{"id":14420,"date":"2016-01-20T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14420"},"modified":"2015-12-14T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:12:45","slug":"the-delusions-of-von-sottendorff-and-his-square-mind-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/the-delusions-of-von-sottendorff-and-his-square-mind-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Delusions of Von Sottendorff and his Square Mind (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VON_BOX\"<\/a>Wow, that\u2019s a mouthful of a title! Anyway, Von Sottendorff is a rich aristocrat baron who has gone a little cuckoo in his mansion.\u00a0 Help him reclaim his sanity by solving puzzles and exploring his mysterious abode in this downloadable action-puzzler game for Nintendo 3DS.<\/p>\n

You can make the baron walk and jump in each 3-D room and zoom the camera in and out. When you zoom the camera all the way out, you can shift each room around like one of those sliding picture puzzles.\u00a0 You can travel to room to room this way, just as long as there is a door that connects them.\u00a0 Each room in the house has puzzles that you solve, represented by paintings. Each painting has another set of rooms for each level.\u00a0 To solve a level, you must collect a key to unlock the main double door exit, and you must also pick up a puzzle piece that\u2019ll reveal a picture to help the baron regain his memory and sanity.<\/p>\n

Aside from running and jumping, you can also make the baron blow his trumpet, which reveals hidden blocks somehow. But don\u2019t blow the trumpet too much as you only have a limited number of toots, but you can refill them by finding hidden trumpet icons in the rooms.\u00a0 Other things to collect in the levels are photos, which you can use to purchase concept art, music, and videos in the extras section.\u00a0 And paper hats you gather count as lives, I think.\u00a0 I\u2019m not really sure because this game really doesn\u2019t have a very good in-game instruction manual, which is a shame since it\u2019s a downloadable title only.\u00a0 Also watch out for enemies like rats, bats, and walking suits of armor.\u00a0 You can stomp on their heads to stun and defeat them, but it\u2019s just as easy to avoid them altogether.<\/p>\n

This game actually reminds me of one of the dungeons in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Any of you who have played through that game, you remember the last dungeon had rooms that you could reach by sliding a picture puzzle around.\u00a0 Well that\u2019s what this whole game is like.\u00a0 Aside from the lack of a good in-game instruction manual, the only other problem I had with the game is it can be a little hard to visualize which rooms you can connect and walk through, partly due to the limited camera angles.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a clever game; it just gets very difficult rather quickly.\u00a0 But if you like brain-busting puzzles, you may want to check it out anyway.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing too terribly violent here. If you defeat an enemy or they get you, you or they will just disappear and your character says, \u201cOh!\u201d\u00a0 Even though there is lots of spoken voice, reading skill is still helpful for some of the text and menus.\u00a0 Because of the complexity and difficulty of the puzzles, I\u2019d say this game would be best enjoyed by older kids.\u00a0 The Delusions of Von Sottendorff and his Square Mind is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, that\u2019s a mouthful of a title! Anyway, Von Sottendorff is a rich aristocrat baron who has gone a little cuckoo in his mansion.\u00a0 Help him reclaim his sanity by solving puzzles and exploring his mysterious abode in this downloadable action-puzzler game for Nintendo 3DS. You can make the baron walk and jump in each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14420","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\/14420","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=14420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14422,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14420\/revisions\/14422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}