Viewfinder & My Friendly Neighborhood (Zero Punctuation)

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[@ryanbarham8464]

So excited. Easily my GOTY, but Yahtz is going to absolutely take it to task and it's going to deserve every bit of it. I'm expecting a tirade about over-long games, some well-placed barbs about the inventory management system, and a few snarky remarks at the games industry for preemptively lowering our expectations for THEIR upcoming titles.

[@NobbsAndVagene]

Fuck that.

[@Azerinth]

MFN is about a cynical world rejecting friendship and selflessness (being a good neighbor) ,the effects that has on society, and how those innocent Sesame Street style characters would react to being confronted by a violent, sad, lonely, isolationist world which thinks that helping someone out means setting yourself up to be taken advantage of.

[@wisesquirrel4986]

@@ryanbarham8464 Yes, I also want him to gut it. I love BG3, but that is all the more reason why I want to see blood on the floor. I know I have my own list of nitpicks of it.

[@rocko7711]

👍👍👍

[@Wolfrover]

Side note on "My Friendly Neighborhood": While it isn't outright stated, Gordon is heavily implied to be a war veteran, especially given his Purple Heart (medal for being wounded in battle) in his truck. This is also why he stops Ricky from talking about the war. So, yeah, a bum leg would explain the mobility issues.

[@crystalnep4908]

plus when you use the health-stations they note that Gordon has asthma.

[@brainflash1]

Of course Yahtzee would identify with the Muppet who has a pet worm.

[@crackedemerald4930]

What's that supposed to mean

[@TheJonnyCon]

Oscar the Grouch has a pet worm, don't you know? Get some culture haha

[@jiado6893]

Slimy is so adorable. I use to own his Slimy World Games on a VHS, that I would watch over and over over again.

[@Dru_Stephan]

@@crackedemerald4930 5:35

[@TheRoboKitty]

I want to point out every enemy in Silent Hill also loudly announces itself by screaming into your radio, so it got that part of survival horror correct

[@KingOfDoma]

Justice for Oscar the Grouch (and Grumpy Bear, while I'm at it). Curmudgeons in children's entertainment don't get enough love.

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

Concured!

[@CelestiaLily]

Oh 100% -- having downer or "Eeyore" characters absolutely helps with 1) contrasting archetypes for easier comedic/dramatic writing, and 2) letting kids know "hey not everything _is_ or _has to be_ super-happy-fun-time all the time, it's ok to like. experience the full range of human emotions" lmao

[@MusicoftheDamned]

​@@CelestiaLily Probably explains why characters like that, including in other things like _Care Bears_ with Grumpy Bear, tended to be the characters I gravitated towards as long as they weren't too whiny. I mean, I'm now a grumpy asshole who hates people and is more cynical than Yahtzee, but it's the thought that counts. One of the nicest Eeyore moments I was reminded of is the episode where he's just sitting by himself at the top of a hill staring skyward, which everyone else interprets as being him being sad(der than usual). Only we find out by episode's end when they actually try to approach him that he's just quietly having some alone time in nature appreciating it and is confused why the others thought he was sad. That was nice.

[@lizzykayOT7]

Right? Oscar was a bit of a misanthrope and Kermit was a neurotic overachiever. They were who I bonded with.

[@WhiteFangofWar]

Yahtzee has more in common with Statler and Waldorf than he'd care to admit.

[@NetMoverSitan]

Except he doesn't appear to laugh at his jokes.

[@WhiteFangofWar]

@@NetMoverSitanStatler: Well, what else do you expect us to laugh at? Waldorf: We sure can't laugh at the show! (D'oh-ho-ho-ho-ho!)

[@NetMoverSitan]

@@WhiteFangofWarHe just needs someone to hackle with.

[@williambibbiani6025]

The problem with the Jaws analogy is that by the time Jaws came around, studios had already moved away from most of the expensive historical epics thanks to films like Easy Rider, which cost less than half a million dollars, and made around $60 million. Also, Jaws was anything but a cheap production. It was budgeted at around $3.5 million, went wildly over budget and wound up costing about $9 million. It also went even more ridiculously over schedule, so the filming took about 3x longer than expected. Jaws wound up costing even more than The Man Who Would Be King, a historical epic more in-keeping with Yahtzee’s idea of an expensive production, which came out the same year. (Although, of course, Jaws wound up making lots more money and was ultimately more profitable, but not because it was cheaper and easier to produce.)

[@DanGamingFan2406]

_viewfinder_ and _My Friendly Neighborhood_ both really subverted my expectations. The former with how impressive the difference visual styles were and how they meshed together, and the later for being a lot less scary than you'd think, but was still a fun time while it lasted. Both of them were.

[@watershipup7101]

Same

[@Bedinsis]

Funny Yahtzee should make a comparison between Portal and Viewfinder, since Portal 2 originally was based on a whole new mechanic called F-stop that more or less IS the precise central mechanic that Viewfinder has.

[@LimeMaxx]

Nope. That's superliminal that you're thinking of.

[@Garnox_]

​@@LimeMaxxNuh uh. spent some time researching and found that superluminal takes stuff from f-stop

[@graphite7898]

@@Garnox_That isn't what he meant. He meant that superliminal took from F-Stop not Viewfinder.

[@TCPolecat]

The "payoff" for My Friendly Neighborhood requires faffing about the game after the final boss to access and help the puppets you didn't in the main thread. Basically, beat the boss, then back up into the rest to 'fix' what's going wrong. Only once you've gotten around everything, does it truly unlock the final ending... which is really just a nicer version of the 'meh' ending you can get if you don't. The endings kinda needed some work, honestly, but that's really the only bad thing I can say about it.

[@ThatNaimad]

I think you can do the faffing about before the final boss, but otherwise yeah agreed.

[@gubaguy]

Secret bad ending: Just leaving once you realize shits fucked, protagonist is fired and life sucks. Bad ending: Protagonist does their job and life sucks. Good ending: Protagonist does their job, but changes their mind afterwards... And gets fired, so life sucks. Every ending is a bad ending for us.

[@kidumby7599]

"Why yes, the best ending's payoff did completely bounce off me"

[@gubaguy]

@@kidumby7599 what payoff? "I'll be less grumpy" that isn't goong to stick because... He got fired. Also theres a basement full of murder puppets so you KNOW the second anyone steps foot into the basment the show is recancelled and the studio burned to the ground.

[@BumbleCrumble1072]

@@gubaguyWhat about the ending where he becomes a successful producer?

[@gakuka]

This is my first time hearing tweets rebranded as X-crements and it's another reason to keep coming back for more. Thank you!

[@dorian_delorean]

If Elon doesn’t actually do this I’m never buying a Tesla

[@WackoMcGoose]

@@dorian_delorean They've (incompletely, some parts of the UI still call them tweets) renamed them as just "posts" now, sadly. Meanwhile, I've taken to calling the site the "Birds-Aren't-Real App" out of spite, while still calling them tweets.

[@diamondmatter2919]

@@dorian_delorean you should never buy a tesla anyway

[@Sayrden]

Jeez, and I thought the jokes were writing themselves when I kept hearing "X users" as "ex[-Twitter] users".

[@thePsiMatrix]

I thought about calling them Xits (pronounced 'Zits') then I realised I was naming them after Twits from the Futurama spoof app 'Twitcher'

[@Sayiism]

I'm actually kinda glad that we agree on the Viewfinder take. I was suprised to beat it when I did since it never really felt that they actually used their mechanics that much. They have a really really awesome idea but never really do anything too crazy with it despite the initial shock factor of it working in the first place.

[@OdaSwifteye]

It's supposed to have the "Oh god, they're coming and I can't take them!" effect.

[@SolarFlairIsBestPony]

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree that MFN could have used just... a bit more. Not a lot, but something. And the end area being longer and adding a bit more lore or something may have been the bulk of what it needed. Bit more dialogue, like, say, between the puppets, to provide more individual personality / context. But what the game does do is done pretty darn well, I gotta give it that.

[@SnivyTries]

I think my biggest quibble about MFN was the fact that I knew it was a "mascot horror" style game, and I expected there to be some horrible twist like "oh all the puppets are trying to kill you and make you into a puppet" and...it never went there. It stayed uncannily wholesome the entire time.

[@stevendobbins2826]

Double-subversion. They know the audience is expecting some major, gory twist so subverted playing expectations by playing it straight.

[@connordarvall8482]

@@stevendobbins2826 Thus keeping themselves mentally guarded against the puppets' "friendlyness" in case something bad happens. Almost like they've been taught to expect nothing but the worst to come from anything that calls itself friendly.

[@common_cents4164]

[Spoilers ahead] My Friendly Neighborhood is a subversion of the horror genre. It's intended to end up wholesome. It also sounds like Yahtzee didn't quite get the full ending by helping all the puppets.

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

My Friendly Neighborhood definitely feels rushed, like it was missing its 3rd act, but the game has a lot of heart.

[@Dhips.]

I wish the puppets had more lines, but overall it's a charming game that didn't overstay its welcome.

[@GayBearBro2]

Having watched a couple of playthroughs of My Friendly Neighborhood and then the Game Theory episode on it, the game has a surprisingly nice message that it's trying to convey. I appreciated the way it was kind of a "what if" on Sesame Street (with a touch of supernatural added to make the puppets come to life, literally). Of course, they "hid" a lot of the stuff in documents and reading (namely the dates and info that make the comparisons), so it can be easy to miss, especially if you don't know the history of Sesame Street. It's even got a Mr. Rogers-style send-off message at the end.

[@icarue993]

Its equally nice and frustrating the "Dark Souls"sy ways of story telling. In DS, you dont care much but to kill the "baddies". In newer survival horror type games (FNAF, Bendy, etc), most of the LORE is in documents and audiologs. By what I've seen, My friendly neighborhood is kind of a mix of both. With Arlo (surprised no one ever talk about the hand puppet being a famousish KZbinr) and the protagonist bantering and getting the story that way. COmbined with documents and audio logs. Spoiler? I don't know if the decition to get the "true ending" is hidden, but if its not, I would be surprised Yahtzee didn't see it. I'm sure he would have metagamed and went to help the puppets rather than scram. EDIT: I also got most of my info about the game through Game Theory.

[@tnrahim]

😅 😊

[@VeritabIlIti]

I agree, but that still means it fails to be a horror game... Which is what it's hyped to be. If it kept up some facade of the puppets and the show being creepy and then pulled the rug, I feel like the themes would be much stronger.

[@connordarvall8482]

I've heard one middle-aged streamer mention that MFN hits a lot of points in its writing similar to post-Vietnam stories. In a way, it makes disillusionment out to be a bigger monster than anything you're meeting in the studio.

[@treadmillgaming5963]

Just wanted to say thank you for putting the guitar riff exit right after the ending of the episode again, really appreciate it

[@Bedinsis]

Yahtzee makes a mistake in using Elon Musk as an example of a genius tech-bro in his visuals. His backstory is basically that of buying himself into important positions in innovative companies while making himself the poster child of the company in question.

[@pokemonmanic3595]

Well he also uses him to demonstrate that he’s an obnoxious twat who thinks he’s smarter than the rest of us

[@Ravengagepvl]

It was very VERY obvious that he was making fun of Musk in this video, not praising him for being an actual genius. If you can't tell the difference that's on you.

[@Bedinsis]

@@Ravengagepvl I can tell he made fun of Mr. Musk. He still introduced him under the genius label.

[@zigzag338]

​@@BedinsisIt's called "visual shorthand" and it's why he picked Mother Teresa as a stand-in image for "good" in his EP video about faction choices, despite her being a controversial figure. People view Elon Musk as being part of the tech-bro continuum regardless of how little of a techie he actually is, there's nothing wrong with what Yahtzee did in this case or in the dozen other cases where visual shorthand doesn't fully match the truth. It's just a way of quickly getting a point across to a general audience.

[@Bedinsis]

@@zigzag338 I am well aware. I just figured that someone might still think of Musk as a genius so I thought I should point out that he is not to dispel the myth he has built up around himself.

[@TheTolnoc]

The last boss was supposed to be some bit about how TV is awful and watching too much modern news and such will twist into a grumbly old bastard, or turn you into a psychopath, and that we should appreciate honest, innocent things more. But then, they gave us the minigun.

[@liamzakhaev]

Mfn is actually really sad when you realize the puppets are only hurting you because they don't know their own strength and because they are stuck following every intrusive thought that pops into their heads as a result of abandonment and trauma

[@gutsmasterson2488]

As an adult with autism, I can compare the neighbors as traumatized Neuro diverse individuals. They aren’t people but property of the studio so they aren’t allowed to leave and they need to have adult supervision for their safety and for others safety. While I wish there was a way to pacify them beyond just duck-taping them, I also wish that I could give some of them mercy death to deal with their pain.

[@SnivyTries]

@@gutsmasterson2488 To be fair, when you do save the major ones, you actually do provide the adult supervision again

[@gutsmasterson2488]

@@SnivyTries i’m not talking about Pearl, Ray, Gobblette, the dogs, or Murray. I am more referring to Norman, Junebug, and the other regular enemies. Because you can’t do much for them.

[@Egurius3]

2:25 That is indeed quite unique mechanic.

[@anomalocaris2593]

I agree there was untapped potential and some lack of polish in MFN. It's saving grace is that after playing it you feel good, especially after unlocking the best ending that will age well

[@maxresdefault_]

Serious question, could the Portal formula ever be bettered? The humour and plot twists set the bar for which so many FPS puzzlers follow, but Portal was the first and nobody was expecting it because it was one 5th of the Orange Box

[@seokkyunhong8812]

More open mechanics, but portal hasn't been beaten because of the narrative, rather than mechanics. Too many puzzle narratives try to be smug and cool and just sours the experience. People forget that first half of portal is extremely clinical and detached "normal" testing environment that turns malicious.

[@SuperStingray]

I wish viewfinder did more with non-diagetic spaces. I loved the little easter eggs where you can project a map or retro game screenshots or a blueprint into a 3d space and I wish they did more with that.

[@Sagalink]

Interesting note: My friendly neighborhood's VA work was directed by Brendan Blaber, AKA Jello Apocalypse, AKA the mind behind Epithet Erased, So This is Basically, and Welcome to X.

[@fieryrebirth]

Yeah, the rambling dialogue from the muppets is VERY Jello. He has a pretty unique knack for both dark comedy and wholesomeness.

[@alexahegao842]

The fart fetishist?

[@KeithFraser82]

Sounds like Viewfinder may have taken plot inspiration from The Quiz Broadcast from That Mitchell & Webb Look.

[@seokkyunhong8812]

R E M A I N I N D O O R S

[@Dimencia]

I thought it was funny you kept comparing Viewfinder to Superliminal, because that's exactly the comparison I made - they both make the exact same mistake, spending the whole game teaching you individual mechanics one at a time in puzzles that only use that one mechanic, but then never giving you puzzles that use them all, together

[@reno_2200]

4:42 what kind of loon would be reading classified documents in a bathroom?

[@Kiljaedenas]

What does it say about my mental state if I found Oscar the Grouch's crazy look at 3:22 hilarious to the point of hurting my sides?

[@andrewmahaffy5802]

“He loves trash” C’mon Yahtzee, don’t be so hard on yourself…

[@kerrermanisNL]

I thought loving yourself was a good thing

[@hectorwhoz]

Realizing Yahtzee's gatling gun prop was not a gag and was actually a weapon in the game I never found A little bummed I never found it

[@deusexvesania1702]

Can confirm, machine guns do get you out of awkward happy birthday situations.

[@SpiderEternal]

Double bonus points for mentioning Neal Stephenson.

[@fishpop]

1:51 Said support NPC being a cat named Cait. (Or Mittens if you ask Angory Tom) He's such a chonky boy!

[@adamyoungatcomcastne]

Glad to see the comments back to discussion of the video instead of how off-putting the ad placement was. Shout-out to the editing team for taking criticism and fixing the product

[@generalnawaki]

3:00 Bg3 may be longer than trumps term as president felt but goddamn it is GOOD!

[@SidheKnight]

Exactly. The problem is not long games. The problem is games with 20 hours worth of content padded to last for 80 hours in order to justify the price tag, and/or make it a selling point.

[@generalnawaki]

@@SidheKnight I have but one word to say to YOU! may the user beware! Reboot!

[@VeritabIlIti]

Your observations are exactly my issue with My Friendly Neighborhood and why I don't see why everyone is so jazzed about it. Yeah, it's got some good level design, the puzzles are kind of fun and the writing clearly has a lot of love, but it's selling itself as a horror game. And as someone who grew up on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, it isn't at all scary. I don't understand how ANYONE finds the Muppets scary.

[@aflhabalafhabab]

Wait, viewfinder is an enviromental game? ‘’Protecting the Enviroment is a Crime.’’ -Snoop Dogg

[@petergaley314]

I haven't played VF but it reminds me somewhat of a little VR game called Shadowpoint which I really enjoyed and which I thought kept finding fresh ways to use its central gimmick (although "short and you don't think about it much afterwards" does apply)

[@arcanum3000]

Viewfinder sounds like a game that I would play, wanting it to be as clever and mind-bending as Antichamber, only to be very disappointed. I had that experience with Manifold Garden.

[@zennvirus7980]

I just wish there were a pair of Statler and Waldorf in that game. They were the original troll.

[@derekstein6193]

Oscar does make a great deal of sense. His epithet should be "the Pragmatist" rather than "the Grouch".

[@GameDevYal]

One of the latest featured Itchio games is a Viewfinder ripo- err, INSPIRED game called Liminal Gallery, which has a more horror-y vibe but somehow managed to nail that camera perspective mechanic. (Not as seamless, since you can clearly see where stuff gets cut out from the original geometry whenever you place a photo, but still pretty dang impressive given how recent Viewfinder is!) And despite being much shorter, it also manages to wear out the cool mechanic pretty much right away, so... yeah, there's only so much depth you can get from that one mechanic.

[@TheHawk2210]

oh god the subtitles showing everything right at the start scared me lol

[@GWAHGWAHGWAHGWAHGWAHGWAHGWAHGW]

Look Gordon’s basically a non-graying 55 year old veteran who has seen this shit before

[@cullermann2]

The unique mechanic joke caught me off guard :D

[@RustoKomuska]

Jokes aside about OMGWTF YAHTZEE HAS KIDS TIME HAS PAST years after that happened already it is kind of amusing when you notice how before he was just talking about them as babies and now they're old enough to enjoy tv shows, in this case sesame street. Weird to kind of get those glimpses into his personal life n how it changes over time

[@briankennedy4141]

Yahtzee is evolving his cynicism into "annoying but correct dad from britland" and its kind of fun

[@dmc1288]

Yahtzee me old mucker. You've been away from blighty too long good chap. MICROWAVING a Pot Noodle? I know they don't have kettles across the pond but surely you haven't forgotten what one is!? Dear me.

[@yanstein8464]

1:27 regular yahtzee w

[@yanstein8464]

2:37 another w i actually liked cleopatra a lot, but not everything needs to be at its scale, and that also applies to gaming

[@atempestrages5059]

So next Extra Punctuation might be about "How to stick the landing". I reckon that would be interesting. :)

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

MfN didnt feel like it was trying to be scary to me, more a dangerous situation your here to fix. Its a game where everyone gets, and deserves, a happy ending and frankly we need more hope in media.

[@LJW1912]

Bold to assume Neal Stephenson wrote more than one book

[@flipthebuzzard]

Unusually for me I'm going to ignore the obvious negatives and drool at my pictures becoming reality 🎉 Hope it's really not a literal one trick pony .... But at least expectations well tempered 😂

[@pliat]

It is, i beat it in under the allotted time for a steam refund lol.

[@spencereades]

I was only just introduced to that @Jordan_Mallory quote this week by Steph Sterling. It's funny to me how it keeps popping up but you know what, I'm here for it too.

[@popatsot1]

The funny thing is if you kill the final boss you get the good meh ending. If you run around for like 3 minutes the gate drops down and you can run away from it. If you did all the other good things for the puppets then you get fired from your job but take over the show and get it more seasons. It rather sweet actually

[@ivanwilliams7413]

Nice Blue Peter reference!

[@Ethanol1985]

MFN is more of a survival therapy game then horror, learn to deal with intimacy and sad feelings while also not getting smash upside the head by discount Oscar the grouch

[@ThatFanBoyGuy]

I know Yahtzee laments about scraping the bottom of the barrel in the summer because of the slow release schedule in the summer, but I really do appreciate that it give small indie games the Zero Punctuation treatment that they deserve

[@Mene0]

True a lot of the smaller puzzle games lack the super cool writing of Portal

[@enemycrumbles]

Never played My Friendly Neighborhood, but I know JelloApocalypse directed the voice cast and it's cool to see it praised here.

[@KWBR1123]

I know another KZbinr Arlo voiced the sock puppet

[@gutsmasterson2488]

I legitimately think that High on Life and My Friendly Neighborhood are connected someway, even if it’s not a behind-the-scenes connection. Maybe it’s the concentration of really good voice acting in a short game with wet farts as endings. (And I mean wet farts as trying to connect to Yahtzee‘s Apathy towards both endings.) maybe it’s in a similar enough tone for how much talking there is that’s more humorous than Borderlands for example.

[@fishpop]

1:01 Great, now i want some sausage rolls... 5:28 Well it's your own damn fault!

[@hauntedmedic373]

Im a very happy boy right now. Two of my favorites in one package

[@RincewindTheWizzard]

Yahtzee how long has it been since you’ve last been to the UK? Microwaving a pot noodle? My God, the humanity!

[@Doctor_Portly_64]

One of these days Yahtzee's gonna have to explain to the kids why he has various posters, life size wax figures, and a very worn body pillow of David Hasselhoff

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

"That Oscar guy talks a lot of sense." Sorry if this is only tangentially related, but Oscar the Grouch is a genius character, because in any other piece of children's programming, he'd be the obvious bad guy because he hates everything that other people like. But no, on Sesame Street, that's just the way the Grouches are and that's fine. It takes some work getting used to them because they're so different, but once you do, they're valued members of society. No, I got nothing to add about the games, I think Yahtzee said everything that needs saying there.

[@TheCreepypro]

great to hear about these 2 games

[@ZhangHe2369]

I am 100% calling the new retweets "Xcrements" from now on.

[@AutoReroll]

Heh... Xcrements is fucking solid wordplay

[@Grymbaldknight]

Sounds like Viewfinder was shooting to be the next Portal, but only had one string to its bow. Also, that comment about "keeping cookies in drawers out of reach of kids" sounds a lot less like a hypothetical now that Yahtzee has actually got a family now. Yahtzee is now in his next stage of evolution. He has progressed from surly, dysfunctional 20-something to surly-but-begrudgingly-fatherly 40-something... as it should be. I'm still glad his videos haven't changed a jot, though. They're a bastion of 00s internet fun in a world gone wrong.

[@antaresmaelstrom5365]

Viewfinder has an excellent mechanic, but may not have had enough people to figure out really brain-twisty things to do with it. Each hubworld introduces like one new way of interaction and 2 new very specific ways of solving puzzles and then just cludges together a bunch of puzzles where those new mecahnics are part of the way to solve the puzzle. And once you get in that rythm of 'use new mechanic' the puzzles become quite easy. Funnily enough it actually also uses Superliminal type perpective shenanigans a few times, but no one seemingly thought to actively integrate those into the picture taking/placing aspect of the game which is a shame. Also my biggest gripe: The final level is a time-attack mode. Solve 9 short puzzles in 5 minutes. (though i have been told you can disable the countdown in settings) "Do the same, but under time pressure" always feels like the easy design copout for a finale in a puzzle game to me.

[@weirdTedE91]

Didn't think I'd catch a "Run For Your Wife," reference in a ZP video, but there you go...

[@meinacco]

Finally someone who gives David Hasselhoff the appreciation he deserves. XD

[@kazpandu]

We need another Kojima,Toby Fox, Austin Jorgensen

[@c.morland]

Thanks

[@raymarquardt5157]

If Twitter was used by Twits to create Tweets, I can only imaging that X is used by Xits to create Xeets. Which just sounds like zits again, but with an accent.

[@MungkaeX]

Would you please rise for the Grouch Anthem. No, no, no! You gotta sit down for the Grouch Anthem. Now brace yourself, I’m gonna sing.

[@stobiusshroden]

you dont microwave potnoodles you madman

[@markjforeman]

Unless you like a melted pot mixed in with your noodles. Which would probably make a pot noodle taste better.

[@EmperorSeth]

Honestly, until this review, I assumed that My Friendly Neighborhood was a sequel to Hello Neighbor, another indie horror game that apparently petered out by the last act, but with some open-world bits sprinkled in.

[@paulrus-keaton439]

5:17 Hotline Miami

[@brody4087-z4x]

Could you review Trepang2 at some point? Curious to see what a video on it from you would look like

[@blackwing1362]

2 short games so he can play baulders gate for 2 weeks instead of one

[@budofsharon3496]

Love and peace for the algorithm! 💜

[@meapickle]

Kinda wish there was an ad right in-between the final line and ending credits. I think the change will really liven the series up a bit....................alright, I'm bending over for the chainsaw suppository

[@Imaginita]

Haha! Someone else thought of the Xcrement joke! Maybe now more people will use it, lol. Next up: Xitter.

[@ThKillinJo]

Never stops making me giggle

[@gus.smedstad]

Oscar is very much the smartest muppet. And yes, I'm including Dr. Bunsen Honeydew.

[@nicklager1666]

Vievfinder really feels like this years variation of antichamber. A game i thouroughly enjoyed a few years back.

[@bloopboop9320]

Antichamber really pushed its concept to the limits though. That game was fun but VERY frustrating.

[@DavidBrown-bs7gg]

Before anyone tries, you shouldn't microwave a pot noodle as mentioned. Reason: Trust me

[@KWBR1123]

You made lightning in you microwave didn’t you?

[@ClixonTheOne]

A game that is the same issues as Viewfinder is The Pedestrian, it has an interesting concept and a pretty art style but after you get through the puzzles in the story it's sort of just ends a bit flat.

[@GeneralNickles]

"Hoochimatwat" - Yahtzee 2023

[@one-for-sorrow]

You've never had a pot noodle have you Yahtz?

[@louisduarte8763]

Oh right, Viewfinder. I think I saw footage of it in one of Frost's "Cold Takes". 1:34 Speaking of, I still didn't finish reading "Snow Crash". Which I started 3 years ago. 3:05 Shit, I'm still behind on "Peaky Blinders". Huh, so a video game darkly parodies Sesame Street, but reinforces what it stood for? I might check it out. My favorite Muppets from that show are still Oscar, Cookie Monster, and The Count.

[@maromania7]

It's more "Survival Dark Comedy" than "Survival Horror," but it got that "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating for a reason. Alternate reality where people decided being "friendly to their neighbor" would get thier kids hurt. Studio went under, the sentient puppets have gone stir crazy. You can blast through and shut the place down, or go back through the areas to help the big monsters find peace and get the good ending. Most people I've seen beat it in about 4-5 hours, more like 8 if they go for 100%. They also give you 15 old-school cheat codes as collectibles, which I found delightful.

[@HonkeyKongLive]

I was really impressed with the demo for My Friendly Neighborhood. It's a legit cool game and sure it's not "scary" like an Outlast or FNAF but it's still well worth checking out. I suspect Yahtzee might have mostly been let down by the lack of overt horror, which is valid.

[@GayBearBro2]

As much as it may make people roll their eyes, I'd suggest the Game Theory on it to learn about the analogy the game is playing with (if you couldn't tell what it was like me).

[@VeritabIlIti]

​@@GayBearBro2well there's the problem, isn't it? If the game isn't scary, making its central analogy and exploration clearer would have given it more meat. But instead you get a survival horror game that isn't scary and a poignant thematic exploration of society and culture buried beneath text logs and clips.

[@M4ruta]

How about a review of _Jagged Alliance 3_ next week?

[@Subject_Keter]

I prefer the innovative stuff like the Ultrahand in TOTK where it actually fits IN the game instead if being need love and care and sniper support to take out a spider with only one leg.

[@jmalb42]

And X-Crements they shall be caller evermore

[@arvidp.247]

Ah, good ol' ad-free Yathzee. ;-)