Zero Punctuation: Kirby's Epic Yarn
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You think metaknight clashes with Kirby's world?
Check out the "Revenge of Meta Knight" game on 'Kirby All Stars' for SNES. Long story short, Metaknight's bombing Dreamland with a crazy industrial-style airship, and Kirby storms that shit like fucking rambo. All the little enemies panic at his name like he's the herald of death itself. They say their goodbyes and evacuate after Kirby destroys the engines and sends the ship into a death spiral.
Kirby is some serious business.
Check out the "Revenge of Meta Knight" game on 'Kirby All Stars' for SNES. Long story short, Metaknight's bombing Dreamland with a crazy industrial-style airship, and Kirby storms that shit like fucking rambo. All the little enemies panic at his name like he's the herald of death itself. They say their goodbyes and evacuate after Kirby destroys the engines and sends the ship into a death spiral.
Kirby is some serious business.
Yahtzee just spent half the video talking about why the game is essentially broken, but the truth is he had to misinform everybody here to in order to get enough criticism into his review to make it amusing. The game may rarely use motion controls, but the ways that it does are some of the best yet on any console ever, and make the game basically unplayable on any other system....not innovative my ass....this is one of the few games out of his last few months of reviews that didn't revolve around centering your camera on a target and pressing R, and he failed to recognize how this game greatly benefited from gyro-control. Furthermore, the apartment side-quest is entirely optional. You never have to set foot inside your own, anybody else's, or the furniture shop, but the rewards for these scavenger hunts (which are completed by finding certain hidden items within levels) are new minigames that take excerpts out of levels from the game and give you varying objectives like hide and go seek, time trials, and key in locks. Also, the beads are used in each level as a scoring system, and if there's an actual problem with the difficulty of the game, it's that gold medals are way too easy to get.
And saying that the best way to analyze the game is to talk about what it would teach a child is asinine. The game would teach a child about a fictional character in a fictional world....that's made of fricken yarn.
I'm left wondering how many games I improperly judged because I never played them and didn't get to see all the blatant holes in Yahtzee's argument. How long will he continue to deny any benefit to motion controls? He needs to stop being so stubborn and pretentious and admit that certain games truly benefit from them and aren't possible without them. He needs to play Bit.Trip Beat/Flux.
And saying that the best way to analyze the game is to talk about what it would teach a child is asinine. The game would teach a child about a fictional character in a fictional world....that's made of fricken yarn.
I'm left wondering how many games I improperly judged because I never played them and didn't get to see all the blatant holes in Yahtzee's argument. How long will he continue to deny any benefit to motion controls? He needs to stop being so stubborn and pretentious and admit that certain games truly benefit from them and aren't possible without them. He needs to play Bit.Trip Beat/Flux.
After Super Wet Paper Mario, Wario Land: Collect It!, and New Chronic Mario Bros Wii, I've gotten tired of 2D platformers on the Wii (or on anything else for that matter; sorry, Limbo).
At least Mario and Sonic know to jump around and blast off in 3D along with the 2D level-sweeping.
At least Mario and Sonic know to jump around and blast off in 3D along with the 2D level-sweeping.
This game was pretty good, until I tried doing those little mini-games those apartment renters make you do. Holy shit, those things are frustrating and awful. And all you get for doing them was wallpaper I wasn't going to use, more money that I didn't need, and some points towards 100% which doesn't really mean anything important. Yay, I got 100%. So what? Once again I wasted my time playing something unenjoyable for something that when I look back on it now, it means fuck all.
Rest of the game was pretty fun though.
Rest of the game was pretty fun though.
Well, it didn't. It was made by Good Feel, not HAL. Thanks for playing though!Okysho said:
I like how many people mentioned it was so late despite him mentioning that it took ages to come over there (same with the UK.)
Nice to see him doing a Nintendo console game again. Makes up for no DKC and probably no Pokemon or Okamiden (maybe he'll do the 3DS. Who knows)
Nice to see him doing a Nintendo console game again. Makes up for no DKC and probably no Pokemon or Okamiden (maybe he'll do the 3DS. Who knows)
Damn, so they streamlined Kirby and dumbed it down. (So that no one takes me for a fan of this series: this was in allusion to the missing DA2 review.)
Death mechanics wouldn't be worth anything in this game. It'd just be another one of those things where you just start over again with no consequence anyway. Death meant something when running out of lives meant your game was over and you need more money for arcades, or in older NES and such games where you had no save files, dying too much and running out of lives meant starting the entire game over again.Imper1um said:
Now we have checkpoints and saving after every level, and dying is just pointless. Oh no, I died? Okay, I'll just start this one level over from the last checkpoint. Oh no, out of lives? Okay, I'll just start this same level over again from the start, although I might be slightly inconvenienced with a trip back to the title screen first. Neither of those are really a consequence for failure, so if a game like Kirby's Epic Yarn comes along and decides to cut the last of the bullshit and just not kill me as killing me wouldn't get in my way, I say fine.
I mean really, I have a bit of a problem saying that Kirby's Epic Yarn has no challenge because you can't die. I can't help but think back to Killzone 3 which I finished recently, and how if I died I just went back to a checkpoint. No matter how many times I died, boom, back to the checkpoint as many times as I needed until I won. It's not really more challenging to finish Killzone 3 because I can die (it is more challenging than KEY in other ways of course, but being able to die isn't increasing the challenge). Getting to the end of levels in Killzone 3 and winning was just as simple as winning Kirby's Epic Yarn as far as death consequence goes: just keep playing until you get through because there is no consequence for failure.
Anybody else wondered what Yahtzee's response would have been about letting his kid play Epic Yarn if instead of a hypothetical son, he had a hypothetical daughter?
In any case, this was hilarious. And it's funny how advertising tricks you. I didn't see any inkling about the whole tycoon apartment thing at all.
In any case, this was hilarious. And it's funny how advertising tricks you. I didn't see any inkling about the whole tycoon apartment thing at all.
He said "kids are stupid as hell" that does not exclude "we were stupid as hell when we were kids." Hell, I know I was.Srdjan Tanaskovic said:
I never expected Yahtzee to read this. Never in a million years.
But yeah, Kirby games are normally supposed to be pretty easy, but Epic Yarn was ridiculous. I thought at first that if you lost all of your beads than you'd die like rings with sonic, but I don't think you can even die by jumping down pits. Not to mention it's Kirby without crazy copying abilities. What a shame.
Also, it's pretty terrible that the use of the word "epic" to just mean "cool" is being reinforced more and more.
But yeah, Kirby games are normally supposed to be pretty easy, but Epic Yarn was ridiculous. I thought at first that if you lost all of your beads than you'd die like rings with sonic, but I don't think you can even die by jumping down pits. Not to mention it's Kirby without crazy copying abilities. What a shame.
Also, it's pretty terrible that the use of the word "epic" to just mean "cool" is being reinforced more and more.
