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(Also known as "Bakushow" in the UK/EU) A unique, free-form gaming experience, LOL’s motto says it best: “If the game is boring, then you are boring.” LOL is played by one of the players making a challenge in writing to the others. The crazier the challenge, the more fun everyone will have. The person who delivered the challenge chooses an appropriate time limit, and everyone has to answer the challenge on their touch screen however they see fit – with words, pictures, or whatever comes to mind. The host reveals the answers, and everyone votes on a winner who will then decide on the challenge for the next round. Always different and a blast to play every time, LOL will, as its name implies, make everyone laugh out loud. [Agetec]
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 80
GamePro
If you find yourself the baffled over ways to entertain your guests at a gathering, it might be money well spent.
 80
n-Revolution Magazine UK
So entertaining. Get a group of creative friends round and your evening's entertainment is sorted! Wonderful. [Issue#25, p.75]
80
Official Nintendo Magazine UK
Bakushow is the very definition of a cheap and cheerful game - perfect for those whose wit is as sharp as their stylus. [Sept 2008, p.96]
75
IGN
LOL doesn't do anything revolutionary for the DS or for party games in general, but it's a lot of fun and easy to use. If you and your friends crack each other up, you'll do the same with LOL.
73
GameZone
As Chandler once said on Friends, this game is silly because it knows that “we enjoy the silliness.” Hmmm, that gives me an idea for another challenge.
70
games(TM)
With the right people involved, this can turn a dull bus ride or airport lounge into an extremely good fun, and crucially, a very personal gaming session. [Aug 2008, p.112]
70
My Gamer
You want to take this game seriously, you can do that. You want to goof around and draw naked stick figures, you can do that.
60
Zentendo
Bakushow is really as good as the people that it’s played with; fortunately, I played it with some great people. It feels a little incomplete in places, however, and there’s a lot of room for change if a second is to come out. The lack of colours and a keyboard is criminal, but the game is great fun overall as long as being spoon-fed isn’t something you enjoy.
60
Modojo
LOL is as deep as you want to make it, but it only takes a matter of hours until it gets old.
60
NGamer UK
LOL certainly brought out the funny in the NGamer office, but apart from that this is about as lightweight as DS games come. [Sept 2008, p.64]
50
Cubed3
If you've got three enthusiastic mates, preferably each willing to chip in for the game, then there's a lot of fun to be had here. But, for most people, it would probably be cheaper and easier to stick with plain ol' Pictionary.
50
Pocket Gamer UK
A rough draft for what could become a masterpiece, Bakushow is messy, unfinished and not yet worth the money.
50
Console Gameworld
While LOL is a good idea and genuinely is a lot of fun, it lacks many necessary features and options to make it recommendable over just using Pictochat.
40
Worth Playing
In short, LOL is not worth it. The complete lack of single-player gameplay in any form, of enough actual gameplay to make a full game out of it, or, well, anything of interest that you cannot do with Pictochat makes its premise essentially useless to pretty much all players.
40
Thunderbolt
The “multiplayer only” tag is sure to put many off from considering the purchase at the current time.
25
ZTGameDomain
But I just can't give this game a legitimate score because this program essentially already exists with more font and typing options, wider use and less annoying mechanics. FOR FREE!
20
Ferrago
Bakushow is, in a way, a tough game to score. I mean, its rubbish, but it does do exactly what it claims to and does it perfectly well. The fact that what it does is quite clearly the most pointless game concept in all of history is obviously a bad thing but it doesn't try to hide its flawed plan so anyone who buys it is hardly in a position to complain.
10
Total Video Games
Marginally more than Picto-Chat which comes free with every DS, there's literally nothing that we can recommend about Bakushow.
10
Game Informer
Congratulations, you just spent $20 on 10 minutes of gameplay! [Aug 2008, p.91]
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