TGG says: "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? has a charm to it and can be fun with friends locally but is a bit of slog at times too."
WTMG's Leo Faria: "You know what? I’m not even mad this time around. I’ve stated already that 2022 was actually a pretty good year for gaming. It was stupidly hard removing so many excellent games from out Top 20 list, to the point we had an entire 20-game list of honorable mentions alone. Likewise, we didn’t review such a huge number of bad games this year. It’s not that we weren’t reviewing enough games (have you read the site’s name?), there just weren’t that many stinkers in this otherwise fantastic year.
But boy oh boy, when something bad knocked at our door, it was bad. It was really B to the A to the freaking D. It’s time for our team to bury these games once and for all. We present you, the twenty worst games we’ve reviewed in 2022."
Lol, I like this idea of an anti GOTY award :p
And my god, there are some terrible entries there.
Kirby’s Dream Buffet
Good to see Nintendo isn't above well deserved criticism.
I dont know if Gun Grave deserves to be in the same mix as the others on the list. Its rather safe but it has its charm. As a fan of the originals, I can dig it. Im not seeing it as something revolutionary but evolutionary, hence why I said safe (as in it didnt take many risks to stray from the source). Its okay, but nowhere near being on the list of worst.
“Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? is a middle-of-the-road trivia game that's so full of padding that it becomes boring fast. I can only recommend it to kids but even then, I doubt that many youngsters will have the patience to sit through a whole game.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? feels like your bog standard Wii shovelware title released fifteen years too late. For as much as I enjoy the fact developers are still making games with local multiplayer shenanigans in mind, there is very little in this title that makes me want to consider it over Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune, or other party games in general. Something inside of me makes me somewhat glad that a little part of the good, old, licensed-centric THQ is still alive, but this is easily one of the company’s weakest outings in recent years. Thankfully though, they probably have like fifty other games in the works I can look forward to."
