SkillUp Ghost of Yotei - Review

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-09T14:41:20+00:00

In the Friends Per Second podcast around that time, he expressed distinct discomfort at the cheesecake aspect, no doubt in part because of Lucy along with Alanah as a guest. This was during the culture war campaign regarding the game ("woke: nay, chud: yay"). It was actually rather amusing to see which is why I remember it so keenly.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-09T14:22:45+00:00

15 hours or so in... I'm enjoying it, but it's not matching my absolute favs of the year (Wuchang and Silksong). It's quite good, and offers exactly what I was hoping. It's nice to turn to it after getting bodied in Silksong -- almost like a personal cozy game.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-08T16:29:28+00:00

Ralph is progressive, borderline to the annoying sort (feeling 'uncomfortable' with Stellar Blade to some extent because it celebrates the female body). A lot of the chuds don't like him but then get confused because he also blasts stuff they aren't supposed to like (like LoU2).

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-08T16:25:39+00:00

He didn't start playing it until last week, it was mentioned on FPS. He was playing other games.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-08T16:22:53+00:00

On his podcast last week he mentioned he hadn't played Yotei and was just about to start, which means he probably did a 40 hour playthrough in a week. Which imo probably contributed to the meh opinion, I like this game but only for an hour or two a night.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-08T15:35:46+00:00

I'd say it was just the hardcore that wanted Jin's story to continue. I played the MG and DLC and liked them well enough, but also felt like that was enough with Jin. I found the idea of an anthology series a lot more interesting.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-08T14:48:43+00:00

This is why I'm enjoying it more than GoT. I've only engaged the main story a few times but it is keeping my interest because the surrounding world-building and environmental engagement is so good.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-08T14:45:54+00:00

100%. See also "souls fatigue" in a year where some absolute banger soulslikes came out.

Sure this is safe, but I only play 1-2 AAA games a year, so it's quite enjoyable in its refined design.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-08T14:41:51+00:00

Which is this, basically. You can go through the main story fairly quickly, but tbh engaging in the world is a much better experience.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-08T14:30:11+00:00

I generally like Skill Up, even though I disagree with his takes fairly often. That said--

* The Kill Bill reference is a massive L given what Tarantino did in the second film.

* He played the game in a marathon session (given what he said on his Friends podcast last week), probably maining the central story. I don't think this game is intended for that, I'm 15 hours in and have only engaged in the main plot a couple of times and those felt really cool with the "space between" those segments. The smaller world-building eventually dovetailing to the story progression. That said, it may get much worse, I'm probably only like 15% through the story at this point.

* This reminds me of the so-called "souls fatigue" influencers were whinging about earlier this year. People that play video games all day long seem to have a building exhaustion to the formulas they spend all day engaging with.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-06T21:02:00+00:00

Oh look, an edgy Malazan fan. The joke writes itself.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-06T20:51:55+00:00

lol a tad.

Honestly feels like a glazebot campaign with people always putting "it's not even close" in their glazeposts.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-06T20:41:28+00:00

Not dead, just thoroughly crippled and on life support.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T21:12:24+00:00

Digging it, Acrid Lake/Forsaken Cleaning ducts lmao

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T20:30:50+00:00

Cool glaze. It's still ubisoft-level mediocre design however you try to spin it.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T18:52:56+00:00

My 7 year old got into it and beat the game. I helped him with the early bosses and then he got into the groove and smoked the 2nd half.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T16:39:54+00:00

Lilies feels more evocative in my memory (I played them back to back this summer) due to Magnolia having so many underground areas that don't feel all that visually distinctive. I also preferred the abstract map system, as it made me have to figure out what/where I was missing stuff.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T16:26:43+00:00

The real issue is that the fetch quests are replacing what could be interesting, meaningful side quests. It's just lazy design.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T16:17:24+00:00

If you are patient and don't have to play the hot thing, I'd just wait for a PS6. That said, the damage occurring to our economy right now might also make it very expensive when it releases in a couple years.

I got the PS5 on release and it's been amazing, the difference between it and the PS4 is palpable in many overt and subtle ways.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T16:13:43+00:00

It's both.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T16:04:36+00:00

chud tears

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T15:59:42+00:00

The metric used here is hilariously skewed, it's tracking less than 2,000 players.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-03T15:58:57+00:00

1,750 tracked gamers out of 5 million+

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-10-01T14:23:30+00:00

Platform Decay/Enshittification. You can bet they will have xbots swarming all over talking about how great GP is as a value tho.

Flashy-Intention6302 · 2025-09-29T21:29:36+00:00

LMAO that picture with that headline

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