I am really surprised at the anger towards Yahtzee for this review. I mean, he may have not played the whole game but everything he said in his review does stay true threw the game.
No it doesn't. The percent of possible fetch quests drops from 30% to 0%, and the percent required drops from 25% to 0% as well.
All that happens as time goes on as the size/difficulty of the monsters increases.
That's... kind of like saying all that happens in any game is it gets harder and more complex. All that happens in portal is that the puzzles require more advanced techniques. All that happens in Half Life 2 is the story gets longer. All that happens in Dwarf Fortress is that your fortress expands exponentially with your framerate decreasing proportionally. None of those are bad games, are they?
Even further, Yahtzee didn't even get to the actual monsters, he just beat up minions. It's like saying portal sucks because you never got the damn portal gun.
This game is just one grind after the other to get better gear to kill the next monster so you can.... grind for more gear.
I really hate using terms like this, but the only word that can describe this is "lolno." You don't *ever* need to grind out better gear. I got through the entire game using weapons I had made solely from completing missions and gear I got from drops while hunting on nonmissions/killing extra 'peccos during missions he showed up in. I beat the game with T2 weapon(s), a T3 SnS, and a T1 armor (online rank; offline, it would be 4, 5 and 2, respectively), none of which needed grind.
He also didn't review the multiplayer but did he have to? I mean the multiplayer was just the single player but with up to three more people.
Again, the answer can only be summarized with a hearty "lolno." The multiplayer had additional monsters, event quests, instant access to boss monsters, and, seeing as the game is designed around fighting with four players, it's a lot more fun that way. It's like picking up FPS games made near entirely for the multiplayer with an excuse plot thrown in, and saying they are shi... wait, he does that. Not that it's a bad thing to criticize the single player, but he didn't even bring up the fact it's designed around multiplayer. Then again, he didn't even bring up the fact you're supposed to hunt monsters, so, y'know, priorities.
For his reviews in general, I think they have always held a good deal of weight. He takes the worst parts of games (when they are there) and exaggerate/focus on them for comic affect. Just because what he said is childish or funny doesn't mean it's not true.
That's the problem, though. He's disingenuous at best and outright lying at worst when he does this, and yet people take him seriously. He complains about controls without mentioning you can change them, complains about features that are in games, and doesn't even get past the tutorial on games yet acts as if he had seen the entire experience, even going so far as to say the game was entirely about killing weak monsters. As a humor source, he's OK, and if that's all people took him as, there'd be no issue, but when people register one post per video accounts just to say "Yeah, that game looks like shit!" he's clearly attracting people who treat his reviews as fact based on the whole experience, regardless of whether or not he pointed out the whole experience.
All I'm trying to say is that A: Yahtzee should have at least mentioned he didn't get far in the game, like he did in FFXIII, and B: Yahtzee should consider pointing out his opinions are exaggerations, he doesn't fully play all the games, and the fact if he didn't mention it, it's probably good in the actual video (even as a disclaimer on the alt text), instead of acting serious about it, misrepresenting games, and saying "Oh, if I didn't criticize it, I liked it" on his much less read column.
