once you understand the game and level up your guns, its really not that hard. I died a lot in the first 1-3 levels but finished 4-6 on the first try. I almost never died on NG+. And i played for almost 100 hours. 4-6 also have way better perks on guns like healing rounds and turrets that make the game far easier.
@Ryoshikari I think she was making a gag, and I was too. Unfortunately, you took it too seriously. Its honestly fine it people have the critique that the game is overly difficult and they'd like more accessible modes. I think it is appropriate for games to offer means to tailor the experience to their own tastes, if they so wish.
@@zotaninoron3548 when truly difficult games are literally the rarest thing in gaming, nah people can bugger off. You don't have to play every single game that comes out.
@@zotaninoron3548 Not every game needs to be tailored for everybody. Some games lose artistic integrity by making it easier, some games are meant to be hard because it is the part of the experience.
Shelby doesn't talk trash, she talks smack. They're totally different. Trash talk is hypothetical, like: Your mom is so fat she can eat the internet. But smack talk is happening like right now. Like: You're ugly and I know it for a fact 'cause I got the evidence right there.
@@harbyandrefrancofernandez3310 well I mean she doesn’t write the script, matt does and I see him as an actual critic and he has great tastes, she makes it very entertaining
@@Waywurd08 well in theory they both do, because shelby needs to adapt it to her own humour and personality. Only when matt would understand more about a certain topic (like in the cyberpunk video) is when he is the one to recite and write the script i imagine
I had a bug in the game that made me lose in-game audio (only bug during 40 hours of playing) and I'm telling you, the controller sounds like an alien baby.
I'm surprised you reviewed this roguelike first before Hades. I can imagine Shelby's reaction to Dusa, Cerberus, Thanatos and Meg being pretty damn entertaining.
I'm gonna say it's the best solely because I'm pretty sure this is going to be my first and last Roguelike. NEVER doing this whole "death starts you out with nothing" thing again.
@@dapperfan44 that's a common feeling, so I get it. It feels like an artifact of gaming though. Almost every tabletop game in history (Legacy games being a newer thing) resets you to the starting point at game's end. We don't complain when a Go board is cleared or we toss playing cards back into the deck. Why do we assume that saved progress is or should be a default? That's how I see it anyway. I am not being reset, I am dealing another hand.
@@michaelmcdermott1624 I suppose it's for a few things. You grow up in the 80s and 90s (I'm actually 1990-born) and you know that when you lose all of your lives in Mario 1 and Sonic 1, you have to start all over. Then your only punishment for failure in Mega Man 1 is that you have to try the level again or pick a different level. Then Donkey Kong Country rolls around and if you lose all your lives, you can reload your save and try again-but you lose partial progress if you didn't make it to Candy's Save Point, or you lose some levels if you didn't best Tawna's Bonus Round in Crash Bandicoot. In Mario 64 you can save after every star, and you can pause and save at any time in Donkey Kong 64. Then in Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro the Dragon, you have frequent save opportunities and when you lose, you simply start back from the last time you died and any progress you lose is your own fault from not saving. Then you get to Banjo-Tooie, Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet and Clank, to find that Game Over screens have been eliminated and lives are gone entirely. Games from that point on become much less punishing and operate on a checkpoint system, save some holdovers-both Mario and Sonic games continued to have lives until Mario Odyssey and Sonic Forces in 2017. (It's kind of strange to think it took both franchises over 25 years to get rid of lives.) So here you are, you play these franchises, branch out into some shooters, and different types and genres of games that all have the same core of getting from point A to point B. But here comes this game that is outside of a genre you normally play, but has enough aspects of a genre you do play. So you play it, and you find out that all those years of games getting easier have been thrown out the window in this title. You can't even cut this game off. And Heaven help you if you put the console in rest mode and it updates overnight. There's all your progress, chump. But I admit that the game was fun. It's just the knowledge of knowing if I die here to this boss, or worse, to an "avenge this corpse" challenge, all my progress, all my scavenging, all my helpful items like Damage Siphon and being able to knock down yellow barriers will be gone. The game is definitely fun but for me personally, I couldn't put myself through that stress again. This one I'll play again, but I'll leave the roguelikes to the professionals. TL;DR years of growing up with games slowly adding features where failure doesn't mean you have to retry large portions of the game has programmed me to be less ok with a game that makes you start the whole thing over again.
@@SonicBroham The Valkyrie under Home took some time. Muspelheim was a chore with at least 10 deaths. But the queen was the bane of my existence. I have not had a more obnoxious, cheep, controller eating boss since Gill. Hell even KH Sephiroth was a cakewalk compared to them. AI Cal from Fallen Order almost drove me to madness, till I realized there is no real reward for beating him.
Sigrun took me 6 hours and it is a genius design to not have you run a few steps to her every time because a boss like this in Souls will make me pissed at every seconds of backtrack
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@@Kytetiger I was sure it was a more recent video but I went back and gave a listen anyway. Either I missed it or it wasn't there. However, she did use the diarrhea Christmas lights one. Recurring catchphrases are tight.
Game is waaay too hard for the casuals. A lot people thought it’s an easy story game I have talked with and got their a** beaten up. I love Returnal, Biome 3 is one of the coolest looking levels I have ever seen. As a from software fanboy, I love challenge and Returnal is delivering it with one of the best gameplays and sounds ever. I hope this starts a new genre like demons souls did. I don’t care that casuals where disappointed because it’s not an brain off game with cutscene after cutscene. Gameplay is king and Returnal delivers. But looking someone playing it? No way. Returnal is not that type of Game.
I am a casual gamer. Just started console gaming end of 2018 (I guess my youth on a friend's C-64 does not count). I am bad at FPS using a controller. That is why I quiet Wolfenstein and Doom after a couple of minutes. I hate hard games. They make me quit and never come back. But godammit I love Returnal! Love it so much it took me 89 deaths and about 30 hours to beat the first boss, Phrike. After this kind of training I'm looking forward to killing Ixion with many deaths less. This is not made for casuals. But you have to try it to know if it is for you anyway. Once you're hooked, you (n)ever go back.
@@elijahe7612 you will. I SUCK at games, very rarely venture beyond standard normal difficulty in them and usually have to power-level a souls game to feel comfortable even learning boss patterns. Its a cliche but i promise you it does get easier. It will hold your hand through the improvements while simultaneously kicking your ass to the point you don't even notice you are improving but you definitely are. The skills you pick up improve how you play massively too so don't be put off by struggling at the start. I honestly thought I'd never beat the first boss, then the second boss, then the game itself. All you need is patience (or stubbornness) and approach the game with the knowledge that dying can forward the story and reward you with something intriguing before jumping back in.
Meh. Hades is the baby game for rogue lites. Its like saying "dark souls1, dark souls 3, sekiro and bloodborne are cool...but i wanna see a dark souls 2 review! Thats the one i played and like". I mean its cool you got initiated into the souls series but dks2 is an abomination compared to the other games of the series. So yeah... hades is cool but is it really that good? No, its not. Its just a casual rogue lite so you can take baby steps. Now dont poop your pants.
@@kato093 nice elitist attitude. Hades is a good rogue lite period. It solves a lot of the problems the genre has and at the same time makes it open for new people who never would've played it. And good job just assuming its the first rogue like/lite I've ever played. I've played a ton of them. All of them at a certain point you can just blow through them, Hades with its heat system constantly ups the challenge.
@@jellybean358 to add to this the narrative is much better than any other rogue like I've played, which is a very short list. It's also one of, Imo, the best over all narratives in a game in a while, albeit simplistic but in its implementation. Hades might not be the best in challenge, I think the game play is tight, it's repatitive to a point, as all games in the genre are. Going to say something controversial using @kato093 referenced genre there.... Star Wars Fallen Order is a better game in that genre than the ones listed there, because the narrative is so much better. But by the same regard it's baby steps in terms of challenge in comparison. It's been a while since I watched their review of FO, but if memory serves they liked it, and I feel they would like or love Hades for the same virtues. It's probably one of those ones where Shelby would be more invested and end up putting more time in.
@@kato093 First: bro dark souls 2 is generally accepted as the hardest dark souls game. People don't like ds2 because Miyazaki wasn't involved and the level design was weird not because it was easy. Second: hades is super hard. Just because its accessible and isn't insanely difficult to start doesn't mean its easy. It gives you the option to challenge yourself and rewards it. Beating hades with maximum heat and no death defiance is genuinely one of the most challenging things in a video game I can think of and I've beaten all the souls games to ng+7, and sekiros boss rush mode.
I’m currently on my third try of just the first boss & I swear every time I think I’m leveled up enough, I get mad anxiety thinking about jumping into the pit. But I love that! This was by far the best review I’ve seen of Returnal. Thank you!
While this review is really fun and hilarious, you should watch Skill Up's review of this game. It's one of the best reviews I've seen. Like, ever. Maybe even THE best.
I'm obsessed with everything Returnal and after seeing how good your channel is everywhere for a while I decided to finally cave in and watch one of your videos. I was not disappointed. Subscribed!
I like that she managed to roast all the people that cried under the 2 TLOU2 videos one more time. I guess this means Mauler will make a 5 hours reaction video.
Last of us 2 did suck ass tho 🤣 returnal is actually pretty good at least still not worth 75 bucks tho especially considering all the crashes etc going on
This was not the heel turn I was expecting in 2021. Shelby praising a game where a core mechanic is simply repeating the same map over and over and over and over again. Fighting the same enemies with minimal/gradual story progression. I can't imagine that's a very riveting experience for backseat gaming.
I havent owned a console since PS3. And I've watched several recent comedians stand up routines who at best have gotten a chuckle or two out of me. Also, it's been awhile since I've seen one of your videos. That said, you only get better each time I watch one of your videos. I literally spit my drink out laughing at your jokes in this, and you make me nostalgic for gaming like mad. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your content. How much it means to me. To feel like an old friend, when there are no real ones in my life these days, is invaluable and beyond description. Gratitude just doesn't cut it. Nonetheless, I thank you.
Returnal is worth every penny. By the way you can turn the game off. When you beat bosses it checkpoints and opens up shortcuts. When you die in the middle of a run you can go ahead and turn it off because you lost all your items in death anyway so turn it off. The shortcuts will be there when you turn it back on.
As much as I loved Skyrim and played close to 500 hours, it's really not a good "backseat gamer" type game. Also it's a slower game which may not be their thing.
To be clear, I'm all for players that are way better than I'll ever be but don't be a jerk about it. With regards to the save thing I had my PS5 in rest mode last night and this morning there was an electrical issue in my building so they had to shut the power off. That has zero to do with my abilities of lack thereof.
1. It was a joke, considering this is a joke channel how people don't get the jokes still is just stupid by this point. 2. Don't leave your PS5 on rest mode overnight, PS5 since launch has had rest mode issues we've been warned about by Sony, let alone that "rest" is not "sleep" or "hibernate" its a rest, a break, 3-4 hours maximum, people complaining they leave their PS5 on overnight and get electrical surges with it are again just stupidity at this point.
@@CB-lw7ty I know it’s a joke show. As I said I am a fan. And I also know about the launch rest mode issues but honestly, I have no problems since the updates. Not sure why you have to call my actions stupid tho. Felt uncalled for as I don’t think I was doing any name calling.
Also, look I LOVE Dave Chappelle. One of I think the best comedians of the modern era. But I also think he can be full of it and I can certainly think some jokes are dumb and mean-spirited. Being funny is not a pass. If anything when I love and appreciate someone writing I’m more let down by what I see as low hanging fruit which the little babies thing was. Of course you are totally free to disagree but “can’t you take a joke” is I think missing the point and just seems to imply all jokes are good and valuable. They aren’t some are clunkers.
@@pajamo I agree not all jokes are good and valuable but saying "you don't need to be a jerk about it" implys that you A. didn't get that its a joke and B. that jokes are still jokes, whether you think they are funny or valuable or not is irrelevant, the point is they're throw away comments for a laugh, if it didn't make you laugh, fine, move on, saying "dont be a jerk" then writing a butthurt comment about how you doing something stupid with your console considering you also know about those console issues is as I said, stupid. If you don't want to be called out for doing and saying stupid things, then don't do and say stupid things more than getting defensive because someone's pointing out how stupid it is.
I was totally one of those people who was like "It looks fun but do I want to pay £70 for it?" and then Shelby said "Metroid Prime, Ratchet And Clank, And Doom Eternal" and now my pants are off. Definitely gonna buy it!
I sincerely feel like Returnal was worth every ounce of my $70 and then some (can't stop playing), and tbh Resident Evil Village didn't justify it's $60 price to me.
@@ag7367 that's fair! I think my expectations skewed a lot of that where I felt Returnal would be whatever and was really surprised, and then I wanted Village to be this tour de force because I love RE4 so much. just didn't click for me.
Of all the games I’ve purchased, this was definitely the best value for money. I bought it for £20 in GAME store pre owned. The brand new copy was £60. I was sceptical and cautious at first. Thought there had to be a catch. I couldn’t understand why none of the staff bought it for themselves. I could literally of bought it and sold it at CEX and made an instant profit. The disc was perfect and I’ve been having a blast with the game. Installed without any issues. Tested the suspension save feature and it worked without any problems. Best bargain I’ve found in a long while. Whilst all my games are relatively new and I’ve only just sampled the others, I can see me spending a lot of time playing this game.
I feel you. Biome 3 but stopped playing for month now. It’s really ridiculous difficult, I even don’t do damage to the elite enemies in the first biome 😂
@@franzkuntschnig1320 Ouch... Don't give up hope on the game though, I'm near finishing Act 3 now (Just have to kill Ophion - Biome 6 boss, a second time). If I could do it, so can you - Just keep practicing. :)
Return is on sale, so it's time to watch this again! I'm 100% certain I'm going to get more enjoyment out of this video than the game, but am still on the fence about buying it.
Its great and a top end game all round, worth the time, its not as hard as people make out, if you can get through games like GoW this is no different.
People often ask "what movie would want to forget so you can watch it again for the first time?" Well I want to forget the line at 5:50 so I can enjoy it again.
5:43 That cracked me up All that said, you do keep permanent upgrades when you die and come back, so you might lose up to two hours of progress, until you git gud, then you'll lose what 30 minutes? I died 115 times, and mostly in biomes 1-3(87 in 1-3, 28 in 4-6 and secret ending). Took me a while to 'get it'. Now I can get through the story with only 3 deaths usually. Tower of Sisyphus in the DLC, though, that's a true total loss, and it goes on forever - nothing kept there except a story item.
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This here is the moment Shelby went from casual to dark souls gamer
Lol fr fr 😂😂😂.
Seeing the switch live is so amusing
Backseat gamer -> occasional gamer -> completed bioshock -> casual gamer -> dark souls gamer
It's been a fun arc
This is the exact moment Shelby became Heisenberg
And the final stage, a destiny player
@@strangething7379 shelsenberg
Okay, I definitely wasn’t prepared for Shelby gamer-shaming us
That's when I gave a like to the vid lol
That portion of the video was the only catharsis I need to get this fine Sunday started.
😢😭😭😭😭
Shelby gamer is a darkest's timeline Shelby.
Took the video to another level. Might I suggest working for Kotaku?
Nothing is more gamer than making fun of people who couldn’t beat a game when you yourself did not beat the game. God I love this channel.
Trueeeeeeeee
yup, pure Essence of Gamer(TM) right there
Git gud
Most people that do that don't even own a PS5 lmao
They did but ok lol
Shelby sitting there at the end with that "My dad can beat up your dad" energy.
😂😂😂😂
Anyone who has played Returnal will know that having only 18 deaths is pretty damn impressive!
I got it in 15, but there were definitely some close calls!
Crashes are obnoxious though.
Before I started my platinum attempt, I was sitting at something like 75 deaths. So f*ck all y’all
@@christopherjones8367 I think I am already close to that in biome 3 😂
once you understand the game and level up your guns, its really not that hard. I died a lot in the first 1-3 levels but finished 4-6 on the first try. I almost never died on NG+. And i played for almost 100 hours. 4-6 also have way better perks on guns like healing rounds and turrets that make the game far easier.
I dare not even say the number of deaths I have 👀
Shelby is now a toxic enough gamer to be ready for League.
@Ryoshikari I think she was making a gag, and I was too. Unfortunately, you took it too seriously. Its honestly fine it people have the critique that the game is overly difficult and they'd like more accessible modes. I think it is appropriate for games to offer means to tailor the experience to their own tastes, if they so wish.
@@zotaninoron3548 when truly difficult games are literally the rarest thing in gaming, nah people can bugger off.
You don't have to play every single game that comes out.
needs more russian
@@zotaninoron3548 Not every game needs to be tailored for everybody. Some games lose artistic integrity by making it easier, some games are meant to be hard because it is the part of the experience.
@@zotaninoron3548 No one should be entitled to beat a game, it's a game you play by the game's rules.
Matt, she's ready. Put her through Dark Souls
You know what to do matt
She's either going to be really annoyed by dark souls or love it...
And be really annoyed at dark souls
We've already reviewed that! Where ya been?
@@GirlfriendReviews No Shelby, you need to play Dark Souls 😈
@@GirlfriendReviews Your gamer arc is nearly complete. The last stage is dark souls gamer.
"Couldn't beat the Valkyrie with all the pee pee in their diapo" 10/10 line reading
10/10 IGN it has a little something for everyone
I switched to easy in order to beat the Valkyrie Queen. No shame.
I was laughing about her baby rant until she said that, because I still haven't beat her yet. I'll beat her one of these days though
@Smurph Ftw I don’t think i ever beat the first valkyrie lol
@@jjackson6082 If you're willing to grind and get some really good gear, most of the Valkyries are pretty doable. The Queen though .... yeesh.
It's hilarious and Adorable that Shelby is so proud that her boyfriend is the type of gamer who clears the hard stuff with relative ease.
He makes crushing rocks seem such a breeze.
My wife married me for other things, but she doesn't appreciate what a hot stud I am from a gaming perspective. :/
How we wish our significant other would praise us for our lifeworks. Yes gaming is your life and living is a hobby.
Shelby doesn't talk trash, she talks smack. They're totally different. Trash talk is hypothetical, like: Your mom is so fat she can eat the internet. But smack talk is happening like right now. Like: You're ugly and I know it for a fact 'cause I got the evidence right there.
@@shounen17 rip bro
I'm really enjoying Shelby's character arc.
Name a more iconic duo than Shelby and Diarrhea Christmas Lights
Deku and the hospital from My Hero Academia
Shelby and hol up a minute
Your mom and me
@@MasDouc I know a better one, your mom and ME. Gotcha there
Incognito mode & xvid
Wasn't expecting Shelby to give me a "git gud" talk but here we are.
She progressed from girlfriend of a gamer to full on gamer so quickly. They grow up so fast....
Although it also have me some smug self satisfaction when I beat the game with even fewer deaths than he did, not gonna lie.
"all the little babies playin lil baby easy mode!" I laughed milk out my nose 🤣
The weird part was you weren't drinking milk at the time.
The Last of Us 2 haters got slapped.
@@skyman6936 But but but.... Joel!!!?
laughed baby milk out of your nose? lil baby waby milky googoo gaga??
Coming from her who didn’t beat most of those games she mentioned :/
“Played last of us 2 on very easy and said Joel’s death was too hard”😂😂
Just casually trash talking xQc
@@nisnast HES funny but I don’t see him as a critic
@@Waywurd08 she's far from it. She literally analyses games from a viewer perspective, and makes fun of em😂
@@harbyandrefrancofernandez3310 well I mean she doesn’t write the script, matt does and I see him as an actual critic and he has great tastes, she makes it very entertaining
@@Waywurd08 well in theory they both do, because shelby needs to adapt it to her own humour and personality. Only when matt would understand more about a certain topic (like in the cyberpunk video) is when he is the one to recite and write the script i imagine
I went into this game challenging myself to get close to the 18 death completion...at now 10 deaths I can see I underestimated my opponent
The controller screaming killed me 😂
The fact that it’s Gus Johnson’s scream made me nearly spit.
5:34
Right, I rewound it then and there
Instantly knew they were talking about that alt fire
I had a bug in the game that made me lose in-game audio (only bug during 40 hours of playing) and I'm telling you, the controller sounds like an alien baby.
I'm surprised you reviewed this roguelike first before Hades. I can imagine Shelby's reaction to Dusa, Cerberus, Thanatos and Meg being pretty damn entertaining.
Yeah I just realized they haven't tried Hades yet. Please try Hades! It's the only rougelike I loved.
@@HunterSood have you tried dead cells? It's an amazing roguelite too
@@abhishekvvs8622 Splitting hairs: roguelite and roguelike are different subgenres.
Yupp, can't pick a favorite roguelike before trying Hades.
They played hades. They just didn’t make a video on it.
Wow. Anyone who didn't believe Shelby is now a gamer has now heard the toxic proof for themselves.
Still not sure about that, not enough racial slurs.
@@THATotherGUY415 yep no gamer word
“Best Roguelike game”
Hades: “..And I took that personally”
Dead cells supremacy
@@nade_s9220 Binding of Isaac
I'm gonna say it's the best solely because I'm pretty sure this is going to be my first and last Roguelike. NEVER doing this whole "death starts you out with nothing" thing again.
@@dapperfan44 that's a common feeling, so I get it.
It feels like an artifact of gaming though. Almost every tabletop game in history (Legacy games being a newer thing) resets you to the starting point at game's end. We don't complain when a Go board is cleared or we toss playing cards back into the deck. Why do we assume that saved progress is or should be a default?
That's how I see it anyway. I am not being reset, I am dealing another hand.
@@michaelmcdermott1624 I suppose it's for a few things.
You grow up in the 80s and 90s (I'm actually 1990-born) and you know that when you lose all of your lives in Mario 1 and Sonic 1, you have to start all over. Then your only punishment for failure in Mega Man 1 is that you have to try the level again or pick a different level.
Then Donkey Kong Country rolls around and if you lose all your lives, you can reload your save and try again-but you lose partial progress if you didn't make it to Candy's Save Point, or you lose some levels if you didn't best Tawna's Bonus Round in Crash Bandicoot. In Mario 64 you can save after every star, and you can pause and save at any time in Donkey Kong 64.
Then in Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro the Dragon, you have frequent save opportunities and when you lose, you simply start back from the last time you died and any progress you lose is your own fault from not saving.
Then you get to Banjo-Tooie, Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet and Clank, to find that Game Over screens have been eliminated and lives are gone entirely. Games from that point on become much less punishing and operate on a checkpoint system, save some holdovers-both Mario and Sonic games continued to have lives until Mario Odyssey and Sonic Forces in 2017. (It's kind of strange to think it took both franchises over 25 years to get rid of lives.)
So here you are, you play these franchises, branch out into some shooters, and different types and genres of games that all have the same core of getting from point A to point B. But here comes this game that is outside of a genre you normally play, but has enough aspects of a genre you do play. So you play it, and you find out that all those years of games getting easier have been thrown out the window in this title. You can't even cut this game off. And Heaven help you if you put the console in rest mode and it updates overnight. There's all your progress, chump.
But I admit that the game was fun. It's just the knowledge of knowing if I die here to this boss, or worse, to an "avenge this corpse" challenge, all my progress, all my scavenging, all my helpful items like Damage Siphon and being able to knock down yellow barriers will be gone.
The game is definitely fun but for me personally, I couldn't put myself through that stress again. This one I'll play again, but I'll leave the roguelikes to the professionals.
TL;DR years of growing up with games slowly adding features where failure doesn't mean you have to retry large portions of the game has programmed me to be less ok with a game that makes you start the whole thing over again.
That baby speech at the end is easily in the Top 10 Girlfriend Review moments
Valkyrie was so hard and I’ve never felt more attacked in my life lol
Took me like 25 times
VALHALLA!!!
@@SonicBroham The Valkyrie under Home took some time. Muspelheim was a chore with at least 10 deaths. But the queen was the bane of my existence. I have not had a more obnoxious, cheep, controller eating boss since Gill. Hell even KH Sephiroth was a cakewalk compared to them. AI Cal from Fallen Order almost drove me to madness, till I realized there is no real reward for beating him.
Sigrun took me 6 hours and it is a genius design to not have you run a few steps to her every time because a boss like this in Souls will make me pissed at every seconds of backtrack
@@brucechmiel7964 don't call her cheap when she is amazingly balanced. She has a counter for everything.
"Look at the booty-shooty"
RIP 3rd-person shooters, there's a new genre in town.
That HP Lovecraft scene is going to give me very weird nightmares.
6:13 Best Girlfriend Review segment of all time
I knew we had lost Shelby to the dark side once she started raging at Monster Hunter
Damn I thought we were about to hear Shelby rap over Runaway
Inserts "we were THIS close to achieving greatness" meme
✝️ *Lord Jesus died & rose again to pay the debt of your sin!*
🔵It is Gods Gift to us by His grace, we dont earn it by what we do/how good we are!
✅By Faith in the sacrifice God has made are we saved from the penalty of sin!
💜We are all sinners that need God. No one can say they are perfect to be able to pay their debt of sin. This is why only God could pay the penalty for us, that is merciful Love!
Release that footage!
RUNAWAY FROM ME BABY
Shelby, you really need to trademark: "diarrhea christmas lights".
Or, at the least, put it on a t-shirt.
There was also a term from a previous video but I'm not certain what is was. Eye globes when referring to eyeballs?
'Hol up a minute is that diarrhoea Christmas lights?'
I need that on a shirt
@@BradTheAmerican i think she used the expression in her Nier Automata review
@@Kytetiger and the Dead Cells review
@@Kytetiger I was sure it was a more recent video but I went back and gave a listen anyway. Either I missed it or it wasn't there. However, she did use the diarrhea Christmas lights one. Recurring catchphrases are tight.
6:14 of course yakuza would have a nightmare fuel scene like this
tip of the iceberg
That's a regular Tuesday for the devs at Ryu Ga Gotoku.
Would love to see a Yakuza Like a Dragon Review
@@MrHerecomesjohnny oh no
Game is waaay too hard for the casuals. A lot people thought it’s an easy story game I have talked with and got their a** beaten up. I love Returnal, Biome 3 is one of the coolest looking levels I have ever seen. As a from software fanboy, I love challenge and Returnal is delivering it with one of the best gameplays and sounds ever. I hope this starts a new genre like demons souls did. I don’t care that casuals where disappointed because it’s not an brain off game with cutscene after cutscene. Gameplay is king and Returnal delivers. But looking someone playing it? No way. Returnal is not that type of Game.
its hard to learn, but easy to master
Yeah I love videogames but I am absolutely not good at them at all. Returnal looks fun but I legitimately don't think I'll be able to do it.
I am a casual gamer. Just started console gaming end of 2018 (I guess my youth on a friend's C-64 does not count).
I am bad at FPS using a controller. That is why I quiet Wolfenstein and Doom after a couple of minutes. I hate hard games. They make me quit and never come back.
But godammit I love Returnal! Love it so much it took me 89 deaths and about 30 hours to beat the first boss, Phrike. After this kind of training I'm looking forward to killing Ixion with many deaths less.
This is not made for casuals. But you have to try it to know if it is for you anyway. Once you're hooked, you (n)ever go back.
@@elijahe7612 you will. I SUCK at games, very rarely venture beyond standard normal difficulty in them and usually have to power-level a souls game to feel comfortable even learning boss patterns. Its a cliche but i promise you it does get easier. It will hold your hand through the improvements while simultaneously kicking your ass to the point you don't even notice you are improving but you definitely are. The skills you pick up improve how you play massively too so don't be put off by struggling at the start. I honestly thought I'd never beat the first boss, then the second boss, then the game itself. All you need is patience (or stubbornness) and approach the game with the knowledge that dying can forward the story and reward you with something intriguing before jumping back in.
@Michael Lochlann Agreed, seemed interesting, but I don't have the time to put on the game just to see the story, it's just not worth it.
Mentions a bunch of rogue-likes and then fails to mention Hades.
A grave crime was committed this day.
Yeah i came here to pressure them into reviewing Hades, it's a beautiful rogue like and they will love the narrative
Meh. Hades is the baby game for rogue lites.
Its like saying "dark souls1, dark souls 3, sekiro and bloodborne are cool...but i wanna see a dark souls 2 review! Thats the one i played and like".
I mean its cool you got initiated into the souls series but dks2 is an abomination compared to the other games of the series. So yeah... hades is cool but is it really that good? No, its not. Its just a casual rogue lite so you can take baby steps. Now dont poop your pants.
@@kato093 nice elitist attitude. Hades is a good rogue lite period. It solves a lot of the problems the genre has and at the same time makes it open for new people who never would've played it.
And good job just assuming its the first rogue like/lite I've ever played. I've played a ton of them. All of them at a certain point you can just blow through them, Hades with its heat system constantly ups the challenge.
@@jellybean358 to add to this the narrative is much better than any other rogue like I've played, which is a very short list.
It's also one of, Imo, the best over all narratives in a game in a while, albeit simplistic but in its implementation.
Hades might not be the best in challenge, I think the game play is tight, it's repatitive to a point, as all games in the genre are.
Going to say something controversial using @kato093 referenced genre there.... Star Wars Fallen Order is a better game in that genre than the ones listed there, because the narrative is so much better.
But by the same regard it's baby steps in terms of challenge in comparison.
It's been a while since I watched their review of FO, but if memory serves they liked it, and I feel they would like or love Hades for the same virtues.
It's probably one of those ones where Shelby would be more invested and end up putting more time in.
@@kato093 First: bro dark souls 2 is generally accepted as the hardest dark souls game. People don't like ds2 because Miyazaki wasn't involved and the level design was weird not because it was easy. Second: hades is super hard. Just because its accessible and isn't insanely difficult to start doesn't mean its easy. It gives you the option to challenge yourself and rewards it. Beating hades with maximum heat and no death defiance is genuinely one of the most challenging things in a video game I can think of and I've beaten all the souls games to ng+7, and sekiros boss rush mode.
Hey Shelby, you missed that one spongebob episode. That’s a pretty good time loop story.
Sad Star Trek face
Sad O'Neill face playing golf on the Stargate
@@AxxLAfriku definitely
Which ep is this? Or just a troll
@@izzatarif9686 SB-129
The skittles and redvines part was hilarious, you guys should more live action bits in your regular reviews.
Like UpIsNotJump
I did it, I'm sorry. It was 222, looked cool and what not...BUT, that part was really that hilarious. I had to break that 222. IT HAD TO HAPPEN!
They'd better collab with Angry Joe to make a perfect sketch.
The baby skit was pure gold 😂💀
Which Yakuza game was the baby footage from?
@@enrymion9681 Kiwami 2
@@enrymion9681 and 7.
it was a bit _much,_ really, but it did its job
@@bsmith6784
It was perfect people crying about how hard the game is... when its suppose to be that hard.
I’m currently on my third try of just the first boss & I swear every time I think I’m leveled up enough, I get mad anxiety thinking about jumping into the pit. But I love that! This was by far the best review I’ve seen of Returnal. Thank you!
While this review is really fun and hilarious, you should watch Skill Up's review of this game. It's one of the best reviews I've seen. Like, ever. Maybe even THE best.
No shame in using a boss guide! That helped me out a lot with the first boss. Now I’m stuck on the second one lol
I just rushed it with a pistol after dying 10 times and got it
oh god we lost shelby. rest in piece sweet backseat angel.
Shelby should play Dark Souls!
Nope, that would be a torture
yes plsss
She should totally do it!!!!!
Thank you Dark Souls
Already did, got ready for the Torture... wasn't ready for the *PAIN*
1:12 girlfriend reviews has fans in the games industry. They will now use this power to turn every game into monster hunter. Huzzah!
We can only hope. . .
Fingers crossed 🤞
"Best time loop stories"
Okay Girlfriend Review, SOMEONE needs to play Outer Wilds.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
This game rocked my world
Razbuten incoming
YEESSS, was my favourite game I played last year!
It's not a Sony Exclusive(TM). They won't play it.
I'm obsessed with everything Returnal and after seeing how good your channel is everywhere for a while I decided to finally cave in and watch one of your videos. I was not disappointed. Subscribed!
Baby taunt ending is a comedic gem. Your powers grow. Keep up the great work. Thank you.
Finally, someone who understands the cultural touchstone that was the Duck part from Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
Lol I love that part! That's the only thing I remember from that movie! It was always my favorite!!!
Okay, the new logo looks SICK!!!!!!!!
i love the smug face in the new logo, the old one was too plain and generic
This game was a masterpiece , Lovecraftian love letter and HR giger would be proud
What is the song that begins to play at 4:20? I’ve heard it and it’s driving me crazy that I can’t come up with what it is
Runaway by Kanye West
The "wittle baby" rant at the end is just the best. GET GUD SCRUBS
Damn, went for everybody's neck at the end there haha.
I like that she managed to roast all the people that cried under the 2 TLOU2 videos one more time.
I guess this means Mauler will make a 5 hours reaction video.
People seriously need to get over it.
@@GratefulDave93 Forget about past product, buy current product, get excited for next product.
@@mr.scarytheterry5039 Are you new to Capitalism??
Last of us 2 did suck ass tho 🤣 returnal is actually pretty good at least still not worth 75 bucks tho especially considering all the crashes etc going on
@@ag7367 its alright to be wrong.
This was not the heel turn I was expecting in 2021. Shelby praising a game where a core mechanic is simply repeating the same map over and over and over and over again. Fighting the same enemies with minimal/gradual story progression. I can't imagine that's a very riveting experience for backseat gaming.
Same map?
@@sainuudotcom yeah, the same biome for multiple deaths.
I just beat Returnal and noticed I had the same numbers of deaths as Matt. We're true gamer bois!
“Bout to get a seatbelt for the couch!” just about sums it up for me.
Tell me I wasn’t the only one who went crazy when Kanye’s Runaway intro was being played on the piano 🤣🤯🤯🤯 I love that
Same font too from that short movie.
They truly goated
"returned" me back to a looooooooooooong ass time ago lmao
@@nikolowolokin lmfao noice!!
You probably hasn’t watched west world
6:36 Whoa Shelby, calm down 😂
I havent owned a console since PS3. And I've watched several recent comedians stand up routines who at best have gotten a chuckle or two out of me. Also, it's been awhile since I've seen one of your videos.
That said, you only get better each time I watch one of your videos. I literally spit my drink out laughing at your jokes in this, and you make me nostalgic for gaming like mad. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your content. How much it means to me. To feel like an old friend, when there are no real ones in my life these days, is invaluable and beyond description. Gratitude just doesn't cut it. Nonetheless, I thank you.
Returnal is worth every penny. By the way you can turn the game off. When you beat bosses it checkpoints and opens up shortcuts. When you die in the middle of a run you can go ahead and turn it off because you lost all your items in death anyway so turn it off. The shortcuts will be there when you turn it back on.
Wish I wasn’t wearing headphones,The dual sense scream had me jump out of my seat 🤣
The irony of Shelby dissing casual gamers is... exquisite
It wasn't irony, she yelled at monster hunter. She is one of us.
The Shelby shaming really woke something deep in my soul
Yooo just picked this up, im on 57 deaths and have nt beat the first boss, i think ur dude is an absolute gaming terminator, i need proof he is human
The way the enemies shoots those projectiles at me really make me think of how silimar it is to Nier Automata; both great games imo.
This gets a like purely from learning the term “Look at the Booty-Shooty” 🤣🤣🤣 dying.
Surprised Outer Wilds didn't get a mentioned as a ~recent addition to the time loop genre. Would love to see a video on that!
probably just haven't played :(
Outer wilds has easily become a favorite game for me I'd love to see a video on it
I'm actually waiting for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Make that happen guys
They played it but they didn't review it
@@abhishekvvs8622 thats why my guy
Wait, you're right! PLEASE REVIEW SKYRIM
As much as I loved Skyrim and played close to 500 hours, it's really not a good "backseat gamer" type game. Also it's a slower game which may not be their thing.
@@jonathansmith3063 but modding is hella fun
To be clear, I'm all for players that are way better than I'll ever be but don't be a jerk about it. With regards to the save thing I had my PS5 in rest mode last night and this morning there was an electrical issue in my building so they had to shut the power off. That has zero to do with my abilities of lack thereof.
1. It was a joke, considering this is a joke channel how people don't get the jokes still is just stupid by this point.
2. Don't leave your PS5 on rest mode overnight, PS5 since launch has had rest mode issues we've been warned about by Sony, let alone that "rest" is not "sleep" or "hibernate" its a rest, a break, 3-4 hours maximum, people complaining they leave their PS5 on overnight and get electrical surges with it are again just stupidity at this point.
@@CB-lw7ty I know it’s a joke show. As I said I am a fan. And I also know about the launch rest mode issues but honestly, I have no problems since the updates. Not sure why you have to call my actions stupid tho. Felt uncalled for as I don’t think I was doing any name calling.
Also, look I LOVE Dave Chappelle. One of I think the best comedians of the modern era. But I also think he can be full of it and I can certainly think some jokes are dumb and mean-spirited. Being funny is not a pass. If anything when I love and appreciate someone writing I’m more let down by what I see as low hanging fruit which the little babies thing was. Of course you are totally free to disagree but “can’t you take a joke” is I think missing the point and just seems to imply all jokes are good and valuable. They aren’t some are clunkers.
@@pajamo I agree not all jokes are good and valuable but saying "you don't need to be a jerk about it" implys that you A. didn't get that its a joke and B. that jokes are still jokes, whether you think they are funny or valuable or not is irrelevant, the point is they're throw away comments for a laugh, if it didn't make you laugh, fine, move on, saying "dont be a jerk" then writing a butthurt comment about how you doing something stupid with your console considering you also know about those console issues is as I said, stupid. If you don't want to be called out for doing and saying stupid things, then don't do and say stupid things more than getting defensive because someone's pointing out how stupid it is.
There Are Places to save that cost 6 ether though I can't remember what they're called.
Omfg this may be one of my favorite reviews from you two. That “wittle baby” shit had me in tears. God bless the both of you.
Would highly recommend Outer Wilds as a top place holder of the "time loop" genre
Yessssss
I was totally one of those people who was like "It looks fun but do I want to pay £70 for it?" and then Shelby said "Metroid Prime, Ratchet And Clank, And Doom Eternal" and now my pants are off. Definitely gonna buy it!
I sincerely feel like Returnal was worth every ounce of my $70 and then some (can't stop playing), and tbh Resident Evil Village didn't justify it's $60 price to me.
@@SonicBroham I feel the exact opposite way 😂
@@ag7367 that's fair! I think my expectations skewed a lot of that where I felt Returnal would be whatever and was really surprised, and then I wanted Village to be this tour de force because I love RE4 so much. just didn't click for me.
You guys convinced me to play it and I got to the credits on 8 deaths. Totally worth it!
Bruh. I got to the second biome with 40 deaths
Someday, Shelby will watch her boyfriend play Hades, and I will be happy
Pretty excited for an "It Takes Two" review.
5:35 why did i immediatly recognize gus screaming 😂
I did too lol
Who?
@@rayovac200 Gus Johnson. Watch his video "every cat at 3 am"
@@luiskandels2220 Lmao I confused this Gus with the one from Breaking Bad.
Making fun of TLOU2 baby gamers was the best part
Grounded permadeath run in TLOU2 is far harder than Returnal.
@@basedplants its one of the hardest modes of any game ever
This genre is officially “look at the booty shooty” Congrats Returnal.
Of all the games I’ve purchased, this was definitely the best value for money. I bought it for £20 in GAME store pre owned. The brand new copy was £60. I was sceptical and cautious at first. Thought there had to be a catch. I couldn’t understand why none of the staff bought it for themselves. I could literally of bought it and sold it at CEX and made an instant profit. The disc was perfect and I’ve been having a blast with the game. Installed without any issues. Tested the suspension save feature and it worked without any problems. Best bargain I’ve found in a long while. Whilst all my games are relatively new and I’ve only just sampled the others, I can see me spending a lot of time playing this game.
Shelby is the kind of backseat driver every gamer needs
6:15 this gives me NakeyJakey vibes in the best possible way
YES I thought the same exact thing!
"Joew's death was too too hard, it hurt da baby feewings!" 😂😂😂
I dun want to feew sad! Dats not why i pway games!
That musical transition from the Dark Knight score to The Reaper was frighteningly well done
Is that the song at 4:37? I can’t find it anywhere.
NVM found it. It's Runaway by Kanye
5:34 - I would recognize Gus's 3AM Cat scream anywhere
Honestly didn't expect to like Returnal this much, the game kicks ass!
Matt and Shelby need to play Outer Wilds!
Everyone needs to play Outer Wilds. Chronically unplayed, in part because of similarity of name to The Outer Worlds.
I will admit I thought you meant The Outer Worlds.
Well when is the "Should your boyfriend watch Girlfriend Reviews" episode coming??
So Matt finished the game with only 19 deaths - and here I am getting close to 30 and still not past Biome 1. 😭
I feel you. Biome 3 but stopped playing for month now. It’s really ridiculous difficult, I even don’t do damage to the elite enemies in the first biome 😂
@@franzkuntschnig1320 Ouch... Don't give up hope on the game though, I'm near finishing Act 3 now (Just have to kill Ophion - Biome 6 boss, a second time). If I could do it, so can you - Just keep practicing. :)
Return is on sale, so it's time to watch this again! I'm 100% certain I'm going to get more enjoyment out of this video than the game, but am still on the fence about buying it.
bro they literally siad for aybody who is on the fence...BUY IT (its really good i promise)
Its great and a top end game all round, worth the time, its not as hard as people make out, if you can get through games like GoW this is no different.
I can't get over the skittles and red vines
Woah 😎
Is Red Vines what the kids now call Twizzlers?
@@Keithustus different brand
"3/10. Not enough returning." -Shelby
The baby part was exactly what I needed to hear to make me realize I wanted to buy this game.
18 deaths to the end? Come on.. I haven't even seen the first boss after 18 deaths.
Took me 89 to beat him...
I LOVE your new illustrations. Thank you for giving us such quality time
I want Gus Johnson to voice my DualShock controller screams.
This is the moment Shelby became Heisenberg
this caught me off guard lol
She is the one who knocks...
I laughed incredibly hard at the entire “baby” sequence. 🤣
0:55 the "whoa" got me so bad, I don't know why lmaoooo
lmao same
Lmao the wittle baby bit XD
Damn! Matt scripts/editing and Shelby delivery are SO unbelievably good!
Damn Shelby you didn’t have to roast me like that...
Kudos to Shelby for doing her own stunts.
People often ask "what movie would want to forget so you can watch it again for the first time?"
Well I want to forget the line at 5:50 so I can enjoy it again.
5:43 That cracked me up
All that said, you do keep permanent upgrades when you die and come back, so you might lose up to two hours of progress, until you git gud, then you'll lose what 30 minutes?
I died 115 times, and mostly in biomes 1-3(87 in 1-3, 28 in 4-6 and secret ending). Took me a while to 'get it'.
Now I can get through the story with only 3 deaths usually.
Tower of Sisyphus in the DLC, though, that's a true total loss, and it goes on forever - nothing kept there except a story item.
Omg that Lo-fi vibe GIF at the End of the video is AMAZING! I NEED IT