Reply To: The Random Post Thread (Game Potential)
In today’s edition of “God Bless the Internet”, may I present to you the crappy expansion piece “Bakugan Launcher” for the crappy game that my son likes, “Bakugan Brawlers”:
In Bakugan Brawlers, the players shoot marble like little guys at cards. Now the cool part of it is that the marbles are actually like little Transformers with magnets inside them … they pop open little heads or wings or such when the magnet sticks. And the cards are, in fact, metal lined. So the kid rolls the marble and “pop!” the monster comes out if they land it right. Nice modern update on marbles, right? Except the rules for the “combat” aspect of it are kind of poor, and the game ends up just consisting of each player rolling their guys forever until they stick.
And now they have marketed this “launcher”, which is a glorified pinball shooter. With no instructions whatsoever. There are those wings, and storage spots, and card holder … and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out the point of any of it. So I go to Amazon to look at reviews, and several people are also bitching about it … and then one person says “Not a review, just a helpful hint: Go to YouTube for instructions.” Sure enough, somewhere there is a young boy (British)? who has went and made a simple video on how to use the blasted thing!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=977GE9qCmEA&feature=related
I made sure to give the kid 5 stars and left a thank you comment. 😀