Tormented Souls and The Artful Escape (Zero Punctuation) 

Even at hundreds of likes, underrated frick'n comment

As someone who played the game for the first time *while on acid*, the gameplay was *just enough*. lol

​@@lyricmezzosoprano5357that sounds like a sure way to see the face of God

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 It was a great experience. My husband watched me play and we especially enjoyed the bit where you travel between the Lung and the other locations, where it’s just a mishmash of noise and images.

Same reason why there are so many novel about english professors

@@lilowhitney8614 And so many gods damn animes that take place in a school with at least one main character being an otaku.

@@OdaSwifteye Or why so many romance novels are about women with unsatisfying sex lifes.

Knowing Yahtzee's game creation+personal history, he's being fairly hypocritical with that one.

@@lilowhitney8614 and even more novels about English professors contemplating adultery

To the right and nowhere else? 😆

Yeah, Right around the psych point I thought, "but he hasn't said anything about the......oh. Oh no."

As someone who never even heard of Artful escape up until this point, Yahtzee's presentation was a fucking rollercoaster for me.

@@TheQrstOne You do on the slightest of occasion have to... and stick with me here... go left as well.

I was wondering "wtf is the point of this game?" when watching the trailer and that depressed me because it looked gorgeous.

Honestly I feel like that could be a game in its own right. You have a lonely and curious Occultist (Solomon, or Sol for short) who crosses over into a weird and eldritch otherspace, only to swiftly saunter back into the real world when an eldritch horror (Virgil) makes itself known in an overly-bombastic fashion. Later, when Solomon decides to head back into the Otherside while actually prepared this time, Virgil makes a much less bombastic introduction, and it turns out that they're just lonely and curious like Solomon, and that they only spooked Solomon because they were overexcited to see a "Realsider". After briefly talking it out, Sol either agrees to let Virgil be their guide in this mysterious dimension, or politely tells Virgil to leave them be. The Unguided Route offers more open exploration starting out, but doesn't pull its punches or hold the player's hand, happily killing Solomon if they wander into a particularly hostile area. On the flipside, the Virgil Route starts out with more of a guided tour, with Virgil able to defuse tense situations involving native Othersiders (since Virgil can actually translate unlike most Othersiders), as well as warning the Occultist away from areas that they are ill-equipped to traverse. The Unguided Route would be a dick in the eye for first-time players, but still entirely doable with enough persistence and situational awareness. And of course, there would be story changes depending on whether Virgil is guiding Solomon or merely watching from the shadows. Plus, for a small spoiler, there wouldn't be any surprise twist where Virgil was trying to take over Solomon's body. It'd merely be a puzzley exploration game where two lonely, curious souls form a weird but cozy friendship, all set against the backdrop of a weird Lovecraftian otherworld. "I have such sights to show you... ...no really, I do! Come on, it'll be fun!"

@@GmodPlusWoW There is indeed a game in there.

@Meat Box Plays Well, you're in luck: there's a game called Sucker for Love in development. There was a proof-of-concept version in Dread X Collection 3 IIRC.

Sounds like a game that could have benefited from some guitar hero like gamplay moments.

I love the way Yahtzee has developed as a critic. You can tell he loves the medium, and though he has high standards, he looks for positives and revels in the joy of gaming

... trying to take over the world?

So was it any good? 🤣

​@@ChristopherCubbage It was good.

im woalkin hyeere

More of an indictment of 2021 than anything else really.

Okay I'm glad I heard that joke correctly. I was like "wait a second" when I heard it

Old school horror revival is a thing for ages. Many horror are mimicking the PS1 era. Notably Puppet Combo

@@asianjackass237 Oh I know about them. Kitty Horrorshow is pretty great too. I meant something that sticks close to the Silent Hill and early Resi formulas in terms of design, but using them to tell original interesting stories, exploring new settings, new types of horror, or modernising them in appropriate ways etc. I really love what RE7 and REmake 2 were going for, and even as a huge fan of fixed camera angles and tank controls, I must say they did an excellent job modernising the formula.

I'd just like to have a survival horror game akin to classic RE but without the fixed camera tank control style gameplay, cause Jesus people have such an unhealthy hard-on for that stuff.

​@@TheCyclicGamer Crow Country

Then 90% of the audience needs to get over themselves

And the devs

@@addex1236 could not have said it better myself.

I was thinking it was because that's 90% of indie game developers.

@@addex1236 What does that mean?

He's probably used to the puzzles from Silent Hill where sometimes it's just "find the thing" and sometimes it's "re-arrange this bookshelf according to Macbeth."

Second that on some of those puzzles being absolutely bonkers

@@Vysard one of them was literally "TURN OFF THE LIGHTS, EQUIP THE LIGHTER AND WALK AROUND THIS ONE DEAD DUDE 3 TIMES". I get the slight context they gave you but fuck man they could've helped you out a little bit more on that one lol

Which puzzles did you find to difficult? The only one that stumped me was the reincarnation one.

For example, people who never knew what a floppy disk is would never know how to un write protect them.

One of the best comments I’ve ever read for a video by The (Artful) Escapist

Not going to lie that was actually pretty witty word play

Please no sir you cannot leave you've been requested in the vip hand job section with bottleservice.

Zero replay value, basically.

@@Mernom yeah seems that way, unless you wanna take the same trip again

it's basically Florence but longer in terms of interaction. also a fantastic experience.

So basically it amnesia amfp. Ok.

It's a fucking blast though, I loved it

More like a solo version of It Takes Two, IMO.

@@StrikeWarlock I honestly enjoyed playing It Takes Two. Watching someone else play it removed some of the novelty from the game for me. It just looked like a game with a ton of poorly thought out ideas and mechanics, but definitely played much better than it looked.

And/or a dose of mescaline

Do you people really need narcissist crittc,who doesn't really review game to tell you ,if a game good or not , instead finding out for yourself

@@wackywoohoopizzaman1290 I ain't got that kinda time.

That game also has a weird thing where you're supposed to be out-singing your opponent, but all you're actually doing is copying them. Maybe there could be a twist where you're on the offensive for once? Imagine the 5 lane guitar hero structure, but instead of items being sent down towards you, you hit the notes to send notes up towards the boss, and each boss has you trying to figure out what rhythm and melody you have to play to hit them, or "appeal to their musical tastes" as it were. I don't think I've ever seen a game try to make composing music a mechanic instead of just reacting to music, and maybe that's for good reason, but it sounds like it would at least be interesting.

@@thundergamer64 I completely agree. It'd be nice to actually play a harder version or take over the song or something that isn't the comparitively low bar of playing worse but not bad enough you lose. Heck just making the ai fail notes sometimes would help with the feel that you're out singing the other guy.

@@thundergamer64 that sounds like hell to program, if theirs any degree in freedom of input haha

@@sid6645 Fair lol. Like I said, probably a good reason it's never been done.

@@thundergamer64 maybe a system that uses perfect notes as actual attacks, normals as blocks, and fails as damage? Composing music would really be a bit much, but a combat mechanic could be devised. Maybe using a rap battle style?

Or something like Everhood, even.

Comedy option: A finger on a Monkey's Paw curls, now everyone makes music battles play out like the final boss fight in Drakengard

@@davidmurray3542 It is, but it's so good.

Yeah but you really don't want somebody like Yahtzee to review a version of it with only what, two ships and zero progression? Hold off for the finished product so it's a thing he can get lost in for a few hours instead of a thing he's constantly running into the 'under construction' signs for.

Funny thing is, SH had an option to play it in over-head 3rd person mode, if you knew what to change as well as access to the special options menu. Tho since some items become hard to spot/pick-up, requiring L2 to go into fixed angle, it was amazingly intuitive with the tank controls. However it was believed, in those days, fixed camera was more "cinematic".

I know a game which is basically a picture book. It was interesting enough, so I don't want to be excluding it.

@@11equalsfish yeah, I think “choiceless visual-novel” (images, maybe a smidge of animation, text, music/sound effects/voice-lines, and waiting for the player to hit “continue”) is a valid medium, though I think unfortunately such things would probably be too often judged as a game, and therefore be rated poorly due to the lack of gameplay, instead of being evaluated for what they are as a storytelling medium. I don’t know of any work which is in this medium, but still. Text alone is certainly a valid medium. I see no reason that this medium couldn’t be a good one for certain combinations of “the story the author wants to tell” + “the resources/budget and skills of the author”. Of course, maybe with unlimited budget/skills a movie would always be better(?), but budgets of time and money, and also skills, are limited, so I expect that in some cases this would be a good choice of medium.

@@drdca8263 Visual novels, both choice-having ones and not, are exactly what they say on the tin. Novels with visuals, books with pretty pictures and sometimes voice acting. That's not a bad thing, it's a legitimate way of doing something and there are some Visual novels I adore, but they aren't games. They're books. Sometimes they're like old-school choose-your-own-adventure books, where you get to make choices that can kill the MC. But that doesn't make them a game. They're still a book. And that's OK, they can be great books, with great pictures and voice acting. But they shouldn't be judged as a Game, because that's not what they are. In short, I agree with you.

It's real good, and another medium wouldn't let *you* feel like an interdimensional rockstar.

@@macmcskullface1004 How in the fuck is saying "A visual NOVEL should be considered a type of NOVEL" gatekeeping?

Maybe the demons were going to kill them all the whole time? Or maybe it was Tropetty Trope who did the murder? They always seem to be the most predictable!

Nowhere near. If you don't care about Spoiler, the best analogy would be: Silent Hill 3

There was a running gag that he refuses to review borderlands 3 because he was that uninterested.

Honestly it’s probably for the better. He didn’t even finish the last game and I thought his review of it wasn’t very good, and I rarely ever feel that way about his content.

He didn't like the first one much and I doubt Lost Judgement could do much to change his mind

Because it's a game meant to be played while tripping. Can't ask for complicated inputs there.

hi

Unrelated to the video or your comment but your avatar just caught my eye. My guess is "Austro-Argentinian bisexual basketball player", or is that a brownish volleyball?

@@axelprino LOL. It’s an an old badge from a football club, Estudiantes de La Plata. The red/white ribbon is the club’s colors, the light blue/white ribbon is because the club is from Argentina. Their shape along with the ball is supposed resemble the trophy of the Intercontinental Cup, which we won in 1968, you might be able to see the year written there. I edited the background to be the bi flag instead of white.

I don't think his point is "it's unintuitive so it sucks", I think his point is "it's unintuitive to the point of being annoying for no reason, beyond pastiche of earlier console games that only used those design elements because it was the best they could do with the hardware". He's said the same about Sonic Mania in the past. The genre has so many better examples. Go look at the Haunted PS1 Demo Discs or Puppet Combo if you want to see people doing cool stuff within the same space.

Everything is a cliche if you describe it sarcastically enough.

@@isabellamorris7902 which I dont get compre to RE or silent hill games tormanted souls is much easier and more forgiving you get a riddcouls amount of ammo all the enemies are slow and weak there is no dog enemies almost all of them die from 1 shoutgun shell and you get over 100 shells

I'm not sure Yahtzee would play Wandersong and say "I wish this game had gameplay." though. A hold-right walking simulator is something else. Edit: Looked up Artful Escape gameplay, and I wasn't even sure when the gameplay was actually happening. My best guess was a part where you play a note every 5 seconds or so in response to a prompt. Based on a visual indicator, I'm guessing there's a total of 3 possible inputs.

I played the demo and, when she woke up naked in the bathtub, my first thought was "which classic horror game is this a homage to?"