{"id":19811,"date":"2020-01-22T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19811"},"modified":"2020-01-06T02:37:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T02:37:32","slug":"clumsy-rush-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/clumsy-rush-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Clumsy Rush (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Race as cartoony, fat, waddling hippos in Clumsy Rush, a comical two player racing game on Switch.\u00a0 Your goal is to make it to the end of a finish line wearing a crown.\u00a0 Controls couldn\u2019t be simpler. \u00a0Press the L button to move your left foot, and the R button to move your right.\u00a0 Press a button to bump into another player and knock the crown away from them.\u00a0 Sounds easy, right?\u00a0 But when your hippos waddle around like Jell-O, it\u2019s harder than it seems!<\/p>\n

When you start a race, you\u2019ll be randomly selected a hippo character.\u00a0 You might get a police hippo, ninja hippo, Santa hippo, etc.\u00a0 Then a card will be drawn that\u2019ll add a bit of random zing to the race.\u00a0 You might have your controls reversed, or everything you bump into can send you flying.\u00a0 The race tracks are randomly generated, too, with obstacles like rocks and slippery surfaces in the way.\u00a0 You never know what to expect in each race!<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s pretty much it.\u00a0 I did like the cartoony Katamari Damacy styled graphics, but the randomness of the game is a bit of its downfall, too.\u00a0 My brother and I both wished we could pick which hippo we were, at least so we knew who was who in each race.\u00a0 And it would\u2019ve been neat to pick your random card in each race as well, just as an added customization feature.<\/p>\n

Also, it would be neat if you could have four players at the same time, but this might prove to be too chaotic as well.\u00a0 And while you can play the game with just one player, you\u2019re just by yourself.\u00a0 A timed challenge or CPU opponents might\u2019ve made things more interesting.\u00a0 It\u2019s a neat idea, I just don\u2019t know if this game will have enough staying power.\u00a0 I read in the press release that part of the proceeds from the game will go to an organization to protect real hippos, so I guess that\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n

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

You can bump a crown off of another player, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 If the traditional controls are too hard and frustrating for younger players, you can change the controls to just use the directional stick instead.\u00a0 Clumsy Rush is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Race as cartoony, fat, waddling hippos in Clumsy Rush, a comical two player racing game on Switch.\u00a0 Your goal is to make it to the end of a finish line wearing a crown.\u00a0 Controls couldn\u2019t be simpler. \u00a0Press the L button to move your left foot, and the R button to move your right.\u00a0 Press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19811","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\/19811","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=19811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19813,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions\/19813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}