Zero Punctuation whips it good with Lego Indy

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 9th 2008 6:00PM

Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee takes on both the Lego Indiana Jones game and the latest movie in his latest review. For his take on the game, the ornery critic comes up with an equation for figuring out how much you'll enjoy playing as Indy in the blockified platformer.

If doing mathematicals isn't your thing, just think about how much fun you'll have killing Short Round -- or Willie -- over and over again. Although it still doesn't beat the cathartic Jar-Jar killing of the Lego Star Wars game.

This week's NSFW ZP review of Lego Indy can be found after the break.

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One of the funniest ones he's done.

I found it aimless and unfunny. I didn't even finish it. His one trick pony just doesn't cut it anymore.

And what exactly is his "one trick"?

Yeah, I felt that although he's gone with his own intro music and sequence now, this one was a lot better than usual.

Comparing the holocaust to a "really screamy pie factory"....damn Yahtzee is back! lol

What's with the new intro? o-0?

Playmobil Battlestar Galactica and Meccano Dune I would totally play those.

He said in the credits he doesn't want to keep using copyrighted music, though I always thought their was something called "Fair Use" that protected the usage of very small clips of songs.

Also, it was very funny this week.

Yeah but the new intro isn't very favorable either.

I would also like to add that I agree with him when he says there are only 3 Indiana Jones movies.

Every copy of the Crystal Skull deserves to be burned in a volcano and deleted of the memories of every human being so we can ignore is existance forever.

I've actually always thought using copyrighted music for his stuff was probably not "fair use." He probably heard that it was questionable and mentioned it in the credits to try to cover his ass.

Yeah, I'm going to miss that if he keeps this new one up. The songs gave each video somewhat of a theme, or had some relation to what he was reviewing, and it's those small touches that makes things like this better.

A bit of a random thought, but I remember it was about a week later after his Halo 3 video that I had realized the line "You say goodbye, while I say hello" from the Beatles song made sense.

Here's a question: Would you rather watch KotCS or the Star Wars Holiday Special?

I'd go for the latter :P

As I remember, you can only use up to 5 seconds of copyrighted material (music, movies, tv etc.), but I also think there is a rule if you some how make money from the use.

Thank you RabbidMickeyMouse, I never really thought about it but that's really cool how he added that to the Halo 3 review. Plus it applies to me as well.

+1 to you.

In before 30 obligatory Yatzhee is funny and not funny comments.

Can we talk about the review?

I didnt play the game.

"Can we talk about the review?
I didnt play the game".

Ha ha lol.

Me neither,I played the demo and I thought it was cute but I didn't wanted to buy it.

I did, and beat it. It was ok.. not as good as lego star wars.

I think it's because with lego star wars you could either have a light saber and deflect all blaster-fire, or have a blaster and quickly shoot everyone.

In Indy you have a whip, or basically a shovel. Only in freeplay can you use a character with a gun. You can whip a gun out of an enemy's hand, but it's only good for like 5 shots, and more often than not, the whip won't do what you want it to do. Press A to perform random action!

I agree with Yahtzee. I hated those floating platforms in Mario Sunshine!

They were the purest form of platforming in that game.

Sure they were infuriatingly hard after being nudged along helpfully by FLUDD for the rest of the game, but it made finishing them such a sense of achievement.

A pre-cursor to Galaxy I'd say except Galaxy toned them down because a game filled with just them would have been nightmarishly difficult.

Toy Time Galaxy was essentially the Galaxy equivalent to those.

Oh, and the "space between spaces" was such BS. As was the Tarzan scene.

Everything went to the s*it at the very beginning.

Surviving a nuclear explosion in a damn fridge 0-O? what the f*ck? And then the whole Mayas in Peru that was probably the most stupid thing I have ever seen in a movie but that was quickly beaten when they showed up the aliens. I know both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have boners for Aliens but dude what the hell, who wrote the script?

Read a motherf*cking book the next time.

I love how you conveniently marked that post with an utterly effortless SPOILER sign above it so people like me who haven't watched the movie haven't had it spoiled for them. Good job!

He saved you some money. Be happy. It'll be out on tv in 3 or 4 Christmas' time for free. You can wait. Trust me. The aliens are the hugest 'what?' moment in any film I've seen recently. Even moreso than the island vanishing in Lost. That says a lot.

If you haven't seen it by now, you really can't compain about spoilers. And seriously, it's better if you know it all going in. Otherwise you'll just be disappointed.

@Mr. Mobius.
The island in Lost makes sense when you think about it. It just skipped about a year and moved into the future. Considering everything else on Lost, that's nothing.
Now, aliens in Indiana Jones, yea, that makes no sense.

EA to buy all stickle-brick related rights.

I loved Lego Indy, very fun game to play, especially on co-op. A lot of the complaints he makes are pretty valid, and some of them amusing, but he exagerates on most of them a little too much.

And the void levels in Mario Sunshine were the best parts of that game, the whole thing should have been like that, not that stupid flood crap!

Lack of online co-op killed the game for me though.

I dunno if I can really get behind using generic music for the bumpers...

Yahtzee is single-handedly responsible for introducing me to Electric Six, and therefore my purchasing all four of their albums.

Yes he actually use pretty cool music in his videos that otherwise I would've ignore.

When people wanted new music but were unsure of their tastes, I used to always recommend they watch some of Yahtzee's videos and they'd probably hear something that they'd like.

Bit of a shame I can't do that anymore.

have you watched any electric six's videos? funny stuff. especially the freddy mercury one.

anyway really enjoyed this one after the last four or five not being funny to me.

I think the song for his intro should become "Sell Out" by Reel Big Fish.

That's all that kept going through MY head when I saw the intro.

Also, I liked KotCS.

*prepares to see half a heart under his comment tomorrow*

Hell yes I've seen Electric Six's videos. They have a nice little assortment on myspace.

I really liked Indy 4 too. Sure there were a couple of corny moments, but the other movies had them too. Anyone remember jumping out of a plane with only a raft? I also don't get why people are complaining about aliens. What about face melting, magic stones, and a cup that holds everlasting life? Are aliens that far fetched?

I think the biggest problem with everyone is that the first three are so burned into our brains. Most of the people on this board grew up watching them. So we expected the perfect movie. I got what I wanted out of it. Another Indiana Jones movie. Hell, I hope they make another.

Zero Punctuation has officially jumped the shark...

Hopefully I'm not the only one who reads his final sarcastic in joke at the end of every video.

I liked the copyrighted music better. It definitely added to the videos. Not using copyrighted music would be okay as well... but this new intro just sounds like generic 'cool' hard rock music. It doesn't have that funny/sarcastic undertone either.

I actually laugh at this one, instead of the usual chuckle.

3 minutes of hate and his conclusion..."I like this game"

classic.

I had a good time at Indy4. I wouldn't say it was as good as any of the first 3, but I enjoyed it nontheless. It was definitely a lot better than any of the star wars prequels.

I just thought the ending was lackluster. From the moment they went through the waterfall not much happened. It just went into CGi mode and Indy was hardly involved at all. It needed a big ending fight scene or something.

I do miss the music though. He always used to choose cool tunes that fitted well to the subject... I actually used to look forward to seeing what tunes each video would have.

i shall miss the tunes...

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