Only people with horrible fashion sense and feathered hair are allowed to play.
One must play this game with other people. It's the only way to draw any sort of entertainment from it. With friends, you can laugh at the game, belittling its ability to try and bring any sort of amusement into your day. Without friends, you're sitting by yourself on a Sunday afternoon with a cup of coffee, wondering where your life went wrong. Why am I playing a game that forces me, a man, to play as a pair of high heels? Are the drawings that this game projects actually drawings, or just evil Satanic verses? What other foul horrors await me from this game, let alone this cursed quest?
Anticipation is no different from its video board game brethren, in that the game gets old fast, but at least other games like Monopoly or Risk carry some inherent appeal in their gameplay. Anticipation's only real goal is to guess what the computer is crudely (and I do mean crudely - profanely, even) drawing. You start off as a pair of high heels, a teddy bear, a trumpet, or a melted ice cream cone, and are rudely cast onto a board that's made up of four colors, pink, blue, yellow, and green. Each color represents a category - Leisure, Natural, "Insert Vague Category Name Here," etc. - and you must guess a drawing correctly from all four colors to proceed to the next level. That's really all there is to the game. The only bit of pleasure comes from getting the right answer, because very few drawings look like what they're actually supposed to be. Luckily, after some play-time, your eyes will adjust to Anticipation's level of crappiness and you will probably be able to guess most of the early drawings. But woe to those who get to level 2 and encounter the category "Whatchamacallit." It attempts to cleverly combine two pictures into one saying or thing - one of the examples being the word "Captain" followed by a drawing of a log - but because the drawings are so crude, it's almost impossible to get the correct answer; even the two computer opponents I played with didn't get them, which makes me wonder if they're even answerable.
I don't want to go into game mechanics. Everything works like it should because it's really simple, and I've already complained about the poor graphics...
::cough::
... you know what? No, I want to complain some more. Do not make a game where the gameplay hinges upon the computer's ability to render something poorly. I know that the "poor drawings" are kind of the point: otherwise, where would the challenge lie? But it should be possible to create a challenging and enjoyable video board game without intentionally worsening (is that a word?) the NES' graphical capabilities. Unless you have a bunch of buddies and your only goal in life is to drink copious amounts of Natural Light and play crappy NES gameshow/board games, then this game should not be in your future.
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Anticipation is no different from its video board game brethren, in that the game gets old fast, but at least other games like Monopoly or Risk carry some inherent appeal in their gameplay. Anticipation's only real goal is to guess what the computer is crudely (and I do mean crudely - profanely, even) drawing. You start off as a pair of high heels, a teddy bear, a trumpet, or a melted ice cream cone, and are rudely cast onto a board that's made up of four colors, pink, blue, yellow, and green. Each color represents a category - Leisure, Natural, "Insert Vague Category Name Here," etc. - and you must guess a drawing correctly from all four colors to proceed to the next level. That's really all there is to the game. The only bit of pleasure comes from getting the right answer, because very few drawings look like what they're actually supposed to be. Luckily, after some play-time, your eyes will adjust to Anticipation's level of crappiness and you will probably be able to guess most of the early drawings. But woe to those who get to level 2 and encounter the category "Whatchamacallit." It attempts to cleverly combine two pictures into one saying or thing - one of the examples being the word "Captain" followed by a drawing of a log - but because the drawings are so crude, it's almost impossible to get the correct answer; even the two computer opponents I played with didn't get them, which makes me wonder if they're even answerable.
I don't want to go into game mechanics. Everything works like it should because it's really simple, and I've already complained about the poor graphics...
::cough::
... you know what? No, I want to complain some more. Do not make a game where the gameplay hinges upon the computer's ability to render something poorly. I know that the "poor drawings" are kind of the point: otherwise, where would the challenge lie? But it should be possible to create a challenging and enjoyable video board game without intentionally worsening (is that a word?) the NES' graphical capabilities. Unless you have a bunch of buddies and your only goal in life is to drink copious amounts of Natural Light and play crappy NES gameshow/board games, then this game should not be in your future.
D-
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