{"id":14125,"date":"2015-10-30T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14125"},"modified":"2015-10-18T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T21:47:06","slug":"goosebumps-the-game-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/30\/goosebumps-the-game-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Goosebumps: The Game (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOOSE_BOX\"<\/a>Gamers beware! You\u2019re in for a scare!\u00a0 Or something.\u00a0 R.L. Stine\u2019s Goosebumps book series has been delighting and spooking kids and young readers for decades with its scary stories.\u00a0 Now there is a new movie in theaters based on the books, and you can play a Goosebumps game on your 3DS, too!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not entirely sure if the game is based on the new movie or not (I\u2019m thinking not). I don\u2019t know much about the movie and I don\u2019t plan on seeing it.\u00a0 But the Goosebumps 3DS game is surprisingly, a point and click adventure (developed by WayForward, no less)!\u00a0 Late one night, a moving van crashes on your street, and a living ventriloquist dummy is inside and presumably escapes!\u00a0 You play as a schoolboy or girl of indeterminate age, and start out your adventure after school the day following the moving van accident.\u00a0 Mysterious things happen on the way home, and once you get to your house, you find that it has transformed into a haunted mansion filled with ghosts and ghouls from the Goosebumps book series! Now you must explore your new dwellings and solve puzzles to figure out the mystery of what\u2019s been going on in your neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Like other point and click adventures, you move a cursor around the screen, clicking on items of interest. You can move the cursor around with the touch screen and stylus, or circle pad and buttons.\u00a0 Once you click on something, a menu will come up on the bottom screen giving you options.\u00a0 You can usually \u2018look\u2019 at objects, \u2018open\u2019 doors, \u2018take\u2019 certain items, or \u2018talk\u2019 to people, ghosts, and other critters.\u00a0 Sometimes you\u2019ll be able to choose what to say to them, too.\u00a0 You can also check your backpack to use items, or call your mom or brother on your cell phone (just make sure your batteries are charged).<\/p>\n

The game has a few problems here and there. The cursor doesn\u2019t change when you hover over clickable items like it does in other modern point and click adventures, so it can be cumbersome to find what you need to pay attention to on each screen.\u00a0 There are not a whole lot of hints, so it can also be hard to figure out what you need to do and where you need to go sometimes.\u00a0 Most good point and click adventures make it hard for you to mess up or die, but in Goosebumps, it\u2019s easy to prematurely end your adventure.\u00a0 Right on the way home walking from school, you can cross paths with a plant monster that can ensnare you in vines, and shortly after entering the haunted house, you can drink a harmless glass of prune juice from an old lady, but it\u2019ll turn you into an old man.\u00a0 It reminds me of those \u2018choose your own adventure\u2019 books (I never liked those; I could never get the good endings).\u00a0 When you restart, you\u2019ll be close to where you ended up, but make sure to save often anyway because you never know what dangers lurk in the next screen!\u00a0 I think the only people who will really like this game are die-hard fans of the Goosebumps books.<\/p>\n

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

Goosebumps: The Game is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence. Most of the violence is implied in the text, as a majority of the visuals are still screens only.\u00a0 If you\u2019re kids are old enough to watch the move and read the books, they\u2019ll be OK with this game, too.\u00a0 Strong reading skills are required, and probably only avid readers of the books will get the most enjoyment out of this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gamers beware! You\u2019re in for a scare!\u00a0 Or something.\u00a0 R.L. Stine\u2019s Goosebumps book series has been delighting and spooking kids and young readers for decades with its scary stories.\u00a0 Now there is a new movie in theaters based on the books, and you can play a Goosebumps game on your 3DS, too! I\u2019m not entirely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125","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=14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14129,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions\/14129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}