{"id":14564,"date":"2016-02-29T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14564"},"modified":"2016-02-16T00:55:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:55:25","slug":"super-phantom-cat-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/super-phantom-cat-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Phantom Cat (iOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/cat_box\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-14561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CAT_BOX-150x71.jpg\" alt=\"CAT_BOX\" width=\"150\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CAT_BOX-150x71.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CAT_BOX.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Super Phantom Cat is a 2-D platformer similar to classics like Super Mario Bros. Play as a blocky cat or any number of other critters as you stomp enemies, break blocks, and nab power-ups.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for download on iOS devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve played a Mario game, you know what to expect here. On the bottom of the screen are touch controls to move your character left, right, jump, and use whatever power-up you\u2019ve collected.\u00a0 In each stage are bits of data (like coins) scattered about, and if you pick up enough, you can unlock a new character to play as, but they\u2019re all mostly the same gameplay-wise.\u00a0 You can hop on enemies to defeat them, and hit bricks with your head to break them up.\u00a0 Sometimes you can find a power-up that\u2019ll increase your health if you get hit, or let you shoot fireballs to defeat enemies and break bricks, or a ground pound ability to slam down on blocks below.\u00a0 Hidden in each level are three stars.\u00a0 Can you find them all?\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to, because getting enough stars is how you unlock new stages.\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much Super Phantom Cat in a nutshell.<\/p>\n<p>The game has some problems, though. It\u2019s pretty derivative, and I\u2019ve certainly played better 2-D platformers before.\u00a0 The touch screen controls can be a problem, too.\u00a0 Usually in these kinds of games, the touch controls are hard enough, but here, the virtual buttons for left and right are spread way too far apart and I found myself pressing the wrong button on several occasions (maybe it works better on iPhone).\u00a0 At least the game is cheap, and if you can\u2019t get enough platformers you may still enjoy this one anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/cat_screen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14562\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CAT_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"CAT_SCREEN\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CAT_SCREEN.jpg 496w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CAT_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CAT_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Violence is pretty minimal. When you stomp or shoot enemies, they just break into smaller block pixels and disappear.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the instructions, but the game is pretty easy to figure out how to play regardless.\u00a0 Younger players may get frustrated at the controls and difficulty later on.\u00a0 Parental supervision is slightly recommended for the few in-game purchases and ads you can view if you want an extra life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Phantom Cat is a 2-D platformer similar to classics like Super Mario Bros. Play as a blocky cat or any number of other critters as you stomp enemies, break blocks, and nab power-ups.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for download on iOS devices, but reviewed on iPad here. If you\u2019ve played a Mario game, you know what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14564","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\/14564","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=14564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14565,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions\/14565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}