Upin – Ipin Universe – Perhaps one of us once had a “intense childhood” with the channel Disney Channel.

At that time, Disney Channel before being “localized” into Disney Channel Asia was full of good sitcoms, Hannah Montana Hey, then then Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Wizards of waverly placeetc.

Recently, unexpectedly, a “followed” game has been announced with the relatively “universe” name, that is Upin – Ipin Universe.

So will this game fulfill the “adaptation” of the movie reluctantly into the spiritual dish of millions of Vietnamese children? Let MarkGame find out through the following review, okay!

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The “nightmare” village

When starting Upin – Ipin Universewe will be shown a pretty video described in the village of Kampung Durian Runtuh (meaning the “durian village” – NV) of the two brothers Upin and Ipin brothers, along with the locations in the village.

Shortly thereafter, the game was opened by the head of Tok Dalang village thanks to Upin – Ipin to catch a chicken, and empowered the twin brothers to players.

That is all the game introduced about the world of Upin – Ipin …

There is no introduction to the character, without a brief description of the place that the two upin and ipin brothers will go to explore in the game. It seems that the game maker thinks that all players know about the upin – ipin world.

Who is Kak ROS? Tok Dalang? Opah? If not for “10 -year experience” Upin & ipin Every afternoon on Disney Channel, the writer will be as warm as “chicken hair” only.

The next problem, the game does not have a really specific task and purpose. Advertised as “a world game open in the world of Upin & ipin“, All these twins do … go out all day, run around in the tiny village, sometimes fishing, play swing, slide, etc.

You may not like the series Upin & ipinbut at least those episodes also tell a story that should be soulful, although it may or may be bad, but at least we still call it a “adventure” of the two boys. Even, there is a long -lasting movie title – Geng: The Adventure Begins – Really tell a relatively attractive story, at least for the immature minds of children.

But in Upin – Ipin Universebasically there is no “adventure” at all. It seems that the developer thinks that the “open world” means that the player likes to do, so he forgot … not creating a comprehensive storyline.

But they also forget the normal “open world” context will take place in large continents Final Fantasy XV good Red Dead Redemption 2at least gives players a feeling of discovery and exploration. And here, the context is a small village, going for sure … 5 minutes from the beginning to the other side of the village, not knowing what is to explore anymore.

Thanh tried, entered this uncertain world, the writer did not know what he needed to do, nor did he know what he needs to expect. There is no story, no goals, the world also … toad what you do is to do, the game becomes a “walking emulator” when you just go around watching the village to watch the village, sometimes talking to the villagers and making “nonsense” things like growing vegetables, cooking miscellaneous dishes, picking up stalks of grass … going to bed!

The background is a small village, going for sure … 5 minutes is from the beginning to the other side of the village, not knowing what is to discover anymore

Referring to the interaction with the world, the level of character interaction with the world is extremely low. Reputation as an “open world game” that you can hardly impact anything in the village: you cannot break the door, cannot kick the ball, even if you hold the baseball stick into NPC, the baseball bat is simply … through them, and NPC does not have any feeling.

To the extent, what the writer “feels” have the most impact are … The wedges (?) Throw away on the street, but upin can pick up and put in another position to climb up a higher place, or non -bicycle to “fly” in the air in a silly way, because it is indeed limited the pleasures that the writer can think of in this game.

When opened Upin – Ipin Universe Up, the writer expected to be immersed in this world, with familiar faces: Kak Ros, Mail, Jarjit, Mei Mei, … with them to participate in childhood adventures, but in return was an empty shell with ghosts of the ghosts of Upin & ipina “museum” where players can only go around to look at but do nothing to do.

Thus, the purpose of playing Upin – Ipin Universe What is that? Perhaps the writer is not qualified to know …

Technical “disaster”

Normally when writing reviews, the writer will use the phrase “grain of grit”, but for Upin – Ipin Universe Perhaps the phrase “disaster” will be more reasonable, when not only full of errors, but the minimum technical requirements that the game still makes “toang”.

Initially playing this game was about an hour, the writer was stunned, so dizzy that almost nausea, and had to stop and review the recording to see where the problem was.

The main problem is … the camera of the game, when any movement makes the camera rotate from the character's perspective, not the player's perspective. Worse, when rotating, do not know what the developer thinks but adds an “inertial” effect to the camera, making them not rotate accurately but have an additional delay before stopping, making players very easy to feel … motion when the eye movement does not match the character movement. This makes the writer remember the game series Tomb Raider In the 90s, when using the camera also creates a similar dizziness!

This camera system is worse when Upin – Ipin crawls into the narrow, dark angles, at this time the camera almost … giving up and turning a disorder, not in any way, the player does not even see the character anywhere.

The error is countless, from the T-Pose NPC full of sugar, then go back and forth like zombies, to Tok Dalang continuously … Transferring immediately from place to place. Then, the key is stuck, the error is stuck in the control menu, the error does not return to be selected in advance … Every 30 minutes the game players have to escape the game again because of the error … the hard lock is selected, but only, at least the automatic saving function is still good.

The face of the characters is extremely … lifeless, the eyes almost have no change in the eyelids, but the mouth is always smiling, looking sometimes quite scary as the big dolls. The character movement is rigid, the character's rotation movements are like a wooden song, like a mo -ap (active acting by actor), the developer decides to manually turn the character model on the computer.

for Upin – Ipin Universe then perhaps the phrase “disaster” will be more reasonable, when not only full of errors, but the minimum technical requirements that the game still makes “toang”

Another problem is that the game performance is extremely bad. The game has been locked at 30 fps, but still dropped FPS (frame/sec) and snatched continuously, dropped to the lowest … 5 fps, and such “micro-stud” parts contribute to the headache of the writer worse!

There is another funny problem that it is clear that the writer uses the mouse and the keyboard, but the instructions are displayed with … the handle, making the writer sometimes not knowing which key to press the right and forced … groping.

“Prison” mission

It must be said that the duties system of Upin – Ipin Universe Is … prison cannot be better. In the process of playing in their village, the two boys will encounter the “missions” assigned by the villagers, most of which are basically “fetch quest” – you have to pick up 10 items and give it back to people, or more feats, one more step is … planting 10 tomatoes, waiting for a few days … bringing 10 tomatoes to people.

Play style design of Upin – Ipin Universe Revolving around the mini-game in the village, but these mini-games are only around cooking, racing, fishing, and rewards are poor and meaningless.

The worst thing is that you do these tasks not for any purpose. There is no increase in character index, no secret items, no special tasks, without the sympathy of the supporting character, sometimes the writer wondered: Do not know in the end, play this game?

The worst thing is that you do these tasks not for any purpose

At least, if “innocuous”, the tasks must promote something. For example, the writer can recover laughter when participating in Jarjit's jokes, or even follow the mail to sell chicken wings for 2 ringgit one, just any reason for some reason, but the game does not give even a one.

Prices are not commensurate with quality!

With a game as described above, it is surprising Upin – Ipin Universe Sold for … more than 1 million VND, and with the West will be 40 USD.

To make it easy to compare, instead of leaking VND 1 million, you can buy the following “blockbuster” games:

That is not to mention the discounts, the “festivals” Summer Sale, etc. Perhaps, if Upin – Ipin Universe Sold at the “indie” price, the writer will look at the game with a different mentality, but if the publisher is determined to sell products with performance … Losing the student project, but still selling at AAA game price, it will certainly meet a lot of criticism from players!

If the publisher is determined to sell products with performance … Losing to the student project, but still selling at AAA game price, it will definitely encounter a lot of criticism from the player.

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There are still nostalgia …

Anyway, it must be recognized as the village of Kampung Durian Durian Ractuh is made quite close to the original, the familiar scenery is still: Upin & Ipin, Tok Dalang, Kindergarten (each crime … cannot enter).

It is, if you ignore the “empty”, the village is quite beautiful, but this beauty is probably just a “painted” cover to cover the “wood” crushed inside.

Another pretty praise is that the relatively close voices, upin and ipin's voices are still the same, and the legendary sayings like “Tru Tru shelter” of Ipin or “Whoever is overhabited” by Mei Mei is also put in, is also a good part of childhood nostalgia.

It must be recognized as the village of Kampung Durian Durian Runtuh is made quite close to the original, the familiar scenes are still there.