Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Zero Punctuation)
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"Yahtzee broke his own rule and reviewed an Early Access game"
I mean, he reviewed Jedi Survivor too 😏
The mcguffin is too common in starwars recently
Pizza Tower when???
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Oh man, an oily abscess game review? Tickle me pink!
It's weird to admit, but the skyrim dark brotherhood quest line had the best excuse for handing you busy work. "I need time to mull this over, go kill these people. Oh you don't like to kill nobodies, then why did you join the murderer's guild?"
Kotor did it better. "We are assassins and we are hiring you specifically because you can kill without leaving evidence."
@@nathank2289 not saying "best assassin's guild" I'm saying busy work done the right way
Because if that was your playthrough you weren't given much of a choice? The dark brotherhood would still hunt you down
@@mohamedbelkacem9889
Well you could kill the assassin who kidnapped you and gave you the choice to kill someone, bypassing the questline entirely unless you went into the den and emptied it out yourself.
@@fluidthought42 I forgot to add "your first playthrough", in the first playthrough few people thought they had the choice
"first galaxy problems" i suspect in star wars those would be called "core world problems"
One would even say "Imperial" Core World problems.
There's nothing better to find in a remotely placed high-tech treasure box than a new beard.
Incredible phrasing
Eeew!
I like the idea that all of Cal's beards are effectively just wigs he tapes to his face
Don't forget - ancient box... Some of those seem to have been waiting for hundreds of years, blinking the same non-committal light patterns all along.
Deep Rock Galactic moment
(you do find beards like that)
"Like a racist wedding planner, I'd argue something things were never meant to mix" Yahtzee is known for his witticisms, but I'd say that this shines above many in the last few months, truly outdone himself.
This man said the words good in the way I like and I would also like yo say I agree 🎉
It was savage. 😂😂
Came off a bit forced to me. Like a hydraulic press that has to do crush videos to get through engineering school.
I dont get it.
I let out an ugly audible chuckle to that line that disturbed the horrible silence of my office like a bomb.
"Well, like a racist wedding planner, I'd argue some things were never meant to mix"
How does he keep coming up with these kind of lines?
Past occupational experience?
GenX cynical upbringing
It sounds clever when said with a British accent, it is actually a very very stupid joke
"Like a what"
i think he goes about his daily life, encounters something, thinks up a joke relating to it, works it til it's funny, saves it for later.
“Go do an unrelated quest whilst I study this thing for a few hours” is a trope I hadn’t really noticed until Yahtzee mentioned it but now I can never un-notice it and I’m furious
The quest he complains about wasn’t unrelated though - you’re trying to both protect the secrecy of the hidden path by secretly shepherding the religious zealots out of that location before the empire finds them and getting some ancient knowledge to help unlock tanalor.
Its the thing I kind of disagree with the most on this video
@@writingrefbut how does protecting the path affect anything? If they wrote that nobody in the Path was in danger and the zealots were never in need of rescuing, nothing would change. That’s what makes it feel so pointless because it never ever comes back in a meaningful way. It’s a side quest.
@@writingref The thing is, if you had done nothing - nothing would have happened. You don't evacuate anyone that wouldn't have lived regardless. The guy you were trying to rescue who "had the codes" still dies two seconds after you meet him, crushed by rocks and taking any codes he would have had with him, and you find out the imperials aren't even there looking for codes they're just leveling the area so they wouldn't have found anything anyways. It was literally pointless.
@@Thanatos2k i had forgotten what I was on about … late much? Lol
I mean … kind of? What you are describing is called a plot hole in my opinion. The intent behind the theme of the story, saving Jedi history is there. As is some attempt to give the empire and high republic storylines “some” kind of connection. I’m not saying its the best writing in the world, but it is a video game
And these suckers have to be tough to write to manufacture any kind of story which keeps things going.
I’d have been much happier if they could have developed NOT- Quinlan Vos a bit better.
@Thanatos2k you actually recover the codes and bring them back to the archive.
Does "at least there isn't any crafting in it" mean it's going on your best games of the year?
that line alone has about sold me on the game
@@kaneshuppert636 Amen! Tedious crafting mechanics are the major reason for me not completing games.
no, because as he predicted every AAA game is going to replace crafting with gardening. it has the exact same problem of being a mechanic that doesn't fit that exist for the sole purpose of padding gameplay.
@@danilooliveira6580Yeah but at least you won't hit like a wet pool noodle if you skip the gardening minigame
He put in the blandest!
I'm sad Yahtzee didn't even mention the scottish crayfish to whom you can speak every time you see him outside. Sure it adds a fish to the aquarium who cares, what's important is Skoova Stev's tale!
"Clipped inside other things without even buying them a drink first" - ok, I rarely actually laugh out loud at things on the internet, but I nearly spit out my drink at that one. Good job, Yahtzee.
As someone who worked on this game, this is easily my favorite review. Been waiting for this roasting for a while lol.
Out of curiosity, what part of the game did you work on? If you don’t mind me asking.
What was it like working on the game? Do you think the game is good?
sometimes makes me doubt you actually worked on the game
@@blakesuggs930 I was a narrative designer. Did a lot of the implemention of dialogue on Coruscant, the lucrehulk, etc..
@@witchhunt8082 lol bro my name is in the credits
" *Support group for characters who have already completed their arcs.*
*And have red hair.* "
A game about gardening in an adorable environment where occassionally giant murder robots will try to ruin your efforts does sound like a good idea for another videogame tho
Technically that's Minecraft.
Atomicrops?
Isn't there a farm variant in stardew where monsters spawn?
Maybe a spinoff to into the breach?
That’s just any Sentinel occupied planet in No Man’s Sky in a nutshell.
There's probably a discussion to be had about whether optional busywork like cosmictic upgrades for your home base is a negative or positive. As its optional you could argue it doesn't detract from anything but gives obsessives something to do, but then again when it spatters the world map with meaningless icons it does tend to annoy.
I think it’s a negative if they’re ultimately not worth the trouble, meaning content and development time was wasted on it rather than it being used for more worthwhile stuff or tighter crafted combat/levels.
I think it's also the issue that it took resources away from developing something more beneficial for the game. Like if a movie blows the entire budget on one celebrity actor.
@Zach Gates that's actually a fair point. Budget and resources are complicated in how they effect a project but the fact is someone spending all their time designing painting number 22 that you can hang on your wall could have been coming up with a new enemy design or almost anything else more useful. I would take a single good side-quest over a 25 collectable objects grind anyway, though I'm aware some people prefer the latter.
Not to mention that the devs had to devote time and effort to making that crap.
Personally, I like the way Hades handles this. You can buy various cosmetic upgrades for the house (most of which are relatively cheap) as well as a much smaller (and more expensive) set of actually useful upgrades. But after you buy the first thirty upgrades (of either type), it rewards you with a fair amount of high-level in-game currency (enough to buy multiple useful upgrades). So there is at least *some* incentive to redecorate the lounge or whatever, but at the same time, you can instead choose to save up for something good.
Also, every time you buy any upgrade at all, it pisses off the title character and he berates you, which makes it feel much more satisfying.
For what it's worth I thoroughly enjoyed fussing about the saloon, that place has real personality and the various patrons add to the flair.
Combat shines in one-on-one fights, otherwise it's a hectic mess of badly-telegraphed unblockables and spamming mindcontrol.
In short, I'd like to see the third installment tighten up mass combat but otherwise continue on this trajectory.
Yeah the simple fact that after you parry you can be knocked out of your followup by other enemies makes fighting in a group without spamming AoE moves from the Dual Blade such a massive pain. Outside the Oggdo/Spawn Force Tea the hardest fight in the game for me was the Force Tear at the start of Jedha where you just fight a bunch of melee dudes with 2 Super Battle Droids taking potshots. Shit was so frustrating because you barely had time to do anything.
I think the game would really benefit from a variable options for difficulty. If you could crank up the damage received but separately toggle the enemy aggression you could get punishing combat with out overwhelming constant aggression. I play on GM and yea, some of the encounters are crazy because of how constantly you're getting attacked
Agreed on the combat being a mess in group fight. Mostly because most enemies will shoot you so you can't do anything but run around deflecting bullet.
As someone who regularly eats them straight out of the bag, the idea of “too many croutons” in a salad does not compute. More like too much salad in my croutons.
USA USA USA
Sad thing is that "piss about for 2 hours while secondary character does research for you" part is it could easily be solved by any intriguing side quests that the player hasn't or is unable to finish by that point. That it feels more like, oh i have time, let me just finish a few of my checklist, rather than a brand new checklist just for those two hours
Sure, because acquiring the communication codes to protect the people he's spent the entire game on a mission to protect is too much "pointless side-plot". Its not like the empire would use them to completely snuff out the last resistance in the galaxy before it can form the actual resistance or anything....
@@MessyGamer616
It's a pointless side plot because it has no impact on the story.
Cal retrieves them and gives them to Cere. They're never brought up again until the attack, she retrieves them again and gives them to BD before she confronts the boss.
They could've cut to black or shown Cal head off to sleep while 'the Nerd friend' looked over the compass and it would have made no difference on the overall story.
@@southparkkenny2 That is what most players old enough to play games like this call a "series plot hook" or a "tie in"
Not every plot element needs to be relevant in the same game. It's blatantly clear they want to go for a third game.
It's like Empire Strikes Back. Han is captured at the end and handed over to Jabba.
It's immediately resolved at the start of the next movie because it's story related side content.
The payoff is not in the same movie, you could remove those scenes from Empire Strikes Back and it would not affect the overall plot of that movie. But it would affect the series.
You can argue it's done much worse than ESB handled it and that would be fair but the idea that every plot hook needs to be resolved in the same story is the kind of absurdity that destroyed the Sequel Trilogy, making each movie practically self-contained.
What makes a game a setting rather than a linear narrative is having plotlines both main and side running between games.
@@darrenb209-
"but the idea that every plot hook needs to be resolved in the same story"
*That's the issue.* It's brought up and resolved instantly for no reason or consequence at all. If it was a sequel hook, it would have some greater impact or be more prominent like the Empire being shown to have obtained copies, not used as a time waste non sequitur.
If you took the time to read what I actually said instead of trying to be smug and condescending about being "old enough to play games like this" you might have realized that.
@@southparkkenny2 Except you're rather blatantly missing the point.
It *is* a sequel hook. Things don't need to end badly for it to be one.
The codes exist and are in your hands, so in the potential third game you will have ties to the hidden path by virtue of having the codes.
If the codes were not preserved then you would not have the codes and thus a hidden path plotline would be a lot more difficult to arrange. If they were captured by the Empire it would lock them into one specific path for dealing with it.
Again, a plotline does not need to be resolved in a single game. You are the one *assuming* that the plotline is wrapped up instead of merely being one step on a larger plotline.
The hook is only resolved if you *assume* that was the end of it, instead of merely being the end of the part of it in this part of the series.
The Hidden Path's Headquarters have still fallen, it's leaders, or at least major people organising it are dead.
But you have the codes, so it's not over. It's blatantly a continuing plot hook.
At the risk of pendantry, there were outfits for Cal and skins for your bot in chests in the first game, too. Plus plants to collect for the on-ship garden.
That's what I remember too, I thought I was going mad.
And lots and lots of ponchos. Hence why Cal's actor is getting mileage out of making fun of it.
Yh, but bigger ain't always better. Plus........ the costumes/skins in FA were nice optional fan service and necessities for story. These are 10x as many and are mostly just imperial grey or navy grey. As for the plants, again FA 2 per planet, nice optional done. I don't know or care how many plants Survivor has, the garden is so big it could be six or sixty. Too many collectables or types can be off putting, if you do go that route make it less in your face. Them as care will be inquisitive anyway, them as don't or wouldn't either way... off putting.
Vice city/OOT was the perfect hits for this. 100, presents every ten but no stress.
Although, five shops all selling the same useless cosmetics for 5 different collectables is worse.
"Still don't understand within story context why all the enemies respawn at checkpoints"
I can't say it for sure regarding all the enemies, but the security droids in Fallen Order seem to be getting replaced, considering their voices change from male to female between different respawns. I'd assume most other enemies get replaced too? Especially since the empire considers their troops to be cannon fodder basically. As for fauna, I guess new animals just come to where the old ones got game-ended.
There's male and female droids, what? Thought they all had the same neutral voice....
I've always considered it as Cal meditating on what's about to happen and him dying is just what he foresees going wrong
Are the Stormtroopers that respawn the same ones or are they new Stormtroopers?
As in do they have the same idle chatter, pretending they didn't get cut up like the last patrol did?
Bode and some others mention the meditation in passing as taking a long time, how was your nap etc. I always just assumed hours go by, they could have NPC's move/seem to teleport ala the bizarre landing and holotable times, sans Merrin who has the excuse she actually can teleport. It would/could make more sense than those examples, and make the few times NPC's decide to walk less massively jarring, as opposed to the teleporting which you just get used to.
@@ashleywood124 I just accepted it was a game mechanic and just went with it 🤷♂️
It sort of felt like all the gardening and stables and recruiting folk for the town was trying to increase my attachment to Koboh and Rambler's Reach... which... it did... but I thought that was going to be in service of a plot that made the good guys realize they had a home and they meant to defend it from the empire and leave the secret planet for other refugees... then that just didn't happen. I still found plenty of enjoyment, but I was similarly confused as to why these side missions didn't serve the story much other than add more weight to the waffling about leaving Koboh by other characters.
I genuinely enjoy the game, but you reach a point that feels like a natural end point that could tie into the themes the game has.... and then the game goes right past that point for an anti-climactic ending that just doesn't connect to the rest of it.
I like the cute little animation at the end where a stormtrooper helmet ends up as a watering can ❤
"My friends called me the colon survivor..." bit had me rolling!
I love the constant shortcut unlocking - keeps me engaged and feeling like I am actually progressing through all the crashes.
Agreed. Forced backtracking isn't difficulty, its just tedium.
Besides his beloved Dark Souls has shortcut unlocks. I"m not sure what his complaint is exactly
@@nohomers100 I think he was annoyed at the sheer frequency of them
@@devonchafe2764 what does that mean exactly?
@@nohomers100 it means there's too many?
Selfish request for Yahtzee to cover Everspace 2, now that it's no longer in Early Acess, unlike Jedi Survivor
It was covered in 3 minute reviews
@@kchikwete He did a game that was already covered in 3 minute reviews a few weeks ago.
I kept it together right up until "And the slug didn't like croutons either" and then I spent the next three minutes laughing.
Has anyone mentioned that the fisherman character is named after a character from Big Daddy, the Adam Sandler film from a few decades ago?
Skoova Stev - Scuba Steve
Holy hell I never noticed!
I made a meme asking if there's a Skoova Sem
Maybe they are a Scuba Steph fan. 🥷
Too much of that humour though, that one did make me laugh once it clicked tbf.
Not a Star Wars fan, but another banger video with great writing, Yahtzee.
Disney Wars is not Star Wars.
Wookie Jazz Mags is an unappreciated joke it seems
Beards in a treasure chest? Sounds like a fable to me! What's Cal going to do next, chase chickens?
Not that I didn't enjoy this one, but I am waiting for his Redfall review. The same way I eagerly awaited his review Security breach.
I'm having a lot of fun with it but all these criticisms are extremely valid and ones I've had myself. There's more in it but the gameplay feels less tight and more unfocused, but it's still fun if a little disappointing.
Yh, I still want a third but hope they view some of Survivors changes/issues as what not to do.
After all these years, Yahtzee can still catch me by surprise with a joke twist and make me laugh out loud
Wait, there is not _crafting_ in this game??? That might be the most surprising part of the whole review!
I appreciate some of the side-quests like the phon'qi caverns that actually have effort put into them but beyond that a lot of the exploring to get cosmetics just feels like a chore rather than extra gameplay with a fun little goody at the end. I also feel like Jedi Survivor went too in-depth with some things like the skill tree which just made it feel chaotic
4:41 This little EA thing hunting stardew valley is the most adorable yet accurate (feeling) thing I've seen in a long while.
I will say the optional quests from the hub world were rewarding in that they actually gave you heath boosts or skill points or perks as a reward. So when I took a break from the main story to do some questing I walked away like twice as powerful and made sure to do the side quests every time they popped up since.
Stormtrooper after mediation: OH GOD BRO WHAT HAPPENED, I WAS DEAD, YOU WERE DEAD, I SAW MY DEAD FAMILY
I want a poetry slam session where it's all Yahtzee monologues
Look up his old gaming poetry show, ‘Jim and Yahtz’s Rhymedown Spectacular.’
I’m not making that up. It’s actually a thing.
@@Shakes-Off-Fear you're the real MVP 😭
i loved this game but the annoying thing about yahtzee pinpointing the bad parts of games is that he's entirely right
Probably the best review I've seen in quite some time.
Some of these one-liners absolutely kill me off sometimes. 😂
Great game beyond technical issues.
I couldn't stand the level design of Jedi Parkour Simulator 1 with its endless slides, wall running and ziplines, but now I can customize my own Jedi farm and facial hair? Wee ooh!
I absolutely agree with the sentiment on battle designs. I enjoyed Jedi: Survivor but I found myself in many situations where I couldn't really win battles not due to skill but due to being shot and stabbed at the same time and only being able to block one at a time
One could make an argument that the skill issue is putting yourself in a position to be both shot and stabbed at the same time, but not having actually played through the game myself, I do not know how valid this argument would be.
That sounds pretty skill issue, ngl. I played through it start to finish and cant really remember any situations where it felt like I was getting ganged up on with no real options beyond what already is pretty common in soulslikes in general. I'm not sure what you want the game to do to fix it beyond hold your hand, or remove the varied enemies to make the game piss easy, in which case i'm sure you'd find a way to complain about that too.
@@BoloJolo
Nah in the later half of the game they throw massive groups of enemies at you all at once. There's one part as you're climbing to an observatory where there's about 10 Imperials (some with batons and shields, some with blasters) and 10 raiders (shooters, melee, shooting and melee) and 2 droidekas peppering you on a nearby ledge.
@Eli
"I played through it start to finish and cant really remember any situations where it felt like I was getting ganged up on"
The Imperial listening post in the foggy area, the climb to the Observatory, the whole Imperial base on the asteroid (especially the Hangar bay with the segmented floors)
@@BoloJolo Wow, I'm transported right back to the days of people arguing about Dark Souls 2 (I mean, I recall that being a lot less civilised but then ol' Yahzt has managed to cultivate himself a bafflingly civilised audience given how crass and mean-spirited his performative persona usually is. Mind you, I'm hear and I'd like to think I'm at least somewhat civilised so I don't know why I'm surprised).
So, credit to Respawn/EA, I guess. On this one point, they successfully made a Star Wars Soulslike. It's just, unfortunately, like the Souls game everyone yelled about.
EDIT: Silliness aside, and also having not played the game, I completely agree with your in-principal point - the situational awareness necessary not to end up in these situations in the first place _may_ be a skill being tested, and it can be its own kind of fun even if it slows your progress down considerably, but poor level design _may_ also make it virtually impossible to avoid regardless of skill. Obviously can't comment on which it is in this case, but it is a point worth making and expanding upon.
@Eli the main thing I had in mind when writing this is the side room after you climb through the cannon on the moon. I feel like that just threw a million enemies at you at once, and no matter what I did, I wasn't able to kill off the blaster enemies first, and any time I tried to fight the melee enemies first I'd just get shot to death.
Both this game and its predecessor seem to display what happens when a game's development leads are all highly competent, but also entirely dispassionate about a project. From visuals to mechanics to narrative, everything is exactly good enough to meet a professional's standards, but nothing more.
After all the controversies the Star Wars IP has seen since its acquisition, and since part of that was directly caused by EA's greed, I wouldn't be surprised if Disney basically sat them down and said "play it safe or The Mouse takes your knees."
Love the Discworld reference in “Dunvwooshin.” GNU Terry Pratchett!
Ok so I have a gripe: the apparent B plot of saving the Hidden Path DOES matter, because it influences Cal's, and subsequently Bode's, decisions regarding Tanalorr. Just because it's not perfectly linear doesn't make it pointless or bad.
Let us not forget Star Wars *colon* Dark Forces 4 *colon* Jedi Knight 3 *colon* Jedi Outcast 2 *colon* Jedi Academy. With a title like that, you might as well dry heave anyway.
I imagine the answer to the question at 01:25 is "yes" even before the fact that it's the same guy from _Shameless_ (though I have to wonder how much overlap there is between those two fandoms).
Very surprised to see no mention of the performance
For the same reason he tries not to review early access games; cause it's a problem that is going to be fixed (in fact, they've already gone a long way to fixing it), and once it is fixed it's pretty irrelevant for the review.
Dark Forces is set between a New Hope and Empire's Strikes Back, Jedi Outcast and Jedi: Survivor is set between Revenge of the Sith and a New Hope. Around the time that Cal Kestis is doing what he was doing, Luke was living in that moisture farm on Tatooine, Leia was on Alderaan (it wasn't destroyed at that point) Obi-Wan Kenobi was largely biding his time, Yoda was surviving on Degobah and those droids were under Captain Antilles and we already know how THAT ends.
A haphazard mix of melee and ranged enemies spawning in all at once? So it's literally very Souls like. And yeah, I refuse to believe that in Souls games, there's any rhyme or reason to how melee and ranged enemies are programmed to spawn once the ranged enemies show up. Especially in DS1. That felt like I was being punished for picking the Knight starting class over the pyromancer.
in the entire souls genre of from software the number of enemies that are ranged and that spawn in groups mixed with melee units is risible if compared to the number of pure melee engagement you are fighting
in this gme on the other hand you will find yourself the vast majority of the time with groups of enemies that are mixed
also you can't cancel animation. so if you are midattack and the gatling gunner/missle launcher granade jihadi droid/ moron with a blaster decide to attack you. well i hope you like being staggered
Every time someone mentions these new Jedi games, I lament that Disney removed Kyle Katarn and the rest of the expanded universe from the canon.
That doesn’t mean these games are bad
@@oXRaptorzXo I never said that, only that I resent the disregard for the expanded universe
@@espio87 that’s true some of those games are amazing. I’m sure they’ll bring Kyle Katarn back eventually
I get why this is a sticking point for so many people, I really do. I loved Dark Forces and a good few of the sequel books until I fell into my Discworld hole for years but I'm genuinely not sure what else Disney were supposed to do. Even if they were minded to follow the sequels, all the actors were about 50 years too old, and if they wanted to carry on _after_ them, Episode VIII's opening crawl would have been about two days long.
Now, you could certainly make the argument that they could have removed _only_ the mainline sequel stuff from the canon but that would still mean that, if they wanted to use characters from non-mainline stuff, they'd be relying on newer fans hunting out and reading a bunch of books and playing a bunch of games that would be very hard get running these days to be up to speed with who they are. If you're _not_ going to use them, or if you're going to introduce them in a way that means you _don't_ need knowledge of the old EU material, then canonicity is pretty much a non-issue.
Ultimately, that's all canon means: "what media is potentially relevant to the next thing I'm going to watch/read/play?" If you don't intend for your audience to need to know it, it doesn't need to be canon and, critically, that does _absolutely_ nothing to diminish its value or importance as storytelling, which is ultimately what matters. They're just their own stories now. The Dark Knight Returns was never canon to DC and it's possibly the most beloved Batman comic ever. Same with Kingdom Come for the Justice League. KOTOR could never have been canon because the details of how it plays out differ from playthrough to playthrough. It's fine for great stories to stand on their own.
I'm with the other commenter - as galling as it is, start with a clean slate and reintroduce the best stuff, in your own time, so that the vast majority of your audience don't need to do an Ironman catch-up session to know everything they should know. Thrawn's canon again and Kyle is every bit as iconic so it should be grand.
Sorry, comment kind of got away from me. Bad habit, I know.
@@Pineappolis The issue is that they didn't need to declare the Expanded Universe non-canon. The Expanded Universe itself doesn't really care about canon; there are at least three completely separate stories that focus on Luke post-RotJ. The Star Wars Expanded Universe was more of a platform for writers to tell their own stories. Disney could have literally said nothing and just release the sequel trilogy and most people would've just thought of it as a Retcon.
Does anyone know if Yahtzee is working on a new book right now? Its been a while since the last one and I love his writing!
yeah but in their defence games that do clutter the map with icons USUALLY offer the option to toggle those icons on and off
“But I guess this is a bit late for things to make sense” “this is a sausage” das ist die Wurst
I'll be using the wedding planner bit.
The mental image of a slug slugging its way around croutons like a germophobe dodging handshakes was surprisingly satisfying, so thanks for that, Yahtz.
That slug sounds pretty chill
I know right? Awesome, awesome game.
I would argue that they kept enough open for Aloy to actually do.
Lots of "to do" between saving her little corner of the US and unfornicating the planet for her clone mom's legacy.
But yeah, her character development is kinda done. So the second game is mostly her babysitting a bunch of tribal savages through the arduous process of comprehending an ever-expanding horizon of knowledge to the point where she can finally have an adult conversation with the people she calls friends without cringing at their primitive superstitions.
I dunno. If a character’s going to have an arc completion, the second game in a trilogy isn’t the worst place to have it. The bigger issue is how they resolve the Nemesis plot without devolving into the Mass Effect 3 problem.
Well put!
Using a Lemmy picture to represent "guy with mustache" was an excellent touch
my experience with the combat
1vs1 very funny especially agasint mini bosses high tier enemy or human bosses
everything else
pure random change if you manage a perfect 0 hit flawless jedi massacre
or being stun locked by mixed unit of ranged and melee enemies that attack at the same moment.
Actually, I'd like to see more/deeper combat in my cozy games. Graveyard Keeper and Stardew Valley's dungeons took a step in the righht direction, but are ultimately held back by the simplistic combat systems.
'Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: Black OPs: Cold War: Warzone: Payload' was my favorite online multiple mode for a while.
That was a cool cantina.
My Cal Kestis had a mullet, horseshoe moustache, white wife beater and blue jeans on. His lightsaber and blaster were beat up iron and wood stock. His robot was shiny chrome red, white and blue.
Your perfectly valid criticism is irrelevant because I had an absolute blast getting shit faced with a friend and saying everything Cal says with American Hillbilly accent and pretending his name was J'oe Dirth.
That is peak Star Wars. I will never watch, read or play any star wars related media again without doing Cletus impressions.
Also [SPOILER WARNING], called the first twist "I have a daughter and that's why" twist coming from the second new character X mentioned her. The seeming big bad fight and the slow pace of the side quests and narrative legitimately had me thinking I was mistaken by the time the twist hit. The second twist immediately after I did not see coming at all and was pleasantly surprised. I attribute this to the pacing and would say it's a point in the favor of a somewhat meandering narrative.
I think I had the Dark Forces years ago, seem to remember it had some fun level design.
Pasty line is a classic. +1
Wow, a support group for characters that have already completed there arc, now mooching their way through another adventure and have red hair.
That’s a hyper specific support group.
@@yungoldman2823 and ALoy will 100% get a 3rd game, if you dplayed Forbbiden West you will know why
It's only two nickels but it's weird that it happened twice.
Rayne from the BloodRayne "series" maybe? The first two games tidied everything up nicely enough, then there was an unnecessary third that was a different genre with none of Rayne's sass, or Laura Bailey. Though I guess to be fair that seems to be the end of the series finally since barely anyone played it. But still, redhead!
"Their". The word is "their".
@@Noobochok Congratulations, you corrected a minor grammatical error on the internet! You've won the grand prize!
New lightaber styles
traditional
double
dual wield
broadsword
and GUN!
'dunwooshin' 😂😂
I wish more games did fishing minigamrs like that.
Yahtzee, you have to play Bramble The Mountain King, it's the latest "Child in a Scary World losing innocence" game, but it's actually good.
I’m playing it on the second-hardest setting and I don’t think I’ve ever not killed a plot boss on the first try.
Also you can’t cancel movements, so you’ll get April-fooled by sudden unblockable attacks
The halfassed xcom ripoff mini game in the Cantina is often more fun than the actual game.
master difficulty is waayy easier. even then I seriously doubt you killed spawn oggdo on your first try
Dark souls 1 is one of the easiest games ever made. Still fun though
Man, I can't wait for Yahtzee to Review Final Fantasy XVI. Just 6 more weeks and we'll have the good sauce
Yhatzee and a JRPG? That's gonna be something
@@BlazeStorm Let not kid ourselves, he's a closeted weeb. Ys is one of his guilty pleasures! And he did like FF7R for its combat. I can't wait to see him give a good review to a FF of all things! Specially now that we have the same combat director as DMC5
Was kinda hoping for a Buffalo Bill, Silence of the Lambs joke about finding random facial features in chests and wearing them.
Yahtz that section was for establishing the relationship between Merrin and Cal
My thoughts exactly
I wonder if Yatz is aware that alongside plot, you can also have characters and themes? That plot is actually arguably the least of these three pillars?
Thanks again
This might be random, but is Yahtzee planning on doing the By the Poster series ever again? IDK why this video reminded me of that.
Me seeing the AA's logo appear with pride, I work for those guys
More than anything as the PC gamer i am, i feel resigned seeing the quality of the PC version. I cant really muster any real anger. Its just "nice another PC port that needed more time in the oven". Nope the force is not strong with this PC version of Star Wars.
3:00 Look at him go!
My crush on Cameron Monaghan keeps me blind to the flaws myself
Yatzee might have a good idea at the end there, he should make that game where rogue robot go around and sadistically humiliate you.
Being overwhelmed with the lettuce? Bland game award?
I'm not generally one to just highlight the funniest quote of the video, but "like a racist wedding planner, I believe that some things just aren't supposed to mix" - holy crap
Well, i love it, but i fully agree about the fishing. That is my only complaint. I want to fish!!
And it is thanks to this video that i finally understand the use of "colon" for the Aqua Team Hunger Force Colon Movie for Theaters.
Like yeah the implications of a butthole were obvious, but it never occurred to me it was merely wordplay. Or a pun. Or whatever it's supposed to be
"Trim your Ewok, ma'am?" ~StarWaxs
I swear, if Silksong has lifesim elements...
Farming sim in an action game is like fishing in a Sonic game. It sort of brakes the flow! Especially if it has no real point 😖
In my digital copy of the game, Merrin was severely balding with dry ramen noodle hair and Cal had his beard texture on his forehead. Very good port.
SUCH a great game. :D
1:24 i have never been called out more than in that single instance...
Will you ever do a "legacy of kain" series retrospective? For Yahtzee not the escapist channel.
Might not be your speed as he's got a very unorthodox comedic style but, if anyone's going to do one in this strata of TH-camrs, it'll probably be Hbomberguy. He (rather covertly) referred to it as one of the most important and meaningful stories in gaming history in one of his other videos.
Also, it'll probably be about 4 hours long. Your mileage may very on whether that's a bug or a feature.
livvy just rizzed baby gronk ‼️
It's so funny that AAA companies used so many time and man power to develop a monetization model they now forgot how to make an "engagement model" for gameplay.
they didn't forget. they don't need one. consoomers will buy everything if you tell them to hard enough.