Zero Punctuation: Kirby's Epic Yarn

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FullMetalZ

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My first few games included Full Throttle and Secret of Monkey Island, and those are pretty difficult for a kid. So I intend to do the same to my kids and destroy any sense of logic they might already have at that point. "What do I do with a rubber chicken?!"
 

Strain42

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At the end he says for the longest time he didn't have any K's in his ZP Library, but what about Kane and Lynch?

I find it odd that Yahtzee is usually such a stalwart crusader for "Games are supposed to be fun" and then just openly bashed this game as much as he did. I know fun is subjective, but I honestly liked Kirbys Epic Yarn. Sure it wasn't a challenging game, and I'm not even going to say "It wasn't supposed to be, it's for kids" but I had fun with the game, probably the most fun I've had with my Wii outside of old VC titles.

It was a good game with an interesting concepts of design, and was just good for kicking back and enjoying for a few hours.
 

The Human Torch

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Qitz said:
Another epic review.

Kirby's Epic Yarn was pretty entertaining, granted you had no punishment for completely screwing up, aside from less shinies, but was still a neat way to blow some time.

Yahtzee should start doing some old school games as well. Would be interesting to see how Paper Boy holds up.

The Human Torch said:
Further proof that the Wii truly is meant for childeren. First adult who I see playing this game will get a lollypop and a colorful cap with a propeller on top from me.
Can I have my lollipop now?
Here ya go. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GHwm_pTsyjc/S90VeNYxCKI/AAAAAAAAAEw/jSjpshj2zr8/s1600/lollipop.jpg
Don't finish it one go, will rot your teeth.
 

joex51

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HAHAHA clasic Yahtzee!! "wayward cumsprout"
Ok,system Posted twice an someone delete this double post
 

V Gray

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is it just me or is this entire video, just about yahtzee bitching rather pathetically about children. he barely talks about the game.
 

teknoarcanist

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You think metaknight clashes with Kirby's world?

Check out the "Revenge of Meta Knight" game on 'Kirby All Stars' for SNES. Long story short, Metaknight's bombing Dreamland with a crazy industrial-style airship, and Kirby storms that shit like fucking rambo. All the little enemies panic at his name like he's the herald of death itself. They say their goodbyes and evacuate after Kirby destroys the engines and sends the ship into a death spiral.

Kirby is some serious business.
 

Electrogecko

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Yahtzee just spent half the video talking about why the game is essentially broken, but the truth is he had to misinform everybody here to in order to get enough criticism into his review to make it amusing. The game may rarely use motion controls, but the ways that it does are some of the best yet on any console ever, and make the game basically unplayable on any other system....not innovative my ass....this is one of the few games out of his last few months of reviews that didn't revolve around centering your camera on a target and pressing R, and he failed to recognize how this game greatly benefited from gyro-control. Furthermore, the apartment side-quest is entirely optional. You never have to set foot inside your own, anybody else's, or the furniture shop, but the rewards for these scavenger hunts (which are completed by finding certain hidden items within levels) are new minigames that take excerpts out of levels from the game and give you varying objectives like hide and go seek, time trials, and key in locks. Also, the beads are used in each level as a scoring system, and if there's an actual problem with the difficulty of the game, it's that gold medals are way too easy to get.

And saying that the best way to analyze the game is to talk about what it would teach a child is asinine. The game would teach a child about a fictional character in a fictional world....that's made of fricken yarn.

I'm left wondering how many games I improperly judged because I never played them and didn't get to see all the blatant holes in Yahtzee's argument. How long will he continue to deny any benefit to motion controls? He needs to stop being so stubborn and pretentious and admit that certain games truly benefit from them and aren't possible without them. He needs to play Bit.Trip Beat/Flux.
 

Xman490

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After Super Wet Paper Mario, Wario Land: Collect It!, and New Chronic Mario Bros Wii, I've gotten tired of 2D platformers on the Wii (or on anything else for that matter; sorry, Limbo).
At least Mario and Sonic know to jump around and blast off in 3D along with the 2D level-sweeping.
 

mjc0961

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This game was pretty good, until I tried doing those little mini-games those apartment renters make you do. Holy shit, those things are frustrating and awful. And all you get for doing them was wallpaper I wasn't going to use, more money that I didn't need, and some points towards 100% which doesn't really mean anything important. Yay, I got 100%. So what? Once again I wasted my time playing something unenjoyable for something that when I look back on it now, it means fuck all.

Rest of the game was pretty fun though.

Okysho said:
Also, it looks like Epic Yarn took everything Sakurai couldn't put into SSBB adventure mode and threw it into one big game. I know HAL entertainment are notorious for secrets and backtracking, but FUCK!
Well, it didn't. It was made by Good Feel, not HAL. Thanks for playing though!
 

Tiswas

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I like how many people mentioned it was so late despite him mentioning that it took ages to come over there (same with the UK.)

Nice to see him doing a Nintendo console game again. Makes up for no DKC and probably no Pokemon or Okamiden (maybe he'll do the 3DS. Who knows)
 

NLP8786

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Compaired to games like kirby dreamland 3 and kirby 64, This game is a bit of a joke. And if Yahzee thnik that metaknight is out of place. he should see Zero and ZeroTwo

Note: this review was god dam hilarious!!! > o <
 

DolorousEdd

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Damn, so they streamlined Kirby and dumbed it down. (So that no one takes me for a fan of this series: this was in allusion to the missing DA2 review.)