{"id":20079,"date":"2020-04-27T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20079"},"modified":"2020-04-15T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T12:28:15","slug":"biped-ps4-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/biped-ps4-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Biped (PS4, Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Help cute little robots get past obstacles and activate beacons so they can return home in Biped.\u00a0 You don\u2019t control these robots in the typical fashion, though.\u00a0 You use the L and R analog sticks to move their legs so you can make them walk, slide, flip switches and levers, and other things.\u00a0 There are two player co-op and single player modes, and you can download Biped on PS4, Switch, and PC, but it\u2019s reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

To make your robot move its legs, you\u2019ll press the L or R stick to make the left or right leg move in any direction, and then release it to put your foot down again.\u00a0 Do this in an alternating fashion to walk.\u00a0 You can also grab onto certain objects by holding your leg in that direction, and then you can move the leg to turn levers, or place your foot down to push buttons.\u00a0 On smooth surfaces, you can press both L and R sticks in directions to skate and slide around, which makes movement easier.<\/p>\n

There are two modes of play.\u00a0 You can work together in co-op mode, in fact the game encourages this as it\u2019s the first option.\u00a0 Or you can play single player.\u00a0 The one player levels are different than the two player ones, so it\u2019s nice they gave both modes as much thought.\u00a0 You can collect hidden coins and sun symbols in each level for an extra challenge.<\/p>\n

I do like the cute robots, as they look like something out of WALL-E, and the colorful graphics remind me of a long lost GameCube game (which is a good thing).\u00a0 And it seems as though the makers of the game tried hard to make the game understandable, as in they put markers under your feet so you know where you are going to step and such.\u00a0 But even so, I just couldn\u2019t get used to the controls.\u00a0 A few levels in and I was already getting frustrated.\u00a0 It\u2019s even worse when you have to depend on another player in co-op.\u00a0 And since the game is physics based, it can be really easy to catch your leg on a ledge and fall off.\u00a0 I\u2019m just not a big fan of games that make things more challenging by messing with the controls.<\/p>\n

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

If you fall off a ledge, your robot just teleports right back to a checkpoint and has a word balloon with a broken heart over its head, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the difficult controls.\u00a0 Biped is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Help cute little robots get past obstacles and activate beacons so they can return home in Biped.\u00a0 You don\u2019t control these robots in the typical fashion, though.\u00a0 You use the L and R analog sticks to move their legs so you can make them walk, slide, flip switches and levers, and other things.\u00a0 There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20079","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\/20079","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=20079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20081,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079\/revisions\/20081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}