Zero Punctuation: A Shadow's Tale

[Motakikurushi]

I find it funny how the average critic consensus on this game is terrible while user reviews have been attempting to praise it as a lost treasure belonging to the garden of eden. There's no greater sign of fan desperation than pathetically attempting to raise the status of a solitary wii game because, hell, it's all they have.

 

[Danny Slaghek]

There's also another 2011 release, Magicka. I seriously recommend checking it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0PbjqwJTZs&feature=related

 

[Belbe]

Well as terrible a time as Yahtzee seemed to have with this game, he still spent quite a bit of time and effort on it regardless

 

[Allurse31]

We Aussies have been banging on about slow release dates for games (especially YOU, Nintendo) for ages now. It's nice that someone with some presence in the global gaming community is doing it on our behalf now.

 

[Rorschach II]

Don't diss New Zealand. -_-

 

[beema]

haha excellent episode
I also have never heard of this game

Something I've been wondering for quite a while now, who is that face that appears at 3:18? He keeps using this guy's face, I'm sure it's significant or something

I've asked that before and never got an answer. I too am curious who that guy is. He uses it all the time.

 

[M12G]

Oh boy, back tracking!

At least when they did it in Halo, it wasn't completely like hitting a rewind button, they threw a few things at you to spice things up. Back tracking is awful, but if you have to do it, at least add a little something!

P.S. I finally got a copy of MOGWORLD. It's a great book, I highly reccomend it. Keep up the good work Yahtzee.

 

[Pebkio]

Yahtzee, in the span of five minutes, made me aware that the game ever existed AND that I'll never buy it... or steal it... or even remember the box art. Also, there was some comment about this was the angriest that Yahtzee has ever been. I'm sure also that some debate was started over angry Yahtzee (maybe).

However, you're all wrong unless you said the final minute of his Halo Wars review.

 

[Roddly]

King Graham sprite

 

[Artlover]

The overlong sword is also too short? How the hell does that work?

It doesn't. This claim is false. You do not have to even hit enemies with the sword for them to take damage and die. Perfect test everyone can do to see this is go to any area that has those imp looking things floating around with the balloons as they have a predefined and fixed movement. Stand just out of swords reach of any point where they stop and change direction, wait for them to get there, then swing the sword. Not even the swoosh graphic that the sword makes will touch them, but they still die none the less.

Honestly, I wish this claim was true. That would atleast give some sense of purpose to the meaningless and completely riskless fights that do nothing but slow down game flow. The game is already boring enough without such padding.

Come on Ben, there was no reason to resort to lying and making up a non existant issue just to get pissy over. It's a Wii game for f's sake, that fact alone gives it more then enough valid gripes to make half a dozen videos over. I know you like to exaggerate any issues a game has for the sake of AVGN style dramatic effect, but there wasn't even the slightest grain of truth to exaggerate behind this. Poor show, Ben. "Journalistic Integrity", google it.

 

[Strain42]

In regards to Yahtzee being angrier than this...I admit that for a full length video, this does sound close to the most annoyed he's ever been with a game as a whole.

But I would say his big finale on the Sims 3 critique is probably the angriest we've ever actually heard him without him just being sarcastic.

 

[Swifteye]

Ugh. When will this drought of review worthy games end? Is it because of the issue at brisbane? If it is that's okay no one had any control over that the weather is really crazy everywhere. He might end up reviewing dead space 2.

 

[Serenityrade]

I like the above statement greatly. I think the fact that Queensland has been recently hit by a cyclone could be a bit unsettling.

 

[Kernalgohd]

Gotta get that air conditioner fixed man.

 

[ThommyDude]

why am i getting a "Stream not found" error thingy? anyone else have this?
i just tested it and had it on other videos aswell! whats happening Escapist?! WHATS HAPPENING?!

 

[Random Fella]

If Australia was the only place left it would fail, the terrain of grassland just isn't big enough... Lucky you included NZ We rock at making food haha.

 

[Duffeknol]

This may not be kosher for The Escapist's comments (Yahtzee's videos are rarely the place for comment standards anyhow), but I thought I'd give an antithesis to Yahtzee's review which many of your are gobbling up from one such as writer Scott Jones, on Reviews on the Run. They're critical too, but I must point out the scores which are pretty high.

http://www.reviewsontherun.com/watch/10/8/1/0#

I'd like to pick it up someday myself, hopefully, if I can find the time for it .

That

was awful.

I should've shut it off the moment they imitated robots, I feel bad that I didn't.

 

[Zanaxal]

Yahtzee you descibed esentially the whole genre of platform games with a word-sentence. Sameboringy etc.

It really won't ever get better then Mario1-4 or Sonic 1-3.

Or well Prince of persia is the only ones that seem to be doing the genre justice and trying to move forward.

And it was one of the pioneers :O

So my suggestion to you is just play prince of persia xD

 

[vonseux]

KINGS QUEST FTW!!!

 

[lucifer6642]

I'm getting stream not found errors as well. Was having worse problems yesterday when the player did not initialise properly and none of the controls worked never mind actually trying to load a video