Praey for the Gods (Zero Punctuation) 

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Fun Fact: Ian Dorsch (the guy who wrote ZP's theme music) is credited as the composer for this game, Praey for the Gods. I even double checked IMDB to make sure it was the same guy. No joke, it really is! Small world, eh? 🌎

But oh-ho, Yahtzee, there WAS a parachute in Shadow of the Colossus! It was just gated behind the time trials and/or a difficulty setting, iirc. One of the last little nuggets they threw at you too. Of course, that meant you probably wouldn't play with it much since you've already effectively played the game through like 3 times over, but it meant you can finally jump off cliffs or the secret rooftop garden and survive.

SotC was defined by its commitment to minimalism, removing everything that didn't support its core themes. This game takes that concept even further, by removing the minimalism.

The glitter pig analogy actually made me stop folding my laundry and think for a second. That was perfect.

Man Yahtzee must’ve had a field day coming up with all the alternate names for the game

I find it interesting how Yahtzee’s criticism of crafting elements and open world games actually encourage a reduced workload for game developers. He’d prefer one or two things done beautifully rather than a whole bunch of passably mediocre elements crammed into one game. I think it would be a good direction for single player games to go

To be fair shadow of the colossus with a grappling hook sounds sick as fuck

This game was on Kickstarter since 2015 and it feels like that cause all the crafting stuff would have been more immersive when it was still a novel concept. Also shame about the trademark issues on Prey, cause Prey to the Gods is a damn good name.

Survival crafting is basically the "we ran out of ideas" style of gaffer tape on a sinking ship for most games.

A key binding principle of Shadow of the Colossus was its minimalism; the fact that the gameplay features were so limited and that there was limited UI and that there was nothing in the world besides you, the Colossi and the small lizards with everything leading to the one objective was key to what made it stand out so particularly. Trying to remove the minimalism it seems only really makes this less defined focus wise

"Sprinkles on a pig does not make the bacon tastier." - Yahtzee 2022

Shadow of the Colossus does actually have a parachute, you just have to complete some challenges for it

Yahtzee, it's incredible how the series have been going for so long, and your physical/cut-based/puppetry comedy is still so fresh. The pig shocked by the cleaver was such an unneccessary, but indispensable gag.

I read the title of the game and just heard Yahtzee pronouncing it in my head. Watching the vid, it's exactly how I expected him to pronounce it.

“Oh this game looks cool.” *crafting mechanics “Shame. that game looked pretty cool.”

Shadow of the Colossus + Breath of the Wild might sound good on paper but those are different genres for a reason.

"Prolapse of the Gut" had me rolling

"You're looking jolly hookshottable thi- oh shit let me make another one"

"Huh, that's weird, a typo in a ZP video." *starts video* "Oh. Oh I see."

That little kiss in the end had me in stitches.

"This item that would save you in the event you lose all your stamina and fall, but it costs stamina so feck off it will never matter" issue - I wonder if there could be a simple design fix for that. Maybe if you run out of stamina in your stamina bar (and thus lose your grip, or lose continuity on whatever you were doing), you get a 'second wind' that gives you, like, 10% of your bar back (or some amount), just enough to not completely be screwed over, but the catch is that you can only get that safety net back by letting your bar fully recover, so you can't just, say, fall off from stamina, hookshot back with your second wind, keep fighting, then fall and hookshot again later on in the same fight, unless you found a good spot on the Giant Skyscraper Monster to take a breather and drink some stamina potions or whatever. You could even make the Stamina Bar itself slightly smaller to compensate for this, so you aren't given any *more* useful stamina than normal, but it *feels* like you have a little bonus tucked away, just in case. It could also give another mechanic to play with for gear and skills and buffs and such - maybe there's an item that lets you hold *two* second winds, or something that makes your next second wind recover a little more stamina; maybe there's a cool weapon that's really big and cumbersome, so it makes your second wind *less* potent if you're wielding it and run empty. Maybe there's achievements for beating the titans without using your second wind - or beating one *during* your second wind recovery in a last ditch effort.

They shoulda called it "Præy for the Gods"

I'd love to see a Generation Zero review. It's a survival/fps that takes the minimalist route to survival on the basic premise of don't die but not making you focus on food or water. It also has a pretty cool story that is rold more through the scenery and environment than through dialog, although there is some of that.

I feel like two birds could've been killed with one stone by putting grappling hooks in all the treasure chests.

I gave this a go YEARS ago at this point, and it was so horrendously optimised that it was borderline unplayable. Maybe I'll give it another go now it's released properly. Or maybe I'll just go play Shadow of the Colossus again.

*Zero Punctuation indie rock track of the week:* *Grapple Into My Heart* by the *Friendship Hookshots*

Ah, the love letter to an older game that adds mostly unnecessary things to differentiate itself. Sounds like it isn't exactly a bad time though.

The inoculation in the credits was adorable. ❤

I think the problem here is that a lot of people complain about SotC is that was completely empty save for the colossus fights, so i makes sense that someone would try to make a SotC spiritual sucessor but that is not completely empty save for the colossus fights.

Obscure but awesome reference using the face of WG Grace as the 'god' in this animation - Monty Python used the same face to depict God in The Holy Grail.

When I was a kid I always wanted some kind of minions that I could beat the shit out of in-between Colossus fights, but now I can understand how much purer and more refined the game is without anything else in it. There's the lizards you can hunt and the traversal space between you and the next Colussus, and that's your lot.

That box art is r/maliciouscompliance if I ever saw it lmao "What, it's not an E. It's a praying lady. Fuck off. Also it's in a different color to highlight that it totally isn't an E. Fuck off again"

"Praey for the gods" is a pun, in german. in german " ae " is an alternative version to write " ä " and that sound similar to the " e " in "prey". It's not a god pun.

So early in the year and we may have a peak of genius with 'Pride Parade for the Gays' 🤣❤️ As a parading gay from your home shores allow me to recommend Strange Horticulture for the Yahtzee take on a little indie gem.

"Pride parade for the gay" KILLED! ME!

Admittedly, the title is kinda clever in that Æ legit used to be a letter in the English language, and was pretty much the sound that the E in Prey makes.

Excellent review! Some of the superb descriptive comparisons to things made me laugh a whole bunch

The actual reason its called "Praey for the Gods" and not "Prey for the Gods" is because Bethesda basically threatened to sue them and they didn't want do deal with that.

Between Prey, Scrolls, and It Takes Two, what is it with publishers suing a game because the title slightly sounds like something else

I guessing they were going for PrÆy for the gods, but Steam doesn't allow the character.

Before playing the video, I guessed Yahtzee was going to have a nice, drawn out "ae" in his pronunciation of "praey". Was not disappointed!

This is one of your funniest reviews, bravo!

If you are a giant among titans, are you larger or smaller than the titans? Like, if you are the size of a giant, titans will tower over you but if you are giant in comparison to titans, then you are the bigger fish.

It would be interesting to here his thoughts on The Pathless as thats another feels like SoC game. Though not as boss fight focused.

There is a parachute in SotC, you just have to unlock it from the Time Attack mode.

2:36 Yahtzee never did the time trials I see. A parachute was the reward for beating 14 colossi on Hard mode within a time limit. Funnily called "The Cloth of Desperation"

Please consider adding either your individual episodes or your annual compilations to spotify, I'm sure many of us would love to listen to them like a podcast.

For real though, I remember the newsletter that CS me out saying they had to change to title because the creators of “Prey” contacted them saying they couldn’t.

Considering the Kickstarter for this game was in 2016, that it came out at all was surprising. - I loved the grapple and parachute additions to the Shadow of the Colossus gameplay (that was the selling point for the Kickstarter). - Hard agree that there needed to be more giant monster fights and less survival. - I found that you could do them in any order if you found their lair by exploring, so the indicator just showed the next recommended one. - At least they circumvented weapon breakage by making the weak points a lever instead of a "stab here" mark. - The lore was definitely hard to find, but the exploration puzzles could be fun.

"The parachute uses stamina!" Isn't that ENTIRELY counterintuitive? The whole purpose of the chute would be to have a safe landing in the event you DON'T have stamina and you fall off the beast. It's like a scenario of, "Oh, you gambled too much at the roulette table and you ran out of money? Well, you'll need to buy some more tokens to get out of the casino."

"The Giant Balls Event Horizon" is gold.

-Welcome to the McOpenworld Game what's your order? -I would like a grappling hook please. -Sorry, grappling hook machine broke.

There was a parachute in SotC...

Took one look at the title and thought "mans gonna have a field day with that one".

I get that this channel is to make fun of games, been watching a long time (well before yahtzee was on youtube). With that said... I have to say I think this game is down right fantastic. I bought it back when there was only a couple gods to battle and fell in love. I just picked it back up because the 1.0 release finally came out. And I still love it. I personally enjoy playing it on the ultimate hardest. The game has 2 settings... battle difficulty, and survival difficulty. So you can play hard enemies with light survivial or light enemies with hard survival or just balls to the wall hard everything. And I play balls to the wall hard everything. You gotta sleep, you gotta eat, you gotta craft, you gotta everything. It's downright FANTASTIC. On the easier settings these features seem tacked on a little, especially the crafting and what not. And I can see that being like "why is this even here?". But on the ultimate hard settings its a freaking experience and I freaking love it. I get it might not be for everyone. If you don't like crafting... ok. But I mean the crafting in this isn't really that complicated. It's not minecraft crafting... it's like Zelda BOTW crafting in that really it's repairing your equipment and if it breaks completely you can make a club or the sort out of sticks. Which makes sense since shadow is a sort of homage to zelda style games beefed up and distilled. This game is just "well zelda added new things since the PS2 era, lets add them here". If you like Shadow of the Colossus, and you want more of it but cranked up in difficulty on every front, play this at max pain levels. I get lost for hours in this game just pretending I'm struggling in this frozen waste land. Contemplating if I can make it up that cliff or across that river to see if a secret is hiding in that cave I can sort of see through the thick snow blasting in my face. ... TLDR; This game is Shadow of Colossus with a bit of Zelda BOTW tossed in. The so-called "crafting" is more in line with the breakable weapons in BOTW than it is with say "crafting" in most games like say valheim or minecraft.

It's a great shame that Shadow of the Colossus didn't become it's own genre in the same way that Dark Souls did

Truly amazing

Man I love the ZP theme song but I just realised now how much it kicks ass in 1.25X speed!

Excuse me, shadow of the colossus HAS A PARACHUTE

As soon as I saw the title I knew what the first joke would be.

"Poger for the goger" Godamn gold

As soon as I saw the spelling I knew this was going to be a good one. 😆

Holy shit. I've never seen a quake ogre that zoomed in

Shadow of a Colossus had a parachute it just was an unlockable on the second playthrough.

I was so hyped seeing this in PAX years ago. Then after seeing everything it had to offer I felt it would just make me lust for more shadow of the colossus.

Shadow of the Colossus does have a parachute.

Shadow of the Colossus did have a parachute though, it was a reward for a time trial on Hard Mode.

Sneaking in a PSA during the end credits you sneaky sneak ? ;7

Shadow of the Colossus was pretty famous for leaving out as many features as they could to keep the focus on the colossi fights so it's an odd choice to take that game and add crafting onto it.

I throughly enjoyed this review.

The funny thing is the PS4 remake of Shadow of the Colossus had a parachute as an unlockable.

There is a parachute in Shadow of the Colossus, you just have to unlock it

Holy shit, it’s out finally

Sotc does have parachute. It’s unlock-able in time challenges. Just fyi

>Yahtzee mentions parachute would have been nice in Shadow of the Colossus No one tell him *NO ONE TELL HIM*

From the sounds of this review, they did good. They did something right and tried something new. They don't seem to have succeeded in Yatzs eyes, but we have to applaud the effort or little Timmy's indie game will never be dreamt.

0:30 Our Lord and Saviour, Obi-Wan.

Prolapse of the guts would be a great goregrind band name

Thanks

For the last few days seeing this in my watch feed, the image that kept jumping into my head was dragon age origins using the character builder and just the moment you got free control they throw on some leather item and just modded in your common assault rifle, so just seeing the screenshot you used I just kept thinking okay so dragon age, but with guns? Kinda disappointed it wasn’t that.

Was those credits animation a Kitten Kong reference?

I remember yhatzee complaining about shooting lizards being stupid during the colossus review. I think PFTG came really close to solving that with the puzzles, then messed it up right at the end with +5 shoes, rather than a stamina increase

shout out to all my Balham crew!

After this review, maybe these developers do want to use a grappling hook to reach into Yahtzee’s heart, but IRL this time.

this game sounds like a halfway point between shadow of the colossus and monster hunter, but both of those games are good for how hard they commit to their concepts that this one can't compare just by definition of not having a strong enough core identity that it could commit to

Ohhh odd thought on a shadow of the colossus style game. A monster island game. you are an agent for goverment/corperation that's studying the Kaiju like creatures and your sent in because the facility has gone dark. the island has several different bioms some of the more extreme ones are because of the kaiju in them, the snowy biom exists because of the massive frost giant roaming through it. You rescue scientists, and researchers to learn the Kaiju's weaknesses, to learn what you need to escape, the information your bosses wanted and other things. you can pick and chooses how you want to proceed some monsters can be bypassed entirely, others will come to the aid of another unless you do something first destroying one monster might make another more aggressive or have them move territory possibly changing the boim of the terrain. Destroy the afformentioned frost giant and the slime beast from the swamps might take over leading to that frozen section to become an extended swamp

New book was kick ass! Keep it up

I love when the name gets more and more dramatic at every mention.

A lot of people forgot about one HUGE detail about this game that forced the developers to use the ridiculous word "Praey" in the title. Bethesda & Zenimax actually sued the makers of "Praey for the Gods" & claimed that it infringed on their copyright for Arkane Studios' Prey game. Their lawsuit forced the developers to change the name!

Yo Yatz. Solar Ashes. It's Shadows of the Col. Meets jet-set radio. Have fun!

One thing that's often overlooked about this game is that is was only made by THREE PEOPLE (last I checked). That doesn't make it immune to criticism but given how good the game looks it's pretty astonishing

The giant balls event horizon's getting noted down for later, thank you.

Oh hell yeah Columbo. Yahtzee must be q Gianni fan as well

Wasn't there an unlockable parachute in shadow of the colossus? Or was that some unused content?

That other other game (Prey ²⁰¹⁶) was pretty awesome

“Building hunting” *flashback to Rick and Morty” *sniffs* “There’s a craftsman nearby, I can smell it”

Beyond even Shadow of the Colossus, Cuphead proved that even in this day and age of gaming endless boss battles can make an amazing game.

Clicked and watched just to hear the man say that title out loud.

As soon as I read the name of the game being reviewed I was like "wow that's a stupid name I'll bet yahtzee shits all over it." Was not disappointed.