{"id":14322,"date":"2015-12-09T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14322"},"modified":"2015-11-24T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T17:06:22","slug":"snoopys-grand-adventure-wii-u-3ds-ps4-360-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/snoopys-grand-adventure-wii-u-3ds-ps4-360-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoopy’s Grand Adventure (Wii U, 3DS, PS4, 360, Xbox One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SNOOPY_BOX\"<\/a>Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang have been delighting readers of the comics section in the newspapers for more than half a century, and have also scored big with award-winning animated TV specials among other things.\u00a0 And now there\u2019s a full-length computer animated Peanuts movie now in theaters (and it\u2019s actually pretty good, I enjoyed it anyway).\u00a0 So in honor of that, Activision released a game based on the characters and style of the new film.\u00a0 In the game, Charlie Brown and his friends are playing hide-and-seek, and Snoopy and Woodstock must find them!\u00a0 But Snoopy has a pretty vivid imagination, so a bush can become a jungle, a brick fence wall can be ancient ruins, a cardboard box can be a rocket to the moon, his doghouse can be a flying WWI biplane, and much more!\u00a0 Guide Snoopy through stages inside his imagination and find all the kids in this 2-D platformer available for nearly all the current gaming consoles, but reviewed on Wii U here.<\/p>\n

Controls are pretty simple.\u00a0 Snoopy can run and jump, and if you hold down the jump button while in the air, Snoopy will use his ears like a helicopter to glide down.\u00a0 In the stages you\u2019ll find keys that can open certain chests with costumes that Snoopy can don that give him special abilities.\u00a0 As Beagle Scout Snoopy, you\u2019ll be able to climb vines and use a compass to find hidden items.\u00a0 Astronaut Snoopy can jump super high like he\u2019s in very low gravity.\u00a0 The Masked Marauder can break through certain walls, and Joe Cool can freeze enemies just by looking at them!\u00a0 You\u2019ll find lots of other costumes, too.\u00a0 At the end of each world you\u2019ll fight a boss and find a kid, but the bosses are pretty easy to beat.<\/p>\n

The kids have left a trail of jellybeans behind, and there are 300 to collect in each level.\u00a0 Also, you can find six Beagle Scout birds as well.\u00a0 Supposedly, by finding them all you can unlock cool goodies, but there\u2019s no way I\u2019m getting all that to find out what they are.\u00a0 The game is clearly aimed at a younger audience as the adventure is fairly short and easy.\u00a0 If you get hit, you\u2019ll lose a heart, but it floats above your head for a few seconds so if you can catch it, you\u2019ll be OK.\u00a0 Plus you gain one extra heart after completing a world, so the game actually gets easier as you progress.\u00a0 A second player can join in as Woodstock to make the game even easier, as he can fly around and stun enemies and activate switches that move and stop platforms.\u00a0 It\u2019s too bad the game only supports Wii remote controllers for the second player.\u00a0 While 2-D platforming veterans will find this game very derivative, younger players and less experienced gamers will enjoy this breezy romp.<\/p>\n

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Snoopy\u2019s Grand Adventure is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Cartoon Violence.\u00a0 Snoopy can stomp on enemies, but they just fall over with dizzy lines and a \u2018bonk\u2019 sound, and they\u2019ll get up again after a while so watch out!\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed as most everything has spoken voice, but knowing what each costume does in the instructions is helpful if you can read.\u00a0 But it\u2019s pretty simple to figure out by playing.\u00a0 Again, this game is clearly aimed at younger gamers because it\u2019s so easy and short. If you have kids who like Snoopy and the Peanuts gang, I also recommend seeing the new movie.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very cute G-rated film that stays true to the source material, and has lots of good messages.<\/p>\n

If you are an older player who also wants a good Snoopy game with a bit more challenge, I recommend tracking down Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.\u00a0 There are two versions of this game.\u00a0 There is a single player version on the PS2, and a few years later there was a similar game with mostly online modes you could download on the Xbox 360.\u00a0 If you can find them, I would try and play those as well.\u00a0 I really liked them, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang have been delighting readers of the comics section in the newspapers for more than half a century, and have also scored big with award-winning animated TV specials among other things.\u00a0 And now there\u2019s a full-length computer animated Peanuts movie now in theaters (and it\u2019s actually pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322","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=14322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14324,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions\/14324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}