{"id":19841,"date":"2020-02-03T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T00:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19841"},"modified":"2020-01-15T00:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:05:30","slug":"heroland-ps4-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/heroland-ps4-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroland (PS4, Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There is a theme park on an island where tourists can go and pretend to be RPG heroes.\u00a0 It\u2019s called Heroland, and visitors can explore dungeons, battle monsters in turn-based fashion, and nab treasure.\u00a0 But they need a tour guide to help them.\u00a0 That\u2019s where you come in.\u00a0 Play as \u201cLucky\u201d who has come to Heroland for a job as a tour guide.\u00a0 On his first day he breaks a priceless vase and will be working off debt for a long time.\u00a0 But is this island more than it seems?\u00a0 That\u2019s what you\u2019ll find out in Heroland, available for most consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

As Lucky, you\u2019ll explore dungeons in board-game fashion along with a party of tourists.\u00a0 You can\u2019t fight, but you can assist in various ways.\u00a0 You can give the tourists strategies like use special attacks, focus on one enemy, be on guard, etc.\u00a0 You can also give healing items or provide advice to one person as to what move they should use.\u00a0 But you can only do any of these things when a meter is full, so you must choose wisely.\u00a0 Help the would-be heroes make it out of the dungeon and they\u2019ll be happy and give you experience points, as well as earn their own kind of experience points as well.\u00a0 Tourists who level up will gain typical attributes like attack and defense, but when you level up, your meter will recharge faster and you\u2019ll be able to carry more items.<\/p>\n

Aside from the dungeons, you can visit places on the island to help out.\u00a0 Gift shops sell items you can use as well as furniture to decorate your room and other goodies.\u00a0 Visit tourists on the island and talk to them and you might have a chance to befriend them if you give them treasures while on tour.\u00a0 Befriended tourists might give you special sidequest dungeons to explore.\u00a0 And if you attend the monster board meetings, you can learn the strategies the baddies might use in the next dungeon.<\/p>\n

The different take on RPG tropes is interesting, and I liked the 16-bit style sprites that look like they\u2019ve been cut out with a cookie cutter.\u00a0 But the lack of interactivity in the battles and the mountain of text you have to wade through kept me from staying interested in it.\u00a0 But if you want a unique take on a tried and true RPG genre, then you may want to visit Heroland.<\/p>\n

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Heroland is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence, Language, and Suggestive Themes.\u00a0 You can hit monsters with weapons and spells, but since everything looks like 16-bit cookie cut-outs, violence is pretty negated and defeated characters just fall over and disappear.\u00a0 The language and suggestive themes are implied in the text only.\u00a0 Strong reading skill is needed to play as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a theme park on an island where tourists can go and pretend to be RPG heroes.\u00a0 It\u2019s called Heroland, and visitors can explore dungeons, battle monsters in turn-based fashion, and nab treasure.\u00a0 But they need a tour guide to help them.\u00a0 That\u2019s where you come in.\u00a0 Play as \u201cLucky\u201d who has come to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19841","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\/19841","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=19841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19843,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions\/19843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}