Pretty basic adventure game. Brevity works in its favour.
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I'd been meaning to check out more of Cloak and Daggers' games after liking The Excavation of Hob's Barrow so much last year, and finally got around to giving "Football Game" a go.
The atmosphere and music were cool, but most everything else fell a bit short. It unfortunately managed to feel slowly paced, despite only being a bit over an hour long. The puzzles were mostly ok, but just not that interesting. The majority of the game was spent finding a way to leave your house and then doing some errands for high schoolers. The narrative was of the 'purposefully vague so you can go back and piece things together' variety, but it just didn't quite work for me here. I needed a bit more to make me care about Football Game -- adding in some extra dialogue to build up the characters and fill out the plot just a bit more would have gone a long way.
At the end of the day, it just felt a little underbaked. Not bad enough to dissuade me from checking out Cloak and Daggers other games, but not really worth the hour either.
The atmosphere and music were cool, but most everything else fell a bit short. It unfortunately managed to feel slowly paced, despite only being a bit over an hour long. The puzzles were mostly ok, but just not that interesting. The majority of the game was spent finding a way to leave your house and then doing some errands for high schoolers. The narrative was of the 'purposefully vague so you can go back and piece things together' variety, but it just didn't quite work for me here. I needed a bit more to make me care about Football Game -- adding in some extra dialogue to build up the characters and fill out the plot just a bit more would have gone a long way.
At the end of the day, it just felt a little underbaked. Not bad enough to dissuade me from checking out Cloak and Daggers other games, but not really worth the hour either.
Stinky Platinum obtained in 2 hours. Use a guide for collectables. A weird story that is a little entertaining for a Stinky Platinum.
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Those expecting sports action should turn away - this is a 1990s-style adventure game which at no moment engages the player in any kind of football whatsoever. That said, Football Game does not stand out as either a puzzle or an adventure game. With a dull, uninteresting plot and characters and puzzles which are way too simplistic, Football Game quickly loses its purpose and won't do much for those who will feel attracted by its graphics.
👉opencritic SUMMARY
Football Game on the Nintendo Switch isn't what its name suggests - in the sense that there is no football action at all, whether association football or gridiron. This is rather a simplistic take on 1990s adventure games, with puzzles related to each character. Unfortunately, Football Game does not succeed in delivering what it promises. Its puzzles are too simplistic, the plot is not involving or compelling, the characters are devoid of charisma and other than a visual environment that appeals to 16-bit era enthusiasts, there's really not much to take from this.
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Those expecting sports action should turn away - this is a 1990s-style adventure game which at no moment engages the player in any kind of football whatsoever. That said, Football Game does not stand out as either a puzzle or an adventure game. With a dull, uninteresting plot and characters and puzzles which are way too simplistic, Football Game quickly loses its purpose and won't do much for those who will feel attracted by its graphics.
👉opencritic SUMMARY
Football Game on the Nintendo Switch isn't what its name suggests - in the sense that there is no football action at all, whether association football or gridiron. This is rather a simplistic take on 1990s adventure games, with puzzles related to each character. Unfortunately, Football Game does not succeed in delivering what it promises. Its puzzles are too simplistic, the plot is not involving or compelling, the characters are devoid of charisma and other than a visual environment that appeals to 16-bit era enthusiasts, there's really not much to take from this.
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◻️ ⚠️ Review originally written for FNintendo (defunct website) and published on January 15th, 2020. Full review is currently unavailable. Expect restored written piece translated into English.
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◻️ 🙋♂️ Also tap here to find more reviews of mine
◻️ 🎮 And touch here to discover more Nintendo Switch video games I've played
◻️ ✍️ in European Portuguese (Main body of text translated into English with A.I.)
◻️ 📜 Review Number 16
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Unha aventura das que tentan levar a narración de videoxogos a outro nivel. Unha pequena historia que parece beber do Lynch da época de Blue Velvet ou Twin Peaks onde xiramos arredor da perda, do duelo e do alcoholismo.
Non é que sexa moi complexa como aventura gráfica e todo é demasiado evidente nese senso, pero compénsase cunha perspectiva narrativa que deixa moitas cousas abertas.
A ambientación nun instituto dos 80, por certo, funciona moi ben co apartado gráfico.
Non é que sexa moi complexa como aventura gráfica e todo é demasiado evidente nese senso, pero compénsase cunha perspectiva narrativa que deixa moitas cousas abertas.
A ambientación nun instituto dos 80, por certo, funciona moi ben co apartado gráfico.
Started nice, ended with the basic story ever
Grandiosa idea entorpecida (un poco) por una ejecución "Justita". Curiosamente aunque el grueso del juego es tomarte por puto recadero, no se alarga ni un minuto y, honestamente, resulta agradable ver un juego que sabe cuándo acabar.
Not a lot to do here, story's starts promising but ends very rapidly
Confusing ending, but fine.
Fifa is better.