Knowledge is Power 12+

I have a really good thing which can help your game! I would play this game with my family more often but I don’t because of the power plays. My family and most others don’t play with power plays. We wait until the clock goes out and no one gets hit with a power play. But that wastes thirty seconds each question! If you add a setting where you get to choose to use power plays or not that would make your game the best trivia ever! Everything else is great!

This game had some good things going on at first. It’s great technology to have the app connect to your PS4. And the character selection that involves your phone’s camera is good and cute. But when you finally get to the questions, they add in a bunch of silly features that allow you to slightly inconvenience your opponent, like making them “wipe” slime off their screen so they can see the multiple choice answers. It wouldn’t be so bad if that was all. I soon realized that every single question was from elementary school level. And it took 30 excruciating minutes to get through 10 questions because of all the repetitive, dumb fluff. They put a lot of work into this game, and it blows my mind that they squandered it all by putting no work into the question research. You know, the trivia part.

This game is really fun, but it is too hard when playing with many players.

When players answer questions, the guy who did it first gets much more than the slowest one. In a game with 3 players, the fastest gets 300 and the slowest 100. This is a fair scale of knowledge to speed. But with 6 players, the fastest gets 600 and the slowest 100. This scales speed far above knowledge. And it gets worse the more players.

In the finale, points are converted into steps, but there aren't nearly enough steps to make this work. It ends up being that the guy in first place only has a head start of about 3 or 4 steps.

With 3 players, the fastest player goes up 3 steps. But with 6, the fastest player goes up 6 steps, allowing them to scale the entire pyramid in only a few questions. And the slowest players don't accelerate nearly as fast. With enough players, I believe it is possible that the fastest player can scale the ENTIRE PYRAMID with only one question.

This makes it so that the fastest player wins. If you aren't fast, or if you allow down, you are left in the dust. But the game is about KNOWLEDGE, not speed.