Zero Punctuation
TV Show • 2007 • Short
ReportThe Escapist's groundbreaking video review series. Every episode Zero Punctuation picks apart the games so you don't have to. Called "hilariously cutting ... first legitimate breakout hit from the gaming community in recent memory" by Boing Boing, see why gamers love it and developers fear it.
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In one episode, difficulty settings are represented by a kitten, a tomcat, and a tiger. The highest difficulty setting is someone in a cat costume, which the rest are terrified of.
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Is there a dead animal?
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dead animals usually represented by a clipart of an animal lying on its side with x's on its eyes or in a cartoon pool of blood
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Is there eye mutilation?
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A pretentious artist stabs himself in the eyes with a pair of scissors in protest when told he has to cut out a couple scenes from his game.
Yahtzee is often depicted bleeding from the eyes if the game he's reviewing is on the 3DS
Yahtzee is often depicted bleeding from the eyes if the game he's reviewing is on the 3DS
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Is someone tortured?
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Yahtzee occasionally shows himself torturing or preparing to torture games he hates. He also jokes about keeping homeless people locked up in his basement.
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'I'm Contemplating Suicide' jokes
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there sexual content?
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Oh no, everyone can see my b*m
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Papers Please: A soviet border crossing has a neon sign that shows that the latest group being discriminated against are trans-sexuals.
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Does a kid die?
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A child dies from an accident involving someone juggling them plus a chainsaw and various other things.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Over-muscled protagonists are derided as "fat."
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Yahtzee uses the R-word about things he finds lacking and questions the developers parentage (ie, their mom is also their favorite aunt).
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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It's one of Yahtzee's pet peeves when a game can sell like pancakes just because it has a pretty girl with a skimpy costume on the cover
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Non-narrative review series.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Yahtzee will occasionally blowtorch something he finds especially upsetting.
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Is there hate speech?
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Only to illustrate how bad it is. Holocaust denial is often brought up as the lowest depth of human degeneracy.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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People who are insane are shown being encouraged to 'Kil the w*res!' by a giant, floating, disembodied cat's head.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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A nameless character's slow mutation is used to illustrate effective body horror.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does a dragon die?
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And it's skin is used to make a funny hat.
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Are there bugs?
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Literal bugs to illustrate game glitches. The Hollow Knight episode depicts the Knight as an actual beetle, rather than the stylized way the game does.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Yahtzee jokes about having it at times
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Is there amputation?
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limb loss in horror games represented by a sprite's arm or leg being pulled off
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Does someone have cancer?
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Does someone drown?
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Yahtzee drowns someone in a mud puddle for being stupid.
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Is there addiction?
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Yahtzee is an alcoholic
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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In the BioShock 2 episode, Yahtzee jokes that reality must be about to implode because a quick-time event made a game BETTER, rather than worse.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Yahtzee describes a hypothetical scenario wherein two pregnant women have to eat each other's babies.
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Is someone possessed?
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Yahtzee posits a situation wherein someone is possessed, but the demon only does mundane things while the former occupant slowly goes insane from boredom to convey his feelings on 'Animal Crossing.'
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Yahtzee jokes about drinking heavily as both a hobby and a lifestyle.
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Puff the Magic Dragon is force-fed pot.
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Overly-edgy games are represented by the protagonist cutting themselves with razor blades while singing "Crawling In my Skin."
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Are there ghosts?
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The "man in a tattered sheet" type.
A crude Dracula mask is used to illustrate poor Horror games.
A crude Dracula mask is used to illustrate poor Horror games.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Yahtzee hands out The Bird like candy.
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Is there farting?
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Breaking wind or worse is used to convey annoyance
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Several games take place at sea
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