Wilderness Expedition Review

Hello penguins! Today on Club Penguin Secrets, I'll be reviewing the Wilderness Expedition.
I know this might surprise most people reading this, but I actually really like this party. So I'm going to explain why. But before that, you might want to watch the Walkthrough that I made, just to review.

First of all, the rooms are really cool. The Dock looks really good, as well as the Sasquatch Village.
The Dock and the Sasquatch Village have a lot of cool things in them. If you look at the Dock from the Wilderness Expedition 2011, there isn't much there, other than a sign and path. At the current Dock, there is a lot of stuff to do.

Dock, Wilderness Expedition 2011

Dock, Wilderness Expedition 2016

The Sasquatch Village also has more things to do.  You can go fishing, build a boat, be in a band, have a tea party with other sasquatches, relax, eat various flavors of o'berries, go swimming, etc. In the Wilderness Expedition 2011, the Brown Puffle Cave didn't really have much to do in it. You could watch the animation of the machines moving the O'Berries and do some math problem (or at least that's what it looked like, I didn't look at it for more than 3 seconds), but that's about it. The Sasquatch Village just has more activities in it as a whole.

The Glade was removed, but that's okay. It really only had the Coonskin Cap in it and wasn't important to the party, other than giving a free item. But there weren't any free items for members at this party, so it would be nice to have the free hat and maybe another thing. It would be nice to have, but it isn't really necessary.

The emotes are also pretty cool, and are the first emotes to have working animations this year.

Now for the music, the Dock uses the Adventure Party music. It's alright. But the maze has 3 different tracks for the different sets of rooms. This is really cool, and I think all 3 tracks are really good and fit the mood. You can listen to Track A here, Track B here, and Track C here. Track B and C are pretty much the same, but are just different enough for it to be unique and interesting. Track C has more wilderness sounds in the background than Track B.

The Sasquatch Village also uses Adventure Party music, but that's okay with me.

As for playability, this party has a ton. Aside from the few things I mentioned in the Graphical design section above, there is a ton of things to do at this party. The Dock even has a few interactive elements in it.

All the rooms have things to find for the quest, obviously. But more on that later. And by later, I mean the next paragraph.

Now for the story. This story is made up of not one large quest, but a few smaller quests. All of these are scavenger hunts, but they are really fun. Some items are really hard to find, and some blend in very well. The first quest included a footprint mixed in with other footprints. That took a while to find. Another one of the quests included finding scratch marks on a random tree, which also required a few minutes to locate. A few of the items were in the "You're lost!" room, which I never would have guessed if I wasn't going in random directions in hopes of finding them. This quest was pretty fun.
So as for the actual story that I claimed this section was supposed to be about, it's alright. Sasquatch wants to find his old home in the wilderness of Club Penguin Island. We have to solve a maze to help him, while collecting cool things along the way. When we find it, he tells us that he has been dubbed "Sam" by all of his penguin pals. This is surprisingly fun and interesting. Moving on.

If you only logged on for a ton of free items, you've wasted your time. There are more than the original Wilderness Expedition from 2011, but there are only 7 items that you don't have to pay for, and only 2 real free items, because you have to hunt for materials to make the other things. And non-members get absolutely nothing, unless you meet Sasquatch Sam, of course. (And yes, he is walking around at this party.) But in the items' defense, the Sasquatch costume is really amazing and obviously took a while to design, and the tent could be really helpful for roleplaying. And the guitar actually works.



So that's the party, with lots of videos and a few pictures. I give this party an 8/10. For the record, I give the Wilderness Expedition 2011 an 8/10. I gave the Holiday Party 2015 an 8/10, the Prehistoric Party 2016 a 6/10, I gave Operation Tri-Umph a 5/10, and I gave the Puffle Party 2016 a 7/10. This means that this party is just as good as the 2011 Wilderness Expedition, and is the best party this year (tied with the Holiday Party 2015, which technically was in 2016.) Goodbye!
But wait, there's more! For anybody interested in making a cool Sasquatch costume, or are looking for links, they are below.



So here's a cool way to make the most accurate Sasquatch costume.



This costume requires the Sasquatch Costume, the French 5th Year Party Hat (the one that everybody thought looked like the Beta Hat in 2014), and the Orange Franken-Feet.

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for pictures, the Club Penguin Archives for Club Penguin music, whatever record labels Gotye and Jason Mraz are with right now for music, and you for reading.