The entire time I’ve been on YouTube, I’ve
been really open and transparent with you guys about the fact that I’m doing literally
all of this for money. But in a very off-brand move, today I’m
friend zoning myself from YouTube’s biggest sponsor for no reason other than . . . I hate
them. Today’s sponsor: RAID: Shadow Legends. RAID—RAID—RAID—Thanks so much to RAID:
Shadow Legends. RAID: Shadow Legends. RAID: Shadow Legends. I know you already know about RAID: Shadow
Legends. Now this video isn’t a commentary on the
YouTubers who promote RAID, because everybody’s gotta eat, plus that would be like attacking
my coworkers for doing their job. Everyone I showed is a really good YouTuber,
some of them are almost as good as me, no I’m just kidding. Nobody is. But with the way demonetization is hitting
everyone right now, I’ll take every sponsorship I can get. Every sponsorship . . . except RAID: Shadow
Legends. And that is because of something I’ve kept
secret from all of you. I am a gamer. That’s right. I may not upload Minecraft videos or stream
Fortnite 10 times a week on Facebook, but I am a bona fide gamer. I have a PS4 controller and an XBOX controller,
and yes; my bathwater is for sale. So when I found out that RAID: Shadow Legends
was, in their own words, a revolutionary RPG with a massive story and graphics rivalling
console titles, but you could play it right here on your underpowered smartphone for free,
my first thought was: Wow! That doesn’t sound possible whatsoever”. So I’m going to break the infamous RAID:
Shadow Legends advertisement, because this is an anti-sponsorship. So the first claim: Console-level graphics. Here it is running on my phone, and um- they’re
technically not wrong, if by console graphics we mean consoles that came out like 13 years
ago. Here’s an actual game with triple A graphics. And here’s RAID. But you know what, they’re trying. There’s no way a phone can compete with
giant console or even my laptop, and RAID’s graphics are pretty impressive for a phone,
so I’m going to go ahead and say this claim is confirmed. Next up: an amazing storyline. Okay but like where? Actually where is this amazing storyline. I know we’re not talking about the actual
storyline, because that—you know what, the best way I can describe the story of RAID:
Shadow Legends is like if Marvel had made Avengers: Endgame, but they never made the
21 movies that came before it. So it’s like, there’s a lot going on and
it’s seems important, but I don’t know who these people are or why they’re dressed
like this. Like ooh, an emotional moment. Am I supposed to be feeling something for
this person that I’ve never seen--- who is this!? But technically, there is a story and quite
technically, it is epic. So this claim get a: sort of true. They also claim to have thrilling gameplay. And at this point, RAID is just lying. I know they’re lying; they know they’re
lying. And the truth is: there is no gameplay. One doesn’t play RAID: Shadow Legends so
much as one watches RAID: Shadow Legends. You know what, let’s play through a battle
right now and I’ll show you what I mean. So, like most turn-based games nothing happens
if I don’t press anything. Nothing at all. So I can tap enemies once, and then I watch
them get hit. Tap, watch. I can switch between special types of taps
down here, but then I have to go back to tap, watch. When you get hit, you just have to watch yourself
stand there and take it. The entire battle system feels like fighting
somebody with swords made out of napkins. You can hit them, but it doesn’t really
feel like you did anything. But hey, at least I reached level 7. I hope that’s thrilling enough for you,
because that’s the only gameplay in the entire game. You don’t run around, you don’t talk to
anybody, you don’t do anything but tap and watch. So their claim of thrilling gameplay: false. I’ve had more thrilling moments in animal
crossing. Next up, we have the auto-play feature. RAID actually advertises that there is a button
on this game that just makes the battles play automatically. Meaning instead of tap and watch, you can
just watch and watch. This feature is confirmed because it’s exactly
what they say it is, but my question is: if this game is supposed to be an RPG experience
like nothing before, but it gives you the option to just experience nothing . . . what
is the true purpose of this game? If the gameplay is so inseconsequential that
you can just skip it, and the story is so inconsequential that I don’t remember any
of it as I’m talking right now, then where does RAID want you to devote the majority
of your attention? I don’t know why I’m wording it like a
question, the answer is the gacha system they have with the characters. Collect and customize 400 champions! That’s RAID’s biggest claim to fame. You actually get to choose your first champion
out of a list, and uh-- If I had to pick one of these . . . I wouldn’t. I like how all the characters are either really
pale, or not human beings. And those are the only options. That’s-- not today. I’m just going to go with this guy, because
his jawline was crafted by the gods. Like, all of them. From every religion. And maybe even a couple of mortals. I think he’s spending his raid money on
plastic surgery. It feels so nice to such be a pretty elf man. It’s kind of cool in the game too. But there are only a couple of champions you
can actually earn. All the rest of them are randomly distributed
to you through this gacha system. Gacha games are basically a model where you
insert cash and out comes a random prize, ranging from completely worthless, to being
worth much much more than you put in. Your chances of getting the good stuff are
pretty low, so your best bet is just to keep rolling again and again and again, spending
more and more money, getting so close to getting a grand prize, watching everyone around you
win and knowing that if you could just spend one more—oh but it’s not gambling. Because that would be crazy. It’s just, on paper, identical to gambling. Now is RAID the only gacha game on the app
store? Of course not. In fact, I play Mario Kart Tour all the time
and that is definitely a gacha game. But I don’t mind it, because it’s very
up front. RAID on the other hand is trying so hard to
seem like a real RPG that’s about the story and the gameplay and the graphics, but it
was clearly all developed around the gacha system and it shows. Yes, you can collect 400 champions, no you’re
not going to get them unless you spend absurd amounts of money. This claim gets a: sort of true. Now I’m going to look at the very last claim:
the game is highly-rated and award nominated. As for the latter, it’s great that they
were nominated for a Play Store award, but hosting awards for mobile game apps is kind
of like hosting the Streamys for YouTubers. Sure, a lot of people were nominated, and
some of them may have even won, but at the end of the day, we’re all doing YouTube
for a living, so in the grand scheme of things, I’m pretty sure we all lost. As for the high reviews, between the amount
of the times the game has crashed, the amount of pop-up ads in the game begging me to spend
money, and the amount of actual negative reviews on the play store . . . I’m pretty sure
they allegedly definitely paid for the majority of their positive reviews. Let’s read some of the negative ones. My camera died in the middle of me looking
for reviews. Truly praying on my downfall. Anyway. It seems fun at the first two three months,
but then you realize that the events they promote inside the game are just impossible
to achieve the rewards without spending money. I liked this game so much that I gave it a
5 star review. But as time went on you realize how greedy
and in your face with how much they want your money. If you download this game you’ll have fun
for a month. Then you start to get tired of clicking out
of about 10 pop ups with what they call “deals” which are ridiculously overpriced. They suck you in, milk you for what you have,
and that is it. You will quit after you realize this. All the reviews are quitting, this is so sad. Could have been the best game of its kind. Don’t waste your time unless you have hundreds
of dollars to throw away on crappy Random Chance mechanisms. Go feed a slot machine instead… At least that might pay out. This guy—Michael Borque—he should have
written my review for me. This guy is savage. So I think we get the point. The game is fun to play at first but then
it’s not . . . free. The game is highly rated but it somehow has
thousands upon thousands of terrible reviews. So this claim: is false. Now, you know what: even though playing RAID:
Shadow Legends for this video felt like me being robbed at gunpoint by a random number
generator. . . I’m still feeling pretty generous. So I’m going to make a free ad read for
RAID: Shadow Legends right now, and this one is going to be accurate. Today’s video is brought to you by RAID:
Shadow Legends. RAID is one of the top RPGs on the Google
Play Store, even though it’s barely an RPG and the top reviews are fake. 15 million people downloaded this game in
the last 6 months, but we’re guessing 14 million of them never actually made an account
because the game is pretty dry. There are 400 champions in this game but your
probability of getting a useful one is 0.6%, so you can play RAID for free, but just know
that if you do: you’re not getting any of them. RAID has amazing combat, it’s so fluid,
it’s almost like it moves without you. RAID has graphics on the level of a console,
rivalling the PS3 and the Nintendo Wii. And, it has an extremely convoluted story
with no cutscenes. I played RAID for hours and I still want to
know: who are these people and what’s happening--- oh my gosh it’s a dragon. Clink the link in my description, and Install
RAID today to get 50,000 free silver, also known as . . . less than a dollar. And who knows, you might even find me in the
game but I definitely won’t be playing. RAID: Shut the hell up. [SMPTE]
Anyway, that was my first anti-sponsorship. I probably won’t be doing too many of these,
for a couple reasons. I think most sponsors on YouTube are good
products, and I don’t have a problem with doing sponsorships. I would even promote RAID: Shadow Legends
if the company was upfront about what it was. But the most important reason I won’t be
doing too many more of these is because . . . I just threw away a lot of money. Like . . . so much money-- You know what,
if this video mysteriously disappeared and you see me do a real sponsorship for RAID
in my next video, you know what happened. Anyway, looks like I’ve gotten ten minutes
of content out of this, so leave a like, tell me what you think, and subscribe if you haven’t
already. Thank you for watching, and a big thank you
to my 244,000 subscribers. Okay bye. By the way, I did put special links in my
description so make sure you click them for a little surprise.
