{"id":20888,"date":"2021-02-03T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20888"},"modified":"2021-01-13T01:09:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T01:09:18","slug":"phogs-ps4-switch-xbox-one-stadia-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/03\/phogs-ps4-switch-xbox-one-stadia-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOGS! (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Stadia, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Does anyone remember the Nickelodeon cartoon CatDog?\u00a0 I was a little too old for it myself when it was on TV, but my brothers liked it.\u00a0 Anyway, it was a show about a creature with a talking cat head on one end and a talking dog on the other, and how they got along together despite being attached to each other inseparably.\u00a0 It was pretty weird.\u00a0 Well if they were ever to make a video game version of that show, PHOGS! would be about the closest thing to it!\u00a0 In PHOGS!, you play as a weenie dog with two dog heads on each end.\u00a0 So instead of a CatDog, it\u2019s a DogDog.\u00a0 One or two players control each head separately as you wriggle around obstacle filled 3-D worlds, solving puzzles in areas based on three things dogs like to do most: sleep, eat, and play!\u00a0 The game is available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll control each head with the left and right analog sticks if you play in single player.\u00a0 Two players will have control over one head each.\u00a0 If you press the L or R shoulder buttons, that particular dog\u2019s head will bark.\u00a0 But if you are near something that they can grab, they will bite that item instead and hold onto it.\u00a0 You can grab onto stakes if you need something stable to hold onto in windy stages, or carry around items you might need.\u00a0 Hold down the L or R trigger buttons to make your PHOG stretch out, kind of like Noby Noby Boy, if you need some extra reach.\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much all you need to know to play!<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll explore three main worlds with about six levels each.\u00a0 These worlds are themed after three things dogs like to do: sleep, eat, and play.\u00a0 The Sleep world is full of teddy bears and comfy looking beds, and you must solve puzzles involving light and darkness, as well as carrying around alarm clocks to wake things up.\u00a0 The Play world is full of fun and games with a beach carnival and pirate themed mini golf.\u00a0 And the Food world is filled with edibles and bouncy veggies.\u00a0 Most worlds offer a new gameplay element for you to master and feature new items for you to discover.\u00a0 For instance, pick up a glowing light and the dog head on the other end will shine a light from its mouth, which helps you dissolve dark shadow blocks.\u00a0 Or if you bite down on one end of a water spout, the other dog head will spray water, handy for growing vegetables!\u00a0 Hidden in every level are golden dog bones, use them to buy hats in shops for your abomination to wear.\u00a0 There are also hidden rocket things to find, but I don\u2019t know what they do.<\/p>\n

PHOGS! has some problems here and there.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a big fan of games that make the controls hard to artificially introduce challenge, which is what this game does.\u00a0 But once you do get the hang of the controls, it\u2019s not so bad.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s hard to tell which head you need to control, even though they do distinguish them with a red and blue collar, or whatever hats you have them wear.\u00a0 And sometimes your critter can get stuck in the scenery.\u00a0 Luckily there is a respawn button in case that happens, but I hate it when developers opt for that instead of making the game less buggy.\u00a0 But despite these problems, I still really liked this game!\u00a0 Probably one of the best indie games I\u2019ve played in a while.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely weird. For instance, similar to Mario\u2019s pipes, you warp from place to place using giant two-headed yawning worms that swallow you!\u00a0 And the simple yet colorful graphics give it a Katamari Damacy style, too.\u00a0 If you like weird games that are reminiscent of late 90\u2019s 3-D games, you\u2019ll want to check this one out!<\/p>\n

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PHOGS! is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Comic Mischief and Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Not really sure what\u2019s violent in this game, you can fall off ledges but immediately appear nearby before you fell, but that\u2019s really it.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed just to play, but younger gamers may need help with some of the tougher puzzles and obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does anyone remember the Nickelodeon cartoon CatDog?\u00a0 I was a little too old for it myself when it was on TV, but my brothers liked it.\u00a0 Anyway, it was a show about a creature with a talking cat head on one end and a talking dog on the other, and how they got along together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20888","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\/20888","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=20888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20890,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888\/revisions\/20890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}