Joey is obsessed (for this week at least) with Bakugon, so I thought I'd make an effort to understand the game underlying the product line. Joey doesn't understand it either, but I thought if one of us did, we could have more fun.
Right away, I am perplexed by things that I imagine kids just blow right over. The video says "Bakugon represent six important attributes," and then list six funny made up names. How do you "represent" an "attribute"? Based on other things Joey watched, I think they mean that there are six kinds of Bakugon. But they might mean that each Bakugon has six properties that you need to keep track of. Why is this so ambiguous? For all the fancy animation, did they not bother to get a good translation of the original game instructions?
Other comments: I don't want to show Joey these instructional videos, because he's going to want to buy too many things. Also, he will want to simply watch the video repeatedly with me. And then he'll want another movie. And then he'll want to spend the day watching Youtube videos.
At least the don't insist that the kid who wins the game gets to keep the other kid's toys.
So what is the smallest amount of money I can spend and still have enough plastic crap to sit down and play a game of Bakugon with my son?
Bakucoin? There is a Bakucoin? What does that do?
Ok, if you buy a Bakutriad pack you get 3 Bakugon, three gate cards, and three ability cards, which is enough for one side of a Bakugon battle. If we purchased two of these, we'd have enough for a game. Next question: If we scoured the house and sorted through all the plastic crap would we find this much Bakugon paraphernalia?
Baku = explode
Gan = sphere.
And again, it is hard to tell what exactly you are purchasing, if you try to buy the product on Ebay.
If we went to Target or Toys 'r' us to get Bakugon, we could make it a fun expedition what would get the kids out of Mom's hair for several hours. But we'd probably wind up buying more crap than we wanted.
Do we even want to go down this route? The game is designed to encourage you to buy more crap.
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Ooh, don't go there. The always-need-just-this-one-more-oh-and-that-one-too games are the worst. My son always wants more cars and more Star Wars toys, but at least there is no competitive reason for him to have any particular piece. So I can say "Pfft, you have enough already" and he has no argument like "But I need X so I can beat Joey the next time we play."
Those Pokemon fiends are the worst. All those "collectible card games" seem to be addictive. Glad my son never had an interest in them.
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