Watch this week's episode of Zero Punctuation on Metroid Prime Remastered.

I'm surprised Yahtzee never once mentioned the blatant fanservice that was the Robot Twins. I guess those jokes are beneath him now.

The main character is just a poorly translated Soviet Duke Nukem

As someone from the prior soviet block, the game is blatantly not communist, but it's made in the vision of Soviet retro futurism. I found the setting of the game very familiar, outworldish and hilarious.

I’m a little disappointed Yahtzee didn’t make a “all foam based PLANNED economy” joke

I don't require the acting and dialogue in a game to be amazing. This didn't need to be Disco Elysium. But it was so awful that it bounced me off the game pretty quickly tbh.

What makes the comparison of the leader of Soviet Rapture to Andrew Ryan even funnier is that Andrew Ryan actually was Russian and fled to the US to escape persecution.

I feel like the concept for the game was "We want to fight killer robots in a communist utopia gone wrong, now how do we make this make a lick of sense in today's climate?" And then they proceeded to completely miss the mark

Am I the only one who appreciates the delicious irony that one of Yahtzee's complaints was that each line of dialogue "flows straight into the next with no pauses, which occasionally feels like being beaten to death with a malfunctioning, third-party knockoff speak-and-spell"?

It's good when the MC asks the glove genuine questions and we get worldbuilding from their conversations, but he flips on a switch way too often. In one conversation, he'll ask an interesting question, then the glove answers him as best as it can, and the MC just argues and curses with the glove for answering his question, in the next sentence. That's what irked me the most in the game.

Is it ok for me to replay Tomb Raider while only listening to The Cranberries, or do I have to play every Irish band all at once?

4:42

I literally lost count of how many times Sergei’s dialogue had me screaming “why are you such an asshole” at the computer.

Oh man, I can't wait to hear Yahtzee's opinions on the adventures of Bioski Shockovich!

That last hittler joke was gold.

Well this explains why all the trailers for this game never gave any fucking context for what was happening. Even the first Bioshock had bothered to have a prerendered trailer instead of gameplay footage, and it showed us we were trapped in an undersea city with unambiguously hostile inhabitants. All Atomic Heart gave us were a relentless series of smash cuts of bashing flying roombas with a lead pipe.

I was totally putting off work to watch this video, and Yahtzee called me out for it

"A man chooses, a noob mashes buttons." It's tiny throwaway gags like that which make Yahtzee the funniest British-born internet comic in the world.

The ending gag was

"...you certainly aren't procrastinating from right now..." hit a little too close to the mark that I'm worried my boss might be having Yahtzee send this message to me.