Zero Punctuation: Clive Barker's Jericho

[xbeaker]

mmmm.. another pipe'n hot Yahtzee review. I do so love Wednesdays

 

[SacrificiaLamb]

Great, very funny review (the first minute or so had me in stitches, especially that "magic-pimped" soldier and the granite octopus). As fate would want it, I happened to play the Jericho demo yesterday. I can only agree with the "whack-a-mole" statement - after about 10 minutes of play, I realised that all I needed to do was kill an enemy, then stand in the exact same spot, wait for the next one to arrive, kill it too, and repeat until things stopped arriving. Move to next spot until the demo is over. Not the kind of "gameplay" I'd pay money for.

It looks like you didn't enjoy the flakturms in this game either, Yahtzee . By the way, you missed the godawful checkpointing. Ooh, and I'll pitch it again: consider reviewing The Witcher.

Agreed. Please review The Witcher.

 

[Zeldy]

Filling the comments section with ignorance and bile.

That being said, I think the review was awesome as usual. Go, Yahtzee! Whoop whoop.

 

[J-Val]

Agreed. To quote the Simpsons; thank God it's Wednesday.

 

[WafflesToo]

PC Gamer (UK version) had rated Jericho, so I was prepared for Yatzhee to violently maim it. Then again, the UK version of PC Gamer is quite strict with it's ratings.
Regardless, looks like another long anticipated game dissapointing (others including Hellgate: London and Halo 3).

Nice to hear that SOME version of that damn magazine has a rating schedule not tied to the depths of the developer's pockets.

 

[SeruK]

Great work as always, thank you mister Yahtzee, I'll download that new game of yours eventually, and thank you Clive Barker for giving me one of the most hilarious reviews I've ever seen.

 

[GloatingSwine]

I can only agree with the "whack-a-mole" statement - after about 10 minutes of play, I realised that all I needed to do was kill an enemy, then stand in the exact same spot, wait for the next one to arrive, kill it too, and repeat until things stopped arriving. Move to next spot until the demo is over. Not the kind of "gameplay" I'd pay money for.

You missed the Simon Says game. The demo has a simon says game as well. And whilst I actually quite like those if they're well done and unobtrusive, Jericho's are among the worst I've encountered, because they're really long and the commands are issued with such speed that you basically have no choice but to memorise the entire sequence if you want to succeed.

 

[galaga4ever]

Top form.

Wait, weren't the Simon Says button sequences originally done in Dragon's Lair and its ilk? Shenmue stole it from them while improving it; God of War stole it from Shenmue without really improving it. Say, wasn't Simon Says popular in the early 80s? Is the video game industry just a front for an enthusiastic yet sick bunch of Simon Says fanatics?

 

[Andy Chalk]

Damn. I'd heard that Jericho was on the wrong side of good, but as something of an Undying fan - another Clive Barker game by Clive Barker that tanked - I was hoping there'd be at least enough in there to tide me over for awhile longer.

 

[J-Val]

Nice to hear that SOME version of that damn magazine has a rating schedule not tied to the depths of the developer's pockets.

Yeah, the UK version has almost facistly-high standards. If you look on metacritic, usually the UK version always rates differently from the orignal and more than likely rates lower.

 

[jaredgood1]

Played the demo. Wished I was playing Chris Jericho's Barker instead...

 

[Abbadiel]

The only good thing about wednesdays, Zero punctuation.

Also I saw the IGN review of Jericho. I wasn't as good as it sounded.

 

[dv8withn8]

Yahtzee has redeemed himself from the MoH:A debacle. Highly entertaining, thanks.

 

[Nightex]

I must thank you when i first saw the game i thought well this looks interesting but now thanks to this i don't need to waste money or time with it.

and as a side note antoher great review as always.

 

[Violator[xL]]

Great review!

You should take a shot at Hellgate indeed, and don't spare it. It's the worst.

A fan from the Netherlands

 

[Crooked Knight]

Just to chime into the increasingly large pile of annoying nitpickers, the first 3D action game I recall doing the simon-says thing was the Dreamcast Berserk game. Which kicked ass, by the way.

 

[nehebkau]

i... liked... the... game... .__.

 

[Stomp224]

Eeeexcellent! I played the demo on XBL a week ago and I too found that its easy to start backtracking without realising. I thought the point of 'Next gen' games was to improve on what went before, not caking a game in ass innard colouring to make it 'spooky'.

And that 'possess' feature? It sucks seven kinds of aforementioned ass palette

 

[nianoniano]

awesome game and review

 

[Katana314]

I actually got pretty far into the game, when it was on Gametap. Then I got stuck at one point...
I looked at a forum walkthrough for the forum. First reply was "Here's what you do. You eject the disc, and you toss it out the window and play something good."

I wholeheartedly thanked him for getting me past that point in the game.