Math Classroom Challenge is the kid version of the dev’s work, Math Combat Challenge, sporting a far more child friendly setting, and having a sort of censored feel, instead of having a gun in the original game, you are given a water gun to splash numbers for the math answers. The game is quite simple and has had a “sediment” level that still has the math aspects but also has rocks you can splash to find out the rock type and what composes it.
[h1]Gameplay[/h1]
I get that this is a game marketed towards kids, but I found the experience very tedious for the time that I spend playing it. You essentially are in an arena and numbers spawn in the arena, you must spay the numbers with your water gun to solve the equations that pop up overhead. That’s it. If you simply do the “static” problems that appear overhead then the game ends after a certain amount. If you go and do the dynamic ones then you can keep playing, but it gets dull rather quickly. This is not simply myself, as I had someone more age appropriate for the game play as well and they didn’t play nearly as long as I had. The water gun to spray the numbers is an interesting idea, but the problem is that its a water gun that keeps spraying if you shoot, up until it shoots a number. The continuous fire, and the fact that when it fires, it shoots in an arc, means you will likely be miss firing quite a lot at the numbers. The game has this interesting feature of a dog on a flying hoverboard that points out numbers if you take too long, but with the numbers flying everywhere you will have to practically dive for them if you want to be faster than the dog. If the dog points out the number, it doesn’t seem to affect anything. Overall, if you spend some time within the level, it looks like theres too much going on and not enough at once, since there are numbers and idle animations from objects and other things around, but aside from the numbers, there really is not a whole lot of things to do. The game itself also does seem like a stripped down version of the original, as there is only addition, in double and single digits, where the original based on screenshots seems to have all 4 operations, decimals and other things of the sort. There are quite some areas where the game is just a glitchy mess, if you go jumping around you may get stuck under the pier on the beach, jump through the roof on the tiki huts, and so on.
[h1]Graphics[/h1]
The game itself looks very basic, and a tad bland. There are 3 different maps, originally 2 when I first played it, but all somewhat different, but they do seem to recycle textures a bit. The people in the beach level appear in the sediment level with rocks on their head, and some of the rocks looks like theyre on both the moon level and sediment level. Kids may not mind the aesthetic, but the one that played this did comment about this, though he was not as kind to call it bland. The game also has this constant track that feels very kiddish and repetitive.
Overall despite having an interesting concept for kids to learn, I do not see kids staying entertained for very long if at all on this game, not just because of the above, but because kids generally do not find these types of games entertaining. Having grown up playing bad flash games while in school, on “coolmathgames”, we always played the games least like math, and games that did not have us “learning”, or we just had two tabs open and switched back and forth whenever the teacher came by.
Verdict: 2/10
If you enjoyed this review, please follow our curator [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9673931-NEKOS/]here![/url]
