{"id":19432,"date":"2019-09-25T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19432"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T02:08:45","slug":"petoons-party-ps4-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/petoons-party-ps4-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Petoons Party (PS4, Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Petoons are colorful critters who love to play together and have fun.\u00a0 And now you can join in with them in Petoons Party.\u00a0 Up to four players can roll the dice on virtual game boards, take turns earning and losing points, and play mini-games after each round.\u00a0 So yeah, it\u2019s a Mario Party clone.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on PS4, Switch, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

The main mode in the game is Story.\u00a0 Here you choose one of four islands that will act as your board.\u00a0 Four people can play at the same time, and CPU opponents will fill in the blanks if you have less.\u00a0 Luckily you can fast forward through both human and CPU players to speed things along.\u00a0 You choose your Petoon and take turns rolling dice and moving spaces.\u00a0 Depending on where you land, you could either unlock a new mini-game, earn points, lose points, be sent back a bit, and more.\u00a0 The game ends when one player lands on the special space at the end to trigger the final mini-game.\u00a0 While most mini-games are competitive, the final mini-game is a co-op battle against an evil Petoon who is trying to take over that island.\u00a0 If you can defeat her, you\u2019ll win the board.\u00a0 The winner has the most points, and defeating the boss will unlock new outfits for your Petoon to wear.<\/p>\n

Mini-games happen after everyone has rolled and moved once.\u00a0 You start out the board with one game, and as you pass certain spaces on the board, you\u2019ll unlock other games to choose from.\u00a0 Each board has 6 different mini-games and one boss game, and you must unlock them each time.\u00a0 Games including carrying things from one end of the screen to another, balancing things, a Bomberman clone, a music\/rhythm game, and so on.\u00a0 Other modes in the game include a Cup Mode where you play all the mini-games on an island in a row once to see who can collect the most points, and you can also play each mini-game separately.<\/p>\n

The main problem I had with the game is that many of the games are very similar.\u00a0 You really only get six different games, with four variations on each, plus four different boss fights.\u00a0 Plus the computer controlled players are pretty tough, even when the game is set to Easy in the options menu.\u00a0 Also, the game\u2019s not too terribly original.\u00a0 But it is cute and colorful and while I wouldn\u2019t recommend this one to everyone, it may entertain a group of young kids for a while.<\/p>\n

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Nothing too terribly violent here.\u00a0 You can fall off platforms, dash into other players, and set off explosive fruits.\u00a0 But if you get hit or fall, you just flash for a bit and maybe yell out a little \u201couch.\u201d\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play, as the games has picture cues.\u00a0 Petoons Party is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Petoons are colorful critters who love to play together and have fun.\u00a0 And now you can join in with them in Petoons Party.\u00a0 Up to four players can roll the dice on virtual game boards, take turns earning and losing points, and play mini-games after each round.\u00a0 So yeah, it\u2019s a Mario Party clone.\u00a0 It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19432","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\/19432","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=19432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19434,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432\/revisions\/19434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}