Prodigy Math

Prodigy Math is a free math game website, where you create your Prodigy Math account, create your character, and fight and battle monsters and bosses by solving math problems. It can be either played at school or at home.

Why It Isn't a Prodigy

 * 1) It tries to rip off much better RPGs and slaps math problems on them.
 * 2) The character designs are just horrible in terms of how they are animated.
 * 3) *Speaking of characters, all characters are very bland.
 * 4) False advertising: In the trailer, it says that the math problems are fantastic, but the game just gives you whatever it wants. Even math problems that are harder for 1st graders to answer, but easy for a 3rd grader and upper. The advertising also shows it to be "the new Khan Academy."
 * 5) In one review, a parent had a kid who did fifth grade math, and he came to his dad crying because it gave him problems that were not easy for fifth graders.
 * 6) The hints for all math problems tend to be either Sherlock easy or downright cryptic, making math even worse to learn than learning it the traditional way.
 * 7) Another thing: The art style for the log-in/sign-up screen is pretty good compared to the in-game art style. Too bad it is misleading.
 * 8) The Chibi art style in-game looks awful, and cringe-worthily ugly and ends up looking like an even worse-looking version of Pokémon or Digimon. Even worse, some people who asked why got the lame excuse of it running "faster for iPads."
 * 9) *The fact is that the art style looks worse as of 2022. Not to mention, some pets and clothes had a cartoony style change shifting from the pixelated style, while others were left alone, resulting in the two styles clashing.
 * 10) The villain in this game is really bland, and unoriginal. The Puppet Master tries to mind control everyone, so he stops everyone from learning. He is also a weak cartoon villain who passes up nearly every chance to fight the player.
 * 11) The story rips of basically every educational game and the Sonic franchise.
 * 12) Loud and obnoxious voice acting with Slurpy being the worst as he yells or talks in a loud tone for everything he says.
 * 13) You cannot do most things without a membership. It gives you a limit on the number of pets you can collect, doesn't let you evolve pets, you get only ONE chest while you're exploring each world, and you have limited options on clothes. This is why many parents complained about this, as it can urge children to pay $6-$10 per month for a membership. In other words, it wants children to cave in to microtransactions.
 * 14) *The toys feature is inaccessible to people who don't want to spend money.
 * 15) Not to mention, it also rips off mh:awesomegames:Club Penguin since you get to play minigames, you use your mouse to click to make the player walk, have a pet, having a membership, wearing outfits, making you log on every time you go on the website, meet online, be friends with others, design your house, buy decorations, do achievements. In other words, it's Club Penguin but with math.
 * 16) The music is stolen from various games, not like it was very good to begin with.
 * 17) The website has security issues, to the point that there are media about hacking the game (videos, addons, etc.)
 * 18) When a character uses an attack, they don't even have their own animation, adding insult to injury is that your character just stays there in the same spot/position without even moving a single muscle during the whole battle, which is extremely lazy.
 * 19) The locations look quite generic and are cliché fantasy fare such as "lava world" and "water world."
 * 20) The combat interface is bad. Turns take a long time to finish, save for one used by a villain, there are no unique attacks in the entire game, meaning all weapons do the same things, enemies are always several levels below the player, and bosses aren't much harder than everyday enemies.
 * 21) Speaking of common enemies, areas are littered with common enemies who engage the player when they get close, so the player is constantly trying to avoid them, which is frustrating because the fights take so long.
 * 22) The boss battles are nothing special.
 * 23) Bad game design and glitches. For example, there is a pedestal you have to be at Level 25 to use, but it doesn't work if you are already at or above level 25, and two areas of the map are only available when playing from home, but the player can easily bypass this just by saying they're playing from home, there is nothing to check this!
 * 24) *In fact, the game is unfinished, as you can’t beat it. You can only beat the Earth Tower and Ice Tower as of December 2021
 * 25) On the teacher's UI, the time you play the game is wrong. Turns out, it counts the time battling monsters, rather than log in- log out like other programs.
 * 26) The art style used to look good, but it was ruined by new updates.
 * 27) The Mythical Epics gathering materials can take a while, as the items required to obtain the Epics can take days to weeks to find.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some updates can be decent at times, like the one that added the academy.
 * 2) The posters, and artwork used in their loading screens are all in all pretty nice, and colorful, in fact, they even look better than the game itself.
 * 3) The website used to be better, before you needed to be a member for everything, and they changed the pet designs.
 * 4) Decent sprite work, even after the designs changed.
 * 5) The designs for the epics and epic dragons are good.