Firstly: Rats are adorable even if I did sometimes lie awake at night wondering if they my own pet ones were secretly conspiring to rip my supple flesh from my bones while I lay vulnerable beneath my bed sheets. Secondly: You should read "The Rats" by James Herbert I get the impression you would enjoy his work. Then you should read "Lair" and "Domain" the sequels because the second one is hilarious and the third one is set in a post apocalyptic setting which was adapted into a terrible film that did no justice to the book. Thirdly: I get the distinct Impression you dislike rats...all the more reason to read James Herbert's books.
@@Mirmisian Honestly if the English found that the already extremely potent combination of Archers and dismounted could be improved if they gave slingshots to little bastards and threw them somewhat near the enemy and only used the actual disciplined, trained and equipped English army as last resorts, plus according to this game French soldiers would shove their swords through toddlers if they saw them and that means more people will join the British to kill those child murdering bastards
@@nullpoint3346 when my gf be cheating on me with her gf, I like to watch while one of them puts a fake beard made from my shaven back hair and roleplays a serious hairy dad protecting the other one. They never really fuck, just scream at each other and brood over killing imaginary zombies, but it sure as hell gets me going I tell you
"A game where you play an even younger child who has to escort a small bird, or a hedgehog, or something." Hasn't the Pokemon franchise been doing just that for years?
The First Battle of Agincourt was a victory for the brits, the second one was a humiliating defeat for the British at the hands of several french armies, one of which was the "large group of peasants with heavy sticks led by Joan of Arc"
@@Eisaku2 Except this game doesn't give you grief for killing off reprehensible human scum. The game doesn't pretend your killing a couple dozen people will vastly effect the status quo when there is a plague that is killing millions.
And we've had a few "older cute animal escorts younger cute animal through world of unrelenting horror and violence" games (Shelter springs to mind), so a small kid escorting a cute animal is the only missing link in the serious hairy chain.
I loved this game, it's my favorite of the year so far! The fact that you can Undertale the story and play either as a mostly merciful girl scout or a ruthless 14-year old Rambo calling down the pebbly wrath of God and drinking the blood of your enemies is hilarious.
I kinda want to make a horror game where you're immortal and have to save all the other characters by abusing that fact to high hell. Then throw in portions where the enemies are shambling towards your locked camera instead of your player character. Maybe have it have a hard border so that it looks like it's punching through your screen.
MalevolentDivinity Yeah, in any game with infinite respawns, you lose the terror pretty quickly. But if there’s someone else that could be affected by your mistakes, that’s where things could begin to get tense. Unless them dying just kicks you back as well, in which case they’re frustrating instead of tense-making.
Aa little kid, no older than eight; having to escort thier infant sibling... somewhere. And then the baby fucking dies at the end. That's going to be a game, just you fucking watch.
What even is there to say in a review? Yeah, it's a creative themepark management game, if you like those, you'll like RCT. The summary is the review and everything else is wallpaper.
Doki Doko Literature Club! I remember going through part one and thinking about how cute and funny it was. Then I got to part 2, and the spin about him selling his soul for Monika made it darker.
I’m glad he noted how badly the story flounders once you reach the castle. It was quite good up until then, but they had very little ideas of what to do afterward.
I enjoyed the story all the way until the end of Hugo's chapter. The rest of it is... uh. They failed to answer quite a few questions (like why some of the corpses at home were left undevoured) and to this day I just don't get what passing the first Threshold was even supposed to do.
Her stones have the strength of a freaking sniper rifle. Yeah a bunch of orphans against heavily armed soldiers. Sigh. I can't get the picture of children nuclear strikes out of my head.
"Even today going to France is like sticking your head in a huge bucket of turds that think they're better than you." So it's not just us Americans then.
Noticed Captain Sisko at the start. Sisko is the ultimate Serious Hairy Dad!! Don't do what he wants? He'll waste an entire planet till you eat all your cabbage.
"Next we're going to have a game where you play as a small child escorting a small bird or a hedgehog" and after that we're going to have a water bear escorting a bacteria.
4:55 had me rollin, Rats offering the Watchtower lol. now I'm going to be plagued (heh) with imagining the Rats as Jehovah's Witnesses if I play the game.
As much as I love this game, there really is quite the jarring contrast between the standard gameplay and "boss" battles. As he usually does, Yahtzee nails that feeling. "Oh, I'm so very helpless against basically every enemy, except for the times when I absolutely headshot the hell out of them like it ain't no thang." Though granted a sling is indeed a way more potent weapon than you might think. There was a reason some armies used legions specializing in it.
He was actually pretty charitable by Yahtzee standards. If more than 1/10th of a review is spent on talking about the things a game did right, he probably doesn’t hate it.
"I tend to die a lot in An American Tale: Fievel Goes Plague" Lazy, Yahtz. Methinks "Fievel Goes Pest-ilence" has a better ring to it. I will not see myself out.
as we know Yahtzee tends to drop hints to the happenings of his everyday life within his videos, now I don't want to start a conspiracy, but he did mention babies, early parenthood and diapers. so we may hear of a baby Yahtzee sometime in the future.
I do agree with the crafting. I'm not big on crafting mechanics in the first place, but the crafting in this game felt needless. I did like the game however, and the collection of Orphans made me feel like a lvl 1 Rogue in a dnd campaign.
See, "things tripple A audiences seem to like" Believe it or not this actually is an indie game, even though it looks absolutely stunning and costs $40, and that's mostly because they paid for a lot of high-grade assets.
4:34 Well Yahtzee clearly isn't the model of a modern major general, because the English WON Agincourt. It was like, THE battle that made us think of longbows as the WMDs of medieval Europe
Watch the E3 2019 Zero Punctuation a week early at the link: www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/06/19/zero-punctuation-e3-2019/
You’re not first
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Firstly: Rats are adorable even if I did sometimes lie awake at night wondering if they my own pet ones were secretly conspiring to rip my supple flesh from my bones while I lay vulnerable beneath my bed sheets.
Secondly: You should read "The Rats" by James Herbert I get the impression you would enjoy his work. Then you should read "Lair" and "Domain" the sequels because the second one is hilarious and the third one is set in a post apocalyptic setting which was adapted into a terrible film that did no justice to the book.
Thirdly: I get the distinct Impression you dislike rats...all the more reason to read James Herbert's books.
Are we getting a stream today or does Yahtzee still need time to recover from E3?
I'm just praying that either next week or the week after that, Yahtzee reviews Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
Review Pathologic 2, you coward. I double dare you.
2:14 Lets be fair though: Medieval France actually did need a teenage girl to save it from being conquered. I'd say it's pretty accurate.
Yes, but fortunately, Amicia isn't into religious delusions...
Clever!
Damn.
Joan was dope af, to bad she essentially was betrayed to make peace. Getting burned and all the jazz.
Bird_Dog You fedoras are as bad as the religious fundies.
A game where you play as a small child escorting a small bird or a hedgehog sounds like a prototypical indie game waiting to happen.
Or just the average JRPG.
Sounds kind of like Ico to me
Well we have one game with a child and a huge "animal" called The Last Guardian.
Already done, A Bird Story. (good game actually. Well, good story-based walking simulator at any rate.)
You could argue that this is a good portion of the plot of Sonic Adventure
“Her family gets slaughtered by a branch of the Inquisition, whom we most certainly did NOT expect”
That made me laugh.
I wondered what happened to that knife wielding hedgehog from your Rage review. Glad he found work.
@@hydra7427 Clearly, just look at the Sonic movie
"Is Plague, in a sense, a horror game?"
lol.
He's a wordsmith.
I also like how he said "breast high wall" instead of "chest high wall".
Are we talking Plague of Gripes? Cause in that case: Sure, that's about right.
God damn it I'm so dense. Totally missed it.
@@TheBaesment I heard it and said... "wait a tick" and rewinded to make sure
"Seek vengeance for Agincourt"? The English absolutely decimated the French at Agincourt.
That's the joke.
That's what sprang into my head, I'm pretty sure the English won that one.
I'm glad I wasn't the first to notice that.
@@gunfaceUK Oh, I suppose that might make more sense.
@@Mirmisian Honestly if the English found that the already extremely potent combination of Archers and dismounted could be improved if they gave slingshots to little bastards and threw them somewhat near the enemy and only used the actual disciplined, trained and equipped English army as last resorts, plus according to this game French soldiers would shove their swords through toddlers if they saw them and that means more people will join the British to kill those child murdering bastards
Serious hairy dad is my favorite type of lesbian roleplay
I'm confused, can you please define?
@@nullpoint3346 when my gf be cheating on me with her gf, I like to watch while one of them puts a fake beard made from my shaven back hair and roleplays a serious hairy dad protecting the other one.
They never really fuck, just scream at each other and brood over killing imaginary zombies, but it sure as hell gets me going I tell you
Alejandro Silva ahh makes sense
@@AlejandroSilva-mr7yy relateable.
Alejandro Silva
I just came thinking about it
"Seek vengeance for Agincourt" You mean "Castillon", mon ami Yassie.
HONHONHONHON
Honhonhon gets me any time in any context :))
@@ccotunai is that the French hahaha?
@@chexmixkitty allegedly, that's how some french would express pretentious laughter is writing. The brazilian Jajajajaja is a close second :))
@@ccotunai xaxaxa
@@NihilistAlien Je suis Français, imbécile.
"American Tale: Fievel Goes Plague." Nice.
Literally laughed out loud, that was very well done!
American Tail* Sorry to be THAT guy...
I was expecting Yahtzee to say "an even smaller kid escorting a fetus" but I appreciate the wholesome alternative
Well, didn't the latest Hideo Kojima game feature Norman Reedus escorting a fetus?
@@blondbraid7986 It's true, we graduated to serious hairy dad and his BB.
Next logical step must be a fetus guiding a semen through the womb, trying to solve zelda-esque puzzles near the vagina
Oh I remember that game! Norman Reedus and the Magic Fetus right?
"A game where you play an even younger child who has to escort a small bird, or a hedgehog, or something."
Hasn't the Pokemon franchise been doing just that for years?
Eh, Pokemon aren't serious enough. Although I'll give you the hairy part.
"Revenge for Agincourt..."
- But we won that didn't we Yahtzee....
But they had to fight at all is needing vengeance.
The First Battle of Agincourt was a victory for the brits, the second one was a humiliating defeat for the British at the hands of several french armies, one of which was the "large group of peasants with heavy sticks led by Joan of Arc"
@@BaelPenrose I mean
We did kill her, that technically counts as vengeance but, I'm never one to complain about more.
I might be a Scot but still
Tabris wasn’t Joan of ark like 19? Basically proving Yahtzee’s point that all the French needed were young ill equipped girls
Glad I checked the comments before saying the exact same thing.
"Innocent until proven Plague"
Speaking of sickness, where is that lecherous old bugger?
Vultiidsah The Memelord Inventing new varieties of shortstacks, mostly.
I am pretty sure they made the young child sparrow game, only it was a giant rat-bird-dog thing and looked like ICO.
Come to think of it ICO is about a young child escorting another young child
I'm pretty certain Yahtzee also gave the game points for the whole "people getting eaten alive by rats" thing.
I mean it worked for Dishonored... >_>
@@Eisaku2 Except this game doesn't give you grief for killing off reprehensible human scum. The game doesn't pretend your killing a couple dozen people will vastly effect the status quo when there is a plague that is killing millions.
"Innocence" describes us in 2019, not realising we were about to star in a plague tale.
I would totally play the "even younger child escorts the hedgehog" game. I think it'll be cute :3
So, a reversed Version of Sonic 06, with Princess Elise actually being a little bit competent?
Sure, could be fun.
And then the next evolution would be playing as a hedgehog and saving even smaller animals and then we're just back to Sonic
@@The_Jovian So then our this game was just a sonic pre-pre-quel.
And we've had a few "older cute animal escorts younger cute animal through world of unrelenting horror and violence" games (Shelter springs to mind), so a small kid escorting a cute animal is the only missing link in the serious hairy chain.
You should play Ghost Giant then.
Rats, rats
We’re the rats
We prey at night
We stalk at night
We’re the rats
I'm the giant rat who makes all of the rules!
Let's see what sort of trouble, we can get ourselves into! :D
I loved this game, it's my favorite of the year so far! The fact that you can Undertale the story and play either as a mostly merciful girl scout or a ruthless 14-year old Rambo calling down the pebbly wrath of God and drinking the blood of your enemies is hilarious.
Serious Hairy Dad
Serious Hairy Dad : The Next Generation
Serious Hairy Dad : Deep Space Nine
Serious Hairy Dad Voyager
Serious Hairy Dad: The Motion Picture
Don't forget when they rebooted the franchise in 2005 with: Serious Clean-Shaven Young Adult Hairy Dad
@@SPARR0E And now it looks like we won't get: Had no hair to begin with rescue reboot
@@MrLunithy Sorry to break from the joke, but how do you mean? Isn't the show coming this year?
@@SPARR0E Apparently th-cam.com/video/2F4x7uCkCb0/w-d-xo.html
I showed this to my mum, and she really enjoyed it and laughed a few times. It's been so long since she's laughed at anything. Thank you, Yahtzee.
I seriously thought u meant showing her the game. And her laughing at the sight of people being eaten alive by hordes of rats
Didn't expect Yahtzee to be able to get back to work so soon after E3
He could have been working on the road via laptop. Regardless the man has a great work ethic.
Maybe work makes him forget having spent several days surrounded by filthy nerds
He probably recorded this in advance. Not particularly a new game. He's probably just gotten back to the usual review work now.
All videos are uploaded a week earlier on Escapist website
Wait, didn't the British win at Agincout? Could've been 'Revenge for Hastings' or something, but that might be too hard on the Queen.
apparently the Brits did win the first battle. and then they got their asses handed to them by Joan of ark.
Yes, revenge for Orleans doesn't have quite the same name recognition.
British? GTFO.
Did anyone else notice how Yahtzee's description "Serious Hairy Dad" series kinda matches the Donkey Kong country trilogy?
The Spanish Inquisition Joke always make me laugh
Only when it's unexpected.
I kinda want to make a horror game where you're immortal and have to save all the other characters by abusing that fact to high hell.
Then throw in portions where the enemies are shambling towards your locked camera instead of your player character. Maybe have it have a hard border so that it looks like it's punching through your screen.
MalevolentDivinity Yeah, in any game with infinite respawns, you lose the terror pretty quickly. But if there’s someone else that could be affected by your mistakes, that’s where things could begin to get tense.
Unless them dying just kicks you back as well, in which case they’re frustrating instead of tense-making.
"An American Tale: Fievel Goes Plague" LOVE IT!
In other news, Yahtzee and Kess are going to try for a kid. Everyone wish them good luck.
Oscar McCormack Oh god it’s happening.
Prepare for the coming of the Kwisatz Hadarach: supremely nice but nihilistic as all hell.
@@TheCorrodedMan MUAD'DIB!
@@TheCorrodedMan So, in other words, your average upper class British person? Also, obligatory THE SPICE MUST FLOW.
I must not fear, fear is the mind killer.
Stephen Confident Crowshaw!!!
Aa little kid, no older than eight; having to escort thier infant sibling... somewhere.
And then the baby fucking dies at the end.
That's going to be a game, just you fucking watch.
Look who's finally going back to his old credit style on TH-cam after a few years.
Why would you seek Vengeance for Agincourt?
The french got blood on english uniforms \_(ツ)_/
@@jean-christophe8649 Oh yeah thats fair then
There's the English mindset for you. Seeking vengeance for a battle you won.
The day Yahtzee reviews Roller Coaster Tycoon
Marks the day I sold my soul for a cupcake.
What even is there to say in a review? Yeah, it's a creative themepark management game, if you like those, you'll like RCT. The summary is the review and everything else is wallpaper.
Doki Doko Literature Club! I remember going through part one and thinking about how cute and funny it was. Then I got to part 2, and the spin about him selling his soul for Monika made it darker.
@@emmapopovic-bogdanich1991 I'm doing a Let's Play of that game on my channel if you wanted to look at it:
th-cam.com/video/taa-kH3iHOE/w-d-xo.html
I’m glad he noted how badly the story flounders once you reach the castle. It was quite good up until then, but they had very little ideas of what to do afterward.
I enjoyed the story all the way until the end of Hugo's chapter. The rest of it is... uh. They failed to answer quite a few questions (like why some of the corpses at home were left undevoured) and to this day I just don't get what passing the first Threshold was even supposed to do.
Her stones have the strength of a freaking sniper rifle. Yeah a bunch of orphans against heavily armed soldiers. Sigh.
I can't get the picture of children nuclear strikes out of my head.
1:25, Nobody excepts the Spanish Inquisition!!
"An American Tale: Fievel Goes Plague" - brilliant
"Even today going to France is like sticking your head in a huge bucket of turds that think they're better than you."
So it's not just us Americans then.
''Mildly annoyed'' perfectly summarizes my feelings with this game. The rats are the only interesting aspect
Just finished watching his E3 overview. His roasts keep getting better by the year XD
Whoo
He's back to the 2d dimension where he belongs. Dude looked one more conversation away from jumping off a building
"2d dimension" seems a little redundant to say...
Noticed Captain Sisko at the start. Sisko is the ultimate Serious Hairy Dad!!
Don't do what he wants? He'll waste an entire planet till you eat all your cabbage.
He became Serious Bald Dad halfway through though.
Why are we seeking vengeance for Agincourt? We WON at Agincourt.
Revenge for having to get out of bed that day.
Revenge for time wasted? Revenge for missing the mandatory afternoon tea?
"we"
"Next we're going to have a game where you play as a small child escorting a small bird or a hedgehog" and after that we're going to have a water bear escorting a bacteria.
In honour of Yahtzee, someone should make a mod of this game where the rats are replaced by carnivorous jam.
Breast high walls? Never heard that before :O
I likey.
@@wargamingrefugee9065
Or it was a spin on the usual chest high walls considering the main character is a female.
@@Shaymin0 or it could be both
4:55 had me rollin, Rats offering the Watchtower lol.
now I'm going to be plagued (heh) with imagining the Rats as Jehovah's Witnesses if I play the game.
Playing as the even smaller child and escorting a small bird / hedgehog is the sweetest game concept!!
this man is looking for vengeance for Agincourt as an Englishman? That's like an American getting miffed at the Vietnamese for starting forest fires.
As much as I love this game, there really is quite the jarring contrast between the standard gameplay and "boss" battles. As he usually does, Yahtzee nails that feeling. "Oh, I'm so very helpless against basically every enemy, except for the times when I absolutely headshot the hell out of them like it ain't no thang." Though granted a sling is indeed a way more potent weapon than you might think. There was a reason some armies used legions specializing in it.
Yahtze, the only guy to seek vengeance for a victory.
“Rengence for Agincourt”
Mate, you guys won! Haha
The tactical nuclear strike made of orphan children made me laugh out loud.
but but.... the english massacred the french at Agincourt... its famous for just how bad the french lost...
I'm glad I wasn't the only person confused by that Joke
Agincourt
@@NostraFnDamus whoops I knew I screwed the spelling up >.
I was equally baffled, but then I realized that the English got all sweaty slaughtering half the French nobility and he's still put out about it.
@@rejvaik00 mmm not really, normandy was an english territory then, so the norman descendents, where on the english side
I knew he's going to shit on it... that's why i'm here
He was actually pretty charitable by Yahtzee standards. If more than 1/10th of a review is spent on talking about the things a game did right, he probably doesn’t hate it.
@@brian3634 And that is why Psychonauts is the best game ever.
The joke at 04:33 doesn't seem to make any sense, the English had a *massive* victory at Azincourt.
Really also would love a story-time video about Yahtzee's high school experiences as mentioned in the credits here.
An even younger child escorting a small bird is basically A Bird Story which then comes full circle in Finding Paradise.
"I tend to die a lot in An American Tale: Fievel Goes Plague"
Lazy, Yahtz. Methinks "Fievel Goes Pest-ilence" has a better ring to it.
I will not see myself out.
Hey-Oh!
I appreciate the 1984 refrence
"Plague, in a Sense"
How does Yahtzee find the time to play games for review, go to E3, *and* develop new games?
A Gantt Chart.
He has harnessed the power of sarcasm and ambivalence into a new form of energy for which only he can wield.
"...like the first few years of parenthood."
HAHAHAHA.... "first few"
Does this mean the proper flow-down is TLOU, A Brother’s Tale, then Pokémon?
0:29 - But... *Riker* is the one from The Next Generation. Sisko is from Deep Space 9.
I would play the shit out of a game about a small child escorting a hedgehog, that sounds adorable
Bad Yahtzee, did you forget about Joan d’Arc?
French peasant girls, sufficiently inspired, did for a short time not lose battles.
I would absolutely love to play a zombie game staring a tiny little serious kid taking care of a bird with DLC where you play as the bird.
I guess you could say Yahtzee has a PlagueOfGripes with A Plague Tale: Innocence
2:46 Yo, unexpected but I love you for it lol!
I'm a bit surprised he never mentioned the rat tornadoes. That's a level of ridiculous that I figured would be right up his alley.
"Whom we most definitely did not expect" was, was that a Monty Python joke?
as we know Yahtzee tends to drop hints to the happenings of his everyday life within his videos, now I don't want to start a conspiracy, but he did mention babies, early parenthood and diapers. so we may hear of a baby Yahtzee sometime in the future.
Plot twist - Is Sonic just a child escorting a hedgehog?
The sparrow hedgehog kiddy adventure actually sounds kinda adorable
5:02 You know, it would be really awkward if Yahtzee's girlfriend came in with a positive pregnancy test while he was recording that line.
Yahtzee, Agincourt was an English victory. Why would you want vengeance on the French for it?
Too much of a bother to mow down that many knights...
As a Serious Hairy Dad, I found myself practically biting my nails whenever poor Hugo was in trouble
It took me a good few seconds to register that Innocence: A Tale of Two Plagues was not the title of the game.
I would unironically love a game where you have to escort a hedgehog through the post-apocalypse.
HIGH BROW GAG.
I do agree with the crafting. I'm not big on crafting mechanics in the first place, but the crafting in this game felt needless. I did like the game however, and the collection of Orphans made me feel like a lvl 1 Rogue in a dnd campaign.
"Stirring up my blood, making me seek vengeance for Agincourt."
Wait, didn't the English win the Battle of Agincourt?
My thoughts exactly... I think Yahtzee is jealous of the misery the French can conjure at a whim...
Love the misread-titles in this one. American Tale Fievel Goes Plaugue is a gem.
Agincourt was one of the greatest English victories of the Hundred Years War but ok
Now I really want a game where you play as kid trying to escort a small bird or hedgehog or something.
The end credits reel really completes the weekly package. Glad Yahtzee brought it back.
They were always there on the Escapist website versions. It's TH-cam that removed them.
I haven’t yet found a playlist of all the Hairy Dad Game reviews
I just had a great idea for a sonic Rebot. From this video
American tale: fivel goes plague
"Seek vengeance for agincourt"
Yes, when the French ruthlessly died in droves 😖
I've got some ancestors who owned a castle in France
The Winston Smith joke was pretty high brow..... But you could have been even more and said Delapore
Just because something is old doesn't make it high brow and almost by definition a pulp author is definitely not.
"A branch of the Inquisition, whom we most certainly did not expect."
Now who's doing Monty Python references?
Seek vengeance for Agincourt? Wait didn't the English win that one xD?
Nope, that was the Botswana army. You know what they say: When two are fighting, the third one wins.
fast talking english man kills french art work.
where have i heard of that before?
See, "things tripple A audiences seem to like"
Believe it or not this actually is an indie game, even though it looks absolutely stunning and costs $40, and that's mostly because they paid for a lot of high-grade assets.
When did they bring back the end credits???
Last week. They were always there on the Escapist website versions though.
4:34 Well Yahtzee clearly isn't the model of a modern major general, because the English WON Agincourt. It was like, THE battle that made us think of longbows as the WMDs of medieval Europe
4:37 but the battle of Agincourt was an English victory,(until the siege of Orléans)