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when are you making an among us video?

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chondra(?) was the most insufferable.

Hey there, playtester for I.V. here. This is like my favorite video on YIIK. I have rewatched this video like 5 times now. YIIK is one of my favorite games of all time, and I think this video really does it justice in the state it is in, pre I.V.. Great video dude, keep it up, in other words lol

Wait... is YIIK just Rick and Morty?

pronouncing it not as Y2K or YICK , but as a secret third pronunciation for the ENTIRE video was a great choice

Resident Evil 5 is based and I will die on this hill. The bad parts of it are objectively funny. Also the Inscription take is pretty bad, Daniel Mullins' Pony Island pioneered modern fourth wall breaks and he is still one of the best at it.

holy shit i just realized i know someone that is EXACTLY like alex. from the monologuing to the need to save the world, hell even his appearance lol

when then panda flies away alex says "panda" like designer says "panda" in the song "panda"

I think you're really going to enjoy Freeride. There's a demo out now.

Detroit, RE5, and honestly, even Andromeda do not deserve to be on the same list as this game, holy shit.

Try library of ruina NOW!!!!!!

To be honest I love the game form the "feels" of playing it

It truly is the brutal orchestra

Been… a while but would like to see more from you, thanks for giving me some background noise while I do homework lol

Ive only consumed Yiik through fan made oneyplays funny moments videos. Seeing Michael with a revolver at the end was like a sledgehammer to my eyeball

At the end of this video and I’ve realized this is just a Neil breen movie but a video game. Wow

It’s really funny to me that I have played two RPGs with unlikeable redhead protagonists that are so much better than this. Everyone play Tales of the Abyss or The World Ends With You instead.

All of your criticism seems to stem from an incomplete understanding of postmodernism. Those moments where the game teases that it knows what to do and then takes a left turn are all postmodern characteristics. The moves that are minigames, the mishmash of themes, the monologuing, all of it. The game is telling you that it knows what to do, and it's messing with you instead. It's trying to wake you up by rustling your jimmies.

“You are the Alex of your universe.” OOF

I think there’s a semi-successful version of the Alex Reality Lynchpin where its less about how important Alex is, and more about how he is the weakest link in the cosmic chain that implodes realities that failed to rehabilitate him.

My two cents: Alex being a bag of garbage that never changes is, I think, excellent commentary on how real people, especially self-involved people, frequently just plain don't grow and change even in extreme circumstances. In fact, it's probably a commentary on the downright cliché "flawed-protagonist-changes-for-the-better-by-the-end-of-the-story" plot that we see written over and over ad nauseum, yet we all know at least someone in the real world who straight up doesn't change for the better no matter what. The only thing more tiresome is the "antagonist-DOESN'T-change-and-that's-their-downfall" cliché it's so commonly paired with. Obviously, tropes are tropes, and stories can be incredible no matter how commonly their tropes are seen elsewhere. It's about execution, and YIIK seems to have done a "meh" job at that part, but if you ask me, it gets heat for things it did CORRECTLY as well, just that weren't what the audience expected. I mean, after all: Blood Meridian is about a bunch of irredeemable monsters who, with one exception (barely), only ever get worse as times goes on, yet people expected that from Cormac McCarthy (and his quality is on another level, so they forgave it if they did expect otherwise). This game wasn't handed to an audience with that expectation, so it kinda got dunked on for reasons it didn't deserve on top of its actual failings.

I think I enjoyed playing this game more than undertale. Maybe I’m just tired of meta stories/humor, maybe I just didn’t like the fact that killing one thing made everyone think I’m a murderer, while others can do away with many more and get away with it

What's the game at 22:20? Looks interesting

That bit about the ending very much reminds me of the ending of Earthbound, or at one point midway through the game some guy calls you up and asks you for your name, not the characters name but the players name, not the very end in the grand fight against Gygus, and you cannot win the fight and must resort to praying and you call upon your friends and all of the random cityfolk that you helped out and then finally you, the player, are called upon. Honestly, it probably fits in there as much as it does with the stuff in Yiik, but on the other hand it’s a much smaller part that the narrative does not bank on. My first Play through actually did run out of absolutely everything until Pray, Which has a random chance of doing a couple of mediocre effects normally, was the only option I really have left to continue the fight, and it actually did something. I still lost that attempt and just prayed from the start next time which did kill the fight itself In terms of tension but still good emotional resolution as I actually beat him

This is the first time I’ve heard the name being “Y 2K” instead of just “Yiik”

You didnt convinced me vaush game is gud

if these guys get a good writer they will make a modern classic

This game is ANNOYING

Play persona insted it's way better

35:00 I personally disagree with the idea that Inscription’s fourth wall breaking was pointless or boring. The whole point of inscription’s fourth wall breaking, and the game within a game, was the exploration of the four characters’ ego and how terrible their personalities are. They’d destroy their own world and trap their “friends” for control. It’s reflective of certain people in the gaming industry, especially those involved with the creation of games. Which is the creators’ whole narrative, not just in that game but also their game Hex. The killing of the creator/the character they act out in the videos, by a major corporation was also apart of this.

was so enveloped and invested in this video until he called detroit become human mid and it INSTANTLY took me out xd

commenting on a two year old video to find the song at 15:20.

this take sucks, you got suckered by a shit game. get over yourself.

i could name 20 worse games

You will sell the channel

The art style is a total banger though. I was thinking that the entire time I was watching this. Then again, I really like surrealism.

this is the grunge of videogames

Oh, is THAT how you're supposed to say the name?

Konnichiwa :]

Wait... RE5 is one of the worst games you've ever played? I mean sure, I wouldn't put it anywhere near a list of the best games I've ever played since it was generic and a little too campy, but it was actually fun to play. It had tight controls, fun shooting, cool boss battles and A SUPER BUFF DUDE PUNCHING A ROCK TO SUBMISSION.

Ayo wait a minute the hell is PvZ2 doing in the worst games playlist

Same people who published this game were also the developer and publisher of VHS (Video Horror Society), a great game with a huge following but took everyone's money from their cash shop then cancelled the game. Be careful trusting anything associated with Hellbent Games.

I think the character turning out to be the literal center of the universe is cool and wouldn't necessarily contradict a narrative of overcoming his self-centeredness. If anything, it would actually reinforce it because he is given the ultimate temptation to remain self-centered but could choose to be better anyways.

the hand of manas is awesome

I must say I have never been a fan of the idea of that being shitty to someone makes you responsible for their suicide. In the end its their own decision, and someone who suicides over someone being mean to them is either very mentally unstable or was already carrying a ton of baggage from things other people had done to them. Off course there are exceptions if someone bullies/harasses someone for a long time whilst having considerable power/control over that person's life. In this case, though, based on the limited information I got from this video, all Alex did was be very insensitive towards someone he had met recently. To blame him for Rory's suicide is absurd to me. As such I think what Rory's ghost says makes sense. He is right, he didn't suicide because of Alex. He was already messed up. Alex being a jerk was just the last drop that spilled the cup. As an aside, writing an entire alternate version of the story in which a character is missing is a lot of work. I have seen a lot of games screw up this kind of situation and make the optional presence/absence of characters feel not that impactful. So Rory's death sorta being forgotten by the game is an understandable mistake.

What Earthbound and Undertale have that this game doesn't is that they're both Rorschach Tests. Their art style and sense of childlike wonder lets the player impart their own feelings and interpretations onto the seemingly simple narrative, which creates the emotional attachment people have to those games. I don't get that from this game because it tells the audience how to feel instead of giving us an adventure that lets us feel.

maybe you how some flaw in your thinking about the first section about pacing and the setup and pay off i believe this was intended atleast to some extent. i believe its a riff on old jrpgs like final fantasy 4 where near the end of the game with no real setup you are sundenly thrust into space told your brother is the main bad guy suddenly turns good and fight a random new endboss with no setup or pay off alot of older rpgs did this so i believe that was the thinking there

I was considering playing this regardless of its badness But then rory happened The doubling down on themes of suicide, even going so far as to have an actual instance of it and dealing with it the way they did is disgusting and no thank you Dont even care if it can be hidden behind a dialogue choice It exists and thats enough of a no for me

So basically, you need friends to appreciate this game. I'm fucked