{"id":21597,"date":"2021-10-20T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21597"},"modified":"2021-09-19T12:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T12:59:34","slug":"world-flipper-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/20\/world-flipper-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"World Flipper (Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve always liked video pinball games, even when I was a kid.\u00a0 One of the video pinball games I remember on the NES was Pinball Quest.\u00a0 It stood out because it combined elements of pinball with an RPG fantasy quest game.\u00a0 Granted the game was super frustrating but the idea was neat and I\u2019m surprised game makers haven\u2019t revisited that concept more.\u00a0 But now they have with World Flipper, a free-to-play mobile game that combines both pinball and RPG elements (reviewed on iPad here).<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a story to this game, but we won\u2019t go into it much here.\u00a0 Basically your team uses the \u201cWorld Flipper\u201d to travel to different lands, battling the forces of a dark lord along the way.\u00a0 You\u2019ll fight on a themed pinball table.\u00a0 You\u2019ll pick a party of three who are your \u2018balls\u2019 represented by little pixel characters.\u00a0 You\u2019ll tap on the screen to activate the flippers to send your party up the table to hit bumpers and enemies.\u00a0 You\u2019ll complete the stages once all the enemies and a boss are defeated.<\/p>\n

If you can hit a bunch of bumpers without using the flippers, the flippers will get charged and next time you use them, your characters will do a spin attack for more damage.\u00a0 After a while, you can also swipe up, left, or right to activate a skill.\u00a0 After using the flippers, you can also tap the screen again to make your party home in on an enemy to bump into them for damage.\u00a0 Avoid falling past the flippers and dodge enemy projectiles to minimize damage.\u00a0 If your party loses all its energy, you must start the stage over again.<\/p>\n

Only problems I had with the game are that you do have to wade through story text a lot, which I think is unnecessary for this type of game.\u00a0 Leveling up your characters and equipping things to them is also a bit fiddly, as these types of games tend to be.\u00a0 And it almost delves into endless clicker territory at times, or at least it feels that way.\u00a0 But I still enjoyed the simple pinball gameplay and 16-bit style graphics and anime characters.\u00a0 Plus it\u2019s free, so I say it\u2019s worth a try!<\/p>\n

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

Defeated enemies just disappear, so the game isn\u2019t very violent.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always liked video pinball games, even when I was a kid.\u00a0 One of the video pinball games I remember on the NES was Pinball Quest.\u00a0 It stood out because it combined elements of pinball with an RPG fantasy quest game.\u00a0 Granted the game was super frustrating but the idea was neat and I\u2019m surprised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21597","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\/21597","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=21597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21599,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21597\/revisions\/21599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}