AAA Clock

Genre: Application / Arcade

Players: 1

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Review:

(Note: This game is included in the bundle AAA Clock + Clumsy Rush, along with Clumsy Rush. It is also in the bundle AAA Clock + Cyber Protocol, along with Cyber Protocol.)

Note 2: Multiple versions of this game have been released. Aside from the above-mentioned bundles, I can count as of this writing over twenty different Editions of this software. Magnificent Edition, Director’s Cut Edition, GOTY Edition, Ultra Special Edition, Ultra Ultimate Edition… it almost seems like it’s a funny gag except all of these different versions are clogging up the Nintendo Switch eShop in a blatant attempt to try to get more attention to spur sales. Which version should you go for? The answer to that question is easy – if you even want to buy AAA Clock at all, you should get whichever version is cheapest (usually $2 on sale), because all these different editions have to offer are different combinations of the free DLC you can get in any version of the software at no added cost. Again, just to make it clear – each of the twenty-plus different versions of AAA Clock is nothing more than the original software plus one to three included pieces of free DLC that you can still easily download for any version of AAA Clock. I’m almost tempted to repeat that twenty more times just to drive the point home, but I think you get the idea.

AAA Clock, released on the Nintendo Switch in 2021, is… well, a clock Application. It comes packed-in with an unnamed Arcade-style game that has you playing a character jumping over space aliens, but mostly this is just… a clock.

Okay, maybe not just a clock. One nice feature here is that each of the various clock skins you can purchase for this Application offers multiple display options – you can alter their color schemes, add a blur filter, change them from 12-hour to 24-hour, set an alarm, and there are even language options.

As for the game… it’s really not much. Think of the dinosaur game that used to be playable when Google’s servers were down, and you have an idea. It’s just a simple one-button game where you try to jump over aliens and try to see how long you can go before mis-timing a jump. It features monochrome pixel art graphics and… yeah, that’s about it.

Okay, I know that for some, the idea of buying a clock application on their Nintendo Switch is probably a fun little novelty, but beyond that there’s not much to this software, really. The included game is functional but so simple you’ll almost immediately grow bored with it, and the clock itself has some nice features but doesn’t do anything exciting or extraordinary. In fact, I would say that the $10 asking price is pretty steep for what’s included here (though this game often goes on sale for $2, which is a bit better). And while your Nintendo Switch isn’t likely to suffer screen burn-in if you use it as a clock, I still don’t see this being very practical. But… well, if you want your Nintendo Switch to be a clock (and the time readout on the home screen isn’t sufficient for your purposes), this can do that, I suppose.

tl;dr – AAA Clock is… well, a clock Application. It’s functional and has a decent amount of options, but it’s still just a clock. The included unnamed game is an extremely simple, shallow Arcade-style game that you’ll tire of quickly, leaving you with… well, the clock. $10 is a bit pricey for what’s here, but the frequent sale price of $2 is much more acceptable… if you really need a clock.

Grade: C

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