Zero Punctuation/Heartwarming

Yahtzee has a long history of making jabs at Japan when reviewing games that were developed there, so when he begins his review of Yakuza 4 with a screen that simply reads, "The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan was an unqualified tragedy, and Yahtzee offers his deepest sympathies to a country and people that has long held his admiration and respect," the words of condolence are especially touching to hear from him.
- ...and the next screen reads, "This statement is given to karmatically balance out the following one." And then its right back to making jabs.
His entire piece on romancing Anders in Dragon Age II in Extra Punctuation, especially the part where he states that he doesn't want to hear any of his readers' versions of the story, since he doesn't want to ruin the experience.
- And he named his Tepig Anders!
His surprisingly gentle pan of Portal 2, where he states that despite its inability to live up to the original Portal, it's still a great game in its own right.
- He later named it Game of the Year.
His review of In Famous 2. It's both surprising and heartening to hear him praise the quality of the writing, especially since it's a sequel (having long been sceptical of sequels) and especially since it followed his Duke Nukem Forever review, in which he sounded genuinely disheartened. Bonus points for him reluctantly admitting that he was touched by the good ending, and in the Extra Punctuation column following it, his endorsement of the studio.

All in all, well done Sucker Punch, they deserve to be bigger names than they are.

Speaking of, I want to include his real review of Duke Nukem Forever. Granted, he DID pan it because it didn't live up to the long wait, however, it sounds like instead of being mad or insulted (like how most of what he reviews does), he sort of sounds upset about the outcome. Even thought it doesn't seem like it, THIS helps prove that notion:

I guess I want it to be good because that's how the story's supposed to end.

The opening of his Devil May Cry 4 review, where he says he doesn't think all anime is bad, despite how much he bashes the subculture in his reviews. He continues to savage the game for the rest of the review (as he says, it follows certain trends he dislikes), but the bit at the beginning puts things into context. It also inadvertently influenced this troper, formerly a staunch anime hater, to get back into anime.

It would be very narrow-minded of me to say that all Japanese cartoons suck. That's like saying that all glam rockers are pedophiles. The fact is, there's bound to be about one thing to your taste, with all the different varieties of anime, whether you're into samurai or giant robots or serials about awkward young men very pointedly not having sex with a selection of eager women.

His concept for a non violent game. It's about a van driver that dies and goes to hell, armed only with a basket of puppies, having to give hugs to The Legions of Hell.
In the ending of the Super Mario Galaxy 2 review, he admits it's fun despite bashing it for five minutes.

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