![]() New in Tee K.O 2 is the ability to instead design hoodies or tank tops, not that this has that much impact that I could gauge in terms of final votes or appeal. But then… all of that was in Tee K.O already. Humour is required, because everyone votes on the best T-Shirts, and the easiest way to stand out is to make people laugh at their audacity. The good news is that Tee K.O 2 is still a lot of fun, because that central idea can be downright hilarious, if a little on the filthy side with many groups.ĭrawing talent is not a pre-requisite, and it’s often the really bad drawings that make the funniest T-shirts. This one tasks you with drawing designs and writing T-shirt logos, then designing shirts based on a random jumble of (mostly) your opponent’s drawings and logo ideas. ![]() Most players are probably the most keen to get to grips with Tee K.O 2, because the original Tee K.O is such a standout game in the Jackbox series. It’s very well implemented, but again, this is almost table stakes fare for Jackbox. The closest to that year gets the fewest points, and, like Uno, the objective is to be the player with the lowest score at the end. The hook here is that most of the questions relate to a timeline you’re given a historical event and have to pick the year it happened. Time Jinx takes us out of the doldrum titles, thankfully, and into an area where Jackbox games have a lot of experience, namely trivia. While some in my test group did really rather like the idea, it’s been done better elsewhere, I feel. This does get better once you get past the turgid tutorial, but it’s rather odd on its scoring and timing input lag issues can also leave some players frustrated. It’s easily the weakest game in Jackbox Party Pack 10.ĭodoremi is… well, it’s Guitar Hero with the serial numbers filed off and the rock instruments replaced with mostly wacky ones. The idea is reasonable, but the implementation, clues and explanations are far from it in more than a few games my review group worked out the details long before the game was up, robbing it of any real humour or fun. You’re not meant to say what it is to the other players, but you are meant to hint so that you can then sort yourself into groups, bearing in mind that one player will be an outlier in a category by themselves. Hypnotorious is a social deduction/quiz game where the gimmick is that you’re given a character or item that fits into a category. ![]() Still, it makes the most sense in working out whether it’s worth your while investing in them. As such, I’m going to rank each of the new games in Jackbox Party Pack 10 in reverse quality order based on my own testing with a couple of quite different groups while explaining them, which isn’t the usual style, I know. A good group can get through a mediocre game, but a bad group won’t even make the star games shine that brightly. Think old-school parlour games, but with an online twist.Ī big part of the problem with reviewing a game (or, really, a collection of social mini-games) like Jackbox Party Pack 10 is that so much of the enjoyment comes from the social aspect rather than the specific games themselves. If you’re in no way familiar with the Jackbox Party Pack series (where have you been?), the idea is that they’re social group games that you play via one device each – a smartphone is best – while a central PC, PS5, Xbox or Switch runs the actual games that you play. There are some great individual games in many packs… but also more than a few duds. The Jackbox games grew out of the classic You Don’t Know Jack Trivia games and over the years the quality has definitely waxed and waned, so I approached Jackbox Party Pack 10 with a fair degree of trepidation. Sure, I couldn’t go outside, or overseas, or even to the supermarket nearby – the latter because the shelves were more often than not bare – but I could extend my socialisation beyond my cats through countless games of Drawful, Fibbage, Tee KO and Quiplash, often in ways that would draw the ire of libel lawyers if they became public, and frequently featuring a character called “Spiderbunny” in a fictional theme park whose name I cannot mention in public, both for reasons of public decency and fear of the libel lawyers. Related reading: Many years ago we reviewed the very first Party Pack. ![]() The other (without exaggeration) were the Jackbox Party Pack games. One was my family, and a careful consideration of hygiene and risks in equal measure. Exactly two things got me through the darkest days of the pandemic.
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