Hobonicus said:
This is the kind of Yahtzee video I like, where he charges in blind and rages at what he finds. Over a dozen of his last videos have concerned games that he already has heavy biases for or against and so he ends up talking more about that bias than his discoveries in the game.
In his older videos there was a sense of charming naivety that could only come about by being surprisingly flustered by a game's presentation or mechanics. Since he's always forced to review mainstream sequels these days, his videos are always based heavily on a bias that he's already formed.
This is a very good point and one I've never really stopped to consider before. You're quite right, there is something quite refeshing about Yahtzee reviewing a completely new IP. Then again it would be nice if we saw more new IPs these days instead of the endless sequels we're so frequently flooded with.
OT: I almost wanted to buy this JUST to see how bad it really is, but that would probably give the devs the wrong idea. It sounds like
Amy has some great ideas, just very poorly executed. I can look past poor execution sometimes but sadly even this sounds like too much for me to handle.
LOL that image of Alex from Homecoming rolling around like Sonic caught me off guard! Brilliant stuff!
ewhac said:
Yahtzee Croshaw said:
But before you start getting the idea to make Amy hide in a locker and then don't stop 'til you reach Tijuana, if you go too far from her, you start getting the lurgi.
Lurgi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show#Lurgi].
I never cease to be impressed by the man's seemingly boundless awareness of cultural references, particularly obscure ones (at least, those that are obscure to sycophantic American gits like myself).
(I respectfully submit it would have been more obscure (and therefore funnier) if you'd had your drawing of Amy holding a trombone or other brass instrument.)
Wow, I wasn't even aware that Lurgi/Lurgy was even a cultural reference. In Britain, pretty much everyone I know refers to a mild illness, such as the common cold, as "the lurgie" and I very much doubt even a fraction of them would be able to tell you its origin. I certainly had no idea.
But kudos to you for providing a most informative link!
