Inside & Shadow of the Beast
This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Inside and Shadow of the Beast.
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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Inside and Shadow of the Beast.
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Zero Punctuation: Inside & Shadow of the Beast
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For once, I've actually played a new release before Yahtzee's review dropped, so....cool, I guess.
Anyway, one thing I'm going to disagree with Yahtzee on is that while Inside does feel a lot like Limbo, it's not nearly as sadistic. Limbo literally has death traps that can't be seen until you trigger them and sometimes the only way you know you've stumbled across them is because your head is flying across the screen(separate from your suddenly lifeless body). Inside, OTOH,does have sequences that involve getting murdered a couple times while you figure things out, there are plenty of places where you're not really in any danger and others where you can survive the first time through if you are perceptive and think fast enough to figure out how to escape the threat.
I still liked both games though, though Inside is arguably weirder and more disturbing because it appears like it might be set in our world(either in modern day or the near future) while Limbo is really abstract and "arty".
Anyway, one thing I'm going to disagree with Yahtzee on is that while Inside does feel a lot like Limbo, it's not nearly as sadistic. Limbo literally has death traps that can't be seen until you trigger them and sometimes the only way you know you've stumbled across them is because your head is flying across the screen(separate from your suddenly lifeless body). Inside, OTOH,does have sequences that involve getting murdered a couple times while you figure things out, there are plenty of places where you're not really in any danger and others where you can survive the first time through if you are perceptive and think fast enough to figure out how to escape the threat.
I still liked both games though, though Inside is arguably weirder and more disturbing because it appears like it might be set in our world(either in modern day or the near future) while Limbo is really abstract and "arty".
Mostly I loved Inside because of the interesting puzzles and the STAGGERING amounts of attention paid to the character animation and camera movements. I'm serious, watch the boy walk, run, stumble, jump, swim, push, pull, all of it feels natural and real in a way I rarely see anymore.
No, Yahtzee, the principle activity of Shadow of the Beast was resetting the game because you did something out of order and can no longer proceed. Followed by getting blindsided by cheap-hitting enemies. Then standing in place and punching everything.
Rabble, rabble, rabble, England! Rabble, rabble, rabble, EU! Rabble, Rabble, Rabble, Margret Thatcher's decaying soul!Piecewise said:
Seriously though, Shadow of the Beast of all things got a remake?
I can only assume somebody at Heavy Spectrum was a fan and went "Hey Sony, can we remake this?" and Sony was like "OK but it has to be a PlayStation exclusive."Metalix Knightmare said:
I mean .... It's kinda hard NOT to if you know anything at all about Yahtzee's previous stances on social matters over the past few years. It makes absolutely no sense for someone who's been as outspoken about political correctness and the abject idiocy of Big-Bank backed CEO / Investors dictating all of the godawful major decisions in Game Design in the past 5 years -- as Yahtzee has been. His core audience is without a doubt largely sympathetic to Brexit'ers and knows that they're not just a bunch of Knuckle Dragging rabble. Infact Yahtzee's long been a populist voice so it makes little sense for him to suddenly switch sides and defend the conventions of the E.U. that specifically condone a Governance not of the people but of an "Enlightened Oligarchy" of appointed Elites who believe in "Diversity at all costs" at the risk of massive Disparity and the destruction of a healthy middle class .Piecewise said:
All I can assume is that he's been living in Australia a bit too long and is out of touch with Rural folk of the UK. ....though I guess he's always made fun of them, esp. the Welsh every chance he gets so it's also possible I'm just talking out of my dumb american arse
PS: Where the bloody hell is Furi? I thought for sure that's what he'd be covering b/c it's so far up his Alley he could
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im beginning to think that yahtzee isn't a brexit supporter lol.
to bad, hes usually smart on most things but i guess regaining your sovreignty from the EU super state isn't something he consideres worth his time.
to bad, hes usually smart on most things but i guess regaining your sovreignty from the EU super state isn't something he consideres worth his time.
If Yahtzee was setting up some kind of hierarchy for awful things, I think he ranked zombies as worse than Brexit supporters.
Fucking Indigo Prophecy got a remake mate, all you need to have to get remastered/remade is a name and a cadre of buyers.Metalix Knightmare said:
I sure hope so, as they are neither clever nor funny.ScrewballBRaine said:
That Shadow of the Beast character looks like a discount bin Black Panther to me.
All I know is that since Brexit the weather has been shit. That's no coincidence. It's those bloody Eurocrats again with their nice weather quotas trying to rain on our parade, I read about it in The Mail. About time we took back control of own our weather I say!Piecewise said:
Pretty much how I feel. I don't care one way or the other about Yahtzee's political views, as long as the gags are funny it doesn't matter if I agree with him or not. I'm just here for the yucks.GrumbleGrump said:
Sadly, lately the political references have been frequent, but depressingly unfunny and quite frankly rather predictable and lazy.