...Like no one ever waaaaaaaaaas?

Anyhow, this is hilarious crap despite that I disagree with all of it. He's flaming Brawl for ALL THE WRONG REASONS.

zgrowler2

But finally, a game Yahtzee & I agree wholeheartedly on. He just has a better way of expressing "a resounding MEH."

Evil Jim

Two thumbs up. He's right all over. I just love the game anyway.

Sunjammer

Master_Achilles

He got it!!!! I have never so violently agreed with a review in my LIFE!

Granted I'm half a month late and only got here from a link from another of his reviews (see how much I care about the Nintendo fanboy fantasies), but still, I have to say he FUCKING NAILED IT. That is all I have to say.

ca$h

Jesu

I'm addressing this to everyone who is bashing him for being "wrong" and the Yahtzee fanboys that are saying "the man speaks the truth".

OMGitsDarkMatter

Multiplayer is still fun, but I feel that there is a certain competitive spirit that is gone that I used to have when I played Smash 64.

I noticed this when I saw myself losing interest from the game after maybe 25 min compared to the couple hours lasted in Melee and and the infinite hours in Smash 64.

Honestly, why didn't they have a separate ranked system along with the random easy to access system they have now? You appease the competitive players and the new players who don't want to be intimidated! WIN WIN SITUATION!

Contrary to all this I still like the game and see myself playing it in the foreseeable future.

Dr.Chocobo

ila

Yes, everyone is entitled to an opinion. But is that opinion well-formed? Whether or not Smash Bros. was well-received is irrelevant; it has real problems. As do many popular titles.

Handsome Fat Man

Love these video reviews and take no offense to what he has to say, regardless of how much I love the game he's lambasting.

Ptolemy

ceravic

On that note: Halo sucks, Megaman sucks, any game with a sequel SUCKS. (By the way that's sarcasm.) The thing that makes me laugh my ass off is when people are always bashing Nintendo for all their sequels, when you see these same people dieing over GTA 4 which will arguably be the same as the last 3 games in the franchise just with different graphics. Heh, opinions are opinions, but honestly you guys just don't know when to state one and just keep feeding off the programmed "I hate this company because I love this one" bias.

Shaoko

I have to disagree with that last part. No, really, I do see more bashing. You might say PS3 was the most bashed console, but that went out of style like a year ago. For some reason, whenever I visit a 360/PS3 post and a Wii post, there's more rouges that like to insult the system and their fanbase on the Wii one then on a 360/PS3 one. See for yourself, instead of just saying the Wii is full of mini-game collections.

Jac21

DJ_Sessum

CoinSlot

1 He manly likes single player games, particularly ones with a story thats meshed well with gameplay. SSBB being a game for multiplay doomed it to a ton of point loss to begin with.

2 He doesn't like fighting games. Which SSBB being a fighting game dooms it to even more of a points loss.

3 He also doesn't like nintendo and how they keep using old IPs. SSBB being the reserection of nearly every nintendo IP dooms it to lose what every point it had left.

4 Its yahtee hes the Simon of game reviews.

I like yahtee his reviews bring smile every time, But a then comes a all the fanboys defending the game or cheering yahtee on for bashing it for them. Same thing happened when he reviewed halo 3 the fanboys where in a uproar about it for a while.

So everybody please calm down yahtee is here for our entertainment so enjoy and stop fighting.

nightshade71986

CoinSlot

Nereos

ST19AG_WGreymon

Unlockables. To get the game you paid for you have to wade through a mountain of unlockables. Yes, you may enjoy the fact that you have to "work" to "earn" the priviledge of playing as Toon Link. I want to play him right out of the box.

Via trophies and other memorabilia, the game has enough to unlock without needing to unlock characters. Maybe if the likes of Wolf and Toon Link didn't require several hundred VS. matches, with the alternative being *shudder* the Subspace Emissary, but they do. (And stage builder unlockables? Come on!)

PLUS, on top of that, YOU CAN'T COPY YOUR SAVE FILE. So no DLing a save with everything. Sakurai insists you do it HIS way or the highway.

SSE is garbage. Pure, unadultered garbage. It is repetitive, boring, and full of questionable level design (guess where to fall? guess wrong? lose a life). If you didn't need to play it for unlockables, I could have safely skipped over it.

That there are certain trophies you can't unlock with the golden hammers is bogus. Playing boss battles on the highest difficulty is not fun.

TRIPPING. Another fatherly "Sakurai knows best" design element. Can't turn it off. Yes, I am way of it every time I consider dashing. No, I don't like it, and like the other options in matches, I want the ability to turn it off.

No voice chat in online matches.

No DLC.

SSBB has lots of issues. It's a good game, no doubt. But great? Not a chance.

Handsome Fat Man

I only played for Snake, and he wasn't even on the cover..??? They sure did hype the hell out of him though.

YUYU

Narfmaster

Yeah, and the thing that sucks is you gotta bring the whole console to your friends house because you can't transfer the darn save. I already went through that.

The review was perfect, its a game for Nintendo fans, if you wanna say it politely.

Ptolemy

L_K_M

JoyOfJoys

cheeses

sander_dutch

Besides, the point of ZP is to offer opinion dressed in a funny clown suit, so what's the point in getting riled up?

twh

He's the main character of the first Fire Emblem game, which was never released outside of Japan.

Oh, and for my money, Yahtzee is going to get at least twenty emails to that effect despite the disclaimer at the end of this review...

Paviel

Um, what? Brawl delivered on everything it promised to us. It's great.

gravytoast

johnnylineup

Mujah

el_rezzo

el_rezzo

Of course, I'm a misanthrope who doesn't really like to play video games with other people, and I didn't own any consoles between the Atari 2600 and the Dreamcast, so I'm probably not the audience for this game.

Yahtzee usually seems pretty dead-on to me. He tends to pick out all the things I dislike about the games I've played. Plus, you know, I find the excessive bile and hyperbole entertaining.

Fishmonger

floppylobster

NPlace

Ulquiorra Schiffer

But, seriously, no metal pipe.

NPlace

I know these reviews are for comedy purposes only, but I facepalmed.

bonnebonne

Melee aged well, will Brawl do the same?

shadydentist

We need a Kotaku Meetup. In a pub somewhere.

splines

WrenixPhight

Atomicvege

...Imports or not, it is a fucking travesty that the game hasn't seen an official release in Australia yet.

I was considering buying a Wii for Brawl, but the intense assfuckery that Nintendo brings on Australian gamers has turned me off the idea.

RaptorShadow

Jonn

But then I watched it a second time, paying attention, and noticed that all the good jokes are in the visuals, not the audio. It's strange how splattering something with blood makes it funnier.

GenericKen

I mean, i'm a SSBB fanboy, i bougth the game almost on release date (i live in mexico, and there were no preorders near where i live, so I had to go on a weekend roadtrip to get it!!!) and man, he smashed up the whole game, its a great game, but as every game, it has its flaws

I ROFLED, I ROFLED HARD!!!!

cjlopez

He is still a GOD.

Pieman2

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Hell I am a Big fan of No More Heroes and he bashed that quite a bit too.

also there needs to be a shirt that says

"Stupid Fanboy Twat"

LuppyLuptonium

And I don't know who the fuck Marth is either, but I love him. :D

man_in_gauze

Rainspainplain

Fireblast

NOT ESS ESS MUU BBEEE!!!!!

*10mins later*

I love you yatzee! i was only joking (;_;)

Onizuka-GTO

splines

That said... I like unlockable content, despite the fact that Snake and Sonic SHOULD have been playable from the get go (or at least with a bit less work).

Still. Funny ass review. Never watched one before, actually. Quite good, quite good.

2NinjasTapedTogether

geoffcbassett

King_Krunk

Anyways, good review.

Jac21

syl1985

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

You're so orignal and clique you retarted douch!

Jac21

"Who the %$#* is marth and why is unlocking him considered a reward. Oh and thanks nintendo for including a character from mother 3. . .(long rant)."

Complaining about an obscure character no one has ever heard of and then thanking for an obscure character no ones ever heard of?

Sir_Crocidile

Likwit

The hypocrisy is amazing, you can unlock characters BY playing multi-player. In other words, you can already play multi-player and incidentally unlock characters!

It isn't like the starting roster is terrible either, it's actually pretty good and many of the starting roster characters are probably still going to be played by some of you even when you unlock all of the characters.

so stop complaining and play the game

Mikazukinoyaiba

ZWarren69

You win so very much.

Now I never took Yahtzee's reviews seriously, as they're hardly reviews. One really can't make a decision on a purchase on [i]any[/i] of his videos and most of the time you have to have played the game to understand what he is talking about.

They are sketches if you ask me, at best.

So I hope no one assumes I'm upset or disagree with his current review just because I'm a "fanboy" or liked the game and he didn't.

Usually he makes valid points and even now he had SOME points I agree with, unfortunately they were very few and practically non-existent.

1. You can't win by button mashing in Brawl... seriously you can't.

Maybe against people who REALLY suck or (as so many commenters here have described) your drunk friends but that doesn't prove or show much.

I would take on ANYONE and see them try to win by button-mashing against me, you won't. Why?

Because of a simple Shield + Grab or jumping over your opponent. Not to mention projectiles. Unlike 2D fighters you can't button-mash in this game.

2. Calling anyone who liked Brawl a fanboy, this is not true. In fact I don't even think you have to be a hardcore Nintendo fan to recognize at least most of these characters. Gamers in general should recognize most of the characters.

Yes there are "obscure" characters but Marth is hardly one of them. For pete's sake he was in [b]MELEE[/b] and if you purchased Brawl chances are you have also played Melee. He isn't that unfamiliar (unlike Lucas).

So it surprises me that there are people here who agree with him about Marth, makes me wonder who they are to have purchased a Wii, bought Brawl, and yet apparently never played Melee. I can only assume this is because they were too young to play Melee.

Besides, Sakurai already explained before why he included Marth and Roy in the previous games. In hopes it would encourage Nintendo to sell Fire Emblem in the states. Guess what?

They did, hello Fire Emblem 7, FE8, and the Path of Radiance series.

That is why Lucas is in Brawl, in hopes that Nintendo will release Mother 3 outside Japan. So Yahtzee's complaint is moot as Sakurai intends for Lucas to generate attention for Earthbound.

I agree with him that it is stupid that you can't unlock Snake and Sonic from the get-go, yet Nintendo announced them. But at the same time it isn't like it's hard to unlock them . Snake and Sonic are VERY easy to unlock and were amongst the first characters I unlocked, if your friends complain about an incomplete roster just play for an hour or so w/ them and lo and behold!

You unlocked most of the characters! Yahtzee seems to be unaware of the fact you can unlock characters through multi-player, something I find odd seeing how he supposedly had played with a bunch of friends.

Mikazukinoyaiba

K-Squad! (Badass Edition)

tr0n

Huckleberry

Alith

Samos42

残心

Do you understand what it is games do? The wording may be different from different people, but in general, games should evoke a response in the gamer. That is, the game causes the gamer to experience emotions that are satisfying in some way. These can be things like joy, tension, excitement or even frustration and sorrow.

All together, when these emotions are brought about in a satisfying manner, the result is known as fun. Therefore, it can be said that games in general, aim to give the gamer fun.

When we look at Super Smash Brothers Brawl, we need to understand that it was designed so that its audience could have fun. The decision to use characters from various other franchises was to make the game fun for a certain audience. This is why a game like Brawl would not do as well with unknown characters. It is not because the gameplay is necessarily bad, it's just that the gameplay plus the characters adds up to more fun for the audience; a simple and obvious decision.

As for unlockable characters; there are a variety of strategies that contribute to providing fun in a game. Basically they are immersion, fantasy fulfilment, human interaction, excitement, reward, challenge and addiction. (If you're interested in finding out more about these, read this.)

Essentially these factors reveal that, surprise surprise, different people play different games for different reasons. From what I know of Brawl (as I haven't played it yet although I do own Melee), there are lots and lots of little things that have been put into the game to attempt to cover these different factors. Unlockable characters is one of them; falling under collectibles in reward.

Hopefully knowing those different aspects of game play motivation will enable you to understand the reasons people play and enjoy certain games, but there are still more things to cover. Firstly, hype.

Hype, contrary to popular belief, is a marketing technique, not a design technique. The aim of hype is to generate more sales, and therefore more money. Brawl has received a lot of hype, and some people don't seem to understand why. Money. People generally like to get paid for their work, and if they can, they like to get paid a lot.

Brawl was hyped with weekdayly information revelations. Websites that cover video games, (Kotaku just for example :p) also cover these revelations; every week, for the past however many months, without fail. Do you see what I'm getting at? Brawl has been a part of our lives whether or not we intended to get the game. This is hype.

Brawl has also inadvertently received hype from "fanboyism." As you know, the game is linked to many other popular franchises, and is an established and popular franchise itself. So long as you have or have had contact with either the fans or the series, you have been linked to brawl. This is hype. It's not a part of the game.

Now button mashing and being "that guy." I have trouble with these concepts. Like I said, I haven't played brawl yet, but in Melee button mashing was next to impossible. Button mashing is possible in most 2D fighters because you usually only have a limited space in which to fight, and it isn't blocked with obstacles. You can't run away or evade easily if someone is just hitting buttons near you. In Melee, many of the levels are quite large and have platforms and items and all sorts of different factors getting in the way of mashers.

The move set of most 2D fighters involves a set of standard moves and a set of special moves. The same is the case with Melee. However, in most other fighters, the standard set is activated by pressing any of the buttons just once. You use a special move by pressing a combination of the standard buttons and using the directional input.

In Melee, standard moves are locked to the A button, and special moves are locked to the B button. If you mash, you either do a quick standard move or a long special move. You don't want to do special moves randomly. Let's say you're mashing with Kirby. You hit A a few times and you do some weak standard moves that aren't likely to hit anyone because they have such short range and mashing means you aren't usually moving in a specific direction.

Then you hit B in your mashing frenzy. Kirby uses his sucking power, a special move that takes time and needs an enemy to be close by. If your enemy isn't an idiot and has moved out of the way or blocked and rolled away from your weak standard moves, he now has the perfect opportunity to annihilate you. The moves are so simple, it's easy to avoid an enemy who's using randomness, and then attack him when he's out of range or doing something stupid.

This leads to the "that guy" thing. I was that guy since Smash 64 (despite my friend owning the game and not me). I kept beating my friends with Kirby so they kinda got annoyed and wouldn't play Melee with me at first. I started using different characters to go easy on them. My motivations revolve around challenge and immersion, so I like to test myself and see how well I can evade the enemy using as few attacks as possible. I still won.

I couldn't understand it. The game mechanics were so simple, I couldn't understand how other people couldn't improve themselves. Block attacks with R. Roll away when blocking. Throw when they block. Attack when they're off guard. Rinse, repeat. For whatever reason, my friends never got the hang of it until one of them bought Melee and they started playing while I wasn't there. Finally they were able to challenge my victories.

So, as a result I've just assumed it's something to do with player morale and not the gameplay. If one player is more motivated to achieve victory, they are more likely to get it the first time. If they continue to win by constantly challenging themselves, the other players will become demoralised from their losses, and subsequently will not improve. It becomes a vicious circle.

Anyway, to sum it all up for the many of you who skipped this; games are for fun. Some fames give fun to a particular audience. Brawl is one of them. More often than not, a game that you don't understand just doesn't have the motivational factors that you usually play a game for. Hype is not intrinsically a part of game design; it is a part of marketing. Control types determine how a game can be played and Melee was not a game that could be played by button mashers. Being "that guy" is a matter of "that guy's" nature, not the gameplay.

Sorry that this was so long. I just woke up and was in a "writing mood."

(As a side note: I've been to Game Traders Robina. Hooray! ^^ )

Rhys

They need to have an option screen right at the very start with two buttons:

[I am a fanboy, I give a shit, make me work for it]
[I just want to play the fucking game]

because although I purchased SSBM (at a reduced price from a friend) I didn't actually unlock anything. I got my mate around who was into that sort of mind nunbing time waster and got him to do it in exchange for beer. And then when he had I sat down to play the game, in myltuplayer with my mates, because that is the only actual interest I had in this game.

The same could be said for Mario Kart games, but I do tend to play those solo for a bit, as I'm truley shocking at racing games and need the practice before being humiliated by my seven year old cousin who has never failed to beat me.

Hedgeworth

Solid_Psycho

thank god brawl doesnt fall into that category. XD

And too bad the smash community is too dumb to fix their problem, and the fighting game community is too dumb to leave the problem alone.

But hey, that just goes to show how good Sakurai's smart marketing is.

Dogysamich

j00s

Kayin

God forbid someone feels differently about a game. Video games != serious business.

j00s

Takuthehedgehog

Green-clad Gamer Dude

Like Halo, Brawl is so overrated it doesn't take much to bring fanboys back from their self-induced cloud nine.

humongous_mouse

MisterFeeny

KEITH1437

DOA is a complicated fighting game? who knew...

NeoAkira

(cant be bothered going through 223 comments, i figure they're mostly gonna be "omg he's wrong and a crap reviewer and not funny" or "hes right lol i totally agreed with him before he said it")

hamandcheeseUK

Some in this thread seem overjoyed to say, "Haha, Smash Bros. got owned and so did everybody who likes it!! HAHAHA in your face, Smash Bros. fans!" Apparently it's not enough to simply dislike the game, you want to rub it in the faces of people who do enjoy the game and somehow look down on them or something?

As far as I'm concerned, this thread is one of the lower points of Kotaku.

Huckleberry

@Jefflar: It wasnt that negative. Youre being dramatic.

Duphman2

Jefflar

mrplow8

I was hyped and I got exactly what I wanted: Fun to last me for weeks(I'm still playing it), a pretty decent single player mode, and online(which hasn't given me any problems, strangely).

People knew that Nintendo wasn't going to change the gameplay. If people thought that this was a complicated fighting game, like DOA or Street Fighter, they need to be slapped in the back of the head.

KM91

resetbutton

Ulquiorra Schiffer

bigman88zz

You can use an SD card to transport your data. I know I know...DUUUUuuuuh

NeVeRMoRe666

Strangelove

Good thing is... I don't care I still like the game.

(And I thought we had the same taste in games.. *sob* )

Enycma

And Smash Bros. Brawl isn't the perfect game. There are a lot of problems with it.

Handsome Fat Man

Barf#1

however, i do think his review is biased by the fact that he doesn't like the fighting genre (and i find muchthe stuff he gushes...tedious at best), and the fact that he throws in Smash Bros. with Dead or Alive is absurd, because all they have in common is that multiple characters are competing with each other. the mechanics are 180 degrees apart from each other. and if you don't like a game (or are drunk when you're playing it), then of course you'll think button mashing works, because you're not going to be good at it either way. and if you don't care enough about a game to try to get better at it, than you shouldn't review it. i'm not saying Smash Bros. is perfect (and he made good points about the unlockables), but his comments made him sound more ignorant about video games than i'm sure he is, and that's a shame.

plus i don't think you have to be a fanboy to appreciate all the fun characters; i thought the Wii name was stupid when I first heard it, but it wore off on me because i understood the company's vision and it's MO in the business. I think the Yahtzee guy (as well as many reviewers) don't get that, and just throw the company in the kiddy box that the larger media does.

however, his "that guy" comments are hilariously appropriate, but in my opinion the C-stick equalizes that out in this game.

Mikintosh

And I think SSBB is a great game. I'd love to respond to and disagree with so many of the ridiculous posts in here, but I don't have all night.

Mezodon

sitsalot

dreamshade

The truth is any fighting game is a button masher if neither you or your opponent know wtf you're doing.

I don't care what anyone says, fighting games are the most skill based competitive games around. No other type of game requires the same level of wit and reflexes that it takes to be great at a fighting game. It's all about being able to instantly pull of a move when you're opponent is least expecting it, while trying to predict what your opponent is going to do next.

And like I've always said, single player games are for anyone who likes video games, but multi player games are only for people who are good at video games. Anyone who only plays single player games sucks at video games. Don't let them tell you any different.

mrplow8

But Game & Watch guy is awesome.

tk.

I didn't even know the game existed until a friend told me about it several years after it came out.. so, honestly, you can't say it would outsell anything Nintendo has out right now. Certainly I'd buy the shit out of it and play it to death but it is a rather obscure title.

I am a Nintendo fanboy and even I'm getting sick of Mario Kart being released over and over again, for fucks sake.. it's the same game as it was on the SNES as far as I'm concerned.

glemmstengal

Unlocking some characters was an unnecessary hassle(I honestly cannot picture an 8 year old doing it), and the Space Emissary is way too long, tedious and repetitive.

Pancho_Villasan

but i still like yahtzee

Hion

Para

opt2not

opt2not

SSMB is by no means a bad game. There is too much evidence and opinion to the contrary.

Lemming

Gotta love the internet.

MykalBloom

Nexus6

jboze84

GhaleonUnlimited

[kotaku.com]

dosboot

That's their leit motif of late :( I'm starting to worry about them

GhaleonUnlimited

- A convenient 4 minutes and 20 seconds long...

He's certainly still got it, and I'm not tired of his format yet, but I really wish he'd stop caving to all the yammering twats out there begging him to review their favorite game.

He should stick to what interests him, and only that. Shame he doesn't dig multiplayer titles a little bit more, though.

Ma1agate

Petezah

Arteen

Aahh, I smiled when he starting talking about "that guy" because it's so me. I don't know what it is but I'm better than my friends at almost every game we play. Natural ability I suppose?! Ha!

Dopeski

Katorok

vanderblade

MrZ33

I am also am considered "That Guy" but in a whole new light. Now I'm "that guy" who picked up the drums in Rock Band for the first time on New Years Eve and kick all out ass. Everyone was raving, which led me to believe that I was more that average at in for a first timer.

Oh, and I didn't know who Marth was either, something about Fire Emblem? But then I did the secret Codec trick with Snake and went through half the cast. I must say, *omg*, that was one of the saddest things I've ever heard. Just like the MGS3 ending, SotC or a story where the hero goes on an epic quest only to end with everyone losing memory of their achievements and they all become distant (ending in a scene where they all walk by each other, blah blah blah). Seriously, poor guy. That's why I try to play with Marth exclusively (love the Fully Charged Shield Breaker) :)

AntiZERØ

Fact of the matter is, Yahtzee may dislike some things about a game, but then he'll EXAGGERATE them for COMEDIC EFFECT. He's stated as such before. And he's done a good few dozen reviews by now, it is impossible that in those reviews he has not ONCE said something you disagree with. Because you are not him, you have opinions of your own, and sometimes people just don't see eye to eye, no matter how much else they agree on.

On the matter of the review, he's as hilarious as ever, but still exaggerates a few of the game's aspects to a certain extent. The campaign mode isn't as repetitive as he makes it out to be, and actually mixes things up sufficiently. It's true that the campaign mode is the easiest way to unlock characters, but you can do the same simply by playing multiplayer. Yes, the game was designed to appeal directly to fanboys, but how is that a bad thing? How many times have you seen someone play something like Gran Tourismo who didn't already have an interest in car racing, or Halo when they weren't already into shooting things? Yes, button mashing is a problem in fighting games, but it's like a basketball player who will simply push over any other player near him in an attempt to get to the ball; it's irritating, but any half-decent player will know how to get around that and still win.

However, the one thing I'm with him on is the "that guy" syndrome. It's common in most games, and half of "that guy"s will remember that it's all about having fun and won't use their l33t skills to wipe the floors with their friends mercilessly, and the other half just get their kicks out of winning and pwning n00bs. If you are "that guy" like I am, try to be like the former and not the latter. Everyone will thank you for it.

So the moral of the story? Folks, don't be such sheep that you can't formulate your own opinions. You don't have to agree with him to find Yahztee funny, especially since, odds are, he's not being completely honest with you. Remember that gaming is supposed to be for everyone's enjoyment, so if you find yourself to be "that guy" don't hold it over peoples' heads. And last but not least, don't let yourself get sucked in by the hype, because there might be the chance that you're not the intended audience.

GhostWhoWalks

The amusement I get out of watching one of Yahtzee's reviews is directly proportional to his enthusiasm. And as he himself said, he wasn't very enthusiastic about reviewing Brawl.

I really wish people would just let him review what HE wants (or what The Escapist tells him to...)

Paviel

C'mon, what he does with SSBB is no different from what he did with Halo 3, BioShock, DMC4 and other massively hyped titles, regardless of whether they deserved the hype or not (hint: they never do - no game ever does, but such is the name of the game in entertainment).

The day he starts publishing "serious" reviews with "honest" arguments is the day I'll stop watching Zero Punctuation. Yes, he sometimes blatantly ignores the qualities of games he's set out to destroy. Yes, he blows certain flaws out of proportion. But that is, by and large, how all comedy works.

Do I laugh out loud at every ZP review? No, but even at their worst, they're still damn enjoyable, and a far cry from the usual humdrum of modular VG reviews.

Antiterra

mbeck

kjcwashere

Now on topic:
I liked the review, as everyone else. But it doesn't end after the video stops. The reading of the comments on theescapist, kotaku and /v/ are at least the same amount of entertainment.

As some others pointed out. He is a comedian, not a games reviewer. Learn the difference :D

marlblank

Highlander Wolf

PlasmaMachine

artofwar420

I forget - are people play Nintendo games the total nerds who never get out and see anyone else, or are the people who play Nintendo games the "non-gamers" who actually have lives and like watching soap operas and already have 2.3 kids and 1.2 spouses?

I dunno. The Guitar Hero analogy was actually insightful, that it is true to love a game and yet want to play it with your friends who don't love it as much as you do, but he barely talks about the game at all here. He just kinda whines about it. The camera can zoom out on big maps, and you have to unlock the brawlers - that was about all I got out of it involving the game's actual flaws, and if there was anything he actually kinda liked, he didn't get to it, and the whole "Who the fuck is Marth?" thing just sounded like he was digging for material.

He just wasn't funny or interesting in this one, really. He's reviewed plenty of games that he doesn't like in which he's actually entertaining (see: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune review), but it felt like he just kinda phoned this one in.

dreamshade

Yes, because that is totally the same as:

Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Dr. Mario
Super Mario World
Mario Teaches Typing
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario 64
Mario Kart 64
Mario Party
Mario Golf
Super Smash Bros.
Mario Party 2
Mario Tennis
Mario Party 3
Paper Mario
Mario Kart Super Circuit
Luigi's Mansion
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Dr. Mario 64
Super Mario Sunshine
Mario Party 4
Mario Party 5
Mario Kart: Double Dash!
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Mario Golf: Advance Tour
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Mario Pinball Land
Mario Power Tennis
Super Mario 64 DS
Mario Party 6
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
Mario Party Advance
Dr. Mario & Puzzle League
Mario Superstar Baseball
Super Princess Peach
Mario Party 7
Mario Kart DS
Mario Tennis: Power Tour
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Super Mario Strikers
Yoshi Touch & Go
New Super Mario Bros.
Mario Hoops 3-on-3
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis
Yoshi's Island DS
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Super Paper Mario
Mario Party 8
Mario Strikers Charged
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Super Sluggers

And I'm sure I missed a few, not to mention all the various spinoffs from characters in the Mario universe. It's only a matter of time before green pipes and 8 bit mario background graphics are more annoying than nostalgic.

Korey

corner

Luv2Hate

GrapenutsRobot

Dmartin001

Flibble

Ruzi

Yahtzee = Comedian.

Yahtzee =/= Reviewer.

They pay him to be FUNNY.

Ashurahori

TOWER_JUNKIE

Imma go cry myself to sleep now.

In all seriousness, that was a kickass review. lol

aphex242

What can I say? I dig spastic, no-skill-required fighting game chaos.

j00s

Len Bias Cocaine Surplus

DaveKap

I couldn't resist clicking on your profile... it was fascinating to scan through your previous comments. Such unbridled positivity!

Almost on topic... the fake Brian Crecente review was also brilliant.

Muckley

kingmanic

He gets my respeck. And yes that's respect with a "k", that's how badass he is.

egghead329

manicfoot

I understand that the Zero Punctuation reviews aren't all that serious, but this was a disappointing review.

Not infuriating, or irritating. Just disappointing.

So you took a game you didn't want to review (both because of the popular hype and the fact that you're not much of a fighting game fan by your admission), plunked it down in front of other people who didn't have much interest in it, and put it down because it didn't change your life? Whoop de do. I don't like wrestling much, but I don't go to matches just so I can yell "You should be reading Shakespeare!" at the fans. Then you're also "that guy," who can't understand why everyone doesn't have your same interests and who obviously knows so much about the world that NEEDS to be shared, if only people would open their ears and listen! "That guy" knows the Way and the Light of Utopia, but no one cares, which makes "that guy" even more assured that he's right and the rest of us are just practicing yoga to see how far our heads will go up our anuses first thing in the morning.

Of course, I am annoyed at his continued harping on Nintendo for using their existing franchises. Konami is releasing Metal Gear Solid 4 (and doing a beta for Metal Gear Solid online) and probably working on 2 new Castlevania games, Rock Star is about to release Grand Theft Auto 4, Call of Duty 5 is in the works, we're approaching Final Fantasy XIII (and looking at a remake of Final Fantasy IV for the DS)-but only Nintendo tries to ride the coattails of its franchises, apparently, because they also make a console. We'll conveniently ignore Halo and Microsoft making out in the corner.

And then there's the Mother Three rage. I didn't know who Marth was when I played Super Smash Brothers Melee, but he was fun to play. Then this little game called "Fire Emblem" came out for the GBA. I picked it up, gave it a shot-really enjoyed it. How did that series come over here? Well, it started when people met these guys named Marth and Roy in SSBM, and got curious. Perhaps that's why there's a character from Mother Three in Brawl? No, couldn't be. Oh, and let's be honest with ourselves, Mother fans-if Mother Three does get released in the US, it will not suddenly sell 70 million copies. Don't be "that guy."

I wouldn't say Yatzhee is slipping, but this was still a disappointing review. It wasn't that funny for me, and that's before we factor in the "FANBOY SMASH!" reaction. Compared to his Condemned 2 ripping, I was left cold.

Quick, let me offer a pre-made rebuttal before I go- "Wii Fanboy!"

There, cut and paste that to save some time, so you don't get caught by your boss on Kotaku at work. Cheers!

Altuenar

antialias02

Pickens

9a3eedi

GyrFal

TheeAhaMoment

Harteex

sporkhead