My favorite part about sokka saying "its that guy from the beach" is that they never met combustion man at the beach. However, the episode where the gaang did meet combustion man was called "The Beach", because the a-plot, which *did* have a beach, was focused on Azula and Zuko. The writers for this game are clearly skimming through a summary of the show, and have actually never seen it. They hired people to make a game based on a beloved tv show... and never made them watch it.
@@firelordoregano5632 That would only work if the game made other meta references. This definitely makes more sense that someone was just reading some synopsis that described combustion man's first appearance as 'The Beach' and they took that literally.
Well, if Bumi was the narrator all along, then I guess the implication is that every time he didn’t know what happened, he just went “uh, and then the Avatar broke a bunch of boxes, I guess”, and that’s HILARIOUS to me
What I find extremely interesting is that the “trusty boomerang” achievement at 33:22 is essentially given out to everyone considering that’s the only way to defeat combustion man. Meaning that only 35% of people made it to that point in the game
That shift from Aang dying to all of a sudden chilling in fire National territory without any explanation is probably the funniest thing I’ve seen this year
it is honestly impressive at this point that EVERY Avatar adaptation is irredeemably horrible. none were going to be as good as the original show but holy cow it's all trash
Man, I sure do love the Aang and katara show. Who’s sokka? Who’s Zuko? I don’t know an iroh. I don’t know a fire lord ozai. I only know Aang and katara.
who’s aang? isn’t that the giant weird flying buffalo looking thing? OH or is it the water girl? maybe that sexist guy? or is it the dude with the ugly burn
39:07 an under appreciated moment is how Zuko says “despite all she’s done I can’t help but feel sorry for her” when the show had the much more impactful scene of him looking away with a pained face, without saying a word.
If this animation was the best they had and in an alternate universe the game had better gameplay and was faithful, the telling over showing makes sense.
Also the extremely emotional and realistically desperate Azula breakdown at the end got reduced to her just going "huah" and puffing a little bit of fire, it's hilariously bad. Honestly should've made it a comic cutscene, they obviously wouldn't have been able to replicate that spectacular voice acting performance even if the game wasn't the trainwreck that it is.
i also love how, with how little information the game gives about her, someone who hasn't seen the show would see literally no reason to feel sorry for her at all
I've felt sorry for her since the original cartoon... ..But in this one, even MORESO because they were literally and clearly 2v1ing her in an "Agni Kai". Like at THAT point, Azula shooting lightning at one of them would be justified.
This game feels like they had some got come in and say "Hey I know a lot about The Avatar, here is a nice summary you can use but obviously if you want more details, just ask me." And then the writers walked in and went "Oh shit I guess someone wrote the whole script for me. Guess I'll go home."
Honestly i think they had a few mechanics working and then reskinned them and reorganised ithem throughout the entire game, might be from of a lack of funding or time
One was just announced, i'm still skeptical but it at least seems better than this disaster, we'll have to wait and see if the game turns out to be any good.
grreat idea. imo the best videogames or stuff try to follow up and not be the same. but for me the optimal adaptation of the shows story would be akin to the lego videogames, but with an actual involved almost-fighting-game combat system where you can remap what attacks are which buttons and as you learn more attacks you can swap them out for other attacks (so like you could have aang with like, 3 earth attacks and 1 fire attack if you wanted to)
it’s funny how in this game, despite being entirely based around the show about bending, the strongest character is the one who literally can’t bend, sokkas just like that ig
How do they keep getting Nickelodeon properties? They made the nicktoon kart games, and that first, silent version of the Nickelodeon smash bros clone. And despite quality, Nickelodeon keeps going back to them
@@enlongjones2394 Because Nickelodeon is floundering. They're desperately trying to stay relevant despite the only thing they have that still makes money being Spongebob, and they're willing to do anything.
My brother has this and he made me play it, the co op is genuinely awful, player 1 can pick between every character player 2 isn't and player 2 is stuck as one character. I was stuck as Katara the entire time
So before I changed my major, my major was originally Video Game Development. What is absolutely wild in 15:14 is that the VERY FIRST THING you are taught in Level Design class for the video game development major is to always start with a giant death plane at the bottom of your map.
@@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-FoxI mean, if you're using a 3d engine for that game, yeah. Don't want a player walking into an unloaded area then falling through the non-existent collision into the void.
Duuuuude. I was also surprised at that but not for being a class about game development. But for an animation class where we had to make pixel assets for our own game (we thankfully didn't have to code) and also make sure it worked.
35:03 im surprised he never mentioned that the strategy for this fight is to break the cables with Sokka's boomerang, which somehow stuns Azula?? "Nooo, not my cables!!"
When I was playing, I read interviews with like the creator or director of the game and it boiled down to “I wanted to make a puzzle game and not a fighting game” which is why the fights are so terrible and why most of the boss fights end up being just puzzles really. Like why make a puzzle game out of a show that iirc has its bending based of various martial arts!? These people never wanted to make a true ATLA game; they just wanted a popular IP and money
I mean, making co-op puzzles out of bending techniques with different party members to explore a vast world doesn't seem terrible off the bat, even if it isn't the first thing you think of from Avatar. It was more about the execution.
Honestly this is still a terrific game! It just needs better graphics, story, cut scenes, attacks, animations, abilities, puzzles, death walls out of bounds, better voice acting, a better combat system, a giant sea monster or two, and anything that could possibly be mistaken for fun!
Add a consistent save system. My family gave up on finishing it after we closed the game and later came back to the first fight against Zuko... that was when I remembered it's important to look up reviews and reported issues before buying a game 😢
I think the one, and I mean ONE good thing I can say about this game... A thing that mind you, they don't even properly make use of... Is the idea of taking a game that's a retelling of already known events, and throwing in deviations due to it being told by an unreliable narrator... Like imagine in an alternate universe where this was a good game, where Bumi and the others at the table cut in with comments at various points... Perhaps even entire side missions dedicated to how absolutly wrong some of them get it. Instead of generic villain mocking hero game over, when you die there's a brief line of something like: "Bumi you oaf, they're not dead!" or "And then everybody died!... No wait that's not right." Maybe even have bonus challenges that are frame as one person overexageratting various details... Though at this point I'm just putting more thought in how the idea could be used than the game devs put into the entire game. So really I can't say it's one good thing ABOUT this game... More one good thing this game COULD'VE had.
If youre interested in this type of narrative,maybe try Call of Juarez gunslinger! (No,its not a call of duty clone. The call of juarez is relevant for the story of the first two games,not this one tho) its pretty much told as a bar story and sometimes the narrator makes mistakes and it ends up causing some funny situations like you being suddenly swarmed by apaches,then the narrators going like "Wait,you were attacked by apaches? What happened to the cowboys?" "Huh? Did i say they were apaches?.."
Also Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The Prince is narrating the game's events, and when the player gets a game over, he goes "no, that's not how it happened".
So in some European countries, apparently ATLA is called as "Avatar: Legend of Aang" where "ALA" would make sense (and it's due to dumb reasons). But for this tho? Yeah no.
"ALA" is just a codename. It's not meant to be a faithful abbreviation nor was it meant to be seen by the players. That's like saying Magic designers don't know anything about Lord of the Rings because their set is LTR and not LOTR... but it's because their codenames are strictly 3 characters.
This game is like hearing someone retell the story, but they have ADHD so they're constantly forgetting major parts of it, and then just continuing on forgetting that they forgot to introduce half the characters they're talking about
It's baffling that the AAA studios keep trying to retell the Aang story. Guys, adapt one of the Kyoshi novels or something. The original series set sky-high expectations, you're not gonna compete with it directly.
@@NYKevin100you fail to understand The goal is not to match the original in terms of greatness or even surpass it….it’s to cash in on the nostalgia of those who grew up with it
The idea of having the story be told by an unreliable narrator, allowing the game to justify adding weird gameplay elements and such, could be a really fun idea. What a shame it turned out like this.
Im actually so happy this game makes people talk about this cuz it allows me to talk about my favourite cowboy game-- Maybe try call of juarez gunslinger!! It not only has killer gameplay,but it has a fun unreliable narrator,which is a drunk guy on a bar!
27:27 I think the issue from the development side is that they assume that everyone playing the game knows the story points already… which FAIR, I’m guessing 98ish% of the players already do. But even still, just because WE KNOW what’s supposed to be happening doesn’t mean they should SKIP IT!!
Skipping over the story screws both returning fans of the show and people who have never seen it. People who have seen the show will be pissed that the devs butchered an amazing story, and new fans won’t be able to get engaged with the game because of the lackluster story. (Not that this game was engaging to begin with)
At this point, I honestly believe the ATLA creators made a deal with the devil to make one of the best TV shows of all time in exchange for dog-shit adaptations, game tie-ins, and spin-offs.
21:10 I noticed that when they move their eyebrows, the shadows dont change with them. You just get these shots where the shadow goes above the eyebrows, and when I noticed it I chould stop focusing on it
yknow.... avatar is one of the few shows where I think a open world game could work. Turn every episode into a sidequest, with the important keymoment of the show being primary missions. You travel on appa through the world (cant go to the firenation since there is a blockade, figure something similar out for the heart of the earth nation?) On the way you can do puzzles/little sidequests that let you gather collectibles and upgrades to your abilities maybe?
as a game designer trying to make a movie into a game you have a few simple steps, think of the most filler episodes and make gameplay for them, take the best parts of the show everyone loves and recap it in text, forget some very important and memorable details. Thats how you make the best game possible
I've only experienced ATLA through digital osmosis (something I promise I'll fix soon™) so this game feels as if I'd directed it: A lot of "so this thing happened and then..." and "oh right, that guy, so yeah he's there too."
The reveal that the plot twist of an unreliable narrator stems from a completely black cutscene ALL THE WAY back at the beginning really helps elevate the "top-notch" quality of this game
Thank you for the reminder that I didn't know Avatar was a tv show until I was about 13 or so because I didn't have nickelodeon. I genuinely thought that it was just a Wii game. At least the part where you flew around as Aang was fun.
That is actually interesting. Did you ever watch the series? If so, what was your opinion compared to the game? Character and world wise, but anything you remember would be interesting.
25:47 What’s even worse about this being the first time you see Iroh is that he and Zuko are supposed to be pretending to be Earth Kingdom citizens but Iroh is wearing Fire Nation garb
Fun Fact!: Avatar the Burning Earth, that Xbox game famous for its achievemnts, is actually a sequel, in a trilogy. Avatar The Last Airbender, Avatar The Burning Earth, and Avatar Into the Inferno are a trilogy of games that are about as good as you would expect. But, the first one. The first one I have seen no one talk about anywhere. It's so bad. Toph didn't exist yet I guess so the 4 playable characters are Aang Sokka Katar and Haru!? The graphics are abysmal, granted it was a GC/Ps2/Xbox/Wii Game but it's somehow still bad in comparison(wait oh my god it was on the DS too HOW!?) The game has an original story starting at the Northern water tribe at the beginning of season 2 but mimicks the progression of season 1 with Zuko attacking and then going to similar locations. This game was also my childhood. I love this game. It to this day has one of my favorite series of collectibles and some really funny stuff throughout it (Sokka has a buff where he sets his arms on fire and then yells in pain. Why? No idea. But it's his best move so you use it constantly) My favorite is this one stupid face Haru makes in a cutscene after he joins you, the polyhons on his smile are screwed and it looks absolutely cursed. I love this game just so much.
I actually had this one on DS! And yes it was bad, but it still had a weird charm that as a kid I loved. The fighting mechanics were also fairly interesting, especially for a DS game. I played through it so many times to 100% it, and the Pai Sho mini game was extremely addictive.
I… I might have had that game growing up. A PS2 atla game where the Earth Bender Stand-In was Haru sounds familiar. I’m 90% sure I don’t still have it, but that just unlocked a CORE memory
First- YES! Finally someone mentions the First Game. I had it on Xbox as well and found, although through nostalgia glasses, one of the betters. It was the beginning of IP shovelware, BUT because it was something orginal and if I remember right, didnt really mess with the canon, I appreciated it. Was it the Best? No. But can you say that the originality they took with what they had- not even knowing IF book 2 was coming out and what would be included with it- is any better than what weve been recently getting even with the WHOLE story out? Imo-No, its not worse. But i WAS happy that there was an Earthbender included, because Bumi made me love Earthbenders; and having Haru being it was cool at the time, cause you know teen angst and fight the power. 😂
I remember that game. They put a collectible in the first stage that you have to come and get as Katara, but you don't get Katara as a playable character until a later level, and I never figured out how to go back to an earlier stage. I didn't realize there was equipment until a second playthrough, so I beat the entire game with starting equipment. There's a mission where Aang and Sokka have to disguise themselves as fire nation soldiers and break into a prison. I didn't realize that it was a stealth mission and beat up all the guards from the beginning, and there was no penalty. I also played Burning Earth, but it was the Wii version, and I got stuck escaping from the spirit library because the motion controls were so bad that I couldn't pass the motion control quick time event that opens a door. Wan Shi Tong broke through the wall and is supposed to game over you because it's an escape sequence. But like half the times I was supposed to game over, I survived and was soft locked because the game thought had already lost wouldn't let me go back or open the door I needed to open to progress.
The game supposedly had a very large dev team but only one dev actually made the game the rest where busy jorking it to pictures of wooden boxes while playing subway surfers.
34:18 I just gotta mention this cuz it’s my favourite game ever, but Rayman 3 music slaps. Never would have guessed that Alpha would use this in his videos but this made me so happy!
From what I've seen, the first ATLA game is probably the closest to being good, it just had a lot of shortcomings for being a licensed game made to coincide with the series' first airing. I still think an Action RPG ATLA game that plays like Kingdom Hearts is the way to go.
I’d venture to say an Action RPG that plays like Skyrim where you can create your own character and explore the world with side quests and such would be the better option imo.
My pitch for an Avatar game would be that you are the avatar, not Aang or Korra, just a random avatar in the cycle, and you go on a journey to master the elements. You basically can end up with completely different fighting styles depending on which people you choose as your teachers, you can help solve conflicts and explore and discover different things about the world.
Something that people don't mention about this game too is that they have far too many inconsistencies with outfits. Especially in book 3. Katara had her loose hair when she wore her fire nation outfit, but somehow she has her hair style from book 1 throughout the entirety of book 3. Sokka has his hair changing from book 1 to book 3, having less hair to suddenly having a lot of hair then nothing again. And then Iroh having his fire nation outfit from book 1 when we first see him in book 2--he should be wearing earth kingdom clothing. Especially during the scene where Aang dies. Hell, there are some cutscenes where not only the game uses the wrong models, but the comic art looking cutscenes use the wrong design entirely. Where Aang meets the lion turtle and learns to energy bend, he suddenly has his old airbender outfit from books 1-2, IN A DRAWN CUTSCENE. The outfits stopped being consistent after book 1 and its so glaring to me, i know i saw chat also point out those facts while i was watching this on Alpharad's other channel, and this sucks because the drawn stuff looked good too, like it came out of the comics
I almost feel like the point of this game, is to confuse people, who have never seen the show, so much, that they go and watch the show. Just to try and make sense of this.
The weird mix of 3d cut scenes and comic book ones, kinda feels like they had 2 or more groups working on it and then just kinda mashed the pieces together
So uuuuh fun fact, I never watched Avatar. Sure I caught an episode here or there but I have not seen more than 3 episodes maybe. After seeing this game, this is the story of Avatar as I know it: There's a dude in an iceberg called an "avatar" whatever that is. He meets up with 2 other kids and go from place to place to learn elemental powers. He learns these through extra-dimensional puzzle rooms. The fire nation is bad and attacks all the time, but are easily defeated because they are pushovers. There is a fire nation prince and princess and they also attack but put up slightly more of a fight. I can only assume they attack because their regular goons are so pathetic it makes their nation look bad. There's also like, 3 separate quirky old guys that sit around a lot and only jump into action at the very end. There's also an earth girl and a flying cow. Every single thing is locked behind either blocks or Subway Surfers. In the end this avatar kid shazooms the big villain (Mr Fire Nation) so hard he gives up out of shame. The End. Was I close?
"They really do make you feel like Toph, CAUSE THEY'RE NOT SHOWING ME SHIT!" That freaking slayed me. Summed it up perfectly Jacob. So many of these have been games with wasted or misused potential and bonkers infamy, but THIS time, we had a game that has so little respect for its source material, that it actually made me confused and angry. 😅 0 cabbages/10
As a person who never watched avatar but know what it sorta was this is so peak lmao. couldn't agree more with the sarcastic "who?" every time a new character pops up
I'll be honest, I have not consumed a single episode of ATLA, and when Zuko first showed up and Jacob asked "Is that Zuko?" I was like...ahhh, haha audience has not met Zuko yet funny joke...and then he says "I am Zuko" and....I realized I've never seen Zuko with a ponytail, I've only ever seen him with short fluffy hair, and I genuinely thought it was someone else LMAO. Aren't I the fool.
1. What a cop out ending 2. Imagine they make the energy bending section a subway surfers one where you have to run till you cover ozai to remove his bending
the beloved high budget show that people have wanted to immerse themselves in for 15 years and yet it always get's the video game budget of a trip to Dollar Tree
I still think the ideal ATLA video game adaptation would be volleyball. Just make a stupidly-well-designed volleyball game with a ton of characters with special abilities (bending or otherwise) and a whole bunch of cool stages to play on.
Omg that’d be great. Hell, the fire nation kids even play a kind of volleyball (albeit with a lot more kicks) in the beach episode, so you could absolutely make the story for it some kind of wacky post-finale tournament arc
Make a full game out of the pro bending ball game from Korra! The Korra beat-em-up on PS3 had pro bending segments and apparently a larger minigame. Make a full game about smacking discs around with bending!
If the Cabbage Man is Ozai and Ozai is the one taunting you during the game over screen, then we're actually getting roasted by the Cabbage Man, and that's probably the best part of this game!
“They really make me feel like Toph because THEY DONT SHOW ME SHT” is the first part of a video that actually made me laugh out loud, of all non “try not to laugh” videos I’ve seen this video made me laugh lol
I honestly first went into these streams thinking I could easily watch bad Avatar game without actually having watched the show. Very early on, it was apparent I needed to watch the show. I’m glad I didnt get spoiled for anything TOO major..? (Maybe some Book 1 spoilers but I had no idea what was going on) ..I REALLY need to sit down and watch the show at some point.
Man black myth wukong left a huge hole in my chest, it just made me think how much potential Avatar has, like imagine a avatar game that is semi-open world where you can explore all of the places they visited in the show, while following a semi-linesr story where you can find little easter eggs of the show, also having a similar combat to wukong
So, Katara's 3d animations during dialogs felt familiar. Has anyone seen DougDoug's Napoleon AI 3d model speaking? Specially when the character model nods with an arm crossed and the other gesturing affirmation. Same as Katara's model here, I feel. I'm not familiar with how you can get 3d models from the internet, but something's telling me that this game got some of their 3d animation sprites for very cheap if not for free. It wouldn't be a surprise lol
Yeah you're pretty much right lol, the thing about 3D is that you can get animations from asset stores, so a lot of games buy or use free animations from these marketplaces to save on animation time, and in Unreal Engine's (the engine the game's made in) case, they're incredibly easy to get and just set up into a game. DougDoug and the Devs might be using the same animation pack, which is fine for Doug who does it for fun mostly, but not for a fully released game where they're already cutting costs on cutscenes, narrative, gameplay, models, art direction, vfx, sfx, level design, music and a lot of other things I might be forgetting to mention. Kinda funny they couldn't really be bothered to try in any way
I think my favorite thing about this game is Toph's idle animation has her looking around
Na that's vile
She be trollin
LMAO
We need that gif of her waving her hand in front of her face
To be fair, Toph is the kind of character to joke about the fact she’s blind, she’s done it before.
My favorite part about sokka saying "its that guy from the beach" is that they never met combustion man at the beach. However, the episode where the gaang did meet combustion man was called "The Beach", because the a-plot, which *did* have a beach, was focused on Azula and Zuko.
The writers for this game are clearly skimming through a summary of the show, and have actually never seen it. They hired people to make a game based on a beloved tv show... and never made them watch it.
Solid catch
sokka was simply naming the episode so that everyone would know exactly when he was referring to
@@firelordoregano5632 That would only work if the game made other meta references. This definitely makes more sense that someone was just reading some synopsis that described combustion man's first appearance as 'The Beach' and they took that literally.
@@F0XD1E i was joking
Sokka is now Deadpool
Well, if Bumi was the narrator all along, then I guess the implication is that every time he didn’t know what happened, he just went “uh, and then the Avatar broke a bunch of boxes, I guess”, and that’s HILARIOUS to me
Bumi loves his "riddles and challenges" so I suppose that makes sense.
lmao, for real.
He is infamous in Omashu for destroying a lot of boxes after all
My favorite part is that Bumi skipped over one of the few parts of the story he was actually there for
And then he said “Uh ok, so next the Avatar played Subway Surfers.”
What I find extremely interesting is that the “trusty boomerang” achievement at 33:22 is essentially given out to everyone considering that’s the only way to defeat combustion man. Meaning that only 35% of people made it to that point in the game
Actually, it’s a maximum of 35%. It is possible to get that achievement without progressing that far in the story
see here's the thing, the achievement for beating ozai was a rare one in this video, less than 10% of people have beat the game
11.9% beat Zuka & Azula, so its a lot less
To be fair, a lot of games have story progression achievements that are unlocked by default but are disguised as doing something special.
35% is a freaking lot
That shift from Aang dying to all of a sudden chilling in fire National territory without any explanation is probably the funniest thing I’ve seen this year
Same, but I'm commeting in 2025 so I don't have as much to compare it to yet
it is honestly impressive at this point that EVERY Avatar adaptation is irredeemably horrible. none were going to be as good as the original show but holy cow it's all trash
Holy castform it's mickey
This was not the creator crossover I expected in the comments today, but it is a welcome one😊
@@superamogusbros5594Holy Arcoos
Mickey pls stop commenting on things. Every time I see a comment from you I think i'm having a stroke bc WHY ARE YOU HERE OF ALL PLACES
All hail [yeah] the leader of Team Sky!
17:45 "did Yue... die?" "You know, it was really unclear"
That's rough buddy
"My girlfriend maybe turned into the moon"
@@davialmeida4442cut Zuko responding with a textbox
@@sockpuppy8811is there text in it?
@@davialmeida4442 you forgot the question mark at the end
Man, I sure do love the Aang and katara show. Who’s sokka? Who’s Zuko? I don’t know an iroh. I don’t know a fire lord ozai. I only know Aang and katara.
Who's katara?
@@sspookieei think hes the fire prince guy
@@KL6SoupThat’s Sokka stupid
who’s aang? isn’t that the giant weird flying buffalo looking thing? OH or is it the water girl? maybe that sexist guy? or is it the dude with the ugly burn
@@sspookiee replace the r with an n in katara
Ah yes the 5 elements as I remember it:
water, earth, fire, air, box.
Aang actually took Ozai's bending away by putting it in a box
Only solid snake master of all five elements can save the world from shitty writing
39:07 an under appreciated moment is how Zuko says “despite all she’s done I can’t help but feel sorry for her” when the show had the much more impactful scene of him looking away with a pained face, without saying a word.
If this animation was the best they had and in an alternate universe the game had better gameplay and was faithful, the telling over showing makes sense.
Also the extremely emotional and realistically desperate Azula breakdown at the end got reduced to her just going "huah" and puffing a little bit of fire, it's hilariously bad. Honestly should've made it a comic cutscene, they obviously wouldn't have been able to replicate that spectacular voice acting performance even if the game wasn't the trainwreck that it is.
and he was supposed to get like struck with lightning
i also love how, with how little information the game gives about her, someone who hasn't seen the show would see literally no reason to feel sorry for her at all
I've felt sorry for her since the original cartoon...
..But in this one, even MORESO because they were literally and clearly 2v1ing her in an "Agni Kai". Like at THAT point, Azula shooting lightning at one of them would be justified.
Aang’s entire culture dies in genocide:
Game: That’s rough, buddy. Wanna play subway surfers?
This game feels like they had some got come in and say "Hey I know a lot about The Avatar, here is a nice summary you can use but obviously if you want more details, just ask me."
And then the writers walked in and went "Oh shit I guess someone wrote the whole script for me. Guess I'll go home."
Everhood pfp
Green mage!
Oh hey, it's green mage from the hit rhythm based game Everhood, how's your life?
Honestly was not expecting this many people to recognize the pfp.
Shoutout to Everhood, banger game.
Honestly i think they had a few mechanics working and then reskinned them and reorganised ithem throughout the entire game, might be from of a lack of funding or time
“You have failed. Avatar. Hahahahaha!”
That’s going haunt me every time I turn in for the night.
I guess they did something right. They still made Ozai menacing.
@@kazuma7232funny considering he’s voiced by the cabbage guy
An Avatar RPG where you choose your nation/element and traverse the world is so obvious that I'm surprised it hasn't been made.
I know this isn’t quite what you meant, but there is the tabletop RPG and that’s exactly what it is and it’s really cool.
You talking about genshin lol
One was just announced, i'm still skeptical but it at least seems better than this disaster, we'll have to wait and see if the game turns out to be any good.
grreat idea. imo the best videogames or stuff try to follow up and not be the same.
but for me the optimal adaptation of the shows story would be akin to the lego videogames, but with an actual involved almost-fighting-game combat system where you can remap what attacks are which buttons and as you learn more attacks you can swap them out for other attacks (so like you could have aang with like, 3 earth attacks and 1 fire attack if you wanted to)
An ATLA Action RPG like Kingdom Hearts would be the best thing ever.
40:55 Ozai pleads for Aang to not take his powers, something he never would have expected Aang to be capable of 😭
Oh yeah I didn't realize that lol
it’s funny how in this game, despite being entirely based around the show about bending, the strongest character is the one who literally can’t bend, sokkas just like that ig
He's just built different
That cactus water certainly changed him💀💀
Sokka got that dog in him
I loved this show with Aang, Katara, and…
I’m sorry, who was the fire dude again?
The women one right? I think she died or something
I don’t think there ever was a fire one. Kinda stupid if you ask me
I think you mean Wang Fire.
@@Sirgen020 No, I think it was that male one? His name always escapes me…
@@michaelrhett4958his name was zoomer i think
1:48 “I’m 112 and this is deep” amazing chat message
Fun fact: This game is published by Game Mill, the same people behind Rise of Kong. That's how you know it's going to be quality
And given their working conditions, their name is accurate.
Wait their name is actually GAME MILL!?
They also made that terrible walking dead game
How do they keep getting Nickelodeon properties? They made the nicktoon kart games, and that first, silent version of the Nickelodeon smash bros clone. And despite quality, Nickelodeon keeps going back to them
@@enlongjones2394 Because Nickelodeon is floundering. They're desperately trying to stay relevant despite the only thing they have that still makes money being Spongebob, and they're willing to do anything.
My brother has this and he made me play it, the co op is genuinely awful, player 1 can pick between every character player 2 isn't and player 2 is stuck as one character. I was stuck as Katara the entire time
@@Maddiiiiiieeeee did you start tearbending
Not the Toph POV during the blacked out cutscene 😭😭
😭😭
🤣🤣
it made me cackle out loud when it flashed up, perfection
So before I changed my major, my major was originally Video Game Development. What is absolutely wild in 15:14 is that the VERY FIRST THING you are taught in Level Design class for the video game development major is to always start with a giant death plane at the bottom of your map.
Gottem@@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox
@@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-FoxI mean, if you're using a 3d engine for that game, yeah. Don't want a player walking into an unloaded area then falling through the non-existent collision into the void.
"Im needlessly contratian, aren't i cool?" @Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox
Duuuuude. I was also surprised at that but not for being a class about game development.
But for an animation class where we had to make pixel assets for our own game (we thankfully didn't have to code) and also make sure it worked.
oh my god the animation katara is doing at 1:12 is the same animation dougdoug uses for his chess napoleon this game is SO CHEAP LMFAO
Holy shit what a catch hahaha
Wait oh my god IT IS-
I wish you weren’t right… but they’re the same. Frame for frame…
katara abt to summon a tornado to turn the chess board horizontally facing
the fire nation will never foresee the french flying freeziecopter
35:03 im surprised he never mentioned that the strategy for this fight is to break the cables with Sokka's boomerang, which somehow stuns Azula?? "Nooo, not my cables!!"
When I was playing, I read interviews with like the creator or director of the game and it boiled down to “I wanted to make a puzzle game and not a fighting game” which is why the fights are so terrible and why most of the boss fights end up being just puzzles really. Like why make a puzzle game out of a show that iirc has its bending based of various martial arts!? These people never wanted to make a true ATLA game; they just wanted a popular IP and money
I mean, making co-op puzzles out of bending techniques with different party members to explore a vast world doesn't seem terrible off the bat, even if it isn't the first thing you think of from Avatar. It was more about the execution.
23:26 - 23:49
I like the idea of the Cabbage Merchant taking over the fire nation. Just to get revenge on Aang for constantly destroying his cabbages.
ur so right, actually
Have you seen the Cabbage man theory? I can't remember the UA-camr who made it but it's a really good video
Who’s the Cabbage Merchant the game didn’t say
@@CabbageMuncher13 tbf the game made it seem like its just some random one off guy that aang just fucks over for no reason lmfao
tbh i bet that was a considered plot point for korra
It's really funny that Bumi is the narrator, but the part of the story with Bumi in it is just a wall of text
Honestly this is still a terrific game! It just needs better graphics, story, cut scenes, attacks, animations, abilities, puzzles, death walls out of bounds, better voice acting, a better combat system, a giant sea monster or two, and anything that could possibly be mistaken for fun!
And without all the subway surfers bullshit.
This is just Subway Surfers with the avatar
All of the things youve named would make it an objectively bad game.
Add a consistent save system. My family gave up on finishing it after we closed the game and later came back to the first fight against Zuko... that was when I remembered it's important to look up reviews and reported issues before buying a game 😢
@@austinstewart1451wait this garbage is PAID?!
I think the one, and I mean ONE good thing I can say about this game... A thing that mind you, they don't even properly make use of... Is the idea of taking a game that's a retelling of already known events, and throwing in deviations due to it being told by an unreliable narrator... Like imagine in an alternate universe where this was a good game, where Bumi and the others at the table cut in with comments at various points... Perhaps even entire side missions dedicated to how absolutly wrong some of them get it. Instead of generic villain mocking hero game over, when you die there's a brief line of something like: "Bumi you oaf, they're not dead!" or "And then everybody died!... No wait that's not right." Maybe even have bonus challenges that are frame as one person overexageratting various details... Though at this point I'm just putting more thought in how the idea could be used than the game devs put into the entire game. So really I can't say it's one good thing ABOUT this game... More one good thing this game COULD'VE had.
If youre interested in this type of narrative,maybe try Call of Juarez gunslinger! (No,its not a call of duty clone. The call of juarez is relevant for the story of the first two games,not this one tho) its pretty much told as a bar story and sometimes the narrator makes mistakes and it ends up causing some funny situations like you being suddenly swarmed by apaches,then the narrators going like
"Wait,you were attacked by apaches? What happened to the cowboys?"
"Huh? Did i say they were apaches?.."
@@Stillbraixenthoit reminds me of tiny Tina’s assault on dragon keep
Also Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The Prince is narrating the game's events, and when the player gets a game over, he goes "no, that's not how it happened".
20:43 The Boulder is confused as to why he was almost entirely skipped.
Sounds to me like you're irrelevant, Boulder!
38:23 it’s very telling whether or not the devs knew anything about the series if the project is called “ALA” and not “ATLA”
So in some European countries, apparently ATLA is called as "Avatar: Legend of Aang" where "ALA" would make sense (and it's due to dumb reasons). But for this tho? Yeah no.
In spanish its also Avatar, la Leyenda de Aang
@@SpicyCannoli that’s fair, but i still can’t find any evidence of Spanish fans calling ALA instead of ATLA
@@samundef3500 yeah we just say avatar (not the blue people), I'm just saying maybeeee it came from there??
"ALA" is just a codename. It's not meant to be a faithful abbreviation nor was it meant to be seen by the players.
That's like saying Magic designers don't know anything about Lord of the Rings because their set is LTR and not LOTR... but it's because their codenames are strictly 3 characters.
Head-canon: This game was made by Cabbage man in order to make team avatar look bad to anyone who doesn’t know them. Hence why he is the fire lord
I will be borrowing this thank you
This must be a WILD comment to read before watching the video.
there is a theory that the cabbage man is a fire nation spy and it actually makes sence
You shouldn't mess with his cabbages
@@ShudowWolf can confirm im at the beginning of the video im very confused
This game is like hearing someone retell the story, but they have ADHD so they're constantly forgetting major parts of it, and then just continuing on forgetting that they forgot to introduce half the characters they're talking about
Why you gotta call me out like this 😭
... I mean, really, that kinda *does* describe the narrator pretty well.
... That was the joke, wasn't it?
It's baffling that the AAA studios keep trying to retell the Aang story. Guys, adapt one of the Kyoshi novels or something. The original series set sky-high expectations, you're not gonna compete with it directly.
@@NYKevin100you fail to understand
The goal is not to match the original in terms of greatness or even surpass it….it’s to cash in on the nostalgia of those who grew up with it
NAH BRO why you gotta call us out like this ToT
It was around the point of the drill that I realized they skipped the library... ya know. The PART WHERE THEY LEARN ABOUT THE ECLIPSE!
@@X-35173 yknow I completely forgot that they found out about the eclipse in The Library. Probably blocked it out because of the owl's scary neck
The idea of having the story be told by an unreliable narrator, allowing the game to justify adding weird gameplay elements and such, could be a really fun idea. What a shame it turned out like this.
Im actually so happy this game makes people talk about this cuz it allows me to talk about my favourite cowboy game-- Maybe try call of juarez gunslinger!! It not only has killer gameplay,but it has a fun unreliable narrator,which is a drunk guy on a bar!
@@Stillbraixentho I remember hearing about that game, that does sound pretty cool, thanks for the suggestion!
27:27 I think the issue from the development side is that they assume that everyone playing the game knows the story points already… which FAIR, I’m guessing 98ish% of the players already do. But even still, just because WE KNOW what’s supposed to be happening doesn’t mean they should SKIP IT!!
this reply has nothing to do with your comment, i just love your profile picture
Some guy who was Platinuming this game never saw the show before and he thought Azula was an Ice bender cause the graphics are so bad
Skipping over the story screws both returning fans of the show and people who have never seen it. People who have seen the show will be pissed that the devs butchered an amazing story, and new fans won’t be able to get engaged with the game because of the lackluster story.
(Not that this game was engaging to begin with)
38:20 shoutouts to the twitch chatter saying "How bad is it?" RIGHT as the game crashes
At this point, I honestly believe the ATLA creators made a deal with the devil to make one of the best TV shows of all time in exchange for dog-shit adaptations, game tie-ins, and spin-offs.
At least some parts of korra is decent and even good
The novels are apparently pretty good, and a bit more geared towards adults. Still haven't read em but I've always been curious about that
@@faeyzaihsanulfikri9975 If only you could watch all the barrick scenes and skip the rest of book 2...
Korra and the Kyoshi novels (I haven't read Yangchen's and Roku's) are awesome though
@@faeyzaihsanulfikri9975Cap
21:10 I noticed that when they move their eyebrows, the shadows dont change with them. You just get these shots where the shadow goes above the eyebrows, and when I noticed it I chould stop focusing on it
yknow.... avatar is one of the few shows where I think a open world game could work.
Turn every episode into a sidequest, with the important keymoment of the show being primary missions. You travel on appa through the world (cant go to the firenation since there is a blockade, figure something similar out for the heart of the earth nation?)
On the way you can do puzzles/little sidequests that let you gather collectibles and upgrades to your abilities maybe?
There was never a more entertaining part of this game than watching Alpharad finding a way back in bounds for a whole hour plus on stream
Aang tanking Azulas lighting means that he’s stronger than any other version and no diffs Naruto
Canon
Erm actually Cannon* not canon
nah, Naruto is way too broken
@@docilelikewintercatfish yeah like that guy said, Naruto would get his back broken from Aang
@@Kyogr rage bait used to be believable
0:23 They could have ripped the intro from the show and it would have looked better smh
Edit: this continued to be true for the entire 40 minutes
Props to Azula for surviving being slammed by multiple rail carts.
as a game designer trying to make a movie into a game you have a few simple steps, think of the most filler episodes and make gameplay for them, take the best parts of the show everyone loves and recap it in text, forget some very important and memorable details. Thats how you make the best game possible
I've only experienced ATLA through digital osmosis (something I promise I'll fix soon™) so this game feels as if I'd directed it: A lot of "so this thing happened and then..." and "oh right, that guy, so yeah he's there too."
Me with everything I can’t afford:
What’s digital osmosis?
@@jamiahmt1349 A fancy sounding name for "I saw a lot of memes on Tumblr when the show was really popular" xD
@@jamiahmt1349It means absorbing information from your environment, in this case the internet
The reveal that the plot twist of an unreliable narrator stems from a completely black cutscene ALL THE WAY back at the beginning really helps elevate the "top-notch" quality of this game
Thank you for the reminder that I didn't know Avatar was a tv show until I was about 13 or so because I didn't have nickelodeon. I genuinely thought that it was just a Wii game. At least the part where you flew around as Aang was fun.
That is actually interesting. Did you ever watch the series? If so, what was your opinion compared to the game? Character and world wise, but anything you remember would be interesting.
hey, i didn't watch the show until like 4 months ago and i'm 23! though i did at least know it was a tv show when i was younger lol
I'm 30 and I only just watched all of ATLA and Korra 3 months ago. I did know about it and have heard people talk about it for a loooong time.
Yall are brain rot
So I’ve never actually seen Avatar: The last Airbender, and watching this felt like an overly sped up dream.
10/10 would push more boxes.
Honestly I’d recommend watching it, though this probably hella soured your experience for it already
I notice each chapter finished says it lets you replay it later as any character, so you can fight zuko as zuko and then zuko again as zuko again.
38:13 "Yeah it probably wouldn't hurt to save"
It would, in fact, hurt to save.
25:47 What’s even worse about this being the first time you see Iroh is that he and Zuko are supposed to be pretending to be Earth Kingdom citizens but Iroh is wearing Fire Nation garb
Fun Fact!: Avatar the Burning Earth, that Xbox game famous for its achievemnts, is actually a sequel, in a trilogy.
Avatar The Last Airbender, Avatar The Burning Earth, and Avatar Into the Inferno are a trilogy of games that are about as good as you would expect. But, the first one. The first one I have seen no one talk about anywhere. It's so bad.
Toph didn't exist yet I guess so the 4 playable characters are Aang Sokka Katar and Haru!?
The graphics are abysmal, granted it was a GC/Ps2/Xbox/Wii Game but it's somehow still bad in comparison(wait oh my god it was on the DS too HOW!?)
The game has an original story starting at the Northern water tribe at the beginning of season 2 but mimicks the progression of season 1 with Zuko attacking and then going to similar locations.
This game was also my childhood. I love this game. It to this day has one of my favorite series of collectibles and some really funny stuff throughout it (Sokka has a buff where he sets his arms on fire and then yells in pain. Why? No idea. But it's his best move so you use it constantly)
My favorite is this one stupid face Haru makes in a cutscene after he joins you, the polyhons on his smile are screwed and it looks absolutely cursed.
I love this game just so much.
I actually had this one on DS! And yes it was bad, but it still had a weird charm that as a kid I loved. The fighting mechanics were also fairly interesting, especially for a DS game. I played through it so many times to 100% it, and the Pai Sho mini game was extremely addictive.
I… I might have had that game growing up. A PS2 atla game where the Earth Bender Stand-In was Haru sounds familiar. I’m 90% sure I don’t still have it, but that just unlocked a CORE memory
Burning Earth was also on GBA. I would know, I had it.
First- YES! Finally someone mentions the First Game. I had it on Xbox as well and found, although through nostalgia glasses, one of the betters. It was the beginning of IP shovelware, BUT because it was something orginal and if I remember right, didnt really mess with the canon, I appreciated it.
Was it the Best? No. But can you say that the originality they took with what they had- not even knowing IF book 2 was coming out and what would be included with it- is any better than what weve been recently getting even with the WHOLE story out? Imo-No, its not worse. But i WAS happy that there was an Earthbender included, because Bumi made me love Earthbenders; and having Haru being it was cool at the time, cause you know teen angst and fight the power. 😂
I remember that game. They put a collectible in the first stage that you have to come and get as Katara, but you don't get Katara as a playable character until a later level, and I never figured out how to go back to an earlier stage. I didn't realize there was equipment until a second playthrough, so I beat the entire game with starting equipment. There's a mission where Aang and Sokka have to disguise themselves as fire nation soldiers and break into a prison. I didn't realize that it was a stealth mission and beat up all the guards from the beginning, and there was no penalty. I also played Burning Earth, but it was the Wii version, and I got stuck escaping from the spirit library because the motion controls were so bad that I couldn't pass the motion control quick time event that opens a door. Wan Shi Tong broke through the wall and is supposed to game over you because it's an escape sequence. But like half the times I was supposed to game over, I survived and was soft locked because the game thought had already lost wouldn't let me go back or open the door I needed to open to progress.
The game supposedly had a very large dev team but only one dev actually made the game the rest where busy jorking it to pictures of wooden boxes while playing subway surfers.
the fact the game over screen has more emotion than the entire game is crazy
8:43 shoutout to the chatter who said “this is me at 3AM”
That is such a mood
I can't believe Ozai is voiced by the Cabbage Merchant in this game. Step aside Melon Lord, here comes Cabbage Lord
I haven't seen Avatar so every time you sarcastically asked, "Who's that?", it was my genuine reaction XD
Watch it now. It's a MASTERPIECE!
Brain rot
34:18 I just gotta mention this cuz it’s my favourite game ever, but Rayman 3 music slaps. Never would have guessed that Alpha would use this in his videos but this made me so happy!
The game gives “I did some mining off camera” vibes but its just “I did some story off camera”
It's been so long since we've gotten a "good" bad licensed game so I'm glad that the Avatar game didn't not Disappoint me!!
What about Rise Of Kong
Smeagle?
@@BananaArm Same publisher, funnily enough.
@@Hawkatanathe developer’s name is literally game mill, so it’s not surprising their games suck
@@spidertoes28 Publisher, not developer. They contract out smaller developers to do their work for them.
It is SO tragic that such an awesome series has literally never had a good video game
But wow this game is truly something special
i love avatar so this is so funny 😭🙏
It actually did have one just one and it was a short Korra game. I don’t know the name of it but it’s definitely miles ahead of the others.
From what I've seen, the first ATLA game is probably the closest to being good, it just had a lot of shortcomings for being a licensed game made to coincide with the series' first airing.
I still think an Action RPG ATLA game that plays like Kingdom Hearts is the way to go.
I’d venture to say an Action RPG that plays like Skyrim where you can create your own character and explore the world with side quests and such would be the better option imo.
My pitch for an Avatar game would be that you are the avatar, not Aang or Korra, just a random avatar in the cycle, and you go on a journey to master the elements. You basically can end up with completely different fighting styles depending on which people you choose as your teachers, you can help solve conflicts and explore and discover different things about the world.
Love when games have functional invisible walls, only after you get stuck out of bounds
Aang dying in the game then immediately showing up perfectly fine is the epitome of the vine going A bear! NOOOOOOOOOO! Oh, he’s right there!
They should make an avatar game based on the live action remake, that’ll sell well.
There is no live action remake in Ba Sing Se
They did for the movie
@@AbedIsBatmanit is now
I forgot that even existed tbh
They already did, and it sucked
Something that people don't mention about this game too is that they have far too many inconsistencies with outfits. Especially in book 3.
Katara had her loose hair when she wore her fire nation outfit, but somehow she has her hair style from book 1 throughout the entirety of book 3. Sokka has his hair changing from book 1 to book 3, having less hair to suddenly having a lot of hair then nothing again. And then Iroh having his fire nation outfit from book 1 when we first see him in book 2--he should be wearing earth kingdom clothing. Especially during the scene where Aang dies.
Hell, there are some cutscenes where not only the game uses the wrong models, but the comic art looking cutscenes use the wrong design entirely. Where Aang meets the lion turtle and learns to energy bend, he suddenly has his old airbender outfit from books 1-2, IN A DRAWN CUTSCENE.
The outfits stopped being consistent after book 1 and its so glaring to me, i know i saw chat also point out those facts while i was watching this on Alpharad's other channel, and this sucks because the drawn stuff looked good too, like it came out of the comics
I almost feel like the point of this game, is to confuse people, who have never seen the show, so much, that they go and watch the show. Just to try and make sense of this.
They found a way to cash in on the nostalgia of two groups: Avatar fans and people who grew up with unfinished broken licensed cash grabs
The weird mix of 3d cut scenes and comic book ones, kinda feels like they had 2 or more groups working on it and then just kinda mashed the pieces together
6:38
“Toph POV” is crazy
So uuuuh fun fact, I never watched Avatar. Sure I caught an episode here or there but I have not seen more than 3 episodes maybe. After seeing this game, this is the story of Avatar as I know it:
There's a dude in an iceberg called an "avatar" whatever that is. He meets up with 2 other kids and go from place to place to learn elemental powers. He learns these through extra-dimensional puzzle rooms. The fire nation is bad and attacks all the time, but are easily defeated because they are pushovers. There is a fire nation prince and princess and they also attack but put up slightly more of a fight. I can only assume they attack because their regular goons are so pathetic it makes their nation look bad. There's also like, 3 separate quirky old guys that sit around a lot and only jump into action at the very end. There's also an earth girl and a flying cow. Every single thing is locked behind either blocks or Subway Surfers. In the end this avatar kid shazooms the big villain (Mr Fire Nation) so hard he gives up out of shame. The End.
Was I close?
As somebody who has watched the entire series 5 times, yes you're 100% correct
Brain rot
"They really do make you feel like Toph, CAUSE THEY'RE NOT SHOWING ME SHIT!"
That freaking slayed me. Summed it up perfectly Jacob. So many of these have been games with wasted or misused potential and bonkers infamy, but THIS time, we had a game that has so little respect for its source material, that it actually made me confused and angry. 😅
0 cabbages/10
The fact that the Cabbage Man is screaming "you have failed" every game over screen is sending me
21:32. Did Katara just...wave hello??? To Toph??? BLIND Toph???
To be far too generous to the game, that actually feels accurate to the show, people forgetting that Toph is blind does happen a lot.
Believe or not, toph can see a waving motion with seismic sense
Boxes are the Fifth Element in Avatar
Sokka is a secret boxbender
the out of bounds section in water world was one of the funniest shit i’ve ever seen
As a person who never watched avatar but know what it sorta was this is so peak lmao. couldn't agree more with the sarcastic "who?" every time a new character pops up
Avater: leave these people alone
Prince Zuko: fine I'll go inside of this box then
Avatar is one of the best cartoons ever made, yet it falls flat on its face whenever anything is made about it that isn’t the og series.
The books and comics are pretty good wdym
@@azurabbit12 I forgot Avatar had books and comics honestly. But everything else is pretty bad.
@@azurabbit12the comics are super controversial due to almost every acting extremely out of character in most of them
This game really looks like it’s from 2008
So real Real Tohru Adachi from hit game Persona 4 from 2008, truly an expert in games from 2008
didn't know adachi was based like that
@@eqicman8100true!
The real killer in persona 4 is the gas station attendant change my mind.
I know, right? Why did this actually come out last year 💀
24:35 look DIRECTLY at sokka here
Way ahead of you there, buddy. Already made it my new profile pic.
@@jackbordar2727 *I CHOKED ON THIN AIR*
@@jackbordar2727 that can't actually be beat omg
I guess it's because they skipped the cactus juice episode
Toph's kubrick stare is killing me adhdbsghafhbhr
fun fact, the sound that you hear when aang unlocks new bending, is also used for curious George for the ps2
I'll be honest, I have not consumed a single episode of ATLA, and when Zuko first showed up and Jacob asked "Is that Zuko?" I was like...ahhh, haha audience has not met Zuko yet funny joke...and then he says "I am Zuko" and....I realized I've never seen Zuko with a ponytail, I've only ever seen him with short fluffy hair, and I genuinely thought it was someone else LMAO. Aren't I the fool.
An early 2000s game made in 2023 is still crazy to me
I think roulxs karrd was a developer on this game, with the amount of box puzzles
Nickelodeon should've just done a Danny Phantom game because if all the box levels were playing as the Box Ghost, no one would've questioned it
Idk if this video shows any of Aang's skill tree, but the constellation of Appa only has four legs 😂
1. What a cop out ending
2. Imagine they make the energy bending section a subway surfers one where you have to run till you cover ozai to remove his bending
the beloved high budget show that people have wanted to immerse themselves in for 15 years and yet it always get's the video game budget of a trip to Dollar Tree
I still think the ideal ATLA video game adaptation would be volleyball. Just make a stupidly-well-designed volleyball game with a ton of characters with special abilities (bending or otherwise) and a whole bunch of cool stages to play on.
Omg that’d be great. Hell, the fire nation kids even play a kind of volleyball (albeit with a lot more kicks) in the beach episode, so you could absolutely make the story for it some kind of wacky post-finale tournament arc
@@AbbyBryant1021 Honestly, if they just went full "Super Dodge Ball" with it and made it all about doing crazy super-moves, I'd be down.
Make a full game out of the pro bending ball game from Korra!
The Korra beat-em-up on PS3 had pro bending segments and apparently a larger minigame. Make a full game about smacking discs around with bending!
....you just want to see Ty Lee playing volleyball with DOA physics, don't you?
13:34 yea, the avatar state is cool, but katara literally unlocked the jesus state
as someone who has never seen a single episode of this anime, i feel like i now know less than i did before
It's not an anime.
If the Cabbage Man is Ozai and Ozai is the one taunting you during the game over screen, then we're actually getting roasted by the Cabbage Man, and that's probably the best part of this game!
“They really make me feel like Toph because THEY DONT SHOW ME SHT” is the first part of a video that actually made me laugh out loud, of all non “try not to laugh” videos I’ve seen this video made me laugh lol
You know when they pick a song and do a "but every other bit is missing" version?
This game is the narrative equivalent of that
I honestly first went into these streams thinking I could easily watch bad Avatar game without actually having watched the show.
Very early on, it was apparent I needed to watch the show.
I’m glad I didnt get spoiled for anything TOO major..? (Maybe some Book 1 spoilers but I had no idea what was going on)
..I REALLY need to sit down and watch the show at some point.
Man black myth wukong left a huge hole in my chest, it just made me think how much potential Avatar has, like imagine a avatar game that is semi-open world where you can explore all of the places they visited in the show, while following a semi-linesr story where you can find little easter eggs of the show, also having a similar combat to wukong
This game is like if someone tried to re-create Avatar from childhood memories years later as a video game.
So, Katara's 3d animations during dialogs felt familiar. Has anyone seen DougDoug's Napoleon AI 3d model speaking? Specially when the character model nods with an arm crossed and the other gesturing affirmation. Same as Katara's model here, I feel.
I'm not familiar with how you can get 3d models from the internet, but something's telling me that this game got some of their 3d animation sprites for very cheap if not for free. It wouldn't be a surprise lol
Yeah you're pretty much right lol, the thing about 3D is that you can get animations from asset stores, so a lot of games buy or use free animations from these marketplaces to save on animation time, and in Unreal Engine's (the engine the game's made in) case, they're incredibly easy to get and just set up into a game.
DougDoug and the Devs might be using the same animation pack, which is fine for Doug who does it for fun mostly, but not for a fully released game where they're already cutting costs on cutscenes, narrative, gameplay, models, art direction, vfx, sfx, level design, music and a lot of other things I might be forgetting to mention. Kinda funny they couldn't really be bothered to try in any way