{"id":12196,"date":"2014-08-06T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12196"},"modified":"2014-07-28T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:43:55","slug":"armillo-wii-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/armillo-wii-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Armillo (Wii U)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ARMILLO_BOX\"<\/a>Armillo is an intergalactic space armadillo who lives peacefully on his home planet.\u00a0 But one day, evil mechanical alien Darkbots invade his galaxy and kidnap Armillo\u2019s brother.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s up to Armillo to roll out and save the day and rescue his brother.\u00a0 Armillo is a downloadable Wii U game that\u2019s a lot better than what you might think.<\/p>\n

Armillo is like a mix-up of various other games.\u00a0 You roll around spherical planetoid worlds, similar to those found in Super Mario Galaxy.\u00a0 The game stars a cute mascot cartoon character like Sonic the Hedgehog.\u00a0 You\u2019ll roll and avoid obstacles and pits like Super Monkey Ball or Marble Madness.\u00a0 And you\u2019ll zip around mazes nabbing items like Pac-Man.\u00a0 Armillo will roll up like a ball when you move, and he can jump over pits and obstacles and boost dash to ram into rocks and enemies blocking your way.<\/p>\n

In each planet you\u2019ll roll around mazes and solve puzzles and avoid obstacles and defeat enemies.\u00a0 Scattered about the levels are items and power-ups for you to nab.\u00a0 Trapped in each world are little blue aliens for you to free.\u00a0 Collect orbs which you can spend on upgrades in the shop, such as more health, lives, and time.\u00a0 Power-ups make you temporarily big, or turn you into a square so you can stomp enemies flat.\u00a0 There are also portals that will take you to a parallel alternate universe world.\u00a0 In these areas, you\u2019ll usually collect keys to unlock doors on the other side, or find hidden paths.\u00a0 Each planet\u2019s alternate universe also contains a special cube that, when collected, unlocks a special bonus 2-D platforming stage with a red orb to collect at the end.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to collect as many red orbs and free as many blue aliens as you can, because that\u2019s how you unlock the boss stages at the end of each solar system.\u00a0 You won\u2019t have trouble at first, but around the third world or so, you may have to backtrack and replay levels to find those items you need.<\/p>\n

When you complete a world, you go to a bonus stage moon to try and collect as many orbs as you can within the time limit.\u00a0 The more blue aliens you free, the more time you\u2019ll have on the bonus moon.\u00a0 Each level houses tons of hidden secrets and areas, and you\u2019ll even unlock a bonus planet or two (one has an awesome Shovel Knight cameo).\u00a0 Really the only problem I had with this game is that it\u2019s a tiny bit buggy.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t experience any game breaking bugs myself, but sometimes the action would freeze up for less than a second, which got a little annoying after a while.\u00a0 Sometimes the controls felt a little inaccurate while dashing, but that could just be me.\u00a0 Armillo really reminds me of a game you\u2019d find on the N64 or GameCube (graphically better of course).\u00a0 It stars a cartoon mascot character, isn\u2019t too short or too long, and doesn\u2019t try to be too big for its britches like a lot of today\u2019s games do.\u00a0 Because of all that, Armillo is a breath of fresh air in the gaming world, and ended up being a lot better than I thought it would be.\u00a0 Definitely worth a download if you have a Wii U.<\/p>\n

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Armillo is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 When you defeat enemies or robots by slamming into them, they\u2019ll just flash and disappear, or explode if they\u2019re a robot baddie.\u00a0 If you are defeated, you\u2019re just whisked back to the last checkpoint with maybe a cartoony squish animation.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and while the game isn\u2019t TOO difficult, younger gamers may need help with the more tougher, later levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armillo is an intergalactic space armadillo who lives peacefully on his home planet.\u00a0 But one day, evil mechanical alien Darkbots invade his galaxy and kidnap Armillo\u2019s brother.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s up to Armillo to roll out and save the day and rescue his brother.\u00a0 Armillo is a downloadable Wii U game that\u2019s a lot better than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12201,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions\/12201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}