{"id":14409,"date":"2016-01-13T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14409"},"modified":"2015-12-11T23:34:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T23:34:23","slug":"radio-hammer-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/radio-hammer-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Hammer (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RADIO_BOX\"<\/a>In this downloadable music game for 3DS, a group of underground DJs fight evil with their giant mallets and hip beats. In the main story mode, you\u2019ll pick a DJ and must fight through 15 stages of their own story, and then you\u2019ll unlock another DJ to play as with more stages and harder songs.<\/p>\n

In each stage you\u2019ll play a song or two or three, and during the music, enemies will charge at you high and low. When they get close enough, smack them with your hammer in time with the beat to send them flying!\u00a0 You can use the control pad to swing high and low, or you can use the other buttons or even the touch screen.\u00a0 The shape of the enemy will let you know if you need to hit them one at a time, in groups of two, or in triplets.\u00a0 If you miss an enemy, it\u2019ll lower your life bar a bit, and if it gets depleted, that\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 As you hit enemies, another green meter will fill, and when it is full you\u2019ll go into Fever Mode where every hit counts as a perfect one.\u00a0 Every so often, a present will appear behind you.\u00a0 Tap left on the D-Pad or on the touch screen to acquire it and it may fill your health or fever meter a bit.\u00a0 But be quick because the present will go away after the beat.\u00a0 Also watch out for green presents, as they are traps and will lower your meters if you pick those up.<\/p>\n

At the end of each level you can earn stars, and the way you get those stars is different in each stage. You may have to get a certain score or keep your life meter above a certain point, pick up all the presents, avoid all the traps, and more.\u00a0 Aside from Story Mode, you can play each song separately in a stage, or in random succession with varying difficulty settings.\u00a0 You can also listen to the music by itself, but while the music isn\u2019t annoying, it\u2019s not too memorable either.\u00a0 You can also view trophies (think achievements) you\u2019ve earned.\u00a0 I actually kind of liked this simple cartoony music game until I got to the last few stages with the third DJ.\u00a0 Then these enemies who just warp right to you start appearing, and I could never get the timing right with them.\u00a0 If it wasn\u2019t for that steep jump in difficulty, I would\u2019ve enjoyed this music game a lot more.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit simplistic, but at only 6 bucks, it\u2019s not too shabby.<\/p>\n

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

Radio Hammer is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Violence and Suggestive Themes. While you do smack away enemies with giant hammers, they just fly off the screen when hit, so it\u2019s no worse than a Looney Tunes cartoon.\u00a0 Most of the suggestive themes are in the text, as one of the characters calls the enemies \u2018perverts\u2019 and one of the bosses is a bit well endowed.\u00a0 Also they use the word \u2018hell\u2019 a time or two in the text.\u00a0 However, I\u2019d still be OK with kids younger than teens playing this, as everything is still very cartoony and campy.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text and menus, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the later, harder levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this downloadable music game for 3DS, a group of underground DJs fight evil with their giant mallets and hip beats. In the main story mode, you\u2019ll pick a DJ and must fight through 15 stages of their own story, and then you\u2019ll unlock another DJ to play as with more stages and harder songs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14409","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\/14409","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=14409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14411,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions\/14411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}