{"id":17271,"date":"2017-12-26T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17271"},"modified":"2017-12-10T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:08:39","slug":"poi-explorer-edition-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/26\/poi-explorer-edition-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Poi: Explorer Edition (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You are either a boy or girl orphan who dreams of going on an adventure.\u00a0 One day you meet up with an old man who has an airship.\u00a0 He is a former explorer, but lost all his Explorer Medals in a violent storm many years ago.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s your job to explore the land of Poi and help the old man get his medals back.\u00a0 Poi: Explorer Edition is a 3-D platformer that hearkens back to the days of the N64 and GameCube, where colorful 3-D collect-a-thon platformers were at their peak.<\/p>\n

Your hero has all the moves you\u2019d expect a 3-D platformer mascot would have.\u00a0 You can even triple jump and side flip like Mario.\u00a0 The airship acta as your hub world, and you point a giant compass to the land you want to go.\u00a0 Just like Mario 64, each land has medals to get, and when you first start an area, they\u2019ll give you a hint as to how to get that medal.\u00a0 When you find it, you\u2019ll exit the world. There are other secret medals to find where you must solve a small puzzle or brave an obstacle-filled slide down a mountain.\u00a0 The more medals you collect, the more worlds you explore and they also unlock music and artwork in the gallery.\u00a0 Scattered about the levels are coins.\u00a0 Use them at the airship to buy handy items from the old man.\u00a0 These include a telescope for seeing things far away, a compass for detecting key items, and a shovel for digging up hidden fossils.<\/p>\n

This game definitely gets the feel of a classic 3-D platformer down right.\u00a0 Aside from the much sharper textures, this game looks like it could\u2019ve been done on the N64, or maybe even late PSOne, early PS2\/Dreamcast days. (I also like the adventurous orchestra sounding music)\u00a0 But it also has many of the same problems.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have to wrestle with camera angles quite a bit, and I wish the play control wasn\u2019t as stiff.\u00a0 Hit detection and landing on small platforms also feels a bit off, and when you get hit, you get knocked back quite a bit and fly into the air as well.\u00a0 Plus I wish you could map the jump button to B instead of A.\u00a0 But if you miss those 3-D platformers from the early 2000\u2019s era, you might want to check this one out anyway.<\/p>\n

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

Poi: Explorer Edition is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can stomp on enemies and kick them away, and when you get hit you fly into the air and say \u2018ouch\u2019 while dropping coins.\u00a0 And when you run out of hearts, you just fall down.\u00a0 And that\u2019s as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may need help with the tougher jumping obstacles and sections.<\/p>\n

Poi: Explorer Edition was sent to me by Alliance Digital Media for review purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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