{"id":20669,"date":"2020-12-14T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20669"},"modified":"2020-10-31T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T12:17:01","slug":"rusty-spout-rescue-adventure-switch-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/rusty-spout-rescue-adventure-switch-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusty Spout Rescue Adventure (Switch, Xbox One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of my top three favorite puzzle games is Puzzle Bobble, also called Bust-A-Move in the US<\/strong><\/a>, although I prefer the former name.\u00a0 My other two favorites are Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo and plain ol\u2019 Tetris.\u00a0 Anyway, in Puzzle Bobble, you aim and fire colored bubbles to the top of the screen to match three or more so they\u2019ll disappear.\u00a0 If that sounds familiar, it\u2019s because the game is also one of the most copied puzzlers on mobile devices.\u00a0 Makes me wonder if Taito wishes they would\u2019ve gotten a stricter copyright on their creation.\u00a0 Anyway, while you see many imitators on mobile devices, you don\u2019t really see any on consoles.\u00a0 But now there is one with Rusty Spout Rescue Adventure.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Switch and Xbox One, but reviewed on Switch here.\u00a0 Help the good pirate bird Rusty Spout stop the evil demon pirate from kidnapping children from Rusty\u2019s home village\u2026by popping bubbles.\u00a0 Yeah these kinds of games really don\u2019t need a story, do they?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve played one of these types of games before, you\u2019ll know what to expect here.\u00a0 Fire bubbles from a cannon on the bottom of the screen to match three or more of the same color at the top.\u00a0 With precise aiming, you can bounce bubbles off walls and perform chain reactions where you can send more bubbles away.\u00a0 There are also special bubbles to help you clear out a bunch at the top and whatnot.\u00a0 The longer you take to clear a level, the more the top of the screen creeps down.\u00a0 If the bubbles reach a line at the bottom, it\u2019s Game Over.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Story Mode, where you go through levels one by one.\u00a0 Only problem with this is that you only get three credits to continue, and after that you must start over at the beginning.\u00a0 Yeah, no thank you.\u00a0 Why you can\u2019t continue where you left off or at least let you save after a cluster of stages is beyond me.\u00a0 There is also an Endless Mode where you keep popping bubbles until they reach the bottom and you try and get as high of a score as you can.\u00a0 There are also Vs. and Challenge Modes for two players, but you can\u2019t have the other player be the CPU, which is a shame.\u00a0 You can save your high scores, though.\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much it.\u00a0 As a Puzzle Bobble imitator, this one isn\u2019t that great.\u00a0 I\u2019ve certainly played better ones and it makes me just rather play the original title instead.<\/p>\n

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

Rusty Spout Rescue Adventure is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Language.\u00a0 I really didn\u2019t notice any bad language, so it must be used sparingly.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my top three favorite puzzle games is Puzzle Bobble, also called Bust-A-Move in the US, although I prefer the former name.\u00a0 My other two favorites are Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo and plain ol\u2019 Tetris.\u00a0 Anyway, in Puzzle Bobble, you aim and fire colored bubbles to the top of the screen to match […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20669","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\/20669","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=20669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20672,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions\/20672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}