{"id":19144,"date":"2019-06-26T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19144"},"modified":"2019-06-19T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:56:25","slug":"pliq-epic-clash-ios-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/pliq-epic-clash-ios-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"pliq: Epic Clash (iOS, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A couple of months ago, I reviewed a mobile puzzle game called pliq<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 And barely a month later, the creators have already made a \u2018new\u2019 game based on the first one!\u00a0 Only in the mobile gaming world, I guess.\u00a0 Anyway, read on to find out what\u2019s new in Epic Clash.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download for free on mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

Really the main new thing is now the blocks have faces.\u00a0 Supposedly the blocks you create look like warriors, while the blocks from above are supposed to be zombies, but I didn\u2019t really notice much.\u00a0 Otherwise it plays just like the first game.\u00a0 Arranged rows of blocks fall from above, and you use the touch screen to create blocks from below.\u00a0 Tap the blocks again to make them disappear.\u00a0 Try to make your blocks match up to what\u2019s falling so everything disappears and you get points.<\/p>\n

Similar to Tetris, when a whole row of blocks are at the bottom, they\u2019ll disappear and you\u2019ll get points.\u00a0 So you must watch the falling blocks carefully and make the blocks below match so everything is cleared.\u00a0 As you get the hang of it, you can employ some neat tricks like pressing the arrow button at the top to make the blocks fall faster for more points.\u00a0 And you can make your own rows of blocks at the bottom that will get cleared for even more points, but that gets harder to do when the blocks start falling faster.<\/p>\n

If you fail to make a row of blocks disappear, that row will be blocked and you must make a row above it to unlock it for use.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to be careful not to let this happen often, because once it does, the game can get pretty hard really fast!\u00a0 Sometimes special blocks appear to make things more complicated, like numbered blocks that take a certain number of rows to disappear completely.\u00a0 Sometimes power-up blocks appear and can clear out whole columns and such.<\/p>\n

Really the only other thing I noticed about this new rendition is they bombard you with more ads.\u00a0 You have to view an ad after beating a level, and there is always an ad banner at the top of the screen.\u00a0 There is a new power-up that will clear a line if you view an ad, too.\u00a0 Personally I prefer the original game as it had less ads and I liked the simple colors over the generic face blocks.<\/p>\n

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

Now that the blocks have faces, when they get cleared and splat into goo, I guess that could be considered a little more violent.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Parental supervision is recommended for the in-game ads and purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of months ago, I reviewed a mobile puzzle game called pliq.\u00a0 And barely a month later, the creators have already made a \u2018new\u2019 game based on the first one!\u00a0 Only in the mobile gaming world, I guess.\u00a0 Anyway, read on to find out what\u2019s new in Epic Clash.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19144","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\/19144","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=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19146,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions\/19146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}