{"id":19195,"date":"2019-07-19T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19195"},"modified":"2019-07-18T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:44:27","slug":"professor-lupo-and-his-horrible-pets-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/19\/professor-lupo-and-his-horrible-pets-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the future, a mad scientist named Professor Lupo collects a menagerie of killer alien creatures (his horrible pets) and houses them aboard a space station orbiting Earth.\u00a0 He plans on auctioning them off as weapons to the highest bidder, but before the first bid can start, the space station is attacked by unknown forces.\u00a0 You play as an intern who is normally just bait for these creatures, but now you must try to escape the crumbling space station all the while avoiding alien monsters in this action puzzle game.\u00a0 It\u2019s downloadable on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

Each level is a little maze, and there are usually killer alien creatures roving about.\u00a0 You must try and figure out their movement patterns so you can avoid them while flipping switches to open doors that can create paths for you and trap the alien creatures so you can make it to the exit.\u00a0 In most levels is a hidden object for you to try and collect, too, but it is usually much harder to nab.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to control your character in the game.\u00a0 The traditional way has you using the right JoyCon as a pointer and you click on switches to activate them and tap on spaces where you want the intern to go.\u00a0 The better way to control is called \u2018Focus Mode\u2019 where you press the select button and you can control the intern directly with the left analog stick and flip switches near you with the action button.\u00a0 Which makes sense anyway because you can only flip switches that you\u2019re close to anyway.<\/p>\n

The main problem I had with this game is that your movement speed is SO SLOW!\u00a0 For someone who is trying to escape killer aliens and an exploding spaceship, your character moves like he just woke up and is shuffling around.\u00a0 No sense of urgency, just like a real intern (just joking).\u00a0 But this slow movement really affects the gameplay and makes it really tough to avoid the aliens effectively.\u00a0 And the game gets real hard, real fast.\u00a0 If you die a bunch of times, they turn on an infrared mode that lets you see the enemies\u2019 movements, but it doesn\u2019t help matters.\u00a0 Plus the Portal style humor falls flat most of the time.\u00a0 But if you enjoy puzzle maze games like Adventures of Lolo and want a real challenge, then you may want to take on Professor Lupo\u2019s horrible pets.<\/p>\n

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Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Mild Language.\u00a0 When you get hit by an alien, you\u2019ll scream and do a little death animation, but before things get too gory, the screen will splat with a green goo before starting the level over again.\u00a0 The text does have some cursing here and there, too.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the high challenge level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the future, a mad scientist named Professor Lupo collects a menagerie of killer alien creatures (his horrible pets) and houses them aboard a space station orbiting Earth.\u00a0 He plans on auctioning them off as weapons to the highest bidder, but before the first bid can start, the space station is attacked by unknown forces.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19195","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\/19195","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=19195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19269,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19195\/revisions\/19269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}