Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Minishoot Adventures, Starstruck Vagabond, and Nine Sols | Yahtzee Tries

[@rayanderson5797]

Doing a completely straight-faced review of the game he made is peak Yahtzee.

[@alyxgraff9121]

Very much agreed.

[@thefloatingcontinent9897]

More comedians need to have the chops the be their own straight man.

[@rodsk8dude731]

Incorporating criticisms from players into the video could have been funny too.

[@allanwidner9276]

Exactly what I was about to comment.

[@ArifRWinandar]

No, peak Yahtzee is fifteen years ago.

[@GGHF]

Yahtzee should do a Fully Ramblomatic for Starstruck Vagabond where he just reads out negative reviews from Steam, Stanley Parable style.

[@performa9523]

YES

[@garr_inc]

UNNNN-FUNNY?!

[@randomatorPHD]

Red Candle Games, the devs of Nine Sols are a Taiwanese developer. They got in quite a bit of hot water when their last game, a horror game called Devotion had a secret image mocking Xi Jinping, the current leader of China. The game was consequently blacklisted from digital sale internationally for years. TLDLR: You don't have to like China to like Nine Sols, the devs don't like it either.

[@VietDang-yk1yt]

the devs are based as hell

[@typacsk]

(whisper whisper) "What, the boring one?"

[@quackonmysnack]

@typacsk Read "What, the boring one?" out loud, and immediately went, oh yeah, the Division lol

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

That long joke at the start of his The Division 2 review is still one of the best bits he's ever done.

[@Rick586]

Oh no! Did they hurt Evil-Winnie-the-Pooh's feelings?! He's such a fragile genocidal maniac, we must protect his emotional state at all costs!!! ;)

[@Skater901]

Point of clarification: Nine Sols is made by Taiwanese devs, NOT Chinese devs. :) Also I'd love to see a Fully Ramblomatic on Nine Sols because I agree, it takes a bit to get going, but once it does I think it has a lot of good things. Some of the boss fights recreate that Sekiro feeling where it looks like something out of an anime as you fight the boss. Spectacle all around.

[@Epicmonk117]

Can you really blame him for getting them confused? Taiwan formed when a bunch of people fled China when the current regime took over, and even to this day still claims to be the *real* China. (Personally, I like to say that Taiwan is Taiwan and China is Mainland Taiwan because I think it would make Winnie the Pooh mad if he heard it).

[@tnttiger3079]

The island is Taiwan, but the government is the Republic of China. The people there consider themselves Chinese. 'Taiwan/Taiwanese' is a Western English exonym created to distinguish it from the state/people of the People's Republic of China, who are granted the monopoly on 'China/Chinese'.

[@deathsyth8888]

"And my best game of 2024 is Starstruck Vagabond." - Yahtzee

[@svsguru2000]

Yahtzee looking pleased with himself after the 420 joke is just great.

[@jimmythumbtack]

Yahtz potentially being a stoner makes me weirdly happy

[@diegofloor]

That close-up made me laugh too. Those quick glances at the camera felt like "get it? kids say that, right?"

[@JasonX909]

@@jimmythumbtack Pretty sure he is lol

[@jimmythumbtack]

@@JasonX909 Yeah he did probably 10 remarks on that stream with proper lingo. What's your evidence? Because I might have to add "blaze it with Yahtzee" to my bucket list.

[@JasonX909]

@@jimmythumbtack Just general vibes I guess

[@muja_bunny]

It's so nice of someone to design a game especially for Yahtzee

[@kevadu]

Yahtzee should really thank that guy

[@kismete6921]

Wow Yahtzee really loves this Starship vagabond. Who would guessed?

[@RiverNorthExile]

Shocked. Shocked, I tell ya!

[@smashpro1]

I do appreciate that he is self-aware enough to take a few shots at his own game.

[@jamesbevan9939]

What an astounding coincidence that he shares the same name as the creator

[@jmackmcneill]

Here to tell you, a creative ending actually liking their own work is rarer than you might imagine.

[@spacecentergames]

He also loves Stardew Valley, which he says is a direct inspiration.

[@MD_Polydactyl]

Currently stuck on a Greyhound going cross country cause American Airlines pulled an EA and cancelled my flight without even the courtesy of offering me paid DLC (ie an alternate flight). Making my way through the back catalog, and just wanted to send a big thanks to the Second Wind crew. You can’t make this bus smell less like urine, but at least you can make the time I have to spend on it a little more bearable.

[@bobomob111]

The banter between Yahtzee and Frost is always so good.

[@MoskalMedia]

Yahtzee saying "My kingdom for a back button!" and Frost replying with "Nah you don't get one. Just like the pilgrims of old" had me howling with laughter.

[@_Zeruca]

Well this aged very poorly lol

[@eldibs]

I have been enjoying Starship Vagabond, I'm glad Yahtzee likes it too. I bet the developer will be glad to know that.

[@Rincewindl]

got 14 hours in nine sols and near the end im not sure if yathz will find it as impressive or interesting as i did but it definitely does explore some fun themes, the gameplay ramps up nicely and the characters are great to hang around with just wish you could stamp the map

[@Waffletigercat]

Minishoot Adventures and Nine Sols look soooooo good.

[@dizzlegrizzle1919]

minishoot and nine sols are both great. played em both

[@mrrd4444]

Thank you Jesse for referencing my favorite anime, King of the Hill

[@donovanbisson4988]

For what its worth, I would recommend playing a bit more of Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. I watched your full first session, and the first big plot hook is not far off from where you moved on. Saying "it gets better I swear" means little, I know, but I'd be doing the game a disservice if I didn't try. The puzzles do get better as you go, though the whole "not having the necessary information yet" pitfall does still show up.

[@gteal24]

Re: Lorelei and The Laser Eyes having no back button, I think it's supposed to encourage players to keep a physical journal on hand. When a single puzzle in the mid-game needs information from three documents, the transcript of a cutscene, and then some spatial reasoning and arithmetic on top of that relying on the four directional and single contextual input to navigate nested menu entries becomes agonizing. But keeping a personal lunatic journal full of scribbled numbers, geometric codes, and insane plot supposition suddenly makes it a PEAK puzzle game.

[@Colopty]

Definitely the most unbiased review of starstruck vagabond you'll ever find.

[@darwinsdummy]

Some amazing editing today Jesse, loved all the gags including the hidden Marty that you have a signed copy of.

[@hawkeyegough9090]

something about Yahtzee referring to himself as Mr. Croshaw just tickles me fucking pink

[@zennvirus7980]

Oh, man, I can't wait to see which of this four games does Yahtzee FRs this week... FYI: I love 9 Sols, scratches that Hollow Knight itch while we wait for Hornet.

[@ninjabiatch101]

"When at any moment the wife could call and tell me the baby accidentally swallowed a fridge." I Laughed WAAAAY too hard at that. I feel his pain.

[@MatthewDuguay1134]

Nine Sols story is quite good, but requires you to "soak it in", not something to mash through. It's taking the best parts of all those references and doing something original. In the world of "this game better floor me within 1 hour 59 minutes or it gets a negative review and refunded", it doesn't do that. But it's not supposed to.

[@Beegrene]

Minishoot Adventures has a demo for anyone who's on the fence about it. I bought the game immediately after finishing the demo.

[@thejackofnotrades3844]

Ive been rooting for minishoot adventures ever since i played the demo woo

[@melephs_cap]

Nine Sols is an incredible game! It's slow and story-heavy especially in the beginning so it's very hard to get a good early impression if the lore doesn't grip you, but I love the storytelling and it's a top-notch metroidvania with incredible parry-fest bosses & minibosses. Genuinely having more fun with it than I did with Hollow Knight.

[@umarthdc]

The one button thing is obviously a homage to Balan Wonderworld. Very classy.

[@carthienesdevilsadvocatenr2806]

I have greatly enjoyed your coverage of Starstruck Vagabond so far, Yahtzee, so thank you for that. I suppose the other stuff was interesting too.

[@ArifRWinandar]

I hope this Starstruck Vagabond game graduates from Yahtzee Tries to its own Fully Ramblomatic

[@BlueAversion]

During the Yahtzee Tries stream someone suggested he refer to the game as Starsuck Vaginawank. Kinda disappointed he didn’t run with that.

[@GerinoMorn]

4:07 I don't even know if demo scene still exists, but this sounds like a challenge xD Remember those full 3D, several minute long real-time rendered animations with full music score, that fit in like 64kB or w/e, like 8kB xD

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

7:41 - LOL! Best bit XD EDIT - no, 10:21 is! Love these edits hahaha

[@coreysierchio4650]

I've had Starstruck Vagabond forever going on my Steam Deck since I started. Also, While typing the name out, I just realized it can be "Stars Truck Vagabond" which is appropriate for a a space delivery game. *Thanks for the Content!*

[@alialmuhanna4938]

7:08 The mad lad actually did a Yahtzee Tries with this one !!

[@bassoonatic]

"Like Andrew Lloyd Webber forgetting how to suck" fucking destroyed me

[@adiveler]

Shame he so casually dismissed Minishoot Adventures and Nine Sols, because those games are great!

[@robbybevard8034]

He said he might need more time with Nine Sols because it was just starting to show itself after that hour of tutorial.

[@zubiddydoodoopop]

Minishoot Adventures is what I imagined what Pixeljunk would have done to their Shooter duo of games if they were tasked to backport those PS3 games to the PSP

[@TheMichaellathrop]

In all fairness they did telegraph that you didn't want to go into the water by making you a cat.

[@fatgods2921]

At the end of Yahtzee's Dev Diary, he said that the series would come back closer to the end of Starstruck Vagabond's development. Are there any plans now to restart the series, or to make an epilogue to it covering the release process?

[@levantreven9659]

Hearing the word "tao-punk" just makes me want a resurgence of Outlaw Star.

[@TheSmokingMustache]

Theres a universe. I'd love a good space sci fi bounty hunter game in.

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

Yahtzee poker-facedly reviewing his own game while refusing to acknowledge that he's the creator even after reading his own name off the title screen sees him reaching new levels of awesome.

[@tiro_taiwan]

The storyline of Nine Sols is absolutely epic

[@templar804]

I appreciate the sneaky old hat in the corner at 7:10.

[@AsterInDis]

I did like 5 hours in Starstruck Vagabond, went "Okay that's enough" and then returned the next day to do even more time in the game. I wish there were a little more variety in the sector jobs etc but overall I'm enjoying the game.

[@TheValmal]

Theoutherfrosts voice is like pouring warm honey into my ears

[@jjz1592]

Great editing!

[@msrr4949]

"Never touch the poop"

[@DMBLaan]

Yes! I see Jessie used a clip from the anime King of the Hill. Truly, he is a man of culture. Worth every penny of that $5 donation, lol! Keep it up!

[@benburke3015]

7:46 isn't that basically the plot of golf club wasteland? Lol.

[@hammieli1875]

This StarStruck Vagabond game is oddly reminiscent of Futurama

[@naomicoffman1315]

"...when, at any moment, my wife might call and tell me the baby swallowed a fridge." And *that's* how you do a joke about family stress without punching down.

[@skunk292]

try Chants of senaar! if you want context clue puzzles about linguistics, its super super fun!

[@justinrodriguez5957]

Lost my proverbial shit with the King of the Hill reference involving Yahtz and Nick. 🤣

[@trigs7127]

6:16 "One big bowl of perfectly acceptable custard is something i very much appreciate filling up my tummy, its not something i can get particularly excicted about..." Speak for yourself, if i could buy a pot of custard or flan pudding i would be very very happy.

[@denmark1226]

The shitpost editor has escaped containment. I repeat, the shitpost editor has escaped containment. Deploy countermeasure immediately: Leave unfinished Yahtzee Tries Video file open in editing software on a random computer.

[@HenryWayat]

The second boss in Nine Sols (which I suspect is a midlevel boss) is hard af, I couldn't beat him last time, lost all my currency thanks to him and the timings on him are just brutal. I think he's even harder then the secret boss from the demo

[@KeyvanHedayati]

Editor, loved how you sneaked in Marty during a transition

[@Lastkoss]

The king of the hill thing shocked me.

[@axelprino]

I get that some game designers are really committed to the idea of interface simplicity, but not having a back button sounds more like actual bad UX design. BTW I love that we actually got a review of Starstruck Vagabond by Yahzee himself, reminds me of the days of the ego review from back when he still made content for his own channel.

[@JULR0W]

Whoa, who made Starbucks Vegemite?

[@ACuriousTanuki]

Some ornery chap. "Shotsey Groshaw" or whatever.

[@TheCreepypro]

some interesting games especially that starstruck vagabond

[@MyLPMaster001]

I'm waiting for the fully ramblomatic of Starstruck Vagabond

[@boothefuzzyhamster3815]

Is it spelled 'Tau punk'? Like T'au of 40k? That would explain the hats.

[@johnclavis]

Spooky exploration? Opening locked doors? Only one button? Finally, a sequel to Haunted House for the Atari 2600!

[@bird3713]

I bought Starstruck Vagabond this week. I don’t know if I’ll actually play it.

[@wearsjorge55]

Yeiiiiiwwwwww an andrew loyd webber joke! Been holding out for years for another one of those

[@zeltzamer4010]

I must voice an objection to the subtitles at 8:31.

[@Texelion]

My garage door doesn't even have buttons, gotta open it manually with a counter-weight. Also the assholes who installed it thought it would be smart to put the cable for the counterweight on top of the pipes running along the ceiling for heating, and after years of opening and closing the door, the cable cut through the pipes. In the middle of fucking winter of course just before Christmas. Doors with buttons...

[@DodgeThisBam]

12:35 Immediately looks for the notification. FUCK.

[@theworkshopwhisperer.5902]

Knowledge of real life systems like the 24 hour clock... I wonder who that message was for...

[@ninjabiatch101]

Its okay Yahtz, You're still a big shot on youtube to me

[@PhalisoBringerOfDoom]

King of the Hill is one of the best anime

[@alialmuhanna4938]

8:42 Hmmm … I wonder why that is.

[@OldBuggaboo]

Wow! Yahtzee's game is being reviewed by THE Jacques McKeown

[@Canadamus_Prime]

I've got a question for you, Yahtzee. How come a delivery of Apple Pies involves a radioactive crate?

[@gamingyann1769]

Lorelei and Minishoot are the best games I played this year. I hope the third one is as good as those ones.

[@merman1974]

Still can't make my mind up on Lorelei and the killer7.

[@BlueAversion]

10:21 OH my god! What the actual fuck?!!

[@EmperorSeth]

So ... does Lorelei HAVE Laser Eyes? Is she fighting something with Laser Eyes? Are Laser Eyes just generally present? I know almost nothing about this game outside of reviews, but my instinctive understanding of a game with that title is you would solve puzzles using your laser eyes (like redirecting shots off mirrors or whatever,) or it was a semi-stealth game about dodging laser eyes.

[@BunnyOnASnuman]

8:32 ... You didn't watch what?

[@SHABAD0O]

I cannot for the life of me figure out Frost's accent. It's like 85% North American, and 15% something else.

[@puppysect]

15% throat polyp. 😁

[@TheMightyDM]

Yea, Stinkbug Van Halen is a pretty good game so far.

[@JF-um3wz]

You could argue that Binding of Isaac did twinstick shooting X legend of Zelda earlier, if not first.

[@LithmusEarth]

Maybe I missed it, but does that mean you've released a version of Starstruck Vagabound to the public? It's been quite a wile since i've played those Trilby Adventures.

[@SecondWindGroup]

Yes it's on Steam now!

[@GayBearDaddy2]

You, uh, really missed it. There were a lot of announcements (Discord, Patreon, Streams, KZbin posts, and even in Fully/Semr Ramblamatic).

[@LithmusEarth]

@@GayBearDaddy2 Well I appreciate the update, you rascals. I'm just so very out of the loop. I was enjoying the Development Blogs on it, but I stepped away for a a few months.

[@LithmusEarth]

@@GayBearDaddy2 It came out 9 days ago, That's a relatively short time frame. I feel better about having missed the boat now. I have wishlisted it on steam to remind myself when I have the scratch.

[@thisisfyne]

I'm halfway into Nine Sols and so far it's simply AMAZING. Haven't had that much fun with a 2D action/metroidvania since Blasphemous. The art, the lore, the mechanics, the bosses; it has everything. This really solidifies how aggressively mid Hollow Knight was. Highly recommend. 9/10

[@LucaTheStar]

Calling Hollow Knight mid on the internet may be a risky thing to do but it does intrigue me to check it out 🤔

[@essneyallen6777]

You are the kind of dude who goes back to old masterpieces and says "wow how mid, all these other media that came after and were immensely influenced by this did things a lot better!". Movie and tv circles are full of the buggers, it was inevitable to get them in gaming too, I guess.

[@thisisfyne]

@@essneyallen6777 Thanks for trying to assuming things about me, but no. Tons of my favourite games are from around the year 2000.

[@kekcrocgod6731]

@@essneyallen6777hk fans getting super defensive over their favorite game when someone doesn’t like it will always be funny

[@essneyallen6777]

@@kekcrocgod6731 I mean, if I respond you'll take it as a point in your favor. But still, it's kind of weird to see this kind of conversation stopping responses when it's not even "defensive" to say that it's going to look mid if you ignore any context. I mean, that's not even disagreeing with the statement of mid-ness! But hey, I took the pointlessly inflammatory bait, I knew what was going to happen ":D

[@fadeerchen]

Hollow knight also has a map which reveals nothing at the beginning… I don’t think nine sols did something wrong in this regards.

[@jcace13]

There are currently 440K subscribers to the channel, seems like Starstruck Vagabond should be sitting on about 440K sales right about now.

[@barthvader95]

You vastly overestimate the watches-free-videos-to-spends-money-on-game ratio. Nick mentioned a few days ago on Twitter they sold 7k copies.

[@doomgardener1495]

7:20 I still prefer "Darting Flimshaw" as Yahtzee's fake name.

[@camwyn256]

Please! I must know! Does Yahtzee get full payment from Steam if I buy his game when it's on sale?

[@Jmcgee1125]

Definitely not. Steam's not going to lose money when selling something that's on sale. Know that sales are always up to the developer - if they don't want to put it on sale, they won't (see Factorio for example).

[@AdvisorEquiste]

Games look pretty decent. And ragging on a game about a bunch of busywork when... that's the core of the game? The busywork broken up by the great writing and sudden events is great. Makes me want to try Elite Dangerous but still need to finish Starstruck Vagabond first. Whichever definition of 'finish' I reach first.

[@cybern8ic]

Frost onlyfans confirmed? 4:33 if anyone else gets confused

[@Feeble_cursed_one]

Just because you found an attractive person online doesn't mean they have an onlyfans

[@cybern8ic]

@@Feeble_cursed_one he makes a joke in this very video about monetizing his body.

[@SlimePunkGaming]

OnlyFrost..coming soon...

[@AuroDHikoshi]

This game dev "yahtzee" is quite decent... wonder if he does anything else?

[@scubajames615]

Gotta love Yahtzee consistently calling the protagonist of Nine Sols a "ninja" despite the game being based in Chinese history and culture. Yazhtee just casually mixing all east Asians together ignoring the very real differing in cultures and history lmao. Might as well complain that a British history documentary didn't talk enough about George Washington

[@alldayagain]

Starship Vagabond, huh? So, do we put this in the "masturbation cam" category? 😅😂

[@grantmillard8387]

Lorlei is now off my Steam wishlist. Just looking around for a document with a passcode on it isn't interesting. A shame. It looked so beautiful. Starstruck Vagabond looks like it's not as much my kind of game as I had thought so it too is off the wishlist. Sorry Yahtzee.

[@melephs_cap]

I have it on good authority that Lorelei is brilliant in story and puzzling (though there's lots of note-taking involved) and coheres the two really well, and that Yahtzee's playtime shortly missed out on the first huge story hook. It's such that the game doesn't "click" immediately but it pays off really well. Maybe look for other coverage before dismissing it! But do as you like.

[@grantmillard8387]

@@melephs_cap thanks for the heads up. I'm pretty comfortable using Yahtzee as my canary in the gaming coal mine though. Even if it's to show me that his own game isn't to my taste.

[@reubenboylan5831]

Honestly this playthrough really does Nine Sols a massive disservice. I get that that he kinda recognises it's not a game to stream an hour of while talking to the audience and getting distracted from the plot. I think he really needs to do a fully ramblomatic on this one as once he gets past the first few hours I think he'll actually really like it. Even if he doesn't personally the game is just well made enough that it deserves to have more people talking about it.

[@rocko7711]

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[@hannahvickery4683]

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[@eddcollins6338]

Frost onlyfans confirmed?