{"id":18434,"date":"2018-11-28T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18434"},"modified":"2018-11-08T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T15:08:34","slug":"bunnymare-circus-escape-ios-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/28\/bunnymare-circus-escape-ios-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunnymare: Circus Escape (iOS, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A troop of weird, bunny puppet things live at a circus, but a cruel ringmaster mistreats them when they don\u2019t perform well and locks them up in a cage at night.\u00a0 One night, one of the bunnies finds a magic hat with a portal to some kind of happy candy farm.\u00a0 Now you must help the bunnies escape in this Lemmings-like action puzzler.\u00a0 It\u2019s available free-to-play on mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

To start a level, tap the magic hat in each stage to send a bunny out.\u00a0 The bunny will walk on its own, and you must make a safe path for it to reach the other magic hat in the level.\u00a0 Tap on certain floors to send up a wall to make the bunny walk in the opposite direction.\u00a0 Slide your finger to move platforms up and down or side to side to help the rabbit along, too.\u00a0 If your bunny hits an obstacle like barbed wire or falls into a pit of alligators, you\u2019ll have to tap the hat again to send another bunny out.<\/p>\n

In each level are three (or more) food items, like fruit or candy.\u00a0 If you can make the bunny nab the food in a specific order, you can play a bonus game when you complete the level.\u00a0 These mini-games help you earn coins, and when you play one, you\u2019ll unlock it permanently and can play it any time you want.\u00a0 So what do coins do?\u00a0 Well, if you run out of rabbits in the hat (you start with five), you can buy more with coins.<\/p>\n

And that leads me to the main problem I had with the game.\u00a0 In most free-to-play games, when you run out of lives you must wait a while for them to recharge.\u00a0 But not here.\u00a0 Once you run out of bunnies, that\u2019s it until you can earn enough coins by playing a mini-game.\u00a0 But even if you do well in a mini-game, you only earn like, eight coins.\u00a0 And a new bunny costs 35 coins.\u00a0 Granted, you can also earn money by watching ads, or buying more with real money in the shop.\u00a0 But the game also lacks good instructions.\u00a0 When I first started playing, I tapped on the hat multiple times and more bunnies came out, so I figured I needed to save them all, similar to other Lemmings style games.\u00a0 But no, you only need one to finish, so why have that be a feature in the game?\u00a0 Needless to say I lost a lot of lives very quickly, and it could\u2019ve been prevented with better instructions on the rules.\u00a0 But it\u2019s just as well, as I lost interest in the game pretty quickly anyway, which is a shame since I do like Lemmings style puzzlers.<\/p>\n

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

When your bunnies get hit, their heads get lobbed off and fly away.\u00a0 I guess since they\u2019re just puppet bunnies, it\u2019s not so bad, but cartoon violence still abounds in this game.\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":"

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