{"id":17768,"date":"2018-05-07T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17768"},"modified":"2018-04-18T04:57:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T04:57:27","slug":"eat-beat-dead-spike-san-switch-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/07\/eat-beat-dead-spike-san-switch-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Beat Dead Spike-san (Switch, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ragna is a character from the BlazBlue<\/strong><\/a> series of fighting games.\u00a0 In this music rhythm side game, Ragna can\u2019t seem to win any fights, so his friend (?) Dead Spike-san, decides that if he eats more, he\u2019ll get stronger.\u00a0 So he drags Ragna on a quest to eat more food in time with BlazBlue music in this silly game downloadable for Switch and mobile devices (reviewed on Switch here).<\/p>\n

In this game, all the characters are presented in cartoony \u2018chibi\u2019 form.\u00a0 First you\u2019ll select a character which represents a stage music theme from BlazBlue.\u00a0 Then you can select a difficulty from Easy, Medium, and Hard (although Easy is still pretty hard in most songs).\u00a0 You can even select which character you want to play as.\u00a0 Default is Ragna and Spike-san, but you can choose from two other groups of characters, one being dragged by the other.<\/p>\n

Gameplay is pretty simple.\u00a0 The letters L and R will scroll by, and when they hit a marker, you must press either the L or R button in time with the music, which will make the characters eat whatever food goes past.\u00a0 Symbols will let you know if you need to tap the button, hold it for a time, or mash both buttons like a madman.\u00a0 Do well enough and you may even unlock extra goodies in the gallery.\u00a0 Just don\u2019t miss too much or you\u2019ll lose all your energy and you\u2019ll have to start the song again.\u00a0 Eat enough food in a row and you can activate a special power to refill energy, though.<\/p>\n

Aside from the game being a bit on the hard side, there were two other problems I had with the game.\u00a0 Since all the music is from BlazBlue, there isn\u2019t a lot of variety in the songs.\u00a0 Sure, BlazBlue music is good, but it all sounds like the same butt-rock music to me.\u00a0 Also it just didn\u2019t seem like the controls were responsive enough.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s just the Switch controller or the game, but I didn\u2019t find it as much fun as other music titles.\u00a0 Only get this one if you\u2019re a huge BlazBlue fan and love its music.<\/p>\n

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

Your character is dragged around by another, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets, as everything is very cartoony.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text and younger players may find this game too difficult.\u00a0 Eat Beat Dead Spike-san is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ragna is a character from the BlazBlue series of fighting games.\u00a0 In this music rhythm side game, Ragna can\u2019t seem to win any fights, so his friend (?) Dead Spike-san, decides that if he eats more, he\u2019ll get stronger.\u00a0 So he drags Ragna on a quest to eat more food in time with BlazBlue music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17768","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\/17768","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=17768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}