Review by Raphie on 30 Dec 2012 (Rating: 2)
Welcome to The Krypton Factor, television's toughest quiz.....actually no it isn't. Instead it's a nonscentical version of television's toughest quiz....done by our friends at Domark under their TV Games label. Let's just say in good grace that this doesn't work.
Much like the classic show it's split into different rounds.
Mental Agility - You must visualize the numbers on the screen and then re-enter them in numerical order, for example if the numbers 4145227 appeared you would then need to type 1224457. This is probably the best of the rounds which says one thing....yes it's going downhill from here....hoorah!
Observation - Here you're given a story to read with a picture on it, then the story and the picture return for a second time and you have to work out the changes in the picture and the text. But the text moves so fast you're lost by the first sentence because you're too busy staring at the screen looking for the changes. And you're fed up reading it the first time you'll end up not feeling bothered to read it a second time! So in short, yes it doesn't work.
Response - This is two parts. The first features the stupidly named "Ergobuggy" that you move from one side of the screen to the other within the time limit by pressing up and down with your left hand and left and right with your right hand, does that make sense to you? No me neither. The second is the "Vidiwall" where you have a split second to guess the colour that fills the most TV's, for example if there are three greens, two reds, three yellows and five blues...the answer is blue. But this appears to be glitchy because I made a video of this and played it back and on two occasions I was flagged incorrect for not guessing blue even though I was actually correct, so well done Domark.
Physical Ability - By far the dullest round of the game, gone is the excitement of the assault course and in its place is a slow-paced borefest. Bascially you go through the course while pressing a button to determine the amount of each of the four attributes, Legs, Arms, Speed and Stamina, and this apparently makes you go across the course in the "fastest" possible time but unless I'm missing something he only goes at one speed ALL the time, making everything you are doing a waste of time. Shall I say it again? If you answered no, tough, it doesn't work.
Intellegence - More straightforward this one, simply re-arrange the shapes of the puzzle as it was within the time limit by rotating the pieces and placing them back on the grid. Don't think I need to say more really.
General Knowledge - The last round is a quiz much like the show only it's one of those where it gives you the question then gives you the answer and then asks if you were right or not, no that's your bleeding job computer! What fun is it that I can just cheat by saying yes, yes, yes, oh I was right again, oh I'm smashing and thus you've double your Krypton Factor easy! All together now...this doesn't work.
So in conclusion, yeah it doesn't work very well, simple as that AND the best of all is that it's pretty much the same in every game, well the Mental Agility round is the exact same which basically means in essence that you'd actually improve with practice. Domark released a lot of tripe over the years and sadly this is pretty much up there amongst to top.
