{"id":15362,"date":"2016-09-14T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15362"},"modified":"2016-08-15T01:51:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T01:51:26","slug":"gleam-last-light-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/14\/gleam-last-light-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Gleam: Last Light (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/gleam_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GLEAM_BOX-150x53.jpg\" alt=\"GLEAM_BOX\" width=\"150\" height=\"53\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GLEAM_BOX-150x53.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GLEAM_BOX-300x107.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GLEAM_BOX.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In the future, the last plant on Earth struggles to stay alive, but it needs sunlight.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the plant is at the bottom of a crystal-filled chasm, and the only way to it to obtain some sun is if the crystals reflect the light to it.\u00a0 In this free-to-play downloadable game, you must slice crystals on the touch screen so the angles will reflect the light so it reaches the plant.\u00a0 But it\u2019s harder than it sounds!\u00a0 Gleam: Last Light is available for iOS and Android devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">In each stage, the plant is at the bottom of a pit, and there are crystals scattered about the walls.\u00a0 Swipe your finger on the touch screen to slice the crystals so they\u2019ll be at the correct angles to reflect the light down to the plant.\u00a0 But you have a limited number of swipe slices, and if your energy runs out by swiping too many times, you\u2019ll have to start the stage over again.\u00a0 You must also take care that crystal pieces that you slice don\u2019t fall on the jar that holds the plant and breaks it.\u00a0 If either of these things happen, it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 If you can clear the stage with fewer swipes, the higher your rank will be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The problem with this game is that the swiping involved requires way too much precision.\u00a0 So much so that I didn\u2019t get very far in the game and didn\u2019t find it that much fun anyway.\u00a0 Maybe if you used a stylus instead of your finger, it might work better, but I doubt it.\u00a0 And you must do this with several crystals in a stage and if you mess up, you have to start over.\u00a0 I can\u2019t really recommend this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/gleam_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GLEAM_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"GLEAM_SCREEN\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GLEAM_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GLEAM_SCREEN-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GLEAM_SCREEN-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Kid Factor:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the difficult gameplay.\u00a0 There are no in-game ads or purchases, which is cool, but there is still an area where you can donate to the game developers, so parental supervision is still recommended.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, the last plant on Earth struggles to stay alive, but it needs sunlight.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the plant is at the bottom of a crystal-filled chasm, and the only way to it to obtain some sun is if the crystals reflect the light to it.\u00a0 In this free-to-play downloadable game, you must slice crystals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15362","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\/15362","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=15362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15364,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions\/15364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}