{"id":21511,"date":"2021-09-06T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21511"},"modified":"2021-08-14T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:23:53","slug":"the-long-gate-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/06\/the-long-gate-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Gate (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/long_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-21508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LONG_BOX-150x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LONG_BOX-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LONG_BOX.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Explore a mysterious deserted ruined cave and solve mind bending puzzles in The Long Gate.\u00a0 You view the game in a first person perspective as you explore a 3-D cave with all sorts of electronic devices.\u00a0 Early on you\u2019ll get what looks like a Portal gun but it\u2019s actually just a tool that helps you pick up and move things.\u00a0 You\u2019ll use it to drag around battery looking objects as you link wires and such to solve circuit-based puzzles.\u00a0 Kind of what an electrical engineer might do.\u00a0 The game is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n<p>The game has three difficulty modes: Engineer, Normal, and an easy one that says they give players a bit of a \u2018nudge.\u2019\u00a0 But either way you go, they don\u2019t explain very much on how to play and what to do.\u00a0 When you get the \u201cPortal gun\u201d they don\u2019t explain what it does, you just have to figure it out. But that\u2019s the least of your worries.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have to solve circuit based puzzles to power doors to open the next area, but even with text hints on the floor, I had no idea what to do.\u00a0 Either the learning curve is set too steep, or I\u2019m dumb and not cut out to be an electrical engineer (or maybe a little of both).\u00a0 I\u2019m all for less handholding in games, but there\u2019s a difference between good and bad instructions.\u00a0 I guess I just didn\u2019t \u2018get it.\u2019\u00a0 I\u2019d say only try this one if you find STEM based science circuit puzzles and activities fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/long_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LONG_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LONG_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LONG_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LONG_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 This game could be considered somewhat educational with the circuit puzzles, but I think most kids would find them confusing.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.\u00a0 The Long Gate is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore a mysterious deserted ruined cave and solve mind bending puzzles in The Long Gate.\u00a0 You view the game in a first person perspective as you explore a 3-D cave with all sorts of electronic devices.\u00a0 Early on you\u2019ll get what looks like a Portal gun but it\u2019s actually just a tool that helps you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21511","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\/21511","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=21511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21513,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21511\/revisions\/21513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}