The Australian Game development scene was heartbroken that this game was built overseas for a cheaper price rather than letting locals put the heart and soul and loving touch of lived experience into it that it deserved.

The moral of the story: You don’t always need what you “want.”

I was happy to hear that your daughter has never had to experience a bad game. This is a privilege she only has because she has experienced gamer parents who help her get access to good games. How many times have I seen parents buy their children the biggest rubbish games in stores simply because they have no idea or just don't care.

I remember seeing a comment under the Bluey game trailer that said that it would be "better than anything Nintendo could ever make" or something. Like, honey, no it won't. Hate Nintendo all you want but they can make some stellar games

There being a dedicated kick button but not a dedicated button for picking up an item is wild. I haven't seen much of Bluey, but is kicking a major part of the series?

Your story feels like it could be an episode. Just like studio ludo you went above and beyond in the production of something, way past what was called for, and the music has me holding back tears. It's clear you're highly qualified on the subject matter, not just from the sheer amount of references but your synopsis of it overall, it's good to see you really "get it" with this show. That's a huge green flag for parenting in my book, that not a lot of people can say they have. You're doing great!

2:51 Major correction - Mickey Mouse is still copyrighted. Only the version from Steamboat Willie is not - and only frames from Steamboat Willie that were not reused in future Disney projects are in the public domain. So that part where he's whistling, is still copyrighted. Edit: As pointed out by @whyrwehere it is not necessarily copyrighted but at least trademarked. Either way you can get in trouble for using those frames or any future version of Mickey Mouse.

I would like to have words with whichever evil monster thought it would be a good idea to have a Floor is Lava minigame in an engine as ill-suited to platforming as Bluey

I feel the best video game of Bluey would be a Dance Dance Revolution styled dancing game, just using the incredible music from Joff Bush, and using the same difficulty scale as DDR, the same way Lego Rock Band was for the Rock Band franchise. It will be enjoyed by kids with energy, and if the stepcharts are treated with respect, the dancing game community (should it still exist) may actually take it in as a respectable dancing game.

It’s a shame because the graphics and art style look really nice, and actually look like the show. My daughters have been playing the Paw Patrol games, which are also bad AND the graphics are rubbish too. Yoshi’s Crafted World is a good game for young children to play. Mellow Mode makes it much more forgiving but they still learn the basics of platforming, an essential skill for budding videogame players. It helps that everything is made from crafting materials that they recognise too.

MatPat created such a stigma around earthbound and undertale that no one is allowed to create any comparison between the two without being criticized by fans 😂

Sure... I was gonna get it for my kid... (That I don't have)... Not for me... But good to know it's not a very good game.

I bought it, and I thought it was okay. I didn't actually experience any bugs, but I really didn't like how short it was.. I got every collactable, watered every plant, learned every control scheme, beat the game, and got it's achievements in like 2 hours.. They really need to add onto this game..

Yeah as I mentioned earlier in the community post advertising this episode; This game was "Lovingly" given to us by the people at GameMill Publishing. It's part of their new "OG Games" line of video games. It's sorta a modern revival of THQ's old output of games before they would go bankrupt and would later reform under THQ-Nordic.

I'm surprised you didnt mention that the game retails between 60 and 70 bucks for Australia!

Me and my brother were playing and if p2 plays as bandit and p1 plays as bingo, if p1 walks upstairs and p2 is to the right of the book, bandit clips through the map & can fall out of the map

9:22 She just described an AVGN plot 😂

An unfortunate report! But thank you for informing the public. A bit of video editing advice for the future if you want to apply it, but I find it's nice that when speaking on something in a review, it's nice to have the footage of what you're talking about on screen alongside your words. Like when you're talking about the kick button, you can show a quick clip of the characters doing the action, or when you provided the anecdote about a character falling out of bounds, you could show that, or if it's too hard to recreate you could provide footage of some other funny glitch. Etc. you don't have to use this advice if you don't want to, it's your videos after all, I just find it's a good way to make your message clearer.

My 6 year old daughter LOVES this glitchy little game. There’s only a few bad glitches we have found. There’s a glitch that makes the Y button unusable even when the icon appears. There’s also the “Piggyback Glitch” where the camera will get stuck on Mum or Dad after you piggyback on them as Bluey or Bingo which can be fixed by pressing the + button on the Switch version and changing the character you’re playing as. We have had more issues with the camera than anything else. There is also this weird glitch where when you’re at the “Ground Is Lava” tutorial and you’re rescuing Muffin you can glitch the landing to Muffin by hopping with the “ow” animation even though it’s supposed to take you back to the previous platform. The pavlova on the lamp post in the park area can be got either using the nearby seesaw or using piggyback for those having trouble with it. Also while glitchy it’s not unplayable. It’s been 100% on two different Switch devices and one of them has never been updated so no patch. Also the unpatched one seems to run better which is odd. Edit: my opinion is that the game is unfinished. I don’t think it’s that bad. It’s just rushed and it shows in how short it is. I hate how glitchy it can be. But there are some redeeming things that the game has in its favor like seeing the inside of the house and just messing around with it. I liked seeing the fairy garden from Barky Boats and the tent from Camping in the creek area. My recommendation is buy it when it drops half price. It’s not a $40 game. $20 or less is ideal.

The other moral would be to research. The developers have been known to churn out shovelware designed for small children.

This episode of Video Game Story Time is called: APATHY

Bluey is a revival of ET? I don't know if I'd go THAT far. If Bluey is a retro-revival of any genre (not just a singular title), I'd say it's Wii shovelware.

Thank you for the review I hope the Bluey team sees this and does something about this.

I've been telling everybody about how awesome Howard Scott Warshaw is in spite of making ET, and that he tried to make something good and was just unsuccessful due to severe time constraints. I learned all that from you guys first. i get you're talking about Bluey mostly, but it's funny hearing "low effort glitchy cash grab" describing the same game from the same channel. (ftr, this is only a fun observation. I honestly don't have any issue with it ;D)

I know this will never be made into a video by anyone, with games being pushed to go digital, I've noticed shops have gone as far as to remove game consoles, like Tesco's the only gaming thing I noticed in most shops are gaming gift cards.

Who let Chilli create a KZfaq Review?

Bluey should have been a click and point adventure game similar to 90s computer games by Jump Start, like Reader Rabbit and Humongous Entertainment, such as Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, and Spy Fox and not whatever this hot garbage is. 💿💻🖱🐕

If you think Bandit kicking Bluey abd Bingo is bad, you're not going to want to see what they do to each other in the Bluey KZfaq Poop Collabs

Please don't bury more plastic into the ground. It'll take forever to turn back to oil.

Danggg they really said its a modern atari ET 🤣

This review is the video game equivalent of Roger Ebert's entire "Hated, hated, hated, hated this movie" review of North. This was a masterpiece of words, and BretonStripes saying them was the cherry on this cake.

As a Bluey fan, I WAS excited to play the game, but at the same time knew to wait for reviews to come out first. I'm glad I didn't buy a copy of the game at full price, because reviews showed it wasn't true to the TV series. For me, it alao happened that a physical copy of Super Mario Bros Wonder came up on Lazada's LazFlash (flash sales) during their Singles Day sale at the time and I snapped that up instead. I'm glad I did. (1:09) Knew it! I made a similar comparison too, as I could tell from reviews that Outright Games picked up the Bluey licence themselves and likely proceeded to bribe a third-party game development studio into making the actual game for them by a deadline. Ugh! (1:45) Argh! I feel seen! (Yes, Splatoon 3 is the current most played game on my Nintendo account, and I don't regret pre-ordering my copy of the game to enjoy all of those updates and in-game events!) (also assuming that the narrator's mention of 300 hours refers to having played since launch like I did) (I later realise that I have a lot of other Switch games I haven't played yet!) (yes I'm excited to play Side Order when that gets released!) (2:35) I somehow didn't expect to see the Switch parental controls having been enabled, but to be fair, I'm only 1 of 2 people in my family who play on games consoles and we both have our own Switch consoles. (3:10) "…trying to wean her daughter off of Splatoon" WHAT?!?!?!?! 🐙😳 (and then I start to realise what the narrator was trying to convey, as I have a number of other Switch games I haven't played!) Also, the mention of the Bluey game being a couch co-op game reminded me of when I imagined what a Bluey game could've been like back in early 2023 before the actual game was announced and subsequently released. What I imagined was an open-world RPG or adventure game that would also be entirely 2D to stay true to the art style of the TV series while allowing players to explore a decently sized or significant portion of Brisbane. (4:38) That mid-air position was probably some sort of zero coordinate or central point in Unity, the game engine the developers used. (8:04) I agree!!! I lost track of how many fiction TV and/or book series I had developed obsessions with, but Bluey is the current TV show I'm obsessed with to the point where I had been working on a fan-fiction as a side project. (9:41) At that point, I start to wonder if there are any Bluey fan-fictions that are safe for children to read and that feel like canonical Bluey episodes themselves.

My niece wanted this game for her Christmas, and she was hooked onto this game for like 2 days until she realised how boring it was and went back to Mario Wonder.

I preorder games from delevopers I trust, like Nintendo.

5:14 that has to be one of the saddest things, she's not even hit double digits yet and she's already being disillusioned to the modern AAA gaming industry

Can anyone please let me know is the end background music from this moment 8:36 i want to know cause it sounds so emotional and the melody is beautiful?

It’s almost impressive. I thought with the Wii U’s death shovelware was pretty much dead at least from what I’ve seen. Congrats to the Bluey developers for making shovelware long after it was popular. (Also shoutout to your daughter for 300 hours on Splat 3. When she’s older I look forward to hopefully seeing her join the competitive scene)

This is so personal

Yeah, I was excited about this game when it was announced, but then I learned it was being developed by the same studio as the G5 My Little Pony game and... Yeah, I severely lowered my expectations, and ended up being justified. So sad that so many good IPs which have the potential to HAVE a good game are being given so little care. Another example of this would be the Miraculous video game.

I hate to say it… I LOVE Bluey as a series… I’m a parent of 5. So yeah, I can quote the best episodes right along with the kids. But this game was a major letdown, especially at the $40 price point. I bought it for the hype… clearly, just based on price, I’d have been better waiting. But very disappointed, especially with all the glitches we had. Like picking up the DANG pavlova off the bookshelf! Who thought that was a good idea?!?!

Outright Games, a shovelware-producer since the start of the 8th generation (of consoles).

This really confirmed for me that this isn’t the game I will be playing with my youngest nieces and nephews. I really appreciate it

Well i would say it depends because i noticed that parents and and people who are single or dont have kids have WAY different opinions and its interesting to see it be so drastically different but what do i know it might as well just be me

Might be best to make a Bluey mod for A Hat in Time, someone did a Hilda mod for A Hat in Time, why not Bluey? Also Alva from Alva’s World, please!

TBH, the cutaways were the best part of the game, they felt with the same heart and soul of the actual series and that's probably the only aspect in which Ludo actually manifested, it's quite clear; seems the problem was the developer, they wanted to do a Bluey game without knowing how a game actually works... Then again, I wouldn't say it's terrible... Overpricey sure, but it's still a simple and fun experience for the kiddos, wouldn't say it's astonishing but not horrendous either, just fine. I heard some early versions were the ones that had the worst lagging, maybe you just had a glitched copy, sorry for that. Love how by the end of the review it became one for the show itself, being the masterpiece it is.

7:54 same for My Little Pony (2010). Appeals to everyone, video games of it typically are trash

as an aussie, its such a letdown that it wasnt developed locally. its such a shame considering how much it could've been beneficial to the aussie indie scene

They should have made it split-screen at the very least.

Wait you’re telling me sometimes licensed kids games are bad? Wow never heard that one before

As a kid i played and enjoyed so many bad games, not realising that they might be unfair and stuff. But then it was around 2007-2009, the period of Russian market being flooded with really bad cheap games. Still not having a concept of game being bad, i bought CD in a store and played it... I couldn't grasp what's happening. Game wasn't difficult, i wasn't bad at it, yet i sucked. I didn't realize it at that time, but i felt "This game is badly made" emotion.

왜 엔딩 스토리가 없을까요? 엔딩 스토리가 있는줄알고 이곳저곳 돌아다니고 1시간동안 수집도 했지만 유튜브에 영상을 보고 엔딩이 없다는걸 알았어요….

Why did they decide to make the areas 3D when there’s only one camera perspective? Walking around trying to find a door is just awkward when you have to walk towards the camera and hope something’s there

Just never ever pre-order a game. The gaming industry has evolved from passionate devs putting blood, sweat & tears into their creations, to big corpo CEO's trying to get as much money with as little resources as possible. This has affected the quality of games significantly in the past decade. Always wait for the reviews from non-sponsored experts, then buy the game if it still sounds promising.

Somehow I thought these rushed broken licensed games went extinct after the 7th generation. Guess I was wrong lol

Do the sukia game thing pls

As soon as i saw that outright games was the developer I avoided it as we already had three of their abominations i wasn't having a fourth

If you're looking for a great game for your kids and yourselves, I highly recommend Lil Gator game :D It's probably the most wholesome game ive ever played in my life and is oozing charm and charisma. Plus the protagist is a cute lil gator so its a win win haha

A single person with game developing experience would have made a better game. This game was rushed. It was a greedy attempt to cash in on the popularity of the IP. I feel like I alone could do a "Hold My Beer" and make a superior game.

1:09 OHOHOHOOO NO SHE DIDNT

Having "no idea how o use a crontroler" s no longer a matter of current--age, but a matter of "were you born after 2005, where every then--born-teenager now has a trouch-screeen in the pocket as main/only computer+phone" game expos now have to struggle with young-ADULT consumers expecting EVERY display to be a touchscreen device with a mobile-device-UI, or to be absolutely inaccessible to many, who never even once used a console controller, and where mouse/keyboard is as ancient as 70s retro science fiction.

The moral of the story: If you want something good, take it in your own hands to make.

I bought my niece this for Christmas! If she grows up resenting me I know why.

Sounds like it was shovel wear

Honestly it would of been better if an Australian game studio developed it and maybe let kids make there own pup like your pups family moved to Bluey's town or something like that and from there you can spend time with the bluey and her family and the various other characters within the show That would make a better game then whatever this game is/was in my honest opinion

Fun fact the steamboat Willie Mickey is public domain not the actual modern Mickey that Mickey will be public domain god knows how long

How dare you compare the treasure that is Unicorse to this.

I don’t think Cy Yu is gonna like that! He would argue that it’s better than Peppa Pig.

*_OUTRIGHT! GAMES!_* They are the same people who made Race with Ryan! Why are they still here!?

Technically, Bluey's a dog

never played the games or watched the show (unless you count the youtube poops) but i see what you mean.

Comparing Bluey to ET is actually very insulting because ET wasn't even that bad

I say it's good she knows games can be bad, i think it'll make her careful on researching ines in the future.

The kick button was to kick the balls in the game to play soccer 😢

Oh, come on Bluey the game is not that terrible. Every kid loves it.

In a very subspecific switch game, i have 1600 hours

MLP Gen 4 built the foundation of giving kids and and bit of adults a show and showing how successful aiming for both can be. But yeah, Bluey built the skyscraper on that foundation and pushed for both instead of MLP that was for sure both but mainly still for kids, just like this yt says it might be the best show to date for familys alike ever, not sure if we will see something alike this again. What only makes it even more shameful this game is pretty bad yet other little games of bluey are pretty great.

It’s funny because I got this for Christmas

Oh my god, I just did for my five-year-old sister!

I’m still buying it. Mostly to 100% it coz I’ve only done that once

I thought this video was about the video game not bragging about the kid...

Sounds....ruff!

Honestly as someone sho played a decent bit of the game i actually like it alot more than most reviewes portrayed it. I bought this and disney illusion island and i definitely way prefer this game's gameplay than disney illusion island which is just so boring by comparison

How about keep kids off video games until they're like 5 😂 ipad babies are scary

A game worthy to be buried and forgotten in the wilderness

As Elvis once said, I’m have a blue blue blue Bluey… Christmas. Lol. *Laugh in SV knowing glitches.* I have not played this game but wow this sounds bad and won’t. I have played my fair share of bad games as kid. Monster High, Hop, Bakugan, and even Cheetah girl a rhythm game. The only bad game, I intentionally gotten was Rwby: Grimm Eclipse. Knowing it will be god awful. It was decent but heavily dated for alot. Don’t have kids but cousins so I know the show a bit also dad patmat bluey theory. And those games at least worked or entertaining after hearing this it sounds like it wanted to give the Bluey family experience in irl by causing conflict.

I was already worried when I heard it was being made by outright games they’re well-known for making cheap cash grabs like adventure time pirates of the eniredeon and more

i think that comparing it to et the extra terrestrial is a little bit of a overstatment but i agree with the rest of the video

Seems cute most people seem to be fine with it

Going into this, I was like, "Oh, come on, it can't be that bad, can it?" I guess it is.

Maybe they like it it’s not upto you to decide for them what to like or not like

You know it’s an unfinished game when KZfaq flags this as a “Bluey The Videogame OR02298” with no icon image video

I heard bluey the video game was surprisingly good from other youtube videos (good vibes gaming for example) But then I guess other youtubers didn't try and play in 4 player with an real 5 year old kid

I hope you like bees aaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Well..

You Cleary never heard of summer camp island that number one you should watch it

Agree 3:20

My daughter is 4 and loves it. I have no problems with it. I was not expecting a AAA title here. Your daughter is to old for this game, it's meant as an intro game experience for Toddlers.

...and there's not even any splitscreen

When I heard from IGN that this game is bad. I was thinking "it's a game for preschoolers, why are you playing it?" Till I watch their review, I saw that it's worse than I thought .

It's great that you have your own opinion but I did not ask