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@Lightstriker suggests Yahtzee reviews Hellpoint.

10/10 would watch an anime about yahtzee

How a Realist Brit Rebuilt the Industry.

*DON'T. GIVE. THEM. IDEAS!*

@@Kaarl_Mills they allready did if there is A.I going around the internet looking for next LN title.

Is it wrong to criticise games and their dungeons

Add Gurren Lagann to the list.

Your profile pic is based

I don't watch the animes and even I recognized the games premise being identical to Attack on Titan.

@@espio87 I don't think it should be. The underground villages don't really have the same purpose as the one surviving outpost/city/whatever the hell else it's been called, in terms of both narrative theme and actual usage, and, if we're talking about just the first half, nothing else in that description is really applicable to Gurren without changing aspects of the description to better fit Gurren's weird (to say the least) world and story

@@planescaped Interestingly enough Attack on Titan SHOULDNT be on the list. (massive spoilers following) SPOILERS: First of all, the majority of the army is actual adults. We are just following the branch were new recruits enter, and actually see them grow up. The technology isnt that far advanced and generally explained (of course within suspension of disbelief). The rest of the world still exists. This is a major plot point of the fourth season. We find out that titans actually only cover a very small part of the world and the rest of the world is more or less buisness as usual.

Which roughly translates into "I watched Fullmetal alchemist, blue exorcist, death note, and started konisuba and fruits basket but couldn't enjoy it"

@@Novice_Maker Explain pls??

Yeah he tends to do that to you if you watch his videos for long enough

For real. I spent exactly equal amounts of time trashing how lazily it hit every single one of the most tired anime tropes possible... and having fun twatting everything with my sexy anime sword.

@@dragonandavatarfan8865 dont blame you, it was a very cultured sentence, but I will translate for you. In other words he said: “I watched what are considered the best animes ever made, animes full of amazing characters, story and badass fight scenes. But then I watched wholesome comedy, romcom, slice of life animes and couldnt enjoy them because Im spoiled by the better animes I have watched already.” Edit: forgot to mention that not only are the first animes he mentioned objectively better, the big difference in the genre of the anime is a factor. Not everyone can enjoy both sides of anime, the wholesome super sweet vanilla stories vs the dark, dramatic and sometimes even gruesome stories of other animes. Both are equally good in my eyes, but of course everyone has a preference.

Jesus Christ that is terrible, like something out of a comedy skit brought to life. Are all your buddies from that day alive?

@@ninepillarsofsalt I don't think it's polite to ask.

LHMBC sounds like an optional add-on for the Large Hadron Collider

Tbf, at least the first point has a story reason

Fun part is steam board was full of whining about the lack of actual dating sim. It teases dating sim, no actual romance even transpires. Which means the entire subplot of the childhood friend ends up being "yeah okay I like him", the end.

The hoodie is just a design choice I think, it appears when they enter a state of heavy focus called "Brain Drive" or develop a "Brain Field", think devil trigger if you've played DMC, maybe it lowers the amount of input to the brain from the outside world? It's not explored, but the powers and the baddies are explained.

@@gervoh It's likely reducing the amount of information the eyes have to send to the brain to process. The brain tends to peak its processing power at 18 years old - so arguably the reason why OSF members tend to be 18 and younger is literally because Brain Field takes up a fuck ton of that processing power on top of focus (as excessive use can lead to permanent brain damage and going beyond the duration kills you outright). TL;DR Humans brains are like processors - break it and you'll have a bad time.

This game/series is way far from generic lmao If this is generic to you then you either weren’t paying any attention to story or think that 95% of all stories are extremely generic. Try going through the story again, it’s one of the better ones to come out of 2021

If you're dead, then only a subset of the population are going to be interested in doing the first thing. ;-P

@@KeithFraser82 it's fine. R34's accessible in hell, and I know the best artists for it

You know, one of these days it would actually be interesting for an anime game to have a female character THAT blatantly and undisguisedly horny for a change. Despite Yahtzee's joshing, not even heroines in _literal H-games_ tend to be THAT sexually forward.

@@HoloTWWOriginal I have an old 94 truck that got left to me when my grandfather died. I kept it because... Sebring timing belt snaps? 1 week in the shop, and 767 dollars. 1994 GMC Sierra C1500 serpentine belt snaps? Get a ratchet set (have 3) and a breaker bar... spend $15 bucks at Advance Auto Parts and a half hour in the driveway. People have different facets... you fuckin dick.

@@HoloTWWOriginal ask anyone you know if they care.

Haha, same

Same

Ditto, but I actually watched the trailer before hitting Purchase and wound up saving myself some fucking money.

I played the demo. Its definitely not bad for an anime game and arguably one of the best in years since persona. That being said...it's also an anime game.

same ^^ damn

F

*Takes notes for the Paranoia RPG game he's running*

Hilariously the US military does actually use Windows

I own a copy of Xenoblade Chronicles X and I haven't acknowledged it since the first day I spent playing it. It just felt so bland, boring and forgettable.

@@BainesMkII not to mention filled with plot holes if you know where to look...to be fair the xenoblade universe seems to be stitched together by plot holes and awkwardly-placed retcon

@@BainesMkII Honestly I love Xenoblade X but the main plot and early hours of the game don't contribute anything to that love. It's clear that the combat, exploration, and world of the game is where most of the effort was put in but it's regrettably hard to see any of that at first

If I had made something like Xenoblade x, I too would deny it at every opportunity

@@themarkktv l

Bet it worked aswell

Well ur dumb thinking its any jrpg

What about the thrope about the young characters telling the supposedly old characters to keep up with them even though the old characters are usually in their late 20s to mid 30s?

Now I know you want to make it sound like the "every-anime-game-protag" troup but I genuinely can't think of a character thats like that.

@@crimsonstrykr This is usually the rival character more than the protagonist. They don't have to have those specific accolades (though the specific list is Kaiba from YuGiOh... but I've seen world-class hackers with a dark history, multiple highly trained assassins and a couple of ace mech pilots.), but more that they somehow fit a vast list of accolades in while also being a high-school student.

@@crimsonstrykr Then you'll just have to taste the fury of my Blue Eyes White Dragon!

@@kevingriffith6011 I am starting to think you and I watch very different kinds of anime

Me too. I got really disappointed by the DLCs and I wanted more.

@@AshenLilyDB Code Vein's DLC's were an embarrassment compared to the other DLC's From has produced in the past.

@@tomleary508 FromSoft didn't make Code Vein.

The pre-order outfit you can get changes a certain song into the really hype opening theme, so at least there is that.

@furriesfuckanimals weebsanimetrash Your ‘about’ page is an absolute work of art. The bit about pollution making people gay? Perfection.

I thought he was over 50?

@@dragonquest8ftw1 He is.

They do take anti aging drugs (from a convo between one of them and Kasane (the girl)). He was very afraid of stop taking them, which is nice world building. But then there's Karen, and he does look his age (or just old).

Funny enough, I can actually think of an anime that commented on that trope for humor: in _Black Clover,_ there's a character named Fanzell Kruger, who is a mentor to multiple teenage characters in the show, a number of whom call him an old man. Whenever they do so, he's quick to respond, "I'm only 28; I'm not old."

Count your blessings. I remember some old game, though sadly the name escapes me at the moment, where the guy cheerfully admitting he's an old hasbeen was like 18 or 19 years old.

this comment is a great example of how time moves differently on the internet cause that reference is only a few years old but it feels a very long time ago.

Bold of you to assume we need another reason.

@@glenngriffon8032 oh wow you're right. I was trying hard to remember what the reference was and kept thinking early 2000s like John Romero with his Daikatana but it was Mighty Number 9 and their misguided promo

@@Rodrigo-ei4ht "early 2000s" and yet it was only, what? 4 or 5 years ago?

LOL

Reincarnated in Another World In A Demon King High School?

Don't blame the poor studios. All that nonsense is based off novels and manga to start with. Blame the authors. Or better yet, blame the consumers for telling them generic trope filled isekai's are what they want more of by voting with their wallets. If that "written from a check list" level of overused content didn't sell they'd stop publishing them.

Well to be fair. The game isn't either of these three things. So I guess that counts for something.

I swear the numbers of times I rolled my eyes at anime shows description that starts with: "So and so was just a regular high school student...."

But 'Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun' is actually really good XD

Woo- *TINI*

The planet's already half way to being a sandbox, just gotta add the 4 walls and some fun toys to play with.

@Isaac Vaughn with long (but never too long) moments of peaceful walking and scavenging with very short and intense moments of fights, like getting caught by the imperial guard knacking their wheels off and having to flee with combat heavily discouraged unless you're fighting people your own size. Kind of reminds me of Elite Dangerous for some reason

Then there's the haggling minigames where you have to quickly patch up old decaying droids you found in the wastes enough that the moisture farmers won't notice all the problems and missing or defective parts when you try to sell it to them. Don't worry, the illusion just has to last long enough for you to get far away from them in your Sandcrawler.

With a DLC where you get attacked by the protagonist of The Mandalorian.

Xp to be precise

-weeps in veteran-

But they're a structural weakness

@@user-bf5sc8pn8x organics, man. Every time.

@@t_y8274 FOR REAL?!

Same I probably managed 9 XD

Agreed

That or Pathologic 1 or 2. Personally think Darkwood would be more fun for him, but I think he could make better jokes and make fun of Pathologic more.

@@darkshadow5581 He said he already played Pathologic 2, said he found to dreary and inscrutable and even if that was the point he still didn’t want to actually play it

@@taydrew2577 makes sense, he's with the majority XD. 85% can't play past 2 hours, and beat day 1 of 12. Shame though, as I have probably spent more time watching Pathologic content than I've played most games in ym steam Library.

Darkwoods great until the first time you get caught out after dark and barricade yourself in a random room expecting to be swarmed with monsters and go out in a blaze of glory. Then you just get instantly killed by a graphical effect. Very anticlimactic

Sadly, the idea of any anime girl being in love with someone *besides* the bland self-insert protagonist is a bit too traumatizing for fans of the genre...

suddenly! here's some of our other games' boss enemy, check it out if the design piqued your interests.

@doomslayer420 fuckin' dyaus pytha just taking the screen for one cutscene and nothing else... the dlc bosses are aragami reskins, but they arguably not count

@@alvinreinaldy5148 Reskins? No, unique movesetes, attack patterns, dungeons based around them instead of just wondering around random industrial sites. Also less we forget it's a Souls-Like and you're supposed to put together the story yourself. If you honestly didn't figure out what was going on with the DLC bosses I feel sorry for you.

​@@Wolfs0n by all means, i pity you if you consider those 3 dlcs are worthy for souls like. those 3 bosses are farm animal if i can read most of their movesets and the origin aragami from their stances, then proceed to style the shit out of them, they're reskin. you forgot how those who plays god eater with is practically playing souls like on repetitive map with slightly more forgiving enemy. and please, souls borne map is just as repetitive as GE, forest-residential-castle-water related fucken' poison puddles-and open field as final boss pattern. which is fukken' ripped right off souls. and dlc dungeons are not much of a better of. i'd call it same as GE map design even. and praise all you want about the character story, they might have been broken to pieces, but finding the memory echoes, that have label and number. not to count getting comparatively better ending requires getting all of the main character's related memory first. is NOT, comparable to soul-borne thing of scrambled egg. praise it all you like the winning point of being soulslike is it's supposedly rather complex in gameplay and higher difficulty. it is literally a -1 on soulsborne storytelling which the only thing i view as positive is the more modern settings. tis' basically anime modern bloodborne. bit less emo while being more emo don't get me wrong, it do have positive points to me personally since i like god eater up until before the mobile game. but hot damn dyaus pytha and those dlc bosses are cheap move. hellfire knight is caligula frozen empress is marduk lord of thunder is evolved dyaus pytha. one or two extra moves doesn't mean shit, sure they now have aesthetically pleasing reskins. but when dlc-ing for souls like game, the boss is the center of attention. but this 3 thing is NOT challenging as soul bosses. the safe spots for their attacks are as wide as io's tits and now with dodges with i-frames no less.

@@Wolfs0n one more short addition, "you call them bosses, we call them lunch."

code vein is just this but harder and less futuristic

@@akanta5746 and Code Vein is connected to God Eater which is also great

@doomslayer420 it is... A Vajira literally appeared in Code Vein

@doomslayer420 There's a Vajira literally in code vein, it's a major monster in GE 1 to 3 Why wouldnt you think it's not connected? If the Devs doesn't say it's canon then why is it in an in-game story cutscene?

@doomslayer420 bruh what there are literally aragami in the game's cutscenes (see juzo mido) the 3 dlc bosses are ALL aragami variants and have the same names AS aragami in files (eg. hellfire knight is literally called ancient hannibal, and guess what a hannibal is) wtf do u mean it's not connected? the devs haven't said shit about the 2 games not being connected either, so idk where u got that from lol

Quite tame by anime's standards.

abloogywoogywoo “Anime” standards. Bible Black being a prime example.

what's worse? horribly overblown violence or a weird feeling up the dick?

I just imagine a Tf2 Ambie spy main calling their gun just that.

Your loss kid lmao

I don't really remember a government in Mary Skelter, just a bunch of people clinging together for mutual survival.

Name of this game has been noted for later use. Thank you random internet person

@@dragoncultist1 It's fun and there is a sequel, check it out!

I don't get it

@@kin-3877 You're not alone...

Huh? He doesn’t say any brand what are you on about?

A place full of what?

I think he’s trying to reference the relationship between Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost from SNL... in a weird, creepy way.

Sus

They really don't emphasize the breasts all that much. It's honestly kind of refreshing. The only character I can remember having absurdly large breasts is more of a maternal figure (kyoka - I think, who the fuck knows all anime waifu's kind blur together). It's kind of nice not having the barely pubescent girls in a Japanese game not be absurdly sexualized in a way that makes me feel like I need to shower and scrub my browser history.

@@johnwrath3612 yeah, her's were the only ones apparent out of all of them. *Spoilers* I wonder if that has anything to do with how she's the only one mentioned as joining the male protagonist on his campaign after the end of the game. I'm not complaining, she was my favourite character in the game (along with seto), but it did feel a little telling how she was favoured internally by the developers as well.

@@johnwrath3612 well that's disappointing to hear, as someone thoroughly invested in videogame anime tiddies I'm not sure I'm fully invested in this game anymore.

Die Hard weebs be like uwu Bruce Willis-chan (for science reasons, this is a joke) (probably not a good one but still)

Idk how you’d think that so much tho. Like just cause the art style is anime and it starts with tropes before evolving them, that makes it weeb shit? Lmao that literally makes no sense, the game is a lot more unique and feels more cyberpunk than anime If you’re a hardcore weeb (which I’m not) then this should be rather mundane to you. Or completely new, due to how the story goes

The only Soulsborne game I've ever played is Code Vein and only because they put anime tiddies in it so whatever Bamco is peddling, I'm certainly all about it.

@@PewPew_McPewster But Bandai Namco also owns the entire Dark Souls series of games, so they're essentially ripping off of themselves.

You are happy Branston Pickle returned. Happier are those who knew it never left.

Navy used windows nt too. With some funny results

Well, in the comments for the review of Necromunda: Hired Gun, someone suggested a 40K visual novel... (My suggestion for the title was My Inquisitor Can't Be This Cute!, with the protagonist being a new member of a cute and youthful Inquisitor's previously all-female retinue. He can romance her or one of the others, who include a moe librarian with glasses, an icy Imperial Guard sniper, a cutely bloodthirsty Death Cultist, and an emotionless Sanctioned Psyker. He can also, in a secret path which usually ends in death or worse, romance a Slaaneshi cultist/Daemonette...)

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GET IN GEAR

The only good Power Rangers series

@@AlphaOblivion7 I had no idea until that big ass Power Rangers marathon on Twitch, when the movie was coming out. Yeah... RPM is like a real show with real characters and actual writing.

@@Virjunior01 honestly, if you liked Power ranger RPM you might like some of season of Kamen rider, the writing for them bounce between standard kids show to actually really good, the plot can sometimes be a bit bonkers but isn't afraid to be serious, and it isn't afraid to take away the plot armor and kill off characters for good including main characters.

@@AlphaOblivion7 now now In space and lost galaxy both exist And time force to a lesser extent

Thinking back to the good ol' days when Japan was isolationist, I suppose.

Eh usually is european insert country these days for some reason japan really likes germany atm

Actually, as Merciless Mode said, a LOT of anime happens in other countries than Japan. There's stuff set in Victorian England, Germany, celtic fantasy Ireland, etc. Hell, even modern day ones. E.g., Hellsing is set in modern day UK. Or even when it's in Japan, they very often have key characters from other countries. Like, if you want to spice up some magic setup, it's pretty much a trope in its own right to have some super-powerful 12 year old nun in a miniskirt from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (the Roman Catholic Church's index of forbidden books) as a powerful antagonist, contagonist, or even party member. Or in the 'a certain' series, she IS the index. Of course, they treat the actual history and myths of those places kinda like Hollywood does too. Which is to say, like a baby treats a diaper :p For example, since I mentioned the index of forbidden books, the Japanese seem to think it's a list of magical books that the clergy actually study, as opposed to some list of stuff they thought only heretics read... and which included the Bible for a few centuries straight.

Reminds me kinda of Yuki Yuna series where the world is normal... In a small island part of Japan, logistical issues be damned because anime logic, while the rest of the world is a dark barren wasteland full of otherworldly beings so bad that to fight them some girls have to use the soul-consuming (and it gradually consumes the soul of the girls) powers derived from the beings itself

Why does every Hollywood movie have the aliens land in the US or its the Americans that end up saving the world?

It's my favorite anime, I was super surprised to see it here.

Yes.

Lets say one thing now, beserk is now unfinished masterpiece and Vinland Saga is now better because it had ENDING. Edit: Sorry for my bitching but someone needs to address it.

@@madkoala2130 It's not like it's over yet, there's still time for Vinland Saga to never get an ending. Hopefully does of course, but depends on the scale of what they want from their Vinland portion how long that'll take.

@@DWFTW did you read manga

@@madkoala2130 I have been, yeah. Unless it ends very abruptly or the scanslators I'm reading from are really delayed they only just made contact with the natives in Vinland recently.

@@DWFTW vinlands mangaka doesnt take 5 year hiatuses like miura did It will probably end

...that would be Yandere, but yeah.

@@edisontrent618 Yandere would still require them to like me, just in a twisted and unhealthy matter. Chihiro the second is just legitimately trying to murder me. The only way "dere" applies to our relationship is that they want to leave my corpse in a derelict warehouse.

@@lnsflare1 I'm saying that the first should be Yandere, the second would just be Yan. Insulting/hitting/slapping is Tsun, crossing over into actually injuries is Yan, in my opinion.

exactly...

How does it sound like he likes it when he points out how predictable it is?

Man had to play so many anime games. Of course he would know that without liking anime.

Yeah to be fair, even those that don't watch Anime know this, it's literally one of the most well known tropes.

You don't need to like anime to see how predictable and tropey it can be

Damn

What if we made a game about an anime boy and his bearded white adoptive dad crafting swords together and going forth to fight monsters, farm collectibles and find the boy a waifu (and maybe a new mum as well if any of the well-endowed maternal ladies of advanced age, like early 30s, fancy the dad)? Would the universe be destroyed by some kind of Blandness Spiral Nemesis? Or would it maybe be a good game?

@@KeithFraser82 That sounds really good and I'm sad it's not real :( You could have them bond and talk about weapons/ladies/monsters while working

@@KeithFraser82 take the anime parts out and that's basically the last God of War Game. Father and Son Bonding together over killing monsters and crafting armors and shit

Well, after playing so many games, I'd hope you found what you liked or disliked. Be pretty pointless to play a game you hated.

The funny thing is that, theoretically, a sword makes a lot of sense a weapon for a fantasy hero because it's versatile and it's a sidearm; it can theoretically be carried anywhere, unlike a spear or an axe. But then a huge number of games have the swords be ridiculously oversized to the point where they become neither of those things.

@@matthewmuir8884 can't a gun do the same thing?

@@AlejandroRodriguez-cy8ee yes but gunplay is a lot less interesting mechanically unless you do the doom thing where theres a ton of movement and gun swapping Or the dmc thing where guns are just pqrt of an arsenal of wacky shit

@@matthewmuir8884 A sword makes a LOT of sense when it's a medieval or ancient world, but stops being particularly useful even as a side-arm when the enemy has repeating firearms. In fact, even in WW2 (and possibly for the same reason when it happened as early as the Boer war) the Brits actually took away the officers' weapons because the only thing it did was mark you as an officer -- i.e., a priority target -- for enemy snipers. Whatever benefits you'd get if you ever got in range to fence with it during a bayonet charge, were just not making up for the disadvantage of it marking you as a high status target.

Uhh what’s creepy about those games tho?

Not really, like at all. The only genre they did that for was Dark Souls, it’s literally not been done otherwise to any real degree

Nah not really lol

Exactly lol

This is easily a better story, deeper combat too. Both are definitely worth a go, but this is objectively better on the story and depth fronts

To be fair, "Character is actually dozens/hundreds of years old but only *looks* high-school-aged is also a *very* oft-repeated anime trope.

Yeah, wouldn't want some wrinkles getting in the way of lewd fanarts

"It's OK, Officer, she may *look* like a pre-teen girl, but she's really several centuries old, and is merely a member of a very slow aging species/using her powers to conceal her true appearance"

@@talltroll7092 Oh god, you are giving me PTSD flashbacks of Nowi now.

Nice profile picture

except how the protagonist is amnesiac at first and there's not actually harem aimed at the protagonist.... or at least less than 3 main girl don't count

as much as it's dark souls like, it's bandai. the implication is subtle as fuck. eg io... and her clones

Honestly with the titles and red aesthetic yeah it's no wonder people mix em up.

What's the one with the techno vampires?

@@KeithFraser82 Isn't that Code Vein?