{"id":13169,"date":"2015-02-25T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13169"},"modified":"2015-02-19T02:46:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T02:46:42","slug":"adventure-time-game-wizard-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/adventure-time-game-wizard-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure Time: Game Wizard (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WIZARD_BOX\"<\/a>Cartoon Network\u2019s Adventure Time is one of their most successful series, and they\u2019ve made tons of video games based on the property (believe me; I\u2019ve reviewed a lot of them).\u00a0 Their newest title, Game Wizard, is one of the most creative I\u2019ve played yet!\u00a0 One day, Finn and Jake are walking through the forest when they come across a magic book and pencil surrounded by all sorts of strange runes.\u00a0 When they use the pencil to draw themselves in the book, their sketches come to life and they go on an adventure to stop the Doodle Wizard.\u00a0 And now you can draw your own adventures, too, as the game lets you draw levels using graph paper and scan them into your tablet!\u00a0 Adventure Time: Game Wizard is available for iOS, Google Play, and Amazon, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

The main game is a 2-D platform jumping adventure, and kind of reminds me of Metroid in how you move about.\u00a0 You start out as a sketch of Finn but can unlock other characters later.\u00a0 Each character has his or her own special set of skills.\u00a0 Finn\u2019s sword is powerful and can cut through certain blocks.\u00a0 Jake can use his stretchy punch to grab onto walls or reach far away pickups.\u00a0 The Ice King can shoot freezing projectiles and can fly for a short while using his beard.\u00a0 The Fire Princess can shoot fireballs and walk on lava.\u00a0 And finally, my favorite Adventure Time character, BMO, is finally playable in an Adventure Time game and he can fit into small spaces and shoot rapid fire pixels.\u00a0 There are other unlockable characters just are just marked \u201ccoming soon.\u201d\u00a0 I can tell one of them is the rock n roll vampire girl Marcelene, but I don\u2019t know who the other one is!<\/p>\n

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Anyway, as you play the main game, you\u2019ll collect all sorts of useful items.\u00a0 Pies help replenish your health, and coins let you buy things in the shop, like upgrades for your characters and new items to use in the game\u2019s creation mode (more on that later).\u00a0 Keys help you unlock doors, and Princess Bubblegum draws power-ups for you, like bombs and candy corn projectile weapons.\u00a0 But be careful, as the Doodle Wizard has drawn all sorts of enemies for you to fight, as well as bosses every now and then.\u00a0 Luckily, checkpoints are plentiful and you can warp to any one you\u2019ve passed, making backtracking a breeze.<\/p>\n

And when you\u2019re done with the main quest, you can make your own 2-D adventures in the Create mode.\u00a0 They included an in-game creation mode where you use the touch screen and tap and drag platforms, items, enemies, and other things into the stages, and it\u2019s really easy and fun to use.\u00a0 They have good tutorials, too.\u00a0 You can also print off special sheets of graph paper from the Game Wizard web site and draw your levels using special symbols.\u00a0 Then you can scan your drawings into your tablet using the camera.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this way of creating levels didn\u2019t work out for me.\u00a0 My iPad would either freeze up, or not read what I drew correctly, so you probably have to be very accurate.\u00a0 Of course, I could\u2019ve also made a level that was too complicated (I was trying to make a Pac-Man maze).\u00a0 So while drawing levels is a good idea, the in-game creation tools are much better.\u00a0 You can also upload your creations and share them with others, and play other people\u2019s creations in the Arcade mode.<\/p>\n

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The only other problems I had with this game besides the drawing part of creation mode is that the game uses touch screen controls to move your characters around, and it\u2019s not always responsive.\u00a0 Plus, sometimes the game can freeze up for a second, and enemies can get stuck inside walls and other silly bugs.\u00a0 But otherwise it\u2019s a pretty fun 2-D romp that Adventure Time fans will want to check out anyway.<\/p>\n

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While you do hit enemies like skeletons and bananas with swords, punches, and fireballs, enemies just disappear in a puff of smoke.\u00a0 And since everything is just drawings anyway, nobody really gets hurt.\u00a0 Younger gamers may get frustrated with the touch screen controls, and the drawing tools in creation mode that don\u2019t always work.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, especially in the more complicated Creation mode, but most of the game is fully voiced by the cartoon’s cast.\u00a0 Luckily it looks like there aren\u2019t any in-game purchases, even though it seems that way.\u00a0 You buy everything with coins you earn from the game.\u00a0 Parental supervision is recommended for logging in to upload levels and play others, but Cartoon Network is pretty good about keeping their games safe for kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cartoon Network\u2019s Adventure Time is one of their most successful series, and they\u2019ve made tons of video games based on the property (believe me; I\u2019ve reviewed a lot of them).\u00a0 Their newest title, Game Wizard, is one of the most creative I\u2019ve played yet!\u00a0 One day, Finn and Jake are walking through the forest when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169","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=13169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13174,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions\/13174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}