{"id":21110,"date":"2021-03-31T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21110"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:58:17","slug":"bob-help-them-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/bob-help-them-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Help Them! (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Meet Bob.\u00a0 He helps people.\u00a0 Help Bob help people in this retro styled chore simulator with a heavy emphasis on time management.\u00a0 Chop wood from trees, harvest fruit, and other Animal Crossing style activities for the laziest group of NPCs ever.\u00a0 But you have to do it all fast and efficient, as you\u2019re under a strict time limit in each level.\u00a0 Bob Help Them! is available to download on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

Each level is about four screens total, two tall and two wide. There are people in every level who ask for help.\u00a0 You can see what they need by approaching them, as they\u2019ll have a balloon over their head with a picture and the amount they want.\u00a0 You can only hold one thing at a time, but you can drop and pick up other objects easily.\u00a0 Some trees produce fruit over time, so you can approach one and press the button to pick them.\u00a0 Barns either produce eggs or milk over time as well.<\/p>\n

Some trees have axes near them, and you can approach those and start chopping wood by holding down the button.\u00a0 Same goes for certain rocks with pickaxes next to them.\u00a0 Hold down the button on those to mine stone, iron, or gold.\u00a0 You can also fish at piers by holding down the button, and sometimes all you need to do is pet a dog for a few seconds in the same fashion.\u00a0 Some of the materials you may have to cook or refine before giving it to a person.\u00a0 Fruit or eggs can be placed at campfires to make pies or fried eggs.\u00a0 Anvil shaped places can turn logs into lumber, and ovens can turn minerals into bars of iron or gold.\u00a0 But it takes time for things to change into other things at these places, and that\u2019s where the time management comes in.\u00a0 You must figure out what things to \u2018cook\u2019 first so you can go and do other chores.\u00a0 The activities kind of remind me of what you would do in an Animal Crossing game, more specifically the Pocket Camp mobile game.\u00a0 Except here you\u2019re under a strict time limit.<\/p>\n

I do like the retro graphics, as they look like this game could\u2019ve been done on the 8-bit NES.\u00a0 But the game has some problems, too.\u00a0 The time limit is so strict that you don\u2019t have hardly any time to get the lay of the land.\u00a0 Before the level starts, the game does quickly pan around to see all the NPCs, but I would\u2019ve liked to have been able to pan around the level myself to see where everything else was before the stage starts.\u00a0 I think that would\u2019ve eliminated some of the trial and error gameplay.\u00a0 The game does have a tutorial, but doesn\u2019t explain some things like when you need to hold down a button to gather materials.\u00a0 Luckily it\u2019s pretty easy to figure out.\u00a0 You can press a button to see what items can be turned into other things, but some of the fruit and pies are hard to differentiate between each other.\u00a0 And even though you can earn up to three stars in each level, the game isn\u2019t very rewarding.\u00a0 Games about doing menial chores need to have some sort of instant gratification like unlockables (new outfits and such) or at least different locations besides the 8-bit RPG town motif.\u00a0 I like the idea of this game, but the problems caused me to lose interest around level 10 or so.<\/p>\n

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\nNothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.\u00a0 Bob Help Them! is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet Bob.\u00a0 He helps people.\u00a0 Help Bob help people in this retro styled chore simulator with a heavy emphasis on time management.\u00a0 Chop wood from trees, harvest fruit, and other Animal Crossing style activities for the laziest group of NPCs ever.\u00a0 But you have to do it all fast and efficient, as you\u2019re under a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21110","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\/21110","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=21110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21112,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110\/revisions\/21112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}