{"id":17430,"date":"2018-01-29T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17430"},"modified":"2018-01-21T06:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T06:13:10","slug":"snoopy-pop-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/29\/snoopy-pop-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoopy Pop (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The most popular dog in newspaper comic strips now has his own free-to-play bubble popping game on mobile devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 It\u2019s been out for a while, but I just now got to play it since upgrading my iPad.\u00a0 Woodstock and his pals are playing with a bubble machine, when they get trapped inside colored bubbles and Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang must save them!<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re ever played a bubble popping puzzle game on a mobile device before, you know what to expect here.\u00a0 Colored bubbles appear on the top of the screen, and you must use the touch screen to help Snoopy aim and throw bubbles upward.\u00a0 If three of the same color bubble match, they disappear.\u00a0 If you run out of bubbles before saving all the trapped birds, you have to try that stage again.<\/p>\n

Most of the stages simply have you rescue bubbled birds, but sometimes they mix it up.\u00a0 In a Beagle Scout stage, bubbles can be attached to ropes and swing around when you pop them, which is a new idea I haven\u2019t seen in one of these kinds of games before.\u00a0 Other times you may have to hit the Red Baron multiple times with bubbles, as he fires out bubbles of his own to defend himself.\u00a0 Snoopy as the Flying Ace was always my favorite of his personas.<\/p>\n

There are all sorts of power-ups you can activate before each stage to give you an edge, and you can use earned in-game coins to buy more (or purchase them with real money in the in-game shop).\u00a0 There are also power-ups you can earn while playing, too.\u00a0 By popping enough of certain color of bubble, you can fill meters.\u00a0 When they are full, you can tap them to bring out one of Snoopy\u2019s pals to help him clear out large amounts of bubbles.\u00a0 Charlie Brown\u2019s kite pops bubbles in a diamond pattern.\u00a0 Lucy\u2019s jump rope clears out a horizontal line, while Linus\u2019 blanket pops vertical ones.\u00a0 You can even combine powers, too.\u00a0 Using these powers wisely is key to clearing stages.<\/p>\n

As a free-to-play game, the only main problem I had with it is it gets impossibly hard around level 50 or so.\u00a0 But they are pretty generous with giving out free power-ups and there\u2019s always some kind of event or extra challenge going on.\u00a0 They also got the Peanuts feel down pat, even the background music is a bunch of soft, jazz piano pieces.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the better bubble popping games I\u2019ve played.<\/p>\n

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Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most popular dog in newspaper comic strips now has his own free-to-play bubble popping game on mobile devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 It\u2019s been out for a while, but I just now got to play it since upgrading my iPad.\u00a0 Woodstock and his pals are playing with a bubble machine, when they get trapped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17430","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=17430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17432,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17430\/revisions\/17432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}