out of character. You have to think more and more about plausible ways to destroy each person according to what they might actually do based on their personality. As you go on you could even have characters try and capture you somehow if they realize you're possessing someone, or try and figure out who's causing the possessions if you're too obvious asking around how to ruin someone's life.

Presumably Dark Souls-like games serve the interests of our leaders, because they prevent players from being both happy and educated (to continue that theme from last week's review)

Based off this video, I'd say Jenny Agutter.

Honestly? Would be more interesting if it presented itself like a take on the arkham style of play (since it feels a lot more like that but with the difficulty cranked up than traditional dark souls) that came close to dark souls than a dark souls inspired game.

@@chukyuniqul That probably would have required some creativity and work.

@@bsmarsch i mean in the sense that that's what it is-counter based, limited customization, the different ways of upgrading your weapon, not to mention the fact combat is much more...idk how to say...in dark souls even when fighting bosses, your character is the centrap point of the animations, in mortal shell it's kind of a 2-person act.

and many of them left disappointed.. Especially when the famous nude scene of her was when she was 17.. which.. is kinda cringe.

@@TheP3NGU1N Legal is legal, as they say

Pretty sure the picture of Jenny Agutter in her youth is from Logan's Run (where the hero meets her character via the futuristic version of Tinder, which delivers attractive people directly to your home by vague means.)

Yo, since you like Soulsbourne games, what's your opinion on Blasphemous? Played the demo and loved it, but does it stay that good throughout?

The game is pretty solid overall. if you’re absolutely bored of souls but can only play souls like, then get it.

Oscar McCormack blasphemous stays great throughout, the game is depressing AF though, so prepare for that

@@oscarmccormack1611 blasphemous is wholly worth it, some insanely beautiful pixel art along with the solid gameplay

I think that’s why Fromsoft is keeping the general game feel but changing things up. For example adding the aggressive style of bloodborne and the stealth, parry and jumpy jumpy gameplay of sekiro. Even the original innovators are changing up the genre they invented up a bit.

The soundtrack of that game is just perfect. It's one of those games were you can really feel that the developers had a lot of fun making it, coming up with weird stuff and over-the-top action. A pity it didn't sell well.

I know him only because of the AVGN episode about that