THE UNFUNNY TRASH-SCHOOL DAYS
It's Trash Game Review Time and Lea knows it.
"It's educational?! I don't wanna be educated! I wanna rot my brain!"
- James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd)
Edutainment...A genre that most people consider dead and forgotten since that's what school's for: Educate. Games made their contribution to the genre like Sonic's Schoolhouse and Mario's Missing!, most of the times with hideous results leading to mockery on the 'net which led to their demise and apparent forget, until Webtainment made this fragment of idiocy.
Yeah, for 1 dollar and 50 cents, your PS4 can teach math to the kids with not one, but two trash math games: Quick Mafs, and Quick Mafs Advanced (I feel sorry for any child who's subject to these games). The first Quick Mafs features four modes: Plus, Minus, Multiplication and "Kids", the last one is very simple mathematic for the younger audiences, while Advanced features "Modulo", "Division" and "Advanced". Modulo is based on percentage and Advanced combines plus, minus, multplication and division. That's all the gameplay; solve randomly generated mathematic operations. You can skip any operation, even those from Kids difficulty. The game simply doesn't care if you're skipping (Cheating) and it will give you the trophies as if you answered them right. So, it GREATLY fails on its purpose as an educational game with this "advantage". There's no motivation or REASONS to play these two games. No happy animations for correct answers, no "Try again" if you fail, no nothing. Zero encouragement for the family unless you're going for the trophies for doing 50 operations of each category.
Audiovisually is vomit-grade Adobe Flash drawings that tries to be kid-friendly, but they look like horrendous. I've saw more kid friendly artwork on Fisher-Price Firehouse Rescue, y'know, the infamous circus music playing fire fighter maze game?. As for the music in Quick Mafs, its so bad is almost unexistant. But to sum things up, I'll let a quote from Seanbaby from his Sunday Funday review do the job.
Seanbaby wrote:When you were a toddler and drew a picture of your mom with 17 fingers, green hair, and a body that looked like a melted turd, she loved it. It was a terrible drawing in every way possible, but she loved it and called it cute because you were three. This game is as bad as a 17-fingered drawing, only the people who made it are not three.
Thanks for those words.
Please, in the name of God, Humanity, Earth, the Bydo Empire and anything and anyone you can possibly imagine or think about, be sure these will not be your child's very first video games. You'll be definitely regretting it.
This equation of idiocy made Emilie cry.