{"id":18379,"date":"2018-10-31T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18379"},"modified":"2018-10-22T21:37:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:37:24","slug":"salary-man-escape-ps4-psvr-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/salary-man-escape-ps4-psvr-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Salary Man Escape (PS4, PSVR, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>People with mundane desk jobs know the feeling of wanting to escape, so here\u2019s a physics-based puzzle game with those themes.\u00a0 Each stage is a maze of blocks, and you must create a safe path so a briefcase-carrying business man can make it to a door.\u00a0 To do this, you must remove blocks so other blocks will move or fall into place.\u00a0 So it\u2019s a bit like Jenga.\u00a0 Salary Man Escape is available to download on PS4 and PC, and will also work with VR devices like PSVR.\u00a0 But since I don\u2019t have a VR headset, it\u2019s just reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

One of the unique things about this game is that it uses aspects of the PS4 controller not used in most titles.\u00a0 You must use the motion controls to aim a cursor on the screen to highlight blocks you can move.\u00a0 You can tell which blocks you can move because they will be red.\u00a0 Then you must \u2018grab\u2019 them with the R2 button and then use the R stick to move them around.\u00a0 When you\u2019re not holding onto a block, you can also use the R stick to move the camera around to get a better lay of the land.<\/p>\n

Once the salary man has a safe path to the door, without any slopes too high or anything he has to jump over, he\u2019ll make a mad dash to the door.\u00a0 Some levels have cups of coffee that act as checkpoints, and if you can make a safe path to those, the salary man will run to them and then you can start from there if you mess up.\u00a0 Some levels have hidden coins, too.\u00a0 If you can make a path to them, the salary man will run to them.\u00a0 Collect enough coins to unlock secret levels.\u00a0 The game will end if blocks fall on the salary man or the door, or if you run out of time.\u00a0 Sometimes you must also start levels over or at the checkpoint if you mess up.<\/p>\n

Since this is a physics-based game, sometimes blocks will fall in a way that\u2019ll keep you from completing the level, even if you did it the right way.\u00a0 So you may have to start levels over.\u00a0 The only other problem I had with the game was that when you start a level, the timer automatically counts down.\u00a0 I wish they would\u2019ve let it sit there so you can look at everything, and then start the timer as soon as you move a piece.\u00a0 But otherwise, this is a very fun and quirky puzzler.\u00a0 The Japanese music and work-based humor make me think of games like Katamari Damacy and Intelligent Qube, and there are tons of levels, too.<\/p>\n

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

Blocks can fall on your little worker man, but you usually don\u2019t see him, and that\u2019s as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger players may get frustrated at the high difficulty and controls.\u00a0 Salary Man Escape is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People with mundane desk jobs know the feeling of wanting to escape, so here\u2019s a physics-based puzzle game with those themes.\u00a0 Each stage is a maze of blocks, and you must create a safe path so a briefcase-carrying business man can make it to a door.\u00a0 To do this, you must remove blocks so other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18379","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\/18379","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=18379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18381,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions\/18381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}