{"id":20109,"date":"2020-05-25T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20109"},"modified":"2020-05-12T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:57:42","slug":"a-fold-apart-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/25\/a-fold-apart-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fold Apart (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A couple in a relationship are about to be presented with a challenge.\u00a0 When one of them takes a job in a different city, they must deal with having a long-distance relationship and the difficulties that ensue with that.\u00a0 You\u2019re along in this tumultuous ride in this puzzler game.\u00a0 You must get one of the people in this relationship from point A to point B, and everything is presented on pieces of paper.\u00a0 You have the power to fold the paper to provide platforms and useful passages to help bring the couple together in A Fold Apart.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on current game consoles (some coming soon), PC, and mobile, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

In the story, you move one of the characters from left to right as they talk or text with the other one.\u00a0 At certain points, they\u2019ll walk into a piece of paper, and you must figure out how to get them to the other side, or to a star.\u00a0 To do this you can fold the paper using the right analog stick.\u00a0 This may bring platforms on the other side of the paper closer to you, among other things.<\/p>\n

As you progress, the game will gradually introduce new concepts to you.\u00a0 You\u2019ll first be able to fold paper on the left and right, and then up and down.\u00a0 Later you can even fold corners and flip the paper around!\u00a0 Other things to watch out for are blocks you can use like stepping stones but are affected by gravity, and platforms that disappear after being folded.\u00a0 It can be hard to wrap your head around sometimes, but luckily there is a hint system that you can use at any time and it doesn\u2019t penalize you when using it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a godsend!<\/p>\n

The game does have a few problems, though.\u00a0 One, it\u2019s awfully short.\u00a0 Granted, I did use the hint system a few times, but I was still able to finish it in a few sittings.\u00a0 The other problem I had was more of a personal preference.\u00a0 \u00a0I could\u2019ve done without the melodramatic story. Sure it\u2019s touching at times, but it really slows the game down.\u00a0 The characters are usually sad and just plod along slowly.\u00a0 At one point one character texts the other one, and the other character just texts back that they\u2019re out with friends and will text later, but then you see them in the bed alone texting that!\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 It\u2019s like watching an episode of 90 Day Fianc\u00e9!\u00a0 Honestly I\u2019d rather just have a cute doodle on a piece of origami paper trying to get from place to place.\u00a0 Sometimes less is more.<\/p>\n

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Nothing violent here.\u00a0 The game could be considered slightly educational as it enforces concepts like logic and spatial relations.\u00a0 It could be stretching it, but the game could be considered educational in a different light, as it can show you how text messages can be interpreted in different ways and how people might react to them.\u00a0 At the beginning of the game, you can choose what kind of couple you want to play as.\u00a0 There is a male and female couple, but also a selection of more androgynous characters.\u00a0 Depending on your parental beliefs, you may want to wait on letting a kid play this until they are ready for that kind of discussion, or not let them play it at all.\u00a0 A Fold Apart is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple in a relationship are about to be presented with a challenge.\u00a0 When one of them takes a job in a different city, they must deal with having a long-distance relationship and the difficulties that ensue with that.\u00a0 You\u2019re along in this tumultuous ride in this puzzler game.\u00a0 You must get one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20109","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\/20109","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=20109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20151,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109\/revisions\/20151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}