One of my riskier blind purchases in a PlayStation Network sale was Save Farty: The Trivia Game. It’s a cheap, single-player quiz master that presents you with an endless supply of questions until you get one wrong. That results in Farty, the cute CGI bird, being killed off in various cut scenes. Whilst the main draw seems to be a CGI bird getting killed off repeatedly, oddly, I found this game comical for an entirely different reason.
First, let’s cover the gameplay structure. Save Farty provides three answers to each question, and the player needs to select the right one. Get it right, and you advance. Get it wrong, Farty gets culled. Your score is the number of questions answered before death, and a weekly, monthly, and all-time local score is kept for your records. The questions are wider ranging across topics, and the game has 5,000 questions. This sounds impressive, but I did come across similarly worded questions with the same answer, albeit never on the same run. The player has three jokers up their sleeve to use. Extra time adds 10 seconds to the clock, as each question only has 20 seconds to provide an answer. 50/50 removes one of the three answers, leaving you with one right and one wrong answer to choose. Lastly, solve literally solves the question and lets you skip it. You can use all of these on the same question if you want to, but only solve is a bankable help.
Whilst Save Farty is set up like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but with no end in sight, its replayability does come under fire quite quickly. A single-player, multi-choice quiz with local leaderboards without name entry only leaves a lot to be desired. This is where the most redeemable feature of Save Farty comes in… its joke answers. Probably 1 in 5 of the questions in the game have ridiculous choices to consider. A favourite includes having a prostitute as an option for the most bought gift on Valentine’s Day. Some are crass, some are risque, some are just stupid, but they did raise a smile or a chuckle regularly. If I’m honest, it was the discovery of the barmy answers that kept me returning to Save Farty for a quickfire quiz every few days because in 5 minutes I’d be out, but I’d have laughed in the process.
Everything else about this game is a straight-up 5/10. It’s basic but functional, and I’m on the fence about whether the bird is a gen AI or an off-the-shelf asset being repurposed in an abstract context. Farty didn’t impress, but the stupid answers amused. I don’t feel shortchanged for the deep sale purchase price. I just wouldn’t recommend it as a good quiz experience, though, especially with a new It’s Quiz Time on the way soon.
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