Visuals
For a while now, Club Penguin does not always decorate rooms but instead transforms them into unique rooms which look very spectacular. In this party, the Snow Forts were transformed into a big music making plaza where you can enter the Snowball Records building and the Play For Cadence room. I personally loved the visuals in all 3 rooms as CP went on to decorate each stage for either building to correspond with the specified genre which was spectacular. Another interesting visual was the Backstage room which could be accessed from taking the passage in the Snow Forts or by clicking the Star Door once inside Snowball Records. I was delighted to see a new Backstage room, which has been missing from the Music Jam in 2014, BUT for some odd reason, the Backstage room replaced the Stadium on the map which was strange. Besides the Snow Forts, the Town and Plaza were also decorated like how they were from the Hollywood Party. I thought this was fine because I loved the Hollywood Party and CP also included the decorations for the Coffee Shop, the Awards Show (Stage) and the Limo. Everyone loved the Limo so it was great to see a return. I am happy that the Coffee Shop was decorated because we have been missing interior decorations from recent parties. CP could have also added the Pizza Parlour design from the Hollywood Party 2013 too.
Content
In this party, we were able to play a music making sort of game where we clicked the corresponding shapes from the timeline above. This was pretty easy and I think it would be harder if the game was set out like Simon Swipe where a pattern is played and we have to remember that pattern. However, we also got Play For Cadence which was just the same as Snowball Records but a different setting and longer music. This seemed very repetitive especially as CP said this section would be CP's Got Talent so I was very disappointed to find out we had been mislead from the Club Penguin Times. Other than that, there wasn't much else to do. A free background, available by clicking a camera in the Backstage room, would have been a nice addition.
Storyline
There was no storyline as the main purpose of the party was to promote the SoundStudio app.
Replay Value
Like Riyita said, there is not enough content to last 2 weeks. What I found myself doing was playing the same patterns in Snowball Records and Play For Cadence because that's all you can do. I also found myself making my own songs using the shapes.
Audio
Since this was a music-themed party, you would have expected great music from the rooms and the music was amazing. I loved the sounds and the audio team never disappoints. I loved the dubstep pattern from the minigame and I found myself often listening to the music which was interesting since I usually mute the music and play my own music from YouTube when I log onto CP.
What Was Missing (Which Was Promised)
For the second party in a row, we had NO mascots. The SoundStudio party should have had at least 1 mascot walking around since there are 5 MUSIC THEMED MASCOTS -- Cadence and the Penguin Band. Since this is likely the only music party this year, the Penguin Band only appear rarely so we would of expected them to walk around. The Club Penguin Times promised mascots including the Penguin Band and Cadence but they are no where to be seen. If you're not going to include mascots walking around, at least have them perform. Cadence had her own room, but she was useless. Another thing that was promised from the Club Penguin Times was CP Radio but I didn't see any kind of CP Radio? This should have been a feature available after making the music in week 1 of the party and then hearing it on the radio station in week 2. CP's Got Talent was also promised but this was no where to be seen, instead we got Play For Cadence where Cadence gives us no speech and just sits there. Where was the different talents we could do? Speaking of this, Cadence promised special guests but instead we got random items which would be next to Cadence. I expected Cadence and her special guests to give us a rating /10 depending on how well we performed, but nope.
What Should Have Been There
Like I said in the previous paragraph, this will probably be the ONLY music party this year. Therefore, I would have liked Cadence to have her own stage to perform since she does have a new song out to promote the party. Maybe the performance stage could have been in the Dock? Something else which was missing was each music genre to have it's own room. Although we had individual rooms for each genre but technically it was the same, perhaps a Dubstep themed room at the Forest and a Dance themed room at the Beach? Sometimes the simplest decorations can make a difference, you don't always have to transform a room. Another weird feature was the sky. The sky was night time in the decorated rooms which I appreciated but if you go the Dock or Forest, the night sky transitions into a daytime sky, the whole island should of had a night sky which usually happens when the sky theme is changed. The Awards Show was disappointing because during the Hollywood Party, we actually received awards and you could act out speech and everything but this year we had none of that. We should have had music themed awards to tie in with the Grammys since it is awards season. This feature would have added to the content and replay value.
Conclusion :
- Amazing visuals
- Repetive content
- No mascots
- Missing content
- Misleading features
- App promotion
- No storyline
- Great music
I hope you enjoyed this rather long review, but what do you think? Overall I would give this party a 5/10
Alex's review will come later in the month.
Alex's review will come later in the month.
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