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jp's Slingo Quest (DS)
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| [December 12, 2022 05:02:54 PM]
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What is this game about? Like, from reading the back of the box it didn't make any sense to me. It's not Bingo, but it's sort of like bingo?
Ok, now I have a better idea - having played the first two complete areas of the quest part of slingo quest. I mean, it's all variations on the same game, which is a sort of variation of bingo - and the game is almost entirely luck-driven. Skill-wise it helps if your pattern recognition paired with reflexes are "good" (fast) and that's about it, really.
The point of the game is to complete the entire board in X number of turns (spins in the game's lingo). The board is 5x5 and each column has a random assortment of numbers in a range. So, the higher numbers are in the right-most column and the lowest ones in the left-most (I'm not sure what the range is entirely, I'd wildly guess the numbers go from 1-100 with the first column covering 1-20, the next 21-30, or something like that, actually from looking at a screenshot on the back of the box I can see that's not right, but imagine something like that). At the bottom of each column is a number that "spins" (all the numbers spin) and the idea is to match what appears on the bottom with a number in your slingo card. There's no skill here other than tapping the number on the card (up to five numbers if you're really lucky!) when it matches one on the spinner at the bottom.
And, that's it. Mostly. There are sometimes wild cards on the spinner. Or special powers - but everything pretty much triggers automatically and you don't really have much choice. I mean, even when you get a wild card, the choice is obvious - go with whatever gives you the highest score.
So, what's the point?
Well, as I played I noticed that it is still fun - like playing slots can be fun, no? No agency, but definitely expectation and anticipation and that kind of stuff. The strangest feature in the game for me is that at the end of the island (the themed areas in the game) you have to "fight a boss" - basically get a higher score than an AI opponent while playing on a shared board. Again, no real agency - but I did find myself hoping my opponent would not get the numbers I wanted to get and so on.
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jp's Slingo Quest (DS)
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Current Status: Stopped playing - Got Bored
GameLog started on: Wednesday 7 December, 2022
GameLog closed on: Monday 12 December, 2022 |
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