Party Hard Reviews
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While it may not have the most captivating of storylines, the game itself is fun and addictive. It’s a great way to kill some time - no pun intended - and may leave you muttering things under your breath that make others question your sanity. Plus, you can count on new content being added in the future, which will increase the game’s replayability and won’t cost you a cent.
As I mentioned earlier, the plot is about as barebones as you can get. Though that is a much lesser issue than the fact that some levels run into problems due to the lack of variety in how you solve them. Once you have played one Party Hard level you pretty much get the same thing in more difficult packages, which can lead to making one feel they have to cheese the game to get past a particularly tricky level. You’ll find yourself exploiting gameplay loopholes and the occasional glitch just to get those last few partygoers on occasion, which unfortunately grind the pace and fun to a halt. This happens rarely enough that I think it’s a highly forgivable issue, but still one born in one of the few real issues the game has.
Party Hard 2 recently released on PC and I found it to be a worthwhile sequel that offers enough of a fresh take to keep it exciting. Not long after that, the original game has just arrive for the Nintendo Switch, allowing you to continue wreaking havoc on-the-go.
Party Hard is a fun game that is different from many other strategy titles you might find on Switch. But that said, it can be frustratingly difficult at times. You might eliminate 48 out of 50 people in the level and get caught by the police and have to start over from the beginning. It’s not always clear whether bystanders will identify you as a murderer, and even if they don’t see you commit the deed, they can still call the cops on you. Speaking more positively, I was pleased to see 26 achievements, co-op play, six unlockable characters and seven unlockable DLC stages, so the game has a…
Sleep eludes you but the party goers can't. As a man with a strong dislike for the party scene, bring down each one until there's nobody left. With a dozen locations and multiple ways to end the lives of your victims, how successful are you at both killing and escaping prison?
Party Hard may suffer from repetition at times, but the more I play it, the more it grows on me.
It’s 3AM and you’re still awake because of that obnoxiously loud party happening next door. With only a few hours until you need to be up for work, you wish you could just go over there and kill everyone to get some peace and quiet. While no normal person would do so, Party Hard’s premise is exactly that. You’re going to stop the neighbour’s party by killing everyone.
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Party Hard has a solid gameplay idea, but it can descend into tedium rather quickly.
Party Hard is a wacky and ridiculous experience that doesn’t take itself too seriously, but like the soundtrack, the game is entertaining initially, but the longer you play the more you realise it’s looping on itself with only slight variations thrown into the pot every now and then. Anyone expecting more than a lively tune and some straightforward stealth puzzling will likely come away disappointed from what could have been a promising concept.
Overall it’s hard to recommend this game as it feels unpolished and very repetitive. I went in expecting some dark humor but it turned out to take itself too seriously as a game to do that. Herein lies a lesson for developers that want to tackle really transgressive topics, and to quote the eminently transgressive Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder: You never go full retard.
While it can be funny at times, Party Hard has issues delivering in other areas. The shallow gameplay has already been touched upon, but the game also falters because of its bugs. Some levels will allow players to make phone calls with invisible telephones, and in others, players can expect to bump into invisible objects that impede progress. It's a shame that these issues weren't ironed out before Party Hard's Xbox One and PS4 debut, especially considering the PC version has been available since last August.
Noisy neighbours can be a huge pain in the butt so you may ask yourself, what's the best way to deal with them? Write a letter? Confront them directly? How about murder them and all their friends? Yeah, that'll work.