{"id":15938,"date":"2017-01-18T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15938"},"modified":"2016-12-14T19:52:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T19:52:59","slug":"feist-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/18\/feist-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Feist (PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/feist_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-15936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FEIST_BOX-150x61.jpg\" alt=\"FEIST_BOX\" width=\"150\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FEIST_BOX-150x61.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FEIST_BOX-300x121.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FEIST_BOX.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Feist is a physics-based 2-D platform action game with puzzle elements.\u00a0 You play as a little furry critter who has been captured by larger furry critters.\u00a0 Now you must escape from your cage and survive a harsh forest wilderness where everything is out to get you.\u00a0 The graphics look like everything is in shadows, similar to Limbo (though not near as scary).\u00a0 Feist is available to download on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n<p>Controls are pretty simple.\u00a0 Press X to jump, and press the square button to pick up objects.\u00a0 Press the square button again to throw objects like pinecones and rocks, and if you are holding an item like a stick, you\u2019ll swing it like a weapon.\u00a0 Press the triangle button to drop objects if you don\u2019t want to throw them.\u00a0 You can even pick up items like flies and use their stinger quills as a long-distance attack!\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much it.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way you\u2019ll encounter enemies and if you get hit too many times, you\u2019ll flop over and die and must restart at a previous checkpoint. Also watch out for traps that when triggered, can kill you instantly (sometimes you can use traps to your advantage, though).\u00a0 You can grab little dragonfly things that supposedly refill your health, but since you don\u2019t get to see a health bar, the only way to tell if you\u2019re at full health is if you don\u2019t eat any dragonflies you come across.\u00a0 That\u2019s really one of the main problems with this game is the lack of direction.\u00a0 If you get stuck, it\u2019s not because of a cleverly designed puzzle or challenge, but lack of direction instead.\u00a0 Plus, enemies can see and attack you long before you can see them on screen, so it\u2019s hardly fair.\u00a0 And the game gets super tough about halfway through.\u00a0 But if you like games such as Limbo, you may want to give this one a try anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/feist_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FEIST_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"FEIST_SCREEN\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FEIST_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FEIST_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FEIST_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Feist is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Defeated enemies will usually just fall over or poof out of existence.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the small bit of controller instructions at the beginning, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may get frustrated at the high difficulty level, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feist is a physics-based 2-D platform action game with puzzle elements.\u00a0 You play as a little furry critter who has been captured by larger furry critters.\u00a0 Now you must escape from your cage and survive a harsh forest wilderness where everything is out to get you.\u00a0 The graphics look like everything is in shadows, similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15938","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\/15938","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=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15940,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions\/15940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}