trancejeremy said:
It's not a ripoff of Warioware - it's apparently based off of Groove Jigoku V, a PS1 game from 1998 which almost no one played (including me, thus "apparently")
I have GJV. WTF isn't even a sequel, per se, since half of the minigames were in GJV as well. Right down to the same exact sprites.
Musashi Wins! said:
It has a series of "games" where you are rewarded by completing menial tasks with a paycheck that you then spend on funny trinkets. More boring games open up, etc. When I say tedious, I mean like cap a 1000 pens, or catch a 1000 grounders in a NES Baseball clone, etc. Things which wouldn't be particularly fun once or twice, but go on forever without much variation between them. It's not fun. It's an oddity.
To be fair to the game, though...it's quite clear that you haven't spent any time with it. The pen-capping and the baseball games are among the 4 you have from the beginning. You aren't even close to unlocking the really fun ones.
Yes, most of the minigames are horribly boring (and that's the point), true, but I'm just saying.
It's funny, though. This game is unreviewable. I mean, the point of it was to make boring minigames. In other words, they didn't fail at what they set out to do. Do you compare it to other games or do you review it by what it was meant to be? Is a piece of satire supposed to be rated on how "fun" it is? **** Electroplankton,
this is where lines start to blur.
Another thing worthy of noting before you criticize WTF is that it's part of japanese thing called "kusoge" (shitty games). You know how we westerners rent low-budget and crappy movies for the fun factor? Yeah, same thing but for games. Meaning WTF is the videogame equivalent of Snakes on a Plane or Darkplace, and I think it succeeds brilliantly. I laughed a lot when I played BH2000.
Edit: This thread gets bonus points because "Total Hardcore Gamer" is the least hardcore gamer in this thread. Funny stuff.
