Game review: Adoraboos is free and that’s the best thing about it
Game review: Adoraboos is free and that’s the best thing about it
Game review: Adoraboos is free and that’s the best thing about it
By Jack Martin
September 10, 2020
Summary
The game comes from an "Award-winning game studio", and was designed to help relieve the education crisis which has developed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 'learning' involved essentially revolves around memorizing definitions for a number of topic-related words and phrases.
"There isn't really any inclination to read the definition other than to learn, but as teenagers we can't really be bothered with that."
If only the game developers had access to a teenage nephew that they could have used for user testing and quality control ....The game gives bonus points for any matching icons over and above the number of letters in the word.
If you didn't read the description in the last game and/or don't know the words then this can be quite difficult, especially for longer words.
You are given a word along with its definition cut into chunks.
The definitions are so clumsy that I would again question whether there is much useful learning going on.
This is the only thing that gives the game any kind of difficulty curve, as all of a sudden you will face Adoraboos who burst five or more of your balloons at a time.
Learning definitions can be a good way to understand a topic, as I discovered when I reviewed Decoding Digital's What is Cryptocurrency.
Erm... Adoraboos is at least free and you won't waste any money by trying it.
Reference
Martin, J. (2020, September 09). Game review: Adoraboos is free and that's the best thing about it. Retrieved September 12, 2020, from https://cointelegraph.com/news/game-review-adoraboos-is-free-and-thats-the-best-thing-about-it