Good Thing It's Used

I’m enjoying Viking:  Battle for Asgard, but I’m enjoying it much in the same way one enjoys an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 .  It’s not quite so bad it’s good, but there are a lot of unpolished aspects of the game that really keep it from being a gem of gaming.  It’s little things like the bizarrely mixed audio which is subdued or very nearly absent most of the game, the cheapness of having cut-scenes using the in-game engine where lips don’t move on the characters, the fairly repetitive gameplay after you realize you’re traveling to three islands and doing the same tasks on each one.  And yet, for all that, it’s also actually kind of fun.  It’s a weird game to criticize because for every one thing it does wrong, it also does something right.  I can see the potential that was in this game, but it was never fully realized.  I’m just glad we didn’t get this thing full price, or I’d probably be far less generous in my estimation of it.