Wow, you really do pay Warner Bros. or otherwise watch a helpless child get strangled. That’s pretty much the perfect symbol for modern games.
Let’s see what one of the worst entertainment companies in the world has done with Harry Potter this time.
Harry Potter And The Crock Of Shit (The Jimquisition)
Wow, you really do pay Warner Bros. or otherwise watch a helpless child get strangled. That’s pretty much the perfect symbol for modern games.
I’m having flashbacks to that time where Dead Trigger 2 expected me to wait a literal WEEK for an upgrade to my base.
Before the smartphone days mobile games were amazing. I completed around 200 games on those old phones (Darkest Fear series, Castlevania games, tons of games published by Gameloft, games by Fislhabs Games, such as Galaxy on Fire 2 3D and Deep: Submarine Odyssey 3D, etc.). There were tons of games that were reminiscent of old SNES and NES games with addictive and well designed gameplay, hell, some NES and SNES games even got ported to these mobiles. Nowadays almost every mobile game is pure trash, there are only a handful of exceptions.
So I’ve looked up the developer, Jam City. Of the twelve games they have developed five of them are their original work, with several licensed games. Their originals are Cookie Jam, Cookie Jam Blast, Juice Jam, Genies and -Jams- Gems, and Panda Pop. The first four are all Candy Crush Clones (or CCC), while the panda one being a Snood clone. Their licenced games include Snoopy Pop (another Snood clone, good grief), Book of Life: Sugar Smash (another CCC), Family Guy: Another Freakin’ Mobile Game (yet another CCC), Family Guy: The Quest For Stuff, Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow and Avengers Academy, all three which are all waiting games where you hover over a city.
So I have to say that this Harry Potter game at least shows a shred of originality, even if this game is preying on children so hard they can expect a visit from Chris Hansen very soon.
How long did Jim have to wait just to get enough energy to get all this footage?
Once upon a time JK Rowling was remarkably protective of the HP property, going so far as to tell Steven Spielberg to sit and swivel when he wanted to make a HP film in a manner she didn’t approve of. I am guessing this heap of fetid dog vomit marks the final end of those good old days.
WB is at it again ? They must have an allergy to learning.
I happy someone covered this. I was sort of looking forward to this but the microtransactions ruined it
“I used up all my energy by listening and wondering and now I’m working up the energy to smile”
That would be a genius game mechanic if it was a game about depression and not filled with micro transactions.
No you see it’s high art, the child being strangled represents Warner Brothers’ stranglehold on the parents’ bank accounts and Harry Potter represents the true magic spell to stop this shit – uninstalling the instant that pops up. Ideally you’d never download this in the first place but hey sometimes the Dark Arts come to you.
Imagine if the game mechanics were in real life. The oligarchy would really stand out.
“my character didn’t have the energy to smile because he listened too hard”. That has me ROTFLing.
The mentioned game appears to punish players for playing it? What kind children on Earth have no better thing to do than playing that thing? Wouldn’t they enjoy something like minecraft ot fortnite better?
Ah I remember this book. Harry Potter’s mild acquaintance Chungus Chungus gets strangled for four chapters and then struggles to take care of a broom for another eight.
Do you think someone in the game production crew had any sense of self-awareness when they programmed a sequence of a child being strangled while demanding money, or do you think that people are just losing the quality of sentience?
Voldemort doesnt speak Warner Brothers name aloud…hes too afraid to mention them…
Jim, you’ve been watching too much Lindsay Ellis. What is all this sense you’re talking? Why can’t you just let the ones with the whips exploit the gullible? Why must you inform the gullible? Why!?
I have a feeling that we are going to be seeing a lot more of that strangled kid scene in Jim’s future videos.
And what were they thinking putting that in a kid’s mobile game? I’d say that it’s quite “Riddikulus!” to do such a thing.