{"id":13389,"date":"2015-05-04T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13389"},"modified":"2015-04-20T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:03:45","slug":"choo-parr-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/choo-parr-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Choo Parr (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/choo-parr-ipad\/choo_box\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHOO_BOX-150x118.jpg\" alt=\"CHOO_BOX\" width=\"150\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHOO_BOX-150x118.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHOO_BOX.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Choo Parr is a free-to-play mobile game for iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 In the game you play as a flying dragon, hovering above the skies of random locations like a castle, Wild West town, arctic iceberg, beach, and more.\u00a0 Your job is to collect equally random objects falling from the sky for points.\u00a0 But watch out for dangerous items cascading to the ground like bombs, grenades, and swords.\u00a0 Get hit twice by one of those and it\u2019s Game Over!<\/p>\n<p>The controls are so simple that they explain everything on the loading screen.\u00a0 Tap the touch screen to flap and gain altitude.\u00a0 It\u2019s similar to how you control the ostriches in Joust.\u00a0 And tilt the tablet to move left and right.\u00a0 And that\u2019s it.\u00a0 As you play more and more, you\u2019ll unlock different falling objects that\u2019ll give you more points.\u00a0 Try to catch the same kinds of goodies in a row, or gather a whole bunch without getting hit for bonus combo points. Be on the lookout for special crates that\u2019ll refill your life or destroy any dangerous objects on screen.\u00a0 The longer you play, the more stuff falls on you!<\/p>\n<p>While I do find the randomness slightly appealing, as it reminds me of some of the crazy stuff you\u2019d have to do in arcade games when I was a kid, Choo Parr is too simple for its own good.\u00a0 It\u2019s a free-to-play game, so you have to deal with ads, although you can pay to remove them.\u00a0 It\u2019s also hard to see dangerous objects to avoid when they blend in with the rest of the stuff.\u00a0 And the game just has an amateurish feel to it.\u00a0 But if you enjoy simple games like Flappy Bird, you might like this one as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/choo-parr-ipad\/choo_screen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13388\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHOO_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"CHOO_SCREEN\" width=\"461\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHOO_SCREEN.jpg 461w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHOO_SCREEN-94x150.jpg 94w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHOO_SCREEN-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kids like dragons, so Choo Parr has that going for it.\u00a0 Violence is only cartoony and minimal.\u00a0 If you get hit, the dragon flashes red and says, \u201cOw!\u201d\u00a0 If you lose both hearts, the dragon just falls to the ground and says, \u201cOw!\u201d again.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed because of the simplistic gameplay, but parental supervision is recommended for the in-game ad removal purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choo Parr is a free-to-play mobile game for iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 In the game you play as a flying dragon, hovering above the skies of random locations like a castle, Wild West town, arctic iceberg, beach, and more.\u00a0 Your job is to collect equally random objects falling from the sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13389","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\/13389","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=13389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13392,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389\/revisions\/13392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}