{"id":13410,"date":"2015-05-11T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13410"},"modified":"2015-04-25T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:19:27","slug":"bubble-bath-blast-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/bubble-bath-blast-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubble Bath Blast (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BUBBLE_BOX\"<\/a>Help a little pig pop colored bubbles and free rubber duckies during his bath time with Bubble Bath Blast, a free-to-play puzzle game for iOS (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 The game plays similarly to the classic puzzler Puzzle Bobble<\/strong><\/a> (or Bust-A-Move, depending on where you live in the world).<\/p>\n

In the game, you use the touch screen to aim colored bubbles and shoot them to the top of the screen.\u00a0 They can bounce on the walls, too.\u00a0 Match three or more bubbles of the same color and they disappear.\u00a0 You win the round if you can pop all the bubbles that have rubber ducks in them, or by making them fall by popping bubbles around them that they are attached to.<\/p>\n

Bubble Bath Blast uses a bit more strategy than Bust-A-Move\/Puzzle Bobble, however.\u00a0 You have a limited amount of moves, and if you use them all up, it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 Luckily, you always get that little line that tells you where you\u2019re aiming, so no guesswork is involved. \u00a0\u00a0There are many types of special bubbles at the top of the screen that have different effects.\u00a0 Some will change color when you touch them, others will change when you make a match, and there are also fan bubbles that\u2019ll pop anything that touches them.\u00a0 So you have to plan more carefully when trying to pop the bubbles you want.\u00a0 You can switch out the bubble you\u2019re aiming to the one that\u2019s next in line, but it\u2019ll cost a move to do so.\u00a0 There are also special bomb bubbles and other items you can use to clear out bunches of bubbles, and while you get a few for free at first, you\u2019ll have to buy more once those are all used up.<\/p>\n

The game has several of the annoyances that many free-to-play titles have.\u00a0 If you lose, you\u2019ll have one heart taken away, and if all five are gone, you\u2019ll have to watch a few hours for them to fill up again so you can keep going.\u00a0 Also, at about level 30, the game gets pretty near impossible unless you buy items.\u00a0 Also the music is incredibly repetitive.\u00a0 This game just makes me rather play the original Bust-A-Move<\/strong><\/a> game, and I\u2019m thinking about downloading it to my iPad, although I have it on just about every system I own.\u00a0 But Puzzle Bobble<\/strong><\/a> is one of my top 3 favorite puzzle games, along with Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo and plain ol\u2019 Tetris.\u00a0 I like the idea behind Bubble Bath Blast, too, but the in-game purchases and the difficulty kind of turn me off of it.<\/p>\n

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

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here, although I do feel bad when the little pig cries when you lose.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but the game is pretty easy to figure out by playing.\u00a0 Younger players may get frustrated with the difficulty of later levels, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.\u00a0 Otherwise, Bubble Bath Blast is good, clean fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Help a little pig pop colored bubbles and free rubber duckies during his bath time with Bubble Bath Blast, a free-to-play puzzle game for iOS (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 The game plays similarly to the classic puzzler Puzzle Bobble (or Bust-A-Move, depending on where you live in the world). In the game, you use the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410","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=13410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13413,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions\/13413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}