IGN writes: "Despite not being a tremendous trivia nut, I can recognize the potential for trivia/quiz games and why they would be so addictive to info junkies. Unfortunately, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Make the Grade is not only a poor trivia game but it's just not well put together in any way. There's really something to be said when I reviewed my notes before writing this article and found that all of my comments were listed in the "negative" section and the "positive" section was blank.
If you're not familiar with the Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? television show, Jeff Foxworthy hosts and guides one contestant through a series of grade school questions for money. A "class" of school kids is on standby and come up one at a time to help the contestant answer questions, which are categorized by subject. During the course of the game, the contestant can fall back on a few "cheat" options, including peeking at his or her 5th grader's answer, copying it directly (which automatically locks him or her into that answer) or the contestant can just be saved once by the fifth grader if the contestant answers incorrectly but his temporary partner is right."
WTMG's Leo Faria: "You know what? I’m not even mad this time around. I’ve stated already that 2022 was actually a pretty good year for gaming. It was stupidly hard removing so many excellent games from out Top 20 list, to the point we had an entire 20-game list of honorable mentions alone. Likewise, we didn’t review such a huge number of bad games this year. It’s not that we weren’t reviewing enough games (have you read the site’s name?), there just weren’t that many stinkers in this otherwise fantastic year.
But boy oh boy, when something bad knocked at our door, it was bad. It was really B to the A to the freaking D. It’s time for our team to bury these games once and for all. We present you, the twenty worst games we’ve reviewed in 2022."
Lol, I like this idea of an anti GOTY award :p
And my god, there are some terrible entries there.
Kirby’s Dream Buffet
Good to see Nintendo isn't above well deserved criticism.
I dont know if Gun Grave deserves to be in the same mix as the others on the list. Its rather safe but it has its charm. As a fan of the originals, I can dig it. Im not seeing it as something revolutionary but evolutionary, hence why I said safe (as in it didnt take many risks to stray from the source). Its okay, but nowhere near being on the list of worst.
TGG says: "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? has a charm to it and can be fun with friends locally but is a bit of slog at times too."
“Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? is a middle-of-the-road trivia game that's so full of padding that it becomes boring fast. I can only recommend it to kids but even then, I doubt that many youngsters will have the patience to sit through a whole game.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
