GAMING JOURNALISTS ARE A JOKE. || MagicMush React
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Imagine being a book reviewer and not knowing how to read. that's basically what game journalism is.
More like being a book reviewer and not knowing the concept of foreshadowing
It’s so ridiculous how accurate that statement is.
Not exactly not knowing how to read at all, but rather more like
Imagine reviewing university research papers when you only have 4th grade reading skills and saying their writing is bad because you cant understand what theyre saying 😂😂
But yes. Agreed
They clearly wanted to be movie reviewers, but had to settle for games.
I’ve never heard it put better.
There is nothing funnier than the Cuphead tutorial video where they played it next to a Pigeon intelligence test. AND THE PIGEON WON!!!
🐮 7
I just watched that video upon reading this comment, holy moly I have not had a good laugh in a while thank you
I loved the Oneyplays one, where they were recreating it to take the piss and managed to glitch the game passing through the cube instead of jumping over it, funniest shit
I always have to remember that clip where someone had their pet GOLDFISH literally beat Godrick from Elden Ring
Devil May Cry 5 reviewers also complained that music was bad because no lyrics
And remember, DMC music gets better if you play well
The one thing I worry about when I eventually play DMC 5 is that I can’t listen to the tunes during combat.
@@man3son1don't, like, it's a REALLY easy game, there's absolutely nothing to worry about, and you can hit S ranks absurdly easy
My older sister can't beat PHANTOM (the first boss) in dmc1, but she beat two entire playthroughs of dmc 5
You'll be FINE
@@DeitySkullKid well I have beaten Phantom, so I guess I have a shot.
How is it even possible to play DMC so poorly that you don't even get the lyrics to kick in?
@@DeitySkullKidtbf, Phantom gave me more trouble than any other boss in the series.
I remember there was a PC gaming review website that had a Monster Hunter World Iceborne review, and the person who wrote it was just endlessly bitching about "Why are we killing the monsters!?" while blatantly ignoring the obvious facts, such as the fact there's a Capture mechanic that lets you complete your hunts WITHOUT killing the monsters.
I also vaguely remember a supposed "review" about the PS5, but the vast majority of what they did was screaming about the election results
I too cannot understand why a game called Monster Hunter might have hunting and/or monsters. I'm disappointed it's not a farming simulator.
One of the reviews for the original Doom complained that you couldn't talk to the demons to solve things without violence.
Was the reviewer a member of PETA or something? I'm shocked they aren't loosing their minds over MHW the same way they do over Pokemon or Mario's Tanuki suit.
@@theblocksays No clue, but I found the video that covered this review. It was a PC Gamer website review and the video that informed me of this thing's existence was by a channel called Upper Echelon
This freckled “quirky girl” keeps asking me to hunt monsters… I’m just trying to cook food with talking cats. I only want cats, food, harps and silence.
Be quiet over there ms. freckles, only the cats can talk.
1/10 weirdest cooking mama game I’ve ever played.
I remember a IGN reviewer giving an Ace Attorney game a 7/10 , listing one of the cons as "too much reading."
A fucking visual novel with point-and-click adventure game elements, had one of the cons as "too much reading."
I couldn't believe that.
That’s like saying Halo has too much shooting.
@@davidperez3990 Minecraft: too much mining, and crafting
Those Journalist never played or seen a Visual Novel for sure. That is the whole point of Visual Novel, reading.
@@kitsunekaze93Monster Hunter: "Too much Monster Hunting." 😂
7.8/10 Too much water.
Latest game journo embarrassment:
Some journo complained that the main girl in the upcoming _Stellar Blade_ is "too sexy" and "unrealistic" (never mind that she's a literal scan of a real woman). He then brought the main girl from FORESPOKEN as the example to follow. You know, the game that was "so good and popular" with a MC so "likeable" that tanked the whole studio?
Game journalists only care about gathering clicks and adrev. Outlandish claims thaf are off center do just that
The one that didn't make me want to clean my ears out with a power drill? Nah...
I just blew a game studio up with my freaking mind!
Imagine being so healthy, you are unrealistic for actual people
4:30 Anakin's nemesis:
"I hate water... It's wet, cold... it gets everywhere. Not like here, in the desert. Where everything is dry."
I distinctly remember the director for Ace Combat 7 pointing out that IGN’s review of the game was invalid because the reviewer in question played the game on the easiest settings and never actually played it in normal difficulty with the correct controls. That made me laugh.
I will say though, adding the simplistic control scheme was a mistake.
@@grimgrahamch.4157 The Ace Combat games have always been easy to pick up and play. So yeah, having those new, even more simplified controls was redundant. Heck, they’re not even that hard either, even on the hardest difficulty.
@@alexkogan9755speak for yourself man, I can’t fly without getting confused on my current orientation or crashing into something.
@@alexkogan9755Except 7 didn't even add it. All of the PS2 entries have it as an alternate scheme.
It's the wrong way to play AC, but 7 wasn't responsible for it.
gotta love how ign gave OR/AS 7.8 with one of the pros being "post gme content" despite not including battle frontier, and "too much water" being in cons despite the fact that the whole theme of the game was literally SEA vs Land.
It meant too many water type Pokemon.
It’s also a reference to an original review of ruby and sapphire, which was, 7.8 ‘too much water’
@@Mr.scooter-le8yo It is the most common typing in Pokemon. But that's both poor wording, and not exactly the most compelling con.
Pokemon dosent have post game anymore
To much water was a very legit criticism.
I remember hearing/seeing about that Cuphead journalist and I immediately went out and bought the game myself just to try out the tutorial. I wanted to give the man the benefit of the doubt. Like I tried everything jumping about a quarter of a second early and using the glide late and still made it. I still made it with my reflex crippled beyond comprehension or pretending my ping was above 120. You have a VERY generous window to hit the correct inputs and my mans was struggling. Dude's not cut out for his line of work.
I remember a video of a toddler reacting to that gameplay and they figured out what to do before the reviewer did.
Hell I remember when I first played it on Switch. Mind you with the Joy Cons so my controllers literally did have a delay.
Even then it wasn't difficult. The fact that we have to TRY to fuck it up and still can do it easily says a lot.
One of my favorite bad reviews was one of Nier automata. The reviewer gave it a 5/10 claiming the story was confusing and that it felt like it was only half of a story that being why they gave it half of a 10 then followed that statement by saying they saw the game had more endings by playing past the first ending but but couldn’t be asked to deal with the boring gameplay to see more of the game. So they only played a 3rd of the game then got mad when the story didn’t feel complete. Gotta love it.
Isn't that fair though? If I'm eating a plate of food and it turns out the first third of the plate was shit, why do I want to eat the rest of the plate to get dessert? I kinda think it'll be more shit and I sure don't like eating shit.
@@voviniaThat’s a bad analogy. A plate doesn’t have a timeline.
A more apt analogy would be a book series. And surprise, complaining about a book feeling incomplete when it is literally part of a continuous trilogy is idiotic.
@@JamesP7 I'll take the book series analogy then. If the first book is crap I can just skip to book 2 or even 3, if some series are notably different as the author matures. I can't skip playing the boring part of the game as it's required to continue. If you get an ending and credits roll and you say it's bad and you don't want to keep playing, that's a fair review.
@@vovinia No that isn’t? A story’s “completeness” has no bearing on that story being good or not. A horrible story can be complete and an incredible story can blue-ball you with an incomplete ending (Across the Spiderverse being a fairly recent example).
And as before, why would you skip content within a timeline? We’re talking about someone who stopped before a story was complete and labeled the story as incomplete without having even gotten the intended completion. This is like playing DDLC and saying the game is “bland and unfinished” because you stopped after finishing Act 1. Sure, you achieved *a* ending, but not any of the developer’s intended conclusions of the story.
@@voviniaexcept nier’s gameplay is pretty solid. That review is fucked from the jump
Also don't forget about DMC 5. That game has dynamic music that evolves with the higher rankings you get and some journos stated that the games music sucked , basically self reporting themselves that they could not get any rank above B. Priceless , simply priceless.
11:29 "I saw blue hair."
She gets it. It's not even a stereotype anymore (if it ever was). It's just the truth.
It's funny because her model has blue hair.
Sometimes they have purple hair
When I was a kid, I thought it would be so cool if people had coloured hair, different from the norm.
...Now it's been completely ruined by people who can't separate fiction from reality and think they're holier than thou.
Laura Kate Dale has some interesting history, to say the least. This includes accusing a co host of transphobia for calling them "it" before having everyone else involved dispute the claim. Needless to say, I don't trust Dale.
@@theotherjared9824 Nah man, she's a natural turquoisee
Polygon is cancer. No one is going to miss it. Same with IGN and Kotaku.
I also remember one article asking if; "gsme journalists should be good at games." Answer, of course, is yes.
I don't think "good" is the right word there. "Competent" more like.
To explain why game journos are like they are, they wanted to be a political journalist but weren't smart enough, so took any job they could.
Thats why they always insert politics into game reviews
I love when people say "politics" like it's a thing that can be divorced from any subject, especially something like games which can and do have political messages. You probably complain when reviewers bring up politics in a Metal Gear review. Politics permeates all of life, even the rejection of politics is in itself a political stance.
@@ToastybeesI don’t complain when politics are in gaining, when it is related to the game. If I’m playing a game about the horrors of slavery in a fantasy world where gnomes have a forced program to make loads of half ogres to act as bodyguards and enforcers, politics relating to slavery make sense to be in the game, politics about whether or not the rich should be taxed have no real connection to this theoretical game, and therefore should not be in it.
@@Toastybees There's a difference between alluding to political contexts in a game and bringing in fucking gamergate into a conversation in a Japanese high school you fkn troglodyte
@@Toastybees So what's the politics of an anime girl eating a fucking burger? Huh? Politics isn't in everything it's just idiots like you that claims it is... we literally play games to escape from reality we don't want politics shoved down our throats when we just want to shoot shit, or shoot the shit...
@@Toastybeesok, what you need to understand is that most people play video games to avoid *real world identity politics* the key word being "identity politics", look at the failure of the latest saints row game, the devs told the original fans to go pound sand and tried to appeal to less then 0.01% of the population with identity politics, or the fact that tlou2 devs brutally killed off a much beloved character simply because said character doesn't conform to their identity politics, most gamers don't mind a little bit of politics in their games what they don't like is being condescendingly told they must conform to a certain ideology or be called an ista phobe
I love how a 4/6-year-old outsmarted the Cuphead guy
*Platformer, Rogue-like, and Difficult but fun games exist:*
Game Journalist: _"The best I could give is 6/10."_
*Cinematic walking Simulator exist:*
Game Journalist: _"Woweee! 10/10 this is the best game ever made!"_
gaming journos don't know how to press more than one button at a time but also the "walking sims" can be good games too if they're immersive, tell a really good story, and have beautiful music like What remains of Edith Finch or That Dragon Cancer.
If I ever buckle down to make a game, I will include Game Journalist Mode and it'll be the most condescending mode ever.
it's been a while so i forgot where i heard it (so take with a grain of salt lol) but i do remember hearing somewhere that most game journalist REALLY want to be movie journalist but ether aren't good enough or got "kicked downward" cus no name or anything, so they took up gaming journalism to make up for it
they LOVE walking sims cus it makes them feel like movie journo's again (also hoping that they can move from games to movies as most see games as "lesser" than their cinema) and hate "real games" since that means they gotta put in work to pump the game review out
@@keystrix3704 Better yet, put it behaind a paidwall of 100 dolars.
I remember that Jason demo game. I called it a looking simulator. A gj said it was great.
The Kane and Lynch debacle was the primordial soup of GamerGate.
A friend who worked as a games journalist told me his coworkers regularly threatened they were going to commit suicide. So that's the mental state of a lot of these people.
The doom 2016 one is amazing. Peak game journalism. Company that big doesnt even have an fps plsyer at their company, how can that work
Remember The Doom Eternal One, Where The Journalist Called The Game Bad Because He Didn't Know He Could Jump. Yes? That Actually Happened!
Ahh yes "I'm horrible at games, lets become a game journalist" 10/10 idea, what could possibly go wrong?
"It really makes you FEEL like Batman."
9:32 God... This one STILL makes me roll my eyes so hard I think they're spinning faster than Gyro Zeppeli's Steel Balls. Like, holy fuck.
Remember gamergate?
When a female dev had bangbang with journos to put her game in the good light?
And when it came to the surface, the whole debacle happened, and the rest are history...
And yet somehow perception is that it was the gamers that were in the wrong in that situation..... Not the corrupt Dev and the journals that she bangbanged.
I will never understand how the same industry that so BLATANTLY fired Jeff Gertsman over giving an honest review of a mediocre 6/10 game, was able to successfully gaslight so many into believing that gamergate was nothing but a "harassment campaign" when it was MOST CERTIANLY about ethics in gaming journalism ESPECIALLY with shit like what happened with Jeff and the whole Kane and Lynch debacle.
Can y'all tell me more about gamergate? I tried looking it up but it's just extreme left nonsense.
Imagine aliens don't want to kill off all of humanity, but they want to get rid of horroble gaming journalists and people like them lol
2:45 27:29
The bird problem solving video put next to the gameplay really was the cherry on top of an already funny video and I’m glad it was included in this video
1:47 There is a story behind this clip. The man with the outburst is Spoony, who just played an early version of an Xcom game before it was rebooted into enemy unknown. Everyone knew this version was bad, but Spoony was the first with any influence to admit it, which is why Joe next to him is uncomfortable. Soon after, he and his gaming outlet Blistered Thumbs was blacklisted from the gaming industry, which caused it to fall apart. Other members like to put the blame solely on Spoony, especially after he went insane a few years later, but the channel awesome document and its fallout proved the other members weren't perfect either.
Spoony was based for that. One of the few people in the gaming journalism-adjacent sphere to actually give a shit about games, at the time.
Nowadays he's a joke, but that's kinda his own fault.
Strange you say that seeing how Spoony was able to attend the next year's E3 and the next year's E3 and Angry Joe's been able to attend plenty of E3's since the 2010 incident. Plus I'm pretty sure both of them were able to attend other gaming cons besides E3 in the early to mid 2010s.
@@Etekatte I said Blistered Thumbs was blacklisted. They could still attend E3, but no one wanted to talk to them as long as they were affiliated.
Followed immediately by Assblasted Alejandro running up and down the halls asking to choke people.
Gee, I wonder why the industry never came to respect TGWTG?
I really like Spoony, his character and his self, and a ton of his content. It a shame what happen later, but I always thought he was a decent person, and really, it fine to like or dislike stuff, I guess you just need to explain your self better too.
So glad MagicMush is getting more love. You gotta react to more of his videos.
*_"DOOM (2016) rated 3/10"_*
*_"Too much shooting, ripping, and tearing."_*
*_~ Dipstick, Game Journalist_*
The Cuphead guy was actually kind of chill and shared that footage because he thought it was funny how bad he was at it.
22:50 to be fair the PS controller would be harder to get use for a shooting game.
One stick being higher and the other being lower is just better and easier for your brain to understand.
1:47 oh, dear Spoony...
How the mighty fell.
Spoony my boy.... I hope him the best.
Remember the pigeon beating the game journalist?
For the persona 5 one, she says retaliate, not the other word
The irony is that the journalist could've just reached out to Atlus or Nintendo to get their side first. You know, journalism.
Smugalana: "I SAW BLUE HAIR! I saw blue hair, man!"
Me: **nods** "I understand."
That should be an immediate Red Flag
You know the saddest part about the Godhand review IGN gave?
There is a non-zero chance that their negative review lead to people not buying it.
And Godhand was the last game Clover made before they were *shut down*
This was back before game uranialists where a meme and where respected by most normies so yes your right.
Its also the reason Bethesda deemed new vegas a failure because it scored a 74 on metacritic.
@@almalone3282 New vegas is unfinished solely because of obsidian's incompetence and the only game i need stability mods to make playable and i find it boring and can't understand the mental gymnastics some will preform to defend it.
@@Darth_Rimurusolely because of Obsidian? They were given less than 2 years to work on it and were forced to use Bethesda's buggy ass engine. It's a miracle that the game is as stable as it is. But even then, you sound like you're having bigger trouble than most.
To ne fair, all of Clover's games sold poorly, as have tgeir successors Platinum's.
Character Action is just a niche genre ot seems.
@RipOffProductionsLLC that depends on your view of "character action". If you count the Batman and Spiderman games as character action then the genre is doing well
"I saw blue hair"... Who's gonna tell her?
I love magicmush, he's been 1 of my favorite content creator in recent times
I agree, he’s been one of my favorites lately as well.
The thing with God Hand is that it requires you to get gud, I'm not talking perfect inputs good, I'm talking "human being with a pulse" good, mastery is a whole separate thing I'll never be capable of.
He missed the event where it was found out five game journos were fucking a game "developer" for good reviews.
A marries dev.... that's important to mention. It makes it even worse imo. And somehow public perception is still that gamers were wrong for thinking badly of them.
I specifically remember a Bloodborne Review, where the reviewer spends the entire time trying to play it like Dark Souls, using the wooden shield and complaining that it was useless, etc. not understanding why he kept dying to the 1st boss.
no idea who that reviewer was
Friendly reminder, Kotaku once published an article about how a lot of characters and games could be a lot sexier, and it was just some idiot going off about her sexual conquests, and essentially harassing/assaulting one of her friends. It included actual porn/hentai, and you might be thinking "well a buncha those characters look vaguely adult" no it had Wind Waker and other child characters too. The article is still there, although the lewds have been deleted off it I believe and it's been edited several times.
Edit: Messy rambling.
The worst part of that from what I remember is that it had underage porn of Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in it.
Now you've just reminded me of the time Vice Waypoint published some weird forced feminization fetish fanfiction about 9S from NieR Automata.
@@lawrencein You're welcome!
I don't recall this but I wouldn't put it past Neo Vice to share that. They used to be good which is the sad part. Kotaku was always bad, though.
Typical.
The meta
"That never happens and it's always good when the right people do it to the wrong people."
bet the bayonetta 2 journo liked the new self insert "for modern audience" character in bayonetta 3
No, they’re probably mad that Bayo expressed romantic interest at all to a man (they are blind to cis flirtations included in the other games).
@@JamesP7that relationship was terrible though. Rushed with no chemistry.
@@tenjenk I don’t know anything about the relationship and my knowledge is easily more than how much those people cared about the execution. Their only complaint was always “Bayo is no longer lesbian”, not “This relationship is rushed and/or had no chemistry”.
Spoony screaming BETRAYAL at E3 over the Xcom FPS will always live rent free in my head
when I first played cup head I missed the tutorial jump, since I was with my friends I was dubbed a games journalist. Worst moment of my life.
my aim with a controller is abysmal, i never played a shooter with a controller, so if i had to play a game at a preview event with a controller the footage would look really bad. but hell not even i can be as bad as the doom guy
I was already wary of game journos in the early 2000s and wasn't taking them too seriously. But the Kane & Lynch incident is what made me stop visiting them entirely. I have not gone to a game journalism site on purpose since 2007. That event was a HUGE deal, it was basically gamergate 7 years before gamergate, but with less outrage, less public knowledge, less impact and less... game journalists lying about what it is to make gamers look bad on purpose because they actually hate games and gamers.
One of the big ones for me before Kane & Lynch was a DMC3 review, I think it was Gamespot but I might be wrong (it was 18 years ago after all). What happened was that reviewers got a review copy that was glitched so normal mode was actually hard mode, which of course is pretty difficult to deal with when you're playing as a non-upgraded Dante. That review, and a few others, were complaining about how it took them HOURS to beat the Hell Vanguard miniboss at the end of Mission 2, and that negatively affected the scores that were given out. When it was finally found out that reviewers were playing on the incorrect version of the game, that specific reviewer refused to revise his review and score.
Also... it's really not that hard to beat the Hell Vanguard on hard mode, but game journalists will game journalist.
As an old mouse and keyboard pc shooter fan, I HATE CONSOLE SHOOTERS! Aiming with a controller is so kludgy! As such, I should never review a console shooter!
She is not only not a native speaker, she doesn't speak English at all. She was just making English sounds.
I want a really good and really popular game to cone around to set the trend if renaming easy mode to journalist mode.
Game Journo: Starfield 10/10! A generational masterpiece!
24:25 - It probably depends where you are but in plenty of places in the world it's not illegal. Doubly so if had Jeff as wan independent contractor.
To be fair to the gaming journalist the original 2 marios were kinda hard
I'll never forget what they did to godhand...
Oh man. You are gonna love the MovieBob and Dobson vids from this guy.
that Alien complaint about the controls kinda just ties me into my own personal complaint about the first Fatal Frame. when going into camera mode, it works similar to a FPS, except the analogs are reversed. so you got left stick to look around, and right stick to move, which really throws up a learning curve
It’s like NES games where B jumps and A shoots
blue hair... what a COINCIDENCE !
To be honest. The playstation Vita was incredibly successful in japan due to eroge
That Alien game is an historical piece imo. I mean the reviewer wasn't wrong; the control layout for that game was indeed "terrible" because the normal layout back then (especially for FPS) was different. Very very different.
Also, Im not sure if its still around. I suggest reading the review of Akiba's Trip for the PS4 on Playstation Lifestyle. The reviewer is oblivious to what an Otaku subculture is.
My personal favourite part of the review is when he/she talks about Gothic Lolita. You know, I know, he/she knows that it is refering to fashion but the reviewer missed the memo and wrote that Lolita is about young girls being repeatedly Graped (without the G).
My favorite part of that particular review is that they mention that you should skip Resurrection and wait for Colonial Marines instead, because it had spent that long in development hell.
totally forgot about the cuphead incident until I saw it, but I think one reason, and that's a problem inherit in all journalism that given early access to product, is that companies don't want to give them review copies if they just going to give it a bad review
12:47 This is me when I'm extremely tired and I got that stormtrooper aim. Beyond that, I get pissed off when Aim Assist throws me off a target I want to hit.
I still believe they were playing Doom with a racing wheel.
Listening to your videos while at work is something I thought I never needed but now I want it more lol bouta watch every video
honestly i trust games journalists. if it gets shit reviews by them its likely its a good game. if its gets great reviews? probably trash. they are are a great opposite indicator. just assume the opposite of what they say.
Merry Christmas Smuglana. Sorry for not wishing you this. Hope you had an awesome time during this festive season smuglana. Thank you for making my Days better here with your videos. I really enjoyed it. Thank you and have an awesome new year here ♥ 🐀
I have tried playing some forts person games that came out before the industry standard of "left= move, right=look" and they re genuinely so difficult to play. like really difficult man, what the dude says about "you'll be staring at the floor or ceiling" is exactly what happens to me.
so glad it became a standard
I will never forgive IGN giving Pokemon Mystery Dungeon a 4.8 or something like that. I read the view and almost broke my laptop from how wrong it was about everything. And I do mean everything.
I always confuse Kotaku and Polygon, both having super sensitive journalists that often make the game the side-plot of their articles. Also, at 15:51, I think there were 7 targets for Ellie in The Last of Us 2 and the one with the Vita represent one of the 7 deadly sins being sloth. There's a video about them being the 7 deadly sins (wrath, sloth, gluttony, lust, pride, envy, greed).
Which is weird because the game/Niel Druckman clearly paints their side as the good guys or at the very least tried to make them as likeable as possible so the player feels bad about killing them.
I dont think it worked though.
Ya know, they say that you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. However Polygon journalists also miss 100% of the shots they do take.
That Cuphead journalist got the reaction time of a bad gaming journalist xdx
Oh hey, finally! A MagicMush react! Don't think I've ever seen anyone react to his videos.
Anyone Remember The Doom Eternal Video Where The Game Journalist Called It Bad Because He Didn't Know He Can Jump. I Ain't Making That Up This Dude Ran Into Ledges & Never Even Tried To Jump Once HE COULDN'T EVEN BEAT THE TUTORIAL
If you think that the review for Bayonetta 2 was bad, you should take a look at the reviews done by people who are completely butt hurt over the fact that the main character marries a guy in Bayonetta 3. It's somewhat disturbing yet entertaining at the same time.
I'd say the first game makes it seem entirely plausible that Umbral Witches marry and reproduce; there were a lot of them. And while I'm not sure I want to know exactly what Bayonetta's sexuality is in great detail, she's clearly not asexual. No issues with this happening at some point in her life.
They assumed that Bayo was a lesbian because of her relationship with Jeane, even though they acted more like sisters than lovers.
They don't seem to understand that two girls being close to each other doesn't necessarily mean they're gae.
Okay to be fair, Bayo getting together with Luka in 3 is rushed as all hell. It's not a good romance even on its own merits. It feels like it's the Bayonetta 4 to a hypothetical Bayo 3 we never got where that game's story focused on strengthening Cereza's relationship with Luka
Okay, there’s a reason why people dislike the romance in Bayonetta 3, and that’s because it was rushed as hell. The previous Bayonetta games never really developed Bayonetta and Luka’s relationship as romantic. If anything, it could be viewed as pet-like as while Luka may have feelings for Bayonetta, she doesn’t really return those feelings, though she does still care about him as a friend. Sure, the Bayonetta we play as in the third game is a different version of Bayonetta, but the game also implies that she and Luka are a destined pair across the multiverse, which was not supported by the first two games. I wouldn’t have minded Bayonetta ending up Luka if it actually felt organic, but it doesn’t.
Edit: Just as a disclaimer, I am one of the people who disliked the romance of Bayo 3 as I shipped her with Jeanne, mostly because I felt that they had better chemistry. Now, I would have been fine if she and Jeanne remained friends/sister-at-arms as it was just a simple ship on my part as the series never really had romance be the forefront. If anything, it was refreshing to see a female lead not having to deal with romance, which is what made the third game so jarring as it suddenly forced in a romantic subplot. Anyway, those are just my two cents on the matter.
@@Weird_Alchemist42 While that is a fair argument, you can also have a guy and a girl be close but not in a romantic relationship. Now this could just be me personally, but I never really got a sense that Bayonetta harbored feelings for Luka in the first two games. Sure, she liked to tease him, but I always interpreted that as just her personality and trying to get a reaction from Luka, not because she liked him in that manner. So it kinda felt like whiplash seeing Bayo suddenly change her tune in the third game and show a lot more feelings for Luka. Granted, the Bayo we play as in that game is a different Bayo, but the game doesn't make it clear until the very end (among some other weird story elements).
Kotaku has recently lost its main woke propaganda machine to "the gamer", a acesspool trying to pass as a videogame site that has speedruning woke takes since its creation.
Here I thought I thought I was bad at video games, that level of skill issue is genuinely impressive.
The “betrayal“ guy is called spoony. He’s not a game journalist or a reviewer. He has said that flat out.
Except... he is a reviewer(or at least he *was* at the time), he made reviews of games and movies.
Sure they were comedic in nature, but that doesn't change the fact that they were reviews.
I like how asmongold is made fun of for being bald, even outside his videos and stream lul
never would I have thought that MagicMush would be reacted to by a vtuber. 👍
Don't forget - Doom have game difficulty called "game journalist"
The woman that got fired from Kotaku got fired on my birthday, and I didn't even know they gave me a present.
Colin Moriarty? Aint that the dude that owns the bar and the ghoul slave in Fallout 3?
Alien Resurrection was literally the first console FPS with the now universal dual analog stick control scheme. Yet the reason the reviewer trashed it is that very control scheme. Alien Resurrection pioneered using the two stick moving/aiming scheme and was trashed for it.
Bit of context for Alana and other youngins that may NOT remember games before the early 00s. Any Console FPS before Resurrection used either totally unique control schemes, like Golden Eye on N64 where the same stick moved and aimed you just had to hit the Z button to lock your movement and enable shooting, OR it used the L1/R1 buttons to strafe while the left analog stick moved forward backward and turned, aiming up or down was done by the game as it just auto targeted anything above or below the level you where on. Not by angling the gun but by the projectiles shooting out at a angle.
Yes FPS on console in the 90s where a WILD ride.
Edit: OH he left out the most embarassing part of the Resurrection review. The reviewer suggested players wait for a Alien game that had just been announced by Fox and that would be infinitely better than Resurrection. That game? Aliens: Colonial Marines, a game that wouldnt see the light of day for nearly another decade and a half and would be amongst reviewers, including TH-cam reviewers, one of the WORST games released in 2013.
So some fun extra info on the god hand review, in one of the responses IGN gave, the author mentioned that not only did he not like it, but after passing it around, every single person at the IGN office at the time, hated it.
@12:50 I see only a normal console gamer movements there.
Spoony and angry joe, betrayal indeed
"they said a mental disability" did they say gamer journalist?
The worst part about the Doom Review, IS that i follow a TH-camr who was not a gamer, ended doing a Lot of reacts to game trailers etc, and the latter got convinsed to start playing games. Her First ones where gow and Doom 2016 and even she did better
"Let's go
Let's play
Record it
And save"
6:23 Man this JAKQ reboot looks insane I wonder what Fuhrer Crocodile looks like in this
I saw that, when he said like and subscribe your subscribe button lit up. Also games journalism should place basic standards and tests to see if the person they are hiring can actually play video games and can adapt. And make it so that companies cannot buy out reviews and threaten people.
hope you react to more magicmush videos they are great.
No Way man, that fps hurt my eyes.
I need to sign up for this review, I may not be an expert gamer, but I can defend myself, I see opportunity in the field, especially when it comes to detailed writing.
Alien Resurrection was one of the first games that pioneered the controller control scheme for shooters that have become the standard nowadays. At the time, every console shooter was trying their own layouts, so the reviewer felt comfortable crapping on this game's attempt.
That outro is amazing lmao
"wait! Isn't that illegal?" It most certainly should be...
man god hand is an amazing game, that while has a goofy exterior also has a very intricate combat system.
The sad thing about the Cuphead review? It was Dean Takahasi's third strike, as far as I know.
The first one was his review for Mass Effect 1, where he claimed the game doesn't tell you that you can level up (which, yes it does. It just doesn't hold your hand), and that it didn't tell you that the triangle was an auto-target lock on for powers and that you HAD to aim at it for the powers to work... which is fucking stupid.
The second was the gameplay video he did for DOOM 2016, which went down as the most infamous gameplay video on YT, up there with Nostalgia Critic playing Bart's Nightmare. Yes, that was HIS gameplay Mash talked about.
But yeah, Dean Takahashi is no stranger to abject retardation when reviewing games. Namely because he's not there to revuew games; he's a tech reviewer. He's not there for God of War; he's there for the PS4's graphical fidelity or that empty space in the console that can house cockroaches and silverfish.
Oh Magicmush! Ive watched his Andrew Dobson and Movie bob vids
my favorite response to the cuphead video was a guy getting his literal toddler child to finish the tutorial without him helping. Actual toddlers can do it. Gaming journalists are built different, but like, wrong.
11:30 I thought the exact same thing 🤣
What a coincidence isn't it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣