Pizza Tower is INSANE (and I love it) - ahbeef
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- IT'S PIZZA TIME!
Huge thanks to HotCyder for collabing on this review with his segment, I'll have a link to the extended cut on his channel when it's up, but for now here's the link to his channel: @hotcyder
Link to the tweet used in the video (spoilers): Sonic9jct/status/...
#ahbeef
0:00 Intro
1:16 Story
2:51 Visuals
8:02 Sound
12:04 HotCyder Guest Section (A Playable Cartoon)
19:04 Controls
22:32 Sidequests
29:02 Level Design
32:47 SPOILER SECTION (Level Design)
39:02 SPOILER SECTION (Bosses & Ending)
46:09 Conclusion
47:14 Patreon
47:48 Outro - Hry
I think that the SAGE 2019 Demo was a wake up call for MC Pig. They most likely realized the Super fast paced levels should probably just be what the whole game is like. Rather than some levels being fast and some levels being platform and combat heavy. I think that was the best call because this game is awesome
Nah it was around last year. For a long time after SAGE, they were flip flopping on the game's design. For a while wallrun from a jump was even removed.
Yeah it wasn’t until the Eggplant build when the game was finally fully realized
Reminds me of initial demo of Spark the Electric Jester, that was very slow, but eventually the game became fast, returning to its roots of Sonic fan games. It's almost as if making a game fast makes games more fun.
@@mattheholic2 Heat meter and higher health enemies also got in the way of going fast too
@@Gnidel well, not necessarily. Some people prefer exploration-based games more. I‘d rather feel I’m control of the situation and Sonic Games for example completely take that away for me. The P ranks ow whatever in this game are also not for me but at least you can still play half of this game in a moderate speed
I like to think pizzaface warns peppino about the tower as a way to lure him there just for kicks as sort of a “I’m gonna do it! stop me if you can nerd” type deal
I think its just wants to mess with him by having him go through hell
Aka every level
Pizzaface made clones and robots of Peppino, so he probably brought him there to try and hire him (like how he most likely did with the bosses, excluding FP).
@@TheBloxxedSanarcati
I think it goes like this
[Pepper man] Hired him for all the art since it seems he's a painter
[Vigilante] he's holding a wanted poster of peppino and was probably given to him because of pizza face
[The noise] Broadcast his show
[Fake peppino] I don't even know
@@DragDaFruit fake peppino is a clone from the war level
I was thinking something similar.
The vibe I got from him, I’m pretty sure he’s doing… pretty much all of this just for kicks.
My headcanon for why Pizzaface would tell Peppino he's gonna blow up his restaurant is so he could lead Peppino out of his restaurant and possibly keep him in the tower sort of like how the bosses just sort of sit around on their floors. Fake Peppino might've been just a placeholder until he could get the real Peppino to take its place.
So imo it's either that or Pizzaface just wanted to taunt Peppino before destroying his establishment. Doing something EVIL to someone doesn't exactly have the same punch if you just kill them off unceremoniously.
Yea
I think he didn't want it destroyed at all. Pizzaface is one big troll.
I think there's something to the second. As Terry Pratchett once said:
_"If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word."_
I don't think pizzaface ever had the means to destroy the pizzeria, I think he was just trying to trap another poor soul in the tower and just chose the wrong guy on the wrong day.
well since pizzaface has always just been pizzahead, im pretty sure pizzahead actually wanted peppino's pizza gone because he made his own pizzeria go bankrupt
it was pizza day...
I think pizzaface just wanted to watch peppino experience hell
I think pizza head just wanted to fuck with peppinos mind with the levels,he got fucked instead
@@michaelsbasement I've heard a speculation that Pizzaface is a separate entity of Pizzahead.
This is shown through Pizzahead not actually controlling Pizzaface but instead sitting on the toilet minding his own business until he comes out.
Also Pizzaface dropping gears in the second phase of the fight and the reason for why Pizzaface looks like that it's because well,you did damage it
27:22
The bee achievement might actually be a call back to early on in the game's development,where the 4th boss was none other than a Bee you had to defeat with the power of *Raid Spray gas!*
Praise bee,rest in pepperoni
It's nice that you're reviewing pizza tower after reviewing every wario platformer
that’s exactly why i did it!
This means you'll have to play Anton blast when it comes out hopefully it's good
i absolutely will! i already backed the kickstarter :)
Ah yeah this is happening
@@ahbeef have you played antonball? I only recently found out theyre different games
This is probably the perfect game for people with ADHD and I couldn't have loved it more than ever. And I don't even have it
I have ADHD i can confirm
This is one of my favourite games of all time
Turns out super taunts can kill santas, so lap2 is not absolutely required.
yeah, i found this out AFTER i wrote the review lol. still, i think most people wouldn’t think to try this if they didn’t already know it and would just try to do it on lap 2 instead.
I liked everything about this video except the take on damageless bosses, as someone who has gotten every p rank and outfit and achievement, going damageless on the bosses is very difficult, yes, but the more you try you learn new ways to overcome certain things in each fight.
For example, with the Noise you can run up the walls in the fight to avoid his ground based attacks, or with Pizzaface you can time throwing an enemy at him to completely skip the attack where he spawns several enemies. (Or alternatively, you can jump off of another enemy for extra height and hit Pizzaface without having to time an uppercut or wait for his slam attack)
It only really becomes a slog if you let it, approaching the fight same way over and over again to no avail is the fault of the player. The game rewards you for trying things you usually wouldn’t think of.
TL;DR you dont have to sit and wait on a lot of the bosses phases for an opening, you can find your own openings, rewarding you for trying new things and being observant
in all honesty while some of them did go a bit long i could’ve forgiven it if it weren’t for the horrible grind it took to p rank the final boss. though to be fair, i wasn’t really utilizing the party at all during these damageless boss fight runs, so that probably held me back quite a bit. i wrote all that before realizing this and didn’t quite have time to change it sadly.
@@ahbeef parrying is nearly necessary on the pizzahead phase because of that cog pizzahead spits out
that cog killed so many runs you have no idea
@@ahbeef same here, its such a simple attack yet it makes it so much harder
C key tho
hey that's me!
thanks for bringing me here, I'm obsessed with this game
Love u bbs
I swear this game is perfect, the literal ONLY problem I have with this game (the super jump being on analog) got fixed with button mapping so this game is literally a 10/10
Beginner: Look at the little guy! So fast!
Experienced: MACH 4, BABY! GO PEPPINO, GO! YOU ARE THE DEFINITION OF SPEEEED!
Good review! Always good seeing a deep dive on a game I’ve been obsessing over for the past month
i like how the story is super simple
and the bit with the purrgatory gameplay really surprised me its really underrated and everyone here should play it (its free)
yeah that game's awesome
Ah, yes. I'll have uhhh~ one large meat-a-licious pizza, some high-score dipping sauce, and a side of tower... do you accept competitor coupons?
I suppose the idea around the Secret areas is that they try to predict a player just constantly running into certain spots and thus consider them good spots to place secrets. I’ve definitely watched a lot of steams where people would just run into these rooms by sheer accident cause of blitzing around and thinking they’d just splatter on a wall instead of breaking them.
37:08 "Unless the rest of the level is a straight shot to the goal its probably Impossible"
Lap 3: Allow me to introduce myself
Pizza face never really showed off the laser in the tower, I don’t think they really cared to blow up Peppino’s restaurant. I think it was just to scare him into a challenge
On the topic of samples in the music, the original track for Blood Sauce Dungeon "dungeon freakshow" had it's main melody taken from Intergalactic from the Beastie Boys until they had to cut it
taunting besides the bee sidequest is a reference to the bee being a boss in one of the betas
so you brought me on a nostalgia trip about old cartoons in the middle of a game review that actually made me evaluate my life just to bring me back to pizza tower.
Dammit. I have to sub...
I heavily recommend turning texture filtering OFF during a playthrough, the filter makes pixels less noticeable and a lot more smooth, turning it off disables that filter and gives the MS paint like art all the glory it deserves. Just thought it throw this I for people new to the game. :D
Lore wise, is quite likely that pizzaface wants to mock pepino, if you check the bossfight, he's mocking out of pepino's stress and worries
This man in completely based.
For the two levels themes, he didn't default to Pizzascape's "Hot Spaghetti" and "Cold Spaghetti", instead choosing Ancient Cheese's "Theatrical Shenanigans" and "Put On A Show!!"
(9:45)
28:28 Oh my god is that referencing the cow constellation level from Katamari
ehhh probably not lol
Erm, the “Pizza Song” isn’t what it’s actually called, the name of the song is Funiculì, Funiculà and is an old Neapolitan song from 1880… You messed up big time, buddy!
(jokes aside this is a really good video braxton keep it up)
yeah i know that but we all know it as the pizza song lol
The funny part being that the song has absolutely null to do with pizza or even stereotypical Italy, it was composed to commemorate the opening of the first funicular on Mount Vesuvius.
As far as indie games go, this really looks like a TRUE successor to Wario Land.
Dunno whether to get a Steam Deck specifically for this game or wait for a console port (I mean a Switch port would be wonderful to get it some mainstream attention and show there's still demand and love for Wario-style platformers).
the devs have shown interest in a console port but if/when it happens it wont be for at least a couple of years. here's hoping nintendo finally takes notice and gives us a new WL game though!
One thing I love about this game is that it doesn’t take anything seriously. Peppino going batshit on the bosses in the final boss? Why not. You turning into goddamn Satan in R-R-Freezerator? *Why not*. The game wants you to go absolutely NUTS with all your abilities and it is so satisfying.
The noise is here and even the co op mode too!!!
when I first tried the game, it was because I heard some friends talking about it, and decided to pick it up. it was incredibly frustrating at first, to the point where I even refunded the game two levels in. but I immediately bought it back, because I was frankly enamored by it, and wanted to get better at it. and lo and behold, it's now my favorite platformer of all time
that's the magic of a learning curve. it is risky, because many people will give up on a game if they find it too daunting or unconventional on first impressions, but for those who stick with it and master it, that mastery is extremely rewarding!
one thing you might not noticed or considered is those extra enemies in the noise fight.. *they are living ammo*
I love Pizza Tower the moment I saw the game, I actually bought the game(my second game purchase on Steam, I loved Pizza Tower that much)
And...I've been addicted since then...
AND THE SOUNDTRACKS
Definitely Game of the year, one of the games that actually feels original!
Calm music plays while pepino is laughing manically in the background.
PIZZA DAY! [*fart rockets out of the room*]
You don't need everything for an S rank you just need a high enough score
10:27 The best part is, the It’s Pizza Time wasn’t the only escape theme made. (Before you ask it’s the escape theme for john gutter) There exists escape themes for Peppibot Factory, Pizzascape, and Oh Shit!. One of the scrapped ones (for the also scrapped Mansion level) was repurposed as the “SNICK IS COMING” song during the SAGE demo.
Texture filtering only does something if the game’s resolution isn’t a clean fit. Because it was for you and your monitor, it didn’t do anything.
It's all hot and ready
I went into this game completely blind, the only pizza tower related content i saw before I bought the game was the thumbnail for the grayfruit vod
I'm not sure how I feel about beef on a pizza
texture filtering adds a filter to the textures, making textures less blurry when you have a bad monitor that doesn't fit the resolution
4:53 as someone who lives in new mexico I really appreciated this level.
The Krusty krab pizza is the pizza for you and me
Also something I noticed is that the window name would change depending what state the game was in
i played exclusively in fullscreen so i didn't notice this until after my initial playthrough
Oh, and, by the way, it actually WAS drawn in MS paint as far as i'm aware.
Nah it was drawn in aseprite
@@ekho420 wait WHAT
@@auraofworldsenjoyer9884 think about it, if it was drawn in that style on ms paint the lines would be a lot thicker but with aseprite you have the option to only do one pixel at a time
I'm honestly surprised you had so much trouble with Fake Peppino and phase 2 Pizzahead, Fake Pep was my first accidental P-rank while I was going for an S-Rank after only a few tries (you even point out how nonthreatening some of his attacks are, lol), and I'm not sure if you were aware that you can still Parry while holding the gun, so no, none of Pizzahead's patterns are "impossible", though granted the tracking on Brick Throw is ridic and a sneaky rolling cog can be really annoying (though even then, you can bait it into rolling the opposite direction of where you want to stand and fire away).
i never really thought to parry the bosses until after i beat the game, wrote my review, and uploaded the video, which plenty of people have mentioned, and yeah, that definitely would've made it a lot easier lol
everyone: ms paint
the dev: aseprite
what i meant was "a high res pixel art style that looks like ms paint drawings" rather than implying that the art was actually done with ms paint, i hope that didn't come off the wrong way.
@@ahbeef it didnt come off the wrong way, i actually just realized that i forgot what keywords were, and didnt replay it to double check, my fault haha 😅
fun fact: you can actually recreate pizza tower art using ms paint so even if you assumed it was made with ms paint [which you didnt], it would still be possible to recreate pizza tower in ms paint [however it would take 8 years so i dont recomend doing it]
unexpectancy is the bomb
44:20
i literally had to P rank this boss fight for 3 FUCKING DAYS
my joy was so unexplainable i was crying
You can get an S with out lap 2, it just helps a lot
The Noise isn't a rabbit. He is just a guy in a costume.
I mean, P ranking the final boss basically asks you to make frequent use of the taunt/parry move
yeah, and i completely forgot about it while p ranking the bosses. lol
11:34 the taunt sound effect is actually from another game called Pikuniku that released in 2019
If Medic tf2 saw this video: *OKTOBER FEST!*
The game looks fun
For the cogwheel thing.
"Did you know that you can press C to parry before an attack hits you?"
i didnt think to parry during boss fights until after i p ranked them all and made this video lol
Lol
It is easy to forget to parry because its basically never used
@@MikeDoesStuff_0 actually, i used it quite frequently in the main levels, the thought just didnt cross my mind to use it during boss fights. would've saved me a lot of trouble!
@@ahbeef well atleast now you did but I bet its hard.
Sadly i can not say if it is hard or not because I dont have a PC. Only a tablet
And like hell im trusting some random indian on youtube saying "the real pizza tower free mobile apk is in the description"
yeah that’s definitely a virus link
One of my main problems with the fake peppino fight, is that it takes ages to do. I can complete the first level 4 times over in the time it takes me to win against him. While most bosses are 2-4 minutes long, (except pizzaface, the literal final boss) he takes 8 FUCKING MINUTES to do. He has attack patterns that take forever to do (15 seconds of doing literally nothing to avoid one) and he has 12 hits. It feels more like 24 because each one requires 2 grabs to deal one damage. This makes him feel like it takes forever to kill him. The battle in Pizzaface’s fight is a lot more fun because 1: I don’t have to wait through his attack cycles to deal any form of damage, I can chuck a guy at his face, and 2: He has 4 hits that can be instantly removed by throwing Gustavo at his face rather than 12 that you have to grab twice to remove one point. With the addition of a short italian you can throw at his face it goes from “can you please hurry the fuck up I can P-Rank a level in the time it takes to get any rank on this fight” to “oh my god this is actually fun”
i can beat pizzaface and fake peppino but not the first boss
"why dont they just bind the pistol to the left trigger"
Keyboard players:
to be fair it makes even LESS sense on keyboard when there are a hundred unused keys to bind it to and the game had fully rebindable keyboard controls from day 1
@@ahbeef yeahh fair, tbh they really shouldve made the keyboard control space and the controller on well left trigger as you said cause then the boss would be way better
11:38 because jerome is the GOAT.
Fun fact: if you click on peppino in the main menu, he reacts as if it's a slap, and if you use an auto clicker he ascends
The reason you can't do the grab with the pistol might be because peppino needs to hold the enemy with both hands and the pistol takes away a hand so he must shoot
that is true but there is nowhere in the game that you can hold the gun and grabable enemies are present
I LOVE AHBEEF
my personal controls for Pizza Tower is
Movement: WASD
Sprint: Shift (normal control i think)
Dash: T
Taunt: Y
Texture filtering helps with the screen looking stretched in full screen
so it's meant for monitors with nonstandard resolutions or something?
9:30
Out of curiosity, what 1920's song did they use to make the final boss's theme?
I believe it’s called “When You Get What You Want You Don’t Want It”
Ya should review the noise update!
working on it as we speak!
fun fact, all the requirements for the S rank are really only on the P rank, you can get an S rank without one of the requirenents with enough points and the only requirement is the score
cheese gutter is a great demonstration of this, the points from kills gives you an S in the first room
are you ever gonna review pac man adventures in time thats another pac man maze game but in 3d and with like 50 mazes im curious on your thoughts
eventually, yes!
@@ahbeef i would jokingly ask you to graph out all the mazes but looking back i think most of them actually have the same layout as the original pac man maze just with gimmicks layered on it
Ok i gotta try this game. It looks fun, am a big wario land fan anyway so i need a computer and a steam account and i can finally play this.
9:36 excuse me but where does this 1920’s song come from, is it from a movie ?
nope, not from a movie. it's from this one specifically czcams.com/video/8sUe28J921U/video.html
29:22 you said fortnite
NO I DIDNT!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
abeef pizza style thats the kinda pizza i want!!! yeah!!!! what a great great game huh? i really love the music.
ahbeeef burger will be replaced by ahbeef pizza 2051
i did this final boss in 15 minuts but i have 12 years!
Isn't the pizza song from spiderman 2, did they get permission or did spiderman 2 take it from somewhere?
I hope this gets a level editor
spider-man 2 took it from elsewhere, it’s a classical song. and yeah, a level editor would be awesome!
I LOVE AH BEEF!!!!! BEST VIDEO EVER FROM BOLIVIA
wait what 101% ending there isnt a ranking you can only get by reaching 101% theres one for getting 95% in under 4 hours but the wow one you showed while saying that is the highest you can get via rank alone
my bad! i thought that ending was just for 101%, guess i read some bad info somewhere. the wow one i showed is just the ending that i got on my first playthrough
@@ahbeef its alright also my favorite ranks are you suck and confused
you suck is a great one lol
go beef!
If this went on console it’d blow the hell up and I’d buy it first day
from what the devs have said, it's certainly on the table, but it won't be for quite a while. they still have a lot of stuff they want to add to the base game, and even when that's all done the porting process is not an easy one. i still expect it to happen eventually but probably not for like a year or two
That works
I don't know how much if this is still canon, but when Pizza Head was Pizza Boy, he climbed Pizza Tower to defeat the evil Peppino. Years later, Peppino isn't evil anymore, but Pizza Head is still consumed by hatred and the need for revenge
39:25
so you’re saying the game should do a little better to… *avoid the noise*
I like to imagine that Pizza Face’s threat was never true. He just wanted to prank him. (Admittedly, it’s a prank that only Pizza Face could find funny.)
3:31 lario
There is no 101% judgement, you might be thinking about the 95% in under 4 hours ending
yeah, i was. read some bad info somewhere and thought that ending was for 101%
interestin' boss opinions, boss 4 is most people's favorite and boss 2 is most people's least favorite from whatti' seen, and i never seen people say phase 2 of the final boss is harder than the first one...
the first phase of the final boss gets a lot easier when you learn to instantly piledrive an enemy into it at the start of every other attack he does lol
and yeah boss 4 is way more interesting than boss 2 conceptually but the actual design of the fight is just sadly kinda boring whereas vigilante always has you doing something and has a really high skill ceiling to it, you can totally wipe the floor with him with perfect timing
nice
cool video
thanks buddy
As for the issue with the gun during the Pizza head fight, you can taunt to parry incoming attacks
i realized this after uploading the video and now feel a bit silly for how much i complained about it lol
it's definitely my own fault for not utilizing the parry during boss fights on my first playthrough, that would've saved me a lot of effort.
Heyhey sphagetti peppino peppinor sphagettor!
Fun fact
I don't know if people know but the main character name is peppino right
Peppino means cucumber in Spanish
😯
no, it would be "pepino" then.
@@yaphetgreen0222 I already know it's not spelled like that but it's pronounced the same
I disagree with the asteroid secret in deep dish 9. While I does blend in to a extent (It has to its a secret). Your accustom to what the asteroid looks like so a player paying attention can clearly see apart of it coming out of the wall. Heck you can see on of its mini holes and bumps which help make it more clear. Due to the part showing looking like apart of a asteroid. There's also no other wall like that in the level making it look extra weird. There's even a asteroid right next to the asteroid hidden in the wall. Like its a hint away for players to use a reference point of what the asteroid looks like. The colors of the asteroid are also brighter than the fake wall making it stand out more which is something I like about this game and Cuphead too. Where they color code important parts to make them stand out and eazier to tell. Not trying to be a dick saying "YOu SuCk" because personally I have no proof of that and that is a weak argument generally. I am just disagreeing with a part of the video and do respect your take while also trying to state mine.
fair enough. honestly, if it weren't in the escape sequence, i would agree, but because of that i found it very easy to miss. im sure that if i really wanted to find everything without a guide i would've noticed it eventually, and i don't mind secrets being hidden, they are secrets after all, but this was one of the few i didn't really like. even then, those few are still a minority, and the rest of the secrets were fine
@@ahbeef Like I stated I respect your opinion though its nice to see a video on Pizza Tower which isn't just "wow this game is great guys and you should play it" while not really going over it that much. You, Hotcyder and some others did a good job at going over it and seeing what makes it tik. Even better you didn't just blindly praise the game while still have it be clear that you like it. Though I am surprised you praised the trash can secret in Oh shit while being critical of deep dish 9s asteroid secret when Oh shits is more obscure and its also during Pizza Time.
ironically, i had to look both of those secrets up to find them, but while the former came off as a really clever puzzle kind of solution, the latter just seemed kinda lame and dumb. at the end of the day though, it's small potatoes. thank you for the kind words!
Noise update video when
i’m working on one right now! it will be my next upload :)
“the game looks like it was made in ms paint” if I recall, a lot of things WERE made in ms paint for this game!
Me waiting for you to talk about P rank
I agree that some secrets are too hidden. But ironically, all examples you mentioned I found on my first try hah
Pizza Tower is the first Indie game to make me genuinely consider piracy
I won't though, because indie devs need the money
Now excuse me while I uhh... Fully legally acquire Nintendo and Bethesda games
You’re not gonna like what I’m about to say but… to get the best and fastest judgement 100% in 4 or less hours
I like calling fake peppino Bruno cuz Bruno's pizza
I don’t want to brag but I think you should have taken your time when doing the p rank on the final boss when I did it it only took my 8th attempt but to be honest
That was only because my game was slowing down from lag but when you said it took you 3 hours to complete I got some serious super meat boy ptsd from I doubt you’d be reading this since you’ve done the achievement already but just in case you need the motivation for next time
my issue was moreso that i was failing to properly utilize the parry during bosses. i didn't realize this until after publishing the video, and upon seeing someone else do it, i went "ohhh yeah that would've made it WAY easier"
it was a skill issue basically
For some reason I feel like the art took longer than the coding
Despite the fact that it probably didn’t
skill issue on the no grab with pistol