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I have a funny feeling that if/when Yatzee shows up at convention there's going to be several sweaty people blasting Kickstart my Heart near him. Great way to hate a song, not as common as setting it as your alarm in the morning.
Easiest way to start hating Kickstart My Heart is to try learning it on Rocksmith 2014. Bonus points if doing so on an old guitar that barely functions, or worse, in a household that includes a cat so irritating you wrote a whole novel immortalising what an obnoxious pricks he is.
I have track Persona (the piano one) from persona 3 as my alarm for the last 14 years. Positives? I need to hear three first notes to wake up. Negatives? I can't heat it anywhere else without chacking on my phone.
@@viniciusacmauro Portal. I remember he couldn't think of a single thing bad to say about it until his review for Portal 2 which I think was just that the fanbase was annoying or something.
Let me correct it: It gives you a better Guardians story than the movies do & better characterization for several characters like Gamora & Mantis. Gameplay’s decent but still fun.
Yatzee's accent made "kickstart my heart" sound like "Kickstart Majat" wich sounds like a semipro wrestler whose gimmick is being from India, with all the nuance and sensibility that characterizes semi-professional wrestling
Nobody asked but the scene with the workers speaking different languages says: (German) "I've never seen the light of day" (Japanese) "Please don't talk to me in public" You're welcome, random netizen!
Anyone who stumbles on this review and wants to experience this funny Space Llama minigame - Don't hide it in the beginning of the game, hide the spare parts instead. Because if you choose to hide llama, in Chapter 10 you'll be stripped of this minigame and presented a quick get out instead. It's funny how I chose all the best options of choice but it appears that this one bites you, and the consequence goes so far in the game.
Eventually some writer will win an award for figuring out that *"the gang"* style constant banter can be combined with Outlast/Arkham Aslyum-style characters getting slowly mauled throughout the story to make for an engaging, Pineapple Express-style storytelling where people keep losing toes but are also making jokes and being human about it
@@Nickle_King Did it? Imagine Anthem, but without the jetpacks. Downright miserable. Well, *more* miserable. Point being the jetpacks were the only good thing about the game.
I did. It's done for Kick-start My Heart what Bendy And The Ink Machine did for Willow Weep For Me. A whole diferent set of people have appeared in Motley Crues channel. Lol. .
One of the cool things about this game. When the game starts, when you play as kid Star Lord, I LOVED how you can listen to the cassette of the Metal band they made up for the game and made 12 songs (from my memory), and you can listen to all of it. Before you even start the actual game. That was fuckin cool! You can rewind a song, and play it again, if you want. That deserves some credit.
People might disagree about some of the things he says in this review, but one thing we should universally agree on is that Kickstart My Heart is in fact the hypest shit ever.
I genuinely... GENUINELY hope that when his Top List for the year comes out that he follows up on the joke about this game being his GotY. Even if it's just a joke! It would STILL make me smile tremendously!
@@archmagusofevil Yes but REmake he very specifically said was a backslide for the series, that the characters sucked, and that Mr. X was more annoying than scary.
A reason why video game characters rarely look like their movie counterparts is that actors own their likenesses. Disney/Marvel may own the character Star Lord, but they don't own Chris Pratt's face. For them to make their in-game character look like him, they'd have to get a separate licensing deal with Chris Pratt (and pay him for it). Then they have to do it with the rest of the cast. Also, the deals don't last forever unless you pay for a lifetime licensing deal which is very expensive, especially with an A-list celebrity. With games sold digitally now and able to essentially be sold indefinitely, that can lead to tricky problems when the deal needs to be renewed, and the celebrity asks for more money or says no.
@@TheNexDude You just eloquently summed up basically every major publisher of anything, ever! "No no, we make another of the same exact thing, three times the marketing budget - we'll make a fortune, guys!"
True. Don't let the fact that he wrote and directed Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad distract you from the fact that he was also a writer for both of the live action Scooby-Doo movies.
Plus, if they did the movies, then we'd get a sidestory that can't really do anything with the characters. More so, than even this paint by numbers game. And that's a best case scenario. Has he ever played an MCU game before?
You know what property also features daring space adventures? the Jacques McKeown series. You know the series written by one Yahtzee Croshaw. The series where we are still waiting for the third book for almost three years.
Wait. What?! I don't remember any prison scene with Gamorrah singing! There was a side conversation where I managed to get her to sing along to improve her mood, but nothing like that. Did my choices actually alter the content presented to me in a major release title?!
People don't actually realize that the choices you make in this game do alter the story, and thus the content you experience. They just assume it's the illusion of choice. Which is only half right. Because sure, no matter what choice you make, you'll still follow the same story. But it's how you get through the story that is altered.
If you sold someone else to lady Bellblender then you get two completely different paths, although the end result is the same along with the boss fight.
I love how after all these years ZP's format still hasn't changed. Maybe except for the intro. So many content creators change and become worse during the years and Yahtzee is still excellent. Keep ut the good work!
Im very happy yahtzee noticed the amount of "This Thing" games. They can work but most of the time its just boring go here, fight, story, go there and repeat. Tbh I wonder what other format big triple A games could even do for single player game rather than open world and "this thing" .
this is a great example of a good Zero Punctuation. Concisely nails a lot of the things I worried about looking at it from afar and does it in a hilarious way.
That "Like an angel with poor finger dexterity" joke makes me wish we had a compilation of all of Yahtzee's hilariously convoluted puns over the years.
Hmm, a game chock-full of licensed 80s music and with that being one of its main selling points..? Taking all bets, how long until this game is mysteriously pulled from sale and is never heard from again: 5 years? Do i hear "3 years"?
When the "remastered" edition comes out with higher res graphics in an estimated 5-7 years, they'll do what they did for GTA games: license new (cheaper) songs and strip the old ones out. Luckily, the PC version will have a mod that puts the original songs back in.
Reminds me of me and anime about 5 years ago. I basically finished anything good in the genre and was constantly lamenting the creatively bankrupt and hyper contrived shows coming out. And then I stopped, and moved on to other things giving it up for dead. Felt allot better afterward. I feel for him, because ingesting this shit is his bread and butter. I know why he does it, but I’d happily watch him do other things instead of reviewing games that frustrate him. His developer diary was fantastic.
@@pkre707 I agree, with you in the anime part, i loved every anime i watch, but as modernity, comes and the constant, oversaturation of the same, constant isekai, or shonen, that want to be dragon ball, the passing of amaizing characters, that look simple, yet they are deep intresting storys, and amaizing quality, passing to the constant jokes, the males protagonist, that when they are not pervert kids, to the constant crying kid and the same plot over and over again, i become jaded and tired of anime, watching a ftraction of what i watch, not even the ones i like watch, i mean that, i stop caring and move on, i miss mi games, and i have to accpet mobiles, with make me even more jaded and nihilistic, and there is nothing to do, i at different of you feeling better, i feel sad, the videogame industry i love is dying, and anime, becuase become mainstream, is starting to get the symptons of it
@@Krysnha I think thats way too much hyperbole, there are still interesting stuff coming out both in games and anime. its just that when you consume everything that you will get the less interesting stuff more than the good ones, just have a filter for what you consume and its back to good stuff again. getting excited over the next anime you want to watch or game you want to play. the vast majority of things coming out being boring, imitations of trends set by others isnt anything new to any industry. its just we all remember the good stuff more than the bad so it seems like it was better in the old days at all times.
The insult at 02:04, the gang just "flying around in space doing their best Cowboy Bebop impression" is *such* a funny way to mock the story. Cosplay andies in space, burning time until the afternoon plot starts
*Kick start my heart* was written after their lead singer over dosed. He literally needed eppy and paddles to kick start his heart. He was dead for like 3 min 💀
Kickstart My Heart, the universal hype song. The only song I know that can make even a silly homemade flash animation of Scrooge McDuck fighting Prince Vegeta for the fate of the world feel like you’re watching a major Hollywood production.
I will never get why critics complain about that the character in the games dont look like in the movies. They know the games are based on the comics, if its a movie game like wolverine origins its a diffrent story but nobody ever said oh why does Spiderman not look like tom holland and sounds like him. Do you really want that? Like only because the MCU is more popular than the comics now doesnt mean that every iteration of any marvel character has to look like there actor now, im so annoyed by this "complain".
I HAVEN'T FINISHED THIS VIDEO BUT THE IDEA THAT YAHTZEE HAS A SIMILAR OBSESSION WITH KICKSTART MY HEART AS ME does nothing to distract me from the inescapable futility of existence and the fact that THAT SHIT DOESN'T MATTER WHILE I'M LISTENING TO KICKSTART MY HEART
MGoG was one of the best linear narrative type gaming experiences I've had in quite a while. I mean I actually replayed it! And that never happens with this kind of game, like why would I - I already know what's gonna happen so I just get bored. But here the combat and the characters dragged me back in. And there isn't even any nostalgia element - sure the music is nice but I am from a completely different part of the world and haven't even ever heard about most songs and bands that they included. Also, thank god they didn't use the same cast or same character design as in the movies. It would have been just... bad. I can't even describe it properly but the idea itself revolts me. If they were exactly the same characters as in the movies then the backstories wouldn't work and if those were reused then the whole thing would have been... stale...
I completely agree with you. Like Yahtzee, I like when gameplay and story feel connected, but I feel like this largely succeeds at this through all the party banter you're asked to weigh in on and the puzzles that require your entire team
Square Enix making a game about long, boring hallways connecting story pieces in an overall "meh" title? Looks like the ghost of FFXIII is still haunting them.
Star Lord's weapons become very effective, but the problem is that the mechanics are poorly explained, and the elemental attacks feel like they come a bit too late. Once you know what you're doing, and have the tools to do it, you can bulldoze through basically everything, but the start feels like a grind.
I really enjoyed the gameplay personally and I'm halfway through a NG+ run on a custom ultr hard difficulty where I do less damge and enemies do more and what not and I find it really enjoyable. Learning what cooldowns to use and when. It's like all the fun of Overwatch without the player base
Wait, even Yahtzee thinks Thor Ragnarok was a relative highlight? I really am the odd man out for thinking it was the absolute worst of the three Thors.
@@TheMirksta In that case, put me in the genuine backwards brain column. It's not as good as the first, true, but I'd still choose The Dark World over Ragnarok.
On the hand I’m like “Oh yeah! Licensed soundtrack!” On the other it’s “Oh fuck it’s gonna be taken off the shelves in a year because it has a licensed soundtrack.”
One of the fun parts of only knowing someone through their work is that I can't really tell if Yahtzee actually had a crush on Colombo or if it simply was a part of the joke. You can never quite know for sure about those little details and that fascinates me for a few seconds.
0:40 "I can only assume that someone at Square must've stolen my high school crush diary, 'cuz how else would they know that _Kickstart My Heart_ is my one weakness?" 1:52 "Our story begins with Star Choad and his motley crew..." I see what you did there.
Having trouble getting serious about running exercise? Put Kickstart my heart on a playlist, and play it on repeat every time you run Voila! You're in top shape within 2 months
Both this and Avengers would have needed to negotiate royalities with each MCU actor if they wanted to use their likeness. Given the state of Avengers i doubt they had the budget for such extravagance. IDK about the budget this game but it would still require some phat cash to get the actors' likeness in digital form
I think it's more to do with the freedom of being able to do their own thing and not try to do something that slots in with the movies without getting contradicted in future installments. The characterizations are clearly MCU inspired though. As is the use of music, although they switched from 70's rock to 80's pop.
As a casual opinion: I have a massive love hate relationship with this game. On the one hand, I really hate how boring most of the game is. He's not kidding when he says most of the game is walking between action set pieces. You'll spend 30-45 minutes walking to the next battle just listening to banter if you play somewhat similar to me, looking for new costumes and trying to hear the full banter line before quickly moving on before the next banter line starts (I love listening to dialogue in games, but this game genuinely has infinite lines per area, and if you wait for a split second in an area after banter stops... they'll start talking again). And the plot against Raker is just super boring. Seeing Knowhere and talking with Cosmo and so much of the game showed off how absolutely bonkers and fun the cosmic Marvel comics can be.... so they when spent the entire game fighting a by-the-book evil church. And the actual combat is fine. It's fun once it gets started, but thats many hours into the game. And the vast majority of enemy designs absolutely SUCK. You fight alien creatures a lot but like half of them are jello cubes or little bouncy ball bugs and its such a waste of opportunity. Plus none of the enemies really encourage any kind of smart play. I played the game on the hardest default setting and breezed through the game, I only died once to the final boss. Like I feel like the enemies couldve had a unique set of weaknesses that your TEAM can exploit. The way the weakness system actually works felt like it wasnt enough. But with all that being said... I ADORE the character writing. I think all of the banter is EXCELLENT. Let me make something clear, Guardians of the Galaxy is one of my favorite movies, full stop. I love that charm and the witt. By contrast, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is one of my LEAST favorite Marvel movies (recently it's crown was stolen by Eternals for worst MCU movie for me). The humor in GotG2 is so forced and it's painfully unfunny, which is made all the worse by the fact that every joke has 10-15 seconds of being rubbed in. See Taserface, his name being revealed was a solid setup for a small joke of how dumb it sounded, but instead it becomes this minute long ordeal of them rubbing in how stupid of a name it is and it just gets me so irritated. -Anyway, I was really hesitant buying this game because I was worried that it would be aping the more successful GotG2. Well it's absolutely not. It feels way more in line with the first movie and I absolutely love it. It's so absolutely charming and they nailed that broken family aesthetic. And there are some good parts of the plot. There are some serious emotional scenes that made me feel things deep down and I think they were extremely well executed. And there's actually a genuine plot twist that I didn't see coming and I feel like I felt the pain that the characters all felt when it was revealed. Excellently done. And I'd love to spend more time in this world and with these characters in a sequel. A sequel with a more outrageous plot, and significantly improved gameplay. P.S. I bought the digital deluxe edition because I wanted the soundtrack. It doesn't include the licensed songs... so... Don't do that.
The actual plot wasn't very good, but the character interplay and dialogue was excellent. The non-cutscene dialogue options were also something i've been wanting to see in games for a long time.
Really wish Yahtzee would have come up with a name for *"this thing"* (02:20), just like he did with *Jimminy Cockthroat* stronghold-takeover-games and *Spunkgargleweewee* (modern military action). I don't think Guardians of the Galaxy will be the last *this thing.*
Not bad if you gut 75% of it. I kinda have learned you don't rly watch those videos to make an opinion about the game unless he finds somehting rly rly special.
@@evraght nah it's just that since I have less time I'm a bit picky with games, so Yahtzee's reviews help me as well. Have always found fresh games from ZP.
@@manavsridharan3811 I might've not been clear. Yahtzee made me discover some of the most wonderful games I've ever played, including my top1 of games ever - Disco Elysium. And also I'm a very specific gamer, I have 700 hours in Rimworld, 700 in civ 6 and 500 in Europa Universalis 4 and yet from time to time what he recomends I play (Cyberpunk, Hades, over 100 hours in both). I just think in most cases he will shit over the mainstream title, because his creative standards are so high, and he also really likes "the weird shit" (does anyone beside him really truly appreciaite playing Cruelty Squad). I love the man's mind, I'm in awe of his creativity, but if I was a tripple A game consumer I would never take his opinion of it into consideration. Our cups of tea wouldn't be even from the same planet.
Ah, the serial killer's lament. You do all the fun grotesque things in your buzzing immagination, finish the last bit, shout "Yay, done!", then realize what a sodding mess you made of the room. The record skips in the brain space and the serial killer is forced to ask "Wait, why did I do all of that again?"
I think the only thing I personally disagree with Yahtzee on is the guardians not having their likenesses from the movies. I personally feel like the detachment from their counterparts, and having a closer to the comic book accurate style worked wonders for this game. I think I was able to connect with the characters a lot more, and I ended up having a bit more of an emotional and fun ride with them, even though I absolutely love their movie counterparts. That being said I was happy that you could grab costumes for everybody around the maps, and I definitely collected their movie costumes just for the fun of it. I personally recommend this game even at full price, even though I bought it at around $50, and if full price is a bit too sleep, then I definitely recommend it when it goes on sale likely around the holidays this year. It's only about 22 hours long, but it's some of the most fun that I've had with the AAA video game this year, and I would be remiss to let others miss out on it. My personal game recommendations this year (based on what I've played): Psychonauts 2 Persona 5 Strikers The Artful Escape Guardians of the Galaxy Deathloop
*Zero Punctuation prog rock album of the week:* *Gardener of the Malady* by *Euphoric Defiance* - featuring the hit single *Walking Very Slowly Through Spectacular Skyboxes*
Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw that bit of Starlord holding the stop watch and snapping his finger as a reference to Mael Stronghart in The Great Ace Attorney.
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Hmm...no caption again. Also, what happened to the older Extra Punctuations, the ones that weren't a full video?
When is this week’s post-ZP stream?
@@E1craZ4life It's tomorrow, it's already on the channel page so you can remind yourself.
They havn't cast Chris Pratt as Starlord because they didn't want to confuse the gaming audience as he is known there as Mario
He's so cool!
He’s so grool!
@@blackadder5517 doesn’t support gay rights though. That’s kinda a bummer.
Gamer moment
@@Alphabunsquad Source?
I have a funny feeling that if/when Yatzee shows up at convention there's going to be several sweaty people blasting Kickstart my Heart near him. Great way to hate a song, not as common as setting it as your alarm in the morning.
Even hearing "Kickstart my Heart" until you hate it become slightly cooler if done to "Kickstart my Heart" ;)
I've had "Buried The Sun" by Wormrot as my alarm clock for the last 5 or so years and still love it :D
Easiest way to start hating Kickstart My Heart is to try learning it on Rocksmith 2014. Bonus points if doing so on an old guitar that barely functions, or worse, in a household that includes a cat so irritating you wrote a whole novel immortalising what an obnoxious pricks he is.
I have track Persona (the piano one) from persona 3 as my alarm for the last 14 years. Positives? I need to hear three first notes to wake up. Negatives? I can't heat it anywhere else without chacking on my phone.
Id do that with the Eurobeat remix by Turbo for the lols
5:06 "I have never seen the sun before" (German) and "Stop talking to me in public" (Japanese)
Yahtzee is an important critic, because he's the only one who will give you reasons to *not* buy a AAA game, even if he likes it.
And if he is struggling to find bad things to say about a triple-A game (like Arkham Asylum) then you know you should buy it ASAP
@@SarcyBoi41 Didn't he rate that the 5th most blandest?
@@memeticgenetic5160 No Arkham Asylum was his game of the year, might have been for origin's or knight; not sure which one
What does he like? I really can’t remember a title.
@@viniciusacmauro Portal. I remember he couldn't think of a single thing bad to say about it until his review for Portal 2 which I think was just that the fanbase was annoying or something.
German: "I've never seen the sun before."
Japanese: "Please do not speak to me in Public."
That made me laugh...
My hero! I was curious what they said. I don’t know German and my Japanese is still awful
Obscure reference to Sonne by Rammstein?
@@Lttlemoi not really. "Sonne" is just "sun" in German
@@losersbecomewinners2043 All it takes is practice! been speaking German for about a year and Japanese for about 5 years. You'll get there!
@@Lttlemoi T'was the thought that ran through my head.
"It's better than avengers" is not a compliment. Just like "Oh you aren't vomiting all over the floor today" isnt one either.
Hey! I see you're bleeding from the eyes a lot less than normal today! That's fantastic!
“That was an improvement but it’s not hard to improve on garbage”
-Captain Price
Slightly better than a mouthful of nails.
Let me correct it: It gives you a better Guardians story than the movies do & better characterization for several characters like Gamora & Mantis. Gameplay’s decent but still fun.
Well at least it's fun to play! Unlike marvels avengers
After 15 years of on and off viewership, I'm starting to get the feeling that yahtzee dislikes quite a few games.
I don't know, my memory might be fuzzy on this one, but he's really fond of Call of Duty.
Don't look it up, just know it's true!
@@landonletterman831 his favourite game's Crusters Revenge.
Not at all. He's done like three cautiously positive ones now.
@@landonletterman831 He loved 4
But nothing compares to his love for all JRPGs XD
Yatzee's accent made "kickstart my heart" sound like "Kickstart Majat" wich sounds like a semipro wrestler whose gimmick is being from India, with all the nuance and sensibility that characterizes semi-professional wrestling
so in otherwords...the great khali
@@zadok23 well... ... ... yes
No one would pronounce the name of the song outloud as “Kick Start My Heart” that would be absolutely insane!
As opposed to all the nuance and sensibility that characterizes pro wrestling?
@@dairoleon2682 I wish youtube had a "Laught" or "Heart" buttons like Facebook. A simple "Like" doesn't convey how good your comment is.
Nobody asked but the scene with the workers speaking different languages says:
(German) "I've never seen the light of day" (Japanese) "Please don't talk to me in public"
You're welcome, random netizen!
thanks buddy
Yahtzee: my weakness is Mötley Crüe
Gaming companies: *Write that down!* *Write that down!*
isn't there an old pinball game based on motley crue?
Apparently Battlefield 2042 heard him
Anyone who stumbles on this review and wants to experience this funny Space Llama minigame - Don't hide it in the beginning of the game, hide the spare parts instead. Because if you choose to hide llama, in Chapter 10 you'll be stripped of this minigame and presented a quick get out instead. It's funny how I chose all the best options of choice but it appears that this one bites you, and the consequence goes so far in the game.
Ooohhhh. So that's why I missed it. And I like how you get a post-credit scene depending on a choice you make like half way through too.
@@Codarius there was a post credit scene? Edit: oh, you mean the polaroid pictures description?
@@HenryWayat Nope. If you don't pay your fine there's a little post credit scene where you're flying along and the ship shuts down.
I didn't hide either because I couldn't decide in time.
@@Codarius The Worldmind was about to warp out of there. How would they have time to disable the disabler?
I'm glad Yahtzee has only gotten better in the last 20 years, his witty writing is as sharp as ever.
Imagine not improving in 20 years
@@dannuman6510 many ppl get worse, especially on the Internet when the warm sheets of appreciative community get too comfy.
20 years already.
Hey now, 14 years. He's still in his 30s.
witty is a stretch
"Teeth like an overbooked Klu Klux Klan meeting" is one of Yahtzee's best lines to date
Eventually some writer will win an award for figuring out that *"the gang"* style constant banter can be combined with Outlast/Arkham Aslyum-style characters getting slowly mauled throughout the story to make for an engaging, Pineapple Express-style storytelling where people keep losing toes but are also making jokes and being human about it
There are two things that improve everything just by adding them: Kickstart My Heart and jetpacks.
It has to be the combination of the two Kickstart my heart AND Jetpacks. like Ying and Yang, Abbot and costello, Marmite and chocolate muffins.
@@Nickle_King I'm sure some people would argue that Crash Bandicoot 2 proved half wrong as well
@@Nickle_King Did it? Imagine Anthem, but without the jetpacks. Downright miserable. Well, *more* miserable. Point being the jetpacks were the only good thing about the game.
Kickstart My Jetpack would presumably be Yahtzee's favourite game of all time.
And lucha libre wrestlers head-butting bullets out of the air
OK y'all, how many people immediately searched for Kickstart My Heart after this video?
Yahtzee has become too powerful.
I did, and I had to slog through half of the results being a remix that plays on the Battlefield 2046 trailer
I did. It's done for Kick-start My Heart what Bendy And The Ink Machine did for Willow Weep For Me. A whole diferent set of people have appeared in Motley Crues channel. Lol. .
One of the cool things about this game. When the game starts, when you play as kid Star Lord, I LOVED how you can listen to the cassette of the Metal band they made up for the game and made 12 songs (from my memory), and you can listen to all of it. Before you even start the actual game. That was fuckin cool! You can rewind a song, and play it again, if you want.
That deserves some credit.
People might disagree about some of the things he says in this review, but one thing we should universally agree on is that Kickstart My Heart is in fact the hypest shit ever.
I discovered it with this game and absolutely love it ; do you have other recommendations for other hype as fuck songs ?
@@wickedfreak21 Rock music from the 1980's is what you're looking for.
It was a fairly nice bit of 80s, but I still prefer "Unchain my heart", which my brain helpfully injected instead each time.
@@wickedfreak21 Most of the licensed music in the Brutal Legend soundtrack?
God, it's such a banger.
I genuinely... GENUINELY hope that when his Top List for the year comes out that he follows up on the joke about this game being his GotY. Even if it's just a joke! It would STILL make me smile tremendously!
Games he's been condescending to have gotten top 5 before. Lest we forget Resident Evil 2 Remake.
@@nawf4372 if he never put games he was condescending to on top 5, he wouldn't have a top 5
@@archmagusofevil Yes but REmake he very specifically said was a backslide for the series, that the characters sucked, and that Mr. X was more annoying than scary.
It'll probably show up in the honourable mentions in the credits. Like Watch_Dogs Legion and its spectacularly punched-up NPC dialogue.
No he made Psychonauts 2 game of the year.
Still fucking great though.
I love how he turned Groot into a Catcuar xD
Yeah, that absolutely sent me xD
Totally works, love it
A reason why video game characters rarely look like their movie counterparts is that actors own their likenesses. Disney/Marvel may own the character Star Lord, but they don't own Chris Pratt's face. For them to make their in-game character look like him, they'd have to get a separate licensing deal with Chris Pratt (and pay him for it). Then they have to do it with the rest of the cast. Also, the deals don't last forever unless you pay for a lifetime licensing deal which is very expensive, especially with an A-list celebrity. With games sold digitally now and able to essentially be sold indefinitely, that can lead to tricky problems when the deal needs to be renewed, and the celebrity asks for more money or says no.
Everyone wants to write like James Gunn, but even James Gunn gets it right only 2/3 of the times.
Trying to strike gold again in the exact same place without expanding.
@@TheNexDude You just eloquently summed up basically every major publisher of anything, ever! "No no, we make another of the same exact thing, three times the marketing budget - we'll make a fortune, guys!"
Very true quote
True. Don't let the fact that he wrote and directed Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad distract you from the fact that he was also a writer for both of the live action Scooby-Doo movies.
@@dylaxiusmccoy what's your point? That he did 4 excellent movies?
"Why isn't it like the movie?"
Answer: You know the Playstation SpiderMan games that did so well? Yeah they want to do that again.
Plus, if they did the movies, then we'd get a sidestory that can't really do anything with the characters. More so, than even this paint by numbers game. And that's a best case scenario.
Has he ever played an MCU game before?
I guess they'll completely remodel Starlord's face to look more like Chris Pratt in the Remaster if it does well then.
@@YorkJonhson why Chris Pratt? It would be a different person matching the facial structure of the VA, no?
Nah, it's because they don't want to pay the actors
@randomguy8196 not anymore
You know what property also features daring space adventures? the Jacques McKeown series. You know the series written by one Yahtzee Croshaw. The series where we are still waiting for the third book for almost three years.
Best part about this review is knowing that Yahtzee got Rick Rolled.
Wait. What?! I don't remember any prison scene with Gamorrah singing! There was a side conversation where I managed to get her to sing along to improve her mood, but nothing like that. Did my choices actually alter the content presented to me in a major release title?!
Yeah, you need to hide the parts at the very beginning instead of the lama.
If you chose to hide the llama early in the game, then yeah- you won't get this bit.
People don't actually realize that the choices you make in this game do alter the story, and thus the content you experience. They just assume it's the illusion of choice. Which is only half right. Because sure, no matter what choice you make, you'll still follow the same story. But it's how you get through the story that is altered.
If you sold someone else to lady Bellblender then you get two completely different paths, although the end result is the same along with the boss fight.
I have been saying Crisp Rat for like 3 years now, and that joke never gets old to me.
I love how after all these years ZP's format still hasn't changed. Maybe except for the intro. So many content creators change and become worse during the years and Yahtzee is still excellent. Keep ut the good work!
Im very happy yahtzee noticed the amount of "This Thing" games. They can work but most of the time its just boring go here, fight, story, go there and repeat. Tbh I wonder what other format big triple A games could even do for single player game rather than open world and "this thing" .
So basically, while those games are good, they can be more fun?
They're "ghost train rides" now.
Everything is better with "Kick start my heart"
Yeah! Asked battlefield 2042!
this is a great example of a good Zero Punctuation. Concisely nails a lot of the things I worried about looking at it from afar and does it in a hilarious way.
“Doing their best Cowboy Beebop impersonation”. lol. Absolute brilliance.
Now all we need is "Tank!" To open the second game
That "Like an angel with poor finger dexterity" joke makes me wish we had a compilation of all of Yahtzee's hilariously convoluted puns over the years.
I felt a large impulse to say "yes" to the first thing he asked
Hmm, a game chock-full of licensed 80s music and with that being one of its main selling points..? Taking all bets, how long until this game is mysteriously pulled from sale and is never heard from again: 5 years? Do i hear "3 years"?
Nah, they'll just do the thing, similiarly to Mafia and Quake (before the remaster) , where you can buy it and play it, but the music will be gone.
When the "remastered" edition comes out with higher res graphics in an estimated 5-7 years, they'll do what they did for GTA games: license new (cheaper) songs and strip the old ones out. Luckily, the PC version will have a mod that puts the original songs back in.
This kind of thing is why I prefer physical editions of games.
5:06 In case anyone was curious...
German Guy: "I have never seen the sun."
Japanese Guy: "Stop talking to me in public"
I’m pretty sure that Yahtzee’s description of Star-Lord’s stunt double voice actor is a perfect description for Chris “I’m a huge” Pratt.
Yahtzee is so over modern day gaming, and I wholeheartedly agree with him!
Reminds me of me and anime about 5 years ago. I basically finished anything good in the genre and was constantly lamenting the creatively bankrupt and hyper contrived shows coming out. And then I stopped, and moved on to other things giving it up for dead. Felt allot better afterward. I feel for him, because ingesting this shit is his bread and butter.
I know why he does it, but I’d happily watch him do other things instead of reviewing games that frustrate him. His developer diary was fantastic.
Alright what kind of gameplay would you be excited to see in the future?
@@pkre707 I agree, with you in the anime part, i loved every anime i watch, but as modernity, comes and the constant, oversaturation of the same, constant isekai, or shonen, that want to be dragon ball, the passing of amaizing characters, that look simple, yet they are deep intresting storys, and amaizing quality, passing to the constant jokes, the males protagonist, that when they are not pervert kids, to the constant crying kid and the same plot over and over again, i become jaded and tired of anime, watching a ftraction of what i watch, not even the ones i like watch, i mean that, i stop caring and move on, i miss mi games, and i have to accpet mobiles, with make me even more jaded and nihilistic, and there is nothing to do, i at different of you feeling better, i feel sad, the videogame industry i love is dying, and anime, becuase become mainstream, is starting to get the symptons of it
@@Krysnha I think thats way too much hyperbole, there are still interesting stuff coming out both in games and anime. its just that when you consume everything that you will get the less interesting stuff more than the good ones, just have a filter for what you consume and its back to good stuff again. getting excited over the next anime you want to watch or game you want to play.
the vast majority of things coming out being boring, imitations of trends set by others isnt anything new to any industry. its just we all remember the good stuff more than the bad so it seems like it was better in the old days at all times.
@@luminomancer5992 yes, you are rigth, think i am just a bit tired, time will tell
He's not wrong about Kickstart my heart. Didn't Battlefield 2042 use kickstart my heart in a recent ad? I remember being pumped about it.
The insult at 02:04, the gang just "flying around in space doing their best Cowboy Bebop impression" is *such* a funny way to mock the story. Cosplay andies in space, burning time until the afternoon plot starts
This video singlehandedly propelled kickstart my heart to the first suggestion I got by searching “ki-“ in youtube.
Look, I agree, but having the final fight to "Don't worry, be happy" just made me giggle more then it should
*Kick start my heart* was written after their lead singer over dosed. He literally needed eppy and paddles to kick start his heart. He was dead for like 3 min 💀
RIP Bob Saget
Kickstart My Heart, the universal hype song. The only song I know that can make even a silly homemade flash animation of Scrooge McDuck fighting Prince Vegeta for the fate of the world feel like you’re watching a major Hollywood production.
I will never get why critics complain about that the character in the games dont look like in the movies. They know the games are based on the comics, if its a movie game like wolverine origins its a diffrent story but nobody ever said oh why does Spiderman not look like tom holland and sounds like him. Do you really want that? Like only because the MCU is more popular than the comics now doesnt mean that every iteration of any marvel character has to look like there actor now, im so annoyed by this "complain".
Having just had a listen, can confirm that Kickstart My Heart does in fact kick ass.
Was that your first time ever listening to it or something? I’m guessing you’re a youngster. This is a marvel game after all, so it makes sense.
Loved the review! Still wondering what "Kickstaht Ma'hat" is.
I HAVEN'T FINISHED THIS VIDEO BUT THE IDEA THAT YAHTZEE HAS A SIMILAR OBSESSION WITH KICKSTART MY HEART AS ME does nothing to distract me from the inescapable futility of existence and the fact that THAT SHIT DOESN'T MATTER WHILE I'M LISTENING TO KICKSTART MY HEART
Yahtzee liking Motley Crew's Kickstart My Heart was just the medicine I needed today. ❤️
Medicine from Doctor Feelgood.
Kickstart My Heart is a song of such quality that even Yahtzee mentioning it made me want to go listen to it again
Man, I have never felt more kinship with Yahtzee than realizing we both think everything gets better with Kickstart My Heart; Whoa, Yeah
MGoG was one of the best linear narrative type gaming experiences I've had in quite a while. I mean I actually replayed it! And that never happens with this kind of game, like why would I - I already know what's gonna happen so I just get bored.
But here the combat and the characters dragged me back in.
And there isn't even any nostalgia element - sure the music is nice but I am from a completely different part of the world and haven't even ever heard about most songs and bands that they included.
Also, thank god they didn't use the same cast or same character design as in the movies. It would have been just... bad. I can't even describe it properly but the idea itself revolts me. If they were exactly the same characters as in the movies then the backstories wouldn't work and if those were reused then the whole thing would have been... stale...
I completely agree with you. Like Yahtzee, I like when gameplay and story feel connected, but I feel like this largely succeeds at this through all the party banter you're asked to weigh in on and the puzzles that require your entire team
Square Enix making a game about long, boring hallways connecting story pieces in an overall "meh" title? Looks like the ghost of FFXIII is still haunting them.
Star Lord's weapons become very effective, but the problem is that the mechanics are poorly explained, and the elemental attacks feel like they come a bit too late. Once you know what you're doing, and have the tools to do it, you can bulldoze through basically everything, but the start feels like a grind.
I really enjoyed the gameplay personally and I'm halfway through a NG+ run on a custom ultr hard difficulty where I do less damge and enemies do more and what not and I find it really enjoyable. Learning what cooldowns to use and when. It's like all the fun of Overwatch without the player base
The throwing glow sticks at a house metaphor sounded too detailed to not be from personal experience
I honestly loved this game.... I can also honestly say at least 20% of my 8/10 score was the music.... which was criminaly underutilized.
Thanks
Finally, good Kickstart my Heart content
The German in the video translates to I still haven’t seen the sun.
Now I'm picturing teenage Yatheze wearing fingerless gloves.
Wait, even Yahtzee thinks Thor Ragnarok was a relative highlight? I really am the odd man out for thinking it was the absolute worst of the three Thors.
You arnt. Its putrid trash. It is one of the worst films ever made. It can't decide on a tone. It's all wrong.
If you'd genuinely rather watch Thor 2 over Ragnarok then I think your brain is wired backwards
@@TheMirksta In that case, put me in the genuine backwards brain column. It's not as good as the first, true, but I'd still choose The Dark World over Ragnarok.
5:05 Japanese is "Please stop talking to me in public".
The German is "I have never seen the sun before"
Motley Crue's Kickstart My Heart is a jam.
When he says Kickstart my Heart, but you hear Unbreak My Heart
Half arsed praise from Yahtzee is like gushing praise from anyone else. This game is surely a surprise.
On the hand I’m like “Oh yeah! Licensed soundtrack!” On the other it’s “Oh fuck it’s gonna be taken off the shelves in a year because it has a licensed soundtrack.”
It's the Sword of Damocles that hangs over any game with a licensed soundtrack, nowadays... 😔
i actualy had to laugh out loud at that angel analogy. so unexpected
To be fair, the last time we did movie games we received Green Lantern... and Thor.
One of the fun parts of only knowing someone through their work is that I can't really tell if Yahtzee actually had a crush on Colombo or if it simply was a part of the joke. You can never quite know for sure about those little details and that fascinates me for a few seconds.
Gautama Buddha, Yahtzee. Gautama Buddha.
0:40 "I can only assume that someone at Square must've stolen my high school crush diary, 'cuz how else would they know that _Kickstart My Heart_ is my one weakness?"
1:52 "Our story begins with Star Choad and his motley crew..."
I see what you did there.
Having trouble getting serious about running exercise?
Put Kickstart my heart on a playlist, and play it on repeat every time you run
Voila! You're in top shape within 2 months
Trufax
Both this and Avengers would have needed to negotiate royalities with each MCU actor if they wanted to use their likeness. Given the state of Avengers i doubt they had the budget for such extravagance.
IDK about the budget this game but it would still require some phat cash to get the actors' likeness in digital form
I think it's more to do with the freedom of being able to do their own thing and not try to do something that slots in with the movies without getting contradicted in future installments. The characterizations are clearly MCU inspired though. As is the use of music, although they switched from 70's rock to 80's pop.
As a casual opinion: I have a massive love hate relationship with this game.
On the one hand, I really hate how boring most of the game is. He's not kidding when he says most of the game is walking between action set pieces. You'll spend 30-45 minutes walking to the next battle just listening to banter if you play somewhat similar to me, looking for new costumes and trying to hear the full banter line before quickly moving on before the next banter line starts (I love listening to dialogue in games, but this game genuinely has infinite lines per area, and if you wait for a split second in an area after banter stops... they'll start talking again). And the plot against Raker is just super boring. Seeing Knowhere and talking with Cosmo and so much of the game showed off how absolutely bonkers and fun the cosmic Marvel comics can be.... so they when spent the entire game fighting a by-the-book evil church. And the actual combat is fine. It's fun once it gets started, but thats many hours into the game. And the vast majority of enemy designs absolutely SUCK. You fight alien creatures a lot but like half of them are jello cubes or little bouncy ball bugs and its such a waste of opportunity. Plus none of the enemies really encourage any kind of smart play. I played the game on the hardest default setting and breezed through the game, I only died once to the final boss. Like I feel like the enemies couldve had a unique set of weaknesses that your TEAM can exploit. The way the weakness system actually works felt like it wasnt enough.
But with all that being said... I ADORE the character writing. I think all of the banter is EXCELLENT. Let me make something clear, Guardians of the Galaxy is one of my favorite movies, full stop. I love that charm and the witt. By contrast, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is one of my LEAST favorite Marvel movies (recently it's crown was stolen by Eternals for worst MCU movie for me). The humor in GotG2 is so forced and it's painfully unfunny, which is made all the worse by the fact that every joke has 10-15 seconds of being rubbed in. See Taserface, his name being revealed was a solid setup for a small joke of how dumb it sounded, but instead it becomes this minute long ordeal of them rubbing in how stupid of a name it is and it just gets me so irritated. -Anyway, I was really hesitant buying this game because I was worried that it would be aping the more successful GotG2. Well it's absolutely not. It feels way more in line with the first movie and I absolutely love it. It's so absolutely charming and they nailed that broken family aesthetic. And there are some good parts of the plot. There are some serious emotional scenes that made me feel things deep down and I think they were extremely well executed. And there's actually a genuine plot twist that I didn't see coming and I feel like I felt the pain that the characters all felt when it was revealed. Excellently done. And I'd love to spend more time in this world and with these characters in a sequel.
A sequel with a more outrageous plot, and significantly improved gameplay.
P.S. I bought the digital deluxe edition because I wanted the soundtrack. It doesn't include the licensed songs... so... Don't do that.
The actual plot wasn't very good, but the character interplay and dialogue was excellent.
The non-cutscene dialogue options were also something i've been wanting to see in games for a long time.
Nice to see I have somthing in common with him, Kickstart my heart rocks!
Look at me, I am Groot now.
I love the explanation of how the MCU feels boring and samey yet the one gold in the rough brings us back to see if anything interesting happens.
The number of comments on Kickstart My Heart saying Yahtzee sent them was hilarious 😂 🤣
Really wish Yahtzee would have come up with a name for *"this thing"* (02:20), just like he did with *Jimminy Cockthroat* stronghold-takeover-games and *Spunkgargleweewee* (modern military action).
I don't think Guardians of the Galaxy will be the last *this thing.*
Maybe... Drinking leader?
"Ghost train ride." That's the name.
It feels so good to have someone else address how Kickstart My Heart makes anything cooler
I like this talk about kickstart mah heart
I think he's riffing on how Vince Neil sings it on the record, but I'm not completely sure it's not just a Yahtz-ism.
"Kick Start My Heart" is indeed a masterpiece. :)
I prefer the game to the movies, cast and all. The character banter does it for me!
This felt more like a review for kickstart my heart
"which is like when your nice hot shower switches to dispensing cold sick in your face" now that is a simile I'll remember for life
Well, not bad is decent praise from Yahtzee. I might give this one a go.
Not bad if you gut 75% of it.
I kinda have learned you don't rly watch those videos to make an opinion about the game unless he finds somehting rly rly special.
@@evraght nah it's just that since I have less time I'm a bit picky with games, so Yahtzee's reviews help me as well. Have always found fresh games from ZP.
@@manavsridharan3811 I might've not been clear. Yahtzee made me discover some of the most wonderful games I've ever played, including my top1 of games ever - Disco Elysium. And also I'm a very specific gamer, I have 700 hours in Rimworld, 700 in civ 6 and 500 in Europa Universalis 4 and yet from time to time what he recomends I play (Cyberpunk, Hades, over 100 hours in both). I just think in most cases he will shit over the mainstream title, because his creative standards are so high, and he also really likes "the weird shit" (does anyone beside him really truly appreciaite playing Cruelty Squad). I love the man's mind, I'm in awe of his creativity, but if I was a tripple A game consumer I would never take his opinion of it into consideration. Our cups of tea wouldn't be even from the same planet.
BUZZ BUZZ
Really spunking up the flamingoes today.
A Cactair and Tonberry referance 2021, Im stunned
“We are now rid of the evil Mary-Kate and Ashley.”
The game is much better than i expected, having a lot of fun playing it.
Ah, the serial killer's lament.
You do all the fun grotesque things in your buzzing immagination, finish the last bit, shout "Yay, done!", then realize what a sodding mess you made of the room. The record skips in the brain space and the serial killer is forced to ask "Wait, why did I do all of that again?"
Even Johnny Ace looked cool when Kick start My Heart was his entrance music
Holy fuck thx for introducing me to the song kickstart my heart. What a great song
I think the only thing I personally disagree with Yahtzee on is the guardians not having their likenesses from the movies.
I personally feel like the detachment from their counterparts, and having a closer to the comic book accurate style worked wonders for this game. I think I was able to connect with the characters a lot more, and I ended up having a bit more of an emotional and fun ride with them, even though I absolutely love their movie counterparts.
That being said I was happy that you could grab costumes for everybody around the maps, and I definitely collected their movie costumes just for the fun of it.
I personally recommend this game even at full price, even though I bought it at around $50, and if full price is a bit too sleep, then I definitely recommend it when it goes on sale likely around the holidays this year. It's only about 22 hours long, but it's some of the most fun that I've had with the AAA video game this year, and I would be remiss to let others miss out on it.
My personal game recommendations this year (based on what I've played):
Psychonauts 2
Persona 5 Strikers
The Artful Escape
Guardians of the Galaxy
Deathloop
... Is Yahtz pronouncing "Kickstart My Heart" the way it's said in the song? Because that's delightful
Close, in the song "hea-art" is two syllables.
3:21 A reference to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre? Now that's the kind of content I can get behind.
According to my iTunes library, Kickstart My Heart is my third most frequently played song, behind only Dragula at No.2 and Thunderstruck at No.1
All absolute bangers, good work
*Zero Punctuation prog rock album of the week:*
*Gardener of the Malady* by *Euphoric Defiance* - featuring the hit single *Walking Very Slowly Through Spectacular Skyboxes*
Yahtzee:”Lovable Huggable Chris Pratt.”
Oh, man. Twitter is gonna be pissed.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw that bit of Starlord holding the stop watch and snapping his finger as a reference to Mael Stronghart in The Great Ace Attorney.