The Pathless Review (and Breath of the Wild I guess) 

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What some say: "It's just like BOTW" What they mean: "You can glide and it's cell shaded"

I feel like most who claim everything is a BoTW clone have never played an open world game before BotW.

I am playing Metro:Last Light at the moment, and had now to image Artyom going WAHOOO like Mario while jumping. Thanks for that

"That pretty much puts a bow on the gameplay of Pathless." I see what you did there.

its the minecraft dark souls of BOTW

I wish Mongolian developers could make games like this. Mongolian and altaic region mythologies are really interesting tbh. Bit complicated at first but it's no brainer once you get into it. Excellent review btw

The Pathless is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, iOS, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh operating systems, tvOS It's a shame it's not on the Switch, it seems perfect for it.

If the developer of Hyper Light Drifter says you need to play it then I'm already sold.

It's just 'Breath of the Wild' Just. Just!! Oh, to be able to reach that high.

"every game with tall buildings isn't ripping off Nintendo" Correct. It's ripping off Ubisoft ☝️

One thing I think worth mentioning from the "what did BOTW bring to the table" discussion, is its very strong usage of layered, systemic gameplay elements that are utilized and threaded into nearly all parts of the game. Stuff like a sword being defined as "metal" and being able to drop it onto some electrified wires to complete a circuit, or lighting some grass on fire then cooking a chicken leg on it. There are dozens of emergent behaviors that result from experimenting with these systems, and its pretty extraordinary.

I still find it confusing that people are calling things BotW clones when BotW is just Farcry: Hyrule

... so The Pathless is the intersection of Breath Of The Wild's gameplay and Abzu's tempo.

I liked that the puzzles where challenging, but not TOO challenging where I needed to look up the answer. Hell, I bought this day 1, so I couldn't even rely on that if I wanted to.

One of my favorite youtuber out there, great content🤘🏼

So a beautiful open world game with a strong art style, an incredibly fun movement system you can get lost in, (with a gliding upgrade that messes it up a bit), where the highlight of each area is a non replay-able sequence where you have to use said movement system to move faster than a unique apposing force, I will now be purchasing this game

A good way to view animism from in the Pathless is with the god Nimue. The game lets you stand in massive vantage points looking over long rivers. You see it come down the mountain to you in the valley, over time you see the path of the river change slowly. The snake is moving, running in the wind. Good review.

Great video as always. I will now go to your cubeworld video and comment that it is a breath of the wild clone, out of pure spite.

Your reviews are so satisfying to watch because of how you approach your thoughts and opinions with sound arguments and cutting specifics. I feel like your channel is on the cusp of becoming one of the greats on RU-vid

Jacob's nightmare: Anthro majors commenting that game X is a BotW clone.

Let's hit 50k. Been here for a while, videos are all good. Always love when another one comes out. Or an old one gets recommended. Thanks Jacob!

Oh man I remember the trailers to this game, I'm glad the game sounds good, will check it out

6:50 might not watch the whole video yet for playing the game with a different mindset first BUT Thanks for pointing this out. One of my favorite video game features is when the action that's happening on screen isn't quite the action it really is, in another context. Like shooting an arrow = a button-based movement/rhythm mechanic. Off the top of my head, I think about Pikmin 3's pointer, Ring Fit's retro arcade controls, Spiritfarer's gameplay VS the narrative of what you choose to do, and Splatoon's floor inking.

I always found it weird in video games that you can make a game in the same genre as something else and it comes off as a negative. like in music if two artists are in the metal genre it doesn't make me not want to experience it.

You mentioned throat singing: if you're interested in a pretty solid documentary on that, check out "Ghengis Blues", which follows a blind American blues guitarist who teaches himself dual tone throat singing after hearing it over his shortwave radio, and ends up traveling to Mongolia (technically Tuvia, I think?) and competing in their national competition.

Great video, I was not aware of this game at all! That said, I think there is more to the BOTW formula and design philosophy than just 2 elements. But you made an accurate assessment and kind of implied what the other BOTW elements are. Anyway, hope you make it to 50k subscribers!

Wouldn't call it a clone of anything, lol, but it definitely looks like a love child of BotW and Journey to me.

Looks interesting, though EGS exclusive and will just maybe hit steam in a year. Another victim of the exclusivity curse; seen & praised, then forgotten & lost to time.

Just played through this game and loved it. One of the most fun and exhilarating movement systems I've played. I didn't mind the simplicity and accessibility either, since I knew it wanted to be experienced. Also really digged the philosophical ideas about the paths people follow as well as the villain's motivation. Definitely one of those games that stuck with me after I finished it (hence me watching reviews of a game I finished!)

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I think an important aspect of the breath of the wild vibe that wasn't mentioned as much is the art style, many games that are accused of ripping botw off seem to also be ripping off that same kind of mildly cartoony, watercolor look (Edit: Which pathless and other games like it, journey, abzu, sky, also use and used first)

"very well polished and executed adventure game about being really good with a bow and petting birds." I think they actually made this game for me. (I got a pet bird and started archery this year) Everyone else stop playing it, it's not for you.

Been wondering about this one, thanks for shining some light on it :)

Longtime watcher, first time commenter. “Now we can be a little bit more accurate with our online harassment” made me LOSE it 🤣 The dry-as-bone humor will NEVER get old, and combined with the sharp, insightful criticism = ProbablyJacob is absolute gold!

Awesome Video as always

i already subbed ages ago, after the first video i watched. but i heard the algorythm likes engagement and comments. i hope you'll reach your goal.

Hell yeah brah. I'll get my 1 friend to subscribe. I can't promise he'll watch but, i got you.

GTA SA has jet packs and jet packs are a kind of glider, I definitely got BoTW vibes when played SA back on release.

Yes nintendo owns cel shading, gliders, stamina,gear/weapons and armor,mounts,magic, guardians, protagonist which has to save something and open worlds if you dare try to have any of this your obviously trying to just rip-off nintendo and their genius design of what is breath of the wild

Wooo love your content man

You have to admit it has a very similar visual style though. To a standard consumer they'd have a hard time telling two screenshots apart. edit: forgot to say good video

killing it man, one of the few youtubers that ill watch all their vids

You know- the difference between most of the games compared to BotW is that- those games most of the time have actual content, not copy pasted boss fights and """puzzles""" that last less than a minute if you exclude loading times, which usually are longer than the actual puzzle.

Dude, how do you not even have 50000?! I'd never checked but I'd assumed you were way above that. Cheers for all the great, comprehensive content you do.

This is why subscribed you always give a legit review bro. Also the breath of the wild stuff was gold

Her skin-tone do be kinda fresh in the night-time sun lighting tho.

Whoa i didn't even know this game existed. And i feel the same way about Alex Preston. Something i felt Abzu missed was a bit of deeper gameplay, i.e. not be so much as "journey" was, and that's kind of what this is. Looks fantastic and has what looks like very fun gameplay. Thanks, i'm getting it right now. Just watched half of the video but i don't need more spoilers and you already convinced me.

Nice work cranking these out. Every one is interesting.

To expand on the BOTW comparisons thing, man, I think it's understandable that people compare things they don't know about to things they DO know about, like when people call literally any game that features a dodge mechanic and melee 3rd person combat "just Dark Souls", but: EVERYTHING has an inspiration. BOTW was inspired by certain games, Souls was inspired by certain games. If the only things you consider original are "whoever the first to do it was" then only 80s and 90s games should ever be called original.

Another Jacob review???? Let's goooooo

Game looks great, excellent review and breakdown. I hope the great Octopus spirit Algo-rithm is pleased with my comment-offering and you hit 50k subs.

I love your content! I hope you reach 50k soon, what a milestone.

The topic at 6:23 reminded me of the Core Design Tomb Raider games: Lara just auto aims at everything. "She don't miss" works in those games too, the ammo pickups and enemy health and behavior reflect that a lot; She has no Melee attack, so if bats or rats are scratching you, you had to manually aim at those small targets you'd be super annoyed and that's just be no fun. In this case the game becomes engaging because it doesn't get in your way and it lets you engage in a more balanced combat system where you only have to think about what weapon is good at this range or against this enemy type or in this combat arena. The Desert Eagle 1-shots most weak enemies but its ammo is rare or hidden in clever places. Shotgun does the same but you have to be close or most of the pellets will miss. MP5 and M16 let Lara auto-aim at enemies even further away and have high power, but will cancel their attack if you make sudden movements, not ideal for brawls where something like the Uzis shine. And so on. Last Revelation (TR4) introduced a scope to some weapons which allowed you to manually aim at faraway targets, but it was only used on weapons where you're shooting stuff far away, it was cool and makes me respect the design of those games just a bit more now. Their combat wasn't perfect (Harpoon Gun and Grenade Launcher being clumsy projectile weapons comes to mind) but Lara not missing became a foundation that got built on.

Great review as always! Definitely keep up the cultural analysis too, its always great to learn something new.

Just shows how "gamers" never played shadow of colossus or 50% of playstation 2 games with gliders and parachuted...

You’ll hit it by New Years for sure. Great video, keep up the good stuff!

Seems more like a happier Shadow of the Colossus than a BOTW clone.

just a side-note; Botw was a fine game. But i definitely felt the repetedlyness. I ALSO felt like it lacked memorable NPCs and NPC quests - which has been a Zelda staple since forever. I can live with the seed hunting and shallow dungeons, but talking to an NPC and getting a "Take pictures of X X times" or "Gather 10 flowers for me" type of quest was the biggest killer of that game for me. The game was absolutely fine, except for that bit which really really sucked the joy out of it for me

ProbablyJacob is the Breath of the Wild of RU-vid

I don't see you mention that the talismans have a "crit" if you charge them to the 50% point and you get even more of a boost. I have seen entire playthroughs where people don't realize it :P

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Duuude awesome video as always, love how this game looks, I'm gonna buy it. And so true, if the guy from hearth machine says it's good, it is good.

I like how Jacob is slowly becoming more like OSP and OSP is slowly becoming a Let’s Play channel disguised as an educational channel. Also, if you’re not part of Lizard Spirit Gang, we will put you in a giant urn until you realize your errors.

Great review as always, hope the 50k come soon man

This game is too wholesome and not weird enough for your review style Jacob.

I would say is breath of the wild with a shadow of the colossus/ico/journey take... And for me, this is fantastic. 4 of my fav adventure games combined? Stick it to my vein!

6:20 okay but there's literally a puzzle in botw where you have to shoot an arrow through stone rings, just like that one in botw.

This game looks great, and I think Breath of the Wild is one of....no. Not going to make a general statement. I, personally, can't stand Breath of the Wild. I have so many issues with it! But I'm totally stoked that other companies are taking some of its good qualities, and making better games out of them.

BIRD UP

Top notch as always

Why is being similar to botw even a criticism? That’s a compliment

I haven't heard anything about this game before this review. Mainly because I haven't looked into buying a next gen console yet. But hoooo boy do I love me a good movement system and this looks fun as hell.

Another thing breath of the wild brought to the table was a feeling of the world bieng... Well a World. Too many "open world games" feel like the creators wanted to boast about the map size first and only thought about what the world is later on, hylia feels like a actual world with ancient ruins, small towns and wandering merchants all working to make it feel lived in.

Great vid dude!

It's not just the vertical movement and the game mechanics, people will also say a game is a breath of the wild clone even if the art style is similar too. Personally, I disagree with you on the movement. I kind of find it tedious to time each shot, but maybe I just haven't adapted to it enough yet. I think the game would benefit by adding a slight rumble to the controller right before the skill shot to help you time that one better, the one where you only charge the shot halfway. I just find the timing on it awkward and if you want to gain some real speed you have to hit a bunch of those skill shots in a row. I think the max I've done without practicing with it yet is four. They feel way better to hit than the normal shots just because they're faster. I hate how back and forth the movement is in this game where you wait to charge a shot and lose momentum. That's just me though, I don't really have any issues with the game otherwise, I do like it.

"...hopefully now that we've covered this, we can stop calling every game with a minimap Breath of the Wild..." Yeah, some have stop doing that, instead, they're calling it "Paid Genshin Impact clone" like what happened with Ubisoft's "Immortal: Fenyx Rising". This is really concerning because it could make games that have exploration like this tossed aside easily by potential audiences. Especially since there will also be another game with this much exploration like Tower of Fantasy that offers different experiences. But I think it still has its merit as being easily identified, I guess. Anyway, I see the game is really beautiful from design to realization and worth playing. But, the protagonist crop in the thumbnail makes me remember "Boohbah" for some reason. And I hope I can get this image out of my head...

Looks pretty sweet.

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Shout out to Mongolia. This doesn't even look like a botw clone. Where's the multiple weapons besides bows? This game looks like something I'd skip out on. Platformers are a big yikes from me.

wow pathless is the new dark souls

Love third person action adventures. And they are pretty rare as most supposedly "action adventure" games are just collect-a-thons without any puzzles. Good thing there's a resurgence of the genre in the past few years after the mindless Prince of Persias and especially Assassin Creeds gutted the genre.

You had me until the PS4 Spider-Man comparison. I played Spider-Man 2 on the PS2, I know what good web swinging mechanics are. The PS4 Spider-Man just looks skill based, when in reality there's very room for error, or skill, in there.

I will stop calling every cell shaded open world game a breath of the wild clone. But I will double down and keep calling you a mandalore clone.

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*Genshin Impact sweating heavily in the background.*

Now i have a urge to comment Breath of the Wild in the Cube World video

I would say that what makes bofw is that you not puzzle solving rather you problem solve and you can use the same concept in combat If i would go out on a limb i would say that metal gear solid phantoms pain and botw is pretty similar

Mi boi with the driest voice back at it with the dope-ass reviews

you're the og ytber of diffrent or weird games

I hate when people call every similar game to this three Games Zelda BOTW, SoulsBorne, GTA clone. Even if a game is hard now it call itself a souls like game when it has to do nothing like the souls game. The Cuphead comes to mind where people say it's difficulty is like SoulsBorne game. WTF

Oh dear lord, is Antrho majors an actual thing?

Joke's on you, I'm already subscribed.

So would you say that Genshin Impact is a BotW Clone? I hear that a lot about the game

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This game is as if they wanted to make a stew of Breath of the wild journey and hyperlight drifter.

whats the outro piano piece?

we love it :)

Algorithm pls give this man more attention >:-(

I hate when people will discount a game because it's designed similarly to one they've played before. The idea of Intellectual property is the worst thing to exist as it disallows similarity in any way shape or form.