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"The most fun you can have online" - PC Gamer
Is now FREE!
Well, free if you don't want to voice chat, have a restricted inventory system, or even CALL FOR A MEDIC. Still not fun anymore due to matchmaking issues, bots, idlers, and wannabe venture capatilists

The most highly-rated free game of all time! So long as you ignore the recent reviews trying to call to attention how broken the game is!

New to TF? Don’t sweat it!
No matter what your style and experience, you'll experience the same load times, micspam, NSFW sprays (hey, remember when THOSE were the plague?) and if you order now, you';; get slurs absolutely free!

Make a character your own!
Just either gamble your life savings away with our revolutionary lootbox system, spend your life savings on a hat someone realized you want, or wait two weeks of constant playing to be able to craft a hat all on your own! You MIGHT get something you want, but be prepared to be harassed for not just buying your own!

#FixTF2

After playing this game off and on throughout the year, I do have plenty of notes and critiques about it.

Firstly, there's the elephant in the room over no character customizer. Even after adding the DLC, and even a free update adding new ships and characters... there's nothing.

Probably because of the new class system. Which is also both a pro and a con, in that it gives you some variety compared to "Droid, good guy with lightsaber, bad guy with gun" from previous games. But it also restricts peoples' abilities.
Take 4-LOM and IG-88 from The Complete Saga, for example; being droid bounty hunters, you could use Astro and Protocol Droid terminals, as well as their Bounty Hunter ones.
Which makes the sad side effect that, rather than playing Han Solo, you're "Guy with Gun who can aim." You're not Darth Vader, you're "Baddie with sword."

There's also the fact that with the new upgrade system, they removed a bunch of "classic" upgrades, without really offering an alternative for all of them.
Although "Super Saber" is gone, they give us increased damage for all melee weapons. Contrast with Invincibility, which was just removed entirely (even the Force Awakens game included it, even though it too has the same-ish combat mechanics)

The spacefaring content is fun, if repetitive, basically combining the flight controls from other LEGO games, with more collectables and space battles. Even if they were all pretty much the same hat over and over again.

And there is the disheartening fact that, of the only DLC we received, it was all character based. All other LEGO games with DLC included bonus stories, with characters to match. And as stated before, there's not really much distinction between "Good guy who can aim" and "Good guy who can aim, but showed up for ten seconds in the background."
They don't even have voice acting in most cases, which is a shame when you consider a lot of the VAs in for the base game could have recorded at least some token dialogue for them (Bad Batch are all unvoiced, even though Dee Bradley Baker was in there voicing other clones.)

And the final drawback is that there seems to be SO MUCH effort put into the Sequel Trilogy characters and content (heck, you're locked out of an entire class type until you start Force Awakens) and so little for the other two. Every single ST character is voiced, IIRC. While only the main characters of the other two trilogies (plus maybe another dozen used in sidequests) are voiced. (JAMES ARNOLD TAYLOR WAS IN THE BOOTH, AND YET PLO KOON MAKES ZERO SOUNDS)

However, that might be a good thing given how repetitive lines can get. I ended up making a roster of DLC and ancilliary characters, because I was growing tired of the same voice lines over and over.

For a LEGO game, there are plenty of ups and downs. It's still a fun series regardless, I enjoyed every minute playing the game (well, outside of blitzing through the Sequels trilogy levels to get them out of the way) and was even pleased with the surprize content update after the final DLC was released.

Just... don't go into it expecting it to be like other LEGO games. They all evolve. Perhaps we'll get a Clone Wars -esque sequel that lets us play through Mando, Book of Boba, all seven seasons of Clone Wars, and other ancillary stories.

After a few years with this game in my library, and The Skywalker Saga on the way, I've found myself playing the "original" Saga more than either this or the Clone Wars one. I managed to get all of the achievements and 100% the game (with all DLC) within 32 hours of play over the course of one single month.

Contrast to the first three games (Prequel, OST, Saga) which I never completed on any hardware (Gamecube and Wii for the first two games, then PC for the OST and Saga) and am still trying to finish the last of the content in Complete Saga for once...

I'm not going to bash the game for covering "The Disney Trilogy," but it's just so... lackluster. It's a full-fledged game covering only one movie, when the other games would cover each trilogy, and the first four seasons of The Clone Wars TV show. There's just SO MUCH padding in this one. You have to play each and every moment of Force Awakens upwards of four times to get everything, or you can play through everything only twice. Collectables are far easier to get, gimmicks are inane or reused to boredom, and once you get even one power up, you may as well just consider the game completed then and there...

I think I collected all the characters required for Freeplay within five hours. And 100%'d the roster and extras within another ten. Nevermind the fact that when you get the DLC, you're automatically given all the characters from the get-go, which also means you don't NEED to collect the base game characters for freeplay, since you already have what you need through them.

It's upsides, though welcome, aren't enough to balance it out. You DO get far more freedom with the character customizer here, as you can make up to 8 figures using every part from every base game humanoid figure you've unlocked. (but you can't use parts or weapons from DLC characters). And you can make your own custom astromech in either R-series or BB series.

Final notes relate to the fact that SO MUCH of the game requires use of BB-series droids. Sure, "regular" astromechs can use the ports, but there are points where you need to use a BB to go through a small opening a la "short doors" before... but short characters can't go through them. And then there's the unskippable logos at bootup. So whenever you boot the game up, have fun watching about two minutes of the TT, Disney, and Lucasfilm logos... before you even get to the opening spiel and wait for the game to tell you to press any key/button to start.

If you're into stat management, inventory management, and crafting games, then you'll definitely enjoy this game.

You will need to not only manage your health and hunger, but also lighting, sanity, and your very tools in order to survive.

Get too hungry? Starve to death. Go insane? Shadows manifest abhorrent creatures to consume your being. Don't have light when night falls? The Matriarch of the darkness will strike when you least expect.

Couple with events, DLC, cosmetics, and a steady influx of new characters with unique abilities, strengths, and weaknesses, you can certainly tell Klei is taking care of this game.

Especially after all this time. With numerous character reworks to take these single-player oriented characters to work better with each other in a multi-player setting, new characters to bring in new play styles (and even multiple singleplayer DLC exclusive characters slowly working their way in with each rework), and all with no additional charge to the base game?

To start, I grew up playing Snood 4. In fact, I still have the exact same copy that I got for my 10th birthday.
I saw a Retro Gaming Youtuber's retrospective review, and it got me on a bit of a nostalgia trip.

Spent about ten minutes rooting around some old folders backed up from computers past, and found the old executable, still with save data from 2008. Even still has my sister's old high scores on it.

Gave it a bit of a go, and decided to add it to my Steam through the shortcut function.

Then I got curious, and noticed this was available. I didn't even check the reviews before installing it, which was short at least.
I was greeted with a "DAILY LOGIN BONUS!" of two tokens, which are now a permanent fixture in my Steam Inventory. That did not sit well.

Well, like I said, I still have my original copy of Snood 4, and this wanted me to pay $8 plus tax to register. No option to carry over a previous purchase. And because of that, it locks a lot of the game behind a paywall.

Understandable, it's been, like, fifteen years since I got this copy, but at the same time, you can still go to Snood's website and download Snood 4.

But you want to play all 50 levels of Puzzle? No. Want to take a Jouney? No.
And you have to play the lower levels to unlock higher. Play 10 Child to unlock Easy. Play 15 Easy to unlock Medium, etc.

Which brings me to the final nail in the coffin; This isn't Snood 4. This is Snood Mobile.

Again, there was a "DAILY LOGIN BONUS!" But that's not all that's been added. There are microtransactions, you need to pay for Mulligans (one-use undo), anytime you fail, you get a popup for continuing, and I would not be surprised if Puzzles were behind a paywall as well.

Oh, and you want to play more than the regular Snoods? Want the Magic Snoods that randomly appear? Too bad. You have to pay for those now.

UI-wise, it definitely shows it being a cheap mobile port.
There are no graphics settings, mouse sensitivity, volume, nothing. Literally the only "settings" you get are to leave feedback, and to turn sound off. It doesn't even have a volume slider, and the game is LOUD.

Stick with Snood 4 from the website. Don't get this hot garbage.