Hot Potato!

"A depressing tale of genocide and its smiling victims..."

Hello folks, Nyghtsaber here. I am writing this review in hopes that maybe...MAYBE somewhere in the world, some poor soul will decide not to play this downright depressing game. Yeah. It's a GBA game. Maybe you can buy it at your store. DONT.

Story- Not Present/10

This game has no story. None. Zip. Apparently...you take control of some weird sentient yellow... cart thingy. On the SYCT are...blue,red, and occasionally green creatures. I guess if you go off the games title...these creatures are potatoes... Well, you and your sentient cart of... "potato" carrying are on a mission. Yes, a mission to... I don't know.

Graphics- No Comment/10

Ughhh...this game has very odd graphics. I can tell from the fluid animation of the sprites that the game must have been hand drawn. Your SYCT has cartoony rotating eyes, and it sputters smoke out of the back. The "potatoes" are quite fluidly animated, doing the varied rediculous things that they do. Yes, that means inflating themselves, eating some weird yellow things, stamping idly, smiling, etc. And to top it off, the creatures dont resemble potatoes in the slightest. They look more like... bags of goo with a pumpkin stem attached to the top of it. Bottom line is, the graphics are terrible. I wont say that they are TOO bad, because it's obvious that the artist went through the trouble of animating the games token creature...

Controls/Gameplay- Very Simple/10

This game has very simple controls and gameplay. Very simple controls and gameplay. So simple that this game belongs on NES. The goal is to send any blue potatoes/red potatoes up the screen and have them meet potatoes of their same color. Then they explode and die. Every now and then you get a green potato that will just kill anything in his path...he's running with a rolling pin. This is all you do for the entire game.

Sound- Bad/10

There is one song for the entire game, and a bunch of awful sound effects attributed to the potatoes. Ranging from a "hyaa hyaa", which sounds like it was generated through a kazoo gone bad, and a "breebreebreebreebree!" which sounds like it was generated from a little kid flipping his gums, while exhaling through the aforementioned kazoo gone bad.

Overall Groove- Depressing/10

Combined with the semi-cheery animation, lack of plot, simple gameplay and controls, and gloomy music/bad sound effects, this game came off as terribly depressing. I mean, what was I playing for? The senseless genocide of creatures that dont exist? To make it worse, really, the creatures appear to be HAPPY that they are dying.

Rent/Buy/Play/DL/ETC- Try not to

I played this game via emulator. It is not worth the space. So if you see it in a store, do not buy it for your own sake. There are Flash games online that can offer you a better 10 minute puzzle game high than this can. If you can rent this for some reason, go ahead and try it. When you return to the clerk with a sad/glassy eyed look on your face, I did warn you.

Well, there ya have it. A scant review for an even more scant game!

Reviewer's Score: 3/10, Originally Posted: 06/12/06