{"id":20901,"date":"2021-02-05T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20901"},"modified":"2021-01-16T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:03:14","slug":"calico-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/05\/calico-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Calico (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Open up and run your very own cat caf\u00e9 in a magical land in Calico.\u00a0 But what is a cat caf\u00e9?\u00a0 Well, apparently they exist in real life and are just restaurants where they let cats roam freely in it for you to watch and pet.\u00a0 Sounds fun, but I can\u2019t imagine how they keep from getting cat hair in your food!\u00a0 Anyway, Calico is a laid back, relaxing kind of game that has aspects from other titles like Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on nearly all current game consoles, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The first thing you\u2019ll do is create your lady character.\u00a0 I have to say, I was pretty impressed with the character creation mode in this game.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost as robust as ones found in games like Soul Calibur, so that\u2019s pretty good!\u00a0 After a brief tutorial, you\u2019re all set to get started on your cat caf\u00e9!\u00a0 Graphics are presented in a 3-D, cel-shaded style, and I liked them quite a bit.\u00a0 Some have complained about graphical bugs like clipping, but eh, it didn\u2019t really bother me.<\/p>\n

You can decorate your caf\u00e9 with furniture you either buy or get from doing favors from people in town.\u00a0 To earn money to buy furniture and food recipes, you can either do favors or prepare food in your caf\u00e9 (more on that in a bit).\u00a0 You can also fill your caf\u00e9 with animals, too!\u00a0 And not just cats, but birds, dogs, raccoons, and much more.\u00a0 To have an animal be in your caf\u00e9, all you have to do is approach it, pick it up, and give it a command to follow you or go to the caf\u00e9.\u00a0 You can also pet animals and play with them using toys.<\/p>\n

The world you live in is magical, and the residents all use some form of magic.\u00a0 You can use magic to prepare food in a weird way.\u00a0 To make food, you shrink down and walk around the counter, picking up ingredients and throwing them into a basket.\u00a0 When you have all the right ingredients, throw the completed food on the tray and eventually an unseen person will come by and buy it and you\u2019ll earn money.\u00a0 You can also use potions to do things like make animals grow huge, and then you can ride on their backs to get around and break through barriers.\u00a0 Yeah, it\u2019s a little weird.\u00a0 There are always objectives and missions to do, so you\u2019ll always have something going on.<\/p>\n

Calico does have a few problems, though.\u00a0 One is the controls.\u00a0 Basic actions like running and jumping are fine, but others aren\u2019t so explicit in the tutorials and a bit cumbersome to perform.\u00a0 For instance, to give a command to an animal, you must first pick it up, and press the L trigger button to bring up a list of commands.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not very clear when you select a command if it triggered or not.\u00a0 Throwing objects in the cooking game is hit or miss as well, and there are other control quibbles, too.\u00a0 The only other problem I had with the game is that it\u2019s a bit slow-paced.\u00a0 And I love games like Animal Crossing, so you know how that must be!\u00a0 There are a lot of fetch quests and locating certain animals can feel like finding a needle in a haystack.\u00a0 But if you like the idea of this game, it might be worth checking out if you want a cute, laid-back experience with a tinge of weirdness.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must for the text.\u00a0 I think very patient kid gamers would really like it, though.\u00a0 Calico is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Open up and run your very own cat caf\u00e9 in a magical land in Calico.\u00a0 But what is a cat caf\u00e9?\u00a0 Well, apparently they exist in real life and are just restaurants where they let cats roam freely in it for you to watch and pet.\u00a0 Sounds fun, but I can\u2019t imagine how they keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20901","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\/20901","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=20901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20903,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901\/revisions\/20903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}