3 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.9 hrs on record
Posted: 19 May, 2022 @ 2:43pm

The hard truth about this game is that it's just a worse Jackbox game, something I'm sure someone else has already said.

Most of the questions and/or prompts given are boring and very rarely result in something I would laugh at. The game's community is also rarely funny (contrary to the game's goal) and the gameplay loop gets very repetitive, even with the option to vote for a prompt. The game refuses to feed you any info regarding votes and points until the end of the round and it doesnt clarify which option give points and how many points they give. It also lacks in some no-brainer features, such as an option to edit your response, which I found very annoying, especially in the "DRAW!" prompts.

I feel like the music could've been so much more. Nearly all the songs are just jazzier existing themes for jackfilms' existing work, which results in the music getting a bit stale after a while (at least in my experience, I've listened to his stuff to death).

I'm not a fan of the character creation tool either. A lot of general options are missing and are locked behind a fee in the game's shop and the UI for the "closet" is slightly confusing, you get used to it pretty quicky though. Also, a lot of options that are given are straight-up ugly or look off.

Something I applaud the devs for is the optimization work. This game runs flawlessly on every single piece of tech I own, from my >$2000 Gaming PC to a cheap Android tablet I bought 6 years ago. My resource usage never spiked for some arbitrary reason as well. However, I'm slightly disappointed in the lack of more video setting options, such as support for frame rates higher than 60.

And now, the community. Oh boy. As I've previously mentioned, the prompts given to you are very uninteresting, corporate and safe, which made it hard to make something interesting for an answer. However, I was not expecting for how terrible my experience on public lobbies was. Every single player I encountered was worse than the last. Most of my rounds ended with all of us having negative points and a lot of answers were cringe-worthy or just unfunny to the point I would roll my eyes.
As for private lobbies, the difference between Jackbox and this game is night and day. Jackbox isn't afraid to give a more suggestive prompt which gives you enough to make a funny answer. In this game, the most interesting prompt I got was "From which tutorial is this step? - Step 4. Atone for your sins." or something along those lines. Every 2 rounds, one of my friends would say "This is boring, let's play Jackbox.", even ones who have watched jacksfilms for a while.

Would I recommend this game? No. For how long it has been conceptualized and developed, this is a very disappointing game with its main hook unfunny, its feature set very skinny and small and its playerbase barely trying. Unless you can't find $30 in your wallet for a Jackbox Party Pack or don't have friends or access to Discord, it's not worth your time.
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