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It's not slow, it's languid.
It's not a lootbox, it's a surprise mechanic.
Pride and accomplishment
This video made me realize I would love to see zero punctuation summaries of mythological stories
you know most of those are Zeus boned it and Herra got pissed
mdb45424 There are more myths than just Greek.
Overly Sarcastic Productions does a pretty good job at filling that void
Red isn't as cynical as Yahtzee. But yeah, OSP is a great channel.
You would also like a summary of your bleak and boring breakfast by yahtzee.. so that's not a feat.
"-which would've been left behind in the storage unit of gaming history alongside Jak & Daxter-"
Right in the feels, man
"wow" -O dog
But aren't they re-releasing the main Jak and Daxter series a second time on PS4? A game series that appears on 3 of the 4 home console PlayStations and I still hear people gushing about to this day doesn't exactly sound "lost and forgotten."
...Unless you're talking about the cancelled 4th game by Naughty Dog and their general rejection of the cartoon-ish games, then yeah, it's forgotten by those who matter. I loved the Last if Us and Uncharted...is a game, technically...but I don't see why Naughty Dog can't make both lighthearted cartoon games and gritty looks at human nature.
@@JeffreyThrash the re-release was pretty bare and in many ways inferior to the original. It hasn’t gotten she same treatment as Spyro or Crash with a true remake.
And any talk of a new game seems to be no more than wishful thinking at this point.
@@justinbuergi9867 The fact that I forgot about that Okami re-release until I saw your comment might actually prove you right.
Ah...Amaterasu. Origin of all that is good and mother to us all.
And repeat ad nauseam.
Good dogmom.
To make this really accurate, you should have typed it out e x t r e m e l y s l o w l y without any chance to fast forward :(
Moms a furry
Momdog gets the power to pee on her enemies. Momdog is awesome.
Here’s another Japanese myth: the Sun goddess went on strike for a while, so the other gods had to get her back by having the Goddess of mirth/joy doing a strip dance
And here why they said ol Amy doesn't hold a straight ruler...
Sailor Italy
The weirdest thing with that myth is that that exact same plot point shows up in an ancient Egyptian story, where Ra the sun-god is angry and shuts himself in his tent but the goddess Hathor takes off her dress and dances and then everyone around, including Ra, laughs it off and calm down. I've always found it strange that two such different cultures so far from each other would share such a specific story element.
Guess because the solar eclipse happen across the globe? It does look like the god is hiding behind a rock. (Dumb guess btw.)
It's true that solar eclipses happen across the globe, though it doesn't explain why a naked dancing goddess making everybody laugh is what draws the sun back out again. It seems like something a bit too specific for both cultures to just make up at random.
These kind of coincidence happen more often than you think though, human isn't that creative you know. Another likely possibility is that these kind of story share a single root, or from one place and travel to other through word-of-mouth in a span of a few hundred year at worst. (Also another dumb guess: The moon is a feminine symbol for both of them, so the same kind of story happen? Though I have no idea if that fact is everywhere.)
The Jak and Daxter remark was a twist of the old knife.
Terker2 I miss that trilogy.
It didn't go anywhere; in fact it recently just re-released alongside the racing spin-off for PS4 digital download. Have fun!
And also the PS3 though I never had the patience for the sequels, they were a frustration fest compared to the original. Wonder if Jak X Racing will get a similar treatment?
He used the cover art for the first one as well, that hits me hard dude
The first game was so beautiful, and it set up the promise of such a beautiful franchise…and then Jak II happened and everything went to the intersection of grimdark and tedious. Sigh…To be fair, Jak 3 tried to sort of combine the two games - the whole thing was basically what Yahtzee described the Prince of Persia trilogy to be, that is to say, a gold egg, followed by a bronze egg because grimdark, and then a silver egg that tried to combine what was good about the first two eggs but just ended up being okay - but then Jak 3 also had Count Veger, and any game with a character that is that stupidly cruel and simultaneously sanctimonious is automatically not a good one. >.> Like, he wasn't even a love-to-hate-him villain, he was just a thing to purely hate, hating him didn't even feel good, what the fuck Naughty Dog? Jak X was fun, though…sad it never got included in the trilogy re-release. V_V
Also, the "HD re-release" of the trilogy fucked up the beauty of the first game. In the first game, you could watch the sun rise and set and make up constellations in the night sky; in the re-release, at least on PS3, the sky was mostly a gray dome of varying shades. That made me mad, because my favorite thing to do in the first game was watch the sunrise from the top of the monuments on Sentinel Beach. >.> I just felt like that warranted commenting on.
“Biological time saving” is fucking genius
I really loved Okami. I played it around the same time I played Shadow of the Colossus and a few others like it. Those games have always held a very special place in my heart.
Hell yeah. Both Okami and Shadow of the Colossus are in my personal top 5 favorite games.
Same here. I love both those games so, so much.
Agree, so many great games were released back then. Even the ok ones were usually better than now. Anyone remember Psi Ops?
Same here. Those two games kind of changed my tastes now that I think of it. Funny thing is, I didn't like either one when I first tried it.
I tried to play Okami back then but every time I sat down with my girlfriend, she got horny and wanted to fuck.
Now I cant play it without wanting sex.
Dark souls had it right the whole time. Praise the sun.
\[T]/
I'm more of an Old Blood guy
PRAISE IT! \[T]/
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JOLLY COOPERATION.
"'El Shaddai' springs instantly to mind" = another sentence neither uttered before nor likely to be repeated during our miserable lifetimes.
What is that game? Do you know it?
Just some anime game nonsense.
Well said.
It sure did have a pretty Stained Glass level though....
Soundtrack wasn't bad either.
It's supposed to be based on the real life religious tale of El Shaddai, where God was about to nuke the world for all their sins because a bunch of his top angels decided to go AWOL on him, but then some rando Really Nice Swell Guy said "Hey, but I live here, could you not?" And so God looked at him and went, "Well fix it then, shitlord, then I'll think on it."
And then said Really Nice Swell Guy spent several lifetimes going about doing precisely that.
In the story, this guy was a very peaceful scholar. In the game, he wears midriff armor and carries a big U-shaped blade that he dices dudes up with. If that's not your first red flag, I really don't know what to tell you. (Though I personally enjoy the game, because I'm a bad person like that.)
do you think the actual yahtzee brand gets really confused every wednesday
"Dear Yahtzee, I loved that bit about swan buggering in your latest release! keep up the good work!"
Chicken Tikka Well, maybe that's not how YOU play Yahtzee...
"Turn into a swan and bugger you all night." Seriously, Zeus had problems... then again, the ladies liked him. Maybe I'M the one with the problems? Where's the motivational internet video on swan transformations?
Ladies liked him... He pretty much raped everyone of the ladies so... No, I don't think that they loved him. Well, maybe Hera. She still stayed with him even after he slept with half of greece... Wait, this is greek mythology. When he slept with around 75% of greece population if you include the males :P. There, now It's more accurate.
If we are talking about mythology in general then it must be a god thing. Just look at Loki, getting pregnant with Odin's future horse and fucking rocks to make giants.
Zeus jizzed on a mountain from the sky and impregnated Gaia, his grandmother pretty much, and made a hermaphrodite monster
Iirc, one of the Egyptian gods made love to his hand and created the stars from jiz. All those old religions have at least one oddball.
In Norse mythologhy the feet giant Ymir fucked eachother and birthed a sixheaded son which became the ancestor of the ice giants.
Also, a man and a woman grew from Ymirs armpits.
Also, in addition to allowing himself to be impregnated by a horse, Loki fathered the monsterwolf Fenrir, the Midgard serpent and Hela, who was later appointed as ruler of the underworld, basically becoming the goddess of death.
"It's not premature ejaculation. It's biological time saving!" I lost it XD
Speedrun exploits!
Mythic Tyrant may get the glory but FreewayKnight your comment is easily one of the greats. Take this!
That's true though, many creatures don't have the time for hour long sessions because there's always the risk of being slaughtered by some predator.
If we think on those terms, I would never be able to reproduce as it takes me three hours of stimulation to get off, unless I'm aroused to start with, in which case it's only half that, depending on HOW aroused I am.
One of the best games of the PS2 generation. A shame the sales weren't nearly as good as the game deserved and that Clover went down shortly after this and the also excellent Godhand.
Actually there is reason to believe that poor sales were not the sole reason for their dismantling, but rather the head of Clover getting into an argument with Keiji Inafune, and the latter getting Capcom to strip funding away from from Clover.
I heard most of clover's employees are in a new company called Platnium.
So it isn't all bad.
+CompletlyNewGuy is right, most of clover's talent migrated and formed Platinum, the people we know to have made Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and more recently Nier: Automata. So while the Clover Studios name has fizzled out into legend, the talent most definitely has not :D
Clover was pretty smart when making the game. Their name may have been stripped for the rereleases but the clovers you dig up in the game still mark it as theirs.
I had fun searching out all the clovers scattered throughout the world. Clever of them to have their logo part of the game. Even more clever to have it look like it belonged in the game. I need to play this again.
The brush mecanics were easier to use in the wii version, well, at least in my opinion. I could use a brush technique and return to battle so fast that I didn't feel that the pace was broken at all.
I honestly can’t remember if the game ever tells you, but there was a button you could hold to make the brush move faster. I want to say it was square on the PS2 version. I always remember that, and I’m always confused when people talk about it being unbearably slow to use the brush - I mean, yeah, not holding the button, it’s pretty slow, but I always thought the slower speed was if you specifically need to do detailed work/precision work.
Combat brushing is a lot easier with the speed up.
I couldn’t get the motion controls unfortunately. My Wife did. Apparently it’s an elbow motion, not a wrist one.
Agreed. I was confused when I found out that the game was ported from the PS2 since the Wii seemed the obvious choice for the control scheme.
right trigger is speed up square is small like triangle is fat line
you can also instantly sprint in the overworld by headbutting and you dont have to use the brush techniques to kill ANY enemy short of actual bosses, and you can use brush techniques mid combo for some insane game speed, its crazy how much Yhatzee gets wrong about this game and then still likes it because its fuckin good
While I love Okami, I find the criticism fair and accurate.
As a person whose read a lot of Greek Mythology, I appreciate the reference at the end.
For those not in the know, there is a button you can press to speed up the movement of Ammy's tail on the canvas.
And yes, that is her tail. Look at the official artwork for Ammy. Note that she has black ink on the end of her tail. Now look at the in-game art for the brush. It's also her tail.
The More You Know! **STAR!**
"sun worship has been more interesting to me than religion"
George Carlin agreed. he also worshipped Joe pesci, in case you were wondering. i can't wait to see you at the next meetup, Yahtzee. don't forget your Joe pesci bust
Zenith Tempest Joe bless you!
It depends on whether or not the sun is considered a God.
A religion necessarily has routine practices. One can worship the sun without being religious.
to be fair he just completely stole that George Carlin joke.
No no no, Carlin didn't worship Joe Pesci. He PRAYED to Joe Pesci. He worshiped the sun because he knew it would be there every morning, but he didn't pray to it because he didn't want to presume on their friendship. He Prayed to Joe Pesci because Pesci looked like a guy who could get shit done.
The PC release lets you paint with your mouse, makes the game a whole lot less languid.
BIG Dave He played it on pc but with a controller.
BIG Dave what about the Wii version?
@@kevinmatta9262 if you don't admit drawing with a mouse is less inconvenient than drawing with a joystick, you're the stupid one
@@terner1234 You're entirely forgetting the best version, which is the Switch version, where you literally can DRAW on the touch screen
@@apictureoffunction I wasn't aware it existed, it's probably much better than using a mouse
worshipping the sun...
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Praise it! \[T]/
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Praise the sun y'all \[T]/
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\[T]/ so grossly incendescant
"5 hours of storytelling that you'll end up just watching on CZcams, or 200 hours of grinding because you want to unlock Tracer's new leg warmers" *raises hand to object but puts it back down*
Rectal miracles will be my life motto from now on
yeah this is my favourite game of all time but more specifically the wii version. the brush is fluid and quick in the wii version (though circles are still tough to draw) i can see why you didn't like it with a control stick.
I found the Wii version only tolerable with motion plus as the normal controller barely responded to attacks. I preferred the papyrus look to the original and HD one more as well
"Moisture concentration zone."
That's funny :D
That's the point.
Sounds like sonic level
"Sun worshipers always made a lot of sense to me as a religion. At least you're worshiping something you know is THERE. And actually DOES STUFF."
Some of Yahtzee's finest work right here, fuckin GOT EM.
Yahtzee fan base not licking his boots for five seconds challenge (impossible)
Most religions worship the sun, even christianity because Jesus is a stand in fo the sun.
I couldn't get enough of this game back in the PS2 days. It was so vivid, so lively, so different. It felt truly original. I doubt I would play a long and slower paced game like this nowadays though. Who has that kind of time?
If you are interested in picking this up, I suggest the PC version. Makes the slashing brushstroke thing feel more Metal Gear Revengence and less 80's Thunderbirds.
SushiJaguar
That's not really a good comparison, seeing as MGR undoubtedly preforms best with a gamepad.
But what If I like 80's Thunderbirds?
Tyler. Logically, the wii version should be better, but somehow it is even harder to draw with a Wiimote's than with an analog stick. Got stuck solid half an hour trying to do something that could be recognized as a straight line to progress on Wii
Ow, that Jak and Daxter jab.
A classic PS2 game. 👌
I love that you can make videos tearing apart my favourite games, and yet here I am pissing myself laughing. Genuinely one of my new favourite channels
Imagine if you were just sitting around being evil and all of a sudden some magic dog thing just walked up and pissed on you
“That’s not premature ejaculation, that’s biological time saving” is my new favourite line of 2018 by far!
I was waiting and dredging this as it is one of my favourite games.
I have been waiting for this video to come out !!!! Like, ever since I saw some of their vids in 2011!
Another epic vidya, cheers Yatz.
"Moisture concentration zone" I'm crying laughing over her Yahtzee!
One of my absolutely favorite games I have ever played. The music and ascetics alone make this game a 10/10 for me.
Oh and also there’s gameplay
"ascetic"
Yeah, but how does it play?
Yeah but it's a game, so how do you rate the GAME part?
Gameplay is simple but really effective
Okami was the better 2006 game about a divine wolf than The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
I know I’m 3 years late but Okami bored me to death in 3 hours while I lasted a whole 6 with Twilight Princess
@@kingofcheshire adhd
@@kingofcheshireI love Twilight Princess but that tutorial felt like it went on wayyyy longer than Okami’s.
Tsukuyomi and the Rectal Miracles sounds like an awesome prog group.
I feel like the PC release fixes the big issue of the game being. Drawing with the brush is really easy and feels like a natural extension of being a god with a celestial brush when you're using a mouse rather than a tedious chore which I imagine it would be with a controller.
Also, if you dash/dodge before you start moving in a direction, you start sprinting immediately. The game does not feel slow at all if you do this. Once you start buying Mermaid coins or get Mist Warp(19-20 hrs into the game) or the whirlpool-thingy technique (Maybe 10-13 hrs into the game), you rarely have to spend more than a minute running somewhere.
EDIT: Not to mention the demon claw minigame during loading screens, which gives you something to do while the game loads.
I never had problems drawing with the analog stick. The only slightly inconsistent brush technique was the Infinity Inferno ability and the criss-cross lined special Ice technique, neither of which are necessary for beating the game and are optional techniques.
yeah, who would've thoug... WHAT?? HE LIKED IT????
I can't even tell.
As a long-time watcher of ZP, I can say without a doubt that he liked it. Quite a bit actually. I was rather surprised at this!
If you don't know if Yahtzee hates something, he probably sorta liked it
Yahtzee 100% called this in his Phantom Hourglass video. I only noticed because I literally just watched that one and this video popped up as the next video in the queue
Okami is beautiful. You draw slowly.
even with its faults, okami is just a nice relaxing game to play.
combat is varied, since you can use 3 kinds of attack and secondary attack tools.
Movement is great, amaterasu is fast, jumping doesn't slow you down, and the fastest way to get from place to place (besides mermaid pools and mirror teleports) is just running. no spamming the roll button or spamming sidehops.
the story is great
the characters are interesting, all with their own personalities
and the game takes a long ass time to beat, even if you know what your doing.
one of my favorite details is in the first orochi fight, where each head has its own personality that is only conveyed through how they fight.
for example, fire is serious, earth is an idiot (literally fights you by bashing his skull into the ground), and water will create a pool of water to drown you, then he immediately puts his face in the water and blows bubbles,. just having a good time.
Okami on Wii was really fun. A lot easier to draw stuff, and I think the graphics were updated back then. One of my fav games.
I got Okami on my PS2, I got to play the Wii version at a friends place and I found drawing with the Wii controller harder than using the joystick.
They removed the paper looking filter and improved the colour saturation to make it appear nicer. HD one improved on that as well as left the original filter in
I like that Zeus Goose reference at the end there.
I have Loved watching you since I started high school and I'm 21 now still Loving your show. You are so tight about this game.. it was frustrating trying to pay or explore the game wig all the pop up battles... lol Your The Best Man!!! 😇😈👌👊💃
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I have been waiting to see Yahtzee review this game since he made a joke about it at the end of a Zelda review in like 2008 or something. I am so freaking happy
I'm glad someone mentioned that!
I remember that review too and when I saw this in my feed today I immediately was like "FINALLY". xD
Best Goddamn Zelda game ever
Back then, it certainly was the best 3D Zelda after Majora's Mask.
I'm a Zelda fan and I approve that pimp slap at the Zelda series.
But no. Batman Arkham City is the best Zelda game ever.
Darksiders is better than Zelda
Zeburaman2005 still is in my opinion
I've been waiting for YEARS
First review of the year! Hell yea!
yahtzee is one of twelve people who actually played el shaddai
I think the best way to see Okami is how it swims in a huge ocean of Japanese folklore and mythology. From the whole game being literally sumi-e art, with Ukiyo-e art cutscenes, and a wonderful music to boot, the game got it good on the artistic front and lore/references. It doesn't however shine in the tutorial and sidekick departments. The idea at first is to be pretty clear at what your controls are and what you can do, what are your base physical limits and what are the big mechanics of the whole game. Which explains the lengthy explanations from Issun. Speaking of which, he's a real blabber mouth and has a big tendency to repeat important words or the entire reason why the player is doing a part of the adventure. Most of the time, it really feels like too much unnecessary hand-holding and text, which definitely starts to drag on in specific parts, while being moderately annoying overall. The game heavily relies on both you getting up to date with your Fan Menu to see your brush skills in more details and whatever scrolls and texts you got on your journey, and for you to let your curiosity show you different ways to use your powers in combat and while journeying. For those reasons alone, a lot of text from Issun could be shortened, better worded to give subtle hints, or completely removed. Then again, the reason why Issun talks so much is to give him reactions, life, a means to build a character, however the way it was implemented didn't quite portray that.
The gameplay of Okami is pretty fluid, the transition between the brush and physical interactions seamless, moving around and jumping is a perfect mix of giving the sensation of weight without impeding on control. The replacement of dungeon items with brush powers that can be used pretty much infinitely and in varied scenarios truly makes it a wonderful design choice for this game. By clearing dungeons your powers grow, by helping NPCs your powers grow, by exploring your powers grow, by being altruistic and restoring the land the player's main character grows powerful and helps them in their journey. The game is designed to reward exploration and story progression by unlocking new abilities that are inherent to the character, and are only limited by the player's creativity rather than ammunition or magic gauges. Yes, brush powers require Ink Pots to be used, but those recharge over time, and there are ways to increase the amount of pots and recharge time. Having a lot of brush techniques also implies a need for ink management. Should you try to create a ravaging inferno that costs 3 ink pots but you can't draw for a few seconds, or slow down time and make a bomb for 1 pot each and use your own armament of Divine Instruments to slay your foes? Should you wait a few seconds to get another ink pot or use the last one in an attempt to deal a finishing blow? Ink management, after a lot of battles against demons, almost becomes second nature when playing this game, and the way this whole brush mechanic is implemented is excellent for both combat and adventure scenarios.
Speaking of Divine Instruments, these items are the weapons of the main character. The game has a total of 3 types of weapons: Reflectors, Rosaries, and Glaives. The combat system allows the player to equip two weapons at all times, one as a main weapon and the other as a sub. The main weapon slot will extract the full potential of each type of weapons. For Reflectors, that is a constant close-quarters assault dealing a moderate amount of damage. For Rosaries, it is a rapid-hitting "whip" (or two) to attack targets at a distance, useful to build up combo hits and Godhood. For Glaives, it is a small but devastating mid-range Barrage of slicing attacks, that varies in power based on how long the weapon is charged before each hit. The sub weapon slot will instead use each weapon as an extra aid in battle. For Reflectors, the weapon is brought up front of the character, blocking heavy and ranged attacks like a shield, and become a counter move on physical attacks, as well as restore health and extract a Demon Fang on perfect blocks. For Rosaries, the weapon becomes either a rapid fire ranged projectile attack for chip damage, or a full blown buckshot for close, instant big damage. For Glaives, the weapon is either a fencing style strike that pierces through enemies, or an upward slash to cut through a single target, followed with a mid-air sweeping attack, both styles being chargeable for heavier damage. Being able to mix and match combinations of weapons offers the player a way to fine-tune their armament to match their preferred play style while exorcising demons.
There are other gameplay elements in this game, like consumable items and permanent artifacts to add specific attributes to the character. There are also Dojo techniques, which develop the character's combat skills, weapon skills, and adventuring skills without going through tech trees and point systems. Even the brush techniques can be improved, to the point where the player can summon elements at will without a source. Fast travel in the game is a commodity, as such a certain purchase of a specific item is needed to cross the land quickly, and only at specific spots. There's also fishing mini-games that allows the player to essentially fish for money (or pleasure) with simple mechanics. The variety in this game gives a little bit of everything to suit the taste of many different action-adventure players.
I'd go through the story aspect of the game, but I am personally not adept (and awake) enough to talk in-depth about it. You can expect a trilogy of sorts, the game separated in 3 distinct arcs in the ultimate quest for the main character to purge the land of darkness and bring beauty, light and life instead. It isn't stellar per-say, but it makes for a good incentive to progress, filled with its mysteries about each character encountered, and what their actual goals, resolve, and pasts are all about.
Overall, the experience of Okami remains pleasant and beautiful, even if some aspects of its game design are getting a bit outdated or simply not well implemented. With a wonderful combat system, a wonderful brush mechanic, amazing art style, amazing music, and a lot of exploration incentives, Okami keeps being a timeless work of art.
Love that game
I've been waiting for this ever since I figured out the reference at the end of the Phantom Hourglass review.
This video didn’t have enough punctuation for me
*Insatisfactory*
In fact there were zero. heheheh
louisisprettycooltoo you're in the wrong place
Thet Lin Htet hehehehhehehehehe
This was surprisingly pleasant. Looks like Yahtzee is getting nostalgic, too, for a time when games weren't malicious, at least.
also, about the sprinting: You can perform a ground dash to instantly reach Level 2 (I think you boost to Level 1 before a certain ability) of your sprint. At the start this is as fast as you can go, but one of the early abilities will give you a third level to your sprint.
This was the game that got me into gaming.
I was never particularly enthused by anything until I saw Okami, and knew immediately I needed to jam it straight into my eyeballs.
One day we'll actually be able to play Okamiden on a console. Maybe one day a third Okami game... Hahahaha I wish.
Considering Clover doesnt actually own Okami anymore and all Capcom did when making Okamiden was basically the same story but chibi I doubt they have any ideas in their head to make a third one, so I wouldnt count on it. Maybe if Capcom handed the rights over to Platinum (what Clover became) you'd get something but I doubt it.
Nakumare Clover never owned anything to begin with. They were a Capcom studio created to be different in terms of what they made. Unfortunately, most of those titles never went anywhere despite how awesome they usually were.
Samir Malik
Were still the actual brains behind okami, and sadly that shows in how without them around the sequel was just more of the same. Worst part is they actually did have a idea for a sequel
Wow, I'm glad someone else knows what El Shaddai is. One of the strangest games I've ever played.
not ray halliburton I have a copy for Xbox 360. It's really punishing at times.
Gonzalo Delgado Right. And very confusing. Not bad if I remember correctly, though.
In terms of dialogue, it sure is.
the Celestial Brush in the Wii version & DS sequel is... **puts on sunglasses** divine...
That jab at BOTW though...
I wasn't ready for it.
Honestly I thought the story was pretty good, It has a lot of good comedy in it and had me rolling with laughter at times as well.It also had really deep and engaging parts Especially towards the real end. I remember when I played the game and probably had about 20-30 hours in it and I finally beat what I thought to be the 'final boss' but then they're like. Oh wait, you only beat like half the game. My mind was exceptionally blown.
Also the combat is still pretty decent. I played the HD version on the ps3 a ways back after I bet the ps2 even more a ways back. I had lots of fun with the combat, especially going for the no damage S ranks. Perfectly timing a counter or a dodge, and then finishing them off by cutting them in half with a perfectly drawn brush cut? Are you kidding me? Feels good man.
Arunnejiro I have to agree with everything you said. This review seemed geared towards modern gamers and their silly obsession with how well decades old games have aged. "Doesn't play like a current release = game sucks".
I would absolutely love to see a Zero Punctuation review of El Shaddai. Japanese interpretation of apocryphal scriptures about Noah's (from the Flood) grandfather trying to save the world from fallen angels.
Its boring and stupid
there
El Shaddai is on of those games that is very pretty to watch and would make an excellent cell shaded movie but was an absolute bugger to actually play. Which sucks because I seriously wanted to like it.
Love the zeus reference at the end there.
In my top 5 favorite games of all time. I always thought the combat was incredibly smooth. By the time you get to the end game, switching back and forth between weapon strikes and brush techniques is especially fluid and fun to play with.
HD killer7 when??
Probably before the Viewtiful HD Joe but after Lost Planet HD
But seriously, Killer7 needs to happen. At this point the GC release is the best enduring version of that wonderful game.
0:31 Oof!
This game has and (for the foreseeable future) will top my list of favorite games ever since I first played it in 2006.
This is why I love his videos. He shits on shit and applauds what's good about a game.
Just mad it's not on Switch.
same
It would be so perfect for it
Yet.
Hopefully Nintendo lost their rights when the porting team literally misplaced the beautiful credits sequence, shrugged, and published.
I suppose nintendo does not want to do another rerelease after the wii version or well capcom in this case
IT'S A THING GUYS!
all i'm gonna say is that I first played this game on the wii. I recently got it for the Xbox and it is drastically different
Circles are still impossible
Another great bit of Shinto is that after Susanoo fell from grace, he plucked out his _body hair_ and sprinkled them over the land, from which they grew into _trees._
I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!😍
3 Views gosh grim, get it together Yatz
MantisShrimpKin don't worry, it's at 638 now
Its not slow, its languid
Its not rape, its a struggle snuggle
Its not arson, its thermally accelerated entropy
Its not criminal, its politics
Having played this for the first time recently and all the up to beating the first dark evil force, I can say I agree with every word here.
Ahhh a good day when yazhee uploads XD
Not sure if anyone else pointed this out - but the "sprinting takes too long to charge up" complaint is instantly dismissed when you consider that you can charge into the second stage (and very close to the final speed) of sprint by tapping the Attack button (X for Xbox controllers, Square for PS, you get the idea) while running around.
You can get to sprinting speed from a dead standstill pretty quickly that way.
Personal complaint, though. Don't like the removal of Clover Studios in both the opening splash credits and closing credits. Defunct company splinter or no - it was pretty disgusting for Capcom to cut them out.
Similar case with the closing credits music, too.
I know this comment is old but...
"Lost the credit scene" my ass. It's a ps2 game for fuck sake, how hard can it be to get the video of the cutscene? Then again, clover studio were gods with trash brands holding them down like capcom, who release the same fucking game about fighting without fleshing it out.
If Okami has actual swan buggery I might consider it
you forget that ol amy is female when she slobbers over every character with a larger than average pair of tits, and almost gets the world doomed when she is blinded by her lady boner for a secretly evil priestess with impossibly large tits
the fuck are you babbling about
+dotanuki
Play the game to find out.
Sorry, that'd be the greek DLC :P
Spoilers in that there comment, but I agree. Also, Shiranui is considered male in the DS game Okamiden, soo.. (which I personally never considered canon, plz capcom release a proper Okami 2)
I loved the Wii motion controls for the celestial brush stuff
I got this game for the Wii. The celestial brush with motion controls felt so good.
I feel like you didn't touch upon the collectathon aspect of Okami, which completely removes any and all semblance to difficulty on a secondary playthrough (that is, getting the 99 stray beads and beat the game). Okami isn't for people who want insane action with a focus on high-ass combos like Devil May Cry, it's like a softer Castlevania/Zelda game with a *lot* of Japanese in-jokes aimed at their culture and their religions (they bring in characters who aren't wholly shinto inspired, some are taoistic/buddhistic and some are nods to western culture).
It's not a hard game, but I think calling it "slow" is an insult, because it can be fast paced if you want to. You don't need to do sidequests or exploration, you don't need to max out your brush techniques (you automatically learn the ones that are vital to finishing the game) and you don't need to actively heal every single cursed zone (aside from the big trees) to get through it. You can finish the game in less than 20 hours.
I'm pretty heavily biased in that Okami is one of my top ten games of all time, I can admit it has its flaws. But come on, taking exploding dumps on your enemies and twirling to run faster is pretty awesome.
Also, Rao.
japanese in-jokes at their culture
I got the art book, sooo much thought is in every single goddamn character. even those who only have close to one-liners.
Jeanette Hansen You forget that most games that require the player to get invested in and explore the world, without much handholding, are perceived as slow by today's crowd. Such a shame.
Yes! The art book is so great, I love that it adds to every single aspect of the game. I think I waited three years for it to get reprinted and I was not disappointed. It gave me such a greater appreciation of Clover Studios (rip)
It really is a shame, because Okami is an experience I feel most people would get some enjoyment from. If the combat makes or breaks a game (that's what I at least felt Yahtzee say regarding Okami) then too many games are "bad" or "slow".
Doki Doki needs your attention
What would he think when he finds out about the steganography aspect?
JamesDavy2009 only one way to find out
I never thought about trying to paint with the analog sticks as I played the Wii version and the DS sequel where the drawings were either motion controls or literally just drawing it on the screen.
That intro was great XD
I like pancakes.
selekos I like pies
I agree with both
Bloody hell we really are going back to the ps2 era
I *LOVE* pancakes ;)
Waffles r where it's at
Eh, on pc you can brush spam a lot easier so I found the combat more high paced.
Yeah, it's pretty go- OH COME ON THAT WAS TOTALLY A CHERRY BOMB.
Nice leda and the swan reference at the end
Yahtzee with that slick Leda and the Swan reference.
Japanese God swan hentai sounds pretty good to me.
The Spill I think he referenced the romen god Zuse
You got it completely wrong.. 1. It's Zeus. 2, he's from the Greek pantheon. 3 Zeus' Roman counterpart is Jupiter.
You guys just can't let people have fun
Guys, guys, the plot is not that important if he's here for the swan rape.
pointless comment number 18
also the video uploaded ok seems to have no rendering issues, well done yahtz
Ramona think he uploads this ?
I will say, I played this game when it came out in 2006, and I've bought every remaster since. This review was a great way to understand the game without nostalgia glasses, and I'm glad that people can see a more objective review and not one solely basking it in glory.
Shadow of the Colossus HD
Crash Bandicoot HD
Okami HD
So many HD's
Is he ever gonna do PUBG. Idc if he does or not I just want to see him shit on the lag
He did. Today. on the Escapist website
LichLordFortissimo awesome. I just watch on CZcams for whatever reason
Blaaz101 good one
*Blaaz101* PUBG=PlayerUnknown's Battleground
It's a boring game that is 90% hiding 8% BS and 2% fun. For some reason a lot of people like it.
Personally I only find it enjoyable with friends, but almost any game is fun with friends.
sammetju08 you have a point, but I must say the value is in the replayability with or without friends. The landscape might get boring but the encounters are always unique
The art and music is basically what makes Okami Okami. Without those things, it's a pretty shit affair, which is funny because the team behind it went on to make Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising and NieR: Automata, none of which even remotely have this problem.
Having said that, I will allow Okami to call itself art and forgive its gameplay, because it IS art. It's one of the best looking games ever made, even today.
Maybe if you suck.
In just about every thing they've made since becoming Platinum though the gamelplay is the only thing they have a hand in IshayuG, so of course they better be doing that part well.
They didnt decide the soundtrack of Metal Gear or Automata for instance, that was up to the person who is actually behind the game itself, which is why Automata simply had the same composer as the first Nier did. In Automata's case though, they helped in some of the character designs to an extent but certainly not all of ti. I imagine the other games were much the same.
IshayuG The gameplay is great, what the hell are you talking about? Its not hard for the most part, but its a great game graphically AND gameplay wise. This game doesn't get all of its praise just because of its artistic side.
You have to admit that the camera, auto-targeting (in devil gate trials) and slow dialogue are shit tought. Apart for that its a pretty solid game with a gentle learning and difficulty curve.
Not shit, just a slight annoyance at worst. I love the gameplay and the story.
💐🌸💮🏵¡¡OKAMI!!🏵💮🌸💐
I have know idea why I love this game so much