{"id":17383,"date":"2018-01-15T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17383"},"modified":"2018-01-06T06:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T06:28:36","slug":"blossom-tales-the-sleeping-king-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/blossom-tales-the-sleeping-king-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This game starts out with a grandfather telling his two grandkids a story.\u00a0 So they kind of act as narrators in the game.\u00a0 You play as Lily, a new knight recruit.\u00a0 When the king\u2019s evil wizard brother casts a sleeping spell on the king, it\u2019s up to Lily to search for ingredients to a potion to reverse the sleeping spell, and then find and defeat the evil wizard.\u00a0 Blossom Tales looks and plays nearly exactly like a 2-D Zelda title, and it\u2019s available to download on Nintendo Switch and PC (Switch version reviewed here).<\/p>\n

So yeah, this game plays A LOT like a 2-D Zelda game, especially ones like Link to the Past.\u00a0 You can even hold down the sword button to do a spin attack, and use items like arrows, bombs, and boomerangs.\u00a0 Although you don\u2019t use up items like those in this game, it just depletes a magic meter kind of how things worked in A Link Between Worlds.\u00a0 They even make reference to Zelda in the game, as well as other classic titles.\u00a0 For instance, the first boss is a giant moust who throws bombs at you, and you must toss them back.\u00a0 HMMMMM!\u00a0 The game is a bit more straightforward and linear, even the world map and dungeons are like that.\u00a0 But goals and objectives are always clear as they highlight where you need to go with a yellow square, even in dungeons.\u00a0 But there are still plenty of unexpected secrets to find if you go off the beaten path to complete a sidequest or explore a cave.\u00a0 And your rewards are more than just typical heart pieces, as you may come across cool magic spells that let you create earthquakes or summon bees!<\/p>\n

The game has a few problems, but they are very minor.\u00a0 The game mixes 8-bit and 16-bit graphics, and it can be a bit jarring sometimes.\u00a0 Boss fights are a bit imbalanced in difficulty.\u00a0 Some of the beginning bosses are like, Ys hard, but then later you fight ones that are embarrassingly easy.\u00a0 Play control isn\u2019t bad, but it does feel slightly off in places (like picking up bombs), but I think that has more to do with how similar it is to a Zelda title, so players would more than naturally compare the two that way.\u00a0 And with only four main dungeons, the game is a bit short.\u00a0 I beat it in about five or six hours.\u00a0 But I enjoyed every bit of that time, so if you want a mini-sized 2-D Zelda adventure, you can\u2019t go wrong with Blossom Tales!<\/p>\n

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

Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can swing swords and other weapons and magic at enemies, but they just explode into pixels when defeated.\u00a0 What\u2019s funny is that many games have ESRB descriptors of blood, and I don\u2019t notice any blood in them, but there are some games that I do notice blood but didn\u2019t get an ESRB descriptor as such.\u00a0 This is one of those games.\u00a0 Later on in the game you fight orcs who have swords with blood on them.\u00a0 But the graphics are so pixelly it isn\u2019t that bad at all, I just thought it was interesting.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may need help with the more challenging sections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This game starts out with a grandfather telling his two grandkids a story.\u00a0 So they kind of act as narrators in the game.\u00a0 You play as Lily, a new knight recruit.\u00a0 When the king\u2019s evil wizard brother casts a sleeping spell on the king, it\u2019s up to Lily to search for ingredients to a potion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17383","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\/17383","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=17383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17385,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions\/17385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}