{"id":21742,"date":"2021-11-24T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21742"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:29:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:29:55","slug":"rainbow-billy-the-curse-of-the-leviathan-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/24\/rainbow-billy-the-curse-of-the-leviathan-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the Land of Imagination, the residents are about to celebrate a festival of colors.\u00a0 But when guest of honor Rainbow Billy launches the fireworks, they wake up a sleeping monochrome dragon under the sea!\u00a0 This angry Leviathan steals all the colors from the land, and now Billy must bring them all back and rescue his friends, and make more than 60 new ones, too!\u00a0 Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a turn-based RPG with elements of Paper Mario platforming thrown in.\u00a0 And the battles aren\u2019t really battles at all. You must talk your way through each skirmish to make new friends out of your foes!\u00a0 The game is available on nearly all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll move around Billy in top down fashion, and you can jump and roll.\u00a0 Early on you\u2019ll befriend a talking fishing rod who acts as your \u2018interact\u2019 button, hitting objects to reveal goodies and such.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also travel the seas with a talking tugboat named the \u201cFriend Ship.\u201d\u00a0 You\u2019ll sail to different islands bringing back color to each one and save the land in the process.<\/p>\n

When you come across a grumpy black and white character, a turn-based \u2018battle\u2019 will ensue.\u00a0 \u201cBattle\u201d being in quotes because you really don\u2019t fight anybody, but make friends with them instead.\u00a0 First what you do is select the \u2018listen\u2019 command to find out what is bugging your foe.\u00a0 Then you choose the right response from a list.\u00a0 If you do that, then you can use your other friends to fill in colors in the enemy.\u00a0 You do this by playing timed button press mini-games.\u00a0 If you win and fill in all the colors of the bad guy, you\u2019ll win the \u2018battle\u2019 and make a new friend!\u00a0 If you mess up, the enemy can attack your \u2018morale\u2019 meter and if it is gone, you\u2019ll have to start the battle over.\u00a0 But no other penalty is given when you lose.\u00a0 When you make a new friend, they\u2019ll go live in a room in the \u201cFriend Ship.\u201d\u00a0 Here you can visit them and give them gifts to help them level up.\u00a0 Levelled up friends will have more color choices in battle.<\/p>\n

I like almost everything about this game.\u00a0 The colorful graphics, characters that look like a cross between Cuphead and Mr. Driller, and the overall idea they were going for with making friends.\u00a0 However, the one thing I do not like is the battles, and that\u2019s usually the gameplay meat of any RPG.\u00a0 Having to pick the right things to say reminds me of a dating sim, and I don\u2019t like those games.\u00a0 And while each battle adds something new, they still felt tedious to me most of the time.\u00a0 They also don\u2019t explain some of the nuances of battle very well, and it made me lose interest faster than I expected.\u00a0 And there isn\u2019t much room for error in these battles as well.\u00a0 Another little problem is the text is too small in handheld mode.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, in the options screen there is a dyslexia friendly text option.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what that does, but I\u2019m surprised more games don\u2019t do that!\u00a0 Everything else about the game is great, so if you can look past those tedious battles, you\u2019ll have a good time.<\/p>\n

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Since the \u2018battles\u2019 focus on making friends instead of fighting, there\u2019s nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Strong reading skill is a must, though.\u00a0 Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Land of Imagination, the residents are about to celebrate a festival of colors.\u00a0 But when guest of honor Rainbow Billy launches the fireworks, they wake up a sleeping monochrome dragon under the sea!\u00a0 This angry Leviathan steals all the colors from the land, and now Billy must bring them all back and rescue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21742","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\/21742","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=21742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21748,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742\/revisions\/21748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}