5 Spots Party

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5 Spots Party
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5 Spots Party is a party video game for WiiWare by Spanish studio Cosmonaut Games. It is a spin-off of the casual PC games 5 Spots and 5 Spots II by KatGames. It was released in Europe on July 10, 2009 and in North America on July 20, 2009.

Gameplay

Like its predecessors, 5 Spots Party is a video game version of spot the difference. Players are given 2 near-identical pictures and must uncover differences between the two images under a time limit by using the pointer of the Wii Remote. The player controls 2 cursors: one for precision zooming in, and the other for selecting part of an image. The game supports up to 4 players in Party Mode, where the aim of the game is to spot the most differences amongst players, a "Find The Monkey" mode, which involves finding a picture of a monkey hidden in a photo. The monkeys vary in art style and appearance. Another "Super Fun Classic", which entails finding 5 differences in similar looking pictures within a specific amount of time. After the mode ends, the player's score is imputed on a scoreboard, which is accessible from the main menu. The final game mode, "Leisure", has no time limit and has the player attempting to progress through 5 photos as quick as possible. The game claims to feature 333 pictures, with a possible ten mistakes in each picture.[2]

Reception

5 Spots Party received mixed reviews from critics upon release. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 56/100 based on 4 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3]

Writing for

Ign, Lucas Thomas criticized the differences in the images, saying "Many of the visual differences are incredibly subtle, too, adding frustration into the mix -- you're given a handful of wild cards that you can trigger to have the game freely show you one of the spots you're missing, and using that option will often make you feel a bit cheated when you see there's barely two pixels' difference between what's on the left and what's on the right.". Overall, he felt that "[The game is the] kind of activity [...] best kept in magazines and coloring books for kids".[4]

References

  1. ^ "Art, Cards and Crystals Have Gamers Seeing Spots". nintendo.com. Nintendo of America. 2009-07-20. Archived from the original on 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
  2. ^
    Nintendo Life
    . Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  3. ^ a b "5 Spots Party for Wii Review". Metacritic. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  4. ^ a b Thomas, Lucas M. (23 October 2009). "IGN: 5 Spots Party Review". IGN. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2017.

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