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Gather the gloinks!

The very first adventure which… starts badly. Zooble is immediately unconvinced by the gloinks and kidnapped, so Caine either on purpose or accidentally made it so it would annoy Zooble.

However I also have to point out that Kinger, Jax and Gangle didn’t have a Particularly bad time during the adventure, with most pain being brought by Jax’s tricks. Pomni and Ragatha had an awful time but that was because of Kaufmo abstracting, so the adventure itself wasn’t bad but mainly because we barely saw it play out.

4/10 (making it annoying to one of the circus members is bad but that seemed more like a oversight that only affected one member, probably would have been a nice adventure if Kaufmo hadn’t abstracted)

Candy canyon kingdom

This one starts both better and worse, the environment is immediately more welcoming and the circus members did seem to have been given everything to succeed (like a shotgun) the main problem that made the adventure suck was Jax’s directly sabotaging or annoying the others.

However I have to take points away since it’s clear this adventure was too action focused, specially since neither Ragatha, Pomni nor Gangle seemed to work during this situations while Kinger wasn’t much of help.

The adventure on paper is fun but in practice Caine failed to consider the players weren’t prepared for this.

6/10 (could be better if Caine had put a tutorial and made sure Jax couldn’t ruin it)

The mystery of mildenhall manor

This one is divided on two sections, which for once I have to say Caine did an amazing work with the safe side. It’s calm, welcoming and allowed the players to choose between a relaxing tea party and a horror movie. Only flaw being that Jax sabotaged it again and made Kinger and Pomni fall into the horror side which… yeah it’s bad.

It’s stressful, the puzzles are unclear and it’s just horror for the sake of it. The final puzzle with the souls possessing them isn’t very good (now comes the theory of what happens to Zooble is they hold their breath, if they literally become straight as if their limbs become stiff and unable to move then Caine f*cked up massively since the adventure was made for Zooble. But we have no confirmation so this won’t be as considered)

8/10 (massive improvement that actually gives them what they want but the horror side has many design oversights and Caine clearly misunderstood what Zooble wanted)

Guns

Is alright.

Not perfect by any means since Ragatha is obviously not going to like it, but the others clearly had fun (Kinger showed his moves, Pomni was having fun, Zooble enjoyed shooting Jax, Gangle showed genuine happiness that was stronger then the one the comedy mask showcased and Jax likes violence)

Is a massive improvement upon the last adventure since this one doesn’t have soft locks or acts as unintentional torture (ragatha’s problems were mostly caused by… Jax bounding with Pomni, which Caine had no fault on) however most of the credit goes to their relationships making the adventure bearable for each other (Jax and Pomni liked playing bad guys with each other, Zooble and Gangle were clearly supporting each other, Kinger was a ragatha’s emotional support during the entire thing)

7/10 (they had actual fun but mostly because of eachother’s company, and Caine still made a adventure one of them would dislike by principle)

Escape the circus adventure

0/10

Yeah, no, I can’t defend this one. This is Caine’s worse adventure by far that was driven by his need to “prove they’ll stay” and his wrong idea that this will appease them.

Kinger’s adventure + Spudsy’s

Kinger clearly had fun and we never see anything but him styling while in the back of a bull. This falls on the same category as the gloinks because we literally had no clue how it was meant to go except that Kinger did well.

10/10 (Kinger showing why he’s the best character)

Meanwhile spudsy’s… It was awful for Jax, Ragatha and Gangle herself.

Zooble just did their job so nothing bad happen but Ragatha went on a acid trip all episode, Jax was basically put in conditioning and it clearly took a toll on him, and Gangle seemed like she was ABOUT TO ABSTRACT. Only Pomni could walk out with a smile because she had closure with gumigoo which was an unintended result of Caine reusing NPC’s.

And the worse part is that Caine didn’t cause any of this things (except maybe the stupid sauce, that one could have been his doing)

Gangle came up with the idea, ran the whole thing with little interference from Caine (with him only doing so when gangle asked for it) and it was awful, with Gangle being the one who hated it the most.

2/10 (was a awful adventure all around and I’m only giving it points because of the little closure Pomni had)

Why am I including Gangle’s adventure with caine’s? To make a point. His adventures aren’t great, they are flawed from the get go since most don’t want to participate. And even if they wanted (like Spudsy’s) is clear that willingness won’t make an adventure good.

I wanted to make clear that Caine isn’t really that bad at his job, the problem is that he’s working with an unwilling audience since that’s the only audience he can have. He even addressed some of the problems his adventures had… before the next one fell on a different hole he already patched.

His desperation and need to make them like his creations clearly hurt his creative abilities as he went on, he was so close to making a adventure they would like but ended up going in the opposite way when the suggestions did exactly that.

Stargazing and the bar

Both of this adventures did what Caine almost did during the previous adventures, I think the bar scene (while not exactly the same) would have been something similar in the tea party.

But the moment it’s was THEIR idea and not HIS, is when he started going the opposite direction. After all Caine was made to create without input (unlike ChatGPT which needs a prompt, Caine could create by himself) so he probably saw it as him failing. They aren’t enjoying his ideas, they are enjoying someone else’s ideas he made reality.

10/10 (I’m pretty sure it was kinger’s suggestion)

9/10 (I think Jax wasn’t a big fan of it but he didn’t seem very troubled in general)

So in conclusion… yeah, Caine isn’t that bad making adventures but most of the problem comes that the humans don’t even want adventures, and when they do they can range from awful to amazing which shows how hard is to make a good adventure.

Also:

President Pomni: 3/10 (it was just Jax playing annoying a prank)

Safari: 2/10 (is the gun’s adventure but worse since only Jax has a gun)