{"id":21804,"date":"2021-12-13T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21804"},"modified":"2021-11-17T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:46:37","slug":"angry-alligator-switch-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/13\/angry-alligator-switch-ps4\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Alligator (Switch, PS4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Play as an alligator as you eat prey and grow bigger to eat even larger prey in this endless cycle of a 3-D game.\u00a0 There\u2019s a story about an organization doing experiments on alligators in the swamp and you have to stop them, but it doesn\u2019t seem to matter much in the minute to minute gameplay.\u00a0 Angry Alligator is available on Switch and PS4, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll first pick a color for your gator and then start out as a baby.\u00a0 You\u2019ll learn the basics from Wisecroc before he sends you out into the world.\u00a0 You can run around and bite nearby prey to eat them with the B button.\u00a0 Another button swings your tail for an attack.\u00a0 When you eat animals, you\u2019ll gain experience points and fill your ever diminishing hunger meter.\u00a0 When you gain enough experience points, you\u2019ll level up and eventually become bigger and faster.\u00a0 You can crawl on land and swim in the water, as well as hide in tall grass to sneak away from hunter drones and animals bigger than you.\u00a0 You have goals that you can view where they are via a map.\u00a0 Or at least the vague whereabouts anyway.\u00a0 As you travel, you must constantly eat because if your hunger meter goes down to zero, it\u2019s Game Over and you\u2019ll have to start back at the last time the game automatically saved.\u00a0 You must also watch out for bigger animals and humans that can attack you and cause your energy to go down as well.\u00a0 Run out of energy and it\u2019s Game Over that way, too.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the game has way too many problems to keep me interested.\u00a0 Goals and objectives are very unclear, and the constant need to eat food makes the game frustrating.\u00a0 Especially when you can\u2019t find any.\u00a0 Graphics are N64 quality or if I\u2019m being generous, early PS2.\u00a0 But the worst part is the camera angles and controls.\u00a0 They\u2019re worse than any N64 game I ever played, and I found myself wrestling with the camera more than actually controlling the alligator.\u00a0 And it affected the gameplay, too.\u00a0 Angry Alligator just isn\u2019t a very good game.<\/p>\n

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

Angry Alligator is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Crude Humor and Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can eat animals and presumably even humans later, but they just disappear with a chomp of your jaws.\u00a0 If you run out of energy, the game just abruptly sends you to the Game Over screen before starting you at the last save.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may find it too frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Play as an alligator as you eat prey and grow bigger to eat even larger prey in this endless cycle of a 3-D game.\u00a0 There\u2019s a story about an organization doing experiments on alligators in the swamp and you have to stop them, but it doesn\u2019t seem to matter much in the minute to minute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21804","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\/21804","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=21804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21806,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions\/21806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}