{"id":16546,"date":"2017-06-12T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16546"},"modified":"2017-05-20T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T17:44:10","slug":"gnog-ps4-pc-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/gnog-ps4-pc-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOG (PS4, PC, iOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is probably one of the weirdest games I\u2019ve played in a long time.\u00a0 Heck, even the title is weird (pronounced \u2018nog\u2019 like egg nog).\u00a0 I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019ll be able to describe this game properly, it\u2019s that weird.\u00a0 Anyway, GNOG is a puzzle game where each level is a lunchbox looking device with all sorts of switches and knobs and other doo dads for you to mess with.\u00a0 It\u2019s your job to flip all the switches and fiddle with everything in the right order to pass the level.\u00a0 Currently it\u2019s available to download on PS4, and is also compatible with PSVR, but you don\u2019t have to have the VR peripheral to play it.\u00a0 Later on it\u2019ll also be available for PC and iOS as well.<\/p>\n

Each level (9 in all) has a theme, like a submarine, spaceship, candy store, laboratory, etc.\u00a0 You may have to flip switches and solve puzzles to help a robber get all the money in a house, feed baby birds in a log, repair a spaceship, and more.\u00a0 Usually in the levels are subtle picture cues that tell you what order to flip switches or turn dials.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of those baby activity sets that you can hook on the side of the crib that has all those bells and levers and knobs to fiddle with.\u00a0 The weird nature of the game as well as the color schemes and music also reminds me of Katamari Damacy.<\/p>\n

To control the game, use the left analog stick to move a cursor around.\u00a0 The X button will activate certain switches, but sometimes you\u2019ll need to hold the button down and move the control stick to turn, twist, and flip dials and switches.\u00a0 The right analog stick will tilt the level around, and the L and R buttons will flip the whole lunchbox diorama to the other side.<\/p>\n

While the game is unique and charming, it does have some problems here and there as well.\u00a0 They don\u2019t give you much in the way of instructions, other than showing you a picture at the beginning of two analog sticks wiggling around.\u00a0 Also, goals and objectives in the levels are unclear at first.\u00a0 It took me about 15 minutes to beat each level, and at only nine levels total, the game is a bit short.\u00a0 Also, there were a few times where I got the puzzle right, but I\u2019d have to fiddle with things and reset them back to where I had them to activate the next part of the puzzle or finish the level.\u00a0 This game was published by famed game developer Double Fine, which makes and publishes a lot of really unique titles.\u00a0 So if you are a fan of them or just like weird and quirky puzzle games, you should give this a try anyway.<\/p>\n

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

GNOG is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Crude Humor.\u00a0 I really couldn\u2019t find much in the way of crude humor other than a level where you must get a bird to eat worms and then throw up in baby birds\u2019 mouths, and there is a picture of what looks like a farting skunk in the closing credits.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed, but younger gamers may need help with some of the trickier puzzles anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is probably one of the weirdest games I\u2019ve played in a long time.\u00a0 Heck, even the title is weird (pronounced \u2018nog\u2019 like egg nog).\u00a0 I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019ll be able to describe this game properly, it\u2019s that weird.\u00a0 Anyway, GNOG is a puzzle game where each level is a lunchbox looking device […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16546","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\/16546","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=16546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16548,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16546\/revisions\/16548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}