{"id":17534,"date":"2018-03-14T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17534"},"modified":"2018-02-21T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:23:02","slug":"bouncy-smash-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/bouncy-smash-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouncy Smash (iOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bouncy Smash is a free-to-play arcade style platform action game exclusive to iOS (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 The game has an unnecessary story about synthetic life forms being created in the future, and then revolting.\u00a0 So a new group of life forms is designed to stop them.\u00a0 You play as one of those life forms, a little round blue ball with eyes named Arlo.\u00a0 You kind of look like a Dragon Quest slime, or that character from the 16-bit Smartball\/Jelly Boy games (and I wonder how the puppet YouTuber Arlo feels about the name).\u00a0 Anyway, all you need to know is that you\u2019re a little blue ball bouncing around trying to hop on other balls in a game that\u2019s like a cross between Buster Bros. and Joust.<\/p>\n

There are three modes of play.\u00a0 Arcade is the main mode where you tackle waves of bouncing balls.\u00a0 There are also Weekly and Daily challenges, but they play nearly the same.\u00a0 Your blue ball continuously bounces, and you tap arrows on the bottom left to make it bound left or right.\u00a0 Tap anywhere else on the screen to do a second jump in mid-air.\u00a0 Other colored balls bounce around as well, and you want to hop on them from above to destroy them.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let them hop on you from above, or you\u2019ll lose health.\u00a0 Lose all your health and it\u2019s Game Over and you\u2019ll have to start from the first wave again.\u00a0 Hop on multiple enemies in a row to multiply your score.<\/p>\n

On the top right corner of the screen, you can swipe up, down, left, or right to activate a power-up.\u00a0 These include things like a shield, growing bigger, etc.\u00a0 Use these powers wisely because you have to wait for a timer to tick down before you can use them again.\u00a0 When you defeat all the balls in a wave, you can move to the next one.\u00a0 Sometimes in between waves, you can pick a temporary power-up like extra health, more coins, among other things.\u00a0 New waves add platforms and other obstacles.\u00a0 Use coins and real money to buy outfits for your blue ball and other goodies in the in-game shop.\u00a0 While I do appreciate the game trying to play like a classic arcade title, the controls were not so good and it just didn\u2019t hold my interest for very long.<\/p>\n

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

Balls bounce on other balls that disappear when defeated, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game ads and purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bouncy Smash is a free-to-play arcade style platform action game exclusive to iOS (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 The game has an unnecessary story about synthetic life forms being created in the future, and then revolting.\u00a0 So a new group of life forms is designed to stop them.\u00a0 You play as one of those life forms, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17534","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\/17534","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=17534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17536,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17534\/revisions\/17536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}