Shantae And The Seven Sirens (Zero Punctuation) 

Is he going to review The Last Of Us Part 2?

were is TLOU2 review? are you taking the piss?

@@dihyaneverforget5163 We didn't get early review code, so it'll be next week's review.

@@theescapist Ok, thanks for answering.

Not sure if this'll ever be seen, but I've been wondering if you guys would review YIIK: A Postmodern RPG. For those interested in the title, I wish you all luck. Trust me, you're gonna need it.

It's a rare moment when Yahtzee finds a game: Shocking, and GOOD.

Comments like this come up a lot when Yahtzee has a good review, and I have to ask: what are you talking about? There are literally hundreds of ZP reviews, and many of them were generally positive, if not entirely perfect (because what is?). It's not unnatural at all.

Hell lots of times he says good AND bad about a game

Oh that’s easy. It’s because it’s a joke. He’s pretty famous for being very, VERY critical and sardonic in these reviews, it’s kind of the entire Yahtzee character. I like Yahtzee and Zero Punctuation, I’m not trying to critique the review or something like that. I just thought his change of tone in that one section could lead to a solid C- tier joke.

The sad thing is he's right. Half Genie Hero was quite good and I was quite looking forward to Seven Sirens... Hasn't lived up to my expectations so far...

@Channel07 that had to do with console limitations at the time than anything else.

@@keiichimorisato98 yea,console limitations,sure

@@comradesam3382 there is a reason they chose the bump system at the time. I dont remember the exact details sadly, I learned about why ten years ago when I first got into the franchise.

I'm honestly not sure if anyone who replied so far got the joke.

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Yeah, but Shantae existed before Bayonetta, so technically Bayonetta is the late night adult cartoon rip-off of Shantae.

@@Wol1427 But Bayonetta is more like a sexy, female empowerment version of Devil May Cry's Dante..... starting to think originality is dead.

@@Netherwolf6100 As the saying goes, nothing is original under the sun.

@@Wol1427 Might have existed before Bayonetta but it's about exposure. Shantae has been around for 18 years and most people in the world has never known of this character. I've seen people get upset because Shovel Knight was quickly more recognizable an as indy game character than Shantae and actually having an amiibo figure.

@@Netherwolf6100 originality has been dead for 20000 years.

We will try as _hard_ as we can!

to be fair we also need the Thirst

Shantae: "I am the genie of the lamp! What is your wish?" Everyone: "I wish to have sex with you." Shantae: ">\\\\\< not again"

Words to live by

Marik Ishtar if you mean 2 minutes and 53 seconds

2020 colorized

Try me

Why have you left father?

To which all the horny dudes replied: Challenge accepted.

Nobody remembers Officer Patricia Wagon and the criminal family of blonde quintuplets that she keeps chained up back at the station.

he said "just about"

Rest in peace, Sigma Star Saga. We hardly knew ye.

I discovered Wayforward because I accidentally allowed a track from Mighty Switch Force to play from a video game music playlist rather than clicking away. It was pretty damn good. So I made a playlist of the soundtrack, adding the second game when that came out a year later; and used to listen to it on shuffle while studying. I say "used to" because RU-vid has since mangled itself in multiple ways, including the ability to play a playlist on shuffle without repeats. Anyway that's my rant, happy Coronavirus Survival Epoch everyone

AstroTibs It was Love You Love You Love wasn’t it

Apparently there is a possibility of this being a thing too. According to Plague of Gripes in his Art Gripes about Shantae WayForeward is interested in making a series with Shantae

"it's hard to argue his assessment"

@@Scream_Lord Seems a bit too late to me. If they try to make a series with characters designed like this Wayforward will be the latest to draw the ire of the Twitter twats.

@@mightymanatee5342 The writing is much more important than the costume choices. If the characters are well realized and actually behave like women rather than like cursed stereotypes created by dudes who work next to a strip club and haven't seen the sun since 1998, the same people who love She-ra, Madoka, and Legend of Korra will go to bat for Shante.

@Exquisite Corpse - I kind of agree here. If simply wearing more clothing defined how progressive or feminist a character is, then a Burka would be the highest expression of feminist ideas ... which it clearly isn’t. I think it’s more the character on the inside that counts. Which is not to say exactly that Shantae is a role model or anything ... but I think we’re glossing over the fact that the Shantae is always at least light-hearted and positive, all her games pass the Bechdel test, and she displays actual agency in trying to rescue her friends. Which is better in my book, than being a damsel in distress or treated purely as an object/reward. So I don’t think Shantae’s clothing is anything to get triggered about, personally ... even as a flaming liberal. And, for whatever it is worth, Shantae’s character was designed by a woman. I don’t think her clothes were ever intended as a political statement. She’s just drawn how she’s drawn because that’s the style - it’s supposed to look like an anime, and it’s meant to be cute/kawaii, rather than demeaning, and her design was clearly meant to be cute and appeal to both a male and female demographic. I’m not upset about that.

As a longtime wayforward fan I didn't even know that lol

Could you explain the joke pls?

RDSk Silent Hill 2 is one of Yahtzee's favorite games of all time and he refers to every Silent Hill game since it in.. Less than kind terms. Deservedly so, I'd say.

@@mitchellblake1475 wot? Did I get my head stuck in a vat of crazy? The other team silent silent hill game he reviewed he had quite a handful of good things to say. And it was the fucking room. Which many people dislike and I find myself agreeing, at least in terms of gameplay. But he never said that 1 or 3 were bad, just that they could've been as good as 2 if they weren't so narmy. He also enjoyed shattered memories and said homecoming was bad for a sh game, not a game in general (which I disagree with but that's neither here nor there). Also read my next comment to see why I got so tied up in a knot from your comment.

@@RDSk0 silent hill book of memories took a terrifying, clunky survival horror about being alone in the abyss with something that hates you and made a bottom of the barrel hack and slash out of it. And it was even noisier and more colorful than homecoming. On top of that that game implied a beloved character from the first game was dead. That's why he backpedalled so hard when he saw these were the people who made it. Probably their next choice would've been to retell final fantasy 7 as a grounded crime drama about the mafia needing to choose between losing their turf and fighting for it but risking the poloce catching them. And the gameplay would be color matching of the easies caliber, with the story implying barret got cement shoes after the original canon story.

climax huh

If you revisit the dog after completing the lowest area of the city she is shocked about one of your powers stating she thought only she and her daughter had such an ability.

Please elaborate on the big climax

Well, from a longtime Shantae fan to a regular gamer who never heard of this game before and the first time he saw Shantae EVER was on Deviantart, can you please boil it down for me? Why are these games so obsessed with jiggling boobs? Or is it just this one recent game, and all the other old ones were just merely implying that Shantae, being some kind of half-genie presumably came from an Arabic nation or something, and that's not a stereotype, these nations are legit "Hell-on-earth" level of hot? DISCLAIMER: I'm seriously asking, I'm not trying to make fun of you. The way Yahtz talks just robbs off on me

I really enjoyed this one. And all of them. But I definitely agree that it is too easy. And it would be easy as pie to solve that. Give me a hard mode where there is no food. It would make me have to buy the potions and I wouldn't damage boost through all the enemies any more.

Same m8 same

I finally lost composure and broke up in fit of laughter at this point. The coup de grâce of his rant.

I mean to be fare was book of memories that bad?

Oh right it was...

It was the Wikipedia list in a bikini that got me.

gotta get that casual fanbase baby

Saying an old console developper makes mobile exclusivities is like saying a deer is old and sick, you know both are not going to last very long

Ah ok

this mobile bashing is realy awfull

@@mortisisnecroborn6400 gee, i wonder if its because mobile games are a fucking toilet, have been for years, and made a bunch of idiot publishers get dollar-sign-eyes and make dumbfuck decisions? It might have something to do with the fact that mobile "gamers" are a collection of illiterates with motor control problems and the occasional brain-dead whale with a Pathological case of "too much money"

They also did the Wonder Boy 3 remake

@@TheKyrix82 That was LizardCube.

TheKyrix82 That was LizardCube, the same studio behind Streets of Rage 4.

And they say computer games don't innovate anymore.

Just did the same thing and i lost it at the sight of a hydra worm thing but of course one of the heads is a girl with jiggling boobs. Gotta admit though, they KNOW their audience

What is better than fighting against good looking women in bikini tops? If you ask me that is pretty good.

@@Mestari1Gaming I can think of at least a couple better things to do with good looking women in bikini tops. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@@supremacistdawn I get what you mean brotha. 😏

Pirates curse was pretty fun.

Out of the entire series, I'd say Pirate's Curse wins for sheer gameplay fun, and Half Genie Hero wins the silver medal by its art style and, unlike Seven Sirens, not riding on that alone.

Playing that one right now (it was free on xbox this month) and I gotta say its much better than I thought it would be.

Personally I had the Most fun with the original Shantae and in the world Design of the Risky's Revenge. I admit I am a bit more into puzzles than most though. Pirate's Curse does have the Tightest gameplay hands down.

Unsure if Pirate's Curse or Half Genie Hero is my favorite

*A bit of a spoiler* Yeah like how the Circus Squid enemy towards the end literally fights you by spinning/dancing on an ornate pole and drops money when the pole is shocked.

Tbf I got into Shantae from the porn more than anything else...

He's been telling us the masturbation was dolphins, now we know the real answer

@@zcritten Dolphins and Giraffes lest we forget.

On the stream he did say he played it though I don't remember what exactly he thought of it apart from bringing up the princess section.

You can tell he did play it from this very review

@@Bello_6 He played Half Genie Hero actually not Pirate's Curse.

@@snailymitch I think he agreed that it was the best one, but I might be misremembering

I’ve started that one just recently! Love it! Only complaint thus far is that I feel like it should auto save when you go to a new island. Love the humor.

"The five breast games of the year" should be a category in his end year review.

Hope so.

Just wait until the next few years, and that title will go to either Cyberpunk 2077, Subverse, Leauge of Maidens, Lust from Beyond, or Wildlife

Horheristo?

This comment is just amazing

In my book, his FIFA 13 review stands as the positively quintessential Yahtzee Review . =D

I don't think they'd be looking for high fives given the amount of one-handed work they'd been doing prior.

And the weird bit is: I have absolutely no idea where they are on this spectrum... Do they feel they need to? Is it still on the harmless fun side for them? Were they trying to be cute? Who knows!

@@magmos6346 Maybe the devs think that to keep the series standing out over the flood of ever-increasing platformers coming from the indie scene, they need something that most platformers don't have: sex appeal. I mean, it worked for Catherine, right? Then again, like Alex said, who knows what WayForward is thinking. They're playing their cards pretty close to the CHEST. I will not apologize for that pun.

@Alex Norman Year old comment, but allow me to clear it up a bit I follow the lead director of Shantae and head of Wayforward, Matt Bozon, on Twitter. The guy constantly likes and retweets art of not only Shantae, but several prolific JP artists. A fair number of said artists mostly draw cheesecake. Guy's a MASSIVE weeb who lives and dies by the horn. They definitely do this stuff because they enjoy it to at least some degree.

Try Mummy Demastered. It's the only good movie tie-in they did.

I've only played Pirate's Curse so far but Steve B is right by pretty much every account I can find it's considered the best in the series, and I can personally attest to its greatness as well, the only real complaint I have is that the achievements where designed by a friggin sadist, but that only matters if your a cheevo hunter like me and I still enjoy the game regardless. As an aside I don't know why people seem insistent on calling it a psuedo metroidvania when it's clearly trying to be A Side Scrolling Legend of Zelda.

@@namename8004 Yeah! Shante: Half Genie Hero inspired me to make my 'Xavage Xtreet Xisters' beat-em-up characters :-)

@@namename8004 Hehe - thanks! I've been a follower of this channel for a while

Let me tell you about the first game...

Don't! Buy "Shantae: Pirate's Curse" instead, it's better :) Some might even say the best.

That's despicable.

Aria of Sorrow is already Metroidvania easy mode.

Aria had a carefully designed map -- this game does not. Even though it's probably the easiest Castlevania in the series, you could still die there, not to mention the hard mode (hard mode in the subject of this video is utter joke, it's literally no different from the normal mode). Super Metroid was easier than Aria to be honest.

A fair analysis. If you like metroidvanias, cartoon titties, and don't need a game to be especially challenging to enjoy it, well, here's a game for you!

All of you should try to get your hands on Shantae: Risky's Revenge. It's actually well made and has some challenge, as well as a Metroidvania style world.

You do realized that WayForward is also a shovelware publisher, right?

@@blondiefox2781 This is lies. They helped made Bloodstained, and made River City Girls which is the closest thing we will ever get to a new Scott Pilgrim game. Also that Mummy movie tie in which was sadly better than the movie.

@@Ineedgames No, I'm pretty sure that WayForward has a shit-ton of shovel ware under their belt.

Sirens has Bikini Plant Boss Mech Girl in Laura Croft top/bikini Weird Creature, I guess that's a girl in a bikini top?!? Mermaid Girl inside a Giant Squid Risky Boots a bunch Final Boss... HGH Has the Giga Mermaid Girl off the bat :P

I though that it was only dark souls

Is that why it's so easy, of COURSE

Not even! It's so far from an H-game, I wonder what their intention was? Were they actually trying to be cute? Lighthearted? Mildly suggestive just so that an artist can get paid for drawing the good stuff? No idea.

not-really subtle attempt at mimicking the Japanese approach to sexiness AND cuteness in characters. Hell, even Japanese creators tend to get hamfisted in one of those two directions often.

*Nintendo sweating nervously*

I wish... I'd be fine with them making the same game over and over if they were all of the same quality as Risky's Revenge and Pirate's Curse.

Peopledon't mind the same game over and over. Mario proves that. It just has to feel like "what if they made super Mario Bros on the SNES/64/cube/wii/wiu/switch". It makes sense: if I pick up Zelda on the switch I expect it to be....Zelda...on the Switch. If I wanted something new I would get a game not named Zelda. The issue is when a series feels like you are playing an older system than before. When they play your newest game and still say "man I wish I was playing (older game) something went wrong.

It seems to work for whichever company keeps crapping out “new” Call of Duty games every year. (I honestly can’t be arsed to look it up)

From has been made the same game 6 times by now and the 7th one seems to be an instant GOTY too.

the unexpected disarming awkwardness really sets this one apart

I was always kind of suspect of the rebooted shantae series tbh. It was for a time the only positive review on a really toxic Steam curator's list. I hate short and vague reviews anyway, but this one curator took the cake. Aside from slamming perfectly good games just for the fact they have denuvo, they have cookie cutter reviews, are obnoxiously transphobic (or act like it I should say) and now I'm fairly certain that they're also nonces

That sounds like the exact same problem Sonic games have when their developers just up and left to develop Zelda

I played Risky's Revenge and then this. I felt 7 Sirens was an improvement just going by that. Some really fun abilities in Sirens, and more and better dungeons. And yes, a true Metroidvania map even if it's not the best one. And great music and humor as expected. So I still think Sirens is worth it. Though I can't wait to try Half Genie Hero and especially Pirate's Curse.

Shantae and the Pirate's of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.

Is river-city girls not a licensed game?

Mighty Switch Force!!!

As far as i remember, trigger only did the Intro.

@@kiryans5 they only did the intro when you launch the game. The rest of the cutscenes were done in house.

He said he'd seen it before but didn't think much of it until now.

Hmm thats awful. he used a lot of licensed music in the early days maybe that's it?

Pirate's Curse is arguably the best of the series, so if there's any that will scratch that metroidvenia itch, it is that one

I keep hearing that, but I found Pirate's Curse to be a broken unplayable mess and it's one of the few games I've ever refunded.

@@Mirality What was broken about it?

@@TerrorOfTalos Broken & unplayable they say. I'm pretty sure they never played it.

@@Mirality The hell? It's a good game.

Shantae Nukige when?

They did develop Contra 4 for Nintendo DS.

@@magmos6346 Yes, BUT imagine Shante WITHOUT a top, or pants.

@@dr.calibrations7984 dont have to imagine that when the internet exist

@@mdd4296 not wrong but ingame nudity!

It’s not a real dog; it’s a picture of a dog.

...That disappoints me.

An Electric whatt?

@@The.Orange.Wizard An Electric Monk, from the novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: “a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder: dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself. Video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself. Electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.”

what, porn?

On the bright side at least he liked the previous entry. It's just seven sirens that's not that great