Jackbox Party Pack 2 Switch Review

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Coming in hot with party-star Jackbox Party Pack&comma; the second installment in the series has made it&&num;8217&semi;s arrival on the Switch&period; As you&&num;8217&semi;d expect&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s another excellent lineup of party games made accessible and intuitive for Switch users everywhere&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;ve played any Jackbox Party Pack game&comma; you know what you&&num;8217&semi;re getting into&period; If not&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re in for a real treat of living room fun&comma; made easier than ever with Jackbox’s use of smartphones as controllers&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;130002" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-130002" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-130002" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;28211841&sol;3dd7657ab85dd74960430c9ea8a37a88e4916509-e1506648531355&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-130002" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Jackbox Party Pack 2&comma; Jackbox Games<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Let&&num;8217&semi;s break down the party pack’s five games&colon;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In the first party pack&comma; <em>Drawful<&sol;em> was far and away my favorite of the pack’s offering&period; This time around&comma; <em>Drawful<&sol;em>’s spiritual successor Bidiots&comma; fails to capture my attention as well as <em>Drawful<&sol;em> did&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s in part to how poorly the game is explained&period; Players are tasked with making two drawings on their smartphone in 90 seconds&period; After that&comma; the pieces are put up for an auction in which silent art dealers will critique the pieces and&sol;or bid on them&period; The competition comes from who can yield the biggest bid&&num;8230&semi;I think&period; Many tries later&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m still not sure what Jackbox was trying to accomplish in this game and that&&num;8217&semi;s because it&&num;8217&semi;s never really fully explained&comma; both concept and execution&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;130003" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-130003" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-130003" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;d37x086vserhlm&period;cloudfront&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;28211740&sol;jackbox2bidiots&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"539" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-130003" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Jackbox Party Pack 2&comma; Jackbox Games<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">My favorite of the pack is a sequel to one of my favorites from the first party pack&&num;8211&semi;<em>Fibbage<&sol;em>&period; In <em>Fibbage 2<&sol;em>&comma; players are given a trivia question that they must then provide a false answer to&period; The computer will throw the correct answer up on screen alongside the player&&num;8217&semi;s incorrect answers&period; Players must choose the correct answer&period; As a player&comma; your goal is to create such a convincing false answer that the other players will pick your answer over the actual answer&period; Not only is this concept riveting&comma; it creates an intense competition of lies and trickery&period; Add in the use of boggling trivia and <em>Fibbage 2<&sol;em> easily claims the spotlight&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The simplest of the bunch is <em>Earwax<&sol;em>&period; Essentially&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re trying to pick an answer based on a sound that goes best with the chosen prompt&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s entertaining in that it comes packed with the bizarre and zany sounds party pack players have come to know&comma; but after a while&comma; it’s simplicity causes the game to grow stale&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;130000" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-130000" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-130000" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;28211504&sol;A13dfLj2sjL-e1506648632609&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-130000" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Jackbox Party Pack 2&comma; Jackbox Games<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"><em>Quiplash<&sol;em> is another great addition to Jackbox Party Pack’s slate of games&comma; albeit nothing new&&num;8211&semi;it’s Jackbox’s take on Apples to Oranges&period; Players submit an answer to a computer-generated question and other players pick the best answer&period; This game&comma; more than any other in the pack&comma; kept my group of friends and family laughing in my living room for longer than I ever imagined it would&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Finally&comma; <em>Bomb Corp<&sol;em> puts an intern in charge of diffusing a bomb&period; This intern&comma; one of the players&comma; must follow instructions from the other players in order to successfully defuse the bomb&period; The trick is that the other players can only tell you what not to do&period; So&comma; rather than a competitive nature&comma; <em>Bomb Corp<&sol;em> forces players to act cooperatively&comma; which is a nice refresher after your best friend stomps you yet again in <em>Quiplash<&sol;em>&period; While not the most entertaining&comma; <em>Bomb Corp<&sol;em> is different enough that it earns it&&num;8217&semi;s place in the party pack&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">If you own and enjoy the first <em>Jackbox Party Pack<&sol;em>&comma; you’ll find even more living room entertainment sure to keep the party lively here in <em>Party Pack 2<&sol;em>&period; If you’ve never played anything that can be found within a Jackbox Party Pack&comma; you’re missing out on what I believe is the Nintendo Switch’s best party game&comma; and Jackbox Party Pack 2 is the perfect place to start&period; Until <em>Mario Party<&sol;em>&comma; no game on the switch will accommodate an audience large enough to keep an entire party of people as excited and entertained&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>A code of The Jackbox Party Pack 2 was provided to BagoGames for the purpose of this review&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;