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In the context of a game that prizes creativity and that’s easy for anyone to pick up and figure out instantly, however, it sticks out in a bad way. Taken on its own, there’s nothing really wrong with it - you’re using your phone to fling your character around the screen, taking out enemies and picking up power-ups. There are fewer excuses to be made for Zeeple Dome, Jackbox Party Pack 5’s physics-based combat game that feels even less like what you’d expect from anything in a Jackbox Party Pack. There’s nothing wrong with that, and the writing is as strong as its ever been, but given the choice between playing trivia or engaging in robot rap battles (more on those in a moment), I’m going to pick the robots every time.

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Whereas much of the humour in the other games on Jackbox Party Pack 5 (and 4, and 3, and 2) comes from your fellow players and how they react to the prompts on offer from the game, in You Don’t Know Jack: Full Stream the humour only goes one way. Not only that, it feels kind of out place on a Jackbox Party Pack. Because it’s basically like all of its predecessors, it feels like a relic from a twenty years ago. It’s still got Cookie Masterson doing his snarky hosting, it’s got Dis or Dat, it finishes up with a Jack Attack: in every way that matters, it’s the same as the YKDJs that have come before it.īut that may also be the problem.

After all, despite its Netflix-y theme (proper title: You Don’t Know Jack: Full Stream), it’s more or less the same YKDJ that has been around for decades. Okay, “dud” may be putting it a little strongly.

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What is surprising, however, is that one of these duds is You Don’t Know Jack - which, after all, is the series that put Jackbox on the map. It’s no surprise, then, that Jackbox Party Pack 5 includes a couple of duds.

The first Jackbox pack had Word Spud and Lie Swatter, Party Pack 3 had Guesspionage, and Jackbox Party Pack 4 featured the baffling Monster Seeking Monster. As much fun as the Jackbox collections always are, inevitably you find that they tend to include one or two mini-games that feel like filler.