{"id":12315,"date":"2014-09-15T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12315"},"modified":"2014-09-14T23:54:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T23:54:43","slug":"2nd-opinion-monsters-ate-my-birthday-cake-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/15\/2nd-opinion-monsters-ate-my-birthday-cake-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Opinion: Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BIRTHDAY_BOX\"<\/a>About a month or two ago, my good friend Leroy reviewed Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake for PC<\/strong><\/a>, and it looked like a game that was right up my alley.\u00a0 So Cartoon Network Games was gracious enough to give me a review code for the iPad version.\u00a0 So in honor of MY real birthday, which is today, September 15, here is my own take on this cute little puzzle game.<\/p>\n

In the game you play as boy Niko.\u00a0 He and his dog Bazooka are excited because it\u2019s Niko\u2019s birthday and they get to eat cake for breakfast!\u00a0 But mean monsters have taken his birthday cake and it\u2019s up to Niko to track them and his cake down, not to mention rescue his dog!\u00a0 This game is a block-pushing puzzle title, similar to classics like Adventures of Lolo, or the puzzle sections in dungeons of several Zelda games.<\/p>\n

As you progress in your cake adventure, Niko will meet other friendly monsters that will join up and help him out.\u00a0 You\u2019ll switch between each given monster in a level, and use teamwork to solve the puzzles.\u00a0 Each character has his or her own special skill.\u00a0 Niko can push and pull blocks.\u00a0 One monster can charge and break certain objects, while another can burrow under the ground.\u00a0 You\u2019ll finish the stage when you find all the cake in that level.<\/p>\n

You can earn stars in the levels if you finish certain objectives, like collect all the coins or complete the level in a given time.\u00a0 Get enough stars to unlock hidden stages.\u00a0 You may also want to replay levels to find secret items.\u00a0 These items can be given back to folks in Niko\u2019s town or to other friendly monsters.\u00a0 And in return, you might get special costumes and other goodies.<\/p>\n

If there is any problem with this game, it\u2019s that the puzzles can be a bit tedious sometimes.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t think the touch screen tablet controls are quite as responsive as a real controller on a console would be. \u00a0Speaking of which, I think this game would be great on a console, and I\u2019m surprised this and other Cartoon Network games haven\u2019t made the jump to consoles yet because most of them are very high quality.\u00a0 All in all, this game is great for puzzle fans of all ages.<\/p>\n

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

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

Violence is very minimal and cartoony.\u00a0 If one of your characters gets hit, they just fall over on their backs.\u00a0 Defeated enemy monsters just turn into bones and fall down.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may need help with some of the tougher puzzles.\u00a0 But the game does reinforce logic and thinking skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a month or two ago, my good friend Leroy reviewed Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake for PC, and it looked like a game that was right up my alley.\u00a0 So Cartoon Network Games was gracious enough to give me a review code for the iPad version.\u00a0 So in honor of MY real birthday, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12315","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\/12315","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=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12316,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions\/12316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}