{"id":21559,"date":"2021-09-29T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21559"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:28:03","slug":"obakeidoro-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/29\/obakeidoro-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"OBAKEIDORO! (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With all the Pac-Man playing I\u2019ve done in my life, I know that Obake means \u2018ghost\u2019 in Japanese, more or less.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what the \u2018doro\u2019 part at the end means though.\u00a0 Anyway, in this game, two siblings are about to go to sleep under a red moon, but then a ghost comes out of their closet to snatch them away to play a spooky yet silly game of tag meets hide and seek.\u00a0 In this multiplayer game, choose to side with the humans or the ghosts as you either hide from the specters or try to catch all the humans.<\/p>\n

If you choose to play as the humans, up to three can go at the same time.\u00a0 Your job is to hide from the ghosts without being caught for three minutes.\u00a0 If all three humans are caught before the time runs out, the human side loses.\u00a0 Ghosts who catch humans will put them in a cage in the middle of the arena.\u00a0 Another human can unlock the doors on each side of the cage to free them and keep the game going.\u00a0 Humans can defend themselves by shining a lantern at the ghosts to stun them, but you have to charge it up first.\u00a0 If you play as the ghost, you must try to catch all the humans and put them in the cage without any of them escaping.\u00a0 Ghosts can track the humans\u2019 footprints and go through walls, but they move a little slower and must wait a bit before catching another human.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll play this game in all sorts of spooky locations, like a graveyard, ghost town, warehouse, swamp, or library.\u00a0 Some locations are better suited for ghosts, while others are easier for humans to traverse.\u00a0 You can play the game online or local couch multiplayer, and you can even play single player, which is nice.\u00a0 If you perform well, you\u2019ll earn coins which you can use to buy new characters, lanterns, and outfits in the shop.\u00a0 You can also earn stamps by doing certain things, and if you get enough stamps, you might get a stat increase for one of your characters.<\/p>\n

While you can play single player, the game is mostly multiplayer-centric, and it seems more fun to play as the ghost.\u00a0 Also, camera angles can be a bit problematic sometimes, and play control and hit detection seem a little off.\u00a0 There were times where I tried to grab a human as a ghost, and it would totally miss, while other times it didn\u2019t look like I was close at all, and I got them.\u00a0 But if you can scare up a few other players, you might have a fun little game to play this Halloween season.<\/p>\n

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

OBAKEIDORO! is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can stun ghosts with a light, or grab humans and toss them in a cage, and they\u2019ll have dizzy stars above their head, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Even though the game is cartoony, some of the scenes might frighten very young children, especially the beginning when the silly ghost comes out of their wardrobe to steal away the kids.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all the Pac-Man playing I\u2019ve done in my life, I know that Obake means \u2018ghost\u2019 in Japanese, more or less.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what the \u2018doro\u2019 part at the end means though.\u00a0 Anyway, in this game, two siblings are about to go to sleep under a red moon, but then a ghost comes out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21559","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\/21559","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=21559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21561,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559\/revisions\/21561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}