Yeah, that video more than anything tells you upfront that they are journoscum and their opinion is worthless as a result. The only slight kindness I'll give them is this was one of their oldest worthless streams, meaning that it's somewhat less ludicrous for their ilk to still defend it.
Speaking of worthless; I got a good look at Daggerhearts yesterday. The system is actually somehow worse than Candela Obscura. You have to use cards to construct your character, yes cards. You do not come up with a single real idea of your own; you just slot a card in and apply what you get. You also are railroaded into what options you have based on class, and each sheet is slightly different based on class. For a roleplaying group of obsessed idiots, it's actually really funny how restricting their system actually is. Also it's damn obvious that there are going to be premium cards for this shit, so expect paypiggery towards that.
For those wondering, their term for race is ancestry, and it should be noted what they picked to file the numbers off of for their terrible game. Yes, of fucking course they have a Tiefling bootleg. No they don't have the Aasimar or Genasi equivalent, why do you ask? Yes they have a catfolk equivalent. Yes, it looks like the beastfolk from RWBY or some other shitty bootleg anime. There's a couple of decent ideas they stole in there, and they were at least savvy enough to make their dwarf woman have a thick luxurious beard. But they also enforce their backgrounds in the form of a caste system. WTF.
Another element of note is how there are no scores, simply the bonuses set up in an array. So yeah no ability to get weird lopsided designs via chance or no point-buy to custom build. Take the bonuses and that's it.
As for the mechanics? It punishes you extensively if you don't act like a chatty spaz. If you are shy or already tend to get steamrolled by your peers in the group, then fuck you. Now you have to have RP moments to gain hope and XP equivalents. It also punishes people who did not have a clean idea of how their character would start, which is also damning. There's two differently colored 2d12, and you always have a 50% chance to eat shit and give the DM "fuck us points" since you have to pick between "hope" and "despair". Also their crit is getting both of them at 12. This is rarer than a fucking D% system.
It's absolutely goddamn hilarious to watch CR's 3rd party logo affiliations make games like these piles of shit. Especially since they're actually far more inimical to organic roleplaying and emergent stories than goddamn b/x, something that came out before these fuckers were born.
Oh boy, Steam is having a sale on tabletop games! I wonder what they have-
