The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Zero Punctuation Re-Release) 

But it was in the compilation for that year, wasn't it? (Because I remember this episode but only watched on youtube)

@@AaronCorr It was, but people have been messaging us about getting these up as standalone videos to complete the collection on RU-vid for as long as I've been here. Just found a good time to finally do it.

Thanks Nick! FUN FACT: my son's name is Nick

POP Forgotten Sands really has been forgotten... until now!!!

2:33 CHOO CHOO TRAIN ARRIVING AT PLOTHOLE STATION!!!

He slept in for a hundred years!

@@zyriantel9601 He was going for the record.

I guess when you're a hero of prophecy you don't have a whole lot to do before fate needs you to sort shit out

@@PanSpaceman queue the Doom Marine...

I keep thinking of Warhammer 40k's lore for the Eversor assassins and how they keep them in a coma until needed. That's like, so many game characters. Link, Doomguy, Master Chief...

Who's to say it isn't? I'm kinda eager for the post-ZP stream, just to see if Yahtzee confirms that the Escapist staff did this on purpose.

@@zyriantel9601 Am Escapist staff. Request came from the Discord community, just a happy coincidence that we re-released it as the same time as the HD remake (though, I'm chalking it up to fate, and that July is just an extremely slow month for games stuff and so it made sense to do it now).

@@theescapist Given the topic came up in post-ZP chat about a month ago I figured you purposely timed it this way.

@@zyriantel9601 I don’t believe there will be a post-ZP for the re-release.

@@BlueAversion Yeah, I'm seeing that now, bummer.

i though he yelled "YES!"

I've been wondering for a long time if that's specifically "from" something.

😆😆😆

I still don't know what the plot hole was.

Definitely going to use that one within our D&D game when the opportunity arises

Without the extra cost

Damn, missed opportunity there for us to charge some money for an "increase in resolution on a ZP video". Gotta take more notes from Nintendo. "Quietly whispers" but we do have Memberships you could join :P

You can't spell Escapist without EA.

Extra Awesome?

@@theescapist And now we have both edited our comments for personal gain. What devious scoundrels we are.

My phone's gotten to the point of crappiness where sometimes it'll just play the video at the lowest possible quality for no good reason unless I'm on stable WiFi, so I had to check a few times to make sure it wasn't a fuck up on my end.

@@zyriantel9601 Remove the quality from auto.

was about to say something is off, then read the title.

His voice also changes over time, besides the quality issue.

What you don't rewatch his old ones every week?

Next they will be remastering his old videos and then later on comes the remakes.

So you don't have the "Every Zero Punctuation of year xxxx" compilations playlist from 2007-2020 playing while you work? Better than a podcast sometimes. Can pay attention in short bits and have a giggle. Instead of having to pay attention to whatever the puck, whoever the duck, says aboot what.

Let’s all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee

@@Rebar77_real the problem with those is they cut out some of the jokes so it sort of ruins the flow.

Those stick characters will look so crisp when they re-release all in '8k, Ultra Wide, 180fps'

We oooold! 😂

It kinda ruins the games art style.

@@11equalsfish I wouldn't go _that_ far. The game still looks gorgeous overall, as good as I remember it looking -- it's just that that one change removed an aspect of the aesthetic I really loved to just sit and _look at_ for a while.

It's needed. Look at it in dolphin, just makes the game look blurty

Why?

@@fluffynator6222 come on

@@MakeItAme What?

@@fluffynator6222 Because Breath of the wild came after and broke all the ules.

@@manueljosefernandez9482 That doesn't make sense.

Everyone seams to be ripping on the audio quality, but the only difference I can hear is that the newer audio has more echo.

@@101Crock Then you need better speakers, perhaps

@@101Crock You don't hear your speakers crackling like so much parchment paper whenever the music kicks in? That shit drives me bonkers, dude.

@@zyriantel9601 I don't use speakers, I use headphones. Maybe the analog to digital to analog conversion cleans up the audio.

@@3ternalHours So that I can hear the audio quality get worse? I don't think I will.

Exactly 💯

Yessir!

You just summed up the reason we're getting a full priced Skyward Sword re release 😂

@@EricTheKartoonKing No, the reason is that they want to introduce new fans willing to pay full price to older games. Seriously, Nintendo fans cannot comprehend the idea that every single product from Nintendo is targeted at them.

Exactly

I never had trouble with the joystick aiming on the N64, until the joysticks wore out and became floppy anyway. Every console since has had analog sticks that didn't go slow enough. There's a big dead zone, and then a sharp jump to moderate speed. Probably to compensate for drift, which the N64 never had because it used optical sensors rather than resistors, but meh I'm an old man and my opinions stopped mattering the moment my hemorrhoids started to hurt.

@@thegardenofeatin5965 I'm certain the joystick aiming in the N64 was better than analog stick-only aiming (otherwise, who would've thought that the shooting gallery minigames in Majora's Mask were a good idea; especially the swamp shooting gallery?) That said, even a joystick has limits that IR pointers and gyroscopes don't have. An IR pointer in particular can even keep up with a mouse when it comes to aiming (and sometimes be even better than a mouse because there's no friction).

Eh...Gyro aiming was actually pretty good.

@@Jdudec367 I'm sure it was; gyro aim is very good these days. But it isn't as good as IR aiming.

@@matthewmuir8884 You may be right.

Featurng Yahtzee complaining that every subsequent Zelda is a re-release of the previous ones!

@@TheLaXandro Proving yet again that, above all else, Yahtzee Croshaw is a _smartarse._

Do you mean rock paper scissors lizard spock. Or was that the big bang theory?

Fate/EXTRA?

@@BlueAversion no there used to be a like a browser game where you can have like tanks and ninjas and all that. some things beat other things.

Apparently it was included in a compilation, so that’s what you’re probably remembering.

I remember this. But I have his first 300 vids saved to my pc

@@ryanball8944 Waiting for it to all to come crashing down?

@@BenoHourglass you can never be too careful, and some things are worth keeping safe haha

I cheat to give myself infinite stamina, because fuck that mechanic. It's only just bearable in BotW, but in this game all it does is make a slightly tedious game even more annoying.

Not to mention Fi might be the most annoying assist character ever devised by man. I feel like someone challenged Nintendo to create a character more annoying than Na'vi and by God did they succeed.

@@MasterCharlie104 Forgot about that

I would add that the ending of the game was a nice payoff. But goddamn do I have PTSD from Navi complaining about how low my battery in my Wii Mote is.

Sum's up my feelings about the game.

2011, I believe

Yeah

Because it's a function of writing. If she blames herself, and decides that the way to rectify the situation is to hide herself, that makes sense. But the writer's decided "as far as the king knows, Ganon is unaware of this chamber, so this would be a good hiding spot." They could just as easily have said "Ganon keeps a close eye on the castle of Hyrule, so it is unsafe for you [Zelda] to linger here. You need to disguise yourself and return to the surface." Then, instead of being captured from her hiding spot, she could have been captured in a more fitting way to Tetra's selfless yet strong personality.

@@williambintzer8128 Exactly. It's completely arbitrary that Ganondorf can't see into this specific room, and would have been every bit as believable that Ganondorf couldn't see anything directly on the King of Red Lions, it's not like Ganondorf ever calls out a direct hit or anything on Link while he's on it. Zelda could have just chilled on the boat, nagged at you to get things done, bantered with the boat, Makar, and Medley. Midli? Midi? Bird. and complained that she couldn't step onto land, and the complications associated with that. Or, for example, "Ganondorf can't see anything in this room, because of this gemstone made of Goron poop". "Is there anything stopping me from putting this gemstone on a pirate ship?" "Well, no, but that would be incredibly rude and--" "Yar har ahoy and avast! Hang that poop at the end of the mast, I am a pirate". Or, for example, there's nowhere in the world Ganondorf can't see, but Ganondorf really does not want to go into round 2 with Valoo until he has regained more power, and goddammit they just stole Valoo. Or, for example, Ganondorf might be able to see everywhere, no goron turds survived the flood, and stealing Valoo might not be the most practical idea, BUT, Ganondorf also knows where the Master Sword temples are, knows they need to be accessed in order to kill him, and so has them heavily guarded, and the only way to get him to relinquish enough of his hold on them for Link to sneak in and power up the Master Sword is if Captain Zelda sails around the world, shelling his navy, and moons him when it's time to open up a temple. Or, for example, we decide the only places that Ganondorf cannot see is a place that is not natural to the world, sure, the entrance to the sacred realm is one spot, sure, but it's dreadfully close to Ganondorf's power base and, would you look at that, we added in some scuff that informs us that Tingle Island is actually the impact site of the rocket ship Tingle built in another timeline to look for faries, thus not of this world, so guess what, Zelda, put on this hood and tights, pull up your speedo, and practice your Kah-Loompa, 'cuz you're a Tingle Brother now. We get to watch the spiritual death of a woman accepting her new life as a Tingle Brother in slow motion, as she watches the slow, spiritual death of a young man paying more money than is currently in circulation to have some charts deciphered. Shadenfruede. Or, for example, screw it, this plan to deal with Ganondorf is already super scuffed anyways, let's just send Tetra out with you, add a third shrine dungeon where Zelda is your buddy, and then oh, damn, taking her out might not have been the best idea after all, but guess what, we're exactly where we were anyways after putting Zelda in the safe room. There's as many ways to write a story as there is imagination to do it, and if you're creating a narrative, you aren't even bound to keeping something in a way that the media has already established. There is no ironclad reason that specific room was allegedly immune to Ganondorf's power or vision that couldn't have also been spun up for anything else, or would even be a safe place to leave someone even if that was true. Which it wasn't. That room was 100% arbitrary to the plot, besides it being a convenient way to not have to make any more Tetra/Zelda lines or animations.

Let's see, so far they've re-released Skyward Sword and Link's Awakening, that I immediately know of. They could probably get away with Twilight Princess on the Switch, if they cared to remake it _again._ Any of the old handheld Zeldas would probably do okay on Switch... I mean, I'm not trying to give them ideas, I'm just trying to imagine how far their laziness can go on this one.

@@zyriantel9601 Don't give them ideas, it's bad enough we are getting a sequel to that god awful Rabbids and mario game. Next they may try and bring back the virtual boy with even more shades of red.

@@hollowrussian9318 honestly, kingdom battle is decent, I just have no idea why the rabbits are involved. You could replace them with basically any other characters and nothing would change.

@@clayjack9969 And there it is, the price for the game is far too much. For what could be described as a port with shiner graphics the price is what lets it down.

@@clayjack9969 I can get over 200 fps on wii games in an emulator. That quantity of changes on a 10 yo wii game would merit 20 bucks top, otherwise Demon Souls would cost 120 usd.

Yeah same lol, I watched a lot of toaster mic vids back in the day so hearing them now is quite a nostalgic experience really

I could've too. Maybe its just cause I'm so familiar with the other reviews that they've started forming together into a huge unrecognizable blob. I swear it was in a fan compilation or something!

People shouting "NURSE!" in response to something absurd or someone realizing something they shouldn't etc. is a stock joke, by my recollection. I think I remember Stephen Fry making a similar joke on QI, for example.

@@KeithFraser82 yea he does that to Sean Lock when he claims Banana plants moves by themselves a few meters a year, which turns out to be correct. But i'm still quite certain Yahtzee has done it somewhere before though

They fixed it, I just finish the switch version and controls are so much better with buttons. Fi is still abit annoying but apart from that dungeons designs are amazing. And some boss fights are amongst the best of the franchise.

That review would be hilarious 😆

Man I feel that. ZP is one of the very few things I was watching online 12 years ago that I still watch regularly.

You might enjoy dink smallwood, where you can kill practically everyone, and you can beat up your aunt who is perfectly nice and tell her to "take your beating like a man, woman!"

Less potato of a microphone, some voice change, better audio compression/digitization/recording technology.

He has refined his manner of delivery as well as the improved audio setup.

@@Jabbernut-games This is the biggest part. The recording equipment and such is the next biggest part, and the voice itself changing is the least part.

The worst thing is that everyone seems to misinterpret the scene of her apologizing to Link after she discovers that she's Zelda as her "having her Tetra personality erased" or something like that. That's not what happened at all. A big part of Tetra's personality that was established early on was that, for all her sassiness, she can be quick to blame herself for things. She only agreed to let Link on her ship in the first place because the Postman reminded her that the bird that kidnapped Link's sister was originally after her. In that moment in the castle where she finds out that she's Zelda, it dawns on her that, this whole time, Ganon was after her, so in her eyes, she unwittingly brought Link into that whole mess. She didn't lose her personality; she was being remorseful and apologetic, and it's only because of her remorse that she agreed to the king's "hide in Hyrule Castle" plan. Plus, in that fight with Ganondorf at the end, she's right back to being sassy Tetra despite still being dressed as Zelda. If people want to complain about a Zelda game where Tetra is done dirty, they should complain about Phantom Hourglass. Two seconds in and she gets kidnapped, then she spends the rest of the game as a statue doing nothing whatsoever.

Ten years on, still holds true.

It's honestly one of the few jokes of his that I *don't* find funny, as I see that misinterpretation of what happened in Wind Waker everywhere. A big part of Tetra's personality that was established early on was that, for all her sassiness, she can be quick to blame herself for things. She only agreed to let Link on her ship in the first place because the Postman reminded her that the bird that kidnapped Link's sister was originally after her. In that moment in the castle where she finds out that she's Zelda, it dawns on her that, this whole time, Ganon was after her, so in her eyes, she unwittingly brought Link into that whole mess. She didn't lose her personality; she was being remorseful and apologetic, and it's only because of her remorse that she agreed to the "hide in Hyrule Castle" plan. The moment she wakes up during the final fight with Ganon, she's back to being sassy Tetra even while still dressed as Zelda.