{"id":18637,"date":"2019-01-14T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T00:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18637"},"modified":"2018-12-26T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T15:29:41","slug":"pipe-push-paradise-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/14\/pipe-push-paradise-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipe Push Paradise (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In real life I work in the plumbing department at a major hardware store.\u00a0 Yeah, I guess you could say like Mario, but I really prefer Luigi.\u00a0 So if I work around pipes all day, why on earth would I play and review a game about plumbing, too?\u00a0 Is Pipe Push Paradise really that good?\u00a0 You\u2019ll just have to read on to find out.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

In the game you play as a girl (I think) who has come to an island.\u00a0 You find your uncle dozing in a hut, and another islander tells you he\u2019s been under a sleeping spell for months, and it\u2019s up to you to do the plumbing, which he presumably did beforehand.\u00a0 So now you must travel the island, solving puzzles involving pipes.\u00a0 Each puzzle is like a combination of a block pushing puzzle game like Adventures of Lolo, mixed with water pipe flow puzzlers like Pipe Dream.<\/p>\n

The island is like a maze with rooms full of pipes.\u00a0 Each room has a pipe sticking out of the ground with water coming out of it, and you must push pipes to connect it to another pipe sticking out of the ground so water can flow through it.\u00a0 Once you do that and exit the room, you finish the puzzle.\u00a0 When you push pipes on the edges or corners, they\u2019ll stay flat.\u00a0 But if you push them on a side that can roll, it\u2019ll cause them to flip or rotate.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of hard to tell how they will move sometimes, though.<\/p>\n

The other problems I had with the game was that the play control feels a little touchy and you sometimes move two squares instead of one.\u00a0 Luckily you can push buttons to reverse your moves, and start the level over entirely, but it was still annoying.\u00a0 Also the learning curve is super high.\u00a0 Even though the game has less than 50 puzzles, only two rooms in and it gets incredibly tough.\u00a0 So it was hard for me to sink my teeth into.\u00a0 But if you enjoy your puzzlers with a lot of challenge, you may want to check out this one.<\/p>\n

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Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may find it a bit too difficult, though.\u00a0 Pipe Push Paradise is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In real life I work in the plumbing department at a major hardware store.\u00a0 Yeah, I guess you could say like Mario, but I really prefer Luigi.\u00a0 So if I work around pipes all day, why on earth would I play and review a game about plumbing, too?\u00a0 Is Pipe Push Paradise really that good?\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18637","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\/18637","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=18637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18639,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18637\/revisions\/18639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}