{"id":19610,"date":"2019-11-18T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19610"},"modified":"2019-11-06T02:51:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T02:51:26","slug":"creepy-brawlers-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/18\/creepy-brawlers-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Brawlers (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Halloween may be over, but you can still beat up monsters with Creepy Brawlers.\u00a0 The main character in this game is watching a horror movie in the theater, but then gets sucked inside!\u00a0 Now he must box his way to defeat all sorts of opponents, like a zombie, wolfman, vampire, and more!\u00a0 It\u2019s almost like a spooky sequel to Punch Out on the NES!\u00a0 It even looks like an 8-bit NES game.\u00a0 You can even get an actual cartridge of this for your NES, but you can also download it on Switch, which is the version reviewed here.<\/p>\n

Play control is also very similar to Punch Out.\u00a0 The A and B buttons perform left and right punches.\u00a0 Hold up to do high jabs to the face.\u00a0 Press left or right to dodge, and down to duck.\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much it.\u00a0 Each enemy has special punches (or stabs or whatever) that they\u2019ll telegraph.\u00a0 Time your dodges after their attacks and your boxing gloves will flash.\u00a0 When that happens, press a punch button to do a special move to really wallop your opponent.\u00a0 Whittle down their energy and knock them out to win the round.\u00a0 If you get knocked out, press buttons repeatedly to get back up.\u00a0 You can beat monsters in a row in the Championship mode, or fight each one you\u2019ve already beaten in Practice mode.\u00a0 You can even earn in-game achievements.<\/p>\n

The game has a neat presentation, as the main menu is a movie screen, the backgrounds are spooky, and even the referee is a severed hand like Thing from The Addams Family.\u00a0 But I did have some problems with the game.\u00a0 The play control felt a little sluggish, but I\u2019m not sure if that was the game or just me being sluggish.\u00a0 I\u2019m not very good at Punch Out, but I can get farther in that game than I could in this one.\u00a0 Also I don\u2019t know how or if the game saves your progress, but it didn\u2019t save mine so maybe it really is like a NES game!\u00a0 But if you like horror movie monsters and Punch Out, you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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Creepy Brawlers is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can punch and knock down all manner of spooky monsters, like a zombie or a psycho stabby bride.\u00a0 But characters just fall over when defeated, and the 8-bit visuals negate a lot of the graphic violence. \u00a0Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may find it a bit too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halloween may be over, but you can still beat up monsters with Creepy Brawlers.\u00a0 The main character in this game is watching a horror movie in the theater, but then gets sucked inside!\u00a0 Now he must box his way to defeat all sorts of opponents, like a zombie, wolfman, vampire, and more!\u00a0 It\u2019s almost like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19610","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\/19610","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=19610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19612,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610\/revisions\/19612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}