{"id":18315,"date":"2018-10-12T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18315"},"modified":"2018-09-28T18:28:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T18:28:25","slug":"marble-it-up-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/marble-it-up-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Marble it Up! (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I was a kid one of my favorite arcade games was Marble Madness.\u00a0 I even had it on the NES, that\u2019s how much I liked it.\u00a0 So I\u2019m always up for playing and reviewing any kind of marble rolling maze game, whether it be Super Monkey Ball, Marble Blast Ultra, etc.\u00a0 So I definitely snapped up the chance to review Marble it Up, downloadable on Switch.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of a cross between Super Monkey Ball and Marble Blast Ultra.\u00a0 In fact, many of the team members of Marble Blast Ultra worked on this game, too!<\/p>\n

You view your marble in a third person perspective as you roll it around short mazes and obstacles and try to reach a goal as fast as possible.\u00a0 If you reach it in a certain time, you can get bronze, silver, or gold medals.\u00a0 Completing worlds with a certain number of medals will unlock new levels and marbles for you to choose from.\u00a0 Usually you just have to make it to a goal in each level, but sometimes you must collect a certain number of gems scattered about a maze before the goal can be reached.<\/p>\n

One new feature in this game is that you have the ability to jump with the B button.\u00a0 You can also collect power-ups like extra time, high jumps, floating while falling, and speed boosts that you activate with the Y button.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have to contend with obstacles like ice, elevators, anti-gravity floors, bumpers, and more!<\/p>\n

The only problems I had with the game are very minor.\u00a0 Graphically, there\u2019s not a whole lot of visual variety between levels.\u00a0 Plus there\u2019s not a lot of gameplay modes outside of single player.\u00a0 Would\u2019ve been nice to have multiplayer marble races or something like that.\u00a0 But other than that, I really liked this game.\u00a0 Definitely a keeper.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing really violent or objectionable here, unless you have a problem with marbles falling off platforms into an endless sky.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Marble it Up! is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid one of my favorite arcade games was Marble Madness.\u00a0 I even had it on the NES, that\u2019s how much I liked it.\u00a0 So I\u2019m always up for playing and reviewing any kind of marble rolling maze game, whether it be Super Monkey Ball, Marble Blast Ultra, etc.\u00a0 So I definitely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18315","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\/18315","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=18315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18317,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315\/revisions\/18317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}