Recent reviews by Anders

After 19 years since the latest release in 2002, this has been a long time coming. As much as I absolutely loved the first game, this has been a huge let down.
Don't get me wrong, the new 3D environment and updated mini games are extremely fun, not only from a nostalgia-POV.
But when this should feel like a "grand-remake", i'm sad to say there's a lot of content has been excluded.

The Positives:
- It feels amazing to have a "free camera" and look around the environment.
- All the mini games (except the jigsaw puzzles) in my opinion have been a huge upgrade.
- The racing is exciting, fun and at times challenging. I love it!

The Negatives:
- Moving around the map to different locations is cumbersome and long-winded. To get from A to B, I have to move around half the map.
- The animations are at times weird and spontaneous.
- No involvement from other characters. Example when Ludvig falls down the mailbox, Solan does not react or look until Ludvig ask for help... it feels "stiff?"
- Audio does not match up at times (Sounds of walking on grass when indoors)
- Unlocking new games, items and car parts feel like a chore when you have to sit through what feels like 5 seconds for the game to move on.
- Honestly, Fy Fazan's voice acting is just awful, it sounds like he is reading from a manuscript with no knowledge of the character. Generally the voice acting feels a bit "meh".
- I laughed hard(ly) when I opened a fact-box about the sun... It said it took 8 seconds for light to reach the earth from the sun. Fix it!
- The car building has removed a lot of the intricacies of the original, which had loads of car parts. Now some parts have been merged, and some split up. Honestly, there should be more car parts, and unlocking every car piece after about 2 hours is in my opinion too quickly.
- Bottom line. The worst part is the lack of mini games the original version could offer. That's what made the previous release much better. Why would Mahjong be 1 of the 9 mini-games? Nothing about Mahjong screams Flåklyåpa to me.

We miss "The Worm game", "Hopscotch game", "The Oil Adventure Game", "The Sock-matching game" just to name A FEW.

All in all... It's been fun playing the game. And as much as I would recommend it, I can't. The game feels so bare and devoid of games and finesse.
BUT!! If you've never played the original release from 2000/02, then you probably have no expectations, and this wouldn't be such a huge let down, and I would recommend it. But it is still a bit buggy.

Total playtime summarised:
30 min: how do I how?
50 hours: how do I?
1000 hours: how do?
1500 hours: how?

Speaking from someone who has played this game this game for 1800 hours and really loves it.
This game is in an unplayable state. I cannot, in good conscience, launch the game and play with fear of the bots causing me or others malicious harm.
Please fix TF2.