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Grab your Wii U GamePad and create a beautiful farmland full of animals,crops, trees and morethen develop it into the craziest, most offbeatfarm imaginable, overflowing with the whackiest contraptions andgoofiest gizmos you and your animals have ever seen!Features. Use the GamePad in all-new ways! - Touch, tilt, shake, speak tocontrol your farm. Get Hands-on with your Animals! - from a tinychick to a giant buffalo, gently stroke the feathers or fur, then watchthe delighted responses. Create and Play – Your Way!
- Purchasehilariously offbeat farm equipment and cultivate a vibrant paradise asyou get hands-on with the farm YOU want to create. Strategies ForSuccess - Spend your money wisely, nuture your flock and trade withneighbours to manage your farm wisely.
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Funky Barn
by Zack Kaplan - December 14, 2012, 1:32 pm PST
Total comments: 2
Total comments: 2
Don't count your chickens until they get funky.
Funky Barn is a plain and simple game about farming. Withless than an abundance of casual games on the Wii U right now, this game has a chanceto stand out from the crowd. Sadly, theonly thing that differentiates Funky Barn from other farming games is the levelof boredom it brings.
Funky Barn’s story is simple: a farmer dies and his farm isleft to you. Immediately, the first problem with this game arises, as the loadtime is just as long as the opening cut-scene, one you see every time you loadthe game. This cut-scene of poorly drawn pictures is a long one, over 45seconds, and becomes more annoying each time you endure it.
The objective in Funky Barn is to successfully run a barn.After choosing the difficulty level, you begin a seemingly endless tutorial. Atfirst, the game drip-feeds you content by having you level up your farm. Levelingrequires a quality farm, which is graded by how many of the goals you havereached for the stage, such as “buy four pigs.” As you level up, you unlockmore features such as new animals. You can earn more money to buy new itemswhich are mostly plants or building to help towards leveling up until reach themax level. Leveling up usually does not take that long if you are a good farmer.The controls during this are serviceable. There are three options to play thegame: touch screen, buttons, or both, but the only differences are in how youmove the map. There is a bit of strategy involved in managing a successfulfarm. Storms, alien invasions, and other hazards can hurt your profitability,as money has to be spent fixing damages. There are defense mechanisms that canbe purchased, but your farm needs a lot of money to afford them. To have youranimals continue to produce goods (eggs, milk etc) they need to be kept happy.Happiness can be obtained by placing items on the farm like trees, or petting apoorly rendered 3D model of the animal on the GamePad screen. When it comes toreplay value there are 3 levels of difficulty and multiple challenge farms, butdifferences are negligible.
Funky Barn is extremely repetitive. Like many simulationgames, it involves you doing the same things over and over again howevernothing Funky Barn does make these tasks fun. There are no worthwhile rewards,interesting characters, or anything of interest, really. Mundane tasks are the onlyorder of the day: rescue Chickens out of the water, shoo animals by talkinginto the GamePad microphone. The repetitiveness makes Funky Barn very boring.Any entertainment value present in the game lasts for an hour at best. Thevisual design of the game is ugly with nothing on the cartoony farm beingremotely interesting to look at.
If you want to “get funky” please select a different farm.Funky Barn starts off decent, but a little bit of playingwill make you realize that it is a boring game that offers nothing ofsubstance. Unless you are a fan of low quality farming games, I would have tosay this is one Wii U title worth skipping
Summary
Cons
- Not particularly funky
- Ultimately boring
- Uninspired Design
Talkback
Pixelated PixiesDecember 14, 2012
The name of this game seems highly misleading. It doesn't bring the funk and, while there might be barns in the game, it is ultimately set on a futuristic farm. What a gyp!
ShayminDonald Theriault, News EditorDecember 14, 2012
So basically the game gets a 2, the Miiverse gets a 9, and that averages to a 5.5?
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Funky Barn | |
Release | Nov 18, 2012 |
Publisher | 505 Games |
Rating | Everyone |
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