{"id":15396,"date":"2016-09-21T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15396"},"modified":"2016-09-01T12:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:20:36","slug":"kubo-a-samurai-quest-ios-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/kubo-a-samurai-quest-ios-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubo: A Samurai Quest (iOS, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KUBO_BOX\"<\/a>I\u2019m a big fan of stop motion and clay animation.\u00a0 In fact, I even took a class on it once and now I have lots more respect for the folks who do that kind of stuff for movies and whatnot.\u00a0 Which is why I keep my eye out on what Laika does.\u00a0 Laika is a studio which has made stop motion movies such as Caroline, ParaNorman, and Boxtrolls.\u00a0 Their newest feature, Kubo and the Two Strings, takes elements form Japanese folklore and while the plot is a bit predictable, it\u2019s still fun and visually stunning.\u00a0 Sadly, the mobile game tie-in, Kubo: A Samurai Quest, is yet another match-three puzzler, but I had to take a look at it anyway out of curiosity.\u00a0 It\u2019s available free-to-play on iOS and Google Play, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u2018plot\u2019 of the game is loosely based on the movie, although I don\u2019t remember them visiting so many villages and fighting as many origami creatures.\u00a0 Gameplay is like any other match-three puzzler. In each stage you might have to do something different, like reach a certain score in a certain number of moves, match certain pieces in a time limit, or battle origami creatures with your own.\u00a0 The battles of the game are most like Puzzle Quest, and you can form a team of origami animals and level them up.\u00a0 Certain types of creatures are weak against others, so you must use strategy in forming your team.\u00a0 Winning stages earns you coins and diamonds that you can use to buy power-ups and continues, as well as origami boxes to add to your team of paper fighters.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a free-to-play game, there are some annoyances here and there.\u00a0 Each stage you play cost one unit of energy, and it doesn\u2019t refill when you win, so you don\u2019t get to play for very long.\u00a0 You must also wait to open origami boxes, but luckily you don\u2019t have to wait too long.\u00a0 The game gets hard around level 20 or so, because they want you to spend real money on power-ups and such, but you can still win with sheer luck.\u00a0 The game is a bit choppy and froze up on me once, and it\u2019s sad that such a creative movie gets such a tired cash-in of a game.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Violence is very minimal, as you just battle paper origami creatures.\u00a0 If you\u2019re ok with your kids watching the movie, they\u2019ll be ok with the game.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a big fan of stop motion and clay animation.\u00a0 In fact, I even took a class on it once and now I have lots more respect for the folks who do that kind of stuff for movies and whatnot.\u00a0 Which is why I keep my eye out on what Laika does.\u00a0 Laika is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396","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=15396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15398,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions\/15398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}