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What Works:
✅ Nostalgic Graphics: Football Game features graphics reminiscent of early 90s point-and-click games, appealing to fans of retro aesthetics.
✅ Traditional Puzzles: The game offers classic point-and-click puzzles that provide a sense of nostalgia and logical challenge.
What Doesn't:
❌ Weak Narrative: The story is simplistic, featuring shallow dialogue and a confusing climax. Interactions with secondary characters are merely narrative devices for puzzle-solving, lacking depth and engagement.
❌ Unappealing Art Style: The archaic graphics, particularly the giant floating heads used for dialogue, are more off-putting than charming.
❌ Misleading Title: Despite its name, Football Game has little to do with American football, which is neither central to the plot nor significantly relevant to the narrative.
❌ Short Gameplay: With only one or two hours of gameplay, the game quickly exhausts its content, offering little replay value.
❌ Lack of Achievements: On the Nintendo Switch, the game lacks an achievement system, diminishing its appeal for fans of Ratalaika’s typical offerings.
👟 Tommy's Quest in Football Game
Beautiful and dramatic are high school crushes. After all, under the spell of this adolescent curse, one finds themselves capable of accomplishing many things, some perhaps more questionable than others. Tommy is the star of Ratalaika’s Football Game, and he’s ready to meet the girl of his dreams no matter the cost.
🕹️ A Nostalgic Nod to 90’s Point-and-Click Adventures
The narrative combines with a small nostalgic bang, derived from graphics that recall the point-and-click games of the early 90’s, as well as the traditional puzzles of its genre. However, none of these aspects surprise at the end of the day, culminating in a package cheaper than many McDonald's or Burger King dollar meals. The story, for instance, forces Tommy to interact with secondary characters of relative interest, who are merely narrative devices to fulfil simplistic and logical puzzles Tommy needs to solve on his aforementioned quest. In terms of writing, the dialogue is shallow and simple, where the climax proves to be confusing. The artistic department, archaic and old, looks like it’s been hit by a truck, revealing itself to be more frightening than charming, especially since all dialogue is conveyed by giant floating heads.
❓ Why Football Game? The Unsolved Mystery
There is, however, a question that needs to be asked: why Football Game?. This may be the hardest puzzle to solve, as little to none of the story covers American football. Tommy once played on the main team, the Turbines, but now is not even a substitute. The meeting place for the couple is near the stadium where an important game is taking place, but this is hardly relevant to neither the narrative nor the plot. It seems that, in the end, one more puzzle remains unsolved...
🚫 A Title Not Worth the Price
After one or two hours of gameplay, Football Game showed everything it had up its sleeve. A simplistic story with weak writing, as well as graphics highly reminiscent of the 90’s. The puzzles are too logical and are tied to uninteresting characters. Thus, it is concluded that there is no reason to spend money on Football Game on the Nintendo Switch, especially since there isn’t even an achievement system to take advantage of as fans of Ratalaika’s video games know well.
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◻️ ⚠️ Review originally written for FNintendo (defunct website) and published on January 15th, 2020.
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◻️ 📜 Review Number 016
✨ F I N ✨
What Works:
✅ Nostalgic Graphics: Football Game features graphics reminiscent of early 90s point-and-click games, appealing to fans of retro aesthetics.
✅ Traditional Puzzles: The game offers classic point-and-click puzzles that provide a sense of nostalgia and logical challenge.
What Doesn't:
❌ Weak Narrative: The story is simplistic, featuring shallow dialogue and a confusing climax. Interactions with secondary characters are merely narrative devices for puzzle-solving, lacking depth and engagement.
❌ Unappealing Art Style: The archaic graphics, particularly the giant floating heads used for dialogue, are more off-putting than charming.
❌ Misleading Title: Despite its name, Football Game has little to do with American football, which is neither central to the plot nor significantly relevant to the narrative.
❌ Short Gameplay: With only one or two hours of gameplay, the game quickly exhausts its content, offering little replay value.
❌ Lack of Achievements: On the Nintendo Switch, the game lacks an achievement system, diminishing its appeal for fans of Ratalaika’s typical offerings.
👟 Tommy's Quest in Football Game
Beautiful and dramatic are high school crushes. After all, under the spell of this adolescent curse, one finds themselves capable of accomplishing many things, some perhaps more questionable than others. Tommy is the star of Ratalaika’s Football Game, and he’s ready to meet the girl of his dreams no matter the cost.
🕹️ A Nostalgic Nod to 90’s Point-and-Click Adventures
The narrative combines with a small nostalgic bang, derived from graphics that recall the point-and-click games of the early 90’s, as well as the traditional puzzles of its genre. However, none of these aspects surprise at the end of the day, culminating in a package cheaper than many McDonald's or Burger King dollar meals. The story, for instance, forces Tommy to interact with secondary characters of relative interest, who are merely narrative devices to fulfil simplistic and logical puzzles Tommy needs to solve on his aforementioned quest. In terms of writing, the dialogue is shallow and simple, where the climax proves to be confusing. The artistic department, archaic and old, looks like it’s been hit by a truck, revealing itself to be more frightening than charming, especially since all dialogue is conveyed by giant floating heads.
❓ Why Football Game? The Unsolved Mystery
There is, however, a question that needs to be asked: why Football Game?. This may be the hardest puzzle to solve, as little to none of the story covers American football. Tommy once played on the main team, the Turbines, but now is not even a substitute. The meeting place for the couple is near the stadium where an important game is taking place, but this is hardly relevant to neither the narrative nor the plot. It seems that, in the end, one more puzzle remains unsolved...
🚫 A Title Not Worth the Price
After one or two hours of gameplay, Football Game showed everything it had up its sleeve. A simplistic story with weak writing, as well as graphics highly reminiscent of the 90’s. The puzzles are too logical and are tied to uninteresting characters. Thus, it is concluded that there is no reason to spend money on Football Game on the Nintendo Switch, especially since there isn’t even an achievement system to take advantage of as fans of Ratalaika’s video games know well.
🌟 M I S C 🌟
◻️ 🌳 Visit my Linktree for more content.
◻️ ⚠️ Review originally written for FNintendo (defunct website) and published on January 15th, 2020.
◻️ 🙋♂️ Explore more reviews written by me.
◻️ 🎮 Discover Nintendo Switch video games I've played.
◻️ ✍️ Reviewed in European Portuguese.
◻️ 📜 Review Number 016
✨ F I N ✨