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- This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Scarlet Nexus.
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Huniepop review when
@Lightstriker suggests Yahtzee reviews Hellpoint.
Reincarnated In Another World Without Punctuation?! Can A British Loudmouth Really Be The Hero?!
10/10 would watch an anime about yahtzee
How a Realist Brit Rebuilt the Industry.
*DON'T. GIVE. THEM. IDEAS!*
@@Kaarl_Mills they allready did if there is A.I going around the internet looking for next LN title.
Is it wrong to criticise games and their dungeons
I loved this game, and Yahtzee just trashed it with 110% accuracy
Which roughly translates into
"I watched Fullmetal alchemist, blue exorcist, death note, and started konisuba and fruits basket but couldn't enjoy it"
@@Novice_Maker Explain pls??
Yeah he tends to do that to you if you watch his videos for long enough
For real. I spent exactly equal amounts of time trashing how lazily it hit every single one of the most tired anime tropes possible... and having fun twatting everything with my sexy anime sword.
@@dragonandavatarfan8865 dont blame you, it was a very cultured sentence, but I will translate for you. In other words he said:
“I watched what are considered the best animes ever made, animes full of amazing characters, story and badass fight scenes. But then I watched wholesome comedy, romcom, slice of life animes and couldnt enjoy them because Im spoiled by the better animes I have watched already.”
Edit: forgot to mention that not only are the first animes he mentioned objectively better, the big difference in the genre of the anime is a factor. Not everyone can enjoy both sides of anime, the wholesome super sweet vanilla stories vs the dark, dramatic and sometimes even gruesome stories of other animes. Both are equally good in my eyes, but of course everyone has a preference.
"Earth has been ravaged by apocalypse except for an outpost of humanity with access to really advanced technology for some reason. And this outpost is being constantly assaulted by mysterious monsters necessitating the creation of a defensive force of people with super powers or special technology, almost none of whom, for generally unexplored reasons, are old enough to shave."
Oh no, Yahtzee's right. My mind immediately went to God Eater, and he didn't even include it in the list of examples.
Add Gurren Lagann to the list.
Your profile pic is based
I don't watch the animes and even I recognized the games premise being identical to Attack on Titan.
@@espio87 I don't think it should be. The underground villages don't really have the same purpose as the one surviving outpost/city/whatever the hell else it's been called, in terms of both narrative theme and actual usage, and, if we're talking about just the first half, nothing else in that description is really applicable to Gurren without changing aspects of the description to better fit Gurren's weird (to say the least) world and story
@@planescaped
Interestingly enough Attack on Titan SHOULDNT be on the list. (massive spoilers following)
SPOILERS:
First of all, the majority of the army is actual adults. We are just following the branch were new recruits enter, and actually see them grow up.
The technology isnt that far advanced and generally explained (of course within suspension of disbelief).
The rest of the world still exists. This is a major plot point of the fourth season. We find out that titans actually only cover a very small part of the world and the rest of the world is more or less buisness as usual.
Hilariously, when I was in Afghanistan we used something called an "LHMBC" what it does is accurately calculates mortar trajectories so we can hit our target. Its operating system was Windows, and one time we couldn't fire because it had an update XD
Jesus Christ that is terrible, like something out of a comedy skit brought to life. Are all your buddies from that day alive?
@@ninepillarsofsalt I don't think it's polite to ask.
LHMBC sounds like an optional add-on for the Large Hadron Collider
They have an actual anime for this same property airing right now. I started watching it and kept thinking:
"Why do protagonist-kun and waifu-chan have the same powers?"
"Why do they switch out the anime faces for CGI helmets for action scenes?"
"Why do the baddies look like weird video game characters?"
The moment I saw the thumbnail for this video it was like a fog lifted. Thank you Yahtzee for solving the mystery of the mysterious ultra-generic action RPG dating sim anime series.
Tbf, at least the first point has a story reason
Fun part is steam board was full of whining about the lack of actual dating sim. It teases dating sim, no actual romance even transpires. Which means the entire subplot of the childhood friend ends up being "yeah okay I like him", the end.
The hoodie is just a design choice I think, it appears when they enter a state of heavy focus called "Brain Drive" or develop a "Brain Field", think devil trigger if you've played DMC, maybe it lowers the amount of input to the brain from the outside world? It's not explored, but the powers and the baddies are explained.
@@gervoh It's likely reducing the amount of information the eyes have to send to the brain to process. The brain tends to peak its processing power at 18 years old - so arguably the reason why OSF members tend to be 18 and younger is literally because Brain Field takes up a fuck ton of that processing power on top of focus (as excessive use can lead to permanent brain damage and going beyond the duration kills you outright).
TL;DR Humans brains are like processors - break it and you'll have a bad time.
This game/series is way far from generic lmao
If this is generic to you then you either weren’t paying any attention to story or think that 95% of all stories are extremely generic. Try going through the story again, it’s one of the better ones to come out of 2021
"Do me up the piss pipes"
I'm fucking DEAD.
If you're dead, then only a subset of the population are going to be interested in doing the first thing. ;-P
@@KeithFraser82 it's fine. R34's accessible in hell, and I know the best artists for it
You know, one of these days it would actually be interesting for an anime game to have a female character THAT blatantly and undisguisedly horny for a change. Despite Yahtzee's joshing, not even heroines in _literal H-games_ tend to be THAT sexually forward.
@@HoloTWWOriginal I have an old 94 truck that got left to me when my grandfather died. I kept it because...
Sebring timing belt snaps? 1 week in the shop, and 767 dollars.
1994 GMC Sierra C1500 serpentine belt snaps? Get a ratchet set (have 3) and a breaker bar... spend $15 bucks at Advance Auto Parts and a half hour in the driveway.
People have different facets... you fuckin dick.
@@HoloTWWOriginal ask anyone you know if they care.
"Oh, that looks interesting" "PSYCH! It's an anime game!" Is exactly how I reacted.
Haha, same
Same
Ditto, but I actually watched the trailer before hitting Purchase and wound up saving myself some fucking money.
I played the demo. Its definitely not bad for an anime game and arguably one of the best in years since persona. That being said...it's also an anime game.
same ^^ damn
"Well, I know you're too boring a character to have made up something like that."
Nice.
F
The marketing knew people don’t like seeing the usual shovelware JRPG’s on shelves so tried to disguise them as… a shovelware shooter from the early 2010’s….. GENUIS!
Bet it worked aswell
Well ur dumb thinking its any jrpg
What I took from this video: Yahtzee acknowledges Xenoblade X more than Nintendo has for the past five years.
I own a copy of Xenoblade Chronicles X and I haven't acknowledged it since the first day I spent playing it. It just felt so bland, boring and forgettable.
@@BainesMkII not to mention filled with plot holes if you know where to look...to be fair the xenoblade universe seems to be stitched together by plot holes and awkwardly-placed retcon
@@BainesMkII Honestly I love Xenoblade X but the main plot and early hours of the game don't contribute anything to that love. It's clear that the combat, exploration, and world of the game is where most of the effort was put in but it's regrettably hard to see any of that at first
If I had made something like Xenoblade x, I too would deny it at every opportunity
@@themarkktv l
I'd like to imagine Yahtzee got into anime so he could properly critique tropes and write some clever jokes when he reviews anime games. Before he was lost and now he's referencing anime, calling out the colorful waifus, and calling out the childhood friend trope. I really liked that assigned tsundere line too 😂😂
The graphic for when he talked about using windows in combat was fucking brilliant.
*Takes notes for the Paranoia RPG game he's running*
Hilariously the US military does actually use Windows
I'm just glad Yahtzee still remembers Xenoblade Chronicles X in any capacity
Lets see if the game makes the anime fans cry on prom night.
this comment is a great example of how time moves differently on the internet cause that reference is only a few years old but it feels a very long time ago.
Bold of you to assume we need another reason.
@@glenngriffon8032 oh wow you're right. I was trying hard to remember what the reference was and kept thinking early 2000s like John Romero with his Daikatana but it was Mighty Number 9 and their misguided promo
@@Rodrigo-ei4ht "early 2000s" and yet it was only, what? 4 or 5 years ago?
LOL
The "old dude" troupe but the guy is like 33 -_- 😂
I thought he was over 50?
@@dragonquest8ftw1 He is.
They do take anti aging drugs (from a convo between one of them and Kasane (the girl)). He was very afraid of stop taking them, which is nice world building.
But then there's Karen, and he does look his age (or just old).
Funny enough, I can actually think of an anime that commented on that trope for humor: in _Black Clover,_ there's a character named Fanzell Kruger, who is a mentor to multiple teenage characters in the show, a number of whom call him an old man. Whenever they do so, he's quick to respond, "I'm only 28; I'm not old."
Count your blessings. I remember some old game, though sadly the name escapes me at the moment, where the guy cheerfully admitting he's an old hasbeen was like 18 or 19 years old.
Let's not forget my favorite trope: A character that's a world-renowned expert in whatever the protagonist wants to be good at, is the head of a massive company, has at least one very technical hobby that they're also one of the best in the world at and are also a student at the same high school as the protagonist... maybe also with a dark history even though they're 16 at best so they'd be experiencing their dark history at like 8 years old.
What about the thrope about the young characters telling the supposedly old characters to keep up with them even though the old characters are usually in their late 20s to mid 30s?
Now I know you want to make it sound like the "every-anime-game-protag" troup but I genuinely can't think of a character thats like that.
@@crimsonstrykr This is usually the rival character more than the protagonist. They don't have to have those specific accolades (though the specific list is Kaiba from YuGiOh... but I've seen world-class hackers with a dark history, multiple highly trained assassins and a couple of ace mech pilots.), but more that they somehow fit a vast list of accolades in while also being a high-school student.
@@crimsonstrykr Then you'll just have to taste the fury of my Blue Eyes White Dragon!
@@kevingriffith6011 I am starting to think you and I watch very different kinds of anime
Awww man, from the one promotional image I was hoping we were getting more unapologetically edgy Code-Vein tier anime souls game complete with AMV halfway through.
Me too. I got really disappointed by the DLCs and I wanted more.
@@AshenLilyDB Code Vein's DLC's were an embarrassment compared to the other DLC's From has produced in the past.
@@tomleary508 FromSoft didn't make Code Vein.
The pre-order outfit you can get changes a certain song into the really hype opening theme, so at least there is that.
@furriesfuckanimals weebsanimetrash Your ‘about’ page is an absolute work of art. The bit about pollution making people gay? Perfection.
So if there's ever a sequel to this game, they now have to have a magenta ambassador in it.
as an anime fan I personally love when yahtzee reviews these kind of games just cause I need an outsider perspective just to get any kind of objective criticism of it
Hey, a Star Wars game where you play Jawas would be something interesting. It could be literally a Sandbox game in Tatooine
Woo- *TINI*
The planet's already half way to being a sandbox, just gotta add the 4 walls and some fun toys to play with.
@Isaac Vaughn with long (but never too long) moments of peaceful walking and scavenging with very short and intense moments of fights, like getting caught by the imperial guard knacking their wheels off and having to flee with combat heavily discouraged unless you're fighting people your own size. Kind of reminds me of Elite Dangerous for some reason
Then there's the haggling minigames where you have to quickly patch up old decaying droids you found in the wastes enough that the moisture farmers won't notice all the problems and missing or defective parts when you try to sell it to them. Don't worry, the illusion just has to last long enough for you to get far away from them in your Sandcrawler.
With a DLC where you get attacked by the protagonist of The Mandalorian.
What Yahtzee was doing was reviewing Scarlet Nexus…what he accomplished was deconstructing the entire sci-fi anime genre in 5 minutes
As much as I like anime, if I hear the words "High School", "Reincarnation", and "Demon King/Lord" one more time I'm going to shove a creative writing booklet down the throat of the studio responsible lmao.
Reincarnated in Another World In A Demon King High School?
Don't blame the poor studios. All that nonsense is based off novels and manga to start with. Blame the authors. Or better yet, blame the consumers for telling them generic trope filled isekai's are what they want more of by voting with their wallets. If that "written from a check list" level of overused content didn't sell they'd stop publishing them.
Well to be fair. The game isn't either of these three things. So I guess that counts for something.
I swear the numbers of times I rolled my eyes at anime shows description that starts with: "So and so was just a regular high school student...."
But 'Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun' is actually really good XD
I love how the go-to weapon buff is Branston pickle.
"You got me again anime game" actually sums up pretty well the last couple of years.
It's not a mistery that some of his favourite games were JRPG.
This guy needs to play darkwood. I feel like it would have all the unique and genuinely terrifying game play to impress him.
Agreed
That or Pathologic 1 or 2. Personally think Darkwood would be more fun for him, but I think he could make better jokes and make fun of Pathologic more.
@@darkshadow5581 He said he already played Pathologic 2, said he found to dreary and inscrutable and even if that was the point he still didn’t want to actually play it
@@taydrew2577 makes sense, he's with the majority XD. 85% can't play past 2 hours, and beat day 1 of 12.
Shame though, as I have probably spent more time watching Pathologic content than I've played most games in ym steam Library.
Darkwoods great until the first time you get caught out after dark and barricade yourself in a random room expecting to be swarmed with monsters and go out in a blaze of glory.
Then you just get instantly killed by a graphical effect. Very anticlimactic
1:25 my mind went to like 5 different anime from that description
Same
I probably managed 9
XD
To think he thought Code Vein was the most anime game he played.
Least CV had the Souls Like, Vampire thing going for it.
Also the connection to God Eater if you're a fan of that series.
suddenly! here's some of our other games' boss enemy, check it out if the design piqued your interests.
@doomslayer420 fuckin' dyaus pytha just taking the screen for one cutscene and nothing else...
the dlc bosses are aragami reskins, but they arguably not count
@@alvinreinaldy5148 Reskins?
No, unique movesetes, attack patterns, dungeons based around them instead of just wondering around random industrial sites.
Also less we forget it's a Souls-Like and you're supposed to put together the story yourself.
If you honestly didn't figure out what was going on with the DLC bosses I feel sorry for you.
@@Wolfs0n by all means, i pity you if you consider those 3 dlcs are worthy for souls like. those 3 bosses are farm animal
if i can read most of their movesets and the origin aragami from their stances, then proceed to style the shit out of them, they're reskin.
you forgot how those who plays god eater with is practically playing souls like on repetitive map with slightly more forgiving enemy. and please, souls borne map is just as repetitive as GE, forest-residential-castle-water related fucken' poison puddles-and open field as final boss pattern. which is fukken' ripped right off souls. and dlc dungeons are not much of a better of. i'd call it same as GE map design even.
and praise all you want about the character story, they might have been broken to pieces, but finding the memory echoes, that have label and number. not to count getting comparatively better ending requires getting all of the main character's related memory first. is NOT, comparable to soul-borne thing of scrambled egg.
praise it all you like the winning point of being soulslike is it's supposedly rather complex in gameplay and higher difficulty.
it is literally a -1 on soulsborne storytelling
which the only thing i view as positive is the more modern settings. tis' basically anime modern bloodborne. bit less emo while being more emo
don't get me wrong, it do have positive points to me personally since i like god eater up until before the mobile game. but hot damn dyaus pytha and those dlc bosses are cheap move.
hellfire knight is caligula
frozen empress is marduk
lord of thunder is evolved dyaus pytha.
one or two extra moves doesn't mean shit, sure they now have aesthetically pleasing reskins. but when dlc-ing for souls like game, the boss is the center of attention. but this 3 thing is NOT challenging as soul bosses. the safe spots for their attacks are as wide as io's tits and now with dodges with i-frames no less.
@@Wolfs0n one more short addition, "you call them bosses, we call them lunch."
I was really hoping for the anime girl to be in love with David duchovny. Sad day.
Sadly, the idea of any anime girl being in love with someone *besides* the bland self-insert protagonist is a bit too traumatizing for fans of the genre...
Jokes on you, the US Army does use windows
Xp to be precise
-weeps in veteran-
But they're a structural weakness
@@user-bf5sc8pn8x organics, man. Every time.
@@t_y8274 FOR REAL?!
I started playing Code Vein with my friends yesterday, and it's scary how this review manages to describe that game as well.
code vein is just this but harder and less futuristic
@@akanta5746 and Code Vein is connected to God Eater which is also great
@doomslayer420 it is... A Vajira literally appeared in Code Vein
@doomslayer420 There's a Vajira literally in code vein, it's a major monster in GE 1 to 3
Why wouldnt you think it's not connected?
If the Devs doesn't say it's canon then why is it in an in-game story cutscene?
@doomslayer420 bruh what
there are literally aragami in the game's cutscenes (see juzo mido)
the 3 dlc bosses are ALL aragami variants and have the same names AS aragami in files (eg. hellfire knight is literally called ancient hannibal, and guess what a hannibal is)
wtf do u mean it's not connected? the devs haven't said shit about the 2 games not being connected either, so idk where u got that from lol
"Do me up the piss pipes" may be the most horrifying thing from this channel. Bravo.
Quite tame by anime's standards.
abloogywoogywoo
“Anime” standards.
Bible Black being a prime example.
what's worse? horribly overblown violence or a weird feeling up the dick?
"Magenta Ambassador" is going to be my new handle.
I just imagine a Tf2 Ambie spy main calling their gun just that.
Lmao!! Im glad i wasnt the only one like "interesting cover art let me check out this gaaa- nevermind its another fucking anime game"
Your loss kid lmao
"Think slightly blander?" Oh God. She's in love with Yahtzee
1:10 That entire description is just Astral Chain. What you described was literally EXACTLY like Astral Chain.
Chihiro Cockthroat! I fricking lost it! XD
Yahtzee, you missed the most important question that always needs to be asked when playing an anime game ... How's the jiggle physics?!
They really don't emphasize the breasts all that much. It's honestly kind of refreshing. The only character I can remember having absurdly large breasts is more of a maternal figure (kyoka - I think, who the fuck knows all anime waifu's kind blur together). It's kind of nice not having the barely pubescent girls in a Japanese game not be absurdly sexualized in a way that makes me feel like I need to shower and scrub my browser history.
@@johnwrath3612 yeah, her's were the only ones apparent out of all of them.
*Spoilers*
I wonder if that has anything to do with how she's the only one mentioned as joining the male protagonist on his campaign after the end of the game. I'm not complaining, she was my favourite character in the game (along with seto), but it did feel a little telling how she was favoured internally by the developers as well.
@@johnwrath3612 well that's disappointing to hear, as someone thoroughly invested in videogame anime tiddies I'm not sure I'm fully invested in this game anymore.
Saw this said once, and it really is true: most "original", new Bamco IPs are just super anime-ified versions of popular games/genres. Whether that's up your alley, or not, determines if that's a good or bad thing.
The only Soulsborne game I've ever played is Code Vein and only because they put anime tiddies in it so whatever Bamco is peddling, I'm certainly all about it.
@@PewPew_McPewster But Bandai Namco also owns the entire Dark Souls series of games, so they're essentially ripping off of themselves.
Oh good. I wasn't the only one going "Oh. odd looking front. let's take a look at the screenshots" Only to go "Dangit. I got tricked by another Anime Game!"
Also i too would loudly go "Ofcourse they are" at the reveal of a childhood friend who has a crush.
"Say the brand, Yahtzee!"
3:43
"YAAAAAAY!"
I don't get it
@@kin-3877
You're not alone...
Huh? He doesn’t say any brand what are you on about?
I'm a die hard weeb and even I at one point said....this is some weeb shit.
Die Hard weebs be like uwu Bruce Willis-chan
(for science reasons, this is a joke)
(probably not a good one but still)
Idk how you’d think that so much tho. Like just cause the art style is anime and it starts with tropes before evolving them, that makes it weeb shit? Lmao that literally makes no sense, the game is a lot more unique and feels more cyberpunk than anime
If you’re a hardcore weeb (which I’m not) then this should be rather mundane to you. Or completely new, due to how the story goes
That's so true but I'm having a lot of fun with it. Each time I feel bored they wip out a need battle mechanic for you to enjoy, keeps me interested
"Here's your assigned Tsundere" Ha brilliant XD
Fun Fact: your “generic anime story” is also the plot of Mary Skelter! A random PSP game about naked girls covered in blood licking each other! It’s very universal.
I don't really remember a government in Mary Skelter, just a bunch of people clinging together for mutual survival.
Name of this game has been noted for later use. Thank you random internet person
@@dragoncultist1 It's fun and there is a sequel, check it out!
Finally, the return of Branston pickle spread thing
You are happy Branston Pickle returned. Happier are those who knew it never left.
I played through both characters story and honestly enjoyed it. Combat can open up a lot more if u get the attacks on the brain map like Yuito having a 5th hit to his basic combo and lvl 2 charge attack, not to mention raising bond levels can unlock combat visions and make certain SAS abilities powerful(like Kyoka's duplication giving you 2 clones on lvl 5). Story wise, it's really good, even with time travel, and the final boss was cool.
Funny thing, windows xp was indeed used in some military machinery such as tanks
Navy used windows nt too. With some funny results
All things considered, the direction they went with for the box art appears to have worked.
Scarlet Nexus sounds like a place that's full of Collin hickiesus.
A place full of what?
I think he’s trying to reference the relationship between Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost from SNL... in a weird, creepy way.
Sus
You, Mr. Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, are a right genius. You had me dying on this one. Thank you so much!
"Earth has been ravaged by apocalypse except for an outpost of humanity with access to really advanced technology for some reason, and this outpost is being constantly assaulted by mysterious monsters necessitating the creation of a defensive force of people with super powers or special technology, almost none of whom, for generally unexplored reasons, are old enough to shave." Hey, to be fair, minus the shaving part, that's basically XCOM 2. So it's not *just* Japan doing it.
True, but Japan does it way more often for anyone's good.
I think I might disagree with XCOM 2 fitting at least the tone of the "outpost of humanity". Sure you're the only resistance unit able to have agency (but agency mostly only goes to player in games) but you constantly come across other humans through random people in missions, the resistance cells you get money from connecting and the black market. There really isn't a tone of isolation in XCOM 2, or at least I didn't feel so.
Also at least my intepretation of XCOM 2 was like, most of humanity seems to be actually reasonably ok with the aliens around. they're not that actively getting ravaged. The places you visit seem fine. People have jobs and can eat.
@doomslayer420 Never said the West doesn't to it. Just stating that Japan uses this trope/cliché a lot more.
It's red astral chain with social links. And astral chain is just Evangelion with cops using Jojo stands.
So SN should really be called: *Scarlet Jojos Bizarre Persona: Genesis Police Academy.*
Underrated comment 🤣
I am curious as to why one of Japan’s anime/game tropes is “apocalypse destroys most of earth, except for the technologically advanced Japan insert country”
Thinking back to the good ol' days when Japan was isolationist, I suppose.
Eh usually is european insert country these days for some reason japan really likes germany atm
Actually, as Merciless Mode said, a LOT of anime happens in other countries than Japan. There's stuff set in Victorian England, Germany, celtic fantasy Ireland, etc. Hell, even modern day ones. E.g., Hellsing is set in modern day UK.
Or even when it's in Japan, they very often have key characters from other countries. Like, if you want to spice up some magic setup, it's pretty much a trope in its own right to have some super-powerful 12 year old nun in a miniskirt from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (the Roman Catholic Church's index of forbidden books) as a powerful antagonist, contagonist, or even party member. Or in the 'a certain' series, she IS the index.
Of course, they treat the actual history and myths of those places kinda like Hollywood does too. Which is to say, like a baby treats a diaper :p
For example, since I mentioned the index of forbidden books, the Japanese seem to think it's a list of magical books that the clergy actually study, as opposed to some list of stuff they thought only heretics read... and which included the Bible for a few centuries straight.
Reminds me kinda of Yuki Yuna series where the world is normal... In a small island part of Japan, logistical issues be damned because anime logic, while the rest of the world is a dark barren wasteland full of otherworldly beings so bad that to fight them some girls have to use the soul-consuming (and it gradually consumes the soul of the girls) powers derived from the beings itself
Why does every Hollywood movie have the aliens land in the US or its the Americans that end up saving the world?
I'm just happy we finally got that Code Vein review we missed. Seems he low key liked it!
I came in looking at the cover thinking Adeptus Mechanicus, I came out with a case of weeboo-19
Well, in the comments for the review of Necromunda: Hired Gun, someone suggested a 40K visual novel...
(My suggestion for the title was My Inquisitor Can't Be This Cute!, with the protagonist being a new member of a cute and youthful Inquisitor's previously all-female retinue. He can romance her or one of the others, who include a moe librarian with glasses, an icy Imperial Guard sniper, a cutely bloodthirsty Death Cultist, and an emotionless Sanctioned Psyker. He can also, in a secret path which usually ends in death or worse, romance a Slaaneshi cultist/Daemonette...)
Got into this game essentially in the same mindset. Knew nothing about it, but I'm having a great time! The story is absolutely stupid, but I found the gameplay to be pretty great once you get used to how things function. And it gets better and better as more abilities unlock and you get access to more powers. The side-stuff really are horrid pace-killers though, and you get punished in the fights if you don't do it (because your allies won't be as good as they could be). But yeah.. Super fun game, for sure.
Isn’t the plot basically Power Rangers RPM? It does sound like it, doesn’t it?! 😂
GET IN GEAR
The only good Power Rangers series
@@AlphaOblivion7 I had no idea until that big ass Power Rangers marathon on Twitch, when the movie was coming out. Yeah... RPM is like a real show with real characters and actual writing.
@@Virjunior01 honestly, if you liked Power ranger RPM you might like some of season of Kamen rider, the writing for them bounce between standard kids show to actually really good, the plot can sometimes be a bit bonkers but isn't afraid to be serious, and it isn't afraid to take away the plot armor and kill off characters for good including main characters.
@@AlphaOblivion7 now now
In space and lost galaxy both exist
And time force to a lesser extent
2:42 I like how Yahtzee still references jam in his videos
I've played so many games that whenever the protagonist uses a sword I immediately find it boring and try to switch it out for _anything_ else.
I'll use a dining chair over a sword in any game that lets me.
Well, after playing so many games, I'd hope you found what you liked or disliked. Be pretty pointless to play a game you hated.
The funny thing is that, theoretically, a sword makes a lot of sense a weapon for a fantasy hero because it's versatile and it's a sidearm; it can theoretically be carried anywhere, unlike a spear or an axe. But then a huge number of games have the swords be ridiculously oversized to the point where they become neither of those things.
@@matthewmuir8884 can't a gun do the same thing?
@@AlejandroRodriguez-cy8ee yes but gunplay is a lot less interesting mechanically unless you do the doom thing where theres a ton of movement and gun swapping
Or the dmc thing where guns are just pqrt of an arsenal of wacky shit
@@matthewmuir8884 A sword makes a LOT of sense when it's a medieval or ancient world, but stops being particularly useful even as a side-arm when the enemy has repeating firearms. In fact, even in WW2 (and possibly for the same reason when it happened as early as the Boer war) the Brits actually took away the officers' weapons because the only thing it did was mark you as an officer -- i.e., a priority target -- for enemy snipers. Whatever benefits you'd get if you ever got in range to fence with it during a bayonet charge, were just not making up for the disadvantage of it marking you as a high status target.
There are still people remembering Blue Gender? I´m in shock.
It's my favorite anime, I was super surprised to see it here.
Japan or American who does the generic game idea the best
Anime boys with swords
Or white men crafting
Damn
What if we made a game about an anime boy and his bearded white adoptive dad crafting swords together and going forth to fight monsters, farm collectibles and find the boy a waifu (and maybe a new mum as well if any of the well-endowed maternal ladies of advanced age, like early 30s, fancy the dad)? Would the universe be destroyed by some kind of Blandness Spiral Nemesis? Or would it maybe be a good game?
@@KeithFraser82 That sounds really good and I'm sad it's not real :(
You could have them bond and talk about weapons/ladies/monsters while working
@@KeithFraser82 take the anime parts out and that's basically the last God of War Game. Father and Son Bonding together over killing monsters and crafting armors and shit
of course there is also the point that both protagonists do not do the same things so you have incentive to play the other character after finishing one, because they go to different places and do different things. and the setting is just so tht its cognitively easy to pick up on whats going on. and its only important in how they explain it afterwards. i for one was somewhat satisfied with their explanation for why things are as they are at the start. if anything they actually go out of their way to explain it more than most similar setting games do
Hitting people with swords and telekinetically throwing random stuff at them? Did anybody else immediately think of Jedi?
Yes.
This is my tsundere childhood friend Chihiro, and my just tsun childhood enemy, who is also named Chihiro. If you're having difficulty telling them apart, Chihiro 2 is the one who engraved my name into her sword *without* following it with a little heart emoji.
...that would be Yandere, but yeah.
@@edisontrent618 Yandere would still require them to like me, just in a twisted and unhealthy matter.
Chihiro the second is just legitimately trying to murder me. The only way "dere" applies to our relationship is that they want to leave my corpse in a derelict warehouse.
@@lnsflare1 I'm saying that the first should be Yandere, the second would just be Yan. Insulting/hitting/slapping is Tsun, crossing over into actually injuries is Yan, in my opinion.
Yahtzee immediately predicting the "Childhood best friend secretly in love with protagonist" trope makes me think he doesn't hate anime as much as he says.
exactly...
How does it sound like he likes it when he points out how predictable it is?
Man had to play so many anime games. Of course he would know that without liking anime.
Yeah to be fair, even those that don't watch Anime know this, it's literally one of the most well known tropes.
You don't need to like anime to see how predictable and tropey it can be
Well, Yahtzee, you were on the right path coming up to find that it's anime. And beyond that it's exactly what you described.
That stack of anime at 1:28 was pretty damn accurate.
The real irony is I never would have been tempted to check the game out if Yahtzee never brought it up.
Hey now Muria just died let's leave the giant swords alone for a little
Lets say one thing now, beserk is now unfinished masterpiece and Vinland Saga is now better because it had ENDING.
Edit: Sorry for my bitching but someone needs to address it.
@@madkoala2130 It's not like it's over yet, there's still time for Vinland Saga to never get an ending. Hopefully does of course, but depends on the scale of what they want from their Vinland portion how long that'll take.
@@DWFTW did you read manga
@@madkoala2130 I have been, yeah. Unless it ends very abruptly or the scanslators I'm reading from are really delayed they only just made contact with the natives in Vinland recently.
@@DWFTW vinlands mangaka doesnt take 5 year hiatuses like miura did
It will probably end
The graphic for "Psych! It's an anime game!" looks like the two characters on the front each have a single huge eye for a head.
I found it interesting that they basically took the item system from the Tales Of series only they were too lazy to think up names for most of the items you pick up from enemies.. the wishlist feature does make the synthesis mechanic (sorry I mean exchange mechanic) a bit easier to manage compared to how it was in Tales of Vesperia (I don't recall if this was in any of the more recent Tales Of games since they were way too boring to remember anything about).
A school mandated Tsundere??!? Fantastic.
Everything is accurate aside from the age bit. It's actually explained that due to psychic powers fading with age everyone in the psychic army is on age blockers so aside from the fresh recruits nobody actually looks their age. The oldest member in the party is in his 50s but looks to be in his mid-20s and the youngest-looking female in the group is in her 40s considering her service record is 29 years.
To be fair, "Character is actually dozens/hundreds of years old but only *looks* high-school-aged is also a *very* oft-repeated anime trope.
Yeah, wouldn't want some wrinkles getting in the way of lewd fanarts
"It's OK, Officer, she may *look* like a pre-teen girl, but she's really several centuries old, and is merely a member of a very slow aging species/using her powers to conceal her true appearance"
@@talltroll7092 Oh god, you are giving me PTSD flashbacks of Nowi now.
Nice profile picture
I really wish you would do a review using your pilot math and see how confused everyone gets. Just call someone a plying bracket! I knew you were going to say the double tapping was a stupid idea. You nailed this one.
I'm not sure why but I haven't laughed this hard at a review in ages. Yahtzee may not have loved it but this is one of his most entertaining videos to date imo
Glad to hear it's a good game, I'll pick it up.
Exactly lol
I like this game, and am in love with the combat, but Yahtzee is spot on with this review.
Nah not really lol
As soon as I saw the commercials. I couldn’t wait for Yahtzee to tear this apart.
"Do me up the piss pipes" made me gag on my coffee. Well done sir!
Man, I for one could use more creepy anime shenanigans in my videogames so between Ys IX, Scarlet Nexus and the upcoming Tales, my platter is certainly full.
Uhh what’s creepy about those games tho?
I was hoping he would mention how the developers are just moving from popular gameplay loop to popular gameplay loop and making it "More Anime"
Not really, like at all. The only genre they did that for was Dark Souls, it’s literally not been done otherwise to any real degree
ITS HERE!!!
I want all my oversized sword attacks to have strawberry flavored Branston pickle buffs.
Did you say ANIME???? I'm FREAKIN' ON THIS!!!
I really enjoyed Scarlet Nexus, especially it's combat. And I didn't feel like the "issues" Yahtzee mentioned existed for me. Changing the targeted enemy feels quick and intuitive, R1 + right stick left/right to target the next enemy in that direction. 2xR1/L1 to change the character wheel for the powers felt fun as well and could be executed quite well, I guess it depends on how well you can adapt to that. But if there is one thing I have to say that felt a bit nasty was some of the trash fights. I played on normal and had grinded up a bit to stop feeling underpowered and there were still some trash groups that fuckered me right the hell up the moment I got into the fight. A big let down were MOST of the bosses. From the bosses I met as the girl protag (Kasane) only one is actually fun to fight and feels like an actual boss instead of just a big trash mob and it's the Dominus Circus, the 2nd to last boss.
It's not a perfect game and although I don't agree with Yahtzee I can understand those that do. Storywise it's some typical anime stuff but I enjoyed the Kasane story. Haven't played Yuito's side of the story yet but the overall story was fun and had some nice surprises although I rolled my eyes at some story beats.
Overall I really enjoyed my time with it and I'd give it a solid 8.5/10.
I’m glad I’ve found a review for this game and that it’s zp because no matter what advertising I see for this, none of it tells you what kind of game it is
Yes it does. It says it’s a character action game with cyberpunk/brainpunk aspects. That’s pretty descriptive and unique lol
It's scary how accurate a description this is for Code Vein as well...
except how the protagonist is amnesiac at first and there's not actually harem aimed at the protagonist.... or at least less than 3 main girl don't count
as much as it's dark souls like, it's bandai. the implication is subtle as fuck. eg io... and her clones
I feel like if I’m going to throw stuff to fight monsters and get really weird then I’d much rather just play Control.
This is easily a better story, deeper combat too. Both are definitely worth a go, but this is objectively better on the story and depth fronts
You know, Yahtzee has a point about how this is the Japanese gaming equivalent of Jiminy Cockthroat- he didn't even get around to mentioning Persona 3, or Code Vein, or God Eater, or Mary Skelter, or any of the other horde of games about teams of inexplicably-empowered young people being the only ones who can save a beseiged humanity from extermination at the hands of mysterious monsters. Another syndrome is needlessly-elaborate gameplay mechanics that can be really hard to work out without a wiki and several tutorial videos (bullet customisation from God Eater springs to mind), too many party members, and needlessly-clunky controls. And for some reason, Bandai Namco in particular seem to have cornered the market on them.
You also forget that for the majority of those games, the teenage protagonists have to fight and kill a deity/godlike being at the end
Not really. The game is very unique, and he’d acknowledge it if he actually played through the entire story
that intro brings back memories
I can tell he played to the end because he described the end game plot in his cheeky, roundabout way.
Defeating god with the power of friendship
I am in that mind set of 'It's anime? No interest." When I saw the screen shots I just felt it would go WAY to hard on the anime end to the point of being mind numbingly bad and/or boring. Which is a same because the combat stuff seems enjoyable. Though, based on what Yahtzee said, the 'good' parts are buried so deeply believe the mandatory anime crap, like terrible dialogue and terrible characters.
The characters are the highlight if anything they have genuine arcs and you help them grow into a cohesive team by the end.
@@seniorsterling1064 dude lol no. The gameplay is amazingly fun but the characters have backstorys that seem like they were written by bandai namco's gacha division.
Your loss, it’s not that heavy into an “overly anime” vibe, and the good stuff permeates throughout
@@akanta5746 dude lol no. Have you even played through the story/bond stuff? It’s a lot more unique than people on this video are giving it credit for, and saying things like what you’re saying makes me think that you either never played or never paid a lick of attention lmao
The characters are definitely a big good highlight
@@DavidHosey1 flat, one-dimensional, and with a heavy lick of ludonarrative dissonance in between. If your characters have their entire backstory explained through like 200 unskippable dialogue cutscenes and it's STILL filled with plotholes and wtf moments its not good. Maybe emotional, in the same way people find david cage games emtional, but not good.
I like to think the combat as sorta spectical fighter ish where its kinda eh but serviceable at start and then you spend some skill points and suddenly you can do 196049 more combos in combat to make it flow better.
Lucorade....😂 And your targeting bit is on point. That was one my main negatives about the game. That and the drop the controller and walk away story "twist" event.
The twists were good, wdym?
You know what, this game seems as bland as I had a feeling it would be. Oh well, I'm glad I don't have to or feel the need to keep up with releases.
The good thing with this game is there is a demo you can try and it will give you the basic idea of the gameplay and how Anime it is. I don't think it is MY thing, but as someone who did like Code Vein and it wasn't as Anime as I though I am willing to give the demo another run before making my mind if I try the full version or not.
I'm actually really enjoying it. I studied Japanese for a few years, so even though the characters are all super fucking stock anime tropes, I kind of treat the downtime between missions as a way to practice my conversational Japanese by disabling subtitles which makes it WAY less boring. I bet that's the part you're going to bounce off of - it is pretty fucking dull. The actual plot is kind of fucking bonkers in a fun way and the battle system is quite strong, if a bit confusing at first. There's a demo - try it out for yourself. I'm really enjoying it, and I'm not that big on anime.
I enjoyed it. Had some problems (like the characters not shutting the fuck up), but I found it fun.
@@johnwrath3612 I've heard that using anime to practice Japanese is a really bad way to do it because the characters don't talk like real people and it makes you look really weird when you use it IRL.
@@Crispman_777
Yeah, much better off just watching Japanese movies. Some of the anime slice of life movies work as well, but not the fantasy style ones.
Oh,shit I've made a horrible mistake. I thought Scarlett Nexus was the one with the techno vampires.
Honestly with the titles and red aesthetic yeah it's no wonder people mix em up.
What's the one with the techno vampires?
@@KeithFraser82 Isn't that Code Vein?
fun game, but you hit the nail on the head here man. I still like it, it's like video game cheese doodles: there isn't really any substance to it but if you like the flavor it goes down easy
...everything you have said only makes me want to play this game more.
i guess i know which of those two groups at the end i fall into