Black Knight Sword & Hotline Miami
This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Black Knight Sword and Hotline Miami
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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Black Knight Sword and Hotline Miami
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Zero Punctuation: Black Knight Sword & Hotline Miami
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Good Reviews, as usual. Laughed.
To Yahtzee or anyone else interested, Errant Signal covered HL:M (with SPOILERS) in a rather interesting, if somewhat hyper-academic video:
It's an interesting look at the game and more importantly, it's relationship to the warring spouses of narrative and gameplay. You'll either find it deeply interesting, so deep it's navel gazing out it's own bum, or just a good, academic, compliment to Yahtzee's humorous review.
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To anyone who is watching these videos or reading this post without having played Hotline: Miami... GO PLAY IT, it's great fun, and incredibly cheap on budget and system requirements.
To Yahtzee or anyone else interested, Errant Signal covered HL:M (with SPOILERS) in a rather interesting, if somewhat hyper-academic video:
It's an interesting look at the game and more importantly, it's relationship to the warring spouses of narrative and gameplay. You'll either find it deeply interesting, so deep it's navel gazing out it's own bum, or just a good, academic, compliment to Yahtzee's humorous review.
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To anyone who is watching these videos or reading this post without having played Hotline: Miami... GO PLAY IT, it's great fun, and incredibly cheap on budget and system requirements.
I haven't laughed 3this hard at a Zero Punctuation since the MOH: Warfighter Doom 3 review. I wasn't laughing all that much at Zero Punctuation during 2012, so I hope Yahtzee will keep this pace of laughing to the point of falling of your chair.
I've actually played a lot of Hotline Miami recently, and it pleases me that Yahtzee decided to do a review of it. It sits firmly in the same seat as Super Meat Bot and I Wanna Be The Guy as "difficult games that are still oddly forgiving", which I find I am quite fond of.
I have to agree though, that the hospital level was bad. Especially after I had spent the first 50 or so attempts sneaking into the managers office from the other way, before I finally succeeded... only to discover that the door was locked, and I was supposed to go find the keycard, then go through the office and adjacent rooms the opposite way I had went, before darting into the elevator.
I just felt exasperated after that level...
I have to agree though, that the hospital level was bad. Especially after I had spent the first 50 or so attempts sneaking into the managers office from the other way, before I finally succeeded... only to discover that the door was locked, and I was supposed to go find the keycard, then go through the office and adjacent rooms the opposite way I had went, before darting into the elevator.
I just felt exasperated after that level...
Does this mean we'll be getting an FTL review? 
Also, Magenta Nutcase kitchen floor sounds pretty fun. I'll put it on my wishlist and if it goes on sale under 5 bucks again I might give it a shot.
Also, Magenta Nutcase kitchen floor sounds pretty fun. I'll put it on my wishlist and if it goes on sale under 5 bucks again I might give it a shot.
My curiosity has been peaked. What is it about self-checkout stations that makes Yahtzee want to become homicidal?
That sense of smugness when you watched Yahtzee's "Dream Web" Let's Play and understand what he's taking about when he makes the comparison.
Exactly. The funny, thing is, the two game look vastly similar.JackofH3arts said:
Anyways, was I the only one who didn't have a problem with the stealth section in the game? It's just like the rest of the game in which you take your time and plan out your routes carefully. I only got caught once before I figured out that there were windows you could be seen through and planned accordingly. And then... that was it. I didn't get caught a single time after that.
Hilarious review, but Purple Monkey Dishwasher looked much more entertaining when it was called Red Dead Redemption.
I really wanted to like Black Knight Sword. The team that brought us the wonderful Sine Mora, with a platformer reminiscent of Castlevania? Checkpoints aside, I felt that the movement and jumping was pretty clunky and the "wackyness" was rather tacked-on and not a core of the experience. I guess the day has passed where "Suda 51" means "automatic purchase".
Just gonna add my curiosity for some FTL into the mix so he'll actually do it.
I have a savegame where I got decent shields + cloak upgrade on the normal ship very early on and I'm afraid to continue and fuck the good fortune up ;_; Damn it, randomness!
I have a savegame where I got decent shields + cloak upgrade on the normal ship very early on and I'm afraid to continue and fuck the good fortune up ;_; Damn it, randomness!
I've been referring to that game as FML, because I can't seem to get past Sector 5 and yet I keep playing it instead of ragequitting in disgust.Simca said: