{"id":14232,"date":"2015-11-16T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14232"},"modified":"2015-11-07T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:03:17","slug":"care-bears-belly-match-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/care-bears-belly-match-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Care Bears: Belly Match (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CARE_BOX\"<\/a>When I was a kid in the 80\u2019s, Care Bears were pretty popular for a little while. They even had a couple of animated movies! (And the first one was surprisingly dark if I remember correctly.)\u00a0 Well, apparently the Care Bears are still around, because now you can play a free Match-3 puzzler featuring the Bears who don\u2019t wear their emotions on their sleeves, but on their bellies instead!\u00a0 One day, Grumpy Bear was in such a bad mood that he accidentally caused a storm to split up Care-A-Lot!\u00a0 Now you must help Grumpy piece the land back together somehow by matching the different symbols on the Care Bears\u2019 bellies, similar to other games like Bejeweled or Candy Crush.\u00a0 Care Bears: Belly Match is available to download on iOS and Android devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

Just slide the symbols around on the touch screen to match up three or more of the same symbol and they\u2019ll disappear. Match four or more for bonus points.\u00a0 When you match a quota of certain symbols, you\u2019ll pass the level, but plan carefully because you only have a limited number of moves.\u00a0 If you run out of moves it\u2019s Game Over, and you\u2019ll lose a try.\u00a0 If you lose all your tries you\u2019ll have to wait for a while for them to replenish, similar to other free-to-play titles.\u00a0 You can earn power-ups to give you an edge, or buy more via the in-game store (where you can buy extra tries and currency, too).\u00a0 Another thing you\u2019ll get by winning are cakes, which you can use to feed the boss characters to make them easier.\u00a0 And if you can beat a level with extra moves, you can enter a bonus Match-A-Lot stage where you try to match up as many symbols on the screen as possible and you don\u2019t have a limit on moves either!<\/p>\n

The game has a lot of neat little details. I liked how when you win, the Care Bears that you matched their belly symbols would come out and do a little dance, and each one does a different jig.\u00a0 I especially liked how the little green four leaf clover bear (I\u2019m assuming his name is Lucky), does a little Irish Riverdance.\u00a0 Really the thing that annoyed me the most about this game wasn\u2019t all the things you have to deal with when playing a free-to-play game.\u00a0 What annoyed me the most was that the game froze up on me quite often.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t let me slide symbols around the screen, but I could quit the level and lose a try, which got irritating since it wasn\u2019t my fault.\u00a0 The game doesn\u2019t offer anything new or different than other games of this ilk, but if you like the Care Bears, you may want to give it a try anyway.<\/p>\n

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

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here. Just all fluffy clouds and rainbows.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and parental supervision is recommended for in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid in the 80\u2019s, Care Bears were pretty popular for a little while. They even had a couple of animated movies! (And the first one was surprisingly dark if I remember correctly.)\u00a0 Well, apparently the Care Bears are still around, because now you can play a free Match-3 puzzler featuring the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232","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=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14234,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions\/14234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}