COMPLETE: Doodle Champion Island Games
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kjorteoSo, Google hid an entire multi-hour game in one of their doodle logo things.
You are Lucky, the Chosen One who has come to Doodle Champion Island, a place where the greatest athletes in the world converge and compete once every four years, which totally isn't a stand-in for anything you guys. There are seven minigames with three difficulty levels apiece (the first one gets you one of the seven scrolls you need to collect; the other two are optional for-fun extra challenges,) plus 22 sidequests one can pick up and solve by talking to all the various NPCs along the way.
There isn't a credit sequence that I could see anywhere, so the game is over essentially when you say it is, depending on what you consider good enough. Do you just want to get the scrolls and get out? Do you want to go for 100% completion? Personally, we called it good when we had collected the scrolls and finished and collected the trophy for every sidequest. All that remained was levels 2 and 3 of each minigame but Climbing++ is some horseshit so those can get stuffed, I think.
There are also four factions one can join and global leaderboards with the combined total score everyone has earned for each faction. Much like that one racing nitro Steam sale thing, the entire Internet has coalesced around their decision so at this point you can either join Team Red or join a team that sucks and will never win. (We joined Team Green because the recruiter was adorable and we don't care about online leaderboards.)
Anyway, lots of cute characters, some fun minigames, some neat moments from wandering around and Talking To Everyone. Some of the sidequests were... not very well clued? You may need a walkthrough. But it was neat overall.
There's an air of "ehhhhnnhhh" about this whole project because 1) Google is a straight up Shadowrun-style Evil Megacorp at this point, and 2) this was all made to hype Coronalympics 2021 and a lot of people have... mixed feelings about that. But... you know... whatever random workers made this game weren't really the problem in either of those cases. They just wanted to make something cute and fun, and I really think they succeeded.
You are Lucky, the Chosen One who has come to Doodle Champion Island, a place where the greatest athletes in the world converge and compete once every four years, which totally isn't a stand-in for anything you guys. There are seven minigames with three difficulty levels apiece (the first one gets you one of the seven scrolls you need to collect; the other two are optional for-fun extra challenges,) plus 22 sidequests one can pick up and solve by talking to all the various NPCs along the way.
There isn't a credit sequence that I could see anywhere, so the game is over essentially when you say it is, depending on what you consider good enough. Do you just want to get the scrolls and get out? Do you want to go for 100% completion? Personally, we called it good when we had collected the scrolls and finished and collected the trophy for every sidequest. All that remained was levels 2 and 3 of each minigame but Climbing++ is some horseshit so those can get stuffed, I think.
There are also four factions one can join and global leaderboards with the combined total score everyone has earned for each faction. Much like that one racing nitro Steam sale thing, the entire Internet has coalesced around their decision so at this point you can either join Team Red or join a team that sucks and will never win. (We joined Team Green because the recruiter was adorable and we don't care about online leaderboards.)
Anyway, lots of cute characters, some fun minigames, some neat moments from wandering around and Talking To Everyone. Some of the sidequests were... not very well clued? You may need a walkthrough. But it was neat overall.
There's an air of "ehhhhnnhhh" about this whole project because 1) Google is a straight up Shadowrun-style Evil Megacorp at this point, and 2) this was all made to hype Coronalympics 2021 and a lot of people have... mixed feelings about that. But... you know... whatever random workers made this game weren't really the problem in either of those cases. They just wanted to make something cute and fun, and I really think they succeeded.
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Date: 2021-07-29 06:15 pm (UTC)Did you happen to do Marathon II? c..c
Also, green was leading every time I checked!
Also I have the feeling that's a reference to the Twitch emote sharing a name with the mythological creature OvOvO
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Date: 2021-07-30 02:57 am (UTC)Green is very distant last now. Like, it's the only one with an 8-digit score instead of 9.
And what is, now?
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Date: 2021-07-30 02:59 am (UTC)Re the last: the green team's kappas who mostly just say “kappa”, in the manner in which one might write a lone-emote-with-no-text line in Twitch chat!