Pop Quiz! Games That Punish You For Not Paying Attention To The Writing
This is a list of games that sit down and quiz you and have active negative repercussions on the player if they're caught lacking.
Better be actually reading the dialogue! This is also a sort of inherently spoilerly list, so if you care about getting hit with these pop quizzes with no context, be careful.
Better be actually reading the dialogue! This is also a sort of inherently spoilerly list, so if you care about getting hit with these pop quizzes with no context, be careful.
23 Games
10 Comments
paper mario: the thousand-year door has quizzes that make you fight opponents if you give too many wrong answers
Wonderboy in Monster World also has a Sphinx boss to beat you need to answer questions about the game similar to it's sequel.
Pokémon Red, Blue & Yellow (and the remakes) Blaine's gym has a set of 5 questions about the game which if answered incorrectly cause a forced fight with a trainer.
Chulip has a test at the end of the game that quizzes you on very specific and obtuse details and you cant get to the ending until u beat it
I have to say this is driving me a little bonkers because I distinctly remember a game doing exactly this, very recently, and I cannot remember which one it was. I keep refreshing this list hoping it'll show up hahaha.
All of Yeo's games do this, like The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa and especially Fading Afternoon. Characters will mention key information about what to do and there is no transcript or second chance or anything, if you failed to follow instructions in FA youll just have to deal with it (usually by having to cut off your finger because Yakuza)
There is a section in og Nier that you read a story and answer some questions about it, if you answer them wrong you need to read the whole story all over again... It may not sound like a big punishment but it is.
Sonic Shuffle has this. One of the event minigames will quiz you on how many rings you have, spaces landed on, Precious Stones, etc.
@Razll This one sounds like by the far the funniest example of this in the list the way you described it. Those are the words of someone who got the question wrong and had to read a novel twice.
electrode
4 months ago
Where I already could guess where it was goinf but I'd present something too early. 💀