If Buzzfeed made “in front of you are three doors” quizzes, you’d likely get Bright Side: Riddles and Puzzles. A 1-4 player quiz game where each quiz is a cartoon, complete with narration to explain the situation in front of you. You need to deduct which answer is correct.
The unique selling point for Bright Side is that the quizzes are a mix of observation of what’s on screen and applying real world logic. The themes are things like whose the rich person, the poor person, the stupid person, the smart person or how to survive certain situations. Then we have odd ones out, spot the difference and the patterns. Questions will be things like you’ve had a ring stolen, three characters will give a story and you work out who is lying. Sometimes the logic in the story will be the red flag, or it might be one of the characters is wearing gloves. The quizzes remind me of the observation round from the Krypton Factor (an UK IQ test show) and I mean that as a complement. Some of the spot the difference or the odd one out quizzes are also very fast, making them the hardest part of the game. This might stand out because most of the riddles require a 20-30 second set up so they feel slower and easier by nature.
As each quiz is a video, they’ll have a static length which you can see in the main menu and plan your gaming accordingly. Points are awarded for how fast you answer but sometimes questions have a lack of context over what prompt relates to what answer. More than once I selected an answer which I thought meant one thing and it indeed meant another. My only other complaint is that sometimes the real world logic application reaches beyond its practical use. Hiding from a vampire until morning makes sense. Other questions where several people are in peril are left up to semantic interpretation.
That minor quibble aside, Bright Side: Riddles and Puzzles is a fun, bright and vibrant quiz game that doesn’t take itself seriously. It has style and a personality, much of which comes from its eye rolling narration. Since most questions rely on three choices, three doors, three tunnels and so on, the narrator leans into the silliness of it and it works. This works because you’ve got about 4 hours of quiz videos to get through and you can chunk them up into smaller gameplay sessions. The obvious downside is that each video will always be static so replayability will be somewhat reduced with around 450 questions to answer. This is an enjoyable entry into the quiz genre and nothing else is quite like it out there. Good fun in small doses.
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