{"id":12286,"date":"2014-09-08T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T11:34:42","slug":"the-brave-furries-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/08\/the-brave-furries-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brave Furries (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BRAVE_BOX\"<\/a>A tribe of little furballs lives happily in the forest, when all of a sudden an evil wizard kidnaps their princess!\u00a0 Now the little furries must enter the wizard\u2019s stronghold and save the day in The Brave Furries, a downloadable puzzle game for iOS devices and Google Play (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how making colored fuzzballs hop into similar colored glowing spheres arranged in a spider web grid will save a princess, but oh well.\u00a0 This puzzler is like a modern take on those \u2018jump-a-peg\u2019 games, you know, like the ones you can play at Cracker Barrel while you wait for your food.<\/p>\n

Gameplay is pretty simple, but kind of hard to explain in words, but here goes.\u00a0 Colored spheres are arranged on a grid made up of spider webs.\u00a0 The furries wait at the edge of the grid, and you must tap on them to make them hop to spheres of the same color.\u00a0 The furries can only hop to the farthest reaching sphere of their color, but they can\u2019t jump over other furries, so you have to think ahead to keep them from blocking others.\u00a0 Later you\u2019ll be able to place special orange furries on spheres to help keep other ones from hopping too far and also to fill any empty spaces.\u00a0 Once all furries are on a sphere, you win the level.\u00a0 Some levels are timed while others are not.\u00a0 The game doesn\u2019t give explicit instructions, but it\u2019s pretty easy to figure out just by playing for a bit.<\/p>\n

To access these levels, you\u2019ll view a room in the wizard\u2019s fortress, and you must find and tap glowing runes to start levels.\u00a0 Collect enough glowing runes by completing levels and you\u2019ll be able to move onto the next room.\u00a0 Soon after you start playing, you\u2019ll discover that in order to play these levels, you\u2019ll need to have enough of these little glowing firefly things.\u00a0 Luckily these glowing things are easy to get.\u00a0 You can tap on them floating around the rooms, by finishing levels, and earning them by playing mini-games.\u00a0 The mini-games have to charge up over time, though.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also earn purple gems every so often, and you can use the fireflies and gems to buy other helpful tricks like more time in the levels, or more chances if you miss.\u00a0 Or you can always buy them with the in-game shop.\u00a0 That\u2019s really the only thing that annoys me about this game is how they handle in-game purchases, but it\u2019s like how many other tablet games are, unfortunately.\u00a0 Other than that, this is a pretty simple and addicting puzzler.<\/p>\n

\"BRAVE_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

No violence that I could find.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but the game is easy enough to figure out just by playing.\u00a0 Younger gamers may have trouble with the harder, later levels, though.\u00a0 And keep in mind that The Brave Furries has in-game purchases, so supervision is recommended with that.\u00a0 But this game could be considered educational as it teaches logic and thinking skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tribe of little furballs lives happily in the forest, when all of a sudden an evil wizard kidnaps their princess!\u00a0 Now the little furries must enter the wizard\u2019s stronghold and save the day in The Brave Furries, a downloadable puzzle game for iOS devices and Google Play (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12286","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\/12286","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=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12289,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions\/12289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}