Written by Jennifer O. Cuaycong
Title: Crayola Scoot
Developer: Climax Studios
Publisher: Outright Games
Price: $39.99
Genre: Action, Sports, Racing, Arcade
Also Available On: PS4, Steam, XB1
In the past times ii years alone, Crayola, a identify advert for crayons in addition to other related fine art supplies, has generated newfound involvement with manufacture crossovers (think cosmetics in addition to blast products collaborations with Clinique, Sally Hansen, and, only this June, ASOS). Through the years, Crayola’s target marketplace position has evolved from the children who used its products to include the adults who purchased them. While its consumer base of operations continues to expand to comprehend larger demographics in addition to older historic menstruum groups, it was actually only a thing of fourth dimension earlier Crayola took a minute hold off at how it appealed to the children of today. To engage a tech-savvy generation of kids in addition to kids-at-heart, Crayola has returned to the video game scene with Crayola Scoot, a racing/stunt game developed in addition to released past times Outright Games.
Crayola Scoot revolves roughly a scooter contest alongside aspirants of the Color Cup, with the aim of dethroning the Scooter Legends who reign over unlike cities. To win, prizes in addition to points are awarded based on performance, to wit: the amount of crayon color i splashes to enshroud the gaming arena, every bit good every bit the frequency, duration, in addition to intensity of stunt tricks made with the scooter. The to a greater extent than color i splashes in addition to spreads, the better. The harder, the longer, the to a greater extent than complex the combos of tricks, the higher the score. Progressing through the game also opens express options for customization. Sounds pretty straightforward, right?
Wrong. Despite its seemingly uncomplicated goals, the game does need a sure grade of science in addition to manual dexterity to acquire through the unlike stages. Played solo or on multiplayer means of upwardly to 4 players, roofing 12 parks across iii worlds (Crayola Color City, Enchanted Forest, in addition to Alien Theme Park) in addition to challenging the tough hipster Legends, Crayola Scoot is no walk inwards the park. This is no uncomplicated mashing of buttons to thread a serial of tricks, every bit I’ve flora out, in addition to decisions on fourth dimension constraint versus difficulty goal upwardly testing the player’s powerfulness to brand judgments on the fly. Moreover, spell it starts off every bit easy, it gradually builds to higher levels of difficulty, pushing the musician to compete non only against the other challengers, but against his/her ain scores every bit well.
There are diverse modes inside the game that let the musician flexibility inwards play in addition to tricks creation. Color Frenzy, hands downwardly my favorite, has yous performing tricks (jumps, boosts, flips, turns, grind) spell filling the expanse with your designated color. It is reminiscent of Splatoon’s Turf War, albeit sans shooters. Played inwards unmarried musician means or inwards co-op teams of threes, Color Frenzy is the virtual pump of the Crayola Scoot game.
There’s also Crayon Collector, some other favorite, a race with the goal of collecting v crayons to live picked upwardly from unlike in addition to separate locations to win. There isn’t a lot of stunt performance required here, which I liked; yous only receive got to live actually fast in addition to agile with the scooter. Then, there’s Trick Run, with the mission of chaining serial of stunts to create to a greater extent than complex combinations. SCOOT pairs yous with a Legend that you’ll receive got to outperform inwards a designated arena in addition to inside a express menstruum of time. While I tin in all likelihood “trick” with the best of the Legends, it’s the fourth dimension pressure level that gets me every time, ultimately. Last, but sure as shooting non the least, there’s Splat Tag, which, every bit the advert implies, involves tagging in addition to splatting your opponents with color.
Crayola Scoot boasts of impeccable, crisp colors to complement the highly detailed, brightly colored graphics of the arenas, in addition to rightly so. After all, it cannot live “Crayola” without the wonderful hues in addition to shades of colors. To my mind, however, I abide by the graphic symbol visuals for the Legends a niggling off putting, if non bizarrely drawn. What the game lacks inwards to a greater extent than appealing characters, however, it to a greater extent than than makes upwardly inwards the fluidity of action. Jumps, spins, in addition to turns all seem effortless in addition to seamless — that is, until i falls over inwards a faulty displace in addition to lands similar a broken marionette.
The gameplay of Crayola Scoot proceeds without lags or slowdowns on the Switch, in addition to scene changes shift inwards unbroken sequences, a definite summation inwards farther highlighting induce in addition to color inwards the game. Then, too, the game benefits from a to a greater extent than than small-scale soundtrack — upbeat, quirky, in addition to high on the LSS factor. Gamewise, the learning crease gets steeper with the to a greater extent than hard stages every bit the tricks need several combinations of buttons in addition to joy-con stick movements to perform.
It must live said that, at get-go glance, i at nowadays notices the obvious similarities to other games. Fair enough. Crayola Scoot calls to hear some well-known video game predecessors, namely, Nintendo’s Splatoon, THQ Nordic’s De Blob, Sega’s Jet Set Radio, in addition to Activision’s Tony Hawk Pro Skater. By combining inventiveness (coloring, painting) with activity (skating, racing, scootering), it gathers inspirations from the elements of these games to create a novel receive got on an otherwise well-represented genre.
All inwards all, Crayola Scoot delivers amusement for children in addition to adults alike. It mightiness non possess the longevity in addition to replayability of other games, but in that location are plenty ways to maintain the fun going for a weekend or two. It’s sure as shooting non a bad bargain inwards the end.
The Good
- I loved the colors, real Crayola. <3
- The activity in addition to movements were quite good.
- The stunts were fun to perform.
- There is multiplayer mode.
- There is no activity lag on the Switch.
The Bad
- It isn’t real original.
- I’m non a large fan of carve upwardly screens.
- Replayability is low, unless yous are OC with scores, similar me.
The Ugly
- Please don’t acquire me started on how the Legends looked!
RATING: 7/10
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