The Best Game No One Played 

If you didn't know Mars this game was actually saved by another RU-vidr called iron pineapple that reviews souls likes and gave it a glowing review the devs actually thanked him and put his name in one of their trailers for the game

I love this art style

God of War??? More like gotta snore. Shoutsout to Zeno Clash

Thanks for covering this awesome game, we are the best country of Chile. Cheers from Maipú, Chile.

This game IS GOAT. My favorite from in 2023. Very happy you decided to play the game!

El God Dewoor

Now you got me interested. I've heard ACE Team for a long time, they do some wacky ass games that nobody seems to play but are appreciated by a small margin of people.

Second comment for after having watched the video: Very entertaining video, fun edits, and the love for Zenozoik shows very strongly. Be sure to share your video on the Clash: AoC Steam Forums. (warning, big comment coming in) The Zenozoik of Artifacts of Chaos isn't a reboot, but a prequel. I've read that this is because there are no firearms yet-- because they haven't been invented. And it's also why the Zenozoik of Zeno Clash 1 and 2 is truly anarchic. The only attempt at applying some semblance of order was through the remnants of the One Law, but as Word and Golem/Kax-Teh discuss... the artifacts of the One Law don't hold a magical power. The effects can generally be considered physically possible. A timer? Both opponents could be keeping track of time. An arena? That's quickly made with a bunch of sticks. Tether? Stick and rope. Poisons? The Snake Venom artifact seems to hold a little vial within itself. Bees? Slather yeself in honey or thwack a nearby bee nest. All in all, it's interesting in how the Artifacts don't really have power if you stand still at it. People follow and respect the One Law, and in the case of for example Keratas (orange rhino guy) they don't actually like it yet follow through with it, but why? The One Law is just the last surviving remnant of an old system of order, that gradually degraded until only a dice game and some funny objects with different images were left. For that world, they are about as natural as a tree in a forest. Generally people don't really question why trees grow. The character Axylon, the brother of that three-armed creature right before the Forest of Wonder who is sharpening those protective spikes, is a Corwid, so he plays by his own rules. He's "free" of the One Law, but he's not as free as he thinks. For he is incapable of thinking outside his own focus, obsession, fetish-- whatever you want to name it. Perhaps a strong word to use, but a "fetish" doesn't necessarily have to be a sexual thing. And i think it fits-- because Corwids are, in some way, the most hardcore fetishist possible to a degree that could be called spiritual. Only the thing they WANT to do matters in their life, no matter how absurd or how much anyone, not even themselves, may physically suffer from it, in pursuit of what they think will make them happy or is the purpose in their life. Like Metamoq from Zeno Clash 1 said: "If you are satisfied and do what you feel you must do, no matter what that is, then you have reached perfection." Which isn't a bad quote at first glance, but lies at the heart of the Corwids' belief and rejection of reality, to craft a reality that satisfies their own individual selves. There's not really a point to me describing this all and i'm hardly a philosophy major, but i find it fun to talk about this, even if just within the context of Zenozoik. And every breath of life is welcome for this. Apologies by the way if i come across as an annoying smartypants, however. I don't think Pseudo was a hired mercenary, actually. He seemed to just be a hermit who kept to himself yet visited the town a few times, as proven by the fact Blahgg (that cowpie troll from the beginning) and later on some other mercenaries refer to him as such, as well as how he knows Eo's name. But the three gate guards, Wrehgg, Claw and Moon-Sun, probably *thought* he was a mercenary. They may have recognized the boy, thought he was going to bring him in, and then Pseudo like the martial arts mandrake with a star-nosed mole tendril for a head he is, thought "That gal ain't right". On the note of the mercenaries: i loved that every scripted encounter, you could hear a Mercenary or Corwid talk about their motivation for why they're on the hunt or doing what they do specifically. The fat mushroom turkey Tsiu Kotopol still sticks with me for his funny voice and philosophy being as simple as "I like to eat. I'm going to eat stuff. When i'm dead i can't eat, but will *get* eaten. But i'm not dead, so i'll keep doing what I like." But also Kroggo Longtooth, that big platybelodon guy, for his rather sincere belief in the One Law and what Gemini is doing is right. The long-necked bird guy Verruk was in a kind of similar boat, if more arrogant, believing himself to be a great hero to bring more order to Zenozoik, while characters like Arsakarsa (three-armed horrid blue "cat" lady) and aforementioned Keratas don't really care and just want to get on in life as best they can. And they don't really care how cruel they have to be. But they're stll better than the southern-accented goose lady with the boomerangs, or the three-legged three-eyed moose creature whose only motivations seem to be arrogant bullies and wanting to be better than others. Not quite unlike the guy with the giant skull hat, who has a very convenient "the weak deserve to die" mentality and cries out when he loses the Ritual, but does seem to have a point in his philosophy on how cruel nature can truly be. There was also Auga the Beastmaster. Was similar to Tsiu Kotopol in doing what he likes, but mainly for the thrill of a hunt instead of feeding specifically. I guess you could consider that Tsiu Kotopol likes the result, while Auga relishes the process. And of course, being the boss of the pack. Oh, and there's also Blahgg and Ekeke. They're... Blahgg and Ekeke. And that one potato toad with the nose ring in a barrel. He never speaks, he just hits you with a frying pan. Generally i just absolutely love how *ugly* the world and its inhabitants can be, with rarely a human in sight. Even in Zeno Clash 1 and 2, while there are humans and humanoids, the ugly and bizarre vastly outnumber them, and I love that. I would welcome more media with (almost) purely non-humanoid creatures. Here's to hoping Zeno Clash, Clash: AoC and Ace Team shall become more known and beloved soon. Thanks for this video and talking about it more. I'm trying my best myself to spread word of it (and other cool games, like Cookie Cutter, Soulstice, My Familiair, Papetura, etc.) as much as possible. That all said, what were your favourite fighting styles and creatures/characters?

I love this game so much, it's criminal that it didn’t get more coverage! Clash: Artifacts of Chaos is the only exposure I've had to Zenozoik, but it makes me want to go back and check out the previous games (although I'd seriously miss Pseudo and the boy, they were absolutely incredible).

Thank you for this video. I love Zenozoic's visual creativity and crazyness so much!

Tapping out early on this one as I'm the kind of person who procrastinates videogames and haven't finished this one yet, but the main thing that jumped out for me about Clash 3 is the vast improvement of art quality of the games. While the inspired art style of the first two games absolutely holds up today, they are now and where they, technically not that beautiful. Over the years ACE has been operating, you can tell just how much their art has improved while still having the same surrealist alien art style.

The game is awesome without doubt and this world zenozoik is so cool I think can get adapted into a real franchise to support a animated movie I mean seriously it’s a blast

you know after beating this finally, I'm really surprised watching so many videos that people hated The Ritual. I think you're the only guy I've heard mention that you loved it. I sure did, it was a great use of a different sense of gaming before the fights.

I BOUGHT THIS AT DAY ONE AND I REGRET NOTHING

2 minutes in already sold on this game lmfao

Hey man, could you make a video about “Scriptwelder” ? His games are still legendary after more than a decade

Hicimos eso?

La wea wena,Chile mencionado weon

Does first comment get the title as Epic an Cool and Awesome

have you All Level on the Tower? i Made it to the top and Bottom. 😈