Zero Punctuation: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

[alexbaxthedarkside]

Aww enjoyd the jokes yahtzee , especially the blowjob in a wind tunnel face XD
and noting that the game is unrelated to the story, good stuff, Have a great week! ^_^

 

[Operations]

Ah this needs some proper Monkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUMWy4hqAg

Also to be fair to the game, Tripitaka always had a vagina in the TV series too

 

[cefm]

"Claiming that Enslaved was inspired by Journey to the West is like renaming Master Chief 'Elizabeth' and claiming that HALO was inspired by Pride and Prejudice".

Well done, Yahtzee, well done indeed.

 

[samaugsch]

Well I thought Enslaved would be shit. I was right.

Yea you know you can rely on Yahtzee for all your objective and conclusive video game reviewing needs.......
I guess this means every game he has ever reviewed is crap.[/quote]
Except for Silent Hill 2 and Shadow of the Collossus.

 

[Rauten]

A deathly laser-firing scorpion handing out postcards and fruit baskets?
I dunno about you guys, but that just reeks of t-shirt design.

 

[Aptspire]

'Journey to the West', huh? I remember watching a cartoon with this exact synopsis... :O
also, good review Yahtzee

 

[AlphaBovine]

I noticed the audio is really, really compressed on this one, that or his mic has had an off day the past two weeks. Does anyone know if this is because I am not a "Publisher Club" member and that the high quality vids are now tied into high quality audio? I do audio eng. on the side so it bugs me to no end. Sorry if it has been answered elsewhere.

 

[teknoarcanist]

I was deeply enjoying Enslaved until right up near the end, when it goes all Assassin's Creed and shoves you into mobs of bad guys for two hours. And the 'twist' at the end was a gigantic, incongruous, poorly-conceived slap in the face that almost literally had nothing to do with the rest of the game. Imagine if, at the end of Dark Knight, the Joker had revealed he was actually a robot and everything that happened during the course of the film took place in The Matrix. It's that level of jarring and bad. It makes you throw down your controller in confusion and disgust.

What clinches it is how well Enslaved flows in the beginning. The first fifteen minutes are quite literally one of the most mind-blowingly intense gaming experiences I've ever had, and the atmosphere and chemistry throughout the rest of the game is fantastic. And then it takes a flying train to bullshit-ville and everything turns unbelievably bad.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Loved the radioactive mountain goat. A must have for all amateur rock-climbers.

 

[k-ossuburb]

Wow. And so many reviewers were praising the crap out of this game, most notably for its links to the folk lore it's supposed to be based off. Then along comes Yahtzee and tells them all they're a bunch of fanboy poopy heads for believing such crap and destroys the game like a furious kitten attacking a plushie. Colour me impressed.

Edit: Completely irrelevant, but what colour is "impressed" anyway?

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

If I want to experience Journey to the West I'll read Dragon Ball or Saiyuki, because at least those have cities blowing up and a smoking, drinking, swearing, gun-toting priest respectively. I wish more people would give The Water Margin some love, even if Suikoden kind of has a monopoly on that

 

[daxterx2005]

Hooray! Dolphins!
Great review as always yahtzee

 

[findler]

I hate it when he reviews games like this. I've never even heard of Enslaved, would never have played it anyway and therefore was only mildly entertained/interested in this review. After all the big name releases that just came out, frankly I was expecting something much better.

 

[tyriless]

I starting to have an issue with Yahtzee and his criticism. He recommends nothing. I am all for him verbally dressing down the excesses of this industry but a critic tends to recommend something now and then. Now, I am not asking for him to go easy, but for Christ sake, he needs to find something he likes. The last game I remember him recommending was Bioshock and that came out years ago. Even in that case, he said something along the lines that, it didn't suck too bad so it must be GAME OF THE YEAR. Without any positives recommendation, his reviews tend to be less criticism and more observational humor. There is no purpose beyond his humor if he can't, once in a while, stake his rep on a game that he thinks is actually good. No flames please, or personal attacks. I am just looking for other thoughts on this issue.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Alright.
I'll admit it.
The "Being Sucked off in a wind tunnel face" made me laugh.

 

[TOGSolid]

Wow. And so many reviewers were praising the crap out of this game, most notably for its links to the folk lore it's supposed to be based off. Then along comes Yahtzee and tells them all they're a bunch of fanboy poopy heads for believing such crap and destroys the game like a furious kitten attacking a plushie. Colour me impressed.

Edit: Completely irrelevant, but what colour is "impressed" anyway?

Burnt Sienna

Pretty much exactly what I thought when I played the demo of this shit game. Good show Yahtzee. DMC is gonna suck so bad

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Awesome and funny review,was looking forward to this

 

[hardwiredd]

can we say Stockholm Syndrome? love a game with a good dose of that

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

also, is it just me or is Tripitaka just Nariko with a haircut and a new outfit?

 

[Arkley]

I starting to have an issue with Yahtzee and his criticism. He recommends nothing. I am all for him verbally dressing down the excesses of this industry but a critic tends to recommend something now and then. Now, I am not asking for him to go easy, but for Christ sake, he needs to find something he likes. The last game I remember him recommending was Bioshock and that came out years ago. Even in that case, he said something along the lines that, it didn't suck too bad so it must be GAME OF THE YEAR. Without any positives recommendation, his reviews tend to be less criticism and more observational humor. There is no purpose beyond his humor if he can't, once in a while, stake his rep on a game that he thinks is actually good. No flames please, or personal attacks. I am just looking for other thoughts on this issue.

Well, the thing is, Yahtzee doesn't really do real reviews, that's not his job and that's not what people watch his videos for. You don't watch these vids if you want an actual opinion of the game, you watch them for a laugh, to hear about all the bad bits of it explained with hilarious vulgar analogies. The real humour comes from knowing that all or most of his criticisms are based on fact. For example; even though I actually really like Enslaved, it's still hilarious to hear him describe the platforming the way he did in this video, because I experienced it myself and thought similar things while still enjoying the game as a whole.

TL;DR: if you want a real review, watch something else, or better yet, demo or rent it and form your own opinion. If you want to laugh at hilarious analogies, watch Yahtzee.