History ZeroPunctuation / TropesAToD

** He has a great love for anything that does things differently like ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''; he complimented ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' for trying something new even after tearing the actual gameplay apart, and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' got [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/16-Assassins-Creed praise]] for being original even though it was let down by highly repetitive gameplay. Similarly, he praised ''VideoGame/DarkVoid'' for being an ambitious failure, and as such, better than "committee-designed sludge". He also [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1651-Silent-Hill-Shattered-Memories liked]] ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'', despite hating ''Franchise/SilentHill'' spinoffs and saying that the monsters and chase scenes weren't scary and the psych test gimmicks weren't enough, for actually being a decent remake, and removing what didn't work the first time. He raves about ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' for creating and codifying the ColossusClimb, and ''VideoGame/{{Ico}}'' got a love note from him for making him ''[[VideoGameCaringPotential care]]'' about a CuteMute LoveInterest.

** His AuthorAvatar is differentiated by all the other ''Zero Punctuation'' limbless stick figures by him having a fedora-like hat. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oynuVwE9EJM This gets referenced during his plug for his book "Existentially Challenged":]]
--->"No, I don't still wear this hat in real life."

* DarkerAndEdgier: [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/759-Bionic-Commando Once a simple story]], "the new ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' has taken the dark and edgy route", illustrated with said commando [[EmoTeen slashing his wrist]] and singing "[[Music/LinkinPark CRAAAWLING IIIIN MY SKIIIN]]".

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In his review of ''VideoGame/APlagueTaleInnocence'' he admitted to feeling slightly biased against it, theorising "maybe it's just all the French-ness about it stirring up my English blood and making me seek vengeance for Agincourt." As responses in the comments field pointed out , the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt Battle of Agincourt]] was a famous battle from UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar where the English absolutely ''[[CurbStompBattle massacred]]'' the French, and hardly something that any Englishman would feel a need to see avenged.

"Thanks Website/DeviantArt!"\\

--> So in the name of keeping things nice and clear for you touchy sods, let me as unambiguous as possible in this critique: ''[=MindJack=]'' is ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING]] [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible BAD BAD BAD BAD.]] DON'T DON'T DON'T DON'T PLAY IT!''

** The "Every [Given Year] Zero Punctuation" compilation videos cover up nudity and delete various politically incorrect jokes. For example, a school shooting reference is deleted from the ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' review and the "''Film/SchindlersList'' Easy Bake Oven" joke is cut from the ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheForceUnleashed2'' review.

** His review of... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saq9VyaCN8w something.]] Yahtz pauses his video to mention the fact that he reviewed the game, but the embargo date for when he's allowed to talk about it got pushed, and because he didn't play any other games nor have the time to make a review another game, he instead kept the review of the game in the video, only removing any identifiable elements -- so replacing the "game box person" stick figure with a white question mark on a black rectangle, swapping mentions of characters from the game with static noise, and censoring the studio's written name. The only hints are that [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames it had "a relatively well-known IP attached", Yahtzee hated it]], "[it] tries to knock off ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}''" ie. roguelite dungeoncrawling, "it's a beat'em up with a third person AlwaysOverTheShoulder", it's (implicitly) an indie game since it's featured in an Indie Double Bill with ''VideoGame/ElPasoElsewhere'', and "it's not ''[[VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon Armored Core 6]]''."[[note]]The popular guess was that it was actually ''VideoGame/HellboyWebOfWyrd''.[[/note]]

** In [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1591-April-Fools 2010]], the usually MotorMouth Yahtzee recited ''Ode to Melancholy'' in a very slow, ponderous manner.

** [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp Lee Drummond]], apparently a bully in His childhood.

** When Yahtzee "quotes" a ZP fan extolling ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}: Blood Curse'' to him, said fan starts spouting off about Yahtzee's love of Japanese horror, eventually devolving into random Japanese words: "Watashi wa baka gaijin," which translates to "I'm a stupid foreigner."

** His review of... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saq9VyaCN8w something.]] Yahtz pauses his video to mention the fact that he reviewed the game, but the embargo date for when he's allowed to talk about it got pushed, and because he didn't play any other games nor have the time to make a review another game, he instead kept the review of the game in the video, only removing any identifiable elements -- so replacing the "game box person" stick figure with a white question mark on a black rectangle, swapping mentions of characters from the game with static noise, and censoring the studio's written name. The only hints are that [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames it had "a relatively well-known IP attached", Yahtzee hated it]], "[it] tries to knock off ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}''" ie. roguelite dungeoncrawling, "it's a beat'em up with a third person over-the-shoulder camera", it's (implicitly) an indie game since it's featured in an Indie Double Bill with ''VideoGame/ElPasoElsewhere'', and "it's not ''[[VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon Armored Core 6]]''."[[note]]The popular guess was that it was actually ''VideoGame/HellboyWebOfWyrd''.[[/note]]

** The Extra Punctuation video "For Everyone Who Says I Hate Video Games" directly addresses his detractors who claim that he isn't a "real critic" and doesn't actually like the medium he reviews/works in.

** Occasionally, his ''Extra Punctuation'' videos will have moments where Yahtzee will respond to comments made on past videos and actual reviews.
*** A moment in "Do Games Have To Be Fun?" addressed people who claimed to enjoy playing live service games in response to "Games as a Service is Incompatible with Art".
*** "We Need To Have A Conversation About Your Tone" has him address commenters who claimed they weren't bothered by ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers''' MoodDissonance, and that they ''liked'' the darker tone of the game. His only reply to ''that'' was to emphatically repeat his criticism from the review, as though flabbergasted that he has to repeat himself:
---->"HE'S A FUCKING BLUE CARTOON MOUSE! IN ''SNEAKERS''!"
*** In "Tears of the Kingdom and Meaningless Review Scores", he takes the rabid minority of the Zelda fanbase to task for review bombing media outlets that didn't give ''Tears of the Kingdom'' perfect review scores.

** In an Extra Puncuation video about "cozy games" potentially being the next big wave in video games, he points out that ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'' is technically a cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic exploration game, but will be forever remembered as "the game with the cat" because you play as, in Yahtzee's own words, "an adorable kitty-witty."

*** A moment in "Do Games Have To Be Fun?" addressed people who claimed to enjoy playing live service games in response to "Games as a Service is Incompatible with Art". He compares it to eating nothing but bran flakes for every meal - while it's none of his business if a person does enjoy that, he thinks that such people would absolutely benefit from trying other things.
*** "We Need To Have A Conversation About Your Tone" has him address comments who claimed they weren't bothered by ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers''' MoodDissonance, and that they ''liked'' the darker tone of the game. His reply to ''that'' one is to emphatically repeat his criticism from the review itself, as though he can't believe he has to say it again:

*** "We Need To Have A Conversation About Your Tone" has him address comments who claimed they weren't bothered by ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'''s MoodDissonance, and that they ''liked'' the darker tone of the game. His reply to ''that'' one is to emphatically repeat his criticism from the review itself, as though he can't believe he has to say it again:

** A moment in "Do Games Have To Be Fun?" addressed people who claimed to enjoy playing live service games in response to "Games as a Service is Incompatible with Art". He compares it to eating nothing but bran flakes for every meal - while it's none of his business if a person does enjoy that, he thinks that such people would absolutely benefit from trying other things.
** "We Need To Have A Conversation About Your Tone" has him address comments who claimed they weren't bothered by ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'''s MoodDissonance, and that they ''liked'' the darker tone of the game. His reply to ''that'' one is to emphatically repeat his criticism from the review itself, as though he can't believe he has to say it again:

* ButHeSoundsHandsome: A variant. Yahtzee notes that, out of the entire cast of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', he really enjoyed the mean character who makes fun of a lot of the other characters...

* CreatorBacklash: In-universe, he noted that 99% of artists claim to loathe everything they made more than five years ago and the remaining 1% are liars.

** The text next to his name at the end. Also, the opening and closing credits each had a clip from a song whose name and/or content was a pun on the content of the review. For example, ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'', about drug-fueled mercenary super-soldiers, used Afroman's "Because I Got High". This stopped after a while, for fear of lawsuits.

* AdolfHitlarious: In the "Top 5 of 2012" review, he compares ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch2DogDays''[[note]]his Worst Game of 2010[[/note]], which he describes as "offensively bad", to the #1 Worst Game of that year, ''VideoGame/{{Amy}}'', which he describes as "the kind of bad that dresses up like Hitler and starts doing impressions of people with cerebral palsy."

** His review of... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saq9VyaCN8w something.]] Yahtz pauses his video to mention the fact that he reviewed the game, but the embargo date for when he's allowed to talk about it got pushed, and because he didn't play any other games nor have the time to make a review another game, he instead kept the review of the game in the video, only removing any identifiable elements -- so replacing the "game box person" stick figure with a white question mark on a black rectangle, swapping mentions of characters from the game with static noise, and censoring the studio's written name. The only hints are that Yahtzee hated it, "[it] tries to knock off ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}''" ie. roguelite dungeoncrawling, "it's a beat'em up with a third person over-the-shoulder camera", it's (implicitly) an indie game since it's featured in an Indie Double Bill with ''VideoGame/ElPasoElsewhere'', and "it's not ''[[VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon Armored Core 6]]''."[[note]]The popular guess was that it was actually ''VideoGame/HellboyWebOfWyrd''.[[/note]]

** He opens his review of ''VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater'', his last video before Christmas 2015, with one:

** His review of... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saq9VyaCN8w something.]] Yahtz pauses his video to mention the fact that he reviewed the game, but the embargo date for when he's allowed to talk about it got pushed, and because he didn't play any other games nor have the time to make a review another game, he instead kept the review of the game in the video, only removing any identifiable elements -- so replacing the "game box person" stick figure with a white question mark on a black rectangle, swapping mentions of characters from the game with static noise, and censoring the studio's written name. The only hints are that Yahtzee hated it, "[it] tries to knock off ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}''" ie. roguelite dungeoncrawling, "it's a beat'em up with a third person over-the-shoulder camera", it's (implicitly) an indie game since it's featured in an Indie Double Bill with ''VideoGame/ElPasoElsewhere'', and "it's not ''[[VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon Armored Core 6]]''."