Pizza Tower is INSANE (and I love it) - ahbeef 

I think that the SAGE 2019 Demo was a wake up call for MC Pig. They most likely realized the Super fast paced levels should probably just be what the whole game is like. Rather than some levels being fast and some levels being platform and combat heavy. I think that was the best call because this game is awesome

I like to think pizzaface warns peppino about the tower as a way to lure him there just for kicks as sort of a “I’m gonna do it! stop me if you can nerd” type deal

My headcanon for why Pizzaface would tell Peppino he's gonna blow up his restaurant is so he could lead Peppino out of his restaurant and possibly keep him in the tower sort of like how the bosses just sort of sit around on their floors. Fake Peppino might've been just a placeholder until he could get the real Peppino to take its place. So imo it's either that or Pizzaface just wanted to taunt Peppino before destroying his establishment. Doing something EVIL to someone doesn't exactly have the same punch if you just kill them off unceremoniously.

I don't think pizzaface ever had the means to destroy the pizzeria, I think he was just trying to trap another poor soul in the tower and just chose the wrong guy on the wrong day.

27:22 The bee achievement might actually be a call back to early on in the game's development,where the 4th boss was none other than a Bee you had to defeat with the power of *Raid Spray gas!* Praise bee,rest in pepperoni

It's nice that you're reviewing pizza tower after reviewing every wario platformer

hey that's me!

This is probably the perfect game for people with ADHD and I couldn't have loved it more than ever. And I don't even have it

I liked everything about this video except the take on damageless bosses, as someone who has gotten every p rank and outfit and achievement, going damageless on the bosses is very difficult, yes, but the more you try you learn new ways to overcome certain things in each fight. For example, with the Noise you can run up the walls in the fight to avoid his ground based attacks, or with Pizzaface you can time throwing an enemy at him to completely skip the attack where he spawns several enemies. (Or alternatively, you can jump off of another enemy for extra height and hit Pizzaface without having to time an uppercut or wait for his slam attack) It only really becomes a slog if you let it, approaching the fight same way over and over again to no avail is the fault of the player. The game rewards you for trying things you usually wouldn’t think of. TL;DR you dont have to sit and wait on a lot of the bosses phases for an opening, you can find your own openings, rewarding you for trying new things and being observant

Turns out super taunts can kill santas, so lap2 is not absolutely required.

I swear this game is perfect, the literal ONLY problem I have with this game (the super jump being on analog) got fixed with button mapping so this game is literally a 10/10

Good review! Always good seeing a deep dive on a game I’ve been obsessing over for the past month

Beginner: Look at the little guy! So fast! Experienced: MACH 4, BABY! GO PEPPINO, GO! YOU ARE THE DEFINITION OF SPEEEED!

Ah, yes. I'll have uhhh~ one large meat-a-licious pizza, some high-score dipping sauce, and a side of tower... do you accept competitor coupons?

taunting besides the bee sidequest is a reference to the bee being a boss in one of the betas

37:08 "Unless the rest of the level is a straight shot to the goal its probably Impossible" Lap 3: Allow me to introduce myself

i like how the story is super simple and the bit with the purrgatory gameplay really surprised me its really underrated and everyone here should play it (its free)

On the topic of samples in the music, the original track for Blood Sauce Dungeon "dungeon freakshow" had it's main melody taken from Intergalactic from the Beastie Boys until they had to cut it

so you brought me on a nostalgia trip about old cartoons in the middle of a game review that actually made me evaluate my life just to bring me back to pizza tower. Dammit. I have to sub...

I heavily recommend turning texture filtering OFF during a playthrough, the filter makes pixels less noticeable and a lot more smooth, turning it off disables that filter and gives the MS paint like art all the glory it deserves. Just thought it throw this I for people new to the game. :D

I suppose the idea around the Secret areas is that they try to predict a player just constantly running into certain spots and thus consider them good spots to place secrets. I’ve definitely watched a lot of steams where people would just run into these rooms by sheer accident cause of blitzing around and thinking they’d just splatter on a wall instead of breaking them.

Pizza face never really showed off the laser in the tower, I don’t think they really cared to blow up Peppino’s restaurant. I think it was just to scare him into a challenge

28:28 Oh my god is that referencing the cow constellation level from Katamari

One thing I love about this game is that it doesn’t take anything seriously. Peppino going batshit on the bosses in the final boss? Why not. You turning into goddamn Satan in R-R-Freezerator? *Why not*. The game wants you to go absolutely NUTS with all your abilities and it is so satisfying.

The noise is here and even the co op mode too!!!

Erm, the “Pizza Song” isn’t what it’s actually called, the name of the song is Funiculì, Funiculà and is an old Neapolitan song from 1880… You messed up big time, buddy! (jokes aside this is a really good video braxton keep it up)

This man in completely based. For the two levels themes, he didn't default to Pizzascape's "Hot Spaghetti" and "Cold Spaghetti", instead choosing Ancient Cheese's "Theatrical Shenanigans" and "Put On A Show!!" (9:45)

Lore wise, is quite likely that pizzaface wants to mock pepino, if you check the bossfight, he's mocking out of pepino's stress and worries

one thing you might not noticed or considered is those extra enemies in the noise fight.. *they are living ammo*

Calm music plays while pepino is laughing manically in the background.

texture filtering adds a filter to the textures, making textures less blurry when you have a bad monitor that doesn't fit the resolution

It's all hot and ready

Texture filtering only does something if the game’s resolution isn’t a clean fit. Because it was for you and your monitor, it didn’t do anything.

when I first tried the game, it was because I heard some friends talking about it, and decided to pick it up. it was incredibly frustrating at first, to the point where I even refunded the game two levels in. but I immediately bought it back, because I was frankly enamored by it, and wanted to get better at it. and lo and behold, it's now my favorite platformer of all time

10:27 The best part is, the It’s Pizza Time wasn’t the only escape theme made. (Before you ask it’s the escape theme for john gutter) There exists escape themes for Peppibot Factory, Pizzascape, and Oh Shit!. One of the scrapped ones (for the also scrapped Mansion level) was repurposed as the “SNICK IS COMING” song during the SAGE demo.

You don't need everything for an S rank you just need a high enough score

I went into this game completely blind, the only pizza tower related content i saw before I bought the game was the thumbnail for the grayfruit vod

4:53 as someone who lives in new mexico I really appreciated this level.

Also something I noticed is that the window name would change depending what state the game was in

PIZZA DAY! [*fart rockets out of the room*]

I'm not sure how I feel about beef on a pizza

The Noise isn't a rabbit. He is just a guy in a costume.

unexpectancy is the bomb

I love Pizza Tower the moment I saw the game, I actually bought the game(my second game purchase on Steam, I loved Pizza Tower that much) And...I've been addicted since then... AND THE SOUNDTRACKS Definitely Game of the year, one of the games that actually feels original!

I'm honestly surprised you had so much trouble with Fake Peppino and phase 2 Pizzahead, Fake Pep was my first accidental P-rank while I was going for an S-Rank after only a few tries (you even point out how nonthreatening some of his attacks are, lol), and I'm not sure if you were aware that you can still Parry while holding the gun, so no, none of Pizzahead's patterns are "impossible", though granted the tracking on Brick Throw is ridic and a sneaky rolling cog can be really annoying (though even then, you can bait it into rolling the opposite direction of where you want to stand and fire away).

11:38 because jerome is the GOAT.

11:34 the taunt sound effect is actually from another game called Pikuniku that released in 2019

The game looks fun

I mean, P ranking the final boss basically asks you to make frequent use of the taunt/parry move

I LOVE AHBEEF

If Medic tf2 saw this video: *OKTOBER FEST!*

You can get an S with out lap 2, it just helps a lot

The Krusty krab pizza is the pizza for you and me

One of my main problems with the fake peppino fight, is that it takes ages to do. I can complete the first level 4 times over in the time it takes me to win against him. While most bosses are 2-4 minutes long, (except pizzaface, the literal final boss) he takes 8 FUCKING MINUTES to do. He has attack patterns that take forever to do (15 seconds of doing literally nothing to avoid one) and he has 12 hits. It feels more like 24 because each one requires 2 grabs to deal one damage. This makes him feel like it takes forever to kill him. The battle in Pizzaface’s fight is a lot more fun because 1: I don’t have to wait through his attack cycles to deal any form of damage, I can chuck a guy at his face, and 2: He has 4 hits that can be instantly removed by throwing Gustavo at his face rather than 12 that you have to grab twice to remove one point. With the addition of a short italian you can throw at his face it goes from “can you please hurry the fuck up I can P-Rank a level in the time it takes to get any rank on this fight” to “oh my god this is actually fun”

everyone: ms paint the dev: aseprite

Oh, and, by the way, it actually WAS drawn in MS paint as far as i'm aware.

44:20 i literally had to P rank this boss fight for 3 FUCKING DAYS my joy was so unexplainable i was crying

Fun fact: if you click on peppino in the main menu, he reacts as if it's a slap, and if you use an auto clicker he ascends

Ya should review the noise update!

3:31 lario

As far as indie games go, this really looks like a TRUE successor to Wario Land. Dunno whether to get a Steam Deck specifically for this game or wait for a console port (I mean a Switch port would be wonderful to get it some mainstream attention and show there's still demand and love for Wario-style platformers).

Texture filtering helps with the screen looking stretched in full screen

I LOVE AH BEEF!!!!! BEST VIDEO EVER FROM BOLIVIA

I don't know how much if this is still canon, but when Pizza Head was Pizza Boy, he climbed Pizza Tower to defeat the evil Peppino. Years later, Peppino isn't evil anymore, but Pizza Head is still consumed by hatred and the need for revenge

fun fact, all the requirements for the S rank are really only on the P rank, you can get an S rank without one of the requirenents with enough points and the only requirement is the score cheese gutter is a great demonstration of this, the points from kills gives you an S in the first room

The reason you can't do the grab with the pistol might be because peppino needs to hold the enemy with both hands and the pistol takes away a hand so he must shoot

my personal controls for Pizza Tower is Movement: WASD Sprint: Shift (normal control i think) Dash: T Taunt: Y

go beef!

9:30 Out of curiosity, what 1920's song did they use to make the final boss's theme?

Ok i gotta try this game. It looks fun, am a big wario land fan anyway so i need a computer and a steam account and i can finally play this.

i did this final boss in 15 minuts but i have 12 years!

abeef pizza style thats the kinda pizza i want!!! yeah!!!! what a great great game huh? i really love the music.

For the cogwheel thing. "Did you know that you can press C to parry before an attack hits you?"

Isn't the pizza song from spiderman 2, did they get permission or did spiderman 2 take it from somewhere? I hope this gets a level editor

"why dont they just bind the pistol to the left trigger" Keyboard players:

nice

29:22 you said fortnite

39:25 so you’re saying the game should do a little better to… *avoid the noise*

If this went on console it’d blow the hell up and I’d buy it first day

There is no 101% judgement, you might be thinking about the 95% in under 4 hours ending

are you ever gonna review pac man adventures in time thats another pac man maze game but in 3d and with like 50 mazes im curious on your thoughts

9:36 excuse me but where does this 1920’s song come from, is it from a movie ?

I like to imagine that Pizza Face’s threat was never true. He just wanted to prank him. (Admittedly, it’s a prank that only Pizza Face could find funny.)

As for the issue with the gun during the Pizza head fight, you can taunt to parry incoming attacks

interestin' boss opinions, boss 4 is most people's favorite and boss 2 is most people's least favorite from whatti' seen, and i never seen people say phase 2 of the final boss is harder than the first one...

cool video

“the game looks like it was made in ms paint” if I recall, a lot of things WERE made in ms paint for this game!

wait what 101% ending there isnt a ranking you can only get by reaching 101% theres one for getting 95% in under 4 hours but the wow one you showed while saying that is the highest you can get via rank alone

Heyhey sphagetti peppino peppinor sphagettor!

Fun fact I don't know if people know but the main character name is peppino right Peppino means cucumber in Spanish

I disagree with the asteroid secret in deep dish 9. While I does blend in to a extent (It has to its a secret). Your accustom to what the asteroid looks like so a player paying attention can clearly see apart of it coming out of the wall. Heck you can see on of its mini holes and bumps which help make it more clear. Due to the part showing looking like apart of a asteroid. There's also no other wall like that in the level making it look extra weird. There's even a asteroid right next to the asteroid hidden in the wall. Like its a hint away for players to use a reference point of what the asteroid looks like. The colors of the asteroid are also brighter than the fake wall making it stand out more which is something I like about this game and Cuphead too. Where they color code important parts to make them stand out and eazier to tell. Not trying to be a dick saying "YOu SuCk" because personally I have no proof of that and that is a weak argument generally. I am just disagreeing with a part of the video and do respect your take while also trying to state mine.

Noise update video when

Me waiting for you to talk about P rank

I agree that some secrets are too hidden. But ironically, all examples you mentioned I found on my first try hah

skill issue on the no grab with pistol

You’re not gonna like what I’m about to say but… to get the best and fastest judgement 100% in 4 or less hours

For some reason I feel like the art took longer than the coding Despite the fact that it probably didn’t

Do lap 3

Skills I did it first try

Pizza tower is so good, that I pirated it, completed, and then bought