{"id":19536,"date":"2019-10-28T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19536"},"modified":"2019-10-16T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T21:34:19","slug":"day-and-night-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/28\/day-and-night-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Day and Night (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Day and Night is a Tetris-like puzzler exclusively on Nintendo Switch.\u00a0 I was really surprised how good this game was.\u00a0 It\u2019s very polished and feels like a complete game, unlike a lot of the other indie titles I\u2019ve played.\u00a0 It\u2019s also pretty original, too.\u00a0 Most of these puzzlers play exactly like another game, such as Crystal Crisis pretty much copying Puzzle Fighter<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 But Day and Night is kind of its own thing.\u00a0 If you like playing Switch puzzlers like Tetris 99<\/strong><\/a>, you\u2019ll definitely want to read this review!<\/p>\n

Anyway, Day and Night is a falling block puzzle game.\u00a0 It\u2019s best as a two-player competitive game, but there are single player modes as well.\u00a0 Blocks of four fall into a well and you can move and rotate them on the way down.\u00a0 When you match up four or more, they disappear.\u00a0 There are four main kinds of blocks: two day blocks and two night blocks. \u00a0When it is daytime in the background, you can only match up the day blocks and the night ones are grayed out.\u00a0 But as you match up these blocks, a meter fills up and when it\u2019s full, day changes to night and you can only match up the night blocks.\u00a0 And that\u2019s really the basics of the gameplay, but there\u2019s a lot more to it than that.<\/p>\n

In a two player game, whoever can make the day\/night meter fill up first will not only change if it\u2019s day or night, they\u2019ll also add a row of unremovable blocks to the bottom of their opponent\u2019s playfield.\u00a0 There are also special attack blocks that will do something harmful to your opponent\u2019s blocks if you match up four of them, and these blocks are based on the four seasons and change after every day\/night cycle.\u00a0 Not only that, but there are blocks that\u2019ll affect you depending on if you soft drop or hard drop them.\u00a0 Press up to make blocks fall immediately, that\u2019s a hard drop. Press down to make them drop quickly, and that\u2019s a soft drop.\u00a0 If you soft drop these blocks they won\u2019t do anything, but if you hard drop them, they\u2019ll activate.\u00a0 Some help you out, like stone blocks that will clear a vertical line, while others are harmful, like ice blocks that\u2019ll freeze a row high up and shorten your playfield for a while.\u00a0 All this is a lot to keep track of, but the game does a mostly good job of easing you into things with the tutorial.\u00a0 Although there is a dial on the bottom of the screen that I\u2019m still not completely clear what it does.<\/p>\n

The game has a school play setting to it, and the backgrounds and menus change like stage props.\u00a0 The characters you choose are children of varying genders of ethnicities acting parts in the play.\u00a0 By completing certain objectives, you can win hats for the kids to wear, too.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t mind playing something a little \u2018kiddy,\u2019 it\u2019s very charming.\u00a0 There are several modes of play.\u00a0 Rehearsal is the tutorial mode.\u00a0 Versus lets you play against a friend or the CPU.\u00a0 Survival is a single player mode where you try and last as long as you can.\u00a0 Story mode has different plays with acts for you to complete, each one ending with you winning a hat.\u00a0 And Dares lets you try special challenges to win more hats, like playing upside down or super fast!<\/p>\n

There are only two small problems I had with the game.\u00a0 One is that it lacks the simplistic charm of a puzzle game like Tetris, as there are a lot of things going on and that you must keep track of.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t make the game bad, but the learning curve is a bit steeper and it\u2019s not a game you can just jump into.\u00a0 Newcomers should definitely do the Rehearsal mode first.\u00a0 The other problem is a little harder to pinpoint, but it just seems the difficulty is a bit unbalanced.\u00a0 No matter what difficulty mode I selected, sometimes I could beat the CPU opponent very quickly, while other times it would take forever.\u00a0 But otherwise, I was very surprised on how GOOD this game actually was.\u00a0 Definitely a keeper in my Switch library.<\/p>\n

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Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find it harder to keep track of everything and get frustrated at the difficulty.\u00a0 Day and Night is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day and Night is a Tetris-like puzzler exclusively on Nintendo Switch.\u00a0 I was really surprised how good this game was.\u00a0 It\u2019s very polished and feels like a complete game, unlike a lot of the other indie titles I\u2019ve played.\u00a0 It\u2019s also pretty original, too.\u00a0 Most of these puzzlers play exactly like another game, such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19536","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\/19536","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=19536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19538,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions\/19538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}