{"id":20384,"date":"2020-08-24T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20384"},"modified":"2020-08-07T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:34:54","slug":"hamster-bob-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/24\/hamster-bob-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamster Bob (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I still remember the very first game I beat on my own.\u00a0 It was Mickey\u2019s Space Adventure on our family\u2019s Apple ][+.\u00a0 The game was kind of a mix between a text adventure like Zork but had pictures and word cues like a point and click adventure.\u00a0 I just remember the sense of pride and accomplishment I got after beating it.\u00a0 And yeah it was a game for little kids, but I WAS a little kid at the time!\u00a0 It just stuck with me and is why I have a strong interest in educational games for kids.\u00a0 I never pooh-pooh those kinds of games like a lot of other reviewers do, I always welcomed meeting with companies like Humongous when I wrote for The Dallas Morning News, and it\u2019s why I still write for GamerDad.com now!\u00a0 So I\u2019m really glad to get the opportunity to review Hamster Bob, an interactive coloring book adventure on Switch for the youngest gamers.<\/p>\n

Meet Hamster Bob.\u00a0 He loves coloring and having fun with friends.\u00a0 On each coloring page, you\u2019ll be tasked with coloring a few items, like an animal or food.\u00a0 In between coloring, you may have to drag and drop what you colored somewhere, or do a simple counting activity.\u00a0 You\u2019ll use a simple paint program with a couple dozen colors to choose from, and you\u2019ll color each part separately and never have to worry about coloring outside the lines.\u00a0 Hamster Bob will guide you along the way.\u00a0 After each coloring page, you\u2019ll unlock food you can feed to Hamster Bob, as well as dress him up in different outfits on another screen.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to control the game.\u00a0 In handheld mode you\u2019ll use the touch screen, while on the TV you\u2019ll use the JoyCon to point a cursor on screen like a remote.\u00a0 Playing the game in handheld mode is way easier, especially for younger gamers.\u00a0 You\u2019re free to color things anyway you like, so if you want Doris Duck to be a sickly puke green with brown spots, go right ahead.<\/p>\n

The only problems I had with the game are very minor and hardly worth mentioning, but I will anyway!\u00a0 Hamster Bob has a sickeningly sweet syrupy Barney the dinosaur style voice, which may annoy some adults and older gamers.\u00a0 Also the text just feels slightly grammatically off, stilted, and disjointed.\u00a0 For example, Hamster Bob will say stuff like, \u201cI like coloring, eating, and laughing.\u00a0 I heard you like it, too.\u201d\u00a0 I mean, it\u2019s not bad, it just bothers the old school newspaper editor in me.\u00a0 But other than that, this is a great game to download for younger players if you have a Switch, and has plenty of activities to keep them busy.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 There is text in the game, but it\u2019s almost always followed by spoken voice, so reading skill isn\u2019t required.\u00a0 Hamster Bob is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I still remember the very first game I beat on my own.\u00a0 It was Mickey\u2019s Space Adventure on our family\u2019s Apple ][+.\u00a0 The game was kind of a mix between a text adventure like Zork but had pictures and word cues like a point and click adventure.\u00a0 I just remember the sense of pride and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20384","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\/20384","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=20384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20386,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20384\/revisions\/20386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}