TheOdd1sOut: Let's Bounce

I’ve been following James for a while - 2 years now, I think - so I was very quick to download this game. I’ve been playing it for an hour or two and honestly I really like it. I was a bit skeptical because it seemed like there was only one goal to the game: bounce on characters. But there’s also characters you can unlock, different maps, and ways to upgrade your character. My only criticism - like everyone else’s - is the ads. I was willing to cut some slack because I understand that the game needs to make money somehow, but the ads tend to be a bit much sometimes. For example, if you end a level, it offers you to watch an ad in order to double the coins you’re about to get. But if you take the normal amount, it’ll still give you an ad anyway. The ad is usually skippable, but an ad is an ad. I once got ads after games six times in a row. I’m not sure if you can control when to give ads but they do get to be a bit annoying. However, it’s still a great game, and I was going to give it a 4.5 rather than a 4. Good work, James and team!

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t usually write reviews and I’m a huge fan of TheOdd1sOut, but when I played this game, it’s pretty much the same as every other free game out there. Pay to Win. Sure, you can watch ads to get “extra” items, but when I just want to get what I’ve collected, I hit the button and I get hit with an ad. I get the fact that the only way to make money off a mobile game is to place ads everywhere and put almost everything behind a paywall, but it his game does that a bit too much. I’d rather just pay the $2 to got get any ads at all. Now for some pros. As far as I’m aware, this game does remind me like the old Minion Rush game, where you can play and see how far you get. This game does that but the mechanic used is kind of genius and you have to predict your speed and the right time to press the screen to land on the characters. This game had a genius content with great potential but ruined by the overwhelming amount of ads. PS: this review isn’t meant to anger anyone or isn’t intended to. I want this to be taken as constructive criticism and Feedback.

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I got the game today because I saw the new video promoting it. I have it a shot, and it was “fun” but had glaring issues that make this not as enjoyable as it could be. First, this game is a complete ripoff of the Buffalo Bison games, not to only they’re original, but they did this better. Second, the hit boxes for bounce-able objects is both too big and too small because I may hit it before tapping to land on it, but I’ll have already hit it just by landing on it and will instead launch me to the ground, slowing me down. Sometimes the hit box is too small causing me to miss and hit the ground. Third, James literally promoted this as a game that won’t bombard you with ads, despite this, there are enough ads that after completing one run, it can take a minute and a half just to get back to action, and the action isn’t even that fun to begin with. Trust me, find any other way to support TheOdd1sOut because you shouldn’t support crap. Sorry to the developers if tried their hardest, you just gotta try harder. If they didn’t try, yeah I could see that.

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I’m fine with there being ads. It’s a free mobile game. But the fact that almost every time I click the “x” to get out of a sprinkle cake thing I get an ad anyways is kinda annoying. Currently, I am trying to avoid the cake because of the ad that is almost certain to come with it. Also, (this may be in later game) I think adding things in the sky would make this more fun to play. It would give more variety. Additionally, I feel like there should be a slider for the sounds and the music for more control and so you can change the music independently. Lastly, Satan and the Rocks are basically instant death and there’s not much time to react to them so you are doomed, and when there is a long gap and then just a rock, it’s kind of annoying because the only thing you can do is react really quickly and hit the ground in hopes of not hitting the rock instead, or not be able to react in time (the one that happens to me more often) and hit the rock and fail the run.

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There is too much wrong with this game that I can talk about. for one, the same upbeat ukelele music is looped for the entirety of the duration of your playtime, the game looks weird and uncanny because rather than taking the approach of animating the game like James’ videos, They use tweening, which is very strange for the art style used. Now I understand that because James’ character is only the branding of the game, the company is responsible for creating everything else, but using it to convince James’ audience, which happens to be a Young demographic, to buy a specific character, and currency to use in game, is just kind of a twisted way to get money, and that’s only piled on top of the ads you have to watch to get in game rewards. I understand the goal of the company is to make a profit, but there could have been many other ways to do so, for example, make it a flat fee but polish up the game play. now the gameplay itself is very barebones and buggy, and it is not worth the time.