Trek to Yomi & Ravenous Devils (Zero Punctuation)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Trek to Yomi and Ravenous Devils.
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Ooh. Heaven. For two dollars.
Nah, I'm good. Thanks for the recommendation. Saw it on Buffy some time ago.
That was a long walk for the "mcdonner party" pun but it was well worth it
So, Yahtzee wished Ravenous Devils was meatier because it left him hungry for more
A rare game
@@Mene0 I prefer medium rare doneness myself
Jokes write themselves.
This is the worst I’ve felt about liking a comment in a long time
@@damienamarty You're welcome
"Don't worry, someone bored will probably translate this for you"
Oh ffs Yahtz. Can't say I didn't see this coming from a mile away though. But jokes on you, I know Japanese and it only took like 20 seconds scouring my brain for forgotten college knowledge to understand.
I had a feeling that's what it'd say.
Thank you for being that bored somebody. I salute you, sir.
Took me a second to realize I hadn’t missed a joke and the video, and that you were translating the final message
Arigato
Thank you for the assist. My forgotten High School knowledge is in considerably worse shape
I feel like the easiest way to appeal to Yahtzee is to give him a protagonist with the exact same "slightly condencending, posh and sarcastic" british accent, that he has.
He ends up liking most of them
That sound very British from him to do.
I’m reminded of the COD/Battlefield game that changed the dialect of the friendly soldiers based on your region, and how much he was ticked off by that.
That’s what representation is all about…
There is very little Posh in Yahtzee's voice
Ending up in J-Hell to confront your sins and the people you wronged in Life is pretty high up on the Kurosawa Meter. Bonus points if your character realizes the futility of their actions and/or the only reason why they're dead and in J-Hell is because of the demands/expectations of Japanese society.
"mcdonner party" may be one of the best closing gags hes had in a while. still got it, old man!
The McDonner Party.... brilliant. One of my favourite signoff lines ever.
Yahtzee being completely enamoured with a Morticia-and-Gomez style evil murder couple is oddly sweet.
great now i'm imagining Yahtzee being a guest star on the Addams Family and its hilarious
Another villain couple is The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend
@@campfortson4387 or as she’s known now, Dr Mrs The Monarch
Did Morticia and Gomez murder people?
@@campfortson4387 Honestly given that Morticia & Gomez are generally pretty decent, just very odd (though yes the movies do hint they have killed people, if not always intentionally), I reckon Monarch & Dr Mrs The Monarch make a great example.
15 years ago if you told me Yahtzee would have a weeb arc where he praised games like Persona and 13 Sentinels and started a video by saying he should learn Japanese I'd have told you that you were going to hell for lying.
Welcome to the club Yahtzee. We're not all smelly weirdos, I promise.
I don’t believe you
He didn't like 13 Sentinels, he just found it bizarrely fascinating how odd it was
As a smelly weirdo, I concur with your last statement.
@@felixlogographic2802 that’s a pretty okay rating for Yahtzee though. It’s not the next persona for him but he did seem to gain some genuine enjoyment out of it, which is more than I can say for many of his reviews
Smelly lying weirdos, got it
I'd love a spore-kind of game but for gastronomy. So you start as a burger flipper, having some timing-based missions for burgers and fries, but instead of just making the recipes more and more complex, you get promoted to shift-manager and now you can delegate those missions to other employees. If you don't have enough employees you still have to do some of the missions yourself and your employees have different strengths, so not everyone can do every mission with the same speed, etc. Then you get promoted to store-manager, where you have to hire employees, promote them to shiftmanagers and take care of buying ingredients. Then you become regional manager, where you have to open different branches of the chain and take care of things like rent, money allocation, decide specials for different branches, etc., after that you become the national Vice President and have to make deals with providers and politicians about zoning laws, employment laws, etc. At the end you'd be like international CEO and have to deal with expansion to different countries, where you need to understand their different laws for every country and bribe politicians to get tax-deductions and relocate certain aspects of your company to different countries to make the most money.
So it starts out like a flash-minigame, becomes a management game into a strategy game and ends up as a politics-simulator and everytime you get promoted you have to make sure that your succesor is doing a good job as well. This could also be done with different franchises with different playstyles. So when you start, you decide if you want to work at a mcdonalds style restaurant that is already established worldwide and you just get promoted internally or you start at a local pizza-chain with 3-4 restaurants, or you work at a food-cart that hasn't even established it's first restaurant yet and depending on where you start the challenges are different. Maybe you can even swap out, when you start at a mcdonalds and then when you become a store-manager you can chose to switch jobs to a smaller pizza-chain, etc. Or maybe add something where you can buy out the competition to expand your company to have different brands with different needs, etc.
“Slow to start but worth finishing”
that’s some high praise endorsement coming from yahtzee.
The end credits remind of the guy that got “I don’t speak Chinese” tattooed on his arm in mandarin
That McDonner Party joke was gold, Jerry, GOLD!
some great punchlines in this one. i cracked up about the "hiring a pool boy" line and the McDonner party.
That might just be his finest punchline to date
"I'll have the egg, tomato, onion and cannibalism sandwich." LOL! Also the McDonner Party restaurant bit at the end! XD
Despite how _Trek to Yomi_ sounds mildly disappointing, I do now want to rewatch _Yojimbo_ more than I already did. So thanks. Also it's hilarious how the loving couple of _Ravenous Devils_ is an utter indictment of how poorly romance in a relationship tends to be written given that literally murderous cannibals sound more functional than 99.99% of fictional couples.
As a general rule, happy couples are rarer in fiction because having two characters who barely tolerate each other’s presence until the last chapter is an easy way to add tension to a story.
Happy couples, just like peaceful villages, don't make for interesting entertainment, usually.
@@thrownstair I know *why* the terrible romances exist. It's large part because it's so easily lazy to write cheap melodrama via poor communication and contrived coincidence that lead to a second act break-up or repeated break-ups. It's also far easier to write getting into a relationship than the relationship itself, which allows (too many) people to idealize the "happy ever after" even if the basis for the relationship was utterly shallow to begin with.
I'm just saying that it is rather telling that even when you get past the (adult) couples that can't communicate for often no good reason, _Ravenous Devils_ also apparently has a couple that clearly has at least common goal and shared interest beyond "alright, we'll bang", even if that interest is murder. Again, like 99.99% of fictional couples don't even seem to get as far as sharing *any* (significant) interests, which is part of why I often find myself wondering why the hell they're together and, more importantly, why the hell we're supposed to care about them being together.
@@ADHadh I'm not disputing that, Mr. Tolstoy. All I'm saying is that, as just said above, _Ravenous Devils_ shows you can still write a loving couple without it being detriment to the story. This especially since most "romances" aren't even about the relationship itself but about the getting together.
It would just be nice to see more stories written like that even if they're probably more plot-driven than character-driven, and I say that this as someone who isn't remotely romantic. Although this is reminding me, once again, why I generally like _The Addams Family_ since that's another rare example of a functional adult couple, and they could hardly be called boring.
@@MusicoftheDamned
In regards to the Addams family, I think I might make the argument that the source of tension mostly comes from the Addams interaction with 'regular folk,' not the couple themselves.
Since the burden of producing tension doesn't fall on the couple, it perhaps allows room for the couple to be very lovey-dovey with each other.
"Scoff Trough" was a brilliant little touch.
Two things that housebound moms love: watching murder mysteries and playing minimum wage job sims. Now together for the first time!
That McDonner Party line was just *chefs kiss*
Been a while since I played a game before Yahtzee reviewed it.
McDonner Party got me like a punch to the gut. Always the closing gag, I swear
McDonner’s. That made me chuckle quite a bit.
4:45 Yahtzee finally said it again!
McDonnerParty is now going to have to be a permanent addition to my vocabulary. Somehow.
that Donner party joke got me 🤣🤣
Thank you for watching Donners, drive-ins and Dives.
I lost it at the wedding ring and McDonnor Party
"Ghoulie Burger" was a chain in a dystopian rpg I enjoyed.
Mc Donner party goes under "jokes I need explaining but are fucking hilarious"
For the end credits, Don't worry, boring people will translate it for you.
We expect that - but what is the translation? :)
MacDonner party really got me
"Don't Worry, boring people will probably translate this for you."
Touche, but I just used the google translate on my phone. So all *I* did was tell other people what the boring people translated.
Compulsory like on the video on account of the stinger at the end. Freakin brilliant.
i got a good chuckle at "McDonnerparty" and i needed it.
He actually got the logo of my/his school. I dropped out too. You made the right decision Yahtz
McDonner Party. I spent way more time laughing at that than I should have and now my cats and daughter are terrified of me.
The "Gigantic Corn Dogs" bit at the end of the credits had me floored. It's not even a clever joke and it still had me giggling away for several minutes
2:07 is where I lost it 🤣🤣🤣
2:40 as well!
Pretty sure at one point Poland and Japan were fighting the Mongols at the same time, so I guess they've been helping each other out for a while.
McDonner Party is a freaking genius pun
00:35 Today, I learned how to say "big testes" in Japanese.
Yahtzee's "on the ball" as usual ;)
Hallmark's Japanese branch really has it all figured out. There are _at least_ four different flavors of "Sorry to hear your master got got" (though two of them _were_ both "... by your substantially more accomplished older brother").
I didn't look too hard to get an exact count, though. They were right next to a bigger collection that boiled down to "Sorry, [blood relation], but I'm not really interested in you, sexually", and I didn't want to think about that too hard.
The McDonner party is Yahtzee’s best closer ever
I laughed far more than I should have at the McDonner Party zinger.
There's an achievement in Ravenous Devils for acting like a good parrent to an orphan from story. It's kinda fucked up to think that somewhere in the world there's actuall child being neglected by his mother gunning for that achiev
okay the McDonner got me good
That gigantic corn dog comes with an awesome stick
0:35 "Large balls"
If you put Trek on a rocket, then it's Star Trek.
Yahtzee, you can pry Cook Serve Delicious from my cold dead hands.
Have they reviewed Milo & The Magpies yet? Seems like a good fit.
The Poland & Japan ww2 Joke was fucking outrageous and i loved every second of it xD
It's even stranger when you read the wikipedia page on Poland-Japan relations. Apperently these two nations really came to like each other after the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. And during WWII, increased distrust in Hitler made the Japanese reliant on Poland's spies even after the declaration of war and they straight-up supported the Polish Government in Exile
You could bridge the two games by titling this video "Trek to Yummy."
Plus, I mean, half the people that work in restaurants look like they’ve done a few murders in their time anyway. And the other half, well…
Is anyone else getting a bug where half the comments here say they were posted 6 days ago?
I too have a too chloriney thong. It ruined the elastic. 😢
I bet he only reviewed Ravenous Devils to make the McDonner party joke
He's been saving up that McDonner Party joke for years, hasn't he?
@@UnChannelDuVulpineX "The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner-Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846-1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. *Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating the bodies of those who had succumbed to starvation, sickness, and extreme cold.*"
@@UnChannelDuVulpineX no prob
@@UnChannelDuVulpineX donner party is a group of American travelers taught in every high school. They starved to death due to being really fucking stupid with trip planning and ended up having to eat the dead corpses. After they ran out of dead corpses they started killing and eating each other until only one man who ate all the rest remained
When did Yahtzee review haven?
I didn’t know that Yahtzee dropped out of school
Wait he talked about Haven? When?
Yomi, god I should have gotten that
ow...ribs from hurting from lol at all the background jokes...
If your 50 miles fron your destination and you're driving 50 mph and every mile you decrease your by 1 mph, how long will it to drive that 50 miles?
I would have loved to watched them play Ravenous devils
They did a stream of it on UA-cam.
MY NEW STAND, [McDONNER PARTY]!
Holy balls what a great line.
Samyoorai
Me :)
Yahtzee: "MacDonnerParty"
Me: D8
I'll have to give Ravenous Devils a go. They even got a NSFW VA to voice the wife!
‘I’m here for it’, hand in your millennial card, you’ve sold out to the zoomers
I didn't even know that you went to hell in Trek to Yomi.
Dude for sure wrote that last joke THEN played the game
What, not a fava bean joke? Oh, well.
Want a really short one, the april fools joke turned actual game (Catgirl without Salad)....honestly my only real complaints are the claustrophobic screen and the near useless except they do more damage weapon upgrade, but it is a joke turned into a cheap online purchase so..
We’re just watching Yahtzee in his denial weeb arc
I wonder if they have special requests for dark meat.
So ravenous devils would be a victorian era equivalent to trek to yomi then. Now of to read how many Kurosawa replies this review will get.
Well ackshually…
The little games are my go to these days. The Elden Ring can stay at the bottom of a river for another thousand years as far as I'm concerned.
To be fair elden ring is a good game. Every other triple a this year has sucked though
Yahtzee - "Would it be racist to say they all look the same?"
Me - "I dunno, maybe ask, Genghis Khan, I hear he has some insight on that subject..."
I think you mean, "Wouldn't it be racist to say I can't tell them apart?" (which is what Yahtzee says).
For anyone wondering, the phrase in the speech balloon at 0:35 is "big testicles".
Also, I am *not* boring.
Hearing Yahtzee say he dropped out of high school makes me feel great. As far as wit goes he's my hero so it's nice to know he didn't need it.
I have to say regarding Trek to Yomi that I've been turned off by it being described as "like a Kurosawa movie." When I see that I always get the impression that the devs are saying "look guys, cool Samurai stuff" and that's it. No complex themes, well thought out cinematography and interesting characters like in a Kurosawa movie, just "Samurai cool."
The designs of the two main characters of Ravenous Devils reminds me way too much of Sig and Izumi Curtis from Fullmetal Alchemist
Neat
"Japan not being in the nostalgic for the 1940s club." Ahaha yeah... uhm... who's gonna tell him?
They aren't nostalgic for the conclusion, at least.
@@jhbadger Fair and valid.
You didn't review Inscryption !!!
Wow. Two unapologetically positive reviews in the same video. What has the world come too?
Just commenting to make sure that by 退屈な人 you meant "bored people" (which is what it means) and not the rather more snide "boring people," which would more likely be つまらない人.
So is this a duel review or a sweary game
Is Yatz finally losing his accent after all these years? That "Lahndon Townne" wasn't nearly as cockney as it used to be.
Too many nights in America will do that to ya
More likes 1.5K than views 1235.
Wouldn't "Trek to Yomi" translate better as "Ride to Hell"?
Whenever you keep saying there is a "dry season" of new games, you can always make an episode on "New Pokemon Snap" ;-)
I will never ever understand why some accents of the Queen's country pronounce it samyurai.
Yo, weebs, can y'all read the final message in Japanese at the end?
It is really drought season
could someone boring translate the Japanese at the end for me?