I was actually eating cake while watching this. Suffice to say it was very delicious...just like the video! :-D
Zero Punctuation: Super Mario Galaxy 2
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Awesome review, but going over your reviews of the previous Mario games (and the Pokemon reference at the beginning) makes me wonder when enough is enough. They've dragged Mario through the mud covered forest and back just to show how much he can handle but there is a point that Nintendo needs to kill a series before it's completely bare and raw and there is nothing left to cover the dang series except to use the shit and leaves around to cover itself. I am still disturbed by Nintendo's remakes of the old Pokemon games and their current project of the fifth Generation, Black and White! WTF? I am still actually a fan of the series, but when you make the equivilant of God and aliens, I am not sure where else you can go from there. Despite its main series being a non-consule platform, when those games come out, I would love to see if you review of it and the whole Pokemon series in general in one go.
i watched the video saw the analogy to cake and i wondered how many people posted about how the cake is a lie. lol. ah..long live the cake which is a lie.
This was your best one in a while. Loved the part where you slapped yourself, and also, I absolutely whole-heartedly agree with your Simpson opinion.
Ditto. And perhaps Mario should get Peach a portal gun so he doesn't have to waste millions of dollars (and multiple hours of horrendous pitfalls) to save her every year.wooty said:
yeppers sure did. i even went to my frig to get some wine only to relies i was all out.DarthNader26 said:
Thank you, Yahtzee, for a tidily brilliant review. I was thinking that you were going downhill after Alpha Protocol (which you were making out as half-good until you surprisingly bashed it at the end). This review restored my faith in you.
For someone who rags on Nintendo for doing the same thing over and over I must say that that is exactly what you do. Same yellow background, same tired complaints, same crude animations. I think the Yahtzee character could use a little more story. I really enjoyed the way you liked Portal, it was a tiny glimpse of a more well rounded view ("story") of you. I think over the years Nintendo has grown the Mario universe by leaps and bounds, while this show remains EXACTLY the same...
I love Branston Pickle though. Thanks for showing me that.
I love Branston Pickle though. Thanks for showing me that.
Pretty poor review; there was hardly any reviewing aspects in it. I think the only word he used to actually describe the game was "fun" at the end. Yeah, and? After hearing him go on about SMG2 in his previous reviews, I was expecting something a bit more than his usual Nintendo rant, which is getting pretty damn old by now. Yeah, Mario doesn't have a story and Nintendo has their main IPs, but I don't care, because the games are fun.
And it saddens me that people take Yahtzee as an actual critic, where his reviews can be used as "proof" that a game is good or not. That's like believing everything Stephen Colbert says. It's sickening to see people laugh and agree wholeheartedly, or express relief that they didn't buy the game because Yahtzee says it was bad. If you bought every game Yahtzee greatly enjoyed, you'd own around five games for life. And he didn't even talk about the game much in this review, and I'm seeing people agreeing when they've never even played a Mario game. If you think the game is crap because you've played it, fine, but don't do so because of Yahtzee.
And it saddens me that people take Yahtzee as an actual critic, where his reviews can be used as "proof" that a game is good or not. That's like believing everything Stephen Colbert says. It's sickening to see people laugh and agree wholeheartedly, or express relief that they didn't buy the game because Yahtzee says it was bad. If you bought every game Yahtzee greatly enjoyed, you'd own around five games for life. And he didn't even talk about the game much in this review, and I'm seeing people agreeing when they've never even played a Mario game. If you think the game is crap because you've played it, fine, but don't do so because of Yahtzee.
I wasn't all that impressed. Rather than actually dig into the game and critique the finer points, most of it was just the usual rant you get from any Sony/Microsoft fan & Nintendo hater.
I mean really, do people honestly think Nintendo should just stop making Mario games when they're always well recieved and sell multi-millions, just because a specific group of gamers think Mario is stupid? Kind of funny how it seems to be a roughly 12-25 age group that hates Mario, while -12 and 25+ love him. My long standing opinion on Nintendo always re-hashing their franchise is this:
So pretend for a second you liked Mario Galaxy. Now quick, name several high quality titles that offer a comparable experience. Now try the same thing for Halo/GTA/God of War/WoW/etc. See a problem? From that perspective you could say Mario Galaxy 2 is for more original than the majority of other big budget titles out there, when even if it's a new IP it's usually comparable to plenty of other games already released, with the occasional exception like Assassins Creed.
I mean really, do people honestly think Nintendo should just stop making Mario games when they're always well recieved and sell multi-millions, just because a specific group of gamers think Mario is stupid? Kind of funny how it seems to be a roughly 12-25 age group that hates Mario, while -12 and 25+ love him. My long standing opinion on Nintendo always re-hashing their franchise is this:
So pretend for a second you liked Mario Galaxy. Now quick, name several high quality titles that offer a comparable experience. Now try the same thing for Halo/GTA/God of War/WoW/etc. See a problem? From that perspective you could say Mario Galaxy 2 is for more original than the majority of other big budget titles out there, when even if it's a new IP it's usually comparable to plenty of other games already released, with the occasional exception like Assassins Creed.