My daughter calls this "The Prank Game" and absolutely loves to play it with me. It's one of her favorite video games to play with me, as our special time together. On its own, I love it too. Very few prank-themed games.
My daughter calls this "The Prank Game" and absolutely loves to play it with me. It's one of her favorite video games to play with me, as our special time together. On its own, I love it too. Very few prank-themed games.
I loved the light hearted humor in this game. Great point & click adventure game for those who like a good sense of humor & a fantastic adventure!
Good, but not $25 Good. Far from Great, even though the Art/Audio is Great. Game Design is overdone. They tried so hard to make this game overly difficult, that it hurt the game design... without making it more difficult! 1. Got repetitive too quickly. Did not get very many hours out of this before it became too repetitive. Worth $10-$15, but definitely not $25. 2. Artificial Difficulty Gone Overboard. This game tries to be difficult so hard. If you play it, you will understand what I mean by "They are trying too hard." It's not actually that difficult, just needlessly oppressive. 3. Balance Issues. In terms of game balance; Some abilities are entirely useless, while certain setups are extremely overpowered. For example, all abilities to reduce stress are pretty much useless to use, especially in the longer dungeons. By using a stress reduction ability, you get anywhere from -3 to -8 stress, and then immediately gain +8 to +20 stress because you didn't use a better ability instead, such as an overpowered stun or a superior attack (anything is better, really.) If your character is already insane, the only way to reduce stress (you'd think) is by using a stress reducing class/ability. Wrong. In any one battle, if one person is already at 100% stress (which is very easy sometimes), even if you spam 2 stress reducing abilities over & over, you will gain a significant amount of stress even after reductions. The superior path is always just to stun-lock the enemies while you slowly kill them. "How many stuns can I get in my party?" along with "Which of the 2 OP healers should I take?" There are plenty of strategies to make every "difficulty" entirely pointless. Your characters can die, but it's almost pointless for them to because they are so easily replaceable...So who cares? A single dungeon run with a disposable party (where you just retreat the moment you can't do anything anymore) will give you enough money to replace any heroes & all upgrades very easily.
I was excited about this game, given its unique theme and non-violent gameplay. Unfortunately by the time you learn how to play the game well, it is already too repetitive and boring. The game is pretty easy once you understand how to play, but pretty difficult up until that point. It isn't a difficult game, but one that is unintuitive to learn. (Now idea why they call your main resources "Sanity". It is just a number for your overall food/supplies. They could have at least referred to it as Morale instead.) Expect about 8 hours total of this game before it gets boring & repetitive. About 4 of those hours will be learning how the game wants you to play so you don't lose immediately, so you'll get about 4 hours of good, solid enjoyment total. Updates are slow & shallow. They also claim to fix bugs that still exist, and I mean bad bugs. Bugs that make it impossible to win or destroy your save if you pause during the final level. They also delete your save upon loading the game, rather than upon death. (I'm a professional programmer and that's a big technical no-no; So I am skeptical the programmer knows what he is doing. Even a novice knows not to do such bad technical design.) 4 hours for a $15 title? No thanks. Avoid until it's only sale for like $2.
