{"id":16320,"date":"2017-04-24T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16320"},"modified":"2017-04-02T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T18:54:56","slug":"after-the-end-ios-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/after-the-end-ios-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"After the End (iOS, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After the End is an action puzzle game downloadable on iOS devices and Google Play (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 You play as a boy and his father from an alien tribe as they travel across the desert in what I think is two different time periods.\u00a0 I\u2019m not really sure, though, because this is one of those games where they tell the story with no words, and they don\u2019t do it as well as other games.\u00a0 But anyway, gameplay is very similar to Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, another puzzle game on the Wii U.\u00a0 The minimalist desert graphics also make me think of the game Journey.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll move around mazes by dragging your finger on the left side of the touch screen.\u00a0 But you can\u2019t jump or defend yourself from baddies, so to help you see to get around, you can use the right side of the screen to move the camera all around to see hidden passages and other points of interests.\u00a0 See, just like Captain Toad.\u00a0 Sometimes they mix things up with an action sequence or music mini-game puzzle, but that\u2019s pretty much the game in a nutshell.\u00a0 Collect diamonds to give you extra lives (I think) and find hidden statue pieces that I\u2019m not sure what they do because the game really doesn\u2019t give you much clues as to what things do because of the lack of text.\u00a0 Sometimes you can click on a lightbulb at the top of the screen to get a hint, but that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

But the lack of clear instructions and goals is not the only problem this game has.\u00a0 Controls for moving your character around as well as the camera are very sluggish and keep the game from being addictive.\u00a0 I think this game would\u2019ve fared better on a console with more precise controls.\u00a0 I love the Captain Toad game, it\u2019s a shame this one didn\u2019t turn out as well.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing too terribly violent here.\u00a0 If you get hit by spikes, rocks, or baddies, you just fall over or sit down.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may get frustrated at the tougher puzzles and sluggish controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the End is an action puzzle game downloadable on iOS devices and Google Play (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 You play as a boy and his father from an alien tribe as they travel across the desert in what I think is two different time periods.\u00a0 I\u2019m not really sure, though, because this is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16320","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\/16320","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=16320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16322,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320\/revisions\/16322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}