Tunic (Zero Punctuation)

[@theescapist]

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[@XCOSaber]

Can you guys make more ZP Imp plushes? I'd like to buy a new one

[@zakgrubb7512]

Also line puzzles

[@zakgrubb7512]

2 endings as well if you complete the manual.

[@shardinhand1243]

long shot probably but please cheak out an older game called sundered, could make a good video m8 or just a fun short play

[@glisa3801]

Learning Yahtzee has kids is one of the most world shattering things I’ve learned in a while

[@HungryNinja8U]

Wait till one of them takes over the throne

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

I felt the same way when I found out he had a girlfriend, now his wife.

[@Ramsey276one]

“Farkle, go wash your dots!” XD

[@BradyPostma]

He couldn't be self-depreciatingly bad with women forever. If you roll the dice enough, eventually you get that nat 20.

[@Chaosrain112]

@@BradyPostma My dice are covered in ones. What do.

[@e2rqey]

Holy shit did not realize Yahtzee had kids. God we are getting old. I remember when you first started making these

[@trollzorable]

If Yahtzee can find a woman maybe we all have some hope

[@pravkdey]

I wonder when they'll meet their step dad Gabriel

[@DarkSlimeGod]

Godfather Gabe

[@jacopovilla1590]

@@trollzorable so, you just implied his watchers are inherently more sexually desirable than he is. Takes some confidence.

[@jackwilliamtaylor5656]

Really was a golf-bat-to-the-nuts kind of reveal, huh?

[@paulrus-keaton439]

Damn, Yahtzee was pretty soft spoken here after he got the Kirby rant out of the way. This may be up in his top five at year's end.

[@Edagui97]

Feels so wrong hearing him speak so softly.

[@Subject_Keter]

Feels like a setup for a punchline or just a sign the spite and spittal of a spitfire volcano is a stream with bubbles.

[@johnwrath3612]

@@Edagui97 They just had their second child, his brain has been marinating in bonding hormones. Just wait until he’s got two of the little half-limey bastards running around screaming while he’s trying to write differently Morphous part 3. He’ll be back to his cynical angry self in a year or two.

[@terrencewhite7367]

Pretty sure he was dealing with an illness while recording

[@SurgicalSituation]

He’s ill, and has been for almost two weeks now

[@cautr2190]

Japanese line 1 = "You made a mistake." Japanese line 2 = "He's an egg with a questionable motive."

[@berrim26]

Thank you internet person, I came down here to find a translation

[@Brian-tn4cd]

What's the gana for the kanji? i never got past basics so my kanji vocabulary is lacking, also what does that "Misu ,ミス" mean in line 1?

[@technic1285]

あなた は ミス を 犯しました anata wa misu o okashimashita On mobile, hold on for the second one.

[@technic1285]

彼 は 疑わしい動機を持つ卵です kare wa utagawashii douki o motsu tamago desu and ミス is just "A Miss." The first says "You committed a miss."

[@Brian-tn4cd]

@@technic1285 thatnks

[@CJUGames]

I love the gradual learning process and "Oh, that's how that works?!" side of Tunic.

[@ZenofireX]

And like, it was always there but you just didnt know. Like if you turned on megaman X and never thought to hold the blaster button, becuase for all you know all he shoots is electric lemons in triplicate. Like Yahtz said it's gives the feeling of being the little brother, especially since the manual is written in, which then gives the adjacent feeling that this isn't your game. It's a hand-me-down from your big brother. A game already used but still a brand new world for you. You start to think how he did, and follow his notes as they gradually make sense to you. Really puts the True Ending into a new light.

[@KesorodaBlk]

I noticed how there's writing on the pages in some spots.

[@elhazthorn918]

I think he nailed it when he said it feels like you're playing a foreign game. When you see a word or symbol you DO recognise and suddenly you understandthe meaning, and it opens up so much more.

[@matosz23]

The holy cross for those doors. I felt so, so dumb. I love this game.

[@djsergioner]

Also the "I COULD'VE DONE THAT FROM THE START???"

[@Foshling]

>hour 3 of furiously scribbling lines and codes in a book trying to work out the most recent puzzle Tunic put in front of me. >'Wait, wasnt this an action adventure game?'

[@MrSplic3r]

It's a souls-like if you only want the bad ending, and a puzzle heavy MetroidVania with a dodge-roll if you want the good ending, lol

[@aimelle3]

Yeah I just spent like 10 hours solving puzzles before heading to the final boss and started my NG+ and was like "Right. Battles. I forgot this game had them."

[@Spaghettitron]

i honestly had so much fun flipping through the pages to search for the stuff for the good ending, and doing all of the fairy stuff was just an extra bonus

[@silverstar4505]

*I love it*

[@Pineappolis]

@@aimelle3 My spatial awareness has always been so much worse than my twitch reflexes were when Cave Story came out that the idea of trying for myself honestly kind of terrifies me (I'd probably still be at it a decade hence if I did) but I'm super-interested in how much the game challenges the average player to get the good ending. I adored that Cave Story's "Good" Ending was still pretty friggin' grim but, with a little exploration and a hilarious subversion of the 'Nearly Dead Guy' trope, it presents you with, "sure, there's a _genuinely_ good ending where you save _almost_ everyone and even redeem several bad guys... but you're going to friggin' work for it. You think the 'final' Boss was hard? Try fighting an even harder one with four-stages after we've stolen all you weapon XP and forced you through almost literal Hell (with another boss through in for good measure)." Was absolutely fantastic. Before that final, optional gauntlet run became the only thing I was ever pretty good at speed-running through hundreds of hours of play, I remember honestly not knowing how anyone without one of the two weapons the game couldn't de-level had a prayer.

[@geldonyetich]

For a moment there I was thinking Yahtzee was bearing a strong resemblance to the critic from Ratatouille when he bit into the titular dish.

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

Congratulations for doing this voiceover while you were ill! Loving the Chihuahua / monster truck boss design by the way

[@SOTPOD]

inspired work, that was

[@user-jz8dd3zj8e]

What illness does he have?

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

@@user-jz8dd3zj8e He had a cold at the time, as noticed on a few livestreams he did around the time he would have recorded this ZP.

[@tarekmoneimsaid]

I've played it, and I loved it. The pages not only uncover the mechanics bit by bit, but also paths you can unlock (no spoilers) and even important plot elements. Very interesting and well paced, you're never stuck for too long and the manual pages you find always allow you to progress. Besides, it's really a beautiful manual.

[@bookvee]

And the ending! Both endings! Its tempting to say all three endings, but that would make most players have a heart attack.

[@lordmcsmith]

It's one of those games where you want to tell people about it, but even talking about the game mechanics counts as spoilers.

[@tarekmoneimsaid]

@@lordmcsmith true, the slow uncovering of mechanics and secrets is what makes it unique, can't spoil it :D

[@HaruIRAI]

@@bookvee , what?! Three? Please tell me you kidding. I've collected all the pages and was sure as hell I did everything

[@Wrincewind.]

@@HaruIRAI did you find all the golden statues? how about all the fairies? how about the bit after that?

[@LegoSkeleton]

Suprised that "being young and playing a game in a language you don't fully understand" is an experience native English speakers have as well. I had similar nostalgia when playing Hylics.

[@artstsym]

There were two major game development countries in the 80s and 90s: America and Japan. If you grew up in this time period in either country, you would have run into games written either in your native tongue OR one of the least intuitive languages in the world. Of course, some dedicated Japanese schoolchildren actually took their English studies seriously, so they had a leg up, but for the rest of us when it came to imports, chaos reigned.

[@artstsym]

@Penguin Economics Ok so first of all I said country, let's kick it back down a few notches, but even if I were to take Europe as a unit, it had a respectable computer games industry, but console-wise the numbers were non-existent compared to the population until the mid 90s. And while I personally wasn't importing Japanese cartridges (and the systems to play them), there certainly were people who did, especially when localized releases were often 2+ years apart, if ever. Also, there were more than a few localized versions of games which nonetheless might display the wrong character map in certain circumstances due to glitches.

[@scienceface8884]

Not a common issue, but every once in a while the family from Hong Kong had a garage sale and hey, I've never seen this box art before!

[@elhazthorn918]

My dad took a lot of trips to SE Asia when I was little, and he always brought home Japanese TubroGrafx games. So I related very much to what Yahtzee said about this, as well as the game giving me those nostalgic feelings of playing foreign games.

[@matosz23]

I got this while playing my old N64 games. My sister and I used a translator/dictionary tl get through those games. Main reason we learnt English.

[@Electric0eye]

If the kitten in cowboy boots isn't an accurate depiction of a boss in Tunic I'm coming for you, Yahtz.

[@GlenMerlin]

he's more like a rat in a mask but sure not entirely inaccurate

[@SeventhSolar]

It's really weird that "kitten in cowboy boots" is completely inaccurate and yet I know exactly which boss he's talking about.

[@halcyonacoustic7366]

It's more of a rabbit but yeah

[@FurryWrecker911]

It honestly is, and they were the one boss that really gave me a run for my money. I ended up cheesing it with the magic berries and the please-loose-lots-of-health-fast weapon (if you know, you know) after getting chest kicked for the 100th time by miss-boots-mcgee.

[@SeventhSolar]

@@FurryWrecker911 In that fight, the shield was super important for me. It felt like if you managed your stamina well enough, you could shield your way through the entire fight and get hits in after any melee attack.

[@WeeklyMusicalShitposts]

The Japanese text at 2:33 reads "anata wa misu o okashimashita" which translates to "you made a mistake" I have no idea what the next one is but it's something along the lines of "he is a ___"

[@jonlangthorne7924]

Thank you I was struggling to translate the kanji in that with my limited Japanese ability 😅

[@elijaminwlc6079]

i think its "he is an egg with suspicious motives"

[@Wolfrover]

Clarification: There are actually _two_ endings for _Tunic_ . One of them is indeed very Soulslike, but the other is actually quite happy.

[@auraguard0212]

HOW DO YOU GET BOTH ENDINGS

[@daemonicBookkeeper]

@@auraguard0212 SPOILERS The happy ending comes from collecting all the pages of the manual. To do this you'll need to solve the puzzle that allows you to open the big door at the top of the mountain.

[@Dser3]

Actually, both of them are very Soulslike

[@Melgorias]

The second ending is in fact the second and most interesting part of the game

[@lordecircojeca2039]

The "happy" ending is Outer Wilds-like, I would say

[@reizak8966]

Ah, another episode of Zero Punctuation. The only youtube videos I go full-screen for anymore, just so I can read the sassy remarks. XD

[@Pariah626]

I do love me some sassy remarks I do

[@ShadowCthulhu]

His are the only videos i watch at normal speed, everything else is 1.5x speed.

[@mikev7490]

what@@ShadowCthulhu said

[@jacopovilla1590]

Rare non-ironic “XD”

[@AceJackal253]

'You made a mistake,' and 'He suspects, 'The egg has motive.''

[@mlaine83]

I love Yahtzee occasional throwbacks to Dizzy, a game that 7 year old me loved but could never get past the danged mine cart sequence. Would love to see a retrospective ZP on it!

[@flaco3462]

When he reviewed Horace he said that Horace's design reminded him a lot of the character

[@GenericMcName]

He played all the Dizzy games on his LP channel.

[@mlaine83]

@@GenericMcName definitely going to go check that out. Thanks!

[@TheCyclicGamer]

"But it's the first ever fully 3D Kirby game, Yahtz!" Kirby's Air Ride: Am I a joke to you?

[@ViddyOJames]

spinoffs are not what people mean when they say "kirby game".

[@12isaac00]

This one is right near the top of the lists "games you really shouln't search for a guide online" and "best played in tandem with friends". Also, the soulslike ending isn't the only one out there, there's always hope, you only have to search for it.

[@112steinway]

"The Eucharist is not meant to be taken literally" damn...I didn't know Kirby was a Reformation scholar. Do you think he might be a Calvinist?

[@aelechko]

I'm a Hobbesist

[@mosark6554]

Idk what any of those words mean

[@moalabs]

I totally get this "decipher" part of gaming experience. I grew up on the wrong side of Iron Curtain where all games were like that. Not only in foreign language (English) but also almost exclusively pirated copies without any manual. Figuring controls and rules of the game was half of the fun.

[@FurryWrecker911]

Yahtzee representing 3 of the many bosses as a stack of tables, an angry dog monster truck on top of a tower, and a cat in boots on a floating platform is honestly a close enough representation.

[@westofley]

did you find them difficult? I'm going mad bc everyone says that they're hard, and i don't tend to be _great_ at videogames, yet I beat the 3 key bosses first try. Compare this to my current playthrough of the original Metal Gear Solid (a game for kids) that is kicking my fucking ass...I'm so confused

[@FurryWrecker911]

@@westofley Oh yes very difficult. Spoilers ahead on my experience with the bosses. Garden Knight: I didn't understand how to level up, nor how dodge mechanics work. 25 minutes spent getting corner-killed by the charge attack. Gate Guard: I had explosives so I was in and out in 10 seconds. Siege Engine: 1 hour spent. Trying to learn how to balance stamina for attack/defense was a new experience to me. Again, struggled with timing my dodges and I got constantly wiped by AOE attacks. The Librarian: 1 hour spent. This time it was a mana struggle since you need to wrangle him into the arena. Having to deal with one AOE attack was bad enough, but several at once? That was overload for me. The Scrap Queen: Loosing all stamina in the first hit with the shield up followed by getting two shotted and dying for 40 minutes actually popped my temper. I brought as many mana berries as I could find, and just kept shooting her over and over, bringing her down to her last bar, and made short work of that. The Trials: I had to have spent 2 hours here. Again, stamina management ESPECIALLY when powerless crippled me. The hier: I haven't even bothered to attempt the imprisonment ending. Even in the false fight I was dead 4 seconds in. This is 100% a skill issue on me. I grew up with Gran Turismo, Sly, and Ratchet & Clank. Once I left for college it was City Skylines, Prison Architect, Metro, Truck Simulator, ArmA, and Battlefield. Melee-oriented games with close combat and using the dodge command religiously is not at all in my wheelhouse. I can back a tractor trailer into a tight alley, micromanage weapon care and rad dosage, or spend hours re-painting and organizing my garage, but I don't know the first thing about dodging purple lightning bolts or sentient concrete with laser beams. Nonetheless I enjoyed the game because it was solid, and I knew my screw-ups were simply because I was not used to this type of old school gameplay as it had been a gap of 15+ years.

[@SpoopyChicken]

I need all the pages... 100 steps... the door must open... walk the golden path... use the holy cross... THIS GAME MADE ME LOOK AT EVERYTHING AS IF THERE'S A GODDAMN PUZZLE BEHIND THEM, I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO LOOK AT MY PATTERNED T SHIRT WITHOUT THINKING "oh boy I wonder what the solution to this is." PLEASE SEND HELP.

[@grimreefer9324]

Am I going crazy or was this episode a bit more… relaxed than usual? Not a bad thing, not by a long shot, it’s nice to see something come out that doesn’t COMPLETELY make Yahtzee roll his eyes so hard he goes partially blind

[@QuantumRipple]

I blame sickness induced delirium

[@Th3BadThing]

It's certainly super caaas

[@QuantumRipple]

@@Th3BadThing Next thing we know he'll be writing his next book: "Yahtzee Croshaw's 713 super caz experiments to try with your Japanese friends"

[@akanta5746]

Well the games good so he doesn't have more comedy material than usual. Yahtzees funniest episodes are always the ones about shifty ubisoft games for a reason

[@drpann]

Japanese Translations: "You made a mistake" and "He is an egg with a suspicious motive."

[@BaranZenon]

That is also why I like in TUNIC that the laungage is actually phonetic english, and some translations, that are not really required for any of the puzzles (but help a little), are really fun interesting. Like for example turning on the menu by hiting start is called "Nap Time" :)

[@DanielMarkstedtR]

Hey, thanks for the shout-out to Antiriad! That game sparked my lifelong love for the metroidvania genre (before I had even played Metroid). And also, a lifelong hatred for weapon projectiles that travel in arcs.

[@artstsym]

When I realized what the golden path was I was both very excited to break out pencil and paper to puzzle the damn thing out and also horrified at the prospect of having to show the game that I'd done my work. Tunic's secrets romp near the end is definitely a mixed bag, but I enjoyed it well enough. I didn't go for 100% though. Fuck. That.

[@ultimatehamsandwich734]

I did the Golden Path and loved every second of it. Did half of the secrets on my own and cheated the rest and boy some of them are just plain stupid impossible. Like theres no feasible way for someone to do some of them on their own.

[@artstsym]

@@TheRealBatabii Ah, you sweet summer child.

[@Chijiru]

@@ultimatehamsandwich734 Hello from the future! I just learned this lesson today!

[@Chijiru]

I'm at the end of Tunic and agree 100% with everything you said. I finally got to the end of my puzzle hunt to lastly end of with a final giant puzzle. I am at that "Fuck.That." moment right now.

[@aristizle8797]

@@Chijiru One of the hardest steam achievements for the game is a good after-puzzle: get the gun before getting the sword. It requires you to already know what's what.

[@firstpersonwinner7404]

The end of this video reminds me of a book I recently read of a fantasy assassin that literally starts with his dry cleaning list and then as the story progresses each chapter title is one of those items and if you paid attention close enough you can see exactly how it got dirty.

[@potmeetkettle]

That sounds pretty interesting! What’s the name of the book?

[@jedimike7622]

I also would like to read this book.

[@firstpersonwinner7404]

The book is titled Teckla, authored by Steven Brust, and is the 3rd in a series named after the protagonist, Vlad Taltos. The series isn't chronological and the author tried to make it where you don't have to read in a particular order, so you can likely start off with Teckla.

[@jedimike7622]

@@firstpersonwinner7404 cheers mate.

[@potmeetkettle]

@@firstpersonwinner7404 Thanks pal!

[@Aphasial]

Glad to see the Fez references in the end as that's pretty much the vibe I was getting from it from ZP's descriptions... Definitely one to take a look at now!

[@AJ-uf4sh]

Fez devs even said they've playtested earlier builds

[@darkdragoness5]

This is a pretty positive review, so unless games generally improve in Yahtzees taste over this year, I think we have one of our top 5 best games, possibly high up there

[@jacopovilla1590]

Pretty positive review in Zero Punctuation usually translates to “The narrative works really well”. Everything else depends on your tastes.

[@SeventhSolar]

@@jacopovilla1590 There was little to no narrative, though, and even if you translated the language, you don't find out too much more, so it couldn't be based on narrative.

[@jacopovilla1590]

@@SeventhSolar narrative is not the same as “story”. Every piece of information you get, visual or auditive or interaction-based is narrative, and I guess the interaction with visual cues here works well

[@SeventhSolar]

@@jacopovilla1590 With that new definition in mind, I still don't think there was much narrative present. Putting together the game manual and seeing the little doodles and scribbled hints wasn't playing out to anything connected to the game, and all text and dialogue was deliberately insignificant, if one were to translate it. When Yahtzee talks about being a little kid and struggling to figure out the controls and mechanics of a game in another language, that's the entire nature of the game. The character you control goes through no character arcs, the NPCs go through no character arcs, the world experiences no change. The game gives no information beyond the instruction manual.

[@akanta5746]

This is blistering positive for yahtzee standards, even more so than elden ring (which was already positive). Looks like we're gonna have two soulslikes in the top 5 this year

[@anthonygonzales207]

@3:28 - I just finished reading about that very expedition! Holy shit I laughed harder than I should have!

[@flikkie72]

Was already planning on playing this, but this moved it FAAAAR up my priority list.

[@attilasedon9593]

Yahtzee not throwing vulgar bile on a game is a rare occasion

[@SeventhSolar]

For what the opinion of a random stranger is worth, this is the best single-player game I have ever played. Period.

[@noneontheair]

Tunic is an absolute delight and I cannot recommend it enough

[@lukeskywalker987]

I'm in the end game and really liking it. without spoiling anything, my only real problems are that the late game enemies have this really irritating gimmick, and by the endgame I was kind of done with the puzzles. They're interesting, and really make you feel smart, but I had some trouble with a few, in that I could have sworn I was doing what the game wanted me to do, but it didn't work. Which really sucks because then I feel like I have to look up a guide to make sure I'm not going insane, which I feel kind of defeats the entire purpose of the game.

[@Mirality]

I'm a pleb, so after a certain point of frustration with the boss fights I turned on the "screw you, I'm immortal" option in the menu. Still greatly enjoyed the game though.

[@The1WithoutFear]

If AAA season is going to be drying up for a little while, I'd be interested to see a review of Triangle Strategy; that new tactical strategy game from the makers of Octopath Traveler that changes the story based on your personal ethics/beliefs.

[@showme2theexit]

Advice from TomFawkes: Tunic is best experienced BLIND. If ya already know the stuff that cuts the enjoyment of it by a lot.

[@joeyparkhill8751]

Is it just me or is Yahtzee more... calmer & more soft-spoken since becoming a dad?

[@Subject_Keter]

Just wait till the Dad Jokes start to seep into the Videos.

[@SapphireDragon357]

I believe he was also a bit sick when recording this. **shrugs**

[@wesleythomas7125]

Don't Wake the Baby

[@Code7Unltd]

Screaming bunters will do that to ya.

[@Mark73]

Have you seen his first couple reviews?

[@tenzhitihsien888]

The best thing about Tunic is that it has accessibility options that allow you to bash your head bloody against the already difficult enough puzzling exploration without getting stuck by the combat. If Elden Ring had similar options I probably would've played the heck out of it.

[@UnderseaPumaKing]

It was billed as an open-world Dark Souls. Should have known right there what you were in form the start. Giving it an easy mode, Im sorry, "accessibility options" just ruins it.

[@Krushak8888]

​@Hellsgame18 it does not. It ruins it for no one. Did it ruin the gameplay for you? No. And Tunic isn't close to soulslike.

[@ikebirchum6591]

Step 1: buy on PC Step 2: download a difficulty-reduction mod Step 3: plug your ears to block out the enraged screeches of elitist soulslike fans

[@tictactoc9311]

Woooo Didn't expect Yahtzee to review Tunic.

[@robdielemans9189]

You can put on invulnerability mode from the menu somewhere. There's a gauntlet type fight somewhere passed the middle point of the game when I switched it on.

[@Ayeloo]

Something sounds oddly mature about Yahtzee's tone recently, so I do fear his untimely demise, I do

[@MaskedMammal]

I give my full recommendation to Tunic. It's a really layered game, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I do somewhat agree it feels slightly like it has this identity crisis between Souls-y combat and 'lateral thinking' puzzles but neither is ever so obtuse or challenging that it serves as a roadblock to halt progress. All you really need is some patience (and eventually, a notepad, probably) - you won't know what things are and how they work, at times you don't know what to do and just need to explore and experiment (or seek out community help) and that's all part of the experience.

[@halcyonacoustic7366]

The tilt shift / narrow focus effect can be turned off in the accessibility menu in case anybody is wondering.

[@nicklager1666]

Dont worry about Kirby bring on the carpet, he is like a vaccum cleaner and will just suck up the carpet.

[@Chris_Sizemore]

Yeah, with Kirby there you shouldn't worry about the carpet. Worry about the wife and kids. Pets too.

[@offbeat0008]

"Daddy, what do you do for a living?" "Well, kids, you know all those games you're growing up loving? Yeah I shit all over those."

[@thenomadcommunion]

The sooty hand puppet bit made me laugh a lot harder than it should have. This man's comedy gets better as the years go on

[@zakmazeika4573]

Props for the call out to Sacred Armor, one of the first Spectrum games i remember actually completing.

[@shoutingstone]

I was this old when I realised the Antiriad in Sacred Armour of Antiriad was a game about an Anti Radiation suit, and now a game I played nearly 40 years ago makes sense

[@qinyiyao]

This game does remind me of FEZ, which also has strong Zelda influence in it.

[@SillySnowFox]

I actually own that fox plushie Yahtzee used in this. Neat.

[@starrunner2838]

This was the most unhinged review I’ve ever seen and I’m here for it

[@elhazthorn918]

I finally played Tunic yesterday, and it's got some incredibly deep puzzles. The language is a coherent phonemic writing that can be decoded, even. The puzzles aren't as obnoxiously esoteric as in Fez though, but it does wander dangerously close, being that the hardest puzzles do require you to decode the phonemes, if you weren't to look up the answer online.

[@BrokenWingman]

I'm still going through this game, but I'm loving it so far. The in-game guide is fantastic and, as you put it, very nostalgic of being a kid and going through the manuals of a new game. It's challenging but not oppressive. My biggest issue has been I like to wander a lot, and so I come across an area I clearly don't have the necessary item for, and when I eventually find said item, I cannot remember how to get back to the place I needed it. Just generally getting lost or doubling back 100s of times trying to find something or get somewhere feels a bit tedious at times. But the music is great, the designs are fun, it's simple yet dynamic, the world is very intriguing. It is a perfect blend of Zelda/HyperLightDrifter/DarkSouls.

[@xeviphract5894]

You may not realise it at first, but if you grab a pen and paper, you can unlock more of the mysteries. Some of the puzzles require outside the game thinking.

[@Riddla26]

I just recently finished Tunic too and I have to say I guess from the time you had to review it you got through the "game", but you didn't even touch on the multiple endings possible or the sheer arcane lengths that have been gone to in order to hide the games biggest secrets. There are hidden chests containing fairies that only appear when you stand in a certain location and press a combination of buttons on the D-Pad that otherwise isn't used throughout the entire game, like Ocarina style hidden puzzles. Collecting every page of the manual is the only way to unlock the "good" ending of the game too, not to mention it's just the starting block for figuring out the mountain door puzzle. There are attempts to create online translation devices for the runic language that do actually work and it's really got a lot more layers to it than you would expect. The gameplay is fairly standard but the presentation and the fixings all just elevate it to another level. One of my favourite games so far this year, can recommend. EDIT: Typo.

[@brainflash1]

I look forward to the sequels: Leggings, Mittens, Cloak, Bandana and Codpiece.

[@cptnqusr]

i've been waiting for this one! it's absolutely fantastic. i highly recommend coming in blind; it will make the realizations you have in the game so much more impactful

[@ilikereason]

Tunic is a true gem. I loved the approach that it took in its design.

[@joeyparkhill8751]

Due to my autism, it takes me 1-2 extra views to get Yahtzee's unique sense of humor but when I DO get it, I'm laughing uncontrollably for the rest of the day!

[@lordmcsmith]

For the record, I liked new Kirby. I thought the levels were pretty well-designed and the hidden objectives and side content added some nice variety to the base experience. But TUNIC is definitely the most interesting game I've played in a long time. I've never felt so committed to finishing a game without relying on a guide. It's like there are always enough breadcrumbs that you can solve the next puzzle, but never so many that it runs your sense of discovery.

[@Pineappolis]

This is probably the second-most important reason we need Yahtzee (behind him being _fucking_ hilarious) - Nintendo's first party published games are almost _always_ high quality and entertaining to play but there are an absurd number of games media outlets around to reassure people that that's still the case before they buy. Yahzt being very upfront about the fact innovation in the less tangible aspects of the gaming experience is more important to him than mechanical quality (not that Tunic isn't high quality obviously) allows him to shine a light on a remarkable number of games that might otherwise be easily missed or skipped over by a lot of his audience.

[@EdinMike]

Even towards the end of the game, the amount of times I’d be in the inventory screen and press select trying to close it only the bring up the map…

[@squigglyspaghetti8690]

Fez was released in 2012. 10 years ago at the time of this video. Doesn't that make you feel old?

[@Aware_Bear]

I remember your first video. You've come so far. Love your stuff. I can't begin to tell you how much money I've saved thanks to your brutally honest reviews.

[@greenprotag]

Love this review. Yatz is often harsh for comedic effect, but I am glad he admitted the game does draw you in effectively. This is probably my favorite game this year. It's been a LONG time since a classic style ARPG has been this unabashedly charming and EASILY was better then even Link's awakening remake (please don't misunderstand, BOTH are fantastic games worth a play). I would say if it was a Zelda title, it would easily take a slot in top 5. I also love that it is BOTH charming AND challenging.

[@rovelfox7832]

I started playing thinking it was a Zelda-like game. Now I have five pages of notes and I've partially learned the language

[@SgerbwdGwyn]

"This isn't a Zeldalike at all, it's a Soulslike" tbh Ocarina of Time is pretty much an early Souls game: lock on combat, dodge roll, no jump button, surprisingly dark at times for a Nintendo game, consumable items, tools and weapons that are only found in specific places

[@davehvizdos]

"Where the title is named after the complete text of the main character's laundry list" He also wears a cute Lil handkerchief! Legit tho, I played it and instantly thought, oh, yahtzee will love this!

[@pralenkaman8105]

I couldn't describe tunic better than how you did in a part of the video, child-like, the game is made to be a giant puzzle that you have the solution, however you can't read the solution, it made me remember how, when I was a child, I didn't know English, so all my clues were what was on screen and I had to figure my way through games with what little I could understand It's an amazing experience to play this without a guide, probably the closest I'll ever get to playing ocarina of time on the 3ds when it came out and being stuck for hours because I couldn't understand anything the characters were saying

[@RacingSnails64]

*Thank you* for that image of Kirby ranting about the Eucharist.

[@phineasleon]

This game feels like the elevator pitch was "Legend of Zelda meets Dark Souls" and the devs didn't put too much thought into what does and doesn't work from either game. Like the inventory not pausing was a feature because that's what Dark Souls does. Or somethings are obscure and difficult to figure out because that's what the original LoZ was like. So many features have no intention put behind them besides checking boxes. It's a really good game I'm having fun with, but it can't help but frustrate every time it gets in the way of itself.

[@tpot3679]

A buddy of mine streamed Tunic to me, and it honestly felt like being a child again. Even with the zelda like atmosphere, there’s mystery to be had and depths to be explored and figured out. I was never bored despite never having held the controller- trying to piece together the mystery as he played, looking at and deciphering the made up language in the manual (and entire game), etc. it’s a two fold game where it’s half puzzles and mystery and half dark souls combat. Highly, highly recommend.

[@zennvirus7980]

You know you gotta play the game if Yahtzee ENJOYS it. Means them devs did a bang up job there. That's how I finally decided to get Cuphead, and Yahtzee was dead right about that one.

[@The0rangeCow]

The Golden Path is one of my favorite video game puzzles in the last decade. Don't cheat yourself by using the internet to figure it out.

[@Haan22]

Damn, I needed a nice, fatherly review of a good game. Restful after all the crazy the world has been powerhosing us with lately.

[@1g0ttaP155]

Big ups for having proper subtitles

[@terrydooher4540]

I had The Sacred Armour of Antiriad on one of those indestructable Amstrad 3" disks. (Circa 1986, owner of a 6128 and boy did I lord it over those tape deck-owning plebs). I've spent the last 35 years convinced I was the only person in the world to have played it, so thanks at least for confirming that I'm not in some Mandela-effect alternate universe. I remember loving it at the time, but I haven't risked destroying those memories by going back to it since then.

[@unnamedvisitor1649]

I wasn't surprised Yahtzee has a child now, I was surprised he has more than one

[@LonelyAncient]

unlocking the tutorial throughout the game makes players want to engage with the controls more. For example, holding the roll button lets you attack after the end of the roll, it's not necessary for progression, had I randomly held down the roll button I would've figured it out without finding the page but now I WANTED to find more pages, what other button combos am I missing. just that small change definitely engaged me more than a skill tree that gives +0.000001% speed in ass-kissing on Wednesdays after 8pm if you're wearing different colored socks.

[@daanwindt1633]

I live in a country where games are often not translated to our native language, so I had that experience a lot as a kid

[@gankhef5564]

The fight against this flagrant pause button erasure is not an easy one. But truly, it is a noble one. The power of The Pause is absolute!

[@ScootsMcDootson]

Something about this video has the feel of an early zp from 2007 or 8. Its quite a comforting feeling.

[@myrixica4222]

How to tell people never watched the live streams :They've commented surprise that yahtzee has a kid.

[@lichofthewilds4384]

It's been a very long time since I've watched a zero punctuation video, and not only has it not changed like at all it's also still pretty funny. Good on ya Yahtzee.

[@poisonouslead85]

"Making beelines for the objective like a toddler who's just noticed an uncovered electrical socket." - It's 100% official, Yahtzee really is a parent. I'm pretty sure the toddler's inherent desire to log out of the gene pool is some form of parenting test from God.

[@MathewHaswell]

Has Yahtzee played Who's Your Daddy, where one player is an infant with a death-wish and the other is their father trying to keep them alive? Yes, you can get zapped by sockets.

[@dragonninja3655]

I thought the item menu not pausing the game in dark souls was just for the extra challange. Because otherwise you run into a breath of the wild situation, especially for dark souls 2 and its farmable healing items.

[@BucklingSwashes]

I finished my first playthrough and the absolute madlads hid secrets in the goddamn SAVE menu. Tunic is wild.

[@blackAngelProductions]

Yeah that game cover wasn't really all that subtle I'm surprised Nintendo didn't try to hand these developers a cease and assist

[@jaball77]

The 3d Kirby is actually pretty good, tho.

[@kukubrew]

Oh man sacred armor of antirad, what a damn deep cut. It just brought back some seriously old memories of playing that on Amstrad CPC 464, not knowing what the hell i was doing. Cheers Yahtzee!

[@mimi_meems]

Yahtzee has my heart for referencing Sooty. ♡

[@GooBomber1]

Well, the new Kirby game may not have explicit murders, but it does have a giant amorphous space demon that turns into a combination of The Thing and The Blob near the end

[@jothki]

I'd count the "enemies" that are just sleeping on benches as murders.

[@SaphireLattice]

I ended up creating a whole little website as a notebook for the in-game language because I NEEDED an ability to cross-ref stuff Was so fucking satisfying to finally crack through it later on :D

[@prince_dogboy]

Reading the manual of a new game while on the ride home from purchasing it was a wonderful compinent of gaming in the NES and SNES days.

[@ryansainsbury7858]

That description of the in-universe manual and its masterful evocation of nostalgia was beautiful. Who's going to tell him he bought the Spanish version?

[@TheMidnightCafeAU]

Thank you for putting a picture of Dizzy.. loved those games when i was 4; I'd forgotten the name and tried searching a while back.

[@kadebrockhausen]

Tunic doesn't just give you a weapon. It makes you shovel snow out of driveways and mow lawns for $5 a week until you EARN that flimsy little stick and truly appreciate its value

[@dogtato]

That inventory description is spot on.

[@DanChippendaleMusic]

This video was 100% what I needed to watch this morning. "Cleaning hardened toothpaste stains off Mrs Boothroyd's cat" got me real good for some reason 🤣

[@MoxStash]

Sooty! What a reference. I'm satisfied with the episode now I don't need to watch the rest, thank you.

[@arellajardin8188]

I was mostly satisfied with Tunic. However, towards the end the difficulty goes from a tough, fun challenge, to absolute painful frustration. I don’t want to spoil anything, but the enemies you fight in this section cause your maximum health to drop with each hit, and it only takes a couple hits to make everything a one-shot. Also, a couple of the late game bosses have too much health, even if you’ve fully upgraded your attack. I cheesed one boss by buying up 30+ firecrackers and tossing them while kiting. Otherwise, great game. Some of the endgame puzzles require a lot of patience, or Google. I personally have trouble with my vision, so seeing patterns in the environment were too hard.

[@Landis963]

I'm definitely going to be looking up a key to that language once I hit New Game + and start deliberately going for the good ending. I've already caved on certain HC puzzles which are more annoying to parse through than rewarding to solve. (spinny reflection puzzle, I'm looking at you)

[@arellajardin8188]

@@Landis963 Lol, the spinning reflection was pretty crazy. For most of the puzzles, I figured out “what” I was supposed to do. I just couldn’t follow the patterns, especially how long some of them are. Like, I was proud of myself for discovering the “Golden Path.” But that solution has over 50 button presses!

[@GlenMerlin]

I loved the little touches of this game. Like how when you open the manual the background zooms out of the game and places a blurry CRT image of the current game screen behind the manual. Like being sucked out of the game to read the manual. Other than the puzzles required for the true ending getting somewhat ridiculous and the pretty sharp difficulty curves towards the late game challenges it was amazing btw the game never tells you this but in the accessibility settings there are some cheats you can enable if the difficulty curve gets too high. Such as immunity to knockback, infinite stamina and invincibility. Lets you choose to ease things up if you're having a hard time and aren't one for souls like difficulty with bosses and SPOILER WARNING ⚠️ (the true ending where instead of a sad souls like fighting off the darkness forever type ending we reunite fox boy with fox mom and they play together and watch movies just felt so good) definitely worth 100%ing if you've got the time and patience for the annoying late game puzzles

[@jazdigance6403]

The way you've described this has the same energy with which I try to describe Hollow Knight to my friends, definitely going to give it a try!

[@deathmourne1]

Hey I liked the old live game inventory management. it gave the feel of need. In castlevania lament of innocence your potion menu was done live

[@jakethompson8281]

Fez is indeed retro now.