RiffTrax: The Game slightly misses the point of modern snarky commentary – Review

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It’s fair to suggest that we all desire some degree of validation from friends, and one way to achieve that is by making them laugh. Recent years have brought us party video games, namely the packs from Jackbox Games, that are specifically designed to provide a canvas for producing guffaws with quips and drawings. What The Dub?! from Wide Right Interactive combined this with a love for “so bad it’s good” cinema, but its follow-up RiffTrax: The Game adds some branding — and what comes with the brand takes a bit away from the joy of making your friends cackle.

RiffTrax: The Game follows the same format of What The Dub?! (WTD), but with some noteworthy additions. Up to six players can jump into a lobby through their phone browser. The game will play a silly old film clip without context, with some of the dialogue removed. Then, it’s up to players to provide some comedic genius by filling in the blanks. The new element here is the addition of pre-written “riffs” by the RiffTrax team.

Players will choose between two self-explanatory game modes: Write a Riff, like WTD, provided you with a text field and a wide selection of cartoony sound effects to make your own riffs in response to clips. Below the text box, you can find a new option called Riff For Me,  which puts out a riff that one of the “pros” came up with — think of how Jackbox’s Quiplash has “safety quips.” Players will then vote on the funniest riff for that movie clip for points; pre-written ones net you fewer points.

“Pick a Riff” will instead return six random, out-of-context riffs from RiffTrax; players will have to choose one of those options, and again vote on the funniest result. The difference is that while the former game mode’s Riff For