Close to the Sun (Zero Punctuation)

This week Yahtzee reviews Close to the Sun.
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#Closetothesun

[@theescapist]

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[@thesnideguy1]

review mordhau

[@0tterhead]

Didn't the guy who was PR-ing this channel just recently say that Yahtzee videos might not be posted a week early on the site anymore?

[@disguyovaheere8140]

i like how everyone forgot that epic games was stealing user data, and steam user data, and was selling it to china

[@poika22]

@@disguyovaheere8140 Steam and EA and Ubisoft and Microsoft and Apple and Google and Facebook all do the same thing.

[@wobblysauce]

Burn..

[@billveusay9423]

_Throws a last burn at Days Gone_ Aren't you lucky you had a review that lasted a week ?

[@abloogywoogywoo]

That shit, is soooo going on the Blandest Games of 2019 list. I'd put money on it.

[@RandomZydeco]

...if you follow me

[@denzelgist6922]

To quote Noob Noob, "God Damn!"

[@Haan22]

@@denzelgist6922 This guy gets it.

[@GANTZ100pts]

@@abloogywoogywoo Anthem will be on the list as well most likely.

[@pvkvicky2000]

The best Cautionary tale "If you're going to rip something off , maybe pick something that isn't really good and made by more competent people than you "

[@abloogywoogywoo]

lol, burn on the developers and their "science always is evil!" bullshit.

[@nulls5408]

Not entirely true, their is a metric ton of bootleg games that rip off other bootleg games. So your not safe ripping off shit if you don’t improve it meaningfully.

[@tomstonemale]

Well, Resistance 3 ripped off Half-Life 2 and just improved the shooting mechanics and the graphics to a degree...so it is doable.

[@AlexReynard]

Mortal Engines < Mad Max Fury Road

[@Burkhart4192]

IMO Dishonored had the same problem, it kept reminding me of Thief and the first Deus Ex.

[@RoboBoddicker]

They knew it was a bad idea to emulate such a famous title, but they overestimated their abilities and were ultimately brought low by their own hubris. Damn, I wish we had a well-worn expression to describe that scenario more succinctly....

[@charlierose7153]

This meta narrative makes the game GotY for the rest of time/until detarune is finished

[@draconomorphus413]

I was gonna make that joke, but, as you've pointed out, it's much too obvious.

[@demoneon9527]

Truly a shame

[@demoneon9527]

Bryce Plummer I colinda wanna use that irl

[@DrakeDragonSpark]

Oh, the irony.

[@deathsyth8888]

"Not a great plan. Trust me." - Icarus

[@a.gravemistake3061]

If video games have taught me anything, it's that monsters are the inter-dimensional jocks who show up and scream "NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS" every time scientists try to science too hard

[@ThaFuzzwood]

Out of their own insecurities due to their solitary working brain cell got knocked out by a variation of sports-ball.

[@Relaver_]

Close to the Sun and days gone review in one video. Nice.

[@michaelsurname8668]

BioShock Demastered, then.

[@insaincaldo]

@@vegisamalzero3681 Damn, were you that unhappy with the sequel?

[@cabrondemente1]

@@vegisamalzero3681 BS2 is a perfectly good sequel, not better than the first one, but it's not trying to be.

[@horsemask]

@@insaincaldo I believe Yahtzee himself hates Bioshock 2. Not dislikes, HATES. Which pleases me because that game absolutely deserves it.

[@insaincaldo]

@@horsemask Hm.. guess it is better to be a bland ripoff, then a bad sequel. To be honest I barely remember Bio2

[@jackgebhardt2932]

@@i_am_ergo Had even better gameplay and the best ending in the series!

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Wimp. You should have left it at Jet Set Willy.

[@Georgeilocks]

Thy zinger of a days gone burn was very spicy well played

[@XerOTheMage]

I almost choked on my soda.

[@ChainsawBlood845]

"Whoosh krackle kabang" -Nikola Tesla

[@bjaminrowe]

I ALWAYS forget that these come out on Wednesday. And every time it’s a wonderful surprise.

[@Lisa_Minci96]

Every damn time

[@everythingsgonnabealright8888]

Every Wednesday I come home bummed from work, open up KZbin and yell "Oh, it's this time of the week!" X)

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

Your Mom's House episodes come out on Wednesdays too, and my cat is named Wednesday. I guess Wednesday is a super dope day of the week

[@genderlessneko3992]

I haven't even played bioshock and i was like "...bioshock?"

[@bird3713]

Truth be told, you should probably play Bioshock

[@MosoKaiser]

And if you play Bioshock and you've also played System Shock 2, your reactions will be like "...System Shock 2?"

[@theviniso]

Even my dog, that has only ever played fetch, was like "...Bioshock?"

[@cabrondemente1]

Highly acclaimed 10 year old game, not unusual to know the plot at this point.

[@SporeFreak2010]

WTF? O_o

[@rbwjakfjenwbw1009]

That joke at the end was just cold.

[@MobileTootGundam]

*gold

[@RFC3514]

*told.

[@hentaiconnoisseur2413]

*hold

[@LunarLegacy]

*bold.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

And accurate.

[@Tsquare22ESQ]

The lady getting electrocuted in the shoulder joke was great. Please bring back "Judging by the Cover"

[@coenisgreat]

But Yahtzee, you already reviewed Bioshock...wait a minute.

[@PsyrenXY]

I smell a retro-revieeeeeew

[@Waruichinchilla9]

"If you're going to rip something off , maybe pick something that isn't really good and made by more competent people than you." Sickest burn in awhile. Made me flinch.

[@gankhef5564]

Speaking of the logo... We need more Judging By the Cover! Desperately. Please?

[@The1WithoutFear]

Wow, that burn at the end! You would think Days Gone got that level of burn being too Close To The Sun!

[@authenticlimeflavor432]

“Close to the son” I’ll take things that cannot define my father for 500, alex

[@meelans6126]

Thats the best ending to any Zero Punctuation video

[@nicolasrube06]

nah the 50 cent video still has that one

[@volcryndarkstar]

@@nicolasrube06 You made me look it up to hear it and you are correct. Holy shit! Hilarious.

[@typacsk]

The "Halo Wars"/Pedigree review is still my favorite.

[@Merlewhitefire]

The fact that I never even played Bioshock and still recognized it as Bioshock by the end of the first descriptive element is quite telling

[@cabrondemente1]

No, it's not, Bioshock is a widely known game for it's narrative.

[@Merlewhitefire]

@@cabrondemente1 Right, and the point is that the literal most widely recognizable aspects of Bioshock are the thing they ripped off.

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

​@@cabrondemente1Yes it is rather telling

[@Zathren]

4:00 Love that you used the original time machine Yahtzee.

[@FuglyStick]

Yahtzee kicks Days Gone in the nutsack. "Dude, what was that for? I was just standing here."

[@dominicchambers8672]

The Days Gone joke at the end was excellent

[@Ninetails2000]

It's like the game is an allegory for Epic Games themselves.

[@daggern15]

It's not like Steam invented the online retailer "let's screw devs out of money for doing basically nothing" schtick

[@Draganot1]

@@daggern15 Steam does quite a lot though, like, holy shit they do a lot. It's certainly not as simple as "let's screw devs out of money for doing basically nothing". Epic on the other hand...

[@crackedemerald4930]

@@Draganot1 steam has a ton of shit, there's at least four different tabs you can choose that do four different things. I *still* don't know how to use steam proper to this day and I've had it for like two years

[@Max_Mustermann]

Got this game for free on the Epic store a while ago and honestly, it was quite enjoyable. It is true that the story and art style are heavily inspired by Bioshock, but I wouldn't call it a rip-off as the game play itself is more similar to games like Amnesia and Layers of Fear than it is to Bioshock. Also, it is pretty clear that quite a lot of effort went into the game, especially in regards to art assets and environments.

[@Nijht]

Only Yahtzee could pull off throwing four separate insults in the last 20 seconds like that.

[@AMeanGecko]

"Ride to Hell, but functional and therefore less interesting......and then call it Days Gone" Nice savage roasting there my good man.

[@Modzorz]

"...because Bioshock kicks ass." *reviews the old bioshock review real quick.* ... HOLUPPAMINUT-

[@prcervi]

it ranked high in the end of year round up

[@senbontorii2680]

He said it was one of the best games of the year in the review itself, and he sped through the good parts because "no one likes a good review"

[@KitsuneYojimbo]

That burn on Days Gone was savage! Kudos on the awesomeness of that.

[@xanderfulton3186]

It’s funny because the idea behind To Close to the Sun could’ve worked. Scientists have a reputation for trying to answer questions that are inherently dangerous for the sake of knowledge for knowledge’s sake and the game could’ve made the point that the ambition to seek knowledge needs to be tempered or you risk something catastrophic. But you do that by showing neglect, hastiness, scientists protesting “safety concerns” and bullying their way into numerous disastrous experiments after another. Not through one lab accident that summons the monsters

[@Rodrigo-ei4ht]

Wow Yahtzee managed to sneak in that jab at Days Gone xD He must really not liked that one.

[@Taolan8472]

That was a fantastically well deserved shot at days gone at the end

[@AnotherLuckyStar]

Oh boy, can't wait for Yahtzee to review Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted soon. Because he is definitely going to do that. Any minute now.

[@legorobot2369]

no.

[@landonstrong9686]

Considering he was freaked out by the first one due to featuring animatronics, Help Wanted would probably give the guy a heart attack.

[@peardude8979]

You remind me of the guy who asked Yahtzee to review Huniepop on every ZP video for about a year. Maybe longer. Good times.

[@smeltstarverse7306]

1 year ago

[@UnlimitedFlyers]

Goddamnit, I love Yahtzee so much. He pretty much nailed everything that I thought about this game.

[@Tarbarian]

Is no one else going to point out that the game called "Close to the Sun" centers around a city named Helios? That is a little too on the nose, seeing as Helios is the Greek Titan embodiment of the sun. Meaning the game is literally close to the metaphorical sun. These guys didn't have an original thought in their head.

[@simonasdavidavicius7602]

Keep up the good work Yahtzee!!!!!!

[@ryanvaros8827]

Been watching since like 2006 mang. Dont stop. :D

[@patch-fm]

It's funny on how he still has the same tone for over the years.

[@shizuwolf]

The series started back in 2007

[@patch-fm]

@@shizuwolf i thought he made his first videos in 2006 in his own channel...

[@ryanvaros8827]

Was it 07? It was my 2nd year of high school I started watching, guess it was on the back half. My B :^)

[@shizuwolf]

His first video was on the demo for The Darkness

[@OkayFillet]

"Why not try to make say rideto hell but actually functional and consequentially infinitely less interesting and call it Days gone." -Yahtzee

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

"Close to the Sun" should be fired into the sun.

[@BaranZenon]

You could call it "Close to the Sun - Not close enough" :)

[@madmandrawings2922]

Hers a another one for ya “ Close to the Sun” to close to bioshock

[@spacebear4742]

"Close to the sun" should not have seen the light of day.

[@IamaPERSON]

Despite being "Close to the Sun", it's not that bright

[@Foreststrike]

It was so far from the sun, it may as well have been underwater. Oh wait.

[@Jillbles]

Got a legit LOL out of me with that last joke.

[@VertSecretStash]

In here to remind you that Icarus' fatal flaw was not hubris, but being dismissive of instructions. He flew to close to the sun not because he wanted to reach it, but because he didn't listen to his dad who made the wings.

[@idiot685]

Gee, I wonder why he didn't listen to his dad. Maybe because of hubris?

[@depressivetangela2033]

What does Nikola Tesla have to do with Greek myths?

[@IamaPERSON]

Zeus has electric powers, Nikola Tesla uses electricity.

[@powerthunfischdesdonners3086]

well , he was a human and the people who thought of greek myths were humans too!

[@merrittanimation7721]

They're both European, so everyone knows that means they have everything in common.

[@patchmoulton5438]

@Java Monsoon Legends say that someday the Alpha American will awaken from his thousand-year slumber. After consuming every IHoP around, he will then make the most amazing story you ever will see by combining Ayn Rand and Tesla together

[@themartianway]

@Alex M that does make sense.

[@MindinViolet]

Great review, so funny. Somehow, though, this left me wanting to play the game.

[@maxvitor7023]

That Days Gone roast at the end 😂😂😂

[@ImusakHctividar]

That zinger at the end got me good.

[@StubzTurner]

Loved the shots fired at Days Gone at the end.

[@Changetheling]

- "So, how's the game's industry?" - "Nobody surpassed Bioshock yet." - "Oh."

[@williamcunningham1669]

You're the original KZbin superhero. You are a legend and always will be. Your mom is the goddess of your greatness. Yes I just made the first good yo mama joke in history. Yo Mama is so cool she created one of the best KZbin channels ever.

[@robinhyperlord9053]

Yazty, bring back that Judging series thing!

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

The benefit to games like these is it lets the fantastic games to shine even more.

[@Torbero47]

5:15 shots fired LOL

[@Bradbradhehe]

The Days Gone stinger at the end got me good

[@Waitwhat469]

"If you're going to rip something off , maybe pick something that isn't really good and made by more competent people than you " If only Epyc heard this first too. Excited to see what GoG galaxy 2.0 will be like though.

[@aaaaanditsgone]

well, if anything I'm glad you played the game because you produced this gem.

[@Thenshi12]

The end was epic xD

[@nobody-ye9rx]

That last rag on days gone though, fucking brutal, solid work

[@jennytalls2087]

That burn to days gone was legendary

[@DeyvsonMoutinhoCaliman]

Watching your videos today I saw Nicole Tesla being featured in three games, and Lovecraft in one.

[@tammysilverwolf1085]

I bought this game because it looked really cool (the envrions are great I think) but I kind of lost all hope when I was crawling through vents and heard the protag make a fucking Die Hard reference... >_>

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

MC makes a dated movie reference out of nowhere? My god, this is the Bioshock equivalent of Hunt Down the Freeman, is it?!

[@emmapopovic-bogdanich1991]

@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 I think that it's more due to it being set almost a century before Die Hard was made. It would be one thing if it were set in modern times (give or take a few decades), but considering how alien the world and plot of Die Hard is to the late 1800s is pretty amazing. Something that I only realized on the third viewing of this review is how Tesla, a cultured but eccentric Serbian immigrant, was able to get an entire city full of people in an underwater city considering that if he had the business and people skills he did in real life, then he wouldn't have died poor. At the very least, he would have married the daughter of J.P. Morgan. She was in love with him, but he wanted to devote himself to science. If the guy couldn't even be that mildly sleazy, then how and why would he create a city where there were no laws. It doesn't fit in with his personality. It made sense in Bioshock because everyone was inspired by Ayn Randian philosophy, but it just doesn't seem like what Nikola Tesla would do.

[@destinyhntr]

@@emmapopovic-bogdanich1991 Wait? This wasn't set in some weird, future time? (I only played the first thirty minutes). The way the women spoke sounded very modern (at least 2000 or later) so for some reason I assumed this was somehow set in present time.

[@sulli84pl]

The ultimate roast at the end...

[@turkeysamwich00]

as soon as he said "stop me if this sounds familiar" I knew it was gonna be bioshock based on the front page graphic alone lol

[@bamesjond2069]

Fuck me, that last joke was such hard kick in Days Gone’s balls that even my groin hurts

[@cantonnierbethcepourlavhy6343]

That last sentence was sharp

[@outeremissary4438]

Yahtzee's definition of epic says a lot about the man.

[@keydos3133]

A new zero punctuation :D

[@142doddy]

Just like every week

[@7OwlsWithALaptop]

The interdemensional science police is a thing in a fun little webnovel called "A Practical Guide To Evil". It's really interesting, I recommend it to anyone who might read this.

[@DarkNova50]

"Advancing" human dialect is an...interesting way to describe it.

[@mistertaffy6720]

Take note companies, I want lightsaber noises on credit card machines.

[@oneofmanyalexs]

I cant wait for the sequel, " To close to the sun".

[@Graeko]

Based on the title, I thought it was going to be a survival game set in space where you scramble to survive in a damaged space station as it drifts nearer and nearer to our dear celestial body. Battling rising heat, starvation, and possibly some paranormal phenomena, with little to no chance of success. That actually sounds fun. Close to the Sun does not.

[@bluecoin3771]

Sounds like the cosmic thriller film Sunshine which contrary to the title is actually quite dark and harrowing.

[@atlantiswolf]

I feel like that last riff was also consequently thrown at the epic store

[@Grymbaldknight]

A sciency underwater settlement called "Helios"? I think Close to the Sun has been taking a few pointers from Soma's story, too. Soma itself does also seem to sneak a few peeks at Bioshock's test sheet, but it's still very much its own game. Bioshock and Soma are both great stories, but in different ways. One explores the socio-political flaws of Objectivism, and the other explores the metaphysical concept of "what it means to be human". I haven't played Close to the Sun, but it seems to be trying to take the best parts of both games and cram them together. Ice cream and pizza are both great foods, but no sane chef would serve them on the same plate... and it would seem that a lot of higher-ups in the games industry are not "sane chefs". On a less serious note, the end credits for ZP have changed and it's making me deeply, deeply uncomfortable.

[@jamesswartz1779]

I have to agree. the endings from 2013 were more polished that the static screen at the end of this one.

[@dielabtec7882]

the last 10 seconds got me !

[@TheKoprusInspiration]

ive been watching these videos for over a year now and holy shit its much better on 0.75 speed.

[@johnm.2785]

THAT DAYS GONE RIP AT THE END I LEGIT SPIT OUT MY DRINK

[@gruenenator]

Ooof that shade being thrown on Days Gone. I'd say something about how comparing it to Ride to Hell is really unfair, but Yahtzee's right, I will likely only remember one of these games 5 years from now, and it's probably not going to be the alright one.

[@Kingdeathtrooper]

I'm wearing a bioshock shirt, and I can attest to the fact that they have an identical font and colour scheme.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Never get tired of seeing those "lol it's the next bioshock, I'm so deep" games, with a very overt reference to a Greek myth as a central theme.

[@ralphbarnes9335]

Now I have to think about Big Daddy metaphors.

[@kerbalairforce8802]

".....give it a shot ...." -Yahtzee Quick! Put it on your box art!

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

Sometimes ripping-off the ideas more competent people wholesale is better that improving bad ideas. Because seeing an ambitious proyect fail misserably maybe isn't as fun as seeing it succed, but a lot of times is funnier that seeing a concept evolve from bad to mediocre. Is like Doug Walker once wrote "fame is fleeting. But infamy last forever" or something

[@andrewfewtrell3983]

If you like bioshock check out the Danish symphony orchestra performance of a piece from the game, it is fantastic. They do many interesting pieces Star Wars, Halo, World of Warcraft, the fifth element and many more. I hope to see them live at some point when work permits and this Corona fucks off.

[@guguy00]

THAT FUCKING DAYS GONE BURN. I sat there with my jaw on the floor after hearing it. It was so well placed a potshot.

[@Gatsby_OW]

I just finished the game and agree completely

[@TheEliteJohan]

Achtually Yahtz, Rapture's downfall was caused by avoiding one of the main tenets of libertarianism: free trade. I'd say the game shows the philosophy more in a good light than a bad one, Rapture seemed to work well for a long time until the black market caused a divide.

[@ninjartist36]

Yahtzee, just the title screamed BioShock to me

[@hardmodefbl]

A Plague Tale: Innocence OR RAGE 2

[@devilsadvocate6381]

Hot damn, that last one was a real zinger!

[@E1craZ4life]

The day Yahtzee reviews Roller Coaster Tycoon Marks the day I sold my soul for a cupcake.

[@2Scribble]

0:30 - I need a gif of this!!!!

[@deimosian]

Damnit where are the rest of the annual compilations?!

[@KeithFraser82]

Zero Punctuation indie rock track name of the week: A Line No Thicker Than A Walrus Whisker.

[@Hedgpig]

Excellent Days Gone review, Yahtzee

[@M0r7r3d0r]

Yahtz, are you saying the developers were too ambitious? Like they had reached too far and gotten hurt somehow? Like they had ascended to a level above their ability and as such ended up melting a vital binding agent holding onto many small things used to assist with motion and progress, resulting in useless apendages and dropping out of the sky, flightless? If only there were a way to bring that across with a bit of shorthand and a reference to an old Greek story...

[@BigStarRealFamous]

Holy crap, that Days Gone stinger was that strong shit. Almost spit out my sandwich

[@traviswilliams2348]

Close to the sun? That's where we should fire whoever came up with the epic store.

[@armorfrogentertainment]

Maybe redesign the Epic store to actually look, you know, epic. A black and gold color scheme (not unlike this game's box art) would fit the name much more than the same palette as Steam.

[@destinyhntr]

@@armorfrogentertainment And allow people to post reviews and interact while they're at it.

[@Eyeball117]

That fucking burn at the end

[@Anonymos185]

5:04 Whelp... Guess i'm not writing that book then