BigChick Review | TheXboxHub

There’s not a lot in the best way of story in BigChick, so we began making our personal story up. We felt like we needed to: there’s a lot that wants explaining right here. In spite of everything, you’re taking part in an enormous rooster with magical powers, defending a lot smaller chickens from a world that features Dune-like sandworms, big catfish and numerous wolves and crocodiles. Your powers embrace the flexibility to lift the ocean mattress, and decreasing islands to the ocean ground. 

So, you’re a Hen God, clearly. And these are the end-times, with a volcano erupting and the denizens of Hell coming to the floor. For those who can shield your chickens by getting them to the holy Massive Barn, then chickens will survive, inherit the Earth, and usher in a chicken-based future. That’s what we assume is going on, anyway.

It’s not solely the set-up that’s a bit odd in BigChick: you most likely received’t have performed many video games prefer it both. It’s a chicken-herding simulator, which isn’t significantly frequent proper now. Your job is to create paths from hatching chicks to the sport’s Massive Barn, usually within the centre of the sport display screen, after which shield the chicks as they auto-walk, Lemmings-style, to that barn. 

Fortunately, you have got some Hen God powers. Conveniently they’re all on the A button of your controller. Maintain A, and BigChick can pace up, which is invaluable in attending to the chicks and maintaining with them. It additionally hastens the chicks themselves, appearing as a sort of motivational speech. If you’re urgent A round a gaggle of chicks, they completely peg it to the exit. 

You even have some pure, passive talents. You’re far stronger than the pterodactyls, piranha vegetation and wolves within the space, so stroll into them and they are going to be surprised. For a couple of seconds, these creatures will likely be innocent and your chicks can stroll previous. It’s clear what it’s important to do: in case your chicks are going to outlive all the best way to the exit, then you definitely’re going to need to take part in a little bit of an escort mission. 

BigChick and buddies dwell on an archipelago, so there are many remoted tranches of land. Chicks are sometimes caught on these islands, so that you additionally need to be able to creating land-bridges to them. Which brings us to the ultimate two talents that BigChick has: he can merely stroll into water and lift it up, like a wattled Jesus. Equally, he can faucet a shoulder button and leap right into a lido, the place the ability switches the opposite approach. All of the sudden, BigChick can flip islands into water, which is beneficial for chicks who’re extra water-based. Lots of them are in their very own lido, which is a sign that they would favor a submerged path. 

And that’s it: you have got a ‘Well being’ rating, which is the sport’s approach of telling you that, if a sure variety of chicks die, then you definitely’ve misplaced. You’ve fed too many chicks to catfish, and also you’re a horrible Guardian God. So, you’re usually replaying a stage to attempt to hold the variety of chick-deaths all the way down to a minimal. 

The problem comes from spinning plates. Since chicks begin auto-walking as quickly as there’s a viable path to the Massive Barn, then you definitely out of the blue have a number of babysitting – sorry, chicksitting – choices. Do you shield the chicks coming from the north-east who’re heading for some wolves? Or do you shield the swimming chicks from the south-west which might be about to be crocodile fodder? Usually, the answer is to concentrate on rushing up one channel and hoping that the opposite channel will likely be secure within the meantime. Different occasions, it may possibly imply destroying a path to the Barn in order that chicks simply await a sodding minute. Every stage is a puzzle of ‘who’s going to get eaten first’.

Which, because it seems, isn’t all that enjoyable. Or, at the very least, to not us. Take the primary method, the place you’re always herding and defending probably the most endangered of chicks. Whereas BigChick is quick, he’s not quick sufficient, and the back-and-forthing from one flock of chicks to a different turns into a frustratingly sluggish sport of Overcooked!. You’re making an attempt to handle them each, however there’s an excessive amount of downtime in attending to them, which clearly leaves them open to being eaten up. Notably on tougher ranges, it’s extremely irritating to attempt to shield everybody, as the sport by no means actually retains up with what you wish to do. 

Being their guardian is frustratingly imprecise, too. Realizing who’s protected and who isn’t is completely random, so that you will be sheltering 5 or 6 chicks, solely to seek out that one was barely out of your invisible radius and will get devoured by a sandworm. Urgent A to hurry up the chicks can imply you pace up some, however not all, of them, main a couple of to decelerate and, yep, get devoured once more. It seems that herding chickens is difficult. Who knew? 

Which reverts you to the opposite game-plan: to fiddle with the chicks’ paths, to be able to handle the inflow of chicks. However this simply isn’t satisfying. We felt like we had been dishonest, blocking paths in order that we may play one chick at a time, or a couple of at most. On tougher difficulties, it felt like the one method, however nannying a couple of chicks at a time, whereas placing the opposite chicks in infinite loops isn’t precisely the peak of pleasure. 

The opposite method is to whack the issue all the way down to Very Simple, which makes every little thing somewhat moot. You’ll be able to strut via the degrees like a hen colossus. However the place’s the enjoyable in that? We suppose it will get you the achievements, with 1000G for roughly half an hour of play. 

Which is, conveniently, simply earlier than BigChick breaks. We reached some extent, about two-thirds of the best way in, when the sport crashed incessantly. It managed to crash in ways in which we haven’t truly seen earlier than on an Xbox. C: immediate seems, telling us that batches of knowledge are corrupted, and it chucks us out of the sport and onto the house display screen. It’s all very weird, utterly irritating, and completely game-breaking. We’re not totally certain that it’s doable to finish BigChick.

BigChick has huge concepts. The thought of a chick-herding sport had us bobbing our heads in chicken-like appreciation. However, because it seems, herding chickens is difficult and never significantly enjoyable. Both you’re multitasking with a rooster god who can’t transfer quick sufficient to make that job enjoyable, otherwise you’re making an attempt to interrupt the foundations of the sport to make it simple – and likewise boring. And that’s for those who’re fortunate sufficient to dodge the avalanche of sport crashes that hit within the second half of the sport. We obtained our revenge by uninstalling BigChick and ordering a KFC.

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