{"id":15002,"date":"2016-05-23T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2016-04-18T19:57:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:57:25","slug":"orbits-odyssey-ios-android-amazon-appstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/orbits-odyssey-ios-android-amazon-appstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbit’s Odyssey (iOS, Android, Amazon Appstore)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ORBIT_BOX\"<\/a>Evil aliens have stolen life-giving crystals from a peaceful planet, leaving it for dead. And now it\u2019s up to a little space hero named Orbit to travel to planetoids to get all the crystals back.\u00a0 Orbit\u2019s Odyssey is an action game where you walk around little round planets and satellites, collecting coins and crystals while avoiding aliens.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on iOS, Android, and Amazon Appstore, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

When you start, the little planet that you are on will rotate counter-clockwise. And if you stay still, you\u2019ll travel along with it.\u00a0 When you tap and hold on the touch screen, Orbit will run forward and go clockwise.\u00a0 Scattered about the planet are coins, and if you pick up all of them, you can nab the crystal and beat the level.\u00a0 In later levels, you can grab the crystal right away, but you\u2019ll earn more stars if you collect the coins first.\u00a0 It may sound easier, but it\u2019s not.\u00a0 Stars unlock new levels, though, so you\u2019ll want to earn as many as you can.<\/p>\n

Obstacles you must deal with include teleporters, which will whisk you to the other side of the sphere or a different planet entirely when you walk into them. And watch out for aliens who march around the planets.\u00a0 Touch one of them and it\u2019s Game Over!\u00a0 Don\u2019t linger too long or they\u2019ll multiply, making it harder and harder to travel around.\u00a0 Finish levels to unlock new characters to play as, like a walking chocolate chip cookie named \u201cCookie,\u201d but I don\u2019t think any of the characters play any differently.<\/p>\n

This game actually reminds me of two other planetoid-hopping games I\u2019ve played in the past: Star Trigon and Mighty Milky Way. And I actually like those games better, but I\u2019m sure nobody\u2019s heard of them.\u00a0 The simple controls make this game easy to learn, but it gets hard to master after a while, especially after the third world where things get crazy hard!\u00a0 It\u2019s an OK game.\u00a0 Not great, but not bad either.<\/p>\n

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

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

If you touch an alien, they\u2019ll zap you with electricity and you\u2019ll just sit down with a frown on your face. And that\u2019s about as violent as it gets, so very minimal.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the instructions, but the \u2018one button\u2019 controls make it easy to learn just by playing.\u00a0 Young gamers may get bored of the simplicity of the gameplay and frustrated at the difficulty of later levels, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evil aliens have stolen life-giving crystals from a peaceful planet, leaving it for dead. And now it\u2019s up to a little space hero named Orbit to travel to planetoids to get all the crystals back.\u00a0 Orbit\u2019s Odyssey is an action game where you walk around little round planets and satellites, collecting coins and crystals while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15002","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\/15002","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=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15004,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions\/15004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}