{"id":17531,"date":"2018-03-12T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17531"},"modified":"2018-02-21T06:13:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T06:13:02","slug":"joe-jump-impossible-quest-ios-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/joe-jump-impossible-quest-ios-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Jump: Impossible Quest (iOS, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/joe_box-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JOE_BOX-150x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JOE_BOX-150x108.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JOE_BOX.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Meet Joe Jump.\u00a0 He\u2019s a lumberjack and that\u2019s OK.\u00a0 He runs through a forest jumping over obstacles and chucks throwing axes at any logs in his way.\u00a0 Joe Jump: Impossible Quest is a super-challenging continuous runner, and it\u2019s available to download on most mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n<p>Joe constantly runs.\u00a0 If you tap on the left side of the screen, he\u2019ll jump.\u00a0 But if you hit a spike or a wall or pretty much anything, you\u2019ll have to start over at the last checkpoint.\u00a0 By pressing the right side of the screen, Joe can also toss axes that can destroy certain wooden blocks.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of Master Higgins from the Adventure Island series.<\/p>\n<p>The stages are pre-set, which means they\u2019re not randomly generated, which is good because this game requires quite a bit of memorization to get past the obstacles.\u00a0 My only problem is that Joe runs too fast and it\u2019s hard to react to the upcoming jumps.\u00a0 Plus this game is way too hard, even the tutorial is tough to get through.\u00a0 But if you find other continuous runners too easy, then you might jump for Joe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/joe_screen-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17527\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JOE_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JOE_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JOE_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JOE_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing too violent here.\u00a0 If Joe hits an obstacle or a spike, he just makes a fart noise, splat sound, or says something like \u201cargh\u201d before warping back to the last checkpoint.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 But I imagine most kids would find Joe\u2019s escapades too hard and frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Joe Jump.\u00a0 He\u2019s a lumberjack and that\u2019s OK.\u00a0 He runs through a forest jumping over obstacles and chucks throwing axes at any logs in his way.\u00a0 Joe Jump: Impossible Quest is a super-challenging continuous runner, and it\u2019s available to download on most mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here. 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