Trek to Yomi & Ravenous Devils (Zero Punctuation) 

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"Don't worry, someone bored will probably translate this for you" Oh ffs Yahtz. Can't say I didn't see this coming from a mile away though. But jokes on you, I know Japanese and it only took like 20 seconds scouring my brain for forgotten college knowledge to understand.

So, Yahtzee wished Ravenous Devils was meatier because it left him hungry for more

Ending up in J-Hell to confront your sins and the people you wronged in Life is pretty high up on the Kurosawa Meter. Bonus points if your character realizes the futility of their actions and/or the only reason why they're dead and in J-Hell is because of the demands/expectations of Japanese society.

I'd love a spore-kind of game but for gastronomy. So you start as a burger flipper, having some timing-based missions for burgers and fries, but instead of just making the recipes more and more complex, you get promoted to shift-manager and now you can delegate those missions to other employees. If you don't have enough employees you still have to do some of the missions yourself and your employees have different strengths, so not everyone can do every mission with the same speed, etc. Then you get promoted to store-manager, where you have to hire employees, promote them to shiftmanagers and take care of buying ingredients. Then you become regional manager, where you have to open different branches of the chain and take care of things like rent, money allocation, decide specials for different branches, etc., after that you become the national Vice President and have to make deals with providers and politicians about zoning laws, employment laws, etc. At the end you'd be like international CEO and have to deal with expansion to different countries, where you need to understand their different laws for every country and bribe politicians to get tax-deductions and relocate certain aspects of your company to different countries to make the most money. So it starts out like a flash-minigame, becomes a management game into a strategy game and ends up as a politics-simulator and everytime you get promoted you have to make sure that your succesor is doing a good job as well. This could also be done with different franchises with different playstyles. So when you start, you decide if you want to work at a mcdonalds style restaurant that is already established worldwide and you just get promoted internally or you start at a local pizza-chain with 3-4 restaurants, or you work at a food-cart that hasn't even established it's first restaurant yet and depending on where you start the challenges are different. Maybe you can even swap out, when you start at a mcdonalds and then when you become a store-manager you can chose to switch jobs to a smaller pizza-chain, etc. Or maybe add something where you can buy out the competition to expand your company to have different brands with different needs, etc.

The McDonner Party.... brilliant. One of my favourite signoff lines ever.

15 years ago if you told me Yahtzee would have a weeb arc where he praised games like Persona and 13 Sentinels and started a video by saying he should learn Japanese I'd have told you that you were going to hell for lying. Welcome to the club Yahtzee. We're not all smelly weirdos, I promise.

The end credits remind of the guy that got “I don’t speak Chinese” tattooed on his arm in mandarin

some great punchlines in this one. i cracked up about the "hiring a pool boy" line and the McDonner party.

Despite how _Trek to Yomi_ sounds mildly disappointing, I do now want to rewatch _Yojimbo_ more than I already did. So thanks. Also it's hilarious how the loving couple of _Ravenous Devils_ is an utter indictment of how poorly romance in a relationship tends to be written given that literally murderous cannibals sound more functional than 99.99% of fictional couples.

I lost it at the wedding ring and McDonnor Party

that Donner party joke got me 🤣🤣

He actually got the logo of my/his school. I dropped out too. You made the right decision Yahtz

Compulsory like on the video on account of the stinger at the end. Freakin brilliant.

McDonner Party is a freaking genius pun

McDonner Party. I spent way more time laughing at that than I should have and now my cats and daughter are terrified of me.

The McDonner party is Yahtzee’s best closer ever

Hallmark's Japanese branch really has it all figured out. There are _at least_ four different flavors of "Sorry to hear your master got got" (though two of them _were_ both "... by your substantially more accomplished older brother"). I didn't look too hard to get an exact count, though. They were right next to a bigger collection that boiled down to "Sorry, [blood relation], but I'm not really interested in you, sexually", and I didn't want to think about that too hard.

There's an achievement in Ravenous Devils for acting like a good parrent to an orphan from story. It's kinda fucked up to think that somewhere in the world there's actuall child being neglected by his mother gunning for that achiev

That gigantic corn dog comes with an awesome stick

Have they reviewed Milo & The Magpies yet? Seems like a good fit.

Is anyone else getting a bug where half the comments here say they were posted 6 days ago?

When did Yahtzee review haven?

Yomi, god I should have gotten that

I didn’t know that Yahtzee dropped out of school

I bet he only reviewed Ravenous Devils to make the McDonner party joke

I would have loved to watched them play Ravenous devils

Want a really short one, the april fools joke turned actual game (Catgirl without Salad)....honestly my only real complaints are the claustrophobic screen and the near useless except they do more damage weapon upgrade, but it is a joke turned into a cheap online purchase so..

‘I’m here for it’, hand in your millennial card, you’ve sold out to the zoomers

I'll have to give Ravenous Devils a go. They even got a NSFW VA to voice the wife!

Dude for sure wrote that last joke THEN played the game

I have to say regarding Trek to Yomi that I've been turned off by it being described as "like a Kurosawa movie." When I see that I always get the impression that the devs are saying "look guys, cool Samurai stuff" and that's it. No complex themes, well thought out cinematography and interesting characters like in a Kurosawa movie, just "Samurai cool."

I wonder if they have special requests for dark meat.

For anyone wondering, the phrase in the speech balloon at 0:35 is "big testicles". Also, I am *not* boring.

Neat

The designs of the two main characters of Ravenous Devils reminds me way too much of Sig and Izumi Curtis from Fullmetal Alchemist

You didn't review Inscryption !!!

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"Japan not being in the nostalgic for the 1940s club." Ahaha yeah... uhm... who's gonna tell him?

Whenever you keep saying there is a "dry season" of new games, you can always make an episode on "New Pokemon Snap" ;-)

I love Yahtzee. I hate the way British people say "sam-yoo-rai".

I will never ever understand why some accents of the Queen's country pronounce it samyurai.

Ah yes, Sweeney Todd the game.

could someone boring translate the Japanese at the end for me?

See I'm multi-lingual and I'm even more bored than transtlating that so I'm just gonna throw that fact here and be an asshole about it.

Why are you pronouncing "Samurai" as "Sam-you-rai"? Is that actually how you say it? I thought it was just "Sam-u-rai" Have I been misled my whole life?

Am I first?

That was a long walk for the "mcdonner party" pun but it was well worth it

I feel like the easiest way to appeal to Yahtzee is to give him a protagonist with the exact same "slightly condencending, posh and sarcastic" british accent, that he has. He ends up liking most of them

Yahtzee being completely enamoured with a Morticia-and-Gomez style evil murder couple is oddly sweet.

For some reason, the Japanese and the Polish think very highly of each other. To the extent that apparently some Japanese author wrote "both nations(Poland and Japan) love honor and attachment to ideals above all else, and a reader from the Vistula River would easily understand what bushido is." The Japanese even REJECTED (which was somehow possible) Poland's declaration of war against Japan in WW2, saying that Poland was just coerced to doing that by their allies.

McDonner Party was a good payoff 😂

Might have to check out Ravenous Devils because I am a twisted little man and I only have time for short burst games between work shifts Side note, the way Yahtzee says "sam-yoo-rai" never fails to make me smile.

A restaurant sim where you murder your customers... Genius! Do you have ANY idea how many people who work or once worked in the service industry, myself included, who have been waiting to vent with this game or something like it?! Too bad it's short and doesn't let you expand your operations more like he said.

"mcdonner party" may be one of the best closing gags hes had in a while. still got it, old man!

"Don't worry, boring people will probably translate this for you" - Endcard 5:20 Why do you have to call me out this way?

Okay, someone is going to need to translate that last card.

Wonder if he ever tried Loop Hero. Seems like the sort of thing he would enjoy, pixel art withstanding and only being a Rogue-lite. Edit: After extensive research, I have discovered he did indeed look at the game and didn't much care for it, ho-hum.

Back when I seriously considered being a game developer, I dreamt of making a hitman/cooking mama hybrid (albeit set in 1930s New York). Glad someone did it in the end.

You should try Darkwood in the midst of the drought season, Yahtzee. Fantastic game with an oppressing Silent Hill 2 like atmosphere. I reckon you'd like it.

0:39 What other things does Poland and Japan have in common? - They both use the same colours for their flags. - Both of their languages are difficult to learn more for their general rules of sentence structure than how the words sound. - They're more partial to the idea of on-screen sex and nudity in video games than most American companies. - I imagine they're also both very unenthusiastic about borders with Russia, but I think everyone at this point is iffy about that idea.

“McDonner Party” is easily the most creative and witty thing I’ve heard all year haha!

“Slow to start but worth finishing” that’s some high praise endorsement coming from yahtzee.

For the end credits, Don't worry, boring people will translate it for you.

I don't think I got the "McDonner Party" joke?

That ending joke was a masterpiece, well done. Good punchy surprise on that one.

That McDonner Party joke was gold, Jerry, GOLD!

That might just be his finest punchline to date

I never thought the Donner Party would be brought up in a game review yet here we are.

I learned about the Donner party, but forgot who they were- so I went to look it up, and was pleasantly surprised to find that "MacDonners" is a burger chain in Glascow.

"When you think about it, murder is a good match for casual restaurant sims." - Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

You'd be surprised how many japanese people ARE feeling nostalgic about that 1940's to the 44

This could've been the perfect game (or concept) to feature a reverse-detective style gameplay system, where you have to hide evidence of your crimes rather than find it. That could've made it a more full experience

I'm convinced he reviewed Ravenous Devils just because he wanted to make the McDonner Party joke

That last joke really got me. McDonner is so simple but hilarious that I wish I thought of it first

"Don't Worry, boring people will probably translate this for you." Touche, but I just used the google translate on my phone. So all *I* did was tell other people what the boring people translated.

I do appreciate a stealth double review.

Yahtzee, you're the best writer on the internet! Love your content! Never stop!

I too have a too chloriney thong. It ruined the elastic. 😢

Been a while since I played a game before Yahtzee reviewed it.

Fun fact, that whole gushing blood thing was originally a technical error, which everyone involved thought the director would immediately demand a reshoot of due to him being INCREDIBLY pedantic, forcing the crew to reverse the flow of a river because he thought it'd look better in a scene. He loved the accident and left it in. Edit: Also the guy who had said blood spurting out of him nearly got knocked off his feet by the sheer force of it coming out unexpectedly

"Please don't worry. Some boring guy will most likely translate this for you. " -A boring guy

The ending pun was on point today, Yatzhee

Plus, I mean, half the people that work in restaurants look like they’ve done a few murders in their time anyway. And the other half, well…

Would bother finishing it? I could go for seconds? Some pretty high praise from Yahtzee.

Just commenting to make sure that by 退屈な人 you meant "bored people" (which is what it means) and not the rather more snide "boring people," which would more likely be つまらない人.

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Trek to Yomi: ZP's Third Blandest Game of 2022, as summed up by Yahtzee: "You know, I'm starting to relish Third Blandest as a sort of 'one true blandest' award: a game so bland, it couldn't even stand out in the field of blandness. This year, it's Trek to Yomi, a game about waving a sword and moving right, that limps its way through a stop-and-start plot before meandering to a close and disappearing from my memory until this very instant."

"I'll have the egg, tomato, onion and cannibalism sandwich." LOL! Also the McDonner Party restaurant bit at the end! XD

Just finished Trek to Yomi, it's not bad but I'd rather have ignored it. The visual is more confusing than it is interesting, and the way the game keeps changing your "roads" make it worse. The combat can get frustrating when you're trying to turn around but instead the game refuses and you get chain hit because of it. The final boss is too easy, easier than mid-game boss, and the story is just boring too with no payoff. When you get the Up+light-> light -> heavy that's all you need to use until you get the down+light -> light -> light -> heavy, which just kills anything easily. There's no easy way to try the different paths, there's no way in Yomi that I'm going to replay this game for them.

Now I want to play a stealth game kinda like dishonored but where you not saving an empire your just stocking the local meat pie shop (there are OPTIONAL cooking mini games in it but you don't get anything gamebraking for doing them)

One thing I don't understand about Ravenous Devils is why they didn't just make it actually Sweeney Todd. It's not subtle about the inspiration, and the character is public domain

Was genuinely surprised that Trek to Yomi ended up on the "Blandest of the Year" list, in the coverted 3rd place spot too, because it didn't really come across as offensively bland in this review. Maybe his opinion on it soured later?

If the devs for RD came back and tripled down on intensity and complexity, risk, and potential failure states, I would be all down for that. Maybe all that blood gets the attention of a victorian era vampire that's so impressed that he becomes a patron, giving them some minor powers. That would explain how some equipment like the sowing machine operates itself.

ow...ribs from hurting from lol at all the background jokes...

Two things that housebound moms love: watching murder mysteries and playing minimum wage job sims. Now together for the first time!

_~watches the ending animation bridge the two video games~_ Ha ha yes, very good _~patting my belly like the fat ghost from the Disney Christmas Carol~_

McDonnerParty is now going to have to be a permanent addition to my vocabulary. Somehow.

Mc Donner party goes under "jokes I need explaining but are fucking hilarious"