{"id":16861,"date":"2017-09-25T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16861"},"modified":"2017-08-30T17:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:57:31","slug":"super-comboman-smash-edition-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/25\/super-comboman-smash-edition-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Comboman: Smash Edition (PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Super Comboman has been available on PC for a while now, in fact, my friend reviewed it here a couple of years ago<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Now you can download the Smash Edition for PS4 and Xbox One (reviewed on PS4 here).\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what\u2019s different about the Smash Edition, as I never played the original game.\u00a0 You\u2019ll play as Struggles, a portly guy with a talking fanny pack who is trying to earn money by working at the DodoCo Contruction Company to pay off the mortgage for his house where he and his little brother live.\u00a0 And he\u2019ll beat up and pummel all manner of baddies in the process in this 2-D brawler platformer.<\/p>\n

Struggles can run, jump, block, and do a double jump, as well as fight bad guy with punches and other attacks.\u00a0 You have light, quick punches and slow strong punches.\u00a0 The strong punch button can knock enemies back as well as break walls, but be careful because using these stronger moves drains a stamina meter, and it\u2019ll refill over time, so watch out for that.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have a particular task in each stage to do, but really all you need to concentrate on in making it to the end of the stage and beating up all the bad guys in your way.<\/p>\n

As you defeat enemies and break objects, you\u2019ll earn coins.\u00a0 Spend these coins at the shop to buy new moves and perks.\u00a0 Perks are especially important because they include things like higher defense, but they\u2019ll only activate when you have a certain combo number achieved by hitting enemies and objects in a row.\u00a0 So it\u2019s important to always keep a combo going.\u00a0 Luckily the game has plenty of destructible objects to do just that, but sometimes it doesn\u2019t seem there\u2019s enough to hit to keep your perks up.\u00a0 In each level are hidden stickers you can find and keep in an album, as well as a training room where you can practice moves on a variety of enemies.<\/p>\n

The paper cut-out graphics are charming and the simplicity is a welcome change, but the gameplay can be repetitive and it gets ridiculously hard around the fourth stage or so.\u00a0 But if you like classic side-scrolling brawlers, you may want to give this a try anyway.<\/p>\n

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

Super Comboman: Smash Edition is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Comic Mischief.\u00a0 Even though you punch all manner of people, the graphics are very cartoony and everything looks like a sticker book come to life.\u00a0 In fact, when you wallop an enemy really hard, they flip around like a flat piece of paper.\u00a0 There is some slightly crude humor here and there, like a taunt move where your character wiggles his rear and says, \u201cLook at my butt!\u201d\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger players may find later levels a bit too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Comboman has been available on PC for a while now, in fact, my friend reviewed it here a couple of years ago.\u00a0 Now you can download the Smash Edition for PS4 and Xbox One (reviewed on PS4 here).\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what\u2019s different about the Smash Edition, as I never played the original game.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16861","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\/16861","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=16861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16865,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions\/16865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}