User blog:RobertoWalker/Rob's Reviews: Merry Walrus Party

Hi, I am RobertoWalker, and this is my first review on the wikia! The Merry Walrus party is here, and it's a major letdown. After Garbage Jam 2014, this is, in my opinion, the second worst party of 2014. It had nothing new or fun to offer, and something I thought was promising, was in fact the worst thing of this party. Let's begin then.


 * Rooms and Music: The rooms were lazy. They were in their majority a big rehash, of the rooms used in previous Holiday Parties. The difference is, they colored it all blue. And things being blue, was one of the biggest mistakes of this party. Look, I get that things are blue, because of this Merry Walrus theme. But it just doesn't fit with the holidays, which are recognized everywhere by red and green, so this party doesn't feel like a Holiday one at all. The Mall made a reappearance, lightly redecorated, but on it's majority equal to the School party. The music isn't that special, and some rooms reused music from last year. As I said nothing really special. The room I like the most is the Toy Workshop, because it has roleplay value, and because it has the classic Christmas feel. Needless to say, this party had an number of 11 rooms decorated, compared to 20 from last year. I missed the night also.


 * Content: This was (like every other party this year) the biggest fail here. This party again uses the concept of "Come tomorrow to do something and get some items". I can't quite say if this concept is good or bad, but the WAY CP does this is definetely bad. I mean, this can work, as long as you put some lasting tasks, that have some degree of difficulty, not these easy things that you have to click and finish in 1 minute. These tasks are named "traditions", and they consist or ornamenting a tree, food fight a.k.a the food waste tradition (let's help poor and starving kids with this though ;D), ringing the bells at Plaza (the Secrets section of this week newspaper teaches how to play Jingle Bells, check it out!), and finally, finding 6 gems (which are REALLY easy to find, as they are badly mixed into the room, generally placed in the middle of it.) to unlock, drumrolls please: *does drumroll sound*... ANOTHER FREAKING PUFFLE. This was the last puffle of 2014, which featured a total of 24 Puffles released in 2014, all of them being Puffle Creatures, the ones that don't have interface and are weird hybrids between puffles and some other animal (dinosaurs, cats, dogs, deers, rabbits and raccoons), supernatural being (ghost and unicorn), Disney characters (snowman a.k.a Olaf) or inanimate stuff (Blue Crystal). This Blue Crystal Puffle has no immediate realtion with the party. It sounds like CP suddenly decided to throw puffles at every party, without the wrooy that it might not be needed, and with that urge, they come up with all kinds of nonsense. What's next, Light Puffle, for the upcoming Star Wars Rebels a.k.a "worst thing to happen to Star Wars since Jar-Jar Binks" Takeover? Like someone I follow on Twitter said, CP now treats puffles as some kind of Happy Meal toy that has a new one coming every once in a while and that you can collect, and not as a pet that you have to care and give love. Now, let's talk about Merry Walrus, shall we? Merry Walrus was a dull move by Club Penguin to try and create a new party, but he is only a Santa Claus in the form of a walrus. He says "hohoho", he is kind, he is fat, he wears winter clothes, he has a sled pulled by living beings. See a padron? CP could easily just make a regular Holiday Party, and make Santa a character in form of a walrus but who knows why they didn't. This whole party is only used to promote that TV Special, and I have no doubts that next year, a normal Holiday Party will take place. But you know who loses the most with this party? The Coins for Change project. You see, this party is abnormally short, ending roughly a week from today, December 21st, and CFC hasn't even reached the SECOND project as of now (let's hope this changes). Last year by the first five days, 16,000,000,000 coins were raised. This year, as of the first four days, only 10.500.000.000, a short of five and a half billions, have been raised. You know why that is? Because there is no prizes for reaching the projects, and the prizes were what motivated the penguin to donate and complete projects. Last year, CFC ended with over 20 billion coins donated, and let's hope situation changes until Thursday, go on and donate a little bit, every coin counts.


 * Items: The items were pretty generic, and again non-members got nothing but hats. Remember that last year's Holiday Party presented non-members with an IGLOO? Yeah. All items but one are colored blue, the ugliest color ever for the Holidays. There was a new bell apron which had a special dance but that was all.

Before I end this review, I wish to do something different. As this is my last (technically first) review of 2014, I'd like to make a list for this years parties, no°1 is best and no°12 is worst.

Enb's Top 12 Parties of 2014!
1. Halloween Party

2. Prehistoric Party

3. Penguin Cup

4. The Fair

5. Future Party

6. Muppets World Tour

7. Puffle Party

8. School and Skate Party

9. Frozen Party

10. Pirate Party

11. Merry Walrus Party

12. The party CP insists to be named a Music Jam

So this is my list and review! 2014 indeed was a bad year for CP, and let's hope that 2015 will be a better year, a year that CP finally listens to us, the players, and begins to make good parties, tone it down with the puffles and put less focus on mobile, as CP has always been a web game. I wish all the fellow penguins that read this review a Merry Christmas, and a prosper New Year, this is Rob, finishing this year's last review. Agree with me? Feel free to comment down there with suggestions, critics, and your own lists for the parties this year. See ya in 2015!