{"id":15330,"date":"2016-09-05T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15330"},"modified":"2016-08-01T01:38:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:38:57","slug":"rooms-of-doom-ios-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/05\/rooms-of-doom-ios-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooms of Doom (iOS, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ROOMS_BOX\"<\/a>Rooms of Doom is a new free-to-play mobile game from the makers of Crossy Road and Pac-Man 256<\/strong><\/a> (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 In the game, a mad scientist creates mutant minion creatures and tests them to see if they are worthy of being his minions by making them run through obstacle-filled rooms.\u00a0 These rooms resemble 2-D challenges from other platformers and mobile games.\u00a0 Survive as long as you can to boost your score and collect coins so you can make new minions and build new rooms for them to \u2018play\u2019 in!<\/span><\/p>\n

In the game you control the minion critters as they run from room to room.\u00a0 These minions are silly mutant creatures like a cat inside a cat, a headless monkey, a rabbit turtle, etc.\u00a0 You only have to tap on the touch screen to make the minion jump, fly, swim, or whatever action that particular room has you do.\u00a0 Each obstacle-filled room only lasts about 5 to 10 seconds.\u00a0 Many of the rooms remind me of things you do in other 2-D platformers like Donkey Kong Country.\u00a0 There\u2019s a mine cart level and a level where you shoot out of moving cannon barrels, for instance.\u00a0 Other challenges remind me of other mobile title offerings.\u00a0 There is one section that\u2019s just like Flappy Bird, for example.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scattered through the levels are coins.\u00a0 You also earn coins at the end of your run, and when you complete missions (like other cell phone games, you get three missions to do things like jump a certain number of times in a level or whatever).\u00a0 When you have enough coins, you can make new minions.\u00a0 Minions need to rest after a room run, but once you have enough, you won\u2019t ever worry about having to wait for a minion to rest.\u00a0 Some of them have special skills, but I really didn\u2019t notice a difference in the characters besides appearance.\u00a0 You also earn a score at the end of each run, and when it accumulates high enough, you\u2019ll get to build a new room to challenge in your run of other random rooms.\u00a0 And of course, the rooms get progressively harder as you play.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the game is free, you don\u2019t have to wait at all to play.\u00a0 And while you have the option to view ads to earn more coins, they never force it upon you, so that\u2019s good.\u00a0 Really the only freebie problem I had is that you have to wait too long for new missions to pop up.\u00a0 But the free-to-play aspects aren\u2019t what ruins the game.\u00a0 Rooms of Doom plays very choppy, which isn\u2019t good for this type of precision platforming.\u00a0 Also, every time I played, the game would always crash on me.\u00a0 I do like the blocky graphics that the makers of Crossy Road are known for, though.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"ROOMS_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Violence is very cartoony.\u00a0 You can get squashed by hammers, zapped by jellyfish, and eaten by piranhas until you are nothing left but bones.\u00a0 But after a rest, your critters are good as new.\u00a0 So it\u2019s really only like a Looney Tunes show.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the ads and in-game purchases.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rooms of Doom is a new free-to-play mobile game from the makers of Crossy Road and Pac-Man 256 (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 In the game, a mad scientist creates mutant minion creatures and tests them to see if they are worthy of being his minions by making them run through obstacle-filled rooms.\u00a0 These rooms resemble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15330","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\/15330","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=15330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15332,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions\/15332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}