Heh, always weird to have Yahtzee liking a game, and especially when he says the things wrong with it are why it works...sorta.
Zero Punctuation: The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker HD
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I hoped you reviewed the new ace attorney game this week, mostly because I?m really curious what yathzee thinks of ace attorney.
It's moments like this when I realize that just about say...somewhere between 20-35% of the gaming community is really good at breaking the game. Something I never really even think about doing and I'm not really good at.
Alright, so with Wind Waker out of the way, how about we all turn to our trusty crystal balls and predict how Yahtzee's review of the next big Nintendo game for WiiU, i.e. Mario 3D World, will go.
This is what mine tells me:
0 - some comments about the PS4 and Xbone doing better or worse than the WiiU, sales wise
1 - jokes about Mario being milked like the last living cow on the planet
2 - comments about 3D land not having been good
3 - comments about the game using the 4-player aspect aspect from the NEW series, just with one less toad
4 - jokes about Peach not being completely useless for once in her tired existence
5 - reluctant admission that the game is indeed really really good, being a 3D Mario game that was developed by the Galaxy team
6 - perhaps some more hits on 3D land along the lines of "it's basically the same game, except they gave a shit this time"
7 - ending joke
Not accusing you of being predictable or anything, but that's usually the approach you seem to take when you have to admit that a Nintendo game was more entertaining to you than sticking a pencil up your cockhole
This is what mine tells me:
0 - some comments about the PS4 and Xbone doing better or worse than the WiiU, sales wise
1 - jokes about Mario being milked like the last living cow on the planet
2 - comments about 3D land not having been good
3 - comments about the game using the 4-player aspect aspect from the NEW series, just with one less toad
4 - jokes about Peach not being completely useless for once in her tired existence
5 - reluctant admission that the game is indeed really really good, being a 3D Mario game that was developed by the Galaxy team
6 - perhaps some more hits on 3D land along the lines of "it's basically the same game, except they gave a shit this time"
7 - ending joke
Not accusing you of being predictable or anything, but that's usually the approach you seem to take when you have to admit that a Nintendo game was more entertaining to you than sticking a pencil up your cockhole
I was kinda hoping Yahtzee would have looked at Human Revolution again, if only to see if he thought it was worth it on the WiiU. I thought it was for the 5 bucks I got it off Steam. Oh well, maybe in the Extra Punctuation column.
There's no mystery. Nintendo outright said, when they announced it, that this is basically something to tide the Zelda fans over while they work on the next Zelda game.Wolf Hagen said:
On Granny's soup: yeah, it's the best healing item in the whole game. However, as it only fills one bottle, I kept my other three full of Faeries and potions.
Not that I spent a single rupee on potions. Not when that tree guy is giving them away for four monster seeds apiece.
Don't forget "Fnar Fnar!" and that one throat gargling sound he made in one of the E3 videos. I think that was his reaction to FF XIII, or just all JRPG's.GamemasterAnthony said:
Wind Waker was an awesome gaming experience, but I don't see myself playing it again any time soon. Everything about the design, atmosphere, and gameplay worked wonderfully, but just like Majora's Mask and Minish Cap, it skimps out on the dungeons. I found this choice especially irritating in the latter half of the game, when you're boating all over the place looking for the Triforce pieces instead of facing down a new series of fortresses (a la Link to the Past). At the half-way point of Wind Waker, I was deeply hoping that the game would require the player to explore some of the sunken Hyrule Kingdom, or have plotline magic cause that land to surface, creating more places to go in the Great Sea.
As well, I agree that the game is too hand-holding with the resource-management. I don't think I even bothered catching the jellies. As well, I don't think I ever died. It really takes any the incentive to find heart-container pieces if the enemies can't rough you up at all.
As well, I agree that the game is too hand-holding with the resource-management. I don't think I even bothered catching the jellies. As well, I don't think I ever died. It really takes any the incentive to find heart-container pieces if the enemies can't rough you up at all.
That's pretty much the problem with most remakes I've seen, they're basically the same game with a graphical update and maybe a bell and whistle or 2 thrown in. This means that everybody who already has the original game has little reason to go anywhere near it, and that's a problem since those are the people most likely to actually buy the remake to begin with.alik44 said:
I'm getting the same vibe from Kingdom Hearts 1.5, since that's basically the same 2 games that fans have already played plus the final mix stuff which isn't that much. Worse, they have an entire 3rd game they reduced to cutscenes because they were too lazy to care, and it's the one that would have benefited most from being HDed.
I lost my shit when he got to the "juggalo helicopters". It explains why I hated dealing with those bastards. They just wanted to know how my fucking sail worked!
Wind Waker HD actually makes what I think are some truly significant improvements, in my opinion.immortalfrieza said:
First: the sail, salvage hook, Wind Waker, and cannon are bound to the D-pad when you get on the ship, do you don't have to waste precious item slots on them. Second, a reticule takes the annoying guesswork our of using the cannon. Third: they added a Swift Sail, if you're one of those for whom sailing is too slow. Fourth, Hero Mode was added, for increased challenge. Finally, they greatly streanlined the Triforce Hunt that put pain to the game's pacing in the GameCube days.
As for Kingdom Hearts? The version of KH1 being used is the Final Mix version, which never made it to not-Japan before.
Check out his Symphony of the Night review for one more: "utterly nutterly butterly"!GamemasterAnthony said:
OT: I'm glad to hear that the WindWaker remake is still pretty good like the original WindWaker was. Perhaps this means i'll actually buy it once i find a big enough reason to actually get a WiiU... And Wonderful 101.
How appropriate that this Yahtzee review should come out the same week as AC4: Black Flag. Watching the review of AC4, I started thinking "hmm, the sailing seems to resemble Wind Waker, wonder what Yahtzee'll think of this?"
In terms of the potion industry, there is an optional "Hero Mode" in which enemies don't drop hearts. But Yahtzee might not have had time to try that before making the review (and it doesn't do anything about the soup).
You give him far too much credit that he would talk that much about the game itself. It will be bitching about Nintendo in general, The consoles and handhelds being unoriginal and gimmicky in the same paragraph, how Mario is tired and should be put out to pasture for the umpteenth time and maybe, just maybe talk about the game but only to say it's the exact same thing he played last time and saying that any changes made it worse.Big_Isaac said:
That's a proper Yahtzee formula for a Nintendo review.