Prehistoric Party 2016 Review

Wow, this has taken a long time to make.

Hello penguins! The Prehistoric Party 2016 ended February 3rd, so this is a review of the party.
First of all, before we begin, I have pasted our walkthrough video for the party below to recap.



The art was good, but most of it was reused. The Prehistoric Beach added the Time Trekker and removed the playground, but the rooms were otherwise the same as they were in 2014. One thing to mention, the volcano is no longer available. The place where the volcano entrance was located in 2014 was replaced with the 2013 version of the room. The Scary Ice was lackluster because instead of using the version without the shark (shown below), they just covered up the shark with gray.

Scary Ice - Second half of the Prehistoric Party 2014

Scary Ice - Prehistoric Party 2016

The velociraptor player card and sprite were also the wrong color. The playercard showed a pink velociraptor, but the sprite showed the black/red variant.

The tasks were very easy. In 2014. It took a while to search for the eggs sometimes. In 2016, I never had the problem of not finding the egg, not even for one round. I also didn't have to do any construction or anything for building the UFO's power source, which I would have preferred. If we had some sort of puzzle game where all of the meteorite shards had to fit together a certain way, that would be great.

The music was the same as it was in 2014, and I have no comments about that party's music. Moving on.

As for interactivity, there was a bunch. But not nearly enough as there was in 2014. The playground set from 2013-14 has been replaced by the Time Trekker. I know the Trekker had to be there, but what happened to the playset? Was it destroyed? And from what I noticed, the Prehistoric Cafe's back door (that led to Tricera Town) has been replaced by a fire pit for no reason. It doesn't work. Also, pteranodons couldn't fly more than 1/2 of a meter off of the ground, so the rings at Ptero Town did absolutely nothing. The volcano from the Prehistoric Party 2014 wasn't there, which is a shame because that was a thing to do. But even though a bunch of features have been removed, lots were still present. The drive-in trays held a pizza tray if you sat in one of the cars and the Prehistoric Beach had a bunch of huts where you could do stuff. I watched a lot of Flintstones reruns in one of the dwellings. The Hunting Spot had a kiosk from which penguins could buy stuff. The Prehistoric Pizza Parlor probably had the most interactive elements, though. Standing onstage would play a song on the bones; standing by the sauce would squirt hot sauce on the pizza dough; and standing by the rolling pin would roll the dough. They also added a prehistoric Puffle Feeding stand, even though they didn't need to. Frankly, I don't know why the Prehistoric Snow Forts were included in this party. There was absolutely nothing to do there and Digloos weren't around this year for featured igloos. It could have been left out completely and nobody would care, except for about 3 people. But, if you think about it, if we never got to see the 2016 version, we would all be thinking that we were losing Garugg's message and Digloos. We lost those anyway, but nobody did anything.

Completely pointless.

There were also transformations at this party; but instead of the 20-some transformations that we got in previous years, we only got the main 5, one for each type of dinosaur. They all looked pretty cool, but I prefer the red velociraptor to the black one, and the player card for the velociraptor is the wrong color. The only one that made sounds for the first week was the Triceratops, and that took a long time to fix. One thing I noticed that the team changed puke snowballs to dinosaurs actually throwing snowballs. The Tyrannosaurus's throwing animation is really cool.

Overall, this party was pretty mediocre. I enjoyed it for what it was, and I hope you did too. I give it a 6/10. Goodbye!


All images are from The Club Penguin Wiki. The video was made by me.