Zero Punctuation: Kirby's Epic Yarn
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Hilarious and true at the same time. I am a huge fan of the Kirby series so I was disappointed with how elementary this game is. Kirby's cute but his games usually fall into that category of games that loudly declare, "YOU SUCK" when you fail to do something. Not Epic Yarn. It really felt like my hand was being held throughout the majority of the game. The only real challenge was to make sure you got everything you needed within a level so you didn't have to go back and replay the whole thing for just one item.
Children eight and under might really like to own this game, but for everyone else I recommend a week-long rental.
Children eight and under might really like to own this game, but for everyone else I recommend a week-long rental.
Hmm, are we going into anagram territory now? I'd like to see some more of that.
In my opinion, I think that the whole detour to what this games teaches (or not) to young players took a bit long and detracted from an actual review of the game itself (storyline, design, play mechanics, etc). I did enjoy watching this review and Yahtzee's hypothetical child rearing prowess, but if I could not buy a game based on that review alone.
Good job!
In my opinion, I think that the whole detour to what this games teaches (or not) to young players took a bit long and detracted from an actual review of the game itself (storyline, design, play mechanics, etc). I did enjoy watching this review and Yahtzee's hypothetical child rearing prowess, but if I could not buy a game based on that review alone.
Good job!
I'm going to hell, but I laughed.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Also, Care Bears: Epic Mecha Battles would rock.
Honestly lately sometimes I feel Yahtzee hates on games just to hate on them. There are so many great things about this game that he simply failed to mention, and a lot about it he just misinterpreted almost specifically to make it look worse than it is. Seriously, Yahtzee, what happened to you pointing out things that were actually bad in games and simply overblowing them for humor's sake? ZP is rather quickly working its way lower and lower on my priority of shows to watch on the Escapist...
Oh look, another episode where Yahtzee reminds everyone he doesn't like the Wii. *clap clap clap*
/disapointment that he didn't review DA2.
In all seriousness: Yeah, he's right for the most part. The lack of challenge is what seriously cost this game. To all devs: don't be afraid to challenge kids or remind kids that they fucked up! It makes the victory that much more satisfying!
/disapointment that he didn't review DA2.
In all seriousness: Yeah, he's right for the most part. The lack of challenge is what seriously cost this game. To all devs: don't be afraid to challenge kids or remind kids that they fucked up! It makes the victory that much more satisfying!
I bought Trilogy despite already owning all three games... (Well my Prime 3 disc broke but that's beside the point), sadly us Europeans only got a shitty cardboard case rather than a metal one like the US did, as usual we get cheated out of stuff like that...icame said:
Still, I'd really like it if he did review Trilogy, would be interesting
oh please like your generations was any betterDoomBlackDragon said:
Am I the only one who's a bit disappointed that he barley said anything about graphics and art style?
and I guess we will get a more "Serious" look at the game in Extra Punctuation
I'm hesitant to say "missed the point", but I feel that the purpose of getting the gems wasn't just to buy stuff for the apartments, but also to get as high a score as possible on each level. Getting the satisfaction of collecting a gold medal, and beating your own score. It's about mastery, not just completion. Kind of like what a shmup might be like if put in an easy-going platformer.
I miss old school kirby crystal shards for the n64 THAT was an epic kirby game
fire+fire=UBER FIRE
lightning+ice=FRIDGE
Fire+Ice=USELESS
i could name all of them XD
fire+fire=UBER FIRE
lightning+ice=FRIDGE
Fire+Ice=USELESS
i could name all of them XD
And this is one of the prime examples as to why I gave up on the Wii. It's not appealing to me. Yeah, it looks good. But... this is coming from the console whose rampant fanboys tout "it's not the graphics, it's gameplay that makes the game!" Well, explain this game, then. It looks good, sure, but there is no consequence for failure (so you can't call it a "game" so much as it's an "interactive whatsit"), and its gameplay is very subpar (sorry, it is. It's essentially Kirby minus what makes Kirby good). Something any other video game developer would've been given a huge panning for. But Nintendo... they can do no wrong.
All I can recall about my feelings over this title back when it was announced was a series of imagined frowny faces followed by actually feeling a great deal of disappointment.
I can imagine it's probably at least somewhat entertaining to play if you're like me and grew up with the little pink bastard showing up at some point in your life of playing video games. But now that I'm older and jaded I wonder if there will ever be a proper title released for this old franchise.
But when I come to think about it, that will probably never happen. Or at least if it does it's just a modern re-rendering of old material.
I can imagine it's probably at least somewhat entertaining to play if you're like me and grew up with the little pink bastard showing up at some point in your life of playing video games. But now that I'm older and jaded I wonder if there will ever be a proper title released for this old franchise.
But when I come to think about it, that will probably never happen. Or at least if it does it's just a modern re-rendering of old material.
Hmm, so the death system is kind of like Wario Land 2's death system. In which you only lose money when you get hit and you can never die. Of course if you were hit in a boss fight, than you'd get set outside the boss room and you'd have to try again.
That logic only applies to the fairy tale world!Nincompoop said:
I Loved Yahtzee's review of this. Seriously you really don't die!
WTF!?!?!
TEACH KIDS SOME FAILURE DAMMIT!! It's what inspired us older gamers to do better at a game.
What would Battletoads be with infinite health?
What would Altered beasts be with limitless continues?
Crap what would Mario, Sonic or Megaman be like if they couldn't die!?
Challenge the little buggers Nintendo. You did it so well to us in the past, I think this generation deserves just as much a kick in the ass as we got.
The same. All the area's look very cute. The whole game feels like made of yarn and patches.Irridium said:
Indeed the challenge is not that big except if you go and try to go for 100% (like nintendo is known for their ingame achievements). Specially the racing maps are try and error or remembering the complete map (like the old 8-bit games).
YES YES YES YEEEEEE*Orgasms*EEEESXxOyasumixX said:
Thank you for bringing up that awesome game. That's what Kirby was about god dammit.
By far one of the hardest last bosses I've ever faced IMO as well.
