{"id":20046,"date":"2020-04-17T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20046"},"modified":"2020-03-30T13:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:14:54","slug":"gigantosaurus-the-game-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/gigantosaurus-the-game-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantosaurus: The Game (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gigantosaurus is a computer animated TV show with a unique art style aimed at younger viewers.\u00a0 It airs on Disney Junior in the US, but I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s still on there anymore.\u00a0 Anyway, the show is set in prehistoric times and four young dinosaurs live together and learn life lessons.\u00a0 Along for the ride is their friend Gigantosaurus.\u00a0 He\u2019s a huge ferocious dinosaur that sometimes helps them out, but the dino friends will keep their distance and run away lest they get squashed or eaten.\u00a0 I\u2019m not completely clear how their relationship works.\u00a0 Anyway, the video game is based on the TV show and is a 3-D platformer.\u00a0 An asteroid plugs up a volcano and is causing earthquakes and trouble, and you play as one of the four dinosaur pals to save the day.\u00a0 The game is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

You play as one of the four young dinosaurs and can jump and swing your tail at enemies, as well as switch characters at any time.\u00a0 Each of the four dinos has a special skill that you can activate at certain highlighted parts.\u00a0 A small triceratops can use her horns to knock down tree stumps to create makeshift bridges.\u00a0 Another one can climb vine covered walls, and another can fix things, etc.\u00a0 Sometimes you may find items that can temporarily aid in your movement.\u00a0 Like flowers you can hold to slow your descent, or spring shoes for higher jumps.<\/p>\n

Your main goal in each area is to collect dinosaur eggs that have been scattered by quakes, and bring them back to their nests.\u00a0 There are also side missions, but they are just fetch quests like the main goal, and are just as tedious and repetitive.\u00a0 Once you collect enough eggs, you can move onto the next area.\u00a0 But to travel there, the game turns into a simple kart racer.\u00a0 You can race on these tracks separately, too.\u00a0 Up to four players can join in simultaneously on the adventure and kart races, too.<\/p>\n

While the graphics look almost just like the TV show, the floaty controls and repetitive gameplay make things frustrating and tedious.\u00a0 I even got annoyed with it after the third world.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame because this is clearly targeted toward younger players, but I really can\u2019t recommend this game to them.<\/p>\n

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Gigantosaurus: The Game is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Cartoon Violence.\u00a0 You can swing your dino tail at enemies, but you just swat carnivorous plants and bugs away.\u00a0 If you get hit, you just get knocked back and flash for a bit.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger players may find the game too difficult, tedious, and frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gigantosaurus is a computer animated TV show with a unique art style aimed at younger viewers.\u00a0 It airs on Disney Junior in the US, but I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s still on there anymore.\u00a0 Anyway, the show is set in prehistoric times and four young dinosaurs live together and learn life lessons.\u00a0 Along for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046","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=20046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20048,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046\/revisions\/20048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}