{"id":13685,"date":"2015-07-20T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13685"},"modified":"2015-07-10T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:58:06","slug":"inside-out-thought-bubbles-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/20\/inside-out-thought-bubbles-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Out: Thought Bubbles (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"INSIDE_BOX\"<\/a>So a few weeks ago I went to go see Inside Out, Pixar\u2019s newest movie.\u00a0 It\u2019s about a girl and her personified emotions, and it\u2019s a very touching, thought-provoking film.\u00a0 During the previews, they had a commercial for a downloadable Inside Out free-to-play game on iOS and Google Play.\u00a0 In the movie, the girl\u2019s memories are represented by colored bubbles, so I guess someone got the idea to make a puzzle game out of it similar to Puzzle Bobble\/Bust-A-Move<\/strong><\/a>, or another game I reviewed recently called Bubble Bath Blast<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 And since I liked the movie and Puzzle Bobble is one of my favorite puzzle games, I decided to review this game, too (reviewed on iPad here).<\/p>\n

The object of the game is pretty simple.\u00a0 Memory bubbles of different colors are on the top of the screen, and you use the touch screen to aim and fire bubbles from the bottom, which can bounce off walls, too.\u00a0 Match three or more bubbles of the same color to clear them away.\u00a0 In each level, you may have a different goal to complete the stage.\u00a0 Sometimes you must clear out all the bubbles, other times you must free trapped mind workers, and other times you might have to keep the bubbles from reaching a line.\u00a0 There are special bubbles you will have to deal with, too.\u00a0 Brain freeze snowflakes will freeze bubbles around them, and you must clear all of them to make the freeze bubble go away.\u00a0 Faded memory black bubbles must be dropped by matching other colors around it.\u00a0 You\u2019ll discover other kinds of bubbles as you play, too.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll have to use a bit more strategy in the levels because you have limited moves, and if you use them all up, it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 Luckily you can switch out to the next thought bubble, and the aiming lines are always there.\u00a0 You can also buy and use power-ups to help you out in a pinch.\u00a0 As you progress, you\u2019ll also unlock characters from the movie to play as.\u00a0 Each one has their own power that you can activate by matching enough certain colors of bubbles.\u00a0 Joy makes a cluster of yellow bubbles appear to clear out a whole section.\u00a0 Sadness can make a rain cloud that turns a large row of bubbles blue.\u00a0 I wish I knew what Anger did, but the game got too hard before I could unlock him.<\/p>\n

And that leads us to the main problem of this game.\u00a0 It 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 40, the game gets pretty near impossible unless you buy items.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame, too, because they really utilize the characters and themes of the movie in the game in a fun way.\u00a0 The map screen has locations from the flick like Hockey Island and Dreamland Studios, and the animation and voices of the characters look and sound just like the film!\u00a0 I just wish the game didn\u2019t get too hard to enjoy, like a lot of other free-to-play games do.\u00a0 I\u2019d rather pay a small price to be able to enjoy the game more, but oh well.<\/p>\n

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

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the movie, they\u2019ll be OK with the game, too.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary to play the game as picture cues and simple gameplay make things easy to figure out.\u00a0 As a free-to-play game, parental supervision is recommended for the pop-up ads and in-game purchases, but Disney is usually pretty good about keeping their games safe for kids anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So a few weeks ago I went to go see Inside Out, Pixar\u2019s newest movie.\u00a0 It\u2019s about a girl and her personified emotions, and it\u2019s a very touching, thought-provoking film.\u00a0 During the previews, they had a commercial for a downloadable Inside Out free-to-play game on iOS and Google Play.\u00a0 In the movie, the girl\u2019s memories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685","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=13685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13687,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685\/revisions\/13687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}