{"id":19570,"date":"2019-11-06T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19570"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:42:05","slug":"ice-age-scrats-nutty-adventure-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/ice-age-scrats-nutty-adventure-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ice Age is one of the longest running computer animated movie series, and it stars a group of prehistoric animals like saber tooth tigers and woolly mammoths.\u00a0 But clearly the crowd favorite has to be Scrat the saber toothed squirrel and his constant chase for his beloved acorn nut.\u00a0 And now Scrat gets his very own game with Ice Age: Scrat\u2019s Nutty Adventure.\u00a0 While chasing his acorn, Scrat stumbles across a hidden temple of the Scratazons, an ancient advanced race of saber toothed squirrels.\u00a0 Now in order to get his nut back, he must collect special purple crystal acorns across the land.\u00a0 Scrat\u2019s Nutty Adventure is a 3-D platformer available for all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

Scrat can jump, roll, attack with kicks and his tail, sneak past sleeping enemies, and throw rocks or snowballs.\u00a0 As you collect the large crystal nuts, you\u2019ll be sent back to the temple to learn a new skill, like double jumping.\u00a0 You can replay previous areas with these new skills to collect more items.\u00a0 Small crystal nuts will increase your health when you collect a certain amount, and they\u2019ll unlock concept art as well, which is cool.\u00a0 Hidden in each area are stone tablet fragments and statues for you to find.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if you get a better ending if you do collect those, but I kind of hope so since the ending I got was a bit anti-climatic and felt thrown together.<\/p>\n

Play control is decent and I really liked the lush and varied wilderness environments.\u00a0 The game does have a few problems, though, but most are pretty minor.\u00a0 As 3-D platformers go, sometimes the camera angles were problematic and the frame rate could get choppy sometimes.\u00a0 Jumping on small dinner plates would get annoying at times but luckily there are plenty of checkpoints so you won\u2019t get sent too far back if you run out of energy.\u00a0 Really the biggest problem I had was the bosses were way harder than anything in the rest of the game, but luckily there are only three bosses I came across.\u00a0 Scrat\u2019s Nutty Adventure doesn\u2019t really revolutionize 3-D platforming at all, and it does feel like something that could\u2019ve been done on the GameCube (which isn\u2019t necessary a bad thing), but if you\u2019re looking for a fun and breezy game, you might go nuts for this one.<\/p>\n

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Ice Age: Scrat\u2019s Nutty Adventure is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can kick enemies and hit them with your tail, but defeated bugs, rats, and dinosaurs just fall over and disappear or run away.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the Ice Age movies and TV specials, they\u2019ll be OK with the game.\u00a0 Most of the game is pretty easy, but prior knowledge and experience with 3-D platformers will help.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may have trouble with some of the trickier jumps and bosses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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