{"id":21701,"date":"2021-11-09T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21701"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:27:52","slug":"bonito-days-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/09\/bonito-days-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonito Days (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the Super Monkey Ball games, there are usually a large selection of multiplayer mini-games that are just as fun as the main game themselves.\u00a0 One favorite is Monkey Target.\u00a0 Who doesn\u2019t like Monkey Target?\u00a0 In that one, you roll your monkey in a ball down a ramp, launch it in the air, and make it glide to a target below for points.\u00a0 Bonito Days takes that premise and expands upon it with a bit of Katamari Damacy weirdness thrown in.<\/p>\n

In this game, you can view a text tutorial and then try two main modes.\u00a0 Cup lets you compete with up to four players in a preselected set of stages, and whoever can get the most points at the end, wins.\u00a0 You can also do Free Play where you do the same thing, but pick your stages and how many to play.\u00a0 You can also toggle options and view credits.<\/p>\n

Start out by selecting the color and pattern of your fish character and they\u2019ll give you a random name.\u00a0 To play, you\u2019ll first roll your ball off a ramp.\u00a0 Sometimes you may have to navigate a short maze in a city before finding the ramp.\u00a0 After launching off the slope, press the button and a fish with arms and legs will pop out of the ball.\u00a0 Now you can use the control stick to glide around somehow.\u00a0 While gliding, try to collect hearts in the air (they call them \u2018sweets\u2019) to earn points.\u00a0 Rings can give you bonus multipliers if you fly through them, and hitting a striped ball will give you a power-up, which usually lets you land on the targets easier.\u00a0 Once a target is in sight, press the button to pop in a ball again and try to land on the target for points, but don\u2019t fall in the water or you\u2019ll lose them!\u00a0 Whoever can get the most points, wins.\u00a0 In some levels in the Cups, all you have to do is collect the most sweets in the air and not have to worry about landing.<\/p>\n

This game has a few problems unfortunately.\u00a0 While you can view a text tutorial, they don\u2019t explain everything very well, like what power-ups do, how to know when you can\u2019t glide anymore, etc.\u00a0 An overhead map showing where the targets are would\u2019ve been nice, and having to roll around city streets before finding the ramp seems unnecessary.\u00a0 The game isn\u2019t as much fun in single player either.\u00a0 You can still compete in cups, but you\u2019ll be by yourself and can only pass if you earn points (harder than it seems in later levels).\u00a0 One nice thing about the game is that the music is really good and reminds me of tunes found in Katamari Damacy games.\u00a0 I wish this game had a sound test!\u00a0 If you always have friends and family who are willing to play games with you, you might have fun with this title, though.<\/p>\n

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

You can get bumped around and fall into water, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 And since you play as fish, falling into water probably isn\u2019t a bad thing.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Bonito Days is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Super Monkey Ball games, there are usually a large selection of multiplayer mini-games that are just as fun as the main game themselves.\u00a0 One favorite is Monkey Target.\u00a0 Who doesn\u2019t like Monkey Target?\u00a0 In that one, you roll your monkey in a ball down a ramp, launch it in the air, and make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21701","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\/21701","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=21701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21702,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21701\/revisions\/21702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}