Zero Punctuation: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

[Jabberwock xeno]

Okay, I haven't watched it yet, but...

pleaselettherebeadragonballreferencepleaselettherebeadragonballreference...

EDIT: Damn it.

I literally counted the cumber of good spots for one as I watched. There were 11.

 

[Jonluw]

I don't know what to think about his comments about the combat...

There were parts of the game i.e. - the windmill part - I spent forever trying to pass because the robots were pounding me into the ground.

I did play it on hard difficulty though.

 

[MB202]

I'm only commented because I never heard of this game before now.

...So wait, the game is supposed to be "based" on the Chinese tale "Journey to the West" and the main character is NOT an actual monkey? Man, fuck that! I don't care WHAT they replaced him with, having a monkey as the main character is what made it interesting!

 

[Electrogecko]

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.

 

[Thespian]

I bet this has thrown everyone in the UK who forgot about BST.

Certainly got me. Pleasant surprise, though.

 

[nosafetynets]

I love ZP and Yahtzee's got some great perspectives on these games, but I lose a lot of respect when he breaks out "retarded" and tries to pull it off as a legitimate review. You've got a wonderful vocabulary, Yahtzee, with plenty of other insulting words in it. Leave "retarded" out of it, please.

 

[Shameless]

strange he didn't mention anything for being a clone from the vastly superior Ico

 

[Norix596]

When I heard in another review that there was a game mechanic that kills you that was controlled by an NPC I had no further interest in it. Think about that for a second; NPC's are inherently idiotic and I'm supposed to be killing my allies not the other way around. Perhaps that's the underlying implication from the Journey to the West -- the arrogant gamers that always laugh at shooting the Marines as Master Chief and what not will be humbled by escorting an NPC that kills them instead.

 

[Zeromaeus]

This makes me dread the coming of DmC even more. Godammit!

 

[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?