Should Your Boyfriend Play Returnal? 

Lol fr fr 😂😂😂. Seeing the switch live is so amusing

Backseat gamer -> occasional gamer -> completed bioshock -> casual gamer -> dark souls gamer It's been a fun arc

This is the exact moment Shelby became Heisenberg

And the final stage, a destiny player

@@strangething7379 shelsenberg

That's when I gave a like to the vid lol

That portion of the video was the only catharsis I need to get this fine Sunday started.

😢😭😭😭😭

Shelby gamer is a darkest's timeline Shelby.

Took the video to another level. Might I suggest working for Kotaku?

😂😂😂😂

I got it in 15, but there were definitely some close calls! Crashes are obnoxious though.

Before I started my platinum attempt, I was sitting at something like 75 deaths. So f*ck all y’all

@@christopherjones8367 I think I am already close to that in biome 3 😂

once you understand the game and level up your guns, its really not that hard. I died a lot in the first 1-3 levels but finished 4-6 on the first try. I almost never died on NG+. And i played for almost 100 hours. 4-6 also have way better perks on guns like healing rounds and turrets that make the game far easier.

I dare not even say the number of deaths I have 👀

@Ryoshikari I think she was making a gag, and I was too. Unfortunately, you took it too seriously. Its honestly fine it people have the critique that the game is overly difficult and they'd like more accessible modes. I think it is appropriate for games to offer means to tailor the experience to their own tastes, if they so wish.

@@zotaninoron3548 when truly difficult games are literally the rarest thing in gaming, nah people can bugger off. You don't have to play every single game that comes out.

needs more russian

@@zotaninoron3548 Not every game needs to be tailored for everybody. Some games lose artistic integrity by making it easier, some games are meant to be hard because it is the part of the experience.

@@zotaninoron3548 No one should be entitled to beat a game, it's a game you play by the game's rules.

Dear God, what have we done

She is now ready for MOBA type games. LOL and Dota here we come.

We’ve won, but at what cost?

*strong side

Good... GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD...

He makes crushing rocks seem such a breeze.

My wife married me for other things, but she doesn't appreciate what a hot stud I am from a gaming perspective. :/

How we wish our significant other would praise us for our lifeworks. Yes gaming is your life and living is a hobby.

Shelby doesn't talk trash, she talks smack. They're totally different. Trash talk is hypothetical, like: Your mom is so fat she can eat the internet. But smack talk is happening like right now. Like: You're ugly and I know it for a fact 'cause I got the evidence right there.

@@shounen17 rip bro

Just casually trash talking xQc

@@nisnast HES funny but I don’t see him as a critic

@@alexaugusta6991 she's far from it. She literally analyses games from a viewer perspective, and makes fun of em😂

@@harbyandrefrancofernandez3310 well I mean she doesn’t write the script, matt does and I see him as an actual critic and he has great tastes, she makes it very entertaining

@@alexaugusta6991 well in theory they both do, because shelby needs to adapt it to her own humour and personality. Only when matt would understand more about a certain topic (like in the cyberpunk video) is when he is the one to recite and write the script i imagine

Trueeeeeeeee

yup, pure Essence of Gamer(TM) right there

Git gud

Most people that do that don't even own a PS5 lmao

They did but ok lol

10/10 IGN it has a little something for everyone

I switched to easy in order to beat the Valkyrie Queen. No shame.

I was laughing about her baby rant until she said that, because I still haven't beat her yet. I'll beat her one of these days though

@Smurph Ftw I don’t think i ever beat the first valkyrie lol

@@jjackson6082 If you're willing to grind and get some really good gear, most of the Valkyries are pretty doable. The Queen though .... yeesh.

You know what to do matt

She's either going to be really annoyed by dark souls or love it... And be really annoyed at dark souls

We've already reviewed that! Where ya been?

@@GirlfriendReviews No Shelby, you need to play Dark Souls 😈

@@GirlfriendReviews Your gamer arc is nearly complete. The last stage is dark souls gamer.

Deku and the hospital from My Hero Academia

Shelby and hol up a minute

Your mom and me

@@MasDouc I know a better one, your mom and ME. Gotcha there

Incognito mode & xvid

Dead cells supremacy

@@nade_s9220 Binding of Isaac

I'm gonna say it's the best solely because I'm pretty sure this is going to be my first and last Roguelike. NEVER doing this whole "death starts you out with nothing" thing again.

@@dapperfan44 that's a common feeling, so I get it. It feels like an artifact of gaming though. Almost every tabletop game in history (Legacy games being a newer thing) resets you to the starting point at game's end. We don't complain when a Go board is cleared or we toss playing cards back into the deck. Why do we assume that saved progress is or should be a default? That's how I see it anyway. I am not being reset, I am dealing another hand.

@@michaelmcdermott1624 I suppose it's for a few things. You grow up in the 80s and 90s (I'm actually 1990-born) and you know that when you lose all of your lives in Mario 1 and Sonic 1, you have to start all over. Then your only punishment for failure in Mega Man 1 is that you have to try the level again or pick a different level. Then Donkey Kong Country rolls around and if you lose all your lives, you can reload your save and try again-but you lose partial progress if you didn't make it to Candy's Save Point, or you lose some levels if you didn't best Tawna's Bonus Round in Crash Bandicoot. In Mario 64 you can save after every star, and you can pause and save at any time in Donkey Kong 64. Then in Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro the Dragon, you have frequent save opportunities and when you lose, you simply start back from the last time you died and any progress you lose is your own fault from not saving. Then you get to Banjo-Tooie, Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet and Clank, to find that Game Over screens have been eliminated and lives are gone entirely. Games from that point on become much less punishing and operate on a checkpoint system, save some holdovers-both Mario and Sonic games continued to have lives until Mario Odyssey and Sonic Forces in 2017. (It's kind of strange to think it took both franchises over 25 years to get rid of lives.) So here you are, you play these franchises, branch out into some shooters, and different types and genres of games that all have the same core of getting from point A to point B. But here comes this game that is outside of a genre you normally play, but has enough aspects of a genre you do play. So you play it, and you find out that all those years of games getting easier have been thrown out the window in this title. You can't even cut this game off. And Heaven help you if you put the console in rest mode and it updates overnight. There's all your progress, chump. But I admit that the game was fun. It's just the knowledge of knowing if I die here to this boss, or worse, to an "avenge this corpse" challenge, all my progress, all my scavenging, all my helpful items like Damage Siphon and being able to knock down yellow barriers will be gone. The game is definitely fun but for me personally, I couldn't put myself through that stress again. This one I'll play again, but I'll leave the roguelikes to the professionals. TL;DR years of growing up with games slowly adding features where failure doesn't mean you have to retry large portions of the game has programmed me to be less ok with a game that makes you start the whole thing over again.

The weird part was you weren't drinking milk at the time.

The Last of Us 2 haters got slapped.

@@skyman6936 But but but.... Joel!!!?

laughed baby milk out of your nose? lil baby waby milky googoo gaga??

Coming from her who didn’t beat most of those games she mentioned :/

The fact that it’s Gus Johnson’s scream made me nearly spit.

5:34

Right, I rewound it then and there

Instantly knew they were talking about that alt fire

I had a bug in the game that made me lose in-game audio (only bug during 40 hours of playing) and I'm telling you, the controller sounds like an alien baby.

She progressed from girlfriend of a gamer to full on gamer so quickly. They grow up so fast....

Although it also have me some smug self satisfaction when I beat the game with even fewer deaths than he did, not gonna lie.

Yeah I just realized they haven't tried Hades yet. Please try Hades! It's the only rougelike I loved.

@@SuryaSood have you tried dead cells? It's an amazing roguelite too

@@abhishekvvs8622 Splitting hairs: roguelite and roguelike are different subgenres.

Yupp, can't pick a favorite roguelike before trying Hades.

They played hades. They just didn’t make a video on it.

Yeah i came here to pressure them into reviewing Hades, it's a beautiful rogue like and they will love the narrative

Meh. Hades is the baby game for rogue lites. Its like saying "dark souls1, dark souls 3, sekiro and bloodborne are cool...but i wanna see a dark souls 2 review! Thats the one i played and like". I mean its cool you got initiated into the souls series but dks2 is an abomination compared to the other games of the series. So yeah... hades is cool but is it really that good? No, its not. Its just a casual rogue lite so you can take baby steps. Now dont poop your pants.

@@kato093 nice elitist attitude. Hades is a good rogue lite period. It solves a lot of the problems the genre has and at the same time makes it open for new people who never would've played it. And good job just assuming its the first rogue like/lite I've ever played. I've played a ton of them. All of them at a certain point you can just blow through them, Hades with its heat system constantly ups the challenge.

@@jellybean358 to add to this the narrative is much better than any other rogue like I've played, which is a very short list. It's also one of, Imo, the best over all narratives in a game in a while, albeit simplistic but in its implementation. Hades might not be the best in challenge, I think the game play is tight, it's repatitive to a point, as all games in the genre are. Going to say something controversial using @kato093 referenced genre there.... Star Wars Fallen Order is a better game in that genre than the ones listed there, because the narrative is so much better. But by the same regard it's baby steps in terms of challenge in comparison. It's been a while since I watched their review of FO, but if memory serves they liked it, and I feel they would like or love Hades for the same virtues. It's probably one of those ones where Shelby would be more invested and end up putting more time in.

@@kato093 First: bro dark souls 2 is generally accepted as the hardest dark souls game. People don't like ds2 because Miyazaki wasn't involved and the level design was weird not because it was easy. Second: hades is super hard. Just because its accessible and isn't insanely difficult to start doesn't mean its easy. It gives you the option to challenge yourself and rewards it. Beating hades with maximum heat and no death defiance is genuinely one of the most challenging things in a video game I can think of and I've beaten all the souls games to ng+7, and sekiros boss rush mode.

Took me like 25 times

VALHALLA!!!

@@SonicBroham The Valkyrie under Home took some time. Muspelheim was a chore with at least 10 deaths. But the queen was the bane of my existence. I have not had a more obnoxious, cheep, controller eating boss since Gill. Hell even KH Sephiroth was a cakewalk compared to them. AI Cal from Fallen Order almost drove me to madness, till I realized there is no real reward for beating him.

Sigrun took me 6 hours and it is a genius design to not have you run a few steps to her every time because a boss like this in Souls will make me pissed at every seconds of backtrack

@@brucechmiel7964 don't call her cheap when she is amazingly balanced. She has a counter for everything.

Still not sure about that, not enough racial slurs.

@@THATotherGUY415 yep no gamer word

its hard to learn, but easy to master

Yeah I love videogames but I am absolutely not good at them at all. Returnal looks fun but I legitimately don't think I'll be able to do it.

I am a casual gamer. Just started console gaming end of 2018 (I guess my youth on a friend's C-64 does not count). I am bad at FPS using a controller. That is why I quiet Wolfenstein and Doom after a couple of minutes. I hate hard games. They make me quit and never come back. But godammit I love Returnal! Love it so much it took me 89 deaths and about 30 hours to beat the first boss, Phrike. After this kind of training I'm looking forward to killing Ixion with many deaths less. This is not made for casuals. But you have to try it to know if it is for you anyway. Once you're hooked, you (n)ever go back.

@@elijahe7612 you will. I SUCK at games, very rarely venture beyond standard normal difficulty in them and usually have to power-level a souls game to feel comfortable even learning boss patterns. Its a cliche but i promise you it does get easier. It will hold your hand through the improvements while simultaneously kicking your ass to the point you don't even notice you are improving but you definitely are. The skills you pick up improve how you play massively too so don't be put off by struggling at the start. I honestly thought I'd never beat the first boss, then the second boss, then the game itself. All you need is patience (or stubbornness) and approach the game with the knowledge that dying can forward the story and reward you with something intriguing before jumping back in.

@Michael Lochlann Agreed, seemed interesting, but I don't have the time to put on the game just to see the story, it's just not worth it.

Inserts "we were THIS close to achieving greatness" meme

✝️ *Lord Jesus died & rose again to pay the debt of your sin!* 🔵It is Gods Gift to us by His grace, we dont earn it by what we do/how good we are! ✅By Faith in the sacrifice God has made are we saved from the penalty of sin! 💜We are all sinners that need God. No one can say they are perfect to be able to pay their debt of sin. This is why only God could pay the penalty for us, that is merciful Love!

Release that footage!

RUNAWAY FROM ME BABY

While this review is really fun and hilarious, you should watch Skill Up's review of this game. It's one of the best reviews I've seen. Like, ever. Maybe even THE best.

No shame in using a boss guide! That helped me out a lot with the first boss. Now I’m stuck on the second one lol

I just rushed it with a pistol after dying 10 times and got it

Sad Star Trek face

Sad O'Neill face playing golf on the Stargate

@@AxxLAfriku definitely

Which ep is this? Or just a troll

@@izzatarif9686 SB-129

lmao same

tip of the iceberg

That's a regular Tuesday for the devs at Ryu Ga Gotoku.

Would love to see a Yakuza Like a Dragon Review

@@MrHerecomesjohnny oh no

There was also a term from a previous video but I'm not certain what is was. Eye globes when referring to eyeballs?

'Hol up a minute is that diarrhoea Christmas lights?' I need that on a shirt

@@BradTheAmerican i think she used the expression in her Nier Automata review

@@Kytetiger and the Dead Cells review

@@Kytetiger I was sure it was a more recent video but I went back and gave a listen anyway. Either I missed it or it wasn't there. However, she did use the diarrhea Christmas lights one. Recurring catchphrases are tight.

Like UpIsNotJump

I did it, I'm sorry. It was 222, looked cool and what not...BUT, that part was really that hilarious. I had to break that 222. IT HAD TO HAPPEN!

They'd better collab with Angry Joe to make a perfect sketch.

Which Yakuza game was the baby footage from?

@@enrymion9681 Kiwami 2

@@enrymion9681 and 7.

it was a bit _much,_ really, but it did its job

@@bsmith6784 It was perfect people crying about how hard the game is... when its suppose to be that hard.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

This game rocked my world

Razbuten incoming

YEESSS, was my favourite game I played last year!

It's not a Sony Exclusive(TM). They won't play it.

Nope, that would be a torture

yes plsss

She should totally do it!!!!!

Thank you Dark Souls

Already did, got ready for the Torture... wasn't ready for the *PAIN*

Lol I love that part! That's the only thing I remember from that movie! It was always my favorite!!!

i love the smug face in the new logo, the old one was too plain and generic

We can only hope. . .

Fingers crossed 🤞

Same font too from that short movie.

They truly goated

"returned" me back to a looooooooooooong ass time ago lmao

@@nikolowolokin lmfao noice!!

You probably hasn’t watched west world

Is that the song at 4:37? I can’t find it anywhere.

NVM found it. It's Runaway by Kanye

People seriously need to get over it.

@@GratefulDave93 Forget about past product, buy current product, get excited for next product.

@@mr.scarytheterry5039 Are you new to Capitalism??

Last of us 2 did suck ass tho 🤣 returnal is actually pretty good at least still not worth 75 bucks tho especially considering all the crashes etc going on

@@ag7367 its alright to be wrong.

YES I thought the same exact thing!

I did too lol

Who?

@@rayovac200 Gus Johnson. Watch his video "every cat at 3 am"

@@luiskandels2220 Lmao I confused this Gus with the one from Breaking Bad.

I dun want to feew sad! Dats not why i pway games!

probably just haven't played :(

Outer wilds has easily become a favorite game for me I'd love to see a video on it

I sincerely feel like Returnal was worth every ounce of my $70 and then some (can't stop playing), and tbh Resident Evil Village didn't justify it's $60 price to me.

@@SonicBroham I feel the exact opposite way 😂

@@ag7367 that's fair! I think my expectations skewed a lot of that where I felt Returnal would be whatever and was really surprised, and then I wanted Village to be this tour de force because I love RE4 so much. just didn't click for me.

Bruh. I got to the second biome with 40 deaths

They played it but they didn't review it

@@abhishekvvs8622 thats why my guy

Wait, you're right! PLEASE REVIEW SKYRIM

As much as I loved Skyrim and played close to 500 hours, it's really not a good "backseat gamer" type game. Also it's a slower game which may not be their thing.

@@jonathansmith3063 but modding is hella fun

Yessssss

Woah 😎

Is Red Vines what the kids now call Twizzlers?

@@Keithustus different brand