Two Point Campus Review: Current Courses

I have mixed feelings as I write this Two Point Campus review. For one thing, it can be tedious to constantly repeat the same tasks at the start of each campaign level. But on the other hand, the day-to-day of each college is a delight, with constant gags and charming stares masking some diabolical game twists that require all of my gray matter to get past.

The overall goal at each level is to help students through the school year, get good grades, and keep a smile on their face. You have a checklist of objectives to complete, and completing them earns you stars that you can use to level up. Each level introduces a new academic year and each one is based entirely on a word game. On the Two Point campus, jokes are everywhere you look, from your students’ goofy outfits to course names that even fans of groan-worthy pranksters will roll their eyes at. There’s a show for brace-wearing thugs who want to get back to the workings of technology called “History of the Internet” and “Fun Business” is a rating for wannabe clowns, and yes, red noses, silly wigs, and comical flowers must be worn by students at all times. While some of the objectives are remarkably similar to Two Point Hospital, such as maintaining happiness and meeting quotas, each campus generally has a themed challenge to make it completely unique.

The Two Point Campus campaign is ideal for helping players relax with expressive, colorful graphics and a user-friendly interface. Item placement is simple and intuitive, so assembly rarely feels like a chore, and I love being able to customize various items and even employee clothing. The menu is easy to navigate, with multiple tabs sharing key information, so it’s always easy to find what you’re looking for, whether it’s student requests to help them achieve their personal goals or a quick mood check on the teacher’s room. .

On paper, that sounds like a tempting prospect. Unfortunately, all levels in Two Point Campus start the same way. Before I can take in freshmen, I have to build dorms for them, showers for bathing, and toilets for… you know. After that, I have to build lecture halls, libraries, private study rooms, medical and pastoral treatment facilities, and recreation areas for staff and students. They all need to be built before I can even think about creating the unique learning spaces my legion of teachers use to practice. It’s frustrating and repetitive, as the game asks you to build these rooms and stuff a bunch of stuff into them to tick some custom boxes, instead of encouraging you to customize each one. Many times the game gives me ready parts and I have to sell them to rebuild them because they don’t use the limited space efficiently.

Once those first few rooms are built, dealing with any level’s unique limitations is where the real meat of Two Point Campus is, and for the most part, it’s very enjoyable. It only takes a few minutes for me to go from laughing at the level’s hilarious concept to scolding myself on screen when I figure out what its unique gameplay gimmick is. Spiffinmoor, the Two Point version of Hogwarts, challenges you to take on waves of evil wizards, and it takes me a long time to recruit enough elixir wizards and squirt gun-wielding janitors to take down these dodgy loafers. wells.

I still have a good time with this management game despite the big jump in difficulty. The most exciting thing Two Point Campus has to offer me is when I work as an administrator at Fluffborough Athletic Academy, where my job is to train elite athletes to become regional champions, as well as running a state-of-the-art university. But of course, since it’s a two-point game, there’s a catch: the sport we specialize in is entirely fictional. I cried with laughter during the first game of cheeseball, in which two teams in mouse helmets take turns ramming Edam’s wheels into huge holes while the opposing team attacks each rolling cheese with comically large graters.

Ce sens de l’humor absurdo coule dans les veines de Two Point Campus, et bien que je me lasse quickly des blagues répétitives et laborieuses qui sortent des systèmes tannoy, l’assaut des blagues de papa frappe plus souvent qu’il n’en has the right. The titles of each individual lecture are a particular highlight, and my favorite is the first lecture on countercultural studies, Come to this lesson: a lesson in irony.

The technical issues are less interesting. Every time I can’t place an item or piece somewhere it’s due to a bug in the behavior of the cleaner that doesn’t seem to care about cleaning up the mess due to a natural disaster or spell, whatever number of times I place them next time. to an insulting mess. Instead, they leave a red marker that stays there until the end of the level, which in one case makes it impossible to move my library to a more suitable location. It’s worth noting that Two Point Studios admits there are some piece placement issues they’re currently ironing out, but they’re pushing the review build so hard that they’re significantly screwing up the game – fingers crossed, fix it right on release.

If you liked Two Point Hospital’s sense of humor or just like a light management game, then Two Point Campus has a lot to like. It’s nothing particularly new, and it doesn’t have enough depth to satisfy fans of the most explosive simulation games, but it’s charming and full of quality jokes and surprises, enough to make every trip to campus exciting.