{"id":18348,"date":"2018-10-26T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18348"},"modified":"2018-10-13T15:26:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T15:26:32","slug":"crayola-scoot-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/26\/crayola-scoot-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Crayola Scoot (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kids love Crayola crayons and coloring books.\u00a0 Who doesn\u2019t remember the smell of a freshly opened box?\u00a0 Kids also love extreme sports and riding on their scooters outside.\u00a0 So what happens when you mix the fun of scooting in a skate park with the colorful magic of Crayola?\u00a0 You get Crayola Scoot, that\u2019s what.\u00a0 It\u2019s basically just Tony Hawk Pro Skater but with scooters, combined with color splatting gameplay from Splatoon.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on nearly all current home consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The first thing you\u2019ll do is create your character.\u00a0 Choose gender, height, skin tone, and clothes.\u00a0 You can also choose the color of your clothes, from choices straight from the Crayola crayon box!\u00a0 You\u2019ll also pick your paint color, too (more on that later).\u00a0 Then you\u2019ll hit the scooter park, where you\u2019ll get a brief intro to controls and how the game works.\u00a0 Move around with the L stick and start moving with the R trigger button.\u00a0 The L button boosts and there are also buttons for braking, jumping, and grinding.\u00a0 And to do tricks in the air, move the R stick.\u00a0 Yeah it sounds like a lot, but the tutorial does a better job explaining it.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll start off at a skate park where you can practice your tricks, but there are other areas you can go to.\u00a0 In the middle of the entrance is a portal where you can take on several skate challenges against other computer players.\u00a0 These timed events will have you doing things like splatting the most area of the park with your color paint.\u00a0 You splat paint when you do tricks, grind, and boost.\u00a0 When you scoot on your color paint, your paint meter will refill faster, too.\u00a0 Other events require you to do the most tricks to get the highest score, find hidden Crayola crayons, and more.\u00a0 Every event has multiple difficulty levels, too.<\/p>\n

When you win enough events, your experience will go up, and you\u2019ll gain levels.\u00a0 Gaining levels gives you access to more events, skate parks (with themes like forest, castle, and futuristic), and more clothes to customize your character with.\u00a0 But before you can reach the next level, you\u2019ll have to challenge a special character to a trick contest.\u00a0 These include silly characters like a zombie, alligator, witch, and more.\u00a0 Once you beat them, you\u2019ll have access to their clothes and scooter parts, too!<\/p>\n

Other areas in the hub are the shop where you can buy items to customize your character, an antigravity room where you can try out tricks, and an arcade where up to four local players can compete in events.\u00a0 Really the only problem I had was the controls.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that they\u2019re bad, in fact, they\u2019re great.\u00a0 But I had a hard time remembering which button does what, but then, I haven\u2019t played a skating game in a long time, and even then I didn\u2019t play very many.\u00a0 Crayola Scoot may not be very original, but it\u2019s still a solid game for the whole family.<\/p>\n

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Nothing too terribly violent here.\u00a0 You can crash and fall off your scooter, but you just flop on the cement with an \u2018oof!\u2019 and the game splats with color as it fades back to you on your scooter.\u00a0 All the characters wear helmets and knee and elbow pads, and none of the crashes are depicted in a painful way.\u00a0 Reading is a must as everything is text based (I do wish the text were bigger and not yellow in color, though).\u00a0 While the game has a good tutorial, the controls are complex enough that it\u2019s best enjoyed by older kids.\u00a0 Crayola Scoot is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kids love Crayola crayons and coloring books.\u00a0 Who doesn\u2019t remember the smell of a freshly opened box?\u00a0 Kids also love extreme sports and riding on their scooters outside.\u00a0 So what happens when you mix the fun of scooting in a skate park with the colorful magic of Crayola?\u00a0 You get Crayola Scoot, that\u2019s what.\u00a0 It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18348","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\/18348","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=18348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18350,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18348\/revisions\/18350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}