Shovel Knight - Good NES Nostalgia (Zero Punctuation)

The reason for spikes being an instant kill is that you can't put a bottomless pit on the ceiling.

Every robot master has a weakness. Megaman is a robot master. His weakness is spikes.

Yahtzee's commentary on spikes: before and after Before playing Shovel Knight: "Oh, that's a rather good point. It does seem silly for spikes to be an instant kill." After playing Shovel Knight: "He was salty about Polar Knight. No question."

4:23 Wait, Zero Punctuation's script has punctuation! WHY WOULD YOU LIE TO US?!?!?

Shovel Knight? Biscuit Samurai? Fridge Viking? WAS YAHTZEE UNINTENTIONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR "FOR HONOR?"

"Old stuff does stuff you want that new stuff doesn't do" Every year this is more and more relevant. I seem to grow resentful towards the games industry with renewed vigour every day

Loved the nostalgia argument. Like when people told me that I only enjoyed Final Fantasy VII because of nostalgia, and not because I genuinely thought it was a good game. I would have bought that argument if it wasn't for the fact that the first time I played through FFVII was earlier this year.

Fridge Viking is the fucking shit.

There actually were a few games on the NES that managed to have parallax scrolling. They were few and far between because the system didn't natively support it. They had to do a lot of work to get the effect.

Killed me right from the start: "Shut your hypothetical face viewer, what the fuck do you know about pain?!" I have nothing to say for myself.

The NES did have Parallax Scrolling. Some games like Kirby's Adventure and Metal Storm used it. It was pretty basic, granted, but was still there.

"Is it still nostalgia if you play old games not to relive happier memories long passed, but because old stuff does stuff you want that new stuff doesn't do?" That is actually a very good point, some old games are nice in that they are challenging experiences instead of mildly interactive movies. I'd say people who are looking for a challenge could benefit from being told that they fucked up through the use of a proper "GAME OVER" screen instead of getting a mulligan for the umpteenth time. It's like building a house of cards: where's the fun in holding it together with tape?

And Yahtzee never reviewed another indie game by itself ever again, so much for that equality thing going on.

Excellent points on the "nostalgia" argument! Good games are good games, PERIOD.

I just realized I would love to see a For honor mod staring Shovel Knight, Biscuit Samurai and Fridge Viking

I wanna play Biscuit Samurai....

For anyone wondering, Spikes differ from bottomless pits because spikes can be placed on walls or ceiling and Shovel Knight can become invulnerable and walk on spikes briefly.

"Wow this guy talks fast." Sees the name Zero Punctuation "oh"

Man that analogy was on point. I was born in the 2000s I didn't even play an NES game until I was smart enough to download an emulator and I like them, the pixel art, the sound and the different gameplay, but I have no nostalgia for them because they weren't my childhood games, I didn't have childhood games

It's always bizarre to see him give a positive review. It's like seeing Nintendo advertise Bayonetta 2, something just doesn't compute but you don't care because its so f***ing cool