@@Satiire Nah the add is that one game with the gorilla's, were you eat banana's and banana tree. but any time progress is made, you just do a stupid and go back to smol monkey.
Honestly the biggest offence of this game isn't even the awful level design or boring combat or anything like that. The biggest offence is that they dared to make a freaking king kong game and then make him like 2 meters tall and not like 200!
Honestly i think he might be pretty tall, its the perspective. Not defending the game by any means but everything on skull island is big so in perspective he looks small!
Obviously it's King Kong. But it doesn't say King Kong anywhere. It's called Skull Island: Rise of Kong. Kong is the name of the species of monkeys. And it just says that we are a young monkey.
@InZiDes The main Kong in the game is already the same size as his parents the moment he becomes playable, and you can see him dwarfing the human skeletons you see in the spider area. He is 100% adult sized. Him looking so small is the fault of perspective. They zoom the camera _way_ out and have him be dwarfed by all the trees in the environment. Like, the tallest trees you see in the game _have_ to be nearing 600+ feet tall for no reason. I get making the enemy bosses large to have them be more intimidating, but what do you achieve from making the _plants_ that big?
I can't believe that we were blessed with 2 true GOTY contenders this year. Who'd have thought Gollum would get this level of completion, it is truly incredible! On a serious note, another top quality video!
Appreciate you checking this out as always Rob! Gollum has some serious competition now but I do think Gollum is slightly better, therefore kong wins as worst game of the year for me 👀
ngl, you're the first person I've seen to actually fight the crab boss as intended. Usually they realize you can just stand on the higher areas on the sides and the boss can't get to you. Then you just chuck rocks at it until it dies.
One big flaw with this game that I don't see many people talking about [he said in a video where the top comment talks about it] is that if I'm playing as Kong, I want to feel like I'm controlling a massive behemoth, not an average sized silverback gorilla. I want to swing around trees that are smaller than I am, maybe be able to uproot one and use it like a club. I want one my few advantages over a boss to be my massive size. I want to be the biggest goddamn thing in the jungle.
Honestly, the game doesn't look awful as a proof of concept with placeholder graphics. But this does look like the team literally JUST made the basics and some executive came in and said "It's playable? Good enough!"
I think that's exactly what it was. They were only given a year to make it so this was probably the proof of concept and the publisher was just like 'nah that's fine, publish it'
Yeah I would say that's the case too. Gamemill entertainment have been a content farm for ages, they just released an avatar game that flopped and they're also working on a walking dead game that doesn't look too good either 😅
The game also being called “rise of Kong” also doesn’t fit, the mutated Dino creatures in the game also look nothing like skull island creatures and look like those other dinosaurs from 48 (or 49 idk forgot the move)
@@S1ayer585.Sadly one of them even happens to be Malusaurus, the latest early concept art ever made for the Indominus Rex before, well, it became the Indominus Rex. They didn't even try to hide it at all, they simply stole it, slapped in a paint job and then called it a day.
Respect to the devs for implementing such a heartfelt story. 😂 Dude, the biggest congratulations on getting this horrible game completed! Another banger of a video, treat yourself with a good game for the next upload haha. 🏆 I swear the game punished you for glitching your way through the collectibles. 😅
One of the best story's ever, I really enjoyed the Black and white slideshow 😊 Next game has been difficult so far but I'm enjoying it at the same time! Far better than Kong that's for sure but im glad you enjoyed the video bro! Thank you! And what can I say, the glitch presented itself and I had to see it through 😎
I don't view it as an excuse, it was apparent from looking at it, especially from all the default/stock assets. I wish the publishers actually cared about the games they made instead of just making money as I can see some potential in some parts, just... they had no time
@@elvickRULESbecause nickelodeon actually has some level of quality control. This publisher seems to be keen on releasing barely-playable games and hoping they make money off the hype and marketing alone
They definitely nailed the bosses you would expect to fight in a Skull Island game: • Worm • Crab • Three reskinned early game enemies • Spider • One, large version of the reskinned early game enemy Truly one of the boss line-ups of all time.
You know, a coming of age revenge story about a being who is the last of his kind sounds pretty boss. Maybe if the developers had more time (and money), they could've done justice to it.
I think one of the things that sucks the most is that there is everything present for a decent Kong game. I mean they have combat tactics, finishing grapples, collectables, upgrade trees, and a somewhat "open world", but it's all bare bones and barely functional with only the most basic implementation.
Reminds me of 1999 PS1 demo games that came free with gaming magazines. Im assuming there are no developer credits roll at the end. Imagine being the guy that built this and going to a job interview.
The collectibles one is horrendous. But I think you helped me find the last two. The one in the swamp where you found the hole and the 5th level in the sand. But I don’t know how to get there lol
Hey can you please tell me if you can revisit ALL areas after you best the last boss? I defeated him and have been running back through for my 2 last collectibles. But I feel like I'm running in circles and find nothing between caverns and waterfall valley... idk where these last 2 could be!
What annoys me the most about the game is that in real life, Gorillas have some of the most extreme cases of sexual dimorphism in mammals, yet the mother and father of Kong look exactly the same.
I can definitely see where they were going with the art style of mimicking a kind of comic book/graphic novel style but it fails for several obvious reasons. It is strangely charming seeing a resurgence in poorly made movie and show tie in games, it takes me back to the late 2000s, early 2010s.
12:25 That's a Carnotaur, not a T. rex. You can tell, because of the the horns and shortened snout, as well as the fact that this game 100% would have made it a full on boss if it were a T. rex.
Wait wait wait, so you’re telling me that this game gives you the absolutely banger setup of playing as mama Kong who has to save her kid from a dinosaur, and then…just…uses that as tutorial backstory?! Come on, game, you had ONE good idea and you wasted it!
The sound effect for unlocking an achievement sounds like a cue in a horror game when the enemy discovers you. But I guess unlocking any achievement in this game means you've gone through unspeakable horrors lol thank you so much for completing this dumpster fire. Subbed!
3:13 I can never get over the fact that baby Kong looks like he's about to sneeze here Like, I KNOW he's supposed to be crying. But his expression is just-
What’s sad about this game is I think King Kong would make a great video game obviously with loving care of the main driving force. This game is not that.
I’m planning to do 12 bad plats/games next year and this is one: wish me luck. There’s some stuff that will be useful in this for me. Just need to get this cheap.
I don't know where to put this, so I'll do it here. Imagine if there was one more stage. Where Kong finds a humans camp near the old crashed B-29. Enemies are the remnants of plane crew wearing tattered USAF uniform attacking with knives, makeshift clubs and pre-installed booby traps. The boss would be some beefhead sergeant with a machine gun and enough strength to wrestle Kong 1v1.
Absolutely awesome, both game & video Seriously, hats off to you mate for persisting with this absolutely trash game. Video, editing and style was on point but my god thanks for showing me every reason never to buy this game
Thank you as always bro! It was a tough one to platinum without a guide but I'm so glad it's over! I'd recommend any other game before this one, even gollum. I really hope this bad game trend dies out because too many games are releasing like this 🤣
Bro you're so far behind now, they just released 40x speed so you can watch the video almost instantly now On a real, appreciate you watching as always grounded 🫡
Do the ascension events I. The tutorial events count towards the trophy? Because they did an update to the game because there are markers on the map now
@@Satiire You know, if this game would receive a patch solving many glitches and the map system, I'd give it a try because sometimes I like playing meme games, but not like this.
This game was like these goffy ads with level 1 crook to level 100 mafia boss
That is the best description of this game 😭
@@Satiire Nah the add is that one game with the gorilla's, were you eat banana's and banana tree. but any time progress is made, you just do a stupid and go back to smol monkey.
Man I forgot about those, and I was happy to forget
@@od1401 well i am happy that I made u remember those
I can't believe how accurate this is
Honestly the biggest offence of this game isn't even the awful level design or boring combat or anything like that. The biggest offence is that they dared to make a freaking king kong game and then make him like 2 meters tall and not like 200!
Honestly i think he might be pretty tall, its the perspective. Not defending the game by any means but everything on skull island is big so in perspective he looks small!
Obviously it's King Kong. But it doesn't say King Kong anywhere. It's called Skull Island: Rise of Kong. Kong is the name of the species of monkeys. And it just says that we are a young monkey.
@InZiDes The main Kong in the game is already the same size as his parents the moment he becomes playable, and you can see him dwarfing the human skeletons you see in the spider area. He is 100% adult sized.
Him looking so small is the fault of perspective. They zoom the camera _way_ out and have him be dwarfed by all the trees in the environment. Like, the tallest trees you see in the game _have_ to be nearing 600+ feet tall for no reason. I get making the enemy bosses large to have them be more intimidating, but what do you achieve from making the _plants_ that big?
Ikr
The largest version of kong is 102 meters tall, not 200.
21:32 This feels like an elaborate shitpost, Kong getting a T-Rex in a chokehold and snapping her neck like he’s doing a takedown in a stealth game
I can't believe that we were blessed with 2 true GOTY contenders this year. Who'd have thought Gollum would get this level of completion, it is truly incredible!
On a serious note, another top quality video!
Appreciate you checking this out as always Rob!
Gollum has some serious competition now but I do think Gollum is slightly better, therefore kong wins as worst game of the year for me 👀
We started this year with Forspoken(Mid) and ended it with Rise of Kong(Extremely bad),it was the bad games marathon.
"We are awoken by a purely silent noise" 😂😂Somehow you turned this mess of a game into a funny experience
Appreciate you checking the video out man, I'm glad you enjoyed!
The game was full of random cutscenes like that, I don't really get their purpose 🤣
@@Satiire 😂😂
The Kong looks like they're made out of clay in this game, which would have been cool if it was a purposeful design choice and not a terrible model.
"We actually wanted to make a video game about a golem, you know those living monsters of clay, but he turned out looking more like King Kong.
@@johannesseyfried7933 More like "Hey, can you make a game in one year ? Well we have a POC game about a golem, not a titanic gorilla"
ngl, you're the first person I've seen to actually fight the crab boss as intended. Usually they realize you can just stand on the higher areas on the sides and the boss can't get to you. Then you just chuck rocks at it until it dies.
I've seen a few people do that actually but I didn't realise that was even possible while making this video 🤣
Ape use big brain to kill big crab with big rock
Trophy unlocked:
'Vincible
5:35 Adding the Squidward walking sound effects is unironically an improvement to this game
Did not expect the trophies for this to work in the first place for you. Great work!
That was one of my concerns going into the game actually 😭
I'm glad it all worked out in the end though!
One big flaw with this game that I don't see many people talking about [he said in a video where the top comment talks about it] is that if I'm playing as Kong, I want to feel like I'm controlling a massive behemoth, not an average sized silverback gorilla. I want to swing around trees that are smaller than I am, maybe be able to uproot one and use it like a club. I want one my few advantages over a boss to be my massive size. I want to be the biggest goddamn thing in the jungle.
Peter Jackson's King Kong did it so well. And that was a canon with a smaller Kong itonically
The biggest flaw with this game is that it’s a game
Honestly, the game doesn't look awful as a proof of concept with placeholder graphics. But this does look like the team literally JUST made the basics and some executive came in and said "It's playable? Good enough!"
I think that's exactly what it was. They were only given a year to make it so this was probably the proof of concept and the publisher was just like 'nah that's fine, publish it'
Yeah I would say that's the case too. Gamemill entertainment have been a content farm for ages, they just released an avatar game that flopped and they're also working on a walking dead game that doesn't look too good either 😅
The game also being called “rise of Kong” also doesn’t fit, the mutated Dino creatures in the game also look nothing like skull island creatures and look like those other dinosaurs from 48 (or 49 idk forgot the move)
@@S1ayer585.Sadly one of them even happens to be Malusaurus, the latest early concept art ever made for the Indominus Rex before, well, it became the Indominus Rex. They didn't even try to hide it at all, they simply stole it, slapped in a paint job and then called it a day.
@@tomatogenesis LOL I just realized after I made this comment
Respect to the devs for implementing such a heartfelt story. 😂
Dude, the biggest congratulations on getting this horrible game completed! Another banger of a video, treat yourself with a good game for the next upload haha. 🏆
I swear the game punished you for glitching your way through the collectibles. 😅
One of the best story's ever, I really enjoyed the Black and white slideshow 😊
Next game has been difficult so far but I'm enjoying it at the same time! Far better than Kong that's for sure but im glad you enjoyed the video bro! Thank you!
And what can I say, the glitch presented itself and I had to see it through 😎
It’s hilarious how quick they had that “guys we only had a year to work on the game!” Excuse ready for this one.
I don't view it as an excuse, it was apparent from looking at it, especially from all the default/stock assets. I wish the publishers actually cared about the games they made instead of just making money as I can see some potential in some parts, just... they had no time
Publisher needs to be sued. That's just absurd.
@@matthewburley9872the Nickelodeon Kart racers from the publisher aren’t bad.
@@elvickRULESbecause nickelodeon actually has some level of quality control. This publisher seems to be keen on releasing barely-playable games and hoping they make money off the hype and marketing alone
I mean Nintendo made Scarlet/Violet and they had a much longer time and much bigger budget and it still was just as broken as this game lol.
They definitely nailed the bosses you would expect to fight in a Skull Island game:
• Worm
• Crab
• Three reskinned early game enemies
• Spider
• One, large version of the reskinned early game enemy
Truly one of the boss line-ups of all time.
You know, a coming of age revenge story about a being who is the last of his kind sounds pretty boss. Maybe if the developers had more time (and money), they could've done justice to it.
Gave me huge Maneater vibes. Except that game is actually complete. 😂
yeah the story could have been pretty good if the game didn't look and play horribly XD
This game is makes king kong on PS2 look like a modern AAA game lol
I think one of the things that sucks the most is that there is everything present for a decent Kong game. I mean they have combat tactics, finishing grapples, collectables, upgrade trees, and a somewhat "open world", but it's all bare bones and barely functional with only the most basic implementation.
GameMill
Truly one of the games of all time
Game of games
I disagree, it's way less than that.
@@MrTrueCaller619 it's just a meme bro, sit down
Definitely changed gaming history forever
Couldn't agree more bro 🫡
Bruh is a special kind of human for punishing himself self consistently for our entertainment. What a legend!
Always has to be done! The next bad game is coming soon and will pop up out of nowhere to surprise us all (I will be doing it) 😎
Reminds me of 1999 PS1 demo games that came free with gaming magazines.
Im assuming there are no developer credits roll at the end.
Imagine being the guy that built this and going to a job interview.
No player icon on the map is astoundingly bad. Wow.
absolutely love your channel, ive binged almost all your videos, keep up the great work!!
Thank you so much! I appreciate you checking all of them out and I'll keep up the great work forever 🫡
The collectibles one is horrendous. But I think you helped me find the last two. The one in the swamp where you found the hole and the 5th level in the sand. But I don’t know how to get there lol
Yeah it's really annoying, the sand one is just a trial and error thing to be honest 😭 I think I climbed up the rocks in the middle
@@SatiireWell I found it. Finally got the platinum. It was painful.
Hey can you please tell me if you can revisit ALL areas after you best the last boss? I defeated him and have been running back through for my 2 last collectibles. But I feel like I'm running in circles and find nothing between caverns and waterfall valley... idk where these last 2 could be!
This dude actually completed this dumpster fire. You have way more patience than me.
Seeing Kong run sped up had me laughing 🤣
What annoys me the most about the game is that in real life, Gorillas have some of the most extreme cases of sexual dimorphism in mammals, yet the mother and father of Kong look exactly the same.
The only good thing this game did is how they brought back Gaw (a very obscure villain that appeared in a Kong novel)
Being a fan of your Gollum video I was waiting on this. You’re a mad man 🤝
Thank you for sticking around! I knew I had to get this one done since I grabbed Gollum's platinum! Roll on the next bad game 👀
I can definitely see where they were going with the art style of mimicking a kind of comic book/graphic novel style but it fails for several obvious reasons. It is strangely charming seeing a resurgence in poorly made movie and show tie in games, it takes me back to the late 2000s, early 2010s.
12:25 That's a Carnotaur, not a T. rex. You can tell, because of the the horns and shortened snout, as well as the fact that this game 100% would have made it a full on boss if it were a T. rex.
Dinomaxxing
How is that a fact
Wait wait wait, so you’re telling me that this game gives you the absolutely banger setup of playing as mama Kong who has to save her kid from a dinosaur, and then…just…uses that as tutorial backstory?! Come on, game, you had ONE good idea and you wasted it!
game of the decade for sure, Good Video like allway love it. Keep it Up
Thank you for watching as always! 🙏
Kong has to be the best game of all time. I'm sure it will outsell Minecraft at some point!
The sound effect for unlocking an achievement sounds like a cue in a horror game when the enemy discovers you. But I guess unlocking any achievement in this game means you've gone through unspeakable horrors lol thank you so much for completing this dumpster fire. Subbed!
Charging 33 for this, is like going 70 km/h in a school zone
3:13 I can never get over the fact that baby Kong looks like he's about to sneeze here
Like, I KNOW he's supposed to be crying. But his expression is just-
I got the same glitch as you, after my game crashed twice to the spider boss all my skillpoints were gone. Truly a Gollum-like. 10/10 Amazing 👍
Has to be one of the best games ever made for sure!
What’s sad about this game is I think King Kong would make a great video game obviously with loving care of the main driving force. This game is not that.
Did this game even have any marketing at all? I didn’t even know it was a thing 💀. Great video though man as always.
The only marketing it had was from people saying it would beat gollum at worst game of the year 🤣
Appreciate you checking the video out as always bro!
Damn the videos keep getting better despite the games 😆 great stuff as always mate!
Thank you bro! Always got to experience the best games 🤣 Glad you enjoyed it though!
The king Kong game based off the movie both looks and plays better than this and that was what? 15 years ago? Kinda wanna play it now
glad this game is getting the attention it deserves😁 W vid
For sure, such a niche game and I'm glad I could put more eyes on it 🫡
18:43 my dad coming back home with the milk after i win the lottery:
I’ve had massive respect for King Kong since the 30s the fact that they were able to make this mess is a crime
Gollum, Kong on Skull Island and The Walking Dead Destinies...
The trinity of the worst games from 2023.
This Kong looks like one of those knock-off action figures you see at a Mexican flea market.
I personally am a fan of the art style but watching you trophy guys play this game has been quite the laugh
1:03 LOL - Can't believe you actually played this 💩
Thanks for checking it out bro! Rise of Kong is GOTY 🫡
A huge amount of respect for doing the last achievement. I would have quit at that point. no way I would have played that game again
Really sold me on this game dude! Gonna ask for it this Christmas🤪
“Remember… Funky’s the monkey!” - Funky Kong
Can someone please do a collectible guide on this game, I'm missing two skulls and have no idea where they are haha
21:13 long live the queen
Let's goooooo my bro, plating GOTYs !!! Keep up with this games fr
Can't wait to see what next year brings, GOTY choices about to be stacked fr 👀
This achievement is the only one that deserves to be called an achievement. The endeavours this man had to go through 😢
I can respect going through this just to have plat
I could never
props
I’m planning to do 12 bad plats/games next year and this is one: wish me luck. There’s some stuff that will be useful in this for me. Just need to get this cheap.
It was very cheap on Black Friday but I recommend trying to get a second hand physical copy
Good luck 🫡🫡
So after beating Gaw you had to restart the game on a fresh file? No New Game + or bonus or anything?
You get a "post game" but because my skill points were bugged, I had no choice but to restart from a fresh save and go again
the cutscene fights in this game are just pure perfection!!!
Peter Jackson's King Kong deserves a remaster and a damn trophy pack so i can have my childhood game in my trophy
Like a wise man once said: "Never go full kong".
10:31 That is the most EVIL thing a video game developer can ever do ...
Gamemill always been pumping out perfectly functioning games, even before they published Big Rigs Racing
I don't know where to put this, so I'll do it here.
Imagine if there was one more stage. Where Kong finds a humans camp near the old crashed B-29. Enemies are the remnants of plane crew wearing tattered USAF uniform attacking with knives, makeshift clubs and pre-installed booby traps. The boss would be some beefhead sergeant with a machine gun and enough strength to wrestle Kong 1v1.
4:14 don’t mind me, just leaving a personalised replay button for myself
the whole budget went to the subtitles
Love that I've seen like 3 different UA-camrs get stuck on the exact same rock vines bit.
Absolutely awesome, both game & video
Seriously, hats off to you mate for persisting with this absolutely trash game. Video, editing and style was on point but my god thanks for showing me every reason never to buy this game
Thank you as always bro! It was a tough one to platinum without a guide but I'm so glad it's over!
I'd recommend any other game before this one, even gollum. I really hope this bad game trend dies out because too many games are releasing like this 🤣
At least the audio was better than it was originally. At release, the narrator sounded like she was talking through a grainy xbox mic.
Goodjob for enduring this when I seen the map I would've gave up 😅
The dinosaurs having jacked biceps and big juicy pecs is funny lol is that in the kong lore or something
I understand this "game" probably broke your mind, but I would've loved to see a TWD Destinies platinum video before you retire.
It's 100% on the way! Just finishing up the current video and then it's TWD time 😎
that final boss neck snap was so unsatisfying especially after fighting him with just fists
That’s how it killed Kong’s mom or dad though so it’s a full circle thing
Bruh... I swear if this wins GOTY I will eat my own socks.
Be prepared to eat your own socks
great video I already know bro[I do know because I watched in 20x speed] this game looks stunning 😍
Bro you're so far behind now, they just released 40x speed so you can watch the video almost instantly now
On a real, appreciate you watching as always grounded 🫡
You should make more videos like this
At this point, it's pretty clear which games satiire loves to plat ;)
I love these games, can't wait for the next one to come out in a few months 😏
apparently the publisher is the same that brought Big Rig into existence
The screenshake is roblox levels of quality
Dang.. he just snapped gaws neck? Kong from temu is savage.
Do the ascension events I. The tutorial events count towards the trophy? Because they did an update to the game because there are markers on the map now
11:50 tue masterpiece 🙏🏼
Remember guys, this was released in 2023
I like how gollum like is now a game category
12:25 that looks more like a carnotaurus than a t-rex. And OMG The trophy name puns are bad...
i didn’t hear ab this game until i saw someone play it on a tiktok live the other day
I just found your channel and I am so sorry you had to suffer through this beautiful masterpiece of a game. 😂
Glad to have you on board 🫡 The game was horrible but has to be GOTY!
nah why does Gaw look like if ark made tristar godzilla
Not gonna lie if it ends up being a freebie on PS+ I will probably get it just to experience its majesty myself personally 😅
3 hit combo was the MVP
The intro cinematic is literally a fucking dark souls opening.
Flying gorilla got a sequel??
You should've recorded every time you grabbed a collectible so you would be the only human being making a Collectible Guide 😏
I thought about it but I hoped someone else would end up making one 🤣
@@Satiire You know, if this game would receive a patch solving many glitches and the map system, I'd give it a try because sometimes I like playing meme games, but not like this.
The first narration feels like they got inspired by Borderlands
16:04 I actually had that skill point glitch multiple times when ATTEMPTING a play through. F@CK this game
I'm so sorry that you had to experience all that
I had the best time of my life 😊
I just realized this game didn’t have a single bar of music lol
You poor man, I’m sorry you went through this
It had to be done 🤣
1 momment of silence for the money he wasted on this game
Will never get back my 26 hours 😵
Lets goo oh god i'm so looking forward to this 😂😂
This video was so awesome! Thanks for putting yourself through this for us hahaha
We can feel bro's frustration, poor man xD
Anytime! If there's somehow another game that comes out in such a poor state, I will be there 😎
Can you imagine this game on the Switch. Janky and glitchy af.