It begins with players all solving different problems, and then the final round has everyone trying to solve the same problem. What’s great is the players get a random phrase “problem” from someone else (I never have enough time to EAT GUMBO! ), and then they draw a product to solve the problem, and stick it with a clever name and tagline. Secondly is Patently Stupid, a party game where players take turns creating products to solve problems. It’s not my favorite way to end the game, but You Don’t Know Jack is still my go-to favorite, and I’m so happy to have new versions of the game. Otherwise players way out in front can just go button crazy and still win the game. Basically the game will need to be really tight for this to be any sort of tie breaker. If you’re doing math at home, that means a guaranteed 1500 points just for mashing all the answers. Moreover, you get 1000 points for a correct answer and -500 for a wrong. In this new format, however, players have all the time in the world, usually able to view all six choices for the topic at once if they’re patient, and then weigh in. In previous iterations, it was more of a single chance thing where you have only a second to decide if something is right or not. The Jack Attack, the final round in which a player has to pick the correct answers from a flying swarm of phrases to match a single idea, is, well, disappointing. It’s a bit of an unfair move, but You Don’t Know Jack is all about unfair moves. However, with Party Pack 5, the Screw also delivers a MASSIVE screen of terms and conditions that the other player has to frantically scroll through and agree to before being able to answer, making it almost a surefire chance that the player doing the Screwing will achieve victory.
Starting in Round two, the player who’s running a bit behind in points can use a Screw to force another player to answer. The Screw is something totally different nowadays, adding some additional pressure on top of the normal effect. Question wise is all great, with returning categories like Dis or Dat to help break up the simple “choose one of four”| standard style. The questions are all new and fresh, and Cookie Masterson is sufficiently sarcastic and also exasperated at needing to kowtow and agree with the random voice overs from Binjpipe’s corporate entity.
#THE JACKBOX PARTY PACK 5 GENRES SERIES#
The result is having the interface look a bit like a Hulu/Netflix knockoff, with each question being selected from a series of “streaming now” videos, all of which have bizarre and hilarious titles. This time, You Don’t Know Jack is set against the backdrop of being sponsored by a fake streaming service called BinjPipe (with a surprisingly real website ). The original trivia game of oddly phrased questions with a plethora of answers is back, along with a fresh take on the Screw and the Jack Attack. It’s not enough to make for a shift in the overall software’s score, but it was a bummer nonetheless.Īnyways, here are the games in order of awesome, starting with, interestingly, You Don’t Know Jack. At least the original Jackbox allowed for offline, one person You Don’t Know Jack, and that’s simply not the case here. Two of the games specifically mention that they have single player modes, but those are moot when you need to have your smartphone and an internet connection in order to achieve solo gaming. However, you also need a connection to play by yourself, and that is where I take a bit of umbrage. No worries, maybe there’ll be some kind of hardware solution eventually, but, until then, you need a connection before other people can play anything. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Jackbox Party Pack 5.īefore delving into the individual games, I wanted to say that I’m still bummed Jackbox hasn’t figured out some kind of offline, ad hoc direct connect for people looking to play on the go, but I do understand that it’s mostly impossible with the Switch’s infrastructure. Jackbox, sensing a bit of the change of tides, decided to go back to the drawing board and come up with a great new set of ideas (and one old idea that hasn’t been seen in ages). Now, I won’t say that Jackbox Party Pack 4 was a bad entry to the series (definitely not), but it was one of the weaker entries, getting a lot of its strength from a further iteration of Fibbage. As time marches onward, Jackbox has to keep reinventing themselves, bringing new concepts to the screen as their Jackbox Party Pack series adapts and adjusts to feedback from previous iterations. Watching it turn from a simple trivia game that insulted the players to this incredibly innovative take on co-op and party gaming makes me happy, especially since I thought the company was dead in the water around the 2000s. Jackbox will always, always produce something that I jump at the opportunity to play.
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