Salt and Sacrifice (Zero Punctuation)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviewed Salt and Sacrifice.
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What time is the Post ZP stream and Breakout? I've never watched one live.
@@ejs_ethan Breakout is typically 9 AM CT on Wednesday, but we didn't have one today cause Marty was out. Post-ZP is 3PM CT.
@@theescapist thanks!
I agree but I like the game even if it's the worst on the market not a good story
fun fact: in bavaria, when boiling sausages, we use a „sacrificial sausage“ that we intentionally overboil and let explode in order to then cook the other sausages in that tasty sausage water instead of just plain water.
I like sausage mostly hot links but sausage water just sounds disgusting and gross like using hot dog or Vienna sausage preservatives to boil noodles gross.
can you guys just use chicken, beef or veggie stock like normal human beans?
Wow you guys hating on the sausage water lmao. Some places didn’t historically have cows or chickens so their culture developed making food from what was readily available. Calling their cultural dishes “abnormal” is toeing a pretty fine line.
@@Khunkurisu oh no someone said boiling sausages in exploded sausage water instead of the stock they use instead is weird. My whole culture is evaporating before my eyes!!!1!11!!!
@@erueka6 Don't you mean "Wurst"? _(gets covered in sausages)_
"... with more dodgy rolls in them than an unsanitary sushi restaurant" got a good hearty chuckle out of me.
I was just about to comment this! These videos are always full of clever writing, but for some reason that line stuck out to me as particularly genius. (Also that "p" alliteration just before was great)
Spoilers!!
@@videoaccount4323 it's.. a five minute video
@@dragonsdream4236 yes but some of us have to set the tissues up and get in the mood by sampling some comment bile first.
@@ursinecanine9657 I say start cranking your hog and then read the comments, assures maximum satisfaction as you finish
One thing that's great about Monster Hunter is when you find a new monster, you are filled with wonderment at how cool/useful the weapons will be and how the armor will look and what sort of skills it might have based on the monster's design.
I feel like that wonderment is lost if you replaced all the monsters with robey dudes.
prescisely, the figth,the themes and material made for much of the charm of monster hunter custumization
Mate i don't care how they look if they give me color ahegao hoodie im all in (i doubt that is a armor item in game like that but oh well).
I mean...
If you know your prefixes you can sorta guess what each mage is about from their names alone. I understand not being able to predict what their animations will be though, obviously.
The coolest ones were the more abstract and monstrous ones imo (Mechanomancer in particular is my favourite)
Honestly they could have been fine just throwing magical dudes at you as every boss... if they were actually varied. But they almost all fight exactly the same, can all air juggle you from 100-0 in the blink of an eye, and barely look different outside of colors. Not to mention having to chase them absolutely sucks. Chasing in Monster Hunter only works because traversal can be fun in the those games, whereas that's not the case with Sacrifice here.
It's utterly impressive how much of a downgrade Sacrifice is from the original. Guess it goes to show that trying to be original and do your own thing isn't always better than just aping another game.
Thing is, the original Salt & Sanctuary *avoided* the whole "take the bad guy's place or let the world die" thing. Sure, one of the endings involved you taking his power and becoming the god of the island, but the other was realizing the god of the island was also its prisoner and wisely deciding to simply bugger off and escape.
@The Hittite Eh in Dark Souls 2 you get immortality and are implied to help Aldia fix the world.
Also its not the alternate ending. Its the TRUE ending as Aldia's lines in that ending return as quotes as to what happened to the Dark Souls 2 protagonist in Dark Souls 3.
Plus a lot of items reference actions from the Dark Souls 2 protagonist's actions that would be impossible on the "Normal" Ending. Such as keeping their word to Lucatiel which lets the Hollow Slayer(Lucatiel's sword) exist in Dark Souls 3.
And the bosses were also linked to the core theme of the game.
A lot of the bosses were people who coveted more power. This thirst for more power is what attracted the nameless god and why those bosses are manifested onto the island as only the nameless god answered their call for more power.
From slaves, to knights, to alchemists, to kings, people who covet power that are not their own will inevitably be a prisoner of said power.
I had really hoped that the well ending to Sanctuary would roll in to their second game. It’s sad to see Sacrifice didn’t use it at all.
Well it did kind of take Bloodborne's ending though. You could literally just take Gehrman's word and leave everything behind. Or take over as the new Gehrman or Squid monster.
Just so everyone knows the Dev has been listening to the community. One of things addressed here is that now when you stop at a check point, you always get a minimum of 5 flasks back. Also, the biggest selling point for me was that it has couch co-op like the previous game, as well as online PvE and PvP
also that the Epic release is being straight up treated as a beta, there are entirely finished covenants waiting to be implemented in later patches and theres straight up a debug shop near the end of the game lmao
It's only half a step tbh. Full refill should be the way and crafting mats should be for on the fly. And I'm sorry but you can't patch out bad level design and questionable Mage hunt decision when 5 of them spawn in the same screen and spawning monsters everywhere. This still isn't fixed. So yeah. It's still a really abysmal sequel.
@@turntapeover5749 5 is a full refill for most of the game, and you can craft on the fly for most items, the only thing resting to refill healing/ammo does is respawn normal enemies, mages dont even refill their health, also 5 mages spawning on the same screen is awesome because they fight eachother and you can get insane magic bursts to wipe out their summons while they arent aggro'd to you
@@joannawood7352 Most of the game? You mean the first hour of the game since that's how many you start with and you can upgrade your carry capacity pretty early.
@@mira12825 wait did they already patch that lol, i started with 3 back when it was initially released on epic, all of the consumables started at 3 for me, i only ended the game with 9
I think Yahtzee had to take his kid to the doctor recently.
That had to be a wake-up call since he lives in the US now.
I had the same thought, lmao
i think yahtzee might have recently been in contact with the american hospital system
Someday, I want the final boss to be the guy in charge of keeping the world together, but the entire premise is that he STOPPED doing that, and that's why everything's going to shit
Wait, isn't that exactly what happened in Elden ring with Radagon shattering said ring and MC tasked to take his/her place to fix everything?
@@jijas9780 marika shattered the ring, radagon tried to repair it when he got in control
@@liamzakhaev oh, right, still wonder why tf she did that
@@jijas9780 The surface-level hints seem to be that she did it after the true/half-death of her beloved son Godwyn - whether out of grief, re-evaluating her status as a pawn of The Greater Will, or some other longer game plan, not sure.
Yeah other commenters are right to mention Elden Ring. Crazy how the people who created the souls formula are still the best at innovating it (though they did bring in GRRM to freshen things up on the 5th Demons Souls remake). Marika shattering the ring is a lot more interesting than Gwyn still holding onto the age of fire in a severely weakened state (which is basically Radagon’s role in the Age of the Erdtree).
"For your crime for [DRUNKENNESS], you are hereby drafted into the Inquisition!"
I know what my next Skyrim character's crime now.
At least he gets to watch a musical number with Mel Brooks as Torquemada.
Illegally crossing the border, same as every other time?
Yahtzee: I’ve been really getting into arts and crafts recently
Us: *CRAFTING YAHTZ?*
Woah, don't shoot
ive been getting back on minecraft to play more with my son-
*CRAFTING YAHTZ??*
Maybe if I go back to Alien Isolation and craft more noisy item
CRAFTING YAHTZ
I might be wrong cause he is being very sly and subtle about it .....but I THINK there is a vague criticism of our healthcare system buried deep inside of this review about a game I no longer think I'm going to buy.
Social commentary critiques on bad healthcare layered into a video game review?
Yeah, it's not like social health care is free, it just becomes taxed and at least having to pay for health care will encourage people go get jobs, although there should be alternatives for people who really need it. HYBRID HEALTHCARE!
*generic joke that glorifies the UK's NHS over that pit stain the Yanks call healthcare*
What? I can't be arsed taking deep, thoughtful, clever and witty jabs EVERY time! Jeez!
@@blueninjanoname7338 Yes, because once you have free healthcare, who needs a job to pay for other basic necessities like food and rent.
@@raiyaankazi Well it doesn't work does it? Otherwise you wouldn't have the thousands of people abusing the benefit system in this country lmao. Besides, more incentive is more incentive.
"Pointy into the Place Proctologists Professionally Prefer to Probe"
Points for the alliteration.
Absolutely amazing and astounding application of alliteration.
US healthcare really does suck. I have had a cyst for 10 years and haven’t had it removed because I can’t afford the surgery. It’s not infected or abscessed so insurance doesn’t think removal is necessary. The only medicine that works really well on my psoriasis isn’t covered by insurance. Costs like 1500$ a month. Steroid creams are way cheaper.
Same. Busted rotator cuff after being mugged by a homeless person 7 years ago and even if I can afford the operation, I can't afford to be out of commission for 3 months since that's the recovery time for such operation. It's financial suicide.
@@StrikeWarlock yep, that too. Even if you can afford the medical procedure itself, most people can’t afford to take time off work. The cost of living is so absurd in LA, if I had to go without a paycheck for 3 months I would be homeless. I feel for you, brother.
Never thought I would say this, but if you guys lived in Brazil you wouldn't have it half as bad. We might be the butt of everyone's jokes, but we have a pretty damn good public healthcare system. It kinda has to be good, otherwise there would be no population for the politicians to steal from.
@@StrikeWarlock LOL I just remembered this comment because yesterday at the gym, I injured my fucking rotator cuff on my left shoulder. Great. Can’t lift my arm more than 1/3 of the way without jolting pain. I sure fucking hope this goes away because I can’t afford this shit.
@@johnwrath3612 National Strike for health care when
You know Yahtzee, you knew about the American healthcare system before you moved here, so you really have no right to complain. You could've moved to any number of sensible countries instead
Rewatch let's drown out and you will understand why he didn't have a choice in the matter
@@CinosTheHedgehog2000 I like that you assume I've watched all of the hours and hours of lets play that Yahtzee made. No, I don't have time to do that. Also, I was being sardonic. It wasn't serious lol
Hey, besides all the Dark Souls games, that's also the ending to Beneath a Steel Sky. I'd warmly recommend that game to anyone that hasn't played it yet - one of the best point-and-click adventures I have played.
Surprised he didn’t tear into the lack of a checkpoint system, that’s my biggest gripe with the game. The portable sanctuaries in the first game was a great system, as could design each one your own way with specific NPCs and vendors. It devolved from that into one checkpoint per level.
Yea they REALLLYY wanted to extend play time
I feel like he was intentionally holding himself back. There's so much about Sacrifice that's borderline objectively inferior to the original that he'd need a much longer video to mention half of it, and it'd be so negative that the comedy would be pointless.
There are multiple oblisks in each map. and what do you mean by "portable sanctuaries" they were fixed locations.
@@MrLego3160you can turn any sanctuary as a fast travel as long as you had the guide offering, which was more flexible compared to sacrifice. every vendor stays at homebase and the inability to choose which obelisk you can teleport to doesn't help.
The American healthcare system really is just the global punchline, huh?
Or mass shootings
as it should be
@@cathallynch8269 If you honestly believe that the US leads in mass shootings, you might want to look at the places that don't even bother trying to track them because they're so common...
Except that medical tourism is a thing. It's easy to laugh at the US healthcare costs when we basically subsidize the entire world's medical R&D. The US has been producing more medical research and innovation than the rest of the world combined and we were responsible for the COVID vaccine being produced in less than a year, an accomplishment that was initially laughed at by everyone as being a medical impossibility, and yet here we are.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who hates the non renewable healing items in Bloodborne.
For the upcoming remaster, may I suggest an "Estus mode"? Hell, why not extend it to the bullets?
Because tying a core mechanic to a limited non renewable ressource in a game where, by design, you die a lot
is either bad design or cruelty. I love From Software games but there's always a couple of things
that twist my nipples the wrong way.
It's meant to test your skill, those who understand how to use the rally mechanic and manage their stamina properly don't need to use as many blood vials.
@@idiotsplayinggames4752 Everyone understands the rally/stamina mechanics EVENTUALLY. It's just a question of time. But, to phrase it like Yahtzee did "I love banging my head against the wall until it ends up breaking" but the limited blood vials/bullets makes it so you have to STOP banging your head against the wall to go grocery shopping before you can resume the wall/head banging... and that's the wrong kind of frustration.
What makes having opinions on the Jonny Depp trial a men's rights activist?
That Pocky sword is hilarious!
It deserves a spotlight. Please highlight it more in the future.
Hope you feel better soon, Yahtz
That was a shockingly accurate depiction of American healthcare
"Dur hur but muh freedum"
"Dur hur slave doctors"
"Dur hur cuntry too big"
"Dur hur socialized medicine only works in nations that are ethnically homogenous"
There, I've covered all the arguments morons make against universal Healthcare: the pointless one, the stupid one, the even more stupid one, and the racist one.
Mmm that extended joke about the Mages was good stuff, especially including them pissing off to a men’s rights activist board for their final stand
Some of the jokes this episode felt personal, like something really got to yahtz recently.
IDK could be wrong
Pretty sure the healthcare system being exploitive is an actual theme in Bloodborne.
Ironic considering it's in London, sorry, yharnam, which is clearly in Britain.
Half dead god keeping the world alive... Wait does that make The God Emperor the final boss of Warhammer?
John Oliver was right, the american national anthem at sport stadiums should be replaced with everyone yelling about their health insurance for a minute.
"More dodgy rolls than an unsanitary sushi restaurant" bravo sir, bravo
Made a dodge roll build...think I know where Yahtzee went wrong. He embraced the evil that is the dex nerd. He got what he deserved
Social healthcare that works?
Yahtz truly has gone native, everyone outside of the US calls that ‘all of them’.
Though judging by the number of related jokes and jabs in this video, I'm tempted to suspect that the man has recently had a brush with the Proud Murican Gun-Eagle(tm) Medical System and concluded, as most non-billionaires do, that it is not worth the pants it wears upon its miserable head.
I wouldn't call the NHS "working"... even if it is better than whatever the fuck is going on in the US
the rest tho yeah
Yahtgzee has also spent enough time in U.K. and Australia to know socialised medicine and universal Medicare is better than the U.S. but with flaws and not perfect.
Yes, tell me you've never looked at a rank ordered list of healthcare systems and seen Switzerland at the top, without telling me
The crafting joke really gets to me XD
loved the writing in this video!
The dodgy rolls got me good 😂
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
"Sprite and porridge" is the most relatable image so far.
Yatz seems to really have it out for the US healthcare system. He's not wrong I'm just wondering what brought it about
He saw it was popular and is repeating it. Like a parrot.
He moved to the US
I think Yahtzee is trying to tell us something
Basically, Salty Sacrifice is not a step forward from Salty Sanctuary but rather several steps sideways and two steps back.
Good to know this is an easy skip
100% correct. It's almost objectively inferior to the original in every way. Literally the only objective improvement is the co-op and invasion systems. They're actually well done, so credit where credit is due. Everything else though... hoo boy. It's either a chore or poorly designed.
@@loli-knightxardej2252 looks like the divorce took more than just the art style
Wait, Did the ska studio duo get divorced?
This is probably my favorite episode, and is the best/only "review" I've watched on S&S2. I wanna go into the game almost entirely blind, and I can guarantee I won't get any useful info here
Who was the guy inside the statusquo-o-tron?
I'm pretty sure it's Francis Rossi, lead singer of the band Status Quo.
@@someguy3752 Thank you!
The Normandy landings comment is one of the greatest statements I've ever seen.
I love Salt and Sacrifice, but all the points in this review are extremely fair.
3:46 Oh god you kept the McDonner Party fast food place from the previous video! X'D
“It’s not longer just a 2d dark souls clone it’s also a 2d monster hunter clone”
You just sold me on this game
This is the Saw VI of Zero Punction reviews, that is, the one that is a scathing critique of the American health insurance industry
that health care system analogy is top tier Yatzee-ism
Yahtzee managed to educate me on healthcare better than anything in grade school ever did
Sounds like the creators wanted the game to be 40 hours instead of 10 hours so they copy pasted the meat of the game till it became samey and grinding. This is a problem so many games have that take it from being what seems like a good game going in, turn into not a good game looking back after beating it. Well for me it's usually that it intrigued me when I started and for a while and by the time it's become samey and grinding I've invested enough time to punish myself to see the ending. I've gone on a bit of a personal tangent, but my point stands.
no there are actual non-mage bosses about as frequent as the mandatory Mages, and the Mages themselves are completely unique between them, outside of the first area's 3 mages which are essentially the tutorials on the 5 main dark souls attack concepts (and even then the only similar move all 3 share is having a melee attack, the fire one has a greatsword slash, the ice one has a rapier combo they can use the 3 swings of in any order, and the water one has a rolling shockwave slam), and importantly a good half the mages arent nerds, Heavy Armor mages are jocks and Ultralight armor mages have goofy designs more heavily based on their element than the others
@@joannawood7352 Objectively false. Just look at the total boss list. The regular bosses (aka the only good ones, and even then most of them are lame) amount to almost half of the mage list (aka the incredibly boring and samey fights). Unless you're doing some sort of no/minimal upgrade challenge run almost every single player is going to go through numerous mages before fighting more regular bosses. Look, I wanted to love the game as much as the next guy just like you, but there's a reason the game is getting absolutely SAVAGED almost universally. The only thing Sacrifice does objectively better than the original is co-op and invasions, but that's not exactly the point of the game (and if multiplayer was the point then they have a series marketing issue).
@@loli-knightxardej2252 total boss list is blatantly misrepresenting it lol, going by total list Dark Souls 2 would have a "recycled phantom problem" because of all the optional fights or rosters you only fight 1 or 2 of, in the area with the most required mage fights its 1 mage with a completely unique moveset, 1 area boss, second area boss (guarding a Slab equivalent), second unique mage, third area boss, third unique mage, and you pass on an optional mage after every area boss, in some areas there is literally 1 required mage (with a unique moveset) and 2 area bosses (like the desert), theres just a fuck ton of less unique optional mages for the sake of equipment variety that become unique when rematched
I honestly don't get why so many UK citizens move to America. No offence, but if I had to relocate abroad America is one of the last places I would pick.
It's not like Perfidious Albion is openly welcome elsewhere.
Really disappointed there wasn't some kind of portmanteau, like "saltsac", an indication that you've either got the most over-seasoned bag of snack mix ever, or that the male stripper you're having over for your bachelorette party is in for an interesting surprise.
Ah yes, grinding for bloodvials. Personally I farmed echos in the lecture hall while watching sth on youtube, bought 200 blood vials, then gave Orphan of Kos or Laurence another go
Seems like a setback from the previous game. Seems like a trend in epic exclusive sequels.
In addition to my earlier comment, I feel I should also add that the final boss of Salt and Sanctuary kind of fit what Yahtzee's description of a Soulslike game where the "top god" is fine with everything as it was. There were hints that he was insane because there was ONE THING he couldn't obtain (I can't say it here without spoilers), but he wasn't looking for a "mercy kill" or anything. One could infer from the story breadcrumbs in the game that's he's trying to kill your character either because you "know too much" or because he doesn't want you to escape & tell people about the island or perhaps both.
More accurately, he wants You to give up, to finally kneel and drown so he can get his sacrifice. Every nation gives a token sacrifice to stop the religion he puppets from crusading for a generation or two.
@@liamzakhaev I think he usually reads their mind or something like that before he truly accepts the sacrifice doesn't he? He's trying to learn about & reshape his personal island with new structures after all. He can't do that if he doesn't have people from the outside world around! He's still technically fine with leaving everything in the world as it is too. He wasn't planning on letting you kill him or letting you take his place when confronted either. It just kind of happens that way. The latter outcome is a bit of a hidden ending too.
@@liamzakhaev Another thing that just occurred to me is that Salt and Sacrifice might be partly inspired by the Soul Sacrifice games on the Vita. It was a Monster Hunter clone, but the first game also had you make a choice at the very end that determined what ending you got much like many Soulslikes. It might be a coincidence though. I know that you could break off & use monster's body parts in that game, but it wasn't for equipment in Soul Sacrifice. Instead, monster body parts were used to cast spells. There was one other thing that Salt and Sacrifice had in common with Soul Sacrifice: The monsters in both titles were once ordinary humans!
That ending gag killed me
In Bloodborne, the insightful way to get vials is twofold.
Rather than following your Monkey Brain to farm them in Yharnam's starting location you should:
1) Spend residual Blood Echoes after leveling up on Blood Vials
2) Just farm Blood Echoes to buy Vials with because Echoes are guaranteed. Kill some late game 4k Echoes guaranteed enemy, get like what 5 or 6 vials guaranteed per kill. GG EZ
From the "Salt and" franchise
New member :) loving the early access
Welcome aboard!
I wonder how tickled Yahtz was (or whoever edits these videos) to use that McDonner Party asset again.
Who's the guitarist inside the Status Quo-o-Tron?
Huh,
seems to me like a system that makes sense for consumable health restoration items, would be that they only stay consumed if you don’t lose the fight in which you used them?
Like, just (mostly) restore the game state to how it was before the attempt, or like , either the last save or the last auto save or whatever.
Really, the problem with consumables in Sacrifice is the rate at which you go through them due to the respawn system. In other crafting-filled combat-oriented games you usually have to traverse through multiple enemies and a decent bit of the level if you die, giving you the chance to restock on stuff easily. Sacrifice on the other hand will frequently have the respawn right next to the boss so you die, lose your materials, respawn, die quickly after, repeat. So you run out of stuff incredibly quick (if you die a lot anyways), and you don't have the chance to pick up lots of materials on the way back to the boss (since, again, you're probably respawning a mere screen away).
I thought this was an old one, but that was Salt and Sanctuary
Yathzee wouldnt know it since he is as allergic to anime stuff as an 80s dad, but Code Vein actually pulled a funny twist on the Dark Souls ending [SPOILERS ahead]:
In the good/true ending of Code Vein which you get from piecing together all the memory shards of each major boss and saving them, when your character is about to take the place of the big bad, he is stopped by their companion Io, who sacrifices herself to not only take the place on the status quo-tron instead of your character, but also make the world a much better and stable place than before, securing a food source for the vampires, the barrier that keeps big monsters away, but also a key to open it so you can go explore the outer world and preventing the super big bad from reforming and wreaking havoc.
It was surprising and at least to me a very touching ending.
I thought you might like inexplored 2, it's an isometric open-world roguelite rpg about discovering a vast World and saving it from evil forces by destructing a powerful relic (lord of the ring style)
Combat is a bit clunky to times, but appart from it, the game is really immersive and gives you a lot of freedom
In every practical sense it’s the same healing system as Bloodborne. You remember, the healing system that absolutely fucking sUuUuCkEd
Thumbs up and subscribed because this video was the perfect length of time for replacing my typewriter ribbon
Euthanasia, or as we know it, waiting eight months for a specialist to declare you in fact have cancer so that you can wait six more months for chemo.
Status Quo reference, nice.
On his note about Bloodborne, did anyone else ever run out of blood vials from running head first into the Eldritch brick wall bosses too many times? Cuz I never ran out, thanks to always getting blood vials whenever I did some blood echoes grinding. Got to a point where I even hit the max cap while exploring the Old Hunters dlc.
the trick is to just spend every spare echo on buying blood vials. After leveling and upgrading.
@2:10 - Ted McGinley++
2:29 RIGHT? I'm not the only one who was worried on that about the whole shit show.
Crafting Yahtz!!
the whole mens rigths jab makes me wonder if yatzee is starting to feel the symptoms of the same disease that detiriorated movie bob and jim...i wonder if the sanitation of the escapist is that bad TwT
It's America syndrome. The country corrupts you pretty quickly specially if you live in the special places like NY or California
I think living in a country where violence and poverty are rampant eats at you. Seeing the whole country take a major shift further right is scary if you're raising kids. Especially if you come from a country where you wouldn't have been exposed to this on such levels like the UK or AU.
@@lukasnel4828 NY and CA are the areas of the US that most look like the rest of the developed world lol
No offense, Yahtz, but I was kind of wondering why you moved here. I mean the health care and mass shootings alone..! If I wasn't rooted down by the fact I like my family, I'd be doing more than blowing smoke about moving.
He works in gaming and media - kind of a necessity.
@@LeonardoWilhelm I'm... not seeing the connection.
That was a lot of jabs at American healthcare. Did he suffer some minor injury while visiting the U.S. and now has to take out a second mortgage or simply never return from over seas?
He moved to the US in 2016.
1:30 that's a lot of P's
I do have a question for everybod.
Dose anyone click away when Yahzze says spoiler warning... like for real.🤔
Healthcare.
That's the joke.
Crafting, yahtz.
5:21 why do I have this terrifying sensation that the next call of duty game will include dark souls elements now?
I’m allergic to spoilers for games I want to play, so I watched last minute with video muted.
Awesome review man thanks
I was on the fence about getting this, since I quite enjoyed the first one, but I was under the impression for some reason that it did have a map now. No map is too annoying for people who can't play consistently & forget which bits they've already explored.
Man, the analogy to American healthcare was too on point.
i couldnt get into the first S&S, the traversal was pain, and it being 2d with alot of fall damage meant exploration was discouraged. didnt help that the combat became incredibly samey due to only having 2 ways to move.
i have some tolerance towards souls clones, i did complete both the surge as well as lords of the fallen, but i just couldnt be bothered to go beyond 2 or so bosses in S&S. the fact they still refuse to add an map because "dark souls doesnt have map" is hilarious since dark souls enviroment doesnt suck.
hearing they also made the healign system worse just confirms that it is something not for me.
I get being a souls-like but just using the exact same ending too?
Definitely some zingers in this one.
I miss The Dishwasher series
Not me crevices! Anything but that!
Unrelated - try Salt & Vinegar crisps on vanilla ice cream.
And after you've recovered from the mental pictures conjured by that sentence, go out and actually *do* it.
Regular fries on soft serve is also great, especially if you use a slighty savoury flavour like salted caramel. A Beijing innovation is chilli crisp and crushed peanuts on top of vanilla/soft serve - also great
"Annoying" is actually the right word to describe this game. It's a truly bad sequel. I'm surprised he didn't talk about all the atrocious padding present in the game. Which stretch what would be a 5-10 hour experience into a 15-20h repetitive grind fest.
You are a souls like now. Ohhoho you are a souls like, now
To me Salt and Sacrifice wasn't the greatest 2D Souls-like ever but it was still fun to play and i enjoyed it more than the first one, I didn't really have the same health issue as Yatzee because i always seemed to have a few hundred berries in my box and i didn't really care at all about the story as much as i cared about the gameplay which removed a lot of the tedious elements from the first one with more well crafted levels full of shortcuts instead of a maze of long paths in every direction.
Yahtzee knows of OkCupid. Oh no.
i get the sense yahtzee doesnt like ther american heathcare system..dont worry..hes not alone. we hate it here too
All hail Cholesteron!
I smell a candidate for top 5 blandest games of the year :)
So the game is good then, since Yahtz seemed to actually like it and only really had nitpicks to say about it. Guess I'll check it out.
Did you move to 'merica? Your health care issues do lend themselves to that conclusion.
pictures of matchstick men...it was pictures of matchstick all along...
Here's the thing though, Yahtzee. Monster Hunter is actually harder than most Soulsbornes, the only reason why it doesn't feel that way is because coop is built into the game and is encouraged in every way by the system.
You can finish most Soulsborne games at SL/RL1(I say most, because I genuinely believe you can't legitimately finish DS2 at SL1), but you can't do the equivalent of that at MH since G and Master Rank require G and Master Rank equipment to survive.
Also a person who's pulled off no hit runs in Soulsborne can't even handle a Village Khezu.
Yeah but that difficulty comes fromthe fact low level weapons break and literally do no damage if the game dicides to you and since time limit exist it just becomes mathematically impossible for you to win. That is not a higher skill ceiling just more grinding.
Fun fact: There is actually a guy currently in the process of trying to beat DS2 at SL -44 (he's got 1 in every stat). Channel name is presscontinue and he does some interesting challenge runs of Fromsoft games.
More to your point of MH being harder: Lots of games can't be beaten at level one just because low level characters can't really damage high level characters. It doesn't really make it harder, just more grindy.
I feel like the MH/DS comparison is a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison. Sure, you may be able to kill a Dark Souls end boss at level 1 naked with a butter knife, but you also don't have a time limit in which to do it. Meanwhile, a G-rank monster may smash an entire fully-equipped party flat in 3 seconds because they didn't get out of the huge AOE attack in time, but once you get carted back to the base you haven't really lost anything other than your pride and some consumables that are basically free by that point in the game. Meanwhile in Dark Souls it means you need to trek all the way back up to wherever you died without dying again to get your entire stock of souls back, which is especially problematic if you died halfway through a gauntlet of enemies that have now all respawned.
Monster hunter may technically be "harder", but it's also far more forgiving when you make mistakes. Heck, if you have the time you can even go replenish your consumables mid-hunt if you really need to and get a full heal at the starting camp. Dark Souls, on the other hand, keeps wearing you down through attrition, every little mistake chipping irreversibly away at your resources until you finally manage to get to a bonfire and restore yourself to full effectiveness again.
(reads comment about to furiously type out a long winded "You're wrong" comment...but then remembers What's his heavily-bearded-face-name/dude dying to low rank Khezu). Man, that was literally hilarious. But Damnit you're probably right... I want these people to fight Furious Rajang or Fatalis in World before claiming that we play "Baby trash games." Yet weirdly your not as that all depends on monster animations/hitboxes/AI/and player stats...but you are correct due to some skill like in all of these gams? ARGH!
That's a silly metric for whether a game is harder or not