{"id":20750,"date":"2021-01-06T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20750"},"modified":"2020-12-18T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:19:10","slug":"lunch-a-palooza-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/06\/lunch-a-palooza-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch A Palooza (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Pick a food character like a burger, meatball, donut, gelatin mold, and more as you try to knock each other off the table in this silly multiplayer battle game.\u00a0 Lunch A Palooza is available for nearly all current game consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Each food character has different attacks.\u00a0 The burger can do a body slam, the corn on the cob can scatter popcorn everywhere, the meatball does a rolling attack, etc.\u00a0 The X button jumps and the circle button attacks.\u00a0 The square button is for picking up items and throwing them.\u00a0 You can also hold down the attack button for a charged move, or tap the jump button if you get stunned or flipped over.\u00a0 There are also temporary power-ups that appear that you can pick up for an edge.\u00a0 You\u2019ll battle on tables in an Italian eatery or an outdoor patio at a Mexican food restaurant.\u00a0 My favorite is Pixel Pizza Paradise, a kind of Chuck E. Cheese ripoff where you fight on an air hockey table that flips to a foosball table with an arcade in the background.\u00a0 As you play and win matches (up to four can play), you\u2019ll unlock new colors for your food, more characters to play as, and new locations to fight on.<\/p>\n

The main menu lets you choose a few ways to play.\u00a0 Take an Order is the main game selection, but you can also toggle options, view the credits, and track your progress.\u00a0 The four main gameplay modes are Main Course, which is just a free-for-all where you try to knock each other off the table, and whoever gets knocked over five times loses and the last one standing wins.\u00a0 In Side Dish, you do the same thing but are on teams of two.\u00a0 In King of the Cloche, you must stay on a dessert plate the longest, and whoever can stay on it to reach 100 percent wins.\u00a0 And Royal Buffet is a timed battle where you must knock over the other players as many times as you can in three minutes.<\/p>\n

I like the cartoony food characters and settings, but the controls are just too sloppy for me to get into it.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to tell when you land an attack, pick up an item, or get hit.\u00a0 A difficulty selection for the CPU players would\u2019ve been nice, too.\u00a0 I imagine this is one of those games that\u2019s way more fun with multiple human players.\u00a0 No online play either from what I could tell.\u00a0 Just couch local only.<\/p>\n

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Lunch A Palooza is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol Reference and Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You smack around other googly eyed cartoon food characters and they can even get cut in half, but still keep on going.\u00a0 Some of the tables have bottles on them which could be presumably filled with alcohol.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pick a food character like a burger, meatball, donut, gelatin mold, and more as you try to knock each other off the table in this silly multiplayer battle game.\u00a0 Lunch A Palooza is available for nearly all current game consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here. Each food character has different attacks.\u00a0 The burger can do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20750","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\/20750","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=20750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20831,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20750\/revisions\/20831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}