{"id":19512,"date":"2019-10-23T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19512"},"modified":"2019-10-14T02:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T02:52:05","slug":"kine-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/23\/kine-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kine (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Three personified musical instruments aspire to play together on the main stage, but in order to get there, they must solve puzzles along the way.\u00a0 Help Roo the piano-turned-accordion, Quat the drummer, and Euler the trombone solve 3-D puzzles in this downloadable game for all current game consoles (reviewed on Switch here).<\/p>\n

Explaining how to play the game is a little hard to describe.\u00a0 The three musical instruments you play as are stylized and each has a head shaped like a cube.\u00a0 You must roll this cube around grid-based levels until you reach a music stand somewhere in the level.\u00a0 But each of the instruments has limitations that restrict their movements in some cases, and enhances them in others.<\/p>\n

Roo starts out as a piano and is just a square, but soon gains the ability to extend an accordion to help her reach long distance areas.\u00a0 When you retract the accordion, two music stand posts stick out on either side of her and keep you from rolling certain places.\u00a0 Quat the drum can extend a cymbal stand on either side of him to help him reach areas in the same fashion.<\/p>\n

Euler the trombone is the most complicated of the bunch, as you can switch between two slides that you can extend and retract to help him move.\u00a0 Hey, I\u2019m just glad to see trombones represented in games more, as I played trombone in high school band.\u00a0 Actually technically I played Bass Trombone, but that\u2019s not important here.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what the other slide on Euler is supposed to be, though.\u00a0 Is it his F attachment?\u00a0 The tuning slide?\u00a0 Oh well, I guess that\u2019s not important for this review.<\/p>\n

At first you\u2019ll play as each character separately, learning each one\u2019s quirks as they make it to the main stage.\u00a0 When they all make it, you\u2019ll solve puzzles with two or more of the instruments at the same time, and can switch between them.\u00a0 There are also side quests where you solve puzzles with the instruments and learn how they get along with each other.\u00a0 The game has a unique jazz poster art style and matching music, which adds instruments to the tunes as you solve puzzles.<\/p>\n

The only problems I had with the game is that the puzzles can be very tricky, and I wish they would\u2019ve added a hint feature.\u00a0 Also, even though the game plays perfectly fine in handheld mode on the Switch, the font they use is a little hard to read, and the dark purple tones in the graphics make it hard to see things sometimes.\u00a0 But otherwise this is a very fun and unique, albeit challenging, puzzle game.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 If you are about to fall off the edge, the game will just make a blat sound and you\u2019ll turn back around to where you were.\u00a0 Since the game promotes planning ahead, logic, and thinking skills, it could be considered slightly educational, too.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find the later levels too difficult.\u00a0 Kine is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three personified musical instruments aspire to play together on the main stage, but in order to get there, they must solve puzzles along the way.\u00a0 Help Roo the piano-turned-accordion, Quat the drummer, and Euler the trombone solve 3-D puzzles in this downloadable game for all current game consoles (reviewed on Switch here). Explaining how to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19512","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\/19512","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=19512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19514,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19512\/revisions\/19514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}