"your joy, is my joy!"

The Hunt: ROBLOX 20

creator: Roblox Presents

so....since the event as going on, i might as well summarize/"liveblog" my experience with it. a fun little switch-up for this blog, and as an apology for the recent slowness of reviews on this page! if you wanna read the liveblog before my yap about how the quests were, skip the main thoughts and come back up once done!

MAIN / CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; WRITTEN POST-EVENT

what a doozy. honestly this might be the most frustrating recent roblox event to date. the takeover/haunt/classic etc might be annoying because of the lack of creativity, but they're nowhere NEAR as bad as this. i'm going to be comparing this event to the mega hunt instead of the hatch--the hatch was a much better structured event, and there are more similarities between the releases and general concept of hunt20 and megahunt than there are of hunt20 and the hatch. the mega hunt was really long, having multiple areas, but if i'm remembering correctly, only one or two games stand out as as frustrating as the ones here. (one glaring ugly example comes to mind- pressure. honestly, that one specific ending part is harder than the entirety of this event combined and i'm very glad i never have to play that game again since it imploded) i looked back on my old tumblr posts about that event, and my main criticism of the megahunt was that most of the quests were super boring. honestly, i'd prefer the boring slog that was the megahunt than to whatever they tried to do here.

the biggest problem this event has it shares with EVERY SINGLE OTHER RECENT EVENT IN MEMORY, which is the fact that it is full of bugs, and poorly planned quests. for some of them, it feels like the people developing the quests didn't even try to imagine what it would be like for the average/casual roblox player or the average mobile player playing this event. i don't actually have a say in either one of these things-- i don't consider myself a casual roblox enjoyer (duh. this is a nearly 3k word essay) nor do i play on mobile, but i did actually play the quests and i have eyes and some of these just seems straight up impossible on mobile. blade ball's secret quest lagged so much it might make a phone explode, rocket arena has horrific movement that's even difficult on a laptop, and sfoth i can imagine being MISERABLE to try to get around the map. mind you, i pay for premium, and used a private server whenever it was convenient! some of these would be impossible to do in a public server on mobile.

as i mentioned below in blade ball's secret quest, it just feels like roblox is continuing their streak of not giving game devs long enough time to prepare for these events. and it shows! badly! it makes people not want to play these games, and that's so disappointing, especially because some of these are very important in roblox's history (and very fun, when you're not stressed about wasting hours trying to get the badge)

on another point about the above, the bugs! so many of these quests (both secret and normal) and games needed updating as soon as they released or had serious bugs. the older games (sfoth in particular, that i personally noticed) had some kind of updated attached that MAKES YOU LAGGIER.

ultimately though, i really like this format of event for roblox. for the secret quests, i like the slower drip-feed of content instead of just releasing the entire thing at once! i think it makes the event feel much less overwhelming. i also really did like most of the normal quests' content, even if i got a little annoyed towards the end (which is my fault, i was trying to get the whole thing done in a day after work and was rushing myself!). personally i would enjoy if they brought back the original way they did egg hunts, but it's very clear roblox wants to be more of a gaming *platform* instead of a game itself, which is fair. it wants to showcase different kinds of games instead of just this one big event of bringing all the players into one game. i think that would be a good thing, if they could branch out a little and pick out some smaller games. it's not too hard to show the depth of what this platform has to offer, you just need to look a little!

PART ONE: THE NORMAL QUESTS; A LIVEBLOG

a small note before you read, all of these games on release day. so, if anything was updated later on (i.e WaaPP getting a solo queue), i didn't experience it at the time

starting at 2006, the first challenge i did was crossroads, which was easy (only 3 kills, thank god, because i'm super bad at pvp). each of the eras has a little collect-a-thon / minigame in the hub so i finished that, and moved onto 2007. next was sword fight on the heights, which you needed to collect four swords for. i stayed a little extra to swordfight after i finished because i was having fun. and also, a secret! there was a secret place hidden in one of the teleporter doors in SFOTH, which lead to some random baseplate place with nothing going on besides an empty statue stand titled "review me.". how neat! i collected my buttons and moved on to 2008.

2008's game is rocket arena, which you need to....get 5 k/os for. another combat game, but this was also fun, so it wasn't too bad. the minigame was painting eggs, so i did so. moving on! 2009 is chaos canyon. it's objective is...ANOTHER PVP GAME! only four kills, but still. i got them quickly as everyone was bunched up in one spot, so i moved on to the minigame, which was surviving a tornado. i've played enough NDS to breeze through it, so onto 2010 we go. work at a pizza place is the game for 2010, and you're teleporting to an event place inside of WAAPP. which was broken. unless you played solo. AND THE GAME HAS NO SOLO QUEUES, SO IT WAS INSANE. the little quest/story took longer than all the others (...so far...) combined. but wasn't actually hard. for the minigame, you collect 3 pizza ingredients. easy, moving on to 2011.

natural disaster survival is 2011. you need to collect a retro animal roaming around the map and survive the whole round 3 times. easy enough! this minigame is surviving a meteor shower for 30 seconds. 2012 is base wars. this fucking game was COMPLETELY broken. i must have joined like 30 different servers, NONE of them worked properly. i somehow, in a solo server, managed to get a skirmish to occcur but since i was the only person in the server, i didn't get the win, even after capturing all the points. i even /tried/ to get my alt in, but it didn't let me find the server i was in on my main. after all that, i took a little break for ~30 minutes and the game finally started working. the minigame is capture the flag. 2013 is apocalypse rising 2, just playing the game as usual gets you the badge. minigame, collect 3 items, and lets move on...

to 2014-2016! when i first joined! the first game is murder mystery 2! with a simple quest, collect 20 coins. the minigame is a race (or just, you run to the top because theres nobody your racing against). 2015 is lumber tycoon 2, you just throw some wood in a chipper and get your badge. the "minigame" is a little cutscene about a tycoon. 2016 is ROBLOX HIGH SCHOOL! one of my personal favorite "retro" games. you just gotta do a little quest, talk to some NPCS, it's a little wordy but not hard. minigame you click a button a bunch of times. moving on to...

2017! with jailbreak. i fucking HATED this quest, you need to run around the big ass map to look for 5 npcs. they give you NO guidance on where you're supposed to go, just drive around and they'll highlight the npc in light yellow (which doesn't stand out much) if you get close. annoying, tedious. the minigame was basically flood escape. cool! moving on. 2018, build a boat for treasure. build a boat and run into big cake ingredients. fun! minigame, just do some mining and click a bunch. 2019, adopt me! just raise an egg until it hatches. the minigame, you collect 3 dollars and buy an egg, which hatches into a....gubby.

2020 is world//zero. i personally really like this game, i need to re-write a review for it that i wrote pre-creation-of-this-blog. this isn't really a game i'd think they'd pick (or that anyone would really pick for the big game of 2020), but it's not too big a deal. the quest itself is a dungeon tower. i got carried, so it was pretty easy. the mini game was clicking to dig a few times on a red X. 2021 is piggy. on that note, i'd also like to eventually review the piggy game that just won the RIA award. it seems neat. moving on. compared to the last game, piggy is very fitting for the early 2020s! as for the quest, you needed to beat two maps, so i just got onto a private server with my alt and did so for quickness. i didn't get to finish the minigame for this one--i got stuck, and reset, and it took me to the next year. speaking of, 2022 is berry avenue. berry avenue has you do a couple of jobs (nurse, police officer (yuck), and airplane hostess) with a couple of simple interact prompts each. the minigame is to collect 3 keys while not getting caught by the monster. the "monster" is an evil gubby with red eyes that works like a weeping angel...

the last 3 games, the title listed on the hunt's event page is "2023-2025: New Classics. Too fresh to be nostalgia, too big to ignore." at first, i thought "hell no, i'd be so mad if i grew up with these and THESE were my classics" but two out of the three of these aren't so bad. there definitely has been worse games that have been very popular during these times that they could've picked! the last one is just the worst, though. the first game, for 2023, is blade ball. you need to collect tix from.....some..where? i've seen it appear, but i'm not too sure why. i think it might drop when someome dies. actually, it spawns when an npc that spawns in the middle gets killed by a player. the minigame, you shoot balls with guns. 2024, dress to impress. you need to play two rounds (no need to win, yay!) of a retro themed mode. the minigame, you equip two hats and walk the runway. the last game! (for now, as i'm writing this) is....grow a garden. euuuugh. their quest is to steal plants from an npc and walk back to a different npc. you need to do this 50 times (although the fruit can stack, but you can only stack ~8 at a time because carrying slows you down and you get caught by the bird). oookay..the minigame is grabbing a seed, interacting with dirt, and standing on a platform to water it. good enough. and now we're at 2026! there is no specific game, but there are ~20 games they will update later to add to the update. wow! i am. so tired, after writing this first part, i got home from work at about ~6 pm and have been playing these games up until ~2 am. my back hurts! so i will resume writing this later...

PART TWO; NOW WITH BULLET POINTS!

-a small correction to the previous statement strikethrough'd above: the games seen in the 2026 lobby are not in fact new games, they're just the teleports to the other areas. whoops! the "new 20 games" are actually just more ugc you can obtain in the games already shown.

-there are three hats that can be dropped by devs/roblox admins/star creators. if you've ever played the previous hunt, you know this system SUCKS! i had to wait in a queue for a server for about 2 hours to actually get my hats--and i'd consider that a *SHORT* time, because I joined a private server right when it opened that had been set up to kick someone once they got all three hats. the wait is even worse in public servers, because people will just stand around and fill up the already limited server slots.

-moving on to the main event of part two, THE SECRET QUESTS! i'm going to be using a tutorial to actually complete them (unlike the main games) because they're hard and annoying to figure out like last year's hunt's secret quests, so i won't be compiling how to get all them here (because it's not my own work), but i will offer comments about how they are, which probably will include how to get them. i'm probably only going to talk about the ones i hate, so you should assume any i don't make comments about (labled under number [x]) are actually very fun!

[x] nothing to say about crossroads, DTI, adopt me, RHS, world//zero, build a boat for treasure, berry avenue, or jailbreak

[1] starting off, NDS is TEDIOUS. having to pick up hats 30 times is really slow. i used a faster method -- i set up my alt on my phone on a private server and continuously reset it to get the dropped hats, then ended the round and put them in the bin. i'm not sure if the hats can stack-- so anyone who doesn't have a second device for an alt AND a private server (that costs robux, iirc, or a plus subscription for RL money which makes all private servers free) would take doubly as long as i did because you have to sit through the WHOLE round.

[2] my wifi died nearly before ending the pizza place quest, which was annoying, but not the quest's fault. the quest itself was pretty neat. i liked the horror (? kind of) aspect of the last part.

[3] rocket arena SUCKED. the movement on the rocket shoes was janky and laggy and the typing-in-the-cellphone-numbers thing was so slow. also, my billboard didn't load! and i rejoined multiple times! if i didn't use a guide, i wouldn't know what to do!

[4] apocalypse rising's was a bit of a slog. it made you run around the whole map to read a few notes. not hard but super uninteresting!

[5] blade ball. i never ever want to see this shit ass game in an event again. laggy, annoying, miserable, and visually cluttered! it's also really hard to actually find teammates to take on the boss with, or to even know if you /GOT/ the ticket to enter the battle in the first place. i'm not entirely sure if the crappiness of this particular quest is because of the blade ball developers themselves, or the very short time it seems that roblox gives their devs to make stuff for the events, but roblox *NEEDS* DESPERATELY to actually give their devs time to test and develop the event gameplay. there were a handful of games last hunt that were buggy or seemed untested, and it remains the same for this year.

[6] piggy is...annoying, only because i'm really bad at piggy. i got the badge by finding another person trying to do the quest in a public server, and i kited/circled/distracted/whatever-they-call-it-in-that-game while they did the actual hard work. shoutout to coquito!!

[7] i really liked chaos canyon's. it was really fun compared to the normal quest which was kinda boring

[8] i liked grow a garden's! it was simple, but fun. very easily do-able for the age demographic of this game

[9] murder mystery... was very slow for me, because you need to get an item from three maps. this could be fast if you have good luck, but i did not!

[10] lumber tycoon. this fucking quest. holy shit. originally, this section was a long, LOOOONG rant about how much this quest sucked, but i'd rather not be as tedious and annoying as this quest was.

[11] sfoth. wanna guess how many more times i can say "tedious" and "slow?" atleast two more! because this was tedious and SLOWWWW. also, the teleporting door that took you the place with a podium didn't matter.

[12] after all of that, i saved base wars for last. it was kind of refreshing-- dealing with the usual other player stupidity is so much easier than dealing with the game actively working against you like some of these quests. also, if you take too long, the game just continues! if you get a bunch of braindead teammates, you aren't locked out of progressing, which is great.

and now, what everyone's been waiting for...the final puzzle......is a letdown. by the time i post this, theres probably like 100 other people who've already gone into how awful it is, but i'd like to mention one thing; the MOVEMENT. for some reason, they made you very fast so you're essentially slip and sliding around, trying to click on tiny little prompts to shift the puzzle pieces around. sometimes, the prompts won't even show up for some pieces. it's terrible, but maybe a fitting way to end an event like this...