All in all, Jumping Joe and Friends is your typical smartphone experience – shallow, repetitive and lacking any real hook to keep you playing. Even the multiplayer wears out its welcome in a matter of minutes. The list of excellent or just fun Switch titles is already a long one and continues to grow with every passing week. Any one of those would be a better investment than Jumping Joe and Friends.
Jumping Joe & Friends
Vixa Games · May 25, 2018
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If you own or buy All Aboard!, Astro Bears Party, or Robonauts, you can save 50% on this title! The creators of Robonauts and Astro Bears Party proudly present a new title perfect for intense playtimes with your friends and family. Help Joe and his fellas on their upwards journey. Be quick as a flash and dodge roaring cannonballs, vicious bats and other traps. Perform high scores or leave your competitors in the dust!
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- Jumping Joe & Friends is well developed and fun, but by its very nature is not the type of game you’ll play with any degree of frequency. It’s more like those board games you find stashed away on the upper shelf of the closet and think, “Hey, I remember this! This was fun!” But then you get it down and play a few rounds and soon remember why it had been up on that shelf for so long.
- 4.0Jumping Joe & Friends is built upon incredibly basic foundations. You jump and you don’t stop until it is game over. It never expands upon this initial concept. Even when compared to other titles like it, it makes little to no effort to excel above the rest (pun intended), with basic artwork, similar modes, a single song on loop and uninspired gameplay - highlighting how monotonous it is.
- Jumping Joe! & Friends is an entertaining endless runner-cum-platformer that promises hours of fun. Whether alone or with a friend, you can always find new challenges. Just be aware that the gameplay – as should be expected – can feel repetitive after a while, and the brightly-coloured graphics can be a strain on the eyes after a prolonged playing session.
- 8.0Very basic but highly approachable, with an addictive gameplay hook and cheap entry fee, Jumping Joe & Friends is a strong candidate for impulse purchasing on Nintendo Switch eShop, and offers more depth than its basic aesthetic would suggest. Online connectivity would have done wonders for potential replay value, but for pick-up-and-play Switch gaming, this one is hard to beat.
- 5.0Jumping Joe & Friends tem um propósito simples e cumpre com o pretendido. Contudo, para quem está disposto a pagar por um jogo à procura de alguma longevidade, aconselha-se um pouco de cuidado quando pensar na sua aquisição. Jumping Joe & Friends oferece diversão para um ou para quatro jogadores, mas a dose de jogo deve ser bem ponderada. A repetitividade e ausência de objectivos claros acabam por saltar à vista e após poucas sessões de jogo.
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