Hello there classic users of Roblox, WoodReviewer here, and today I am taking a look The Classic event hosted by Roblox and Twin Atlas Studios. If you are interested in participating in this event, I’m sorry but for comedic timing I am again publishing this right as the event ends so it is over so you can’t. Or maybe you can. My point is you shouldn’t rely on me to tell you when Roblox events are occurring.

Now I’m sure if you ended up on my blog, you probably know what The Classic event is, but if you don’t then why are you here? Like seriously, why are you here? Go do something better with your time since the info here only applies if you play Roblox and know what the event is.

Anyway, much like my blog post on The Hunt, there are a few basic ground rules I made for myself for this review, and they are more or less the same. I will only play each game until I am able to complete all the challenges for each game, and base my review on that. Normally I do like to try and complete and entire game, or atleast a vast majority of what a game has to offer, before I review it, but due to the time crunch of having to complete 15 sets of challenges in 15 games, I don’t have the time for that. Yes, there are only 15 games instead of 100 games during The Hunt, but each game this time takes ~2-3 hours to complete, plus I only had 5 days instead of 15 to complete them all, so the time crunch for both events is about the same so the rules are the same.

One thing I do need to state is that these reviews are not final reviews. So for the games that I can’t find bad wood grain in it doesn’t mean they don’t have any, it just means I couldn’t find any within the scope of the event. But don’t worry, this won’t come up too much with event.

Anyway, that is enough for the intro, now into the actual games.

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.

Hello there Roblox texture artists who are looking for my feedback on the new wood materials, WoodReviewer here to take a look at the recent Roblox materials update that was announced back in December, but whose initial test build was recently released on GitHub. You can find more details on this on the Dev Forum. Obviously I only care about the wood and wooden planks textures, and I will talk about the pros and cons on both new textures, but before I get underway with giving a well thought out opinion on these new materials, I need to get something out of the way quickly: I hate the new wooden plank texture.

I HATE THE NEW WOODEN PLANK TEXTURE

I hate the new wooden plank texture. Now I will be the first to admit, I can be a bit nitpicky at times and may just offer vague suggestions on how to fix something or what is wrong, but I just hate this new wooden plank texture. Why? Well, to explain let me illustrate my issue with a picture.

Here is an image of two 10 stud longs by one stud wide bricks, one being smooth plastic, the other being the new wooden plank texture.

Now I have one question for you, dear readers, what is this absolute abomination on the side of this plank texture?