This was a surprise video, we only learnt of the game’s existence the other day and it only came out this afternoon. I do feel however that I’ve played enough to determine whether it’s worth your hard earned £12.99 though.
As ever, I show you a game and then you can decide for yourself. Do stick around to the end for an old-school Bother’s Bar reference.
Or make some words, whatever. The system’s quite clever to be fair, although you work bottom to top rather than the other way around to make the Connect 4 thing work.
It’s not out yet, but more details are on the John Adams site.
Out Thursday on Switch! £12.99! Video very likely!
“STAAARRRRRR, that’s what you wanted!” So sang Kiki Dee back in the day (which was also the theme to Bob Says Opportunity Knocks of course). It’s also highly relevant to the Mario Party series where the aim is to go round the board buying stars with the coins earned from regular minigames. It’s basically Raven, but the first one predates Raven.
Always the one with the FRESHEST consumer advice, the latest game in the series Super Mario Party released on Switch in late 2018 however it’s only very recently they added the option to play the actual board game element online, having been limited to a few minigames previously. Today myself, Matt Clemson and Alex McMillan try it out. We were pleasantly surprised by the lack of obvious lag (although it would have been interesting to try it with someone in another continent), I was less pleasantly surprised by being horrifically picked on. WHO WILL WIN?
Lots of stuff starting to emerge about The American Song Contest coming to NBC next year. That it’ll be awful is probably a given.
However some stuff has come out regarding the format that’s a bit more interesting.
“There will be a series of qualifying heats to determine which states and territories move forward, followed by March Madness-style semi-finals and the ultimate grand final where the winner will be crowned.”
This does not sound like the Eurovision. It does, however, sound very much like Melodifestivalen, Sweden’s extremely popular national song selection competition, but I guess that doesn’t quite have the same brand recognition.
