Perhaps the true measure of a cozy game is not that it lacks explosions and bloody fish-related violence but that the gritty fish murder passes with no greater emphasis than the straightening of the napkin dispensers. Though on reflection it might be odd to describe Dave the Diver as “low stakes” considering that at various points in it you battle giant krakens, blow up enemy submarines and save a hidden civilization of merpeople from ecological disaster, but at the end of all of that you still have to slouch home and work a shift at your artisanal sushi restaurant. How appropriate that but a week after Final Fantasy went all grim, apocalyptic and sweary on us that the hot new indie title should be a cozy pixel art game where the stakes can’t get any lower because they’re currently ten meters below sea level in the side of a tuna fish. Ever mirroring its actions, going down when they go up, light when they go grim, the pixel art ever-chonkifying as cutting edge graphics dance ever higher out of their grasp like a toy mouse on a string tormenting a cat. Zero Punctuation TranscriptĪs Holmes had his Moriarty, as the Beatles had their Rolling Stones, as Kurt Cobain had his own unperforated face, so too does the triple-A games industry have its dark reflection, the indie games. We have a merch store as well: Visit the store for ZP merch. If you subscribe to The Escapist Patreon or YouTube memberships, you can view next week’s episode, on Chrono Trigger (yes, freakin’ Chrono Trigger), right now!įor more major games Yahtz has reviewed lately, check out Final Fantasy XVI, System Shock (2023), Diablo IV, Street Fighter 6, Amnesia: The Bunker, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.Īnd check out Yahtzee’s other series, Extra Punctuation, where he’s recently talked about the significance of owning your games and the fallacy of “replay value.” This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Dave the Diver.
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