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This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Ghost of Tsushima.
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The Escapist Read the Title as Zero Production. Pbly Apt.
Thank you for putting the end credits back in
I hope you review the henry stickmin collection next!
That bin idea isn't too shabby!
"Jiminy Cockthroat" is now the "Spunk Gargle WeeWee" of open world stealth action games with crafting and collectibles.
I agree
I couldn't be happier.
Yes that is the point very keenly observed
I will forever remember that.
A wonder what will be the next generic massivly produced AAA genre called.
Everyone "what a great game, the perfect conclusion to the PS4 era"
Yatzhee "it's just a really pretty Ubisoft open world game, with the biggest twist being that it wasn't made by Ubisoft"
Yatzhee is the grumpy uncle of the gaming community and we love him for it.
Tbf it is the same game we’ve been served for about a decade now... but the best possible version of it.
The “not made by Ubisoft” has never been more of a selling-point, to be fair.
@Andres Carsana ...someone with guts to shit on AAA blockbusters and modern gaming in general? Thats a really popular thing to do these days and requires no guts. Theres tons of youtubers doing that, some offering hours in depth critisim and some churning out 10 minuite size obligatory rants about the latest evil corp.
Have i missed the memo where shitting on FIFA 20-number pending is considered brave and stunning these days?
@Andres Carsana Jim Sterling, and YongYea are just two more that I can name just off the top of my head. Yahtzee most definitely is not the only one.
Exactly. Yatzhee isn’t wrong, nor is he contradicting those other critics.
They are all essentially saying, GoT is just like ubi sandbox game, but good.
Ah the Marie Kondo philosophy of game design: "Does this game mechanic spark joy?"
Slightly different since dyes do actually spark joy for some people but it doesn't specifically improve gameplay in any way.
@@Murzac Having clothing that can be dyed sparks joy. Unlocking the dye through random flower collection does not.
We genuinely need someone to take this approach to one of these series.
Ahaha like reggie saying “if it’s not fun, why bother?”
yuh ss goddamn I miss Reggie...
I'd love to see a full episode of Yahtzee cleaning up a list of open world template features.
Like, a side episode of Dev Diary, perhaps!
Sounds like a great episode of hoarders, yes I watch that I’ve been bored
Honestly yes I want to see this, granted I hope he can be at least a little bit serious about it but I think it could be nice.
...huh? The point of that was to go through that list _based on the specific video game you're developing_ and clean out the list that way. It's not just some Letterman top-10 list thing. It's something that will vary depending on a developer's specific project.
That sounds cool.
I wonder if there will ever be a Spec Ops: The Line of Jiminy Cockthroat.
Well, *There's MGSV*
Like, the more collectibles you collect and bases you liberate, the worse the actual ending will be because your underlying mission was built on false pretenses? Maybe the map towers you almost inevitably have to activate end up interfering with the existing communications infrastructure, severely delaying or even outright preventing Emergency Service response to those districts during whatever crisis is ongoing? The good ending might only be achieved by doing something like looking up the relevant laws and reporting the person sending you on the mission to the appropriate agency, or perhaps deliberately failing every invasion repelling mission, thereby getting your somewhat subtly extremely corrupt government overthrown by a foreign government that is at least marginally less corrupt and has legitimate grievances against your own.
I'd imagine it'd be that the open world stealth action sandbox is a coping mechanism for the main character facing mental abuse as their parents are trying to wipe away their identity beyond the child of their parents. Trying to wipe away any choice beyond the life their parents set out for them.
Also the parents are extremely racist and want their child to be a racist like them
Far Cry 5 maybe. All the shit that you fuck up is ultimately meaningless. The villain was right all along and your actions did more harm than good. Ultimately, You have to live with the knowledge than you are officially worse than a murderous doomsday cult.
@@Mortablunt it was a joke dude don't take it so seriously, MGSV wasn't even the MGS game with the best plot, theme or writing and that is not news
"All samurais act like they have a deathwish"
-The ninja from blades of the shogun (I think)
Now seriously, when even a revolutionary saga like Halo is turning into an open world sandbox you know the triple A industry has triple tapped the last guy with innovative ideas in their staff.
what is funny is that just like the noble concepts of knighthood in europe, the idea of the bushido only came after the time of conflict in japan. at that time Samurais were just like... well, knights, noble soldiers hired for the job of war, they were just a bit more willing to betray their master and change sides when compared with their European conterparts.
@@danilooliveira6580 Funnily, weren't samurai were far more likely to be archers than swordsman anyway? so this "way of the sword" and facing the enemy with honour stuff is just a fictional trope with little basis in reality. (does look damn cool though)
@@rawalshadab3812
Correct. The katana was like all swords, a sidearm. Historically samurai used the yari spear and yumi bow, you know, "boring" weapons that work stupidly well so everybody with good martial sense back then used them exhaustively.
I tell you all lad'z, join us on the Steam/GOG wagon, all the (good) indies there are full of new ideas and actually made with passion. Examples with Carrion, a Hat in Time, Subnautica, etc ...
@@Sir_Bucket There is also a lot of shit, but experienced buyers are usually able to tell the difference, just lookout for the words:
"Open world, crafting, survival, exploration, *EARLY ACESS* "
"Imagine *not* being in Belarus"
With current news from Belarus, that might be a good idea, lol
what's going on there ?
@@Kamfrenchie And the government admits to using live rounds on the protesters of those blatantly-rigged elections, good shit.
@@Kamfrenchie Here's what I know: their elections are always rigged, even though Lukashenko (or however you spell it) always wins them due to popularity in the countryside. But the rigged numbers look better.
The rigging is at least partially done by fake votes for Lukashenko dropped in the voting boxes in the weeks leading up to the final election day, that are, after the voting is over, ascribed to the names of registered voters who didn't vote. This year they had already announced that about 40% of people had voted early for Lukashenko, but as it turns out, people are not only starting to vote against him, but those who usually don't vote are getting angry because they've realized that their votes are used in their absence. So more people are voting this year and more people are voting against Lukashenko, so with their early announcement in mind, the numbers might end up exceeding 100% of available votes.
So he has to stop people from voting, so he's been intentionally creating delays on election day at election booths; many countries (including mine; Sweden) have had embassies with voting lines moving at a snail's pace, finally closing in the face of many, many registered voters who would've voted against Lukashenko.
Then mass arrests of protesters and opposition started, and his main opposition party leader has fled the country.
This is just off the top of my head from what I've read recently so I might get a detail wrong here and there but that's about it.
viljamtheninja well jeez
Jesus, Yahtzee made this a week ago. The elections were just getting underway.
Since I'm still pretty tolerant of Jiminy Cockthroat games, my only complaint with Ghost of Tsushima is that they give you a fixed outfit for the final boss fight after I spent hours collecting enough straw hats and visiting enough hot springs to dress up as a naked man with a basket on his head.
I actually died a zillion times in the final boss because it forces you to wear the ronin attire, if I could wear the armour that I had spent the second half of the game upgrading then I wouldn't have taken an entire afternoon to beat one duel, alternatively, set it at high noon, or night, or some other time where the unblockable indicators are not blending in with the sunset!
Assassins Creed fans have been asking for a game set in feudal Japan for years, and this is really as close as they’ll get.
It's indeed precisely what people asked for.
as I like to say, its a better AC than most ACs, the game that AC always wanted to be. specially now that AC is trying to become a RPG.
Honestly, they should be glad to have this instead of a fuck up from Ubisoft, who likes to fill their game with microtransactions so that you can shorten your time getting through the game. Like seriously, wtf?
It's better than an AC in Japan could ever be though.
I've seen it being described as "Assassin's Creed, but good".
“The game flat-out prompts you to march right up to the front door like a Karen wielding an expired coupon”, is one of the best lines in a Yahtzee review ever written.
It would be if it wasn't Yathzee we're talking about and the bar wasn't set so high. Seriously, there is at least one unforgettable punchline per episode.
@@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598 honestly, my favorite is "why are my intestines over there now? "
@@StephenJones-il9ok I like "Oh pissing blimey, there's jam all over the walls!" And generally his entire train of thought leading up to that sentence from his initial low impressions of the game in question not being that scary to "WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?!"
@@TustlePlays Amnesia: the dark descent. I like the one from E3 were he thought dead space 3 was Lost planet xD
"It's a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. It could only be more awesome if it had tits and was on fire."
I see Jiminy Cockthroat is this generation’s spunkgargleweewee.
Finally something to be proud of
I feel like my generation is literally both. All I’ve ever bloody played is spunkgargleweewee or Jiminy Cockthroat
@@MrMRZakster play some other games, seriously is the only games available right now are spunkgargleweewee or jiminy cockthroat?
@@azzzanadra Baba Is You?
@@jackgebhardt2932 no, me no baba, look somewhere else.
I knew a homeschooled girl who heard that joke, didn't laugh for a bit, and then said "ohhhh, I get it! Because we're so dependent on chinese-made products, all the party supplies are from china!" I mean, gotta hand it to her parents at least, they didn't raise her racist. lol
That’s actually a pretty clever answer 😳
That's a good one!
You knew her? Did you part ways to spare her innocence?
Thats what unironically was my first thought, I still don't get it tho, maybe its something cultural specific for english speakers. Can someone explain it for me?
@@eyesocketplug6989 Strong Chinese accents pronounce Rs like Ls in English (Strong Japanese accents do the opposite), thereby "surprise" becomes "supplies."
ah yes, there it is.
He gave us Spunk Gargle Weewee when it was all pseudo realistic military shooters, and now he brings us Jiminy Cockthroat.
I think Yahtz is just a bit out of touch, he's kinda wielding nostalgia goggles now.
Don't forget spectacle fighter
@@urahara64360 god yes. Spectacle fighter is such a better name than cHaRaCtEr AcTiOn game.
Every video game ever made that has a protagonist that does something is a character action game.
@@AceTaxiaGaming That's false.Hes right.Even fucking Halo,Gears of War and Last of Us are open world/semi-open world.
@@AceTaxiaGaming "He's out of touch"
Probably the words spoken by a platformer fan in the PS2 era or a cover based shooter fan in the PS3 era.
That Belarus joke is more topical now than one week ago.
Thanks for the update
One part of the game that I thought was pretty cool was the guiding wind mechanic. Having a breeze blow through to show you which way to go was a clever step up from the usual floating arrow or waypoint marker. Overall, I think the game did a really good job with a minimalist interface, using environmental cues to nudge you in the right direction while never outright telling you "Go here next". Still though, I agree with Yahtzee that it's just fancy window dressing on an otherwise overdone game genre.
I do prefer an actual map though
"Where's Flower Collecting?"
"In the hole."
Nice TomSka reference
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?
Hole person.
nice
🕳
“Is i- It’s going in the bin, yes.”
3:44 I would totally love to see something where Ayn Rand and Karl Marx duel to the death whilst secretly being really into each other the whole time.
Hey guys I found the centrist neoliberal
We all know who would win. Hint: not the one who lived and died dependent on the very system she hated.
@@cash_burner Oh shit, what a comment.
@@amggaming3528 I mean you say the same about Karl.
I'm pretty sure you're talking about Fate here.
Or at least, I'll be disappointed if it hasn't already happened *somewhere* in Fate.
nice little haiku in the credits. I swear, this is the only show that I watch all the way through. I'm particularly a fan of the end credits sequence.
Same
Loved the nod to the classic saying, doesn't fall under that particular poetic category, the credits are truly a delight, though
I would like a zero punctuation complete with all the end screens!
When I started playing this game I immediately fell in love with it. And i also immediately knew Yatzee would tear it apart.
"we outsourced all our independent thought to eastern europe" Man
Specifically to CD Projekt Red
@@Osric24 i think he was referring to the massive revolting in belaruss but yeah that counts too i guess
@@Osric24 Yeah he's referencing the riots in Belarus
grosezero no he wasn’t, they weren’t revolting a week ago. I think that was the reference to elections
Or maybe he means how stuff like Pathologic and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. came out of Eastern Europe and only really can come out of Eastern Europe. Can you imagine Ubisoft making a game that literally beats you into submission at every turn? No, cause that doesn't sell to the masses.
When I started playing I wanted to try to stick to the code of honor, but as soon as it made me assassinate the first guy I just said f*** it, it’s too late anyway.
DynamicAlteration I just bought the game and I’m still on act 1. It’s like he said, it’s Assassins Creed: Samurai, and it gets a little boring at times because of it, but otherwise it’s fun.
@@TheBananamonger it's really good.
@@TheBananamonger It's pretty fun, it has some flaws towards the end of the game where it forces you into stealth.
@@imtoddhowardandimadeskyrim6553 to be fair its not anything ground breaking but at least its finaly a different setting for once
The problem with this is that Jin identifies as a samurai, while I identify as a murder-bush. Admiring the scenery and treating clearing an outpost like organic puzzle solving is why I'm playing the game, so I have a disconnect with Jin's dilemma. Jin's samurai conscious is like the annoying plots in Farcry, because they run counter to the gameplay.
I loved the ending. It's heart wrenching and was legitimately hard to choose.
Now, now Yahtzee, I thought we agreed these kinds of games were called "Arseing about in a bush simulators".
"If Ghost of Tsushima had been named Assassin's Creed: Samurai I wouldn't have questioned it for an instant, and that's NOT GOOD"
That one sentence hits the nail on the head
I feel like the difference is, while assassins creed and ghost of Tsushima have busy work collectibles, at least GoTs collectibles upgrade you and even add to the character. Specifically the hot springs and haikus for the character building.
Would have been a surprisingly good assassin's creed
That's literally what I called it after I bought it
It's literally nothing like assassins creed, but sure if you played the first couple of hours and stripped away all of its identity that make it its own thing then I guess you could see it that way
UncoloredPage it’s assassins creed, but better.
I think the only Jiminy Cockthroat games I like are Horizon Zozy Dozy, and Stan Lee's Disney's Marvel's Steve Ditko's Spiderman.
You could count watery worldy divey subnauticaty or hooty tooty cowboy shooty by the developers of steely wheely automobily
I'm Todd Howard and I made Skyrim fridge edition nah, Hooty Tooty Cowboy Shooty was way too up itself.
Horizon zozy dozy is the most overrated jiminy cockthroat game. Shitty combat uninspiring environments. Just a shallow game in the name of beautiful locales. I haven't been more relieved in finishing a game. The worst game I've played. Literally no variety...
@@AlvarVraal maybe not action but technically it does have stealth, against the monsters
@@AlvarVraal It definitely is a king Jiminy cockthroat, but just like other genres that are overdone and typically crap, there are some shining stars. I love Subnautica, Ark Survival Evolved, Minecraft, and The Forest, so I feel there are some great ones. If even the horrible "walking simulator" genre can include "The Stanley Parable" and a few other gems, anything is possible.
I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only with the "supplies" joke in their head. Glad, not proud. Still good company to be in I suppose.
what is the joke?
@@GreyWolfLeaderTW ok the harmless variant. That implies there to be a handful variant, lay it on me
@@lucalinadreemur9448 I want to hear it as well.
@@GreyWolfLeaderTW "SUPPLIES!"
I haven't started crafting yet! WAIT TIL MY INVENTORY IS EMPTY! I JUST BOUGHT EVERYTHING I CAN HOLD!
...STOP
SELLING
FOR
ONE
MINUTE!!!
I'm sure this happened in some game or another XD
Sure, but where's ya wheelie bin?
I've desperately wanted "Assassin's Creed Samurai" for at least a decade so you've inadvertently sold me on this Yahtz
”like a Karen waving an expired coupon”
Happy to see that Yahtzee is up to date on the latest memes
Not memes. Culture. He is very cultured. Like cheese or yogurt. :P
The concept of "Karen" has been around for years. It's hardly a "latest meme."
Gamer2k4 Ik they’ve been around for years but recently they’ve become their own pandemic and they are now a more popular meme than they were last year
Drunken Hobo no it hasn’t lmao.
Drunken Hobo lol spoken like a Karen. Figures one of you doesn’t know what Karen actually means.
What did the Chinese person shout at the birthday party? "Supplies!"
Ohhh that's the joke. Been trying to find a comment that says it.
@@Shinkajo I believe CZcams gave you the shaft on that one.
Axiom Steel26 Chinese people have trouble with the letter “r” because in their language “r” doesnt exist. The joke is a chinese person confuses “surprise” with “supplies”
@@Tech_-on1ou It's that both "r" and "l" are pronounced as the same intermediate sound in a lot of Asian accents, so "r" sounds like "l" and "l" sounds like "r".
I guess it’s a good thing I haven’t played any of the newer Ass Creeds, Far Cry’s, or Tomb Raiders because I thought Ghost was pretty damn great.
Chance Kimber it think Yahtzee mentioned in his Far Cry review that most people will love it but people whose job it is to play every game ever will hate it
i'm looking forward to this one. havnt played any ass creed, no modern tomb raider, and no farcry since blood dragon.
We're cut from the same cloth, bro! I was literally going to say the same thing!
Ive played every ass creed. This is the best. Or rather, this is AC done right.
As if they saw what ubi was doing with the franchise and it’s not long before they will make AC Japan, so SP decided to make this game first before ubi ruins it for everyone.
That's exactly why I always game a generation or so behind. When I actually get to these games, I can skip all the nonsense and just pick out the really good ones! ^_^
yahtzee in slightly civil war: why yes, western games are better
yahtzee in zero punctuation: i would kill the western games industry with my bare hands, given the legal opportunity
He didn't exactly say that though, context and qualifiers are needed. He does go on to say how non western games are normally non auteur driven and are more souless because of it. Be appreciates the way Japanese games have one director with a clear vision
@@ponchopponcho using proper context wouldn't get likes though.
I somehow get the feeling Yahtzee has alot of experience with squatting in bushes. I better alert the female neighbors...
i hope they dont find my spot
Especially without pants
I wonder how Yathzhee feels about the game being developed by Sucker Punch , the people behind one of his favorite games , infamous 2 ?
How is he supposed to feel? By now the developers of all his all-time favourites must have dipped into dull disappointment. Silent Hill 2's Konami? Half-Life's Valve? Paper Mario: TTYD's Nintendo? You name it.
Difference between Infamous and Ghost is that Infamous is a sandbox.
And progression in Infamous made sense because you're new to being a super hero, unlike in Ghost where we are playing a trained Samurai but yet doesn't know basic stances.
@@Ineedgames the way I saw it, the stances weren't "basic" but something unique to the mongols ( I don't think you are supposed to hold a sword like he does in some of the stances). And similar to how Khotun Khan studied japanese traditions, Jin now learns the mongols way of fighting (or at least develops counter measures) I mean, he unlocks the stances by watching the mongol generals train and/or by actually fighting against them
I really hope that one day, a AAA developer invites Yahtzee to consult on their game for one hour, and he gets to actually enact the bin scene with the creative team.
I'm going to chalk this up as one of a few times that y'all see expressed emotion about a video game. The last one I can remember off the top of my head is when he was reacting to the price of Black Ops 4 and in this one she's just about had it with these open world games and isn't shy about expressing his distaste with the genre.
I'm surprised Yathzee didn't mention the wind in the game.
Guided by a fart.
Maybe he prefers minimaps and huds
Maybe it wasn't something he would consider a core game mechanic.
@@borismuller86 So Yathzee talks very quickly, or maybe I'm just very deaf, but I can't figure out when he says that?
I think that's more of one of those things that falls under "the good superficial strengths." The wind guiding you is a strong visual tell, and definitely artistic, but it's not a mechanic that escapes or improves the underlying issues of the game. It's part of the wallpaper analogy in that it looks good, but is pretty insubstantial.
I actually changed the color of my clothes more in this game than any other I've played so the flower correcting didn't bother me in the least. I only really liked the all white and all black merchants though. Something about an all white ghost or all black lord of death streaming through the Japanese country side was really awesome
I think he liked this one guys.
I kinda sensed it too :D
Katerina Marinova The biggest problem is that it _is_ samey, though.
Would not surprise me to see this scrape into 5th best
@@adamj4759 Doom Eternal is prolly gonna be really high on Yahtzee's list.
@@mackielunkey2205 he's normally funny about including sequels to games he's already rated highly though
This doesn't sound like the review of a game that made it into his top 5
It only made it because the silver crown and silver throne awarded to the 2nd best game of 2020 are in this case two crowns and a chaise lounge affair.
I honestly think the biggest reason he's so exhausted by the template is that he finishes these games in under a week, and there are obviously a lot of them, so burnout is to be expected
10/10 for the Haiku at 3:23
I LOVED Sliders as a kid! Everyday after school I would watch it on the Sci-Fi Channel. The imagination was terrific, the cast was terrific and the plot was just right. Always a blast to see where the team ended up at the beginning of every episode. Unfortunately they changed the scheduling to an hour earlier and I missed out on half the episodes, but thankfully there were reruns down the road to catch up. Thanks Yahtzee for the good memories!
I agree with everything he says, but I still love this game. Currently my game of the year
Bro told me a joke without having to actually say the joke.... Now that's a pleasant supplies! 😂
1:10 I could not find the version with the birthday party, but here is a version at a construction site:
An Italian, a Scotsman, and a Chinese guy are hired at a construction site.
The foreman points out a huge pile of sand and says to the Italian, "You're in charge of sweeping."
To the Scotsman he says, "You're in charge of shovelling."
And to the Chinese man he says, "You're in charge of supplies."
So the foreman goes away for a couple of hours and when he returns, the pile of sand is untouched. He asks the Italian, "Why didn't you sweep any of it?"
He replies "I no hava no broom, you saida to the Chinese guy that he wasa ina charge of supplies, but he hasa disappeared and I no coulda finda him nowhere."
The foreman turns to the Scotsman and says, "And you, I thought I told you to shovel this pile."
He replied, "Aye, ye did lad, bit ah couldnae git masel' a shuvl! Ye left thon wee Chinese mannie in chairge of supplies, bit ah couldnae fin' him onywhar."
The foreman is really pissed off now and storms off towards the pile of sand to look for the Chinese guy. As he approaches the mound, the Chinese guy leaps out from behind the sand and yells…
"SUPPLIES!"
But Yahtzee!
You get to pet the Foxes!!
FOXES!!!!
“*explains the bs reason I want to keep the bs thing* and it’s going in the bin isn’t it-?” “IT’S GOING IN THE BIN, YES” I feel this
This is the best writing I've seen on this show in a long time. Excellent job.
“Imagine *Not* being in Belarus”
Well considering what is going on in Belarus now with their Presidential election and how the Opposite Losing presidential candidate “fled” Belarus today, I say uploading your video today of all day is of some peculiar coincidence.
Well played Ben...well played.
well, he did this review last week on the main site, but yeah, weird.
Blaze Rom Honestly, I did not knew he had a main site. I am a casual fan. Forgive my ignorance.
CELEB ALERT! His name appears immediately after he finishes each review.
@@cobra8888 not his main site, they're talking about the escapist. If you become a channel member you can see videos on CZcams the same day they're posted.
Holy crap an actual critical review! I got shouted out of a Dunkin' Donuts for suggesting it wasn't all it was hyped to be.
"Trying to split you up like a Terry's Chocolate Orange"
Best line!
How you can tell Ghost isn't an Assassin's Creed game: there aren't microtransactions out the ass every where you turn.
'You now have a bow. Congratulations! Become a Ubisoft Premium Gold Star Member to unlock arrows'.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who saw right through the wallpaper, nice wallpaper for sure, and saw the tins and wheels that keeps it together is just a long checklist.
one thing that this game did that really made it feel immersive was using the wind to guide you instead of a minimap and i personally loved that shit
The collectibles are optional and there isn’t any grinding. You can just play and enjoy the game how you want. Compared to other games, like assassins creed, this was refreshing.
If this is what Assassins creed games stories were like I'd play them all.
This game is everything AC wishes it could be emotionally.
No joke, I was legitimately sad at the end of act 2. If you have gotten that far you probably know why.
@BTIsaac banzai!!!!
the weary resentment in Yahtzee's voice when he says "fucking" really makes my day
"My kingdom for a lock-on button."
-William Shakespeare
4:07 I’m guessing the people who decided “Kurosawa Mode” should be grainy and black & white never saw ‘Ran’.
The game is already in full Color so what you're saying makes no sense. Kurosawa mode is a nod to his earlier Black and White works. Even the wind and weather effects are bumped up during the mode to give a vib of works that made The director famous. In your attempt to sound intelligent you really sounded dumb
@@incognitofool6516 well kurosawa did not shoot in black and white because he wanted to, so naming a black and white mode after him ist pretty stupid
@@TroikaTV1 Also... pretty pretentious of the devs to compare their work to Kurosawa's just because it's also in black and white and it's a bit windy.
I found the mode poorly-thought out to say the least. This game has one of the best color palettes I've ever seen and you'd waste it just because you like 40 year old movies? I mean I've watched a couple of Kurosawa flicks myself, they're great, but I don't understand why you would throw away a substantial portion of your artists' work for that.
@@TroikaTV1 But some of his films were shot in black and white despite color being available?
"That's going in the bin isn't it?" "It going in the bin, yes" LOL
That supplies joke seems reminiscent of that joke in "Will Save The Galaxy For Food", how "All Pirates Used To Be Pilots."
"Japanese sandbox
By the Sly Cooper fellas
If you're into that"
-Yahtzee Croshaw, 2020
So in other words: If you've never played an Assassin's Creed or Tom Clancy game, you'll absolutely love Ghost Of Tsushima.
Sounds good, I'm in.
I found Assassin's Creed boring yet still loved this. Then again I'm a sucker for sword combat and character driven stories.
No ,if you lived under a rock basically.
This game follows the pattern of all Sony exclusives from Horizon to God of ear to Spiderman to Days Gone to Last of Us
Gotta be honest, I can't play more than a couple hours of most of the Jiminy Cockthroat games before giving up but Ghost has been and still is a blast to me.
The open-world bloat doesn't get in the way? Genuinely asking as I might buy it.
I dont mind not having a lock on feature. Only because you CAN BLOCK FROM ANY DIRECTION. Even if someone hits your back, as long as you time it right Jin will swing around himself and you can counter attack.
It’s still annoying when you get hit by an unblockable spear thrust from off camera
@@spence0703 DMC 5 actually had a great way to work around that: enemies wont attack you unless they're on screen. It's a genius way to keep it fair, you can use it to cheese, but... it is helpful
GimmeAllUrMoney well DMC 5 was a linear spectacle fighter so they could polish their combat till it was like a diamond. Sucker punch really should have made GoT linear
@@spence0703 you can just call it a fighter lmao, no need to give it special treatment. Yes, I do agree. A focused linear story would have been way better. Swear to God, after the second act I was so through with open worlds aha.
GimmeAllUrMoney I love open worlds and even I think this is getting ridiculous
Hey, I think there's someone in the supplies cupboard ...
"SUPPLIES!"
-UHF
This review was basically “it has its faults and some superficial things that make it unique, but overall it’s a fun game”. For those that don’t watch his reviews that often, these are his more positive reviews.
It seems like they wanted to have a morality system ( glad they didn't, gettin tired of that shit), but stopped at the last minute. They hint at there being direct consequences for your actions through out the entire game. In the end even tho it's another collect-a-thon, i was still so in love with the aesthetic and atmosphere that the collectables were actually enjoyable. It didn't feel like chore to do them, in fact i felt compelled to complete them. I've never had graphics and style be the major factor in my enjoyment of a game before. And the photo mode was a Fantastic addition. It's made the enjoyment of the visual last so much longer. Even tho i was bured out on open world games almost entirely. This one completely captured me. Not perfect, but close enough
It sorta actually has a morality system, but the effect is largely cosmetic. What gets weighed is how much 'dishonorable' kills you make VS the 'honorable' ones. Doing more of the former makes the skies often more gloomy and stormy, while the latter results in sunny and clear weather.
...though what counts as 'dishonorable' is kinda unclear. Just prompted stealth kills? How about stealth arrow heads shots? What about Mongols you kill with NInja tools or bombs?
Also, the weather effect is mostly annoying, because a NInja run feels like you're in the perpetually gloomy UK rather than Japan. And while you can change that with your hand-dandy magical flute of weather control, it felt like you had to do it ever 10-15 minutes if you prefer clear weather.
@@ctographerm3285 the weather thing kinda bothered me at first. But because you can clear the weather by using the flute and control it in the photo mode. I kinda got used to it. Didn't bother me as much. And as for what counts as a stealth kill i don't know either. Cause i got tons of bow kills in the beginning but the very first time i stealthed with the knife. The game shamed me. Could be that was the last kill needed to trigger the cut scene but i can't even tell.
@@BushidoMauve I mean, the bow is standard samurai equipment and you get it from the more honorable characters.
3:19 Yahtzee defeated my usual 2x speed policy on youtube
"Like a Karen holding an expired coupon" I laughed too hard to this euphemism
5:00 "craft clothing dye so you can make your armour red instead of black in the brief moment before it's completely obscured by mud and gore effects"
More to the point, in the nonexistent moment before it's completely obscured by the Kurosawa Effect.
I've watched every Kurosawa movie and clocked in 50 hours collecting every flower in this game only for it to change something that _is literally not there._
As always, you can love the game or hate it, or anything in-between, but Yahtzee absolutely has a point.
are you actually complaining about not seeing colors in the optional black-and-white mode?
@@UnicornStorm No he’s complaining about having customizable color options in the same game where you can completely turn off color. They kinda cancel each other out at that point.
@@comiccinema8177 optional... both O.o
"...a joke about a chinese person..." immediately followed by japanese characters
They spell out "anyways"
@@RillianGrant I'm aware
TONIKAKU
fun fact kanji came from the chinese so have fun with that knowledge
This is what they teach in school as "padding". When I was going for my associates in game design, they legit drilled into us that the play should not go any more than 3 seconds without something to do or else they'll get bored. Hallway longer than 3 seconds? They need to jump, or crouch or collect something or be told something. It's this mindset I feel that has caused this level of cancer.
@LordMacKarl "With bigger and more expansive worlds, the developer faces unique challenges that stem from keeping the player engaged. While it is true that some gamers would be content in "enjoying the atmosphere," most players would get quickly bored because achieving immersion is a mindset, not a destination."
"Because of how competitive the market is and the player-base has become, most players are aware that they are playing a game; therefore if you do not provide distraction from that as a developer, then you have failed as a developer."
These were two statements that were copy-pasted to us often. It seems that developers have come to the consensus that players play games to play games and that's it. It's just a lot of convolution in my opinion. When it came to the "Psychology of Play", there were tons of confliction. It pretty much boils down to: "You can't please everyone, so don't try to. Instead please as many as you can at once."
Finally here is the origin of Jiminy Cockthroat! I've binge watched two years worth of content to finally find it!
"A Karen with an expired coupon" love to see yahtzee doing the memes
Does one have to pick the flowers?
I'll elaborate: flower picking obviously enhances the gameplay for those who want to pick flowers. If it doesn't harm other gameplay mechanics then let it be.
What happened to you, Sucker Punch? What happened to the magic? The glory? The talking cartoon animals?
As someone who loves open world sandboxes, and absolutely adores Ghost of Tsushima as one of the best, I feel like if I ever met Yahtzee he would tear my limbs off, beat me to death with the wet end, and bury me in an actual sandbox to teach me a lesson...
he doesn't have any problem with the genre, his problem is that the western industry doesn't know how to innovate anymore there are way too many games that are pretty much the same thing with a different wallpaper. and the entire thing seems to be more market motivated than the pure desire to make a good game.
@@danilooliveira6580 Yet when a game like Death Stranding tries something different gamers bitch about it. I was so glad when Yahtzee gave DS a somewhat positive review.
@@danilooliveira6580 yeah but the whole point of innovation is to find something that works. Once you've got the winning formula you move on and innovate something else. You don't see car enthusiasts complain that the pedals are in the same places, or that it has the exact same gears, saying "Why can't they change things up by putting a brake lever on the ceiling?". Innovate the stuff that doesn't work not the stuff that does y'know?
@@faithfullyfaithless no, the point is to make something interesting and fun. renewing the same idea over and over is not like changing how you drive a car, is changing the car. how you drive the car would be a core mechanic like a TPS, FPS, platformer, etc. a car would be what you do with that genre, like every TPS being a COD-like, or a DOOM-like. what is happening here is as if every car was a baseline sedan with the same interior and components, but different painting.
@@danilooliveira6580 ah, agree to disagree my friend 🙂
So basically: it's good, you've probably played this game before but it's still pretty good
Ghost of Tsushima is right now my favourite game of 2020.
Mine is Ion Fury
In defense of the flower system, you can also get a hat, which is the only thing I got before I stopped talking to the merchants and threw away what was left of my flowers because the dye combinations looked awful.
That intro song gets me headbanging every time
Supplies party?
"But anyway."
"とにかく"
FFS Yahtzee.
He said it twice!
If you turn it sideways you can see a big nosed samurai.
meaning "anyway".
the kurasawamode went out the window when i realised finding the things i needed to interact with became even more annying then it already was
That "supplies" bit was just begging for that shot of Gedde Watanabe in UHF being discovered by the bad guys in the supply closet.
"Karen" as a term has received the Yahtzee seal of approval.
Ha ha, Samurai Sword go swoosh.
hello Proto :)
1:07 I imagine it's very similar to that UHF joke about the supplies closet?
I recently watched all of Sliders. I'm officially old.
Is anyone else horribly amused by the way Yahtzee pronounces, “samyarai”?
Came down here to check for exactly this comment before I posted it myself. Sam-you-rye.
Yes, Im assuming it’s on purpose but the ignorance is frustrating.
Mikfly actually, I think a fair amount of Britons pronounce it that way - not sure why though
jmackmcneill Do you think amusement and agonizing are the same thing?
@@ohjeezriles reminds me of a moment in Black and White 2 where they say it that way when you get a samurai squad. (and yeah, British VAs for it). It irked me so bad every time I played that part XD This defs brought back those memories!
I'm one of those guys who loves Jiminy Cockthroat games. Sorry everyone.
Holy crap! I lol'd at tonikaku!! Considering this was Yahtzee's choice to segue away from a "joke about a *Chinese* person", it reminds me of my standard answer whenever someone overhears me speaking French and asks if I'm fluent. I always say, "mezzo-mezzo".
The haiku during the end credits was a nice touch.
Wish I was there for the post stream for this one since I genuinely would want this question answered.
Given that this is SuckerPunch we are talking about, who made inFamous and that Yahzee very clearly said that any moral choice was wank since it does little but force you to make you play the game twice to see all of the content. If Ghost of T HAD a system that genuinely caused your choice of tactics to affect the story, would that not be the same situation?
I think that's a bit different. Infamous' moral choice thing was arbitrary, and didn't affect the gameplay, just the story. Ghost of tsushima would actually have an interesting choice thing, where the branching narrative would have two distinct gameplay styles that it could build on.
Moral choice would gate away half the gameplay mechanics. I like the way it was implemented.
I feel this is obvious, but the game is called GHOST of Tsushima. You have a legend in the menu that talks about your rise as a ghost. They give you ghost mechanics to use on top of samurai swordplay to give you creative ways to engage with the Mongols. The whole point of the game is to basically play a soldier that has to get dirty to win a war. To not use the mechanics is missing half the point of the game and the plot is tied to it too. You have to approach the game with a balanced approach or it just doesn't feel right. The only choice you have is the end but it makes complete sense when you actually go through the whole game in that way. It creates a conflict of ones ideals that the entire game leads to that moment.
It's fundamentally a lose-lose situation for Jin despite his efforts winning the war. It's a matter than of honoring the old way one last time and now be a monster to everyone else or just breaking the cycle and having that close family member track you down for the rest of your life. It's not fair for Yahtzee to trash that part when there's clearly a theme about war and how it changes a person to do things they might hate but know it's necessary.
Think of it like this: you play Spider man games because you want to BE Spider Man. Much like Batman and other games, it's a focus on a specific idea for character. If Batman just got into fist fights and never stealth any area, is that really Batman? Same goes for Spiderman. Same goes for Bayonetta, God of War and Devil May Cry. Those games encourage you to mix and match up with weapons and the mechanics to make it balanced while expressing the player and character at the same time.
I think people are misled by ghost of tsushima because people are so use to open world games that mechanics and gameplay just get swept away. A shame because I think ghost is a genuinely good if flawed game.
Am I the only one who doesn't like branching storylines in story-based games? The characters are supposed to make the choices for us, not the other way around. That's a big part of what makes a story engaging, because we're getting to know the characters. That kill/spare option at the end totally drew me out of the experience because I had to pause and look up which choice results in the "good ending" instead of enjoying and wondering what Jin was going to do.
I’m about halfway through this game, everything stated in the above video is correct....but I’m still having fun. Thanks for the great video. Look forward to Wednesday’s just for your new reviews.
punchy_ bit misleading tho because everything he whinged about is optional. You don’t have to collect if you don’t want to, you don’t have to do the standoffs, and the movement progression happens pretty easily. I’m really tired of games that punish you for not doing something so specific that it doesn’t feel like you’re playing at all. This game you decide your experience and they don’t punish you for it.
Marc Russell 100% correct...all optional. So I guess I’m agreeing with him, but at the same time loving all the side missions he described in his video. I can understand how they could be annoying to some. But my OCD loves them.
punchy_ This is the first game I ever Platinumed. The side missions didn’t feel like a chore, and the collectibles weren’t a grind. It wasn’t ridiculously easy or repetitive either. It was/is just an enjoyable game without any of the frustrations of other games.
Can confirm, I wobble quite a bit, but I never do fall down.
Holy shit. I have been a fan and watched Yahtzee's videos for years, and this is the first one in which I had to check my settings twice to make sure I wasn't watching at 1.25x speed.