365//365: Day 203 – WTF: Work Time Fun (PSP) [PP]

The common quote you’ll hear about WTF: Work Time Fun, will have some bearing towards the acronym of “WTF” in any part of the said quote. Work Time Fun is anything but fun, and will make you wonder WTF were these developers thinking. This is best described as the anti-Wario Ware. With Wario Ware, the mini games provided are fun and so short, bouts of ADD will not hamper your enjoyment. With WTF, these mini games can either end with one too many mistakes, or, in the case of the pen capping game, seem like it never ends, unless you quit out. I must have capped 200+ pens and wondered when the tedious activities would end, but judging from the number count going as high as the decillions, I don’t think it was meant to be completed. I assume these are supposed to play off the fact that they are trying to make these remedial “jobs” and “tasks” fun because they are featured in a quirky video game, but they’re not. Parody or not, WTF really makes me think about what the developers were really trying to sell with this game. You make “money” at the end of each mini “game” to spend on what amounts to useless trinkets with absolutely no value, necessity nor use. The only saving grace comes in the form of the plethora of visual styles presented throughout each mini “game” provided. It’s a shame that this game is a world of WTF, with nauseating repetition and even a somewhat remixed Super Mario Bros. theme song during the menu screen. If you want to cap pens for hours on end, contact Bic and ask for a job, making real money off the repetition.  If you want to cap pens in a video game for more than five seconds, you’re an idiot.

Folks, let me present to you the most asinine thing ever see in a video game (tongue-in-cheek, or not) -- the pen capping mini game.

Rating: 2.2