Hello there egg lovers with way too much free time these last two weeks, WoodReviewer here, and today I am taking a look at Roblox’s most recent event, The Hunt: First Edition. Now I’m sure some of you think this is going to be some small cop-out where I just look at the main hub or something, but no, I have all 100 badges. I played every game. Every game in The Hunt will get my judgement.
Well, at least an abridged version of my judgement. You see, normally when I review a game I tend to complete it, or if it is a simulator and that is impossible, at least reach the end game gameplay loop. This can take anywhere from a fifteen to twenty minutes for a showcase, to seven to eight hours for a large game, sometimes even more. Seeing as this event is fifteen days long for a total of 360 hours, and has 100 proper games, that would require about four hours of gameplay, on the low end, for each game, plus an hour of writing for each game for the review, so that would put me at about 500 hours total. Not including sleep, eating, or bathing. And I’d have to finish those 500 hours in under the 360 hour event time limit. So yeah, that is not happening.
Instead, these were the self imposed rules I laid out for this review: I will play each game only as long as I need to in order to earn the badge for the event. I will then only judge the game here on what wood grain I see while earning the badge, or while wandering around lost trying to earn the badge if the instructions on how to earn the badge are bad. The games were not reviewed in any specific order, but rather just by how I completed them, which is mostly based on how close the games were to my spawn every time I joined the event hub.
Before a bunch of you get excited since I was unable to find bad wood grain in a decent amount of the games, the reviews below are not proper reviews but mini review, and while a game having proper wood grain here isn’t a WoodReviewer Badge of No Bad Wood Grain™, and bad wood grain I find will condemn the game to being a poorly made trash fest just like every other game I review that has bad wood grain.
Is this biased?
Yes.
Do I care?
Only as much as the average dev in this event care about proper wood grain, which is to say I don’t care at all.
And now, let us get on with this review before the wall of text here gets absolutely insane.
The Survival Game by Simple Games
The Survival Game is a fairly standard open world survival game where you spawn on an island and then travel to a larger mainland for supplies. For The Hunt, there was on small boss on the main islands that you needed to defeat. Luckily for me, the boss AI had negative IQ. Also luckily for me, someone placed a shop stall right near the boss that I could abuse to kill the boss. Unforantetly for Simple Games, the stall has bad wood grain on the vertical post. In addition, I saw several other structures throughout the game which also had bad wood grain, but I don’t want to make this post too long, so only one picture per place.
War Machines by REDD’s Wasteland
War Machines is a game where you play as not-Iron Man, and the badge involved flying around and killing not-terrorists in the not-middle east. The area you spawn in is the not-Stark Tower. Luckily for me, this game started the trend of having bad wood grain right near the spawn area for no real reason other than to make my job easier. Don’t worry, this game had plenty of other examples of bad wood grain throughout the rest of the map, I just don’t want to go through all of them right now. If I do this blog post will get absolutely massive, and even in this abridged form for each review it will already be pretty massive.
Mega Mansion Tycoon by Wild Atelier
Mega Mansion Tycoon is a tycoon where you build a mega mansion. The badge for the event had you build the base of the mansion, so I was worried I wouldn’t complete enough of it to find any bad wood grain. Luckily for me, the post for the mail box that is that only thing that exists on your plot when you start the game has bad wood grain, so I didn’t have to worry about finding bad wood grain anywhere else.
The first entry in The Hunt from BIG Games, My Restaurant involves more or less completing the tutorial for the game, and then getting a couple of customers. This game is also the first one in The Hunt that I couldn’t find any bad wood grain in. There was some wood grain on several meshes, like these tables, but it all checked out. Don’t worry, though, as you’ll see later custom meshes and textures doesn’t necessarily guarantee proper wood grain is used in a game.
Super League Soccer by Play! Football
I forget what exactly was the goal for Super League Soccer in order to get the badge, but it had something to do with playing the game. Unfortunately for the devs, I couldn’t complete the badge in one game, so I was teleported to the locker room during an intermission. It was here that I saw the bad wood grain on these bench seats, which is for some reason diagonal.
Car Crushers 2 by Car Crushers Community
Car Crushers 2 was almost good. I found no bad wood grain in the central car crushing area, and the badge involved mostly crushing cars there. However, part of the mission also involved earning money, which you can do by driving around the map. It was doing this that I found this ramp, which has bad end grain on the wooden planks. Also, I in no way made a b-line for this ramp after having played the game before and am justifying finding it since driving to it technically helped me with The Hunt.
The Strongest Battlegrounds by Yielding Arts
I have no idea what this badge actually is because the badge was broken and it was awarded to everyone for free.
Unforantetly for the devs, I still took a quick look at the game to see if I could quickly find any bad wood grain. I didn’t exactly find any wood grain, but I did find some some trees, and since trees are wood they fall under my jurisdiction. For trees, the exact way the grain goes on the tree does not matter, all that madders is that it goes the same across the entire tree. Here the issue is that while for parts of the tree the grain wraps around the branches/trunks, on other parts it goes along with how the tree grows, and in other parts does both on the same branch. This is bad.
The next game as part of The Hunt was The Mimic. The game added some custom game mode that involved collecting eggs. This new mode had a bunch of bad wood grain, however I didn’t even have to venture to this new mode to find bad wood grain, it was on this post above the initial spawn in the game. Should I have a picture from the new mode? Sure. But I still find it hilarious in how many games I don’t even have to leave the spawn menu to find bad wood grain.
Steep Steps was one of the harder challenges in The Hunt. The objective for the game was to travel up a custom mountain using only a ladder than you have to awkwardly wedge into gaps in order to cross them. Honestly, it was a fun type of challenge, and the new map they made for the event was just fine, which a neat 2008 era Roblox aesthetic. However, to get to the event place you first had to enter the lobby, and inside of the lobby was this wooden sign that has bad wood grain on the support post. Why did the game only have bad wood grain on a sign in the lobby? I don’t know, but much like the not having to move from spawn to find bad wood grain, this will be a reoccurring theme in games.
Legends Of Speed by Scriptbloxian Studios
Legends of Speed is the first game that is in The Hunt that I’ve looked at previously, only back when I looked at it it was known as Speed Simulator 2, and was hosted on a different account. I’m not sure exactly what happened to its ownership between now and then, but all I know is that the one major change made to the game was all the wood was removed from the game and replaced with smooth plastic. Would I have liked for it to have been fixed? Yes. But the fact the wood grain was removed entirely is good enough for me.
My Hello Kitty Cafe by Rock Panda Studio
Hello Kitty Cafe was an interesting game. It took me about a half an hour to find out how to play the game, or how to run a cafe, but I figure it out eventually. Eventually I figured it out, however not until after I wandered around the map for an unnecessarily long period of time. During that time I found this wooden plank floor, which had bad end grain for the planks. Well, maybe not as much bad wood grain, but a lack of wood grain. Either way, the game forced me to play gacha, so I am going to rank this as bad wood grain out of spite.
Pull a Sword is a game where you pull a sword. The game had a custom level area added, and unlike other games, it had no bad wood in the spawn area or in the new area to pull it down. I’m not sure if some levels of the regular game had bad wood grain or not, but at least for the scope of this review everything checked out.
Pet Simulator 99! by BIG Games Pets
The second BIG Games game to grace this review, this game featured wood on some chests and crates. Much like My Restaurant, the custom meshes and textures seemed good. As the game only required me to get to stage 20 I can’t say if some bad wood grain appears later, but at least from what I saw no bad wood grain was present. Also, I’m aware three of the last four games had no bad wood grain, but don’t worry, this is the high point of the review.
Emergency Hamburg by Emergency Hamburg
The badge for Emergency Hamburg was a fairly basic treasure hunt. This is bad for the devs since by nature, a treasure hunt covers most of the map, but also bad for the devs since it means I can justify using the entire map to look for bad wood grain. However, I didn’t need the entire game as I found some bad wood grain almost immediately inside of the dealership by spawn. Don’t worry, this wasn’t the only example of bad wood grain across the map, this was just the first one I saw. There will be plenty of content for some future follow up.
Muscle Legends by Scriptbloxian Studios
Muscle Legends is the second game that I am reviewing by Scriptbloxian Studios as part of The Hunt, much like Legends of Speed I didn’t find any bad wood grain here, again with the caveat I only played the first part of the game until I got the badge. Unlike most games whose maps are entirely smooth plastic, this game does have some wood grain on this Tiki torch, and this wood grain is just fine. There could be more wood grain later, but I couldn’t find any. Hopefully, more games can learn how to do this eventually.
Football Fusion 2 by XSTNS Games
The first of two football games in this year’s Hunt, neither of which were made by a group called Play Football, this one has the same issue as Super Soccer League. The main game had no bad wood grain, however the locker room between games does. It is hard to see because of how dark the room is, and because I had to hurry to get the screenshot between games, but the issue here is the vertical sides of the not having vertical wood grain. This is a fairly easy thing to fix, so hopefully next year the football games can do a bit better.
BARRY’S PRISON RUN OBBY! by PlatnimumFalls
Barry’s Prison Run Obby is like Jailbreak if Jailbreak was about breaking out of jail. For the badge you had to collect a certain amount of donuts because of reasons, and it was fairly easy to do that within five to ten minutes of playtime. Unforantetly for the devs, at about eight minutes of gameplay I came across this bridge that had bad wood grain on the support posts and the boards that crossed the bridge. Of course you could say this is intentional because reasons, but I’m not buying that. Plus odds are I could have found more in the rest of the obby, so no benefit of the doubts are being given today.
All Star Tower Defense by Top Down Games
All Star Tower Defense is a tower defense game where you collect legally distinct anime characters in a typical tower defense fashion. The game had a separate map mode for this event, however I didn’t have to event enter the challenge map to find bad wood grain. For that, I just had to go into the main lobby, where I found this gate. The issue here was with the wood grain on the horizontal beams, which have horizontal wood grain rather than the proper vertical wood grain. This wasn’t the only example of bad wood grain I saw in the game but as I have said, I don’t want this blog post to be too long so I’m saving that for a future possible review.
Toilet Tower Defense by Telanthric Development
A second straight tower defense game, Toilet Tower Defense had the same issue as Anime Tower Defense, in that it had bad wood grain in the lobby that I was able to find before even playing a single round. Here the issue was on some small fence posts I found right at the event information area for The Hunt. I forget if I managed to find any more improper wood grain anywhere, but I’m sure if I wanted to I could probably find some more.
SCP: Roleplay by SCP: Roleplay Community
Much like several other games in this event, SCP: Roleplay had a custom event added. However, the main lobby was confusing to navigate, so before I even got to the new level I found some bad wood grain in this office. The issue here is with the shelves. But don’t worry, there was also plenty of bad wood grain in the actual event level, I just don’t have enough space in this blog to show off all of the wood grain, so just trust me when I say there was a bunch.
Treasure Hunt Simulator by HenryDev
The second game that I’ve previously reviewed, Treasure Hunt Simulator’s quest involved finding three chests. Due to my previous review, I already was a fairly high level in the game, this badge was really quick. Normally you would think this would mean I would have less time to find bad wood grain, but I just checked what I saw in my previous review and guess what, the game wasn’t fixed. This Tiki Torch has the same issues on the upper vertical supports as it did in my previous review, unlike Legends of Speed that did at least manage to fix its past issues.
Another roleplay game, Livetopia features a trend that will become more obvious in future games, in that the actual game doesn’t have bad wood grain, but the assets for the user made houses do have bad wood grain. In this case, it was on the vertical posts of this fence in front of this house. Also, as you can clearly see by the fact I am holding this crate, I found this while completing the badge event, so it is fair to use it as an example of bad wood grain for this review.
Greenville by Greenville, Wisconsin
Another driving based role playing game, Greenville’s badge for The Hunt was another treasure hunt. For this particular part of the badge, I had to travel to this wooden barn, and it is something. Between the railings on the stairs, sides of the barn doors, the orientation of the top of the steps, the main vertical beams, the window frames, and several other things just this barn could fill a post. And that doesn’t even include all the other examples I saw throughout the game, but I don’t quite have the time for those today.
Redcliff City RP by Redcliff City RP
So I’m going to be completely honest here, I forget what was the badge in Redcliff City was earned for doing. As you can image, after 100 games a few of these games kind of merged together. Anyway, the exact way that I earned the badge doesn’t matter, all that does is that the wood grain in this cafe is bad. This post should have vertical wood grain, but instead has horizontal grain instead. This wasn’t all the bad wood grain that I saw in the game, this is just first one that I saw closest to spawn.
Dress To Impress by Dress to Impress Group
As someone who has had the same basic avatar on Roblox since sometime in 2009, dress up games aren’t really my thing. Luckily for me all I had to do in Dress to Impress was catch some rabbits that were running around in the main lobby because that makes sense. Anyway, the bad wood grain in this game was on this egg basket. I really don’t know what so say about this other than just look at it. What is even going on here. How did anything think this was OK. Nothing more to say about this really.
Murderers VS Sheriffs Duels by Red 21 Games
Murderers vs Sheriffs is a fun PvP game where two teams of players fight against each other. It is a decently fun game. Much like several other games, the actual game part of this game is just fine as far as wood grain goes; the maps are basically entirely smooth plastic. Unfortunately for the devs, the lobby is not entirely made out of smooth plastic, it has this wooden fence. The problem with it is on the top and bottom rails, which both have vertical wood grain instead of the correct horizontal wood grain.
Tower Defense Simulator by Paradoxum Games
Another game on the “previously reviewed” list, Tower Defense Sim had a simple egg-based map you had to complete, which was fairly easy due to the fairly high level I had due to reviewing the game before. One thing to note is that most of my previous review no longer matters since the lobby has gotten a basically complete overhaul since I last reviewed it. However, just because the lobby is new that doesn’t mean it is good. The orientation of these stairs is bad as the planks should go from one side of the stairs to the other. Granted, you could argue this is fine, but as mentioned I found other examples of bad wood grain, so no benefits of the doubt in this blog post.
Maple Hospital by Marizma Games
The next game I visited was Maple Hospital, a role-play game. However, unlike most of the other role-play games I played, this one had an actual story mode added to it that wasn’t just “run across the existing map and doe stuff.” Unforantetly for the devs, I had trouble finding where to start the quest so I wandered the map a bit, and in doing so I found this user created house. The issue with this house is on the posts on the front porch, the wood grain is all wrong, along with the wood grain on the door. On the plus side, at least the event was fine, too bad I got lost.
Ninja Legends by Scriptbloxian Studios
The third and final game published by Scriptbloxian Studios in The Hunt, much like the other two this one also has proper wood grain. Not much more to say really but good job, I went into The Hunt not expecting to get three games without bad wood grain all together, nevermind three without bad wood grain all from a single developer.
Slap Battles is a game where you slap other players. It had a hybrid quest system, where you needed to progress a certain amount in the game in order to unlock a custom quest just for the hunt. However, the quest area itself had bad wood grain on a ladder. That is not featured here, because I decided it would be funnier to instead include the sign with bad wood grain on the sign post, as this is a disturbing trend that games are having. Also it was right near spawn so I was able to get this screenshot as soon as I started the game and didn’t feel like overwriting it.
Twilight Daycare is a game. In it you do things. It has gameplay and objectives. It also has bad wood grain on the side of these wooden planks. The planks here should be vertical, like on the front face. Anyway, this was GameFam’s first game in this hunt, I doubt the others can be much worse.
LifeTogether RP by Cinnamon Software
LifeTogether RP was an interesting game for The Hunt because it required you to take pictures of eggs scattered throughout the map, which is basically what I always do when I review games. Only instead of taking pictures of eggs, I take pictures of bad wood grain. In this case, I managed to get a picture of bad wood grain and an egg at the same time with the in-game camera. In this case, it was of a child playground that had bad wood grain kind of everywhere; on the vertical supports, on the ladder, on the horizontal supports, basically everything besides the top beam.
I know there were some issues with the Piggy part of The Hunt such that it was changed and shortened shortly after the event began, and I’m not sure what exactly that entails. All I know is that I completed the badge. I don’t know how exactly I did it, but I did. Anyway, the first level that was needed to get the badge had some bad wood grain but I was unable to capture it before I teleported to the second level. The second level, however, had a ton of bad wood grain as soon as you spawned with this little market set up.
Royale High was a surprisingly good event. I had almost zero expectations going into it, expecting it to be something along the lines of whatever it is that happens in Royale High, but instead it was a neat little egg hunt. While the event was good itself, unfortunately the wood grain was not good. The doors to exit and enter the event had bad wood grain, with each door being made of multiple planks, with each plank having horizontal rather than vertical wood grain. Still, this is a fairly minor issue, and hopefully the rest of Royale High has better wood grain since I don’t really feel like checking it all anytime soon.
Obby But You’re On a Bike by Fortune 77
Obby But You’re on a Bike was a fairly simple badge, just complete the obby a bit and do a race. Most of the game has smooth wood grain, and stop me if you’ve heard this before, besides for the sign post. The issue here is all the parts of this sign stands have wood grain that wraps around the board, instead of going along the length of it. Granted, this is different than most of the screw ups with sign posts, it is still a screw up.
Metro Life by Century Creators
The next game I played was Metro Life. I honestly completely forget what this game was about, besides for the fact it was another roleplaying game, and that my notes for the game said that this was right next to spawn. Either way, all that matters is that this chair swing was right next to spawn, and that it has a bunch of bad wood grain all over it. I think there might be more bad wood grain elsewhere in the map, but honestly I completely forget what else was in this game.
Fruit Battlegrounds by P O P O
Fruit Battlegrounds is the second anime game I played in The Hunt. Like several other games, I barely even had to play this game in order to find the bad wood grain as it appeared right on the intro screen when I first started the game. Here the backrest of the chairs, supports for the island, and the wood paneling on the island all have improper wood grain. Keep in mind, this is literally the first thing everyone sees when they enter the game, imagine how much more bad wood grain there is in the actual game.
Gunfight Arena by Gunfight Studios
Gunfight Arena is an arena shooter, basically, where the objective of the badge was to collect items that players dropped when they died. As you can tell by the fact I have the in-game reward for completing the badge, I took this screenshot shortly after I unlocked the badge as I was looking for a decent screenshot as I couldn’t find any bad wood grain. That was until a new round started and I instantly found bad end grain on the top face of these crates. So close to being good, but close doesn’t count, especially when I’m not giving the benefit of the doubt.
Ultimate Football by Cloudburst Interactive
Ultimate Football is the second football game in The Hunt, and the one that showed me all NFL quaterbacks are wrong and the best way to play football is for a quarterback to run back to their endzone and do nothing but throw 110 yard Hail Marys every play. Anyway, the objective for the badge was basically just to play the game, and luckily for the game there was no bad wood grain inside. However, inside the main lobby there was bad wood grain on this sign. I know, bad wood grain on a sign in a lobby, so original for this event.
Project Smash by Project Smash
Project Smash is a not-Smash game where you play 3D not-smash. The lobby you see in front of you was basically all smooth plastic with no wooden signs to ruin the game, and the map for the game itself was just the 2008 version of Crossroads from before they added added wood to Roblox, so naturally it doesn’t have any wood grain in it. So congrats, it’s been a while, but finally another game that doesn’t have bad wood grain.
Total Roblox Drama by Mojo’s Games
Total Roblox Drama is a totally original game idea that is not at all based on any other IP. Anyway, to get the badge all I had to do was compete in the game and survive for a bit. The game was entirely made with smooth plastic, however this dock does have some minor issues. You see, this dock’s wooden planks don’t make any sense because the planks have nothing supporting them so they should just fall to the side. Normally I would go into more detail on this in a dedicated blog post, but for this post all I’m going to say is that it is bad because no benefit of the doubt.
Blade Ball is a game where a sentient dodge ball tries to attack you, and in order to survive you need to attack the ball with a sword in order to get it to attack other players. The badge mostly consisted of just playing the game, which was just basically a smooth plastic baseplate, however my best friend in The Hunt “wooden sign in lobby that is all smooth plastic otherwise” has returned to ruin the score of yet another game in this years event. Seriously, is everyone getting advice on how to make wooden signs from Asimo this year?
PLS DONATE had a special event that basically turned the game into a mining simulator. Like a bunch of other games, the entire game was smooth plastic, so it had no wooden material. However, unlike other games it had no wooden signs to ruin the wood in this game. With that being said, this dock in the game does have some some weird stuff going on with this dock, but I don’t have time to explain it here without going into some massive rand. Anyway, it is closer to being right and the event was fun, so it gets a pass. Is it fair that I am giving this game a better rating than others because it is fun? Yes, it is fair, because I declared it fair.
The Floor Is LAVA! by TheLegendOfPryo
The Floor is Lava is an obstacle course game where the main objective is to climb up objects in order to escape the rising lava. However, the creators added a special level, where if you get a special egg hidden in the level you get the badge. However, one thing this level also has is this wooden ladder, which has bad wood grain. This was not the only example of bad wood grain as I found at least one more example in a regular level, but I figured I should include this ladder one since you need to finish this level to get the badge.
For The Hunt event, Rolve built an impressively large single player map for players in Arsenal. While it is honestly a bit impressive that they were able to build so much so fast, one issue with the new level was the wooden crates in the level. The vertical and horizontal supports all share the same wood orientation, which is bad for some of the outer supports. However, this isn’t the only issue with the game, as some of the wooden features of the guns also have improper wood grain. This is harder for me to capture so I didn’t capture it, so these crates will have to do since I’m lazy right now.
Another game™ by GameFam™, Military Tycoon™ is a tycoon where you do tycoon things while trying to not be bullied by more experienced players. I forget what exactly the goal was for this game, but as soon as I spawned I was able to find bad wood grain on a wooden sign post. Yes, this game has bad wood grain on signs without there even being a lobby involved. Don’t worry, there was plenty of bad wood grain elsewhere around the map, I just found this example literally 5 seconds after I spawned because GameFam is a great company that produces the highest quality games.
Emergency Response: Liberty County by Police Roleplay Community
Another driving roleplay game where you drive around looking for collectables around a map, Emergency Response: Liberty County has a ton of bad wood grain all around the map. The first example I found was right outside one of the collectable locations, on this planter. Don’t worry, this wasn’t the only example of bad wood grain I found in this game, it just the first example I found so this is the one I’m using.
Funky Friday by Lyte Entertainment
Funky Friday is a rhythm game that took pity on everyone who is bad at rhythm games by making is so instead of completing any challenge in the game you just had to finish three songs, and for that I thank the devs. However, I can’t be too nice since the game does have improper wood grain on the violin. The grain on the violin should go from the top of the violin to the bottom, but it doesn’t. Instead it goes from one side to the other.
A Wolf Or Other by Otter Space
A Wolf or Other is a social deduction game, and for the event you had to grab and egg and survive a round, which for me meant hiding on the roof while hoping the werewolf was stupid. Luckily, it worked. Anyway, I didn’t need to actually get that far into the game to find bad wood grain since the intro screen feature several examples. One was on the vertical post for the lamp post, another was on the vertical post on the windows, and as the camera zoomed around the building there were also several examples inside the building, such as on the supports for the tables and chairs, but I just picked this one because I didn’t want to wait for the camera to turn around.
Sonic Speed Simulator by GameFam
Yes, another GameFam game, this one again features bad wood grain. I mean, are you really surprised with how high quality all of GameFam’s games are? Anyway, the objective for the badge for this event was to just run around a factory and repeatedly collect the same thing over and over again. The bad wood grain in this game wasn’t in the main level, but rather in the main hub where the shop had these bad wooden supports. Not sure why anyone would expect anything different from GameFam, but for some reason I had a bit of hope.
Tsunami Game by Virtual Valley Games
Another game with a shop, another game with a shop that has bad wood grain. In Tsunami game, the main issue with the shop if the top edge, which has front to back wood grain on the bottom face instead of side-to-side like the front face, the front counter which has the same issues, and the shelves in back the same issues, again. Other than the shop, I didn’t find any major issues with Tsunami Game, but unfortunately the issues in the shop are all that I needed to find.
Dungeon Quest! RPG Adventure by Dungeon Quest
Dungeon Quest is a dungeon-based combat game, and its badge was mostly just completing a few of the dungeons in the game. However, I did not have to go far to find some bad wood grain. In fact, as soon as I spawned in I saw some bad wood grain on the starter sword. The wood grain should go from the top of the blade to the butt of the sword, however instead it goes from the front to the back on the sword. This was not the only example of bad wood grain I saw, but again I find it funny that I literally just had to spawn in to find it.
Snowboard Obby is an obby where you had to pass one level to get the badge for The Hunt. Overall the obby was quick to beat to earn the badge, and as far as I could tell there was no bad wood grain throughout the entire thing. However, my best friend “sign post with bad wood grain” appeared again, this time directly in the lobby after I completed the obby. So yes, I could have not seen it while completing the badge to a T, just by finishing the obby and walking for 2 seconds I was able to find the bad wood grain, so I’m counting it.
Elemental Powers Tycoon by Giggle Inc
Another tycoon, another case of some bad wood grain as soon as I spawn into the empty tycoon plot. This time it is on the wooden frame for this doorway that protects you when you enter the tycoon. To get the badge I had to progress a decent amount into the tycoon, and in doing so I found a whole ton more bad wood grain, but like I said I really find it funny when I find some bad wood grain right off the bat. Maybe if they don’t want me to find bad wood grain the devs should at least make it a challenge.
Cheese TD by Decent Games EXTREME
Cheese Tower Defense is a complete combo package of bad wood grain that I found in the hunt. For one, it has a custom level built just for The Hunt, and that level doesn’t have any bad wood grain. For two, it is a tower defense game, which seems to be getting more and more common. And three, it has a random wooden sign in the main lobby room that had bad wood grain. Only unlike most of the signs with bad wood grain that other games have, Cheese Tower Defense has bad wood grain on the sign portion of the sign. But it isn’t bad for not being vertical or horizontal, but rather because it is diagonal, probably because of some bad CSG union or something.
Spray Paint is an interesting game. It honestly reminded me a lot of the old script builders or build to survive places more than any other place in the last few years. Sure, the medium of painting is different than that of script building or block building, but it is the general creativity of it and the fact there were a bunch of people were just creating things that will end up being destroyed fairly soon while just vibing the whole time. Anyway, the badge had a fairly short and interesting quest associated with it that was partially a collect-a-thon, and during that part I found some bad wood grain on a bench. Luckily since the game has spray paint, I was able to paint some lines on this bench to show how the wood grain should be aligned.
Weapon Fighting Simulator by Lightning Dragon Studio.
Weapon Fighting Simulator is another tycoon that has basically the entire map made of smooth plastic. However, do you want to guess what is in the game? If you guessed a sign, you are correct. If you guessed a sign with bad wood grain on the vertical supports, you are doubly correct. This sign was right near the initial spawn so I didn’t have to go that far to find it. I mean, there may have been more wood grain elsewhere in the game since I only had to get through the first world to complete the badge, but who knows, maybe this sign was really the only example of bad wood grain.
Bike of Hell by Basket Studios
Bike of Hell was a fairly easy badge to get, you just had to complete a single level during a special “The Hunt” level. The only wood grain I found in the game was on a tree, and it was fine, so overall it was OK. Not much to add, maybe one of the later levels has a sign with bad wood grain, but that is for future me to find out one day if I ever feel like it.
Anime Dimensions Simulator by Albatross Games
In the least legally distinct anime game in The Hunt, this time you had to progress through a level two or three times to get the badge. Fortunately for me, I didn’t have to look that for for bad wood grain since I found some as soon as I spawned in the main lobby. It wasn’t a sign this time, but rather the wood grain on the pillars for the porches. In addition to just those pillars, the windows also have some bad wood grain on the vertical sections, along with some wooden trim between levels on the buildings. So yeah, overall a bunch of bad wood grain to spot just from spawning in.
Natural Disaster Survival by StickMasterLuke
Ah Natural Disaster Survival, a classic that has been a part of almost ever major Roblox event and has been around longer than a bunch of Roblox users have been alive. And yet after all these years Luke still hasn’t fixed the bad wood grain in many of the levels. Take the barn level, for example, the main pillars on the barn have improper wood grain, as do the top face of the front of the stable. I’m sure one year Luke will get around to fixing it, or maybe one of these RDCs I will just have to take a quick swing by his house and fix all the levels for him.
Lumberjack Simulator by xFrozen Takeaway
When I saw the name “Lumberjack Simulator” in the list of games for The Hunt you can only imagine how excited I was to cut some trees down. You can then imagine my disappointment when I discovered that a majority of the game was not spent cutting trees, but rather increasing your strength. Anyway, all this badge involved was working through the first world of the simulator, and then fighting a special Easter Bunny in a special level. Anyway, the sign that pointed to this special level was made out of wooden planks, and the top part of this sign had improper wood grain. It should go from side to side, or ideally be made out of wood, not wooden planks, but it is vertical instead. How ironic that the one sign with good wood grain on the posts has bad wood grain on the actual sign.
Mega Hide and Seek! by Blox Games
Mega Hide and Seek is a hide and seek game whose objective for The Hunt was simply to win a round. As I won a round on my first try, I only got to play one map, and the entire map was smooth plastic, so there wasn’t any improper wood grain that I saw. This may not be true on all the maps, but for the purpose of this review it passes.
Car Dealership Tycoon by Foxzie
The objective for The Hunt badge in Car Dealership Tycoon was simply to find some eggs around the map. I forget if I managed to find any wood grain organically around the map, but I was able to find some on the signs around the map placed for The Hunt to tell people the limits of the eggs were located, so add another case of “wooden signs cause a game to have bad wood grain” to the pile. I really hope for everyone’s sake that this trend starts to end soon, as I want either there to not be bad wood grain in games, or for the bad wood grain I do find to be so comically easy to fix.
Shindo Life is probably the anime game in the hunt that was the most distinct from any anime that I know, and that deserves some props, or means that I need to watch more anime. It also had a fairly easy quest in order to earn the badge for The Hunt, so that is another positive. However, one thing that the game lacks is proper wood grain. The game had many examples of improper wood grain, from tables to chairs, but the first one that I found shortly after I spawned into the game was these pillars that had bad wood grain. Additionally, the beam that holds up the sign also has bad wood grain.
Undead Defense Tycoon by Box Games
Undead Defense Tycoon is a tycoon where you primarily earn money by shooting zombies and the actual tycoon part of the game is something you just use to buy better guns. Unlike other tycoons in The Hunt, the objectives weren’t based on tycoon progress, but rather by killing certain zombies with eggs on their head. However, one way that this tycoon is just like the others is that the starting plot of the tycoon has bad wood grain on it, this time in the shape of a table. The wood grain should go from one side to the other, but instead it goes from the front to the back. This is repeated on all of the tables in the tycoon, but again, it is funnier to show a picture from when I first spawned into the game.
Survive the Killer! by Slyce Entertainment
Survive the Killer is is a game where you survive being killed by a killer. I know, shocking, bet you could never figure that out from the name. Anyway, the badge for this even was earned by surviving a round, and escaping with a special item found in the map. But like most other game, I don’t need to show you a map to get to the bad wood grain, but rather just show you a part of the lobby, this time a user cabin that you can upgrade/customize. The starter cabin is full of improper wood grain, on the window frame, door frame, and several supports on the outside.
Astro Renaissance by Comet Studios
I’ll be honest, I have no idea what the normal gameplay is for Astro Renaissance, but for The Hunt it had a fairly impressive story-based collect-a-thon levels with a neat space theme that culminates is a nice little boss fight. Of course, despite it being in space, for some reason there are floating wooden pallets and a dock in the game, and both of them have bad wood grain. Why does a space based game have floating wooden pallets? I have no clue. All I know is that both the pallet and the dock have bad wood grain and as a result they ruin what is otherwise a surprisingly pleasing level that I had almost no expectations for going into the event.
Strongman Simulator by The Gang Stockholm
Strongman Simulator was a weird game. Unlike most of the other simulators where you either just progress through the simulator like normal or have a new mode that is basically just the simulator but with a different theme, Strongman Simulator has an entirely new obstacle course based level based on the dragging items mechanic in the game, but without having to do any of the grinding in the rest of the game. In addition, the entire game is smooth plastic, so there is no visible bad wood grain, and because you don’t need to progress in the simulator it stopped me from progressing further into the game to find any other bad wood grain. And, most importantly for this egg hunt, no wooden signs anywhere to ruin what is otherwise a good game.
Restaurant Tycoon 2 -by Ultraw
The second third restaurant based tycoon in The Hunt, from what I saw Restaurant Tycoon 2 had no bad wood grain inside of the actual restaurant. Now, I’m sure if I upgrade it more I could have found some table or chair or something with bad wood grain, but that is outside the scope of The Hunt so I won’t find out. However, right near spawn there was this little stall thing and guess what, the vertical supports on it have improper wood grain. Did I have to wander a bit from the badge to get it? Yes. Could I see it from the front of my restaurant? Also yes.
Entering this review fairly late in the game is Twin Atlas. I’m not sure how I somehow ended up reviewing all four of their games in The Hunt as part of the last 1/3rd of the badges I had to complete, but hey, that just happens with RNG sometimes. Anyway, Twin Atlas had a fairly fun challenge of hooking a trailer up to your car and gathering scrap to complete the badge. What you see above is before I started the badge quest and was wandering around a bit lost, during which time I found a picnic table with bad wood grain on the table legs. If only they made starting the badge quest idiot proof then I might not have noticed this, but oh well, guess my stupidity pays off for once.
Wild Horse Islands by Happy Acres
Happy Acres isn’t the first horse based Roblox game I’ve ever played, but it is the first one I had to play for The Hunt, which is something. Anyway, for the badge you had to tame a horse and unlock a special rainbow race and complete said race. I didn’t have to do any of that to find some bad wood grain; all I had to do was spawn in and look at the fence around the spawn area. The wooden posts here all have bad wood grain, as does several of the structures near my horse pen and in the main town. Of course I could get a better look, but again, it is funny when I don’t have to move at all to find the bad wood grain.
RB Battles Minigames! by RB Battles
In RB Battles the objective for The Hunt was to play several games, and then play a custom game mode that was either a rat battle or a rap battle. As my experience in Funky Friday showed, I suck at rhythm games so I went with the rat battle. Before I got there, a cutscene appeared which features this college class room, and in the class room were these odd desks with some wooden trim. The issue here is with the very top face of the trim on the sides of the desk, it has wood grain that goes from one side to the other instead of the proper front to back grain.
Escape Running Head by Manato48
Escape Running Head game is one of those games where you do exactly what the game title says and you escape the running head. The object for the badge was also the same, with it requiring you to escape from the running head. This was an… odd game. This oddness extended to how the game managed to have bad wood grain, with a rare visit from wooden trusses. I could go on a massive rant on how and why wooden trusses are bad, but just know they are and any use of them in games will result in bad wood grain and there is nothing you can do to make them correct. Truss me, I’ve tried.
Brookhaven was another role-playing game that featured an egg hunt around a limited portion of the game’s map. The fact it was limited really restricted the chances that I could find any bad wood grain, since it didn’t allow me to view any user homes that usually have bad wood grain, and walled off a significant portion of the map. However, I still found some really questionable wood grain inside of this cafe, with the ceiling having some bad wooden plank orientation on the support beams. Technically, this is just questionable, but as stated above, no benefit of the doubt is being given today, so it counts as bad.
Arm Wrestle Simulator by Kubo Games
Arm Wrestle Simulator is another simulator that has a custom area made for its event. This area is fairly small and made almost entirely out of smooth plastic, so no bad wood grain is found here. Additionally, it has no random wooden signs in this room or in the lobby, so this game is good for the event. Can it have bad wood grain in the main game? Maybe. But that is outside of the scope here.
SpongeBob Simulator by GameFam
Another quality game by GameFam™, SpongeBob simulator is basically Pet Sim but less fun. And that is an amazing accomplishment since Pet Sim isn’t really that fun. Anyway, as with the typical GameFam quality™, SpongeBob sim managed to have bad wood grain on this wooden SpongeBob statue. Now, there is a lot to take in with this statue, but basically the wood grain on every part of this statue goes in different directions. On this shoe, for example, the wood grain on the side goes from the front to back on the shoe, while on the top it goes from side to side, and on the back it goes vertical. The same issue occurs on the tie, where parts of the tie are vertical and other parts are horizontal. Seeing as this statue is a custom mesh and custom texture, there is no reason for this outside of the typical GameFam quality control™. Also for those keeping score at home, this is game #4 for GameFam in The Hunt, and all 4 have bad wood grain.
World // Zero by RedManta/Twin Atlas
World//Zero is an RPG adventure game where you quest through an adventurers world and kill monsters and complete special dungeon quests. The world is fairly massive, which makes it all the more funny that I found some bad wood grain on the initial spawn in screen, with the starter axe having bad wood grain. Don’t worry, there is more bad wood grain throughout the game but I just wanted to use this specific screenshot to add to my collection of “games that features bad wood grain as soon as you spawn in without doing anything at all.” Hopefully soon dev will at least make it so I have to play a game before I find bad wood grain.
Deadly Decisions by Jandel’s Games
Deadly Decision is a gameshow-esque game where you have to complete a quiz about Roblox in order to survive to the end of the round to win the badge. Your motivation for doing this is that if you don’t the host of the game will kill your friend, but jokes on them they showed my GollyGreg as my friend and I don’t care if he dies or not. Anyway, the issue with this game wasn’t with the actual map itself, but in one of the post round death scenes where this book case spawned in. The book case has bad vertical wood grain on the vertical posts, and the vertical side panels. The picture frame also has wood grain, but the rounded ended before I was able to get a proper screenshot of it.
Break In 2 is a team based game where you have to infiltrate an evil lair because of reasons that I forget. To earn the badge you just had to complete half of the game, which wasn’t too hard. A majority of the game was smooth plastic with a few additional textures scattered throughout, such as with this picture frame that has bad wood grain along all of the sides. This is a fairly simple fix, and seeing as this was the only case of bad wood grain I saw in the game, it wouldn’t take much to make the game acceptable.
Club Roblox by Block Evolution Studios
Club Roblox is a game where you adopt kids and pets, and for some reason for the event you have to complete an obstacle course to defeat an evil villain. Does this make sense? No. Is it still better than the other game where you have to adopt a child? Yes. Anyway, most of the game lacks bad wood grain, but like other role-playing games it also has a user built house feature, and it is here that we find the bad wood grain, this time on the wooden supports for the front porch. Still wonder why so many games are so good at using proper wood grain on their main game but struggle with their user houses.
Collect All Pets is another Pet Sim inspired game, not quite as good as Pet Sim, but much better than SpongeBob Simulator. Like several other simulators, the entire game is smooth plastic so there isn’t any bad wood grain wood grain anywhere in the game from the first three levels that were required to earn the badge. The one somewhat questionable part of the game was this roof on a wooden shack, which lacked overlapping boards that keep the shack waterproof. Since this is technically structurally sound this does get a pass, just hope it doesn’t rain.
Warrior Cats: Ultimate Edition by WarriorCatsRP
Warrior Cats: Ultimate Edition is a game where you role-play as a cat. Thankfully for the devs, there are no awkward signs with bad wood grain, no lobbies with bad wood grain, or and user made houses with bad wood grain. Unforantetly, the game consisted of an egg hunt throughout a new world, meaning anything in this level was fair as I looked for the eggs. The first example of bad wood grain I found was on this wooden crate right near the spawn. It had bad wood grain on the piece of wood on top facing my camera. It should go from one side of the crate to the other, much like the face on top.
The quest for Adopt Me as was a simple quest through three previous event games. Being that Adopt Me is famous for helping to popularize the smooth plastic aesthetic along with Meep City, it should be of no surprise that the entire game is nothing but smooth plastic.
NEED MORE FRIENDS by Nukes Studio
Need More Friends is a story driven game about something that I don’t know since I didn’t play the main game and instead just played the special The Hunt event level. The level was an obstacle course, and most of it was smooth plastic and other non-wood materials. There was, however, a wooden table at the very end of the event level, and this table has bad wood grain on the table legs, and the wooden planks that make up the table top have bad end grain. The game was so close to being good, it just had to ruin it in the end.
Berry Avenue RP by Amberry Games
Berry Avenue RP is another role-playing game where you have to complete tasks, and stop me if you’ve heard this before, but as soon as you spawn in you can see some back wood grain in the background on a bench right near spawn. Again, there were more obvious examples of bad wood grain hidden throughout the rest of the game, but finding it at the spawn point is still funny. I just wish that I only had to find bad wood grain in these games instead of completing the badges, as I could have finished all 100 games in less than 2 days.
War Tycoon by Green Titans Entertainment
Yet another combat-based base building tycoon, War Tycoon keeps up the trend that all of the other combat tycoons have where there is bad wood grain on your tycoon plot as soon as you spawn into the game. This time it is on a wooden cover for a bunker that you unlock on future rebirths in the game. The bottom boards in this case are correct, however the cross beams on top are incorrect. As it appears that these are separate bricks, this is probably a fairly easy fix, but the other issues scattered through the map probably aren’t. And yes, there are more issues, I just don’t have them documented for this review.
Driving Empire by Driving Empire by Voldex
The final driving based game that I completed in The Hunt, Driving Empire had a fairly simple task of driving around the map collecting eggs. Fortunately, this gave me free right over the entire map to search for improper wood grain. Unfortunately, I did manage to find some at the plot are for custom user houses. One difference between this game and others with bad user houses is the bad wood grain here wasn’t in the actual houses, but instead on the posts for the signs that tell users where the plots are. Granted this is similar to other games in The Hunt that have bad wood grain on signs, but this time at least it is in a different location.
The second RPG game by Twin Atlas to appear in this year’s Hunt, this is also the second Twin Atlas RPG game that has improper wood grain in the initial loading screen for the game. This time it isn’t on the weapon, although in-game there are weapons and buildings that have bad wood grain, but rather the computer desk that greets you when you first join. The wood grain here should go from one side to the other on the desk, instead of from the front to back like it does. What is worse is that on the side desk, where the wood grain should go from front to back in reference to the camera the wood grain goes from one side to the other. Usually when there are desks like this one side has bad wood grain while the other side is good, both sides being bad is unique.
Combat Warriors by PlayCombatWarriors
Combat Warriors is an arena based combat game that is unlike most other fighting games on Roblox due to the fact it has a lot of blood. In addition to the blood, the game features a bunch of bad wood grain. The first example I saw was on this cart that was right next to one of the spawns on a map. Here the leg for one end of the cart has bad wood grain, and the upper faces of the beams going from the front to the back of the cart.
Catalog Avatar Creator by ItsMuneeeb
Catalog Avatar Creator had a unique mode for The Hunt, that featured a classically styled sword fighting map between several old war clans. In order to win the badge, all you had to do was win a match. Seeing as the map was based on the 2008 style of building and as a result was all smooth plastic, there wasn’t any other material that I could find on the map, and hence no bad wood grain.
Lumber Tycoon 2 – by Defaultio
Oh boy, buckle your pants everyone, it is finally time to take a look at Lumber Tycoon 2. I’ve been putting off doing a review of this game for a while because of reasons to make the eventually review funnier, but I I had to include it in The Hunt Review. Luckily for me, Defaultio decided to join along in the funny by having a sign with bad wood grain on your starting plot just like a bunch of other tycoons in The Hunt. Lumber Tycoon has been like this for nearly a decade now, so it wasn’t included just to fit in with the rest of the game and in my opinion it makes the bad sign posts even funnier. Maybe in another 10 years this sign will be fixed.
Bed Wars had a fairly basic The Hunt quest, which was just getting several eggs throughout a special level made just for The Hunt. Seeing as the entire game has custom textures and makes heavy use of smooth plastic, along with the fact I only played the special level for The Hunt and checked the lobby, I wasn’t able to find any wood in the map at all. I mean, parts of the map like the brown stalls behind me were clearly supposed to represent wood, but seeing as they were textureless there was no bad wood grain to be found here.
The fourth and final game published by BIG Games in The Hunt, BIG Paintball 2 has some high expectations to live up to seeing as the other three games all have proper wood grain. And guess what, in the two levels I played I was unable to find any bad wood grain. I did find these crates on the second level, but the wood grain was fine. This is the best showing of any dev in The Hunt, and honestly these four games a make up a quarter of all the games in The Hunt without bad wood grain. This is a large improvement over where BIG Games was just a few years ago.
Dragon Adventures by Sonar Studios/Twin Atlas
The fourth game by Twin Atlas and their associated studios to be a part of The Hunt, this is also the fourth game in The Hunt that features improper wood grain. No, this was not in anyway intentional after BIG Games had four games all with proper wood grain, it is just one of those things that happened to work out this way. Anyway, the event was a search for several eggs through the map, and while searching for the eggs I wandered across the user house area and guess what, I found bad wood grain at the user houses. This time it wasn’t a vertical post or anything else, but rather bad end grain on some wooden planks on a bridge leading to the users plot.
Death Ball by Anime Boys Developers
Death Ball is the second dodgeball with sword related game in The Hunt, and its badge was the most unique with a custom lobby and a custom boss fight you had to beat in order to earn the badge. The boss fight was fairly interesting, although one thing to note is it is a lot easier once you realize you can double jump in the game. Anyway, the boss fight was nice, but that wasn’t my issue with the game. My issue was in the lobby, where this handcart that was decorating the even portal has improper wood grain on the handles and the sides of the handcart. In addition, the shelves in the background have improper wood grain on the front lip and their supports, so all around a bunch of bad wood grain here.
The goal of the event in DOORS was to complete a backdoors level. To be honest I have no idea if it was a special level or tutorial level, but it was something. However, I didn’t even have the play those levels in order to find some bad wood grain as the lobby had more than enough. Just a few seconds from spawn I found bad wood grain on the upper face of the baseboard trim and chair trail, and some bad wood grain on the chair table legs directly behind me. This isn’t even counting all of the bad wood grain that I saw in the actual levels, and trust me there was a bunch there. All and all, that was fairly disappointing for what is usually known as such a well made game.
Creatures of Sonaria by Sonar Studios/Twin Atlas
The fifth and final game from Twin Atlas, and the once chance the studio has to redeem itself, Creatures of Sonaria is another dragon based role-playing game. Now I’m not sure why Twin Atlas has two dragon RPG games and two combat RPG games, but I’m not to judge based on that. What I am here to judge on is the wood grain on the decorative Easter baskets they have around the map. These handles have improper wood grain on them, the wood should follow the handle around the basket, not go diagonal to it. Overall, a very poor showing from Twin Atlas, with the one benefit is that at least their games were more fun than GameFams.
Bayside High School by Double Bandit Studios
Bayside High School is yet another role-playing game. Despite the fact that it was the third to last game I played as part of The Hunt, I forget what exactly the goal of the badge was, and seeing as this is well past the 10,000 word mark for this blog post, I doubt anyone still reading this will car. Much like several other role-playing games in The Hunt, I found some bad wood grain right near the spawn, and like several other games the bad wood grain was on a bench. The problem here is the back rest, which has vertical wood grain instead of the correct horizontal wood grain that should go from one side of the supports to the other.
3008 is a survival horror game where you *check notes* try to escape from angry Ikea workers at night while inside a massive Ikea. That is a game idea, and honestly it was a lot less offensive than several other games in The Hunt made by someone. Anyway, the issue with 3008 was that there were several assets inside of the Ikea that had bad wood grain, such as this chair and table set. There were several other noticeable examples of bad wood grain, such as on some bunk beds, but in the spirit of this review not getting too long, I don’t have pictures for those.
Carry A Friend! by PicturePearfect
Carry a Friend is a special obstacle course that involves two people working together, with one person carrying the other and throwing them around the map in order to complete the obstacles. It is a unique game for several reasons, and one of them is the fact that it is entirely smooth plastic and has no bad wood grain anywhere. And yes, for those keep tract at home, this is the final game I have to review in The Hunt, and no, I did not plan it this way at all.
Anyway, that was The Hunt. So, how was it? Well, seventeen games in The Hunt had proper wood grain, and of those seventeen four of them were made by BIG Games and another three were made by Scriptbloxian, so those two alone are really bringing up the average for everyone else. As for notable dishonorable mentions, Twin Atlas had five games in The Hunt between all their studios and all five had bad wood grain, and GameFam also had all four of their games feature bad wood grain in some capacity.
Additionally, there were several games that made and absolutely boneheaded decision to include wooden signposts and nothing else as any material, and that ruined the wood grain for those games. Also, nineteen games had bad wood grain that I was able to document and spot without moving my character a single stud, which is kind of embarrassing since there is no excuse for any play tester to ever miss those.
Hopefully after this blog post goes live more people will realize just how bad their wood grain is since this post targets one hundred games at a time, rather than my normal posting of two to three reviews a month. Does this mean I probably should increase my posting rate so more devs are aware of how much they screw up their wood grain? Probably. Is this any defense for devs to still use bad wood grain, especially for the devs whose games I’ve already reviewed that still have bad wood grain? No. Hopefully The Hunt: Second Edition goes just a slight bit better than this one.
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The real question is, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck?
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“…but jokes on them they showed my GollyGreg as my friend and I don’t care if he dies or not.” is evidence that woodreviewer actually hates gollygreg despite him being his only friend on roblox.
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