{"id":12855,"date":"2014-12-05T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12855"},"modified":"2014-12-01T00:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T00:47:29","slug":"the-penguins-of-madagascar-3ds-wii-u-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/the-penguins-of-madagascar-3ds-wii-u-wii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penguins of Madagascar (3DS, Wii U, Wii)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/the-penguins-of-madagascar-3ds-wii-u-wii\/penguins_box\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PENGUINS_BOX-150x133.jpg\" alt=\"PENGUINS_BOX\" width=\"150\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PENGUINS_BOX-150x133.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PENGUINS_BOX.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I love the penguins in the Madagascar movies.\u00a0 In fact, they\u2019re the only reasons why I watched all three films.\u00a0 Apparently, I\u2019m not the only one who likes those penguins, because a few years ago they were in a cartoon series on Nickelodeon, and now they have their own feature length movie in theaters.\u00a0 And now you can join in the adventures of Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private as they embark on a mission for their favorite Cheesy Dibbles snacks, and rescue other penguins in the process.\u00a0 The Penguins of Madagascar video game is based on the new movie, and is available for all current Nintendo consoles, but reviewed on 3DS here.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a 3-D stealth puzzler adventure.\u00a0 You\u2019ll play as the four penguins, switching between them on the fly.\u00a0 You\u2019ll sneak past octopus guards; activate switches, climb, jump, and more.\u00a0 Each penguin has their own special skill.\u00a0 Little Private can fit through small pipes to get around.\u00a0 Rico can use explosives to blow up doors, and brainy Kowalski can hack into computers.\u00a0 You\u2019ll use each penguin\u2019s skills to collect cheese snacks and rescue trapped penguins.<\/p>\n<p>The main problem with this game is the way it saves your progress.\u00a0 You pass checkpoints all throughout the levels, but they only serve to take you back if you get caught.\u00a0 If you need to turn off the game, it won\u2019t save your progress.\u00a0 I was on the first level for an hour and a half and needed to quit.\u00a0 When I came back later, I had to start the whole level over again.\u00a0 That\u2019s never good, especially on a handheld system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/the-penguins-of-madagascar-3ds-wii-u-wii\/penguins_screen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12856\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PENGUINS_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"PENGUINS_SCREEN\" width=\"320\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PENGUINS_SCREEN.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PENGUINS_SCREEN-125x150.jpg 125w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PENGUINS_SCREEN-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Penguins of Madagascar is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Comic Mischief.\u00a0 If you get hit by lasers or caught by enemies, you\u2019ll just be sent back to the last checkpoint, so it\u2019s not too violent at all.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must for the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated by the tedious gameplay and lack of a good progress saving system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the penguins in the Madagascar movies.\u00a0 In fact, they\u2019re the only reasons why I watched all three films.\u00a0 Apparently, I\u2019m not the only one who likes those penguins, because a few years ago they were in a cartoon series on Nickelodeon, and now they have their own feature length movie in theaters.\u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855","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=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12859,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions\/12859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}