Happy Birthdays
SCORE: 70
When I started to play Happy Birthdays it immediately reminded me of
Populous. As we raised and lowered the land it reminded me of Populous
even more. Happy Birthdays is different than Populous in what we do
though. We are trying to create life in Happy Birthdays. That means
animal life. Happy Birthdays does teach the highly divisive, and
extremely controversial religious belief of evolution.
What is our goal in Happy Birthdays? We are trying to create life, and
eventually evolve them to become humans. How do we do this? We have to
get the conditions just right in the game play area. That means
temperature and moisture. We attain this by raising and lowering the
land. The four game play areas at the time of this review are Green
Plains, Scorched Earth, Stony Prairie, and Frozen World.
I am thankful Family Friendly Gaming was given a digital download code
for Happy Birthdays on the Nintendo Switch. This game clocks in at 1.4
gigs. Since the Switch is so limited on memory we will have to remove
Happy Birthdays once we are done with this review. Which is a shame
because I would like to mess around more with this game. There is a
physical copy of Happy Birthdays on the market so you can avoid the
memory issues we run into here at Family Friendly Gaming from digital
downloads.
Each move you make in the world will cost you so many hit points. When
you are out of hit points then you need to go into a different view -
Macro Mode. Once in Macros Mode then hit the 'R' button to move time
forward. Then your hit points will replenish. Once your hit points reach
maximum then we can hit the 'X' button again to go back into Micro Mode.
Micro Mode is where we make all of the changes to the environment.
Make sure you go through the tutorial before trying to go too deep in
Happy Birthdays. The controls can be figured out. There are tips and
tricks the tutorial will give you that are extremely important. Happy
Birthdays can be a bit finicky in the acceptance of environments. I had
certain spots perfect for the life to be created. Yet the game would not
spawn them there. Things like that led to frustration. Happy Birthdays
is a relaxed pace game where you can figure things out at your leisure.
- Paul
Graphics: 70%
Sounds: 75%
Replay/Extras: 80%
Gameplay: 65%
Family Friendly Factor: 60%
System: Nintendo Switch
Publisher: NIS America
Developer: Arc System Works, Toybox
Rating: ‘E’ - Everyone SIX and OLDER ONLY
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