{"id":19682,"date":"2019-12-11T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19682"},"modified":"2019-11-30T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T14:56:53","slug":"bee-simulator-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/11\/bee-simulator-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Simulator (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>To bee or not to bee?\u00a0 Well now you can be a bee in Bee Simulator.\u00a0 It\u2019s a flying action game where you play a part of a honey bee in a hive, and must fly around a vast park to collect pollen, battle rival bugs, and ultimately save your hive from construction workers who want to chop the tree down where your hive is located.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Play control is similar to how I imagine flying a helicopter would be.\u00a0 You\u2019ll use the L stick to move, and the R stick to aim where you need to go.\u00a0 You can also press the L and R trigger buttons to hover up and down.\u00a0 As you buzz about the park, you\u2019ll run over flowers and collect pollen.\u00a0 This fills up a meter and when it\u2019s full, you\u2019ll need to go back to the hive to drop off your pollen to make honey.\u00a0 This will give you points, though.\u00a0 When you collect certain types of pollen in a row, you can fill up your \u201cBeetro\u201d meter which helps you fly fast by pushing the R shoulder button.\u00a0 To find special types of pollen, press the R stick to enter \u201cBee Vision\u201d so you can see what kind of pollen each flower has.\u00a0 You\u2019ll start the game off in a tutorial which explains all this to you.<\/p>\n

The main game is mission based, with arrows and yellow markers telling you where to go.\u00a0 Sometimes you may have to battle bugs in a turn-based rhythm mini-game, or repeat bee dance moves in a memory game.\u00a0 There are also side missions that are depicted by different colored markers, and include collecting certain types of pollen and ring races.\u00a0 Doing these will net you points, too.<\/p>\n

While I loved the graphics and unique gameplay, there is one main thing that ruined the game for me: ring races.\u00a0 Sometimes you must fly through rings quickly and those parts are not fun.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t they learn anything from Superman 64\u2019s mistakes?\u00a0 Granted, those sections aren\u2019t near as bad, but flying through rings shouldn\u2019t be a major gameplay aspect when it\u2019s not fun.\u00a0 Especially since flying can be disorienting sometimes.\u00a0 And slightly unclear goals, even with the markers, keep Bee Simulator from being the bee\u2019s knees.\u00a0 But if you can look past all that and enjoy unique and quirky games, you may want to give this one a try anyway.<\/p>\n

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

Bee Simulator is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can battle other bugs by ramming into them, but they just fly away when defeated.\u00a0 You can sting things, too, but that\u2019s mostly used to pop balloons.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may need help with the complicated controls and challenging missions, even on the Easy setting.<\/p>\n

One good thing is that Bee Simulator can be considered educational.\u00a0 Granted, bees probably don\u2019t use \u201cBeetro\u201d to fly faster, but they do show how bees communicate with dances and scents, and the intro explains how bees are important to the environment.\u00a0 The library in the hive has facts on animals you\u2019ve run across, and there are other interesting bee facts during loading screens.\u00a0 So if you have a kid who enjoys learning about bees and bugs, they might like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To bee or not to bee?\u00a0 Well now you can be a bee in Bee Simulator.\u00a0 It\u2019s a flying action game where you play a part of a honey bee in a hive, and must fly around a vast park to collect pollen, battle rival bugs, and ultimately save your hive from construction workers who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19682","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\/19682","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=19682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19684,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19682\/revisions\/19684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}