And I'm not talking about the
deadly game of skill and chance.
I'm talking about
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.
I first ran into Yahtzee's work with
5 Days A Stranger, a
Home Of The Underdogs Top Dog. "One of the best freeware adventure games I have ever played," starts the review, and it's pretty spot-on. It has garnered a small cult following, and some fans are even
remaking the game in 3D. All of Yahtzee's games, including 5DAS, are available on
his website.
But if he just did games, he wouldn't be awesome enough for me to post about, would he?
He also did some
webcomics, including "
Yahtzee Takes On The World". Mad genius Yahtzee plots world domination from his hollowed out volcano (but laments that it's not a
missile silo*).
He also did "
Chris and Trilby", a comic about two guys that have adventures and aren't gay. Not my favorite, but it did have a nice comic where they meet God and
talk about religious people.
Alright, enough beating around the bush, I'm really posting about Yahtzee because I want to talk about his phenomenal game reviews.
They're short, they're funny, and they're DENSE, if you know what I mean when I talk about density in entertainment. I recommend them highly, even if you're not a gamer.
Three YouTube videos on
this page, start at the top and work your way down.
The rest are on
The Escapist Magazine's site,
here. Start at the bottom and work your way up.
Or you can go to
this page with all the videos on it,
if you want to crash your computer. Updated to play nicelyNew videos are posted (almost) every Wednesday, and you can grab the RSS feed
here if you're so inclined.
* Found
here.
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