This week’s excitement is German, it’s on Amazon Prime, it’s an eliminatory quiz where all the answers are either “yes” or “no” in 24 incredible virtual worlds. And you can watch it!
But I wouldn’t bother. If you had said Yes or No Games was a 15 minute kids Saturday morning quiz segment you might go “oh well OK then”, but then you realise adults are playing it for large amounts of money and Amazon have put lots of money into it and… blimey. The tech doesn’t even look all that impressive, the worlds are mildly diverting, but on screen it’s not much better than green screen, the longer you watch the less impressive it feels, I can only imagine what the contestants are seeing that they seem to think is wonderful.
You get four questions in half an hour. Answers automatically locking out once half the players have selected it is a vaguely nice touch.
In other news, we must be about due the next tranche of Netflix’s What We Just Watched stats.