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Okay, I have 10 hours in this game currently, and the more I play it, the more I can understand critiques for ‘Let Me Finish’ in particular, but a 27% positive rating on Steam genuinely baffles me. Here’s what I think of the pack after playing it with three different groups:
Fakin’ It! All Night Long:
I don’t think there’s any denying that this version of Fakin’ It is vastly superior in pretty much every conceivable way. That’s the one thing most people can agree on. Remote Play not only makes it way more accessible, but is also a much faster, and more intuitive mode for displaying player answers so they don’t have to remember everyone’s actions (except Thumb Shot) and allowing time for the Faker to discern whether their answer will get them in trouble shortly before everyone else can see it.
The original Fakin’ It used to be among my least favourites with immense anxiety as the faker when being silently judged for 9 whole seconds before even being able to defend your answer with Same Room gameplay. But with both the Remote Play mode, and the naughty prompts really defining a target set of expectations, along with these prompts being on average more opinion based, the riskier prompts in this version ironically make me feel more comfortable playing this version as the faker.
8.5/10
Dirty Drawful.
The game said it. It’s Drawful but dirty. It’s hard to describe, but this is simultaneously the best version of Drawful, and the worst version of Drawful. Let me explain.
Here’s why it’s the best version of Drawful: Each player now has an additional colour to work with. There’s also a new ‘reroll prompt’ button in the drawing phase. Pacing is generally faster in most areas, animation is no longer here (thank God) and the real reason why this is the best version of Drawful: an ‘undo’ button (which can also be turned off via a special setting.) Due to the less filtered nature of the prompts, lying is also generally a lot easier in this version as well. Emotes are also here, and they can prove to be fun… in small doses at least.
And here’s why it’s the worst. The removal of the ‘Make Your Own’ mode and ‘Friend Mode’ from Drawful Animate. The more I think about it, the more reasons there are to not add these modes to this Dirty version of Drawful, but I do miss them. Secondly is… also the emotes. If you play this game with the wrong group, particularly online, the emote spam can get quite annoying due to each emote having their own unique sound effect. You can turn down SFX volume in the settings, but I would appreciate a setting that targets the volume of emotes specifically.
In short, this is easily the best version of Drawful as a base game, but in terms of a full package with extra modes and content, Drawful 2 and Animate are superior when talking exclusively about that metric.
8/10
Let Me Finish:
The brand new game. The presentation-debate game where you argue your points on weird raunchy arguments. Usually about object anatomy or kink analysis.
We’ve never seen a real debate Jackbox game like this before, and it handles the turn-based argument structure of the game really well, and forces players to be creative in ways we’ve never seen from Jackbox before. Arguing is simply just fun, especially when handling inconsequential opinions. But if there’s one thing that brings this game down, it’s the lack of variety in prompts, with a dash of cringe-factor.
Each image has three accompanying prompts, levelling from NICE, to NAUGHTY, to NASTY. The problem is, you’ll only be seeing one ‘NICE’ prompt in one game, and if you play again with the same players, you won’t see any ‘NICE’ prompts for the rest of the session. Singular ‘whereis’ images suffer the most from lack of variety, and most prompts from these images boil down to ‘locate the butt, locate the penis, locate the vagina, locate the titties.’ When most singular images boil down to those prompts, it’s a massive breath of fresh air to get a ‘dress-up’ prompt or something else.
‘Lineup’ images suffer less from this issue, and as such are a lot more engaging as these mainly focus on personality analysis, but are still mostly sexual.
The argument aspects of this game are really fun, and have produced the most laughs out of all games in this pack in my experience, but the prompt variety isn’t as much as you’d like. I’d like to see this game get some extra prompts that are edgy, but not necessarily sexy.
Still a pretty fun time, but I wouldn’t play multiple games of this in a row.
7/10
A couple more things I’d like to point out. This is an adult pack, and to force the players to be naughty while still being fun is something that very few existing Jackbox games can do. To everyone asking for a dirty Quiplash or a dirty Trivia Murder Party, what you are looking for is adult DLC. One of these games is too open-ended to work as an exclusively naughty sequel, and the other is a trivia game, and limiting the trivia to just things about sexual anatomy, obscure kinks and drag queens narrows the appeal of the game tenfold. I promise you, if either of these games got naughty-specific sequels, you would hate them more than the games in this pack. Please take more than three seconds to think about why your proposed naughty-sequel could work. Most of them don’t, believe me, I’ve spent a long time thinking about this.
Secondly, this pack is waaaay better in person, or with people you know. Fakin’ It ANL requires you to know your players, and Let Me Finish requires you to be confident with speaking. If you only play these games online with strangers, you won’t find much value here. (hmmm maybe that’s why this pack is getting review bombed, maybe all these other reviewers are chronically online minors)
Thirdly, not only does this pack have a very specific target audience, this pack also has the worst price-per-game ratio from a Jackbox pack to date. Still way more efficient than buying standalones, but I digress. So when considering this pack, ask yourself how much do you want an intimate naughty pack?
All this to say, these are the reasons this pack is getting review-bombed; and quite frankly, it doesn’t deserve any of it (apart from maybe the price thing, I can get behind that.) You knew from the start that this pack had a specific target audience. And if you’re not the target audience, what authority do you have to clown on this pack for reasons that this pack shouldn’t have to consider? You are allowed to be negative in these reviews, but please think critically about why you think what you think, and if your reasons even apply to this pack as an adult package. Especially if you're reviewing after less than an hour of play. Play through all of the games so that you actually know what you're talking about.
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