{"id":13849,"date":"2015-09-07T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13849"},"modified":"2015-08-15T21:32:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T21:32:20","slug":"fruit-attacks-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/07\/fruit-attacks-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Attacks (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=13844\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13844\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13844\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FRUIT_BOX-150x80.jpg\" alt=\"FRUIT_BOX\" width=\"150\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FRUIT_BOX-150x80.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FRUIT_BOX.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Alien fruit in UFOs are invading Earth, and it\u2019s up to a half-cat, half stereo speaker (?) to shoot them down in Fruit Attacks. It\u2019s a free-to-play shooter for iOS, Android, and Kindle devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n<p>Fruit in UFOs will advance from the top to the bottom of the screen, and if they penetrate your shields at the bottom and it runs out of energy, you lose the level. Defeat all the waves of alien fruit to pass. But it\u2019s how you shoot that is unique. On the bottom of the screen, you\u2019ll use two fingers to guide where your shots will go, kind of like a boomerang. You want to try and destroy rows of fruit so you can get more points. Only problem is the controls take a little getting used to.\u00a0 When you fill a meter, you can also shake the device to attack everything on screen.<\/p>\n<p>As you destroy alien fruit, you can collect seeds which you use to buy upgrades for your character, sidekicks to help boost your attack, and more. As you play you can also earn goodies to put in your house, like a fridge or a pet cat. The cool thing is that these items are functional in gameplay as well. The cat can find seeds for your and the fridge can store juice that can help you unlock items as you play.<\/p>\n<p>As a free-to-play game, you\u2019ll have to deal with minor annoyances like needing to wait to play again if you lose all your lives, some pop-up ads (but not very many), and in-game purchases that probably become necessary to progress after you get so far. But really the main thing that turned me off of this game was the awkward play control, and the fact that it seems like they\u2019re just trying to ride the coattails of the more popular Fruit Ninja game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=13845\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13845\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FRUIT_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"FRUIT_SCREEN\" width=\"322\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FRUIT_SCREEN.jpg 322w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FRUIT_SCREEN-84x150.jpg 84w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FRUIT_SCREEN-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You shoot beams at alien fruit and they splat into seeds and juice when defeated, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets. Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger players may have difficulty with the controls. Parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alien fruit in UFOs are invading Earth, and it\u2019s up to a half-cat, half stereo speaker (?) to shoot them down in Fruit Attacks. It\u2019s a free-to-play shooter for iOS, Android, and Kindle devices, but reviewed on iPad here. Fruit in UFOs will advance from the top to the bottom of the screen, and if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13849","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\/13849","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=13849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13853,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849\/revisions\/13853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}