{"id":21124,"date":"2021-04-05T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21124"},"modified":"2021-03-19T12:47:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:47:59","slug":"space-otter-charlie-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/05\/space-otter-charlie-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Otter Charlie (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the future, humans have left Earth and now all the animals must fend for themselves.\u00a0 When the weather gets too warm for otters, they build rockets to leave Earth to find other hospitable planets as well.\u00a0 Join Charlie and his crew of otters as they explore abandoned space stations and other craft as they scrounge for parts and upgrades and maybe even find a new home for them and all their animal friends.\u00a0 Play as Charlie in this unique 2-D platform action game where you \u2018swim\u2019 through anti-gravity space, sticking to walls and using thrusters to get around.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually a fairly unique concept and the game is pretty good and turned out a lot better than I thought.\u00a0 Space Otter Charlie is available to download on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Charlie\u2019s otter spacesuit has magnetic boots and allows him to stick to floors, walls, and ceilings.\u00a0 But you can\u2019t walk around.\u00a0 To move, point in the direction you want to go and press a button and Charlie will jump off and fly in that direction.\u00a0 While floating, you can press the button to activate thrusters to control his direction a little bit.\u00a0 But you only have a limited amount of thruster energy and must find another wall to stick to before using them again.\u00a0 When you land on another surface, you can hold the shoulder button to slide for a bit, giving you some extra movement options.\u00a0 You can also press a button to fire a laser gun in any direction.\u00a0 Shoot at debris to clear them out of the way, or at enemy robots who may try to hurt you.\u00a0 You can find and switch to new weapons as you play, like one where the lasers bounce off the walls.\u00a0 Destroyed enemies leave behind parts that you can use to build other weapons, upgrades, and even different colored suits when you land near certain \u2018build bots.\u2019<\/p>\n

Each level in the game is set on some kind of abandoned spacecraft or asteroid mine or whatnot, and the stages are like little mazes.\u00a0 Sort of like a Metroid game, and each level takes about 45 minutes to beat.\u00a0 Luckily the game autosaves after every room you enter, so that\u2019s nice.\u00a0 Levels have enemies to beat, puzzles to solve, and goodies to collect.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find blueprints to build new items, maps for new areas, logbooks for backstory, and even otter facts.\u00a0 So the game could be considered somewhat educational, too.\u00a0 Sometimes you can find a space urchin that you can hold onto.\u00a0 Press a button repeatedly to crack it open and eat it, and you\u2019ll get mega energy with a temporary shield and five way shots.\u00a0 Usually these urchins are placed in areas where you have to fight tough enemy gauntlets.\u00a0 When you finish an area, you can return to your spaceship to do other things.\u00a0 Orbs you collect can power up a warp device to send one of your animal friends to your ship, which doesn\u2019t do much but gives you some other animals to talk to.\u00a0 You can also find a build bot here for upgrades, another crew member gives you your next objective, and a map for selecting levels.\u00a0 Aside from the main story levels, there are also side stages that have mini challenges for you to tackle that earn you more goodies.\u00a0 There are also some small multiplayer modes as well!<\/p>\n

Really the only minor problem with the game I had was I found it wasn\u2019t very clear how many hits Charlie can take before dying.\u00a0 Also, I loved the cartoony graphics, but I wish they would\u2019ve went with a more 16-bit pixel style, as the game really does remind me of animal mascot platformers from that era.\u00a0 Normally I\u2019m not a big fan of games that alter the controls to add more challenge, but they work so well here I didn\u2019t mind it.\u00a0 Overall I had a lot of fun with this game, and if you want a unique take on the 2-D mascot platformer, than you should check this one out, too.<\/p>\n

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Space Otter Charlie is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You mostly shoot robots, ghosts, and computers with lasers, and when you get hit yourself, you just let out a yelp and get pushed around a bit.\u00a0 When you lose all your energy, it just shows a black and white cartoony picture of you with dizzy stars or covered in fire or whatnot.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the future, humans have left Earth and now all the animals must fend for themselves.\u00a0 When the weather gets too warm for otters, they build rockets to leave Earth to find other hospitable planets as well.\u00a0 Join Charlie and his crew of otters as they explore abandoned space stations and other craft as they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21124","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\/21124","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=21124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21126,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21124\/revisions\/21126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}