Weird West (Zero Punctuation)

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[@gamepapa1211]

Yahtzee is reviewing an anime game, a genre he hated more than the passion of the Christ? The game must be a masterpiece!

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

Have you done dark deception?

[@Tyler-gg6xt]

Always fun to see what he gets into when AAA is out of the picture.

[@akimbofurry2179]

Having fun?

[@raistlarn]

Apparently Elden Ring

[@Tyler-gg6xt]

@@akimbofurry2179 why yes, yes I am.

[@wom_Bat]

Is weird west a remake? I swear i got that game in 2019 for switch.

[@Dan-sh5rv]

2:28 "these last 15 years" hit me like a truck, we've been here a while haven't we

[@rushi5638]

I still remember watching his Fable review, when that and The Darkness were his only videos. Jesus.

[@antoniojosetorrente559]

Imagine the feeling when its zero punctuation's 20th anniversary. That's technically 5 years away.

[@KeithFraser82]

@@rushi5638 I too was there when Nariko rode that falling pillar in Heavenly Sword, and Yahtzee made a suggestion as to what spicy activities might be implied by the line "we may need you to play twing-twang".

[@wasneeplus]

I on the other hand only jumped in at the Bioshock review. He already had six videos under his belt by then, and I remember wondering how many more of these he was going to do.

[@draexian530]

More of my life has had Yahtzee than lacked it, and I'm young enough that that will probably change. Sigh. Existence hard.

[@dispnin]

I liked Weird West, but it’s definitely an opening act, not a showstopper. I’d be excited to play a Weird West 2 with a custom character, more sidequests, and a more in depth character building system.

[@meowistforlife]

Also I imagine less shit of an ending!

[@jogslop7315]

Agreed. Really excited to see what the devs do next

[@Windryu121]

I been asked to give you a review for your comment. You get a 5 out of 5. Have a nice day.

[@PrettyPinkPersephone]

I’d be excited to play weird west but this time I can aim without having a brain aneurysm

[@humorlessink2658]

Indeed honestly wanted some more pigman sections that would have been great.

[@PrebleStreetRecords]

"...these past 15 years...." Wait, there's no way it could be that long, I started watching ZP in college and....oh no...

[@Khaim.m]

Yup, we're old now.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

And now you know what the shot of Matt Damon's character ageing at end of _Saving Private Ryan_ feels like, don't you?

[@billy6044]

Haha ur old

[@UnNuclear]

It's been 15 years, I'm still not subbed to the channel, and only check in weekly for ZP.

[@Sinkubus]

And how many of us were here for Fable and The Darkness?

[@ShalathePrinny]

Yahtzee treats being a weeb like if you watch too many animes or play too many game you'll wake up transformed like Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis

[@DeaconTaylor]

well isnt that true?

[@Crispman_777]

You're saying that isn't what happens??

[@shinobidaniel_12]

That did happen to me, unlike being a cultist of cthlulu. Instead of looking intimidating, you just look like an idiot who ate too much jam

[@justinrodriguez5957]

Is he wrong though?

[@charlesatanasio1622]

Its a serious medical condition.

[@jdbruiser]

That bounty hunter line in the end credits was golden.

[@0Dexter00]

Oh god, it's the dad jokes. There's no turning back now.

[@clawlion8]

I was about to say the same thing. I don’t know why that got me so good, but it did.

[@abyssion8]

You hyped it up, and it was worth the hype.

[@FewGoodTaters]

Like a trophy full of piss

[@NinjaGidget]

"Mr. Bean's having a particularly difficult time in Elden Ring" made my day.

[@Crispman_777]

I do enjoy it when a game gives a little extra inspiration to Yahtzee's usual critique. It really shines through in the jokes.

[@GhostCryProductions]

“A Pig with a Face of a Boy.” I didn’t know the singer/songwriter of “The History of the Soviet Union as Told Through Tetris” was in this game.

[@jaysea5939]

Been a long while since I've seen that, time to watch it again!

[@OryxTheDragon]

Is it just me or was this zp burst full of energy that you just don't see when he's mired with the usual AAA froth? You can really feel the vitality.

[@RustoKomuska]

i binged pretty much every zp and only started like a year ago but wow it really has been 15 years

[@draexian530]

Did the same in 2010 or so. Hard to say exactly when though, sinve I was excessively young, and my memory already fails me.

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

Great acronym at the start! Also, that ending made me do a massive surprised LOL

[@ryanhenderson225]

Man, you really got me this time with the dead conjoined twin joke. Damn near killed me as I mopped the warehouse

[@shepherd8171]

1:07 that joke about hp lovecraft was both hilarious and accurate

[@Ramsey276one]

LOVED THAT XD

[@unsocked]

Didn't Lovecraft travel quite a bit? Grant it, he didn't travel very far west though. So I guess the point stands to a degree.

[@jhbadger]

@@unsocked Yeah, he even wrote a book about his trip to Quebec. Odd that he didn't find French Canadians alarming like he did the Italians, Irish, Portuguese, non-Europeans of any sort, etc.

[@josephrigley8974]

@@unsocked he travelled later in his life and became an actual decent person from what I've read, his parents made him an isolated socially inept racist and actually experiencing the world without them helped change him for the better.

[@RufusOmega]

@@josephrigley8974 Of course, when we say 'later in his life' we do need to remember that he died at the age of 46.

[@nicklager1666]

Cowboys And Aliens, Weird West & Wild Wild West the the multimedia industry have been trying to spice the western genre up in recent years. Being a decendant of those irish immigrants i can say that we were trying to put chest bursting parasites in Lovecraft.

[@lizardlegend42]

Don't forget Westworld!

[@stefanandrews5098]

You want an actually good take on this stuff? Weird place to come from but the Tabletop RPG world - Deadlands. Critical Role did a 4 episode run of it called “Undeadwood” and it was freakin’ brilliant

[@digitaljanus]

"Weird Western" is a genre like steampunk was (and it's kind of in the same wheelhouse): It's been around for decades in literature, indie comics, TTRPGs, and other media with lower barriers to entry, but every once in a while they push out a big project in a more prominent audio-visual medium, hoping for a mainstream breakthrough that will probably never come.

[@matan8074]

The weird West is from the deadlands table top Rpg from 1996.

[@harrylane4]

@@matan8074 weird west as a genre has been around since the 70s

[@Matt_the_pirate]

As someone who tested this game I really am proud with what the devs achieved and I was really excited to see that you've reviewed it. Glad it's finally out.

[@Nygaard2]

Deadlands (and Pinnacle Entertainment Group) must really have a relaxed attitude to protecting its IP...

[@samuraicupcake289]

"This is like that situation when you try to focus on your date's eyes, instead of the moustache of her dead conjoined twin." -Yahtzee 2022

[@Mr_Case_Time]

My favorite was the Sentry Silencer. I was an absolute assassin with that thing.

[@TheGospelnut]

It's crazy how powerful it is when combined with the extra ambush damage

[@ryankudebeh2570]

Silenced sniper rifles: breaking games since forever

[@bababanana20123]

Yahtzee: Never listen to weebs Also Yahtzee: Listens to weebs

[@nullpoint3346]

He needs to listen so he can shit on them with accuracy. If you're going to shoot someone, the least you can do is actually _aim_ at them.

[@nullpoint3346]

@Zack Smith This is terrific news. In every possible meaning of the word terrific.

[@jeremyrichard2722]

I've had this long standing suspicion that Yahtzee is a secret weeb. One of those people deeply in love with all of that stuff but unlike a typical weeb has the self awareness to be deeply ashamed, so conceals it. The hatred he expresses of that stuff is to conceal the self loathing he experiences when he really enjoys all those things he mocks, and that he gets off on the self pain... which also helps fuel the bile he can throw at everything else.... just a theory mind you. More seriously though, one thing I do not get is that Yahtzee has pointed out a couple of times that there is some stuff in anime that he likes, mostly because it's not like most of the other anime due to avoiding a lot of the usual recycled tropes and satire through Japanese humor. He clearly knows "Anime" is pretty diverse and I'm never entirely clear why he never tracked down any of the more serious "hard sci-fi/fantasy" stuff that was fairly common in like the 90s and early 2000s and keeps looking at well... weeb stuff. The stuff that also got me out of anime. I mean I'd think he'd probably appreciate the 90s Berserk, maybe even the manga given that he likes things like Dark Souls and I've long felt Berserk had some influence on that. Ghost In The Shell: SAC is another one that occurred to me doesn't have any of the crap he hates in it. That said it would be funny if Kentaro Miura rose from the grave just to insert a few hot springs chapters/episodes into berserk with magical ghost powers just because Yahtzee decided to give that a chance because of the Dark Souls thing. I mean can you imagine Guts in a hot springs episode? Where does he put his sword when he changes into a swimsuit even, I doubt there is a locker big enough. Or does he crouch in the water with the sword next to him in a macho pose and glare at everyone while Casca's comatose body floats in the women's pool behind the room screen and he grows increasingly angsty and depressed and wonders how the hell this could even be a thing much like the fans. :)

[@jbaby362]

It's really cool when Yahtzee reviews a game that he's nitpicking because he enjoyed a base part of it, like it inspires a hope that maybe there will be a sequel that addresses those sort of nitpicks and is good. Fingers crossed

[@SuccubiPie]

That mustache bit at the end was masterfully paced.

[@KriegZombie]

Yahtzee, I just finished Differently Morphous on Audible today. Your writing is great and I absolutely love the way you read the lines. I'm looking forward to the next installment in the adventures of Doctor Diablerie.

[@LanceThumping]

It's not that you shouldn't listen to weebs, you just need either to build up the same tolerance to anime bullshit as them or find the weebs that are self-aware of their tolerance levels to recommend stuff not drenched in it. It's like going to a random career pot-heads house and taking the full slice of brownie he gives you without first establishing that he isn't giving you his "only slightly high" dose which will leave you in a catatonic state for a week.

[@scienceface8884]

Or an old weeb who is sick of the formulaic shit and numb to horny wish fulfillment, who will only recommend the cream of the crop

[@malachichampion]

Best advice ever

[@augustjay6436]

I like to think I'm self aware. So when I recommend people an anime, I dont.

[@ScornfulEg0tist]

@@augustjay6436 yeah I feel like 95% of anime have a moment in the first three episodes or sooner where I'm like "oh no, I like this but I can't recommend it to literally anyone"

[@augustjay6436]

@@ScornfulEg0tist Exactly this lol

[@YOURNOTSAFEAGAIN]

Guess referencing the old TTRPG Deadlands would be too much of a deep cut anyway..

[@stefanandrews5098]

Deadlands played by the folks over at Critical Role in a short series called “Undeadwood”. It’s worth every second

[@citizen_grub4171]

What I've learned about Weird West stealth: "So anyway, I started blasting."

[@jimbob8726]

The fact that yahtzee even said the words "Rune Factory" made me happy.

[@harleyuk322]

First video of yours I've seen and I LOVE your delivery. Agreed about the game too!

[@madkoala2130]

I never thought that yahtzee would ever say "WEEEBS".

[@serenity8839]

Its because persona has made a Weeb growth in his brain. An its slowly taking over.

[@Otakumanu]

He had the guy who goes into his house character call him a weeb a while back though.

[@KeithFraser82]

I'm imagining Yahtzee holding up his hands like the Ancient Aliens guy with the caption "WEEBS".

[@KeithFraser82]

*Zero Punctuation prog rock album of the week:* *Interfactional Occult Conflict* by *Ineffable Cosmic Forces* (tracks include *Caught Up In Their Machinations* )

[@flarone]

Dr. Bishir is a sweet talker. Not surprised he wore you down.

[@TheDeathstyk]

Thoroughly enjoyed the game, also its on gamepass if you're hesitant on buying. Really interesting setting, and it was cool seeing how some of the choices you made as previous characters changed the world state when you started the next one. Certain towns might become abandoned, or people show up as bounties in the next playthrough etc. Definitely glad the last couple characters cut down on the side quests, because they figured by then you were more interested in the main story and such.

[@jmurray1110]

Would have been nice if he mentioned it was isometric though I hate that style plus shooting with the controllers a load or arse

[@WinterCedar]

>Vertical slice approach >Shows a horizontal slice

[@SpaghettyLuvsU]

"... these past 15 years ...." I feel like I drank from the wrong Grail. 😟👴💀👻

[@rainmanslim4611]

Another great acronym right off the bat.

[@madkoala2130]

C.U.N.T.I.T.W.A.N.K

[@TheMrFancyKiwi]

I feel like Yahtzee has more fun writing and making the end credit gags than the actual video.

[@averagejoe5145]

I half expected that Yahtzee wouldn't like Rune Factory. He might prefer Gleaner Heights instead, but since it's a few years old now it probably wouldn't be reviewed on here unless new game releases slow to a crawl. It's basically Harvest Moon meets Twin Peaks. Some people hate the more realistic elements of that game (like how the seeds for your crops can be washed away by the rain) so I make no promises on whether he'd like it or not!

[@paul3336]

The idea of Yahtzee playing any given game as Mr. Bean fills me with endless joy.

[@Sewblon]

4:30 Being unable to turn in a bounty because there is no sheriff is the best possible interpretation of eldritch horror in a video game about being a cowboy.

[@TheAnEnglishman]

Just want to say, I've watched you since the start pretty much and I'm still a fan. I hope all is well with you Yahtzee, you're a bit of peace in this crazy world.

[@igordolgov4418]

I'd like to seize this slightly relevant opportunity to recommed a great 'weird West' TV series (alas, they just came out at a wrong time and were dropped too soon) - The Adventures of Brisco Country Jr.!

[@CrispyDemonDuck]

Gotta love a good "pig with the face of a boy" reference

[@ItalianGuy2357]

The toilet crouch walk joke was way funnier than it had any right being. I almost spit out my lunch at that.

[@sid6645]

Yahtzee in ZP is literally the Good, the Bad and the Ugly rolled into one hahaha!

[@kamikazemelon787]

I'm really glad ZP is still a thing. Been watching since the very beginning Yahtz so thank you!

[@Evanz111]

So sad we’ll never get to see a Zero Punctuation episode on Rune Factory 5

[@SirSaladhead]

If you're looking for a great indie game (as in designed well, innovative mechanics, plays good), you should review Webbed. Not many know this one, but they should.

[@Crispman_777]

That looks great. Reminds me of The Fancy Pants Adventures

[@Code7Unltd]

Demon Turf, anyone?

[@angeldeb82]

So funny, especially with the imps and the bounty hunter wanted running gag! :D

[@cursedhfy3558]

I wonder how much more anime rf5 is than rf4, cause the rune factory series has been pretty mildly anime for the most part.

[@MILOPETIT]

When he made that joke about a woman with a moustache I was scared Yahtzee would have a *british moment* but worry not, I know he's too smart for that

[@hugh_janus_g]

what's a british moment guv ?

[@mitchelltague3674]

@Pierce Moore probably means "transphobic/trans joke" moment

[@spartanpozzum6855]

The horror of a joke. The poor children

[@dorongrossman-naples9207]

@@spartanpozzum6855 you sound pretty offended, buddy. do you need a break and a cookie?

[@nwahnerevar9398]

you know british people aren't any more transphobic than americans right?

[@matt_rector_media]

2:38 is the type of delivery that only Yahtzee can pull off.

[@Jacob_Yeakey]

Excellent review as always

[@srbrant5391]

"...some pig with the face of a boy." _I AM THE MAN WHO ARRANGES THE BLOCKS THAT DESCEND UPON ME FROM UP ABOVE!_

[@azyrael96]

So positive.. yahtzee is getting soft. (joking of course. Great review!)

[@paulrus-keaton439]

2:44 Oh no.

[@fizzyshellfish5439]

I genuinely laughed out loud at the Nativity Play line. Sums up anything based on "SW IV: A New Hope" so succinctly.

[@cloroxusthestainlessone4324]

Episode 1 has been on TV every year at Christmas since o was a kids so it's spot on

[@kaneshuppert636]

Really stuck the landing with the conjoined twin. Bravo!

[@tjwarddd]

Wow, that acronym was vintage Yahztee. Incredible. Edit: The conjoined twin sign off gag had me absolutely rolling.

[@TechnicolorMammoth]

Yahtz, the way you feel about Star Wars is also how I feel, and also about Lovecraftian anything. You can’t hate on one obnoxious thing than dote on the other, now can you? Wait, that’s exactly what you did.

[@heinemanngaming311]

The horse part was incredible animation and humor

[@WolframYouTube]

I'd recommend Omori, if we're looking at indie games. The start is a bit slow, but it has an incredibly gripping story, which I would recommend to anyone to experience for themselves.

[@sabiro2315]

I quite enjoyed Omori and at times it really got to me, but I don’t think Yahtzee would like it all that much. In particular I can imagine him taking issue with the pacing, dialogue, and combat.

[@axelprino]

I discovered ZP at some point during the mid 2010's, so it's not like I've been here from the start, but hearing that there's 15 years worth of videos in this series definitely hits like a train.

[@whynot7564]

The fact the we now refer to, say, 2014 as mid-2010s is alone enough to make me feel old. Recently, I've been suffering from heart burn if I don't watch out for what I eat. Growing up sucks. :(

[@axelprino]

@@whynot7564 I can relate to that, I suffer from stress related digestive problems, I even had to be hospitalized for a week once. I'm just 32 and I can no longer drink coffee, at all :(

[@WhyForWhatNow]

Just found this channel, first impressions... That is the fuc**ng best intro song ive ever heard

[@Wolfrover]

First, a bit of trivia: H.P. Lovecraft enjoyed travel and going to the movies. He went to Quebec in Canada and to Key West, Florida, among other places. That said, he had no interest in Westerns as a genre. After all, he could only write "weird fiction", as he put it. Now, on to the meat of the matter. First off, there _is_ a reason for the set characters, but it's an in-story reason. Same for the questionnaire. So I can't really explain much without spoiling a lot. As for money? Well, the horse is vital, but money is also used to buy tools, crafting materials, storage, hirelings and healing, so it's still a good idea to get some. Putting points into Abilities is good as well, giving you more bang for your buck in fights. (There's even an improved version of bullet time... for one character.) Oh, and there have been two patches. YMMV on whether they fixed the chair.

[@syrexio]

1:43 Yahtzee's avatar just looking like he's sick of your shit for about 20 seconds. XD

[@KeithFraser82]

*Zero Punctuation quirky crowdfunded indie album of the week:* *Zombies, Sirens and Chinese People* by the *Vigilante Graffiti Artists*

[@pietrdavgar3744]

"a vigilante graffiti artist" Jesus, man! I spilled my coffee all over the table.

[@gobbotits1686]

Do you think Yahtzee is ever going to review Rimworld? I have the feeling that he would enjoy a game where you can dismember people and make couches out of their skin

[@alexm498]

I ended up quitting when I got to the wolfman. I realized that I had been mostly playing to advance the story/get to new characters but the moment to moment gameplay just felt like work to get there. I agree with you, the biggest issue is the lack of meaningful progression with the upgrades mostly being worthless. The slow mo dodge should have either cost no action points or way less cus yeah, why use any other power? game was respectable and I'm glad it exists but just not fun enough in each moment if you ask me.

[@SPQRKlio]

Possibly the best ZP yet. I that every ZP, but surely this time surely for sure. Plus I always enjoy a few lobs at ol’ H.P.

[@jolan_tru]

0:41 I'll go to bed with Bashir, sure.

[@TheBEAST205]

Lmao, that MGS joke is a real deep cut.

[@zombieowen]

The thought of Mr. Bean in Elden Ring has brought me great delight.

[@ligoku]

Realization of how old you are when you've been watching Yathzee for 15 years

[@LiamPennington]

"... Vertical test" *shows horizontal slice *

[@BigStuffy]

Omg, that last line still has me rollin! 🤣

[@EroPantherH]

So Yahtzee's playing as Mr. Bean in Elden Ring. I wonder what's kicking his ass at this point.

[@marekh.4497]

There was a game called Hard West which is, like, almost the same as Weird West but came in 2015

[@TheDilettante]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about Alexander Siddig inviting me to bed.

[@jenweatherwax7113]

Sounds like the tabletop RPG Savage Worlds. The Adventure is Nigh gang might enjoy doing a one shot in that world, it’s pretty fun

[@callak_9974]

Yahtzee should play "West of Loathing" and perhaps compare it to "Weird West".

[@fromundaman]

It's funny that he pointed out the stealth rifle shot as being worthless because that has so far felt like the most OP skill I've used. I can one shot anything while staying stealthed for one bar? Aight. Leave the body in plain sight and silent snipe the next guy to check it out.

[@Dan-zc3ou]

Please do House of Ashes, i would love to see your reaction to it after seeing your review of Little Hope

[@loupax]

Makes me want to replay Live A Live on the SNES for some reason.

[@matthuck378]

I wish it leaned more into CRPG territory (Wild west + supernatural occult shit + DOS2 would have been amazing) but it still seems like a good time. I don't see this as "Lovecraftian" at all, though. That description is thrown around way too much.

[@MackRangerPower]

2:30 wait, so I wasn’t supposed to take these videos seriously???

[@Ishpeck]

@2:50 Hey! I like that band!

[@WhiteFangofWar]

So Deadlands basically.

[@doccon8]

I like how he makes fun of the single silent shot perk while that was the very first one I picked. Turn my gun into a silenced sniper rifle (even if briefly)? Yes please, I've played Far Cry.

[@kurtmueller2089]

Ah, Dr. Bashir. Its fun to finally meet a fellow Patrician.

[@tarrker]

I love bits like 3:48 because I'm pretty sure everyone watching knows exactly what he's talking about. I've certainly seen it a billion times. LoL :)

[@happymartin6778]

Hit the nails on their heads. They really billed this up as a Immersive Sim type game but in the end all I got was a fun action RPG sorta game where most of the systems felt pointless. Meanwhile Blood West actually nails it's fan tagline of "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Weird West" in that combat IS punishing but fulfilling, for that I think THAT will be the winner between the "Weird West genre" games.

[@espio87]

Damn, now I want Lego Star Trek...

[@cereal_chick2515]

Omfg yes, but you know if it ever happened it would be the reboot film era rather than TNG-era.

[@espio87]

@@cereal_chick2515 Thanks for ruining it lol T.T

[@elberethgilthoniel1397]

So long as it's not Discovery or Picard based. Angry Joe and every other TNG era Trek fan would rather eat Gaak marinated in Ferengi snail juice than play it.

[@matthewmuir8884]

@@cereal_chick2515 Unless they decided to make it a multi-era game like they do with the Star Wars games.

[@ICantSplel]

1:11 I didn't know we could do that. Ima plan a trip to London.

[@wompstopm123]

i just left the room with him taking about evil west and then came back and he was still talking about this game, but it was the weird west and auto play happened

[@_Mutt_]

Wait serious question; do Aussies/ non Americans not differentiate between "Wild-West" cowboy type accents and Southern drawls? He mentioned a man with a Southern drawl as well as Dukes of Hazzard when talking about a dry, western setting and that caught my attention, being from the South.

[@gregoryvn3]

Well this was a heck of a ride.

[@bdlotus3504]

DS9 was such a gem

[@Srearis1]

The Bounty hunter line was a great joke.

[@Pgoodso]

Several different characters over the course of a Lovecraftian game with limited individual development of each character? That's Eternal Darkness. Though magical development is consistent through all the characters in ED because of the effects of finding the Tome of Eternal Darkness at the beginning of each chapter. And the overall plot has far more scope.