July 22, 2023 - Day 203 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 222

Game: Kraken Academy!!

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Sep 11, 2021
Library Date: Jul 18, 2023
Unplayed: 4d
Playtime: 24m

The fifth review for this month's Humble Choice bundle is the fifth game in the bundle; this was unintentional, but I'm not making this mistake again. I'll come back to the third game at the end of the bundle, because I'm still trying to decide what to do about it.

Kraken Academy is a... oh no, yet another retro pixel-art top-down adventure game.

I'm not going to fill up another review complaining about how retro games don't do anything for me, unless the gameplay hooks me and gets me past the visual design.

I did not get past the visual design.

The game has a lot of high-res well designed characters. They pop up in voiceover scenes to move the "action" along, but then the gameplay is back to a pixel sprites.

Kraken Academy!! is set in the titular private school, which is so run-down, it justs feels like it's missing Rick yelling at Carl about walkers.

You and your sister have been sent there, she hates you, you're there for music, one of the other students is a girl made of broccoli, named Broccoli Girl.

Smash bins to collect plastic bottles to trade in for in-game currency. Pick up quests, complete quests, which just feels like a grind to fill up the time. Apparently there's a magical kraken a little bit further into the game, but it was pretty much an exercise in clock-watching.

Kraken Academy!! feels like the filler for this month's bundle; for me it's a:

1: Nope

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Selecta Play traerá Kraken Academy en formato físico para Nintendo Switch

https://powerups.es/selecta-play-traera-kraken-academy-en-formato-fisico-para-nintendo-switch/

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