{"id":22077,"date":"2022-03-02T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T00:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22077"},"modified":"2022-02-16T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:12:30","slug":"el-gancho-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/02\/el-gancho-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"El Gancho (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/gancho_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-22046\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GANCHO_BOX-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GANCHO_BOX-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GANCHO_BOX.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In El Gancho, you play as a yellow dinosaur with a bow tie who must explore randomly generated cave mazes as he rescues lost dinosaurs (called Cocos for some reason).\u00a0 And how do you do this?\u00a0 By swinging around with a grappling hook!\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n<p>Controls are a bit unconventional, but they work for the most part.\u00a0 You move around with the L stick and jump with the R1 shoulder button.\u00a0 To aim your grappling hook, use the R stick and launch it with the R2 trigger button.\u00a0 You can choose to have a helper line to show you where you can grapple or not.\u00a0 As you swing around the caves, you can pick up food items to boost your HP in case you get hit by an enemy, and there are bullets to find that you can use to fire at them as well.\u00a0 Another way to defeat enemies is when you are swinging from a grapple, you\u2019ll spray something below you that can defeat enemies as well.\u00a0 When you rescue all the Coco dinosaurs in a level, you\u2019ll move onto the next.\u00a0 Some levels you must fight a boss, too.\u00a0 You can also unlock other playable dinosaurs like one with a propeller beanie which lets you double jump.<\/p>\n<p>I had a few problems with this game.\u00a0 The pixel graphics have a nice retro look, but sometimes it was hard to tell what was an enemy and what was a dinosaur to rescue.\u00a0 Play control takes some getting used to, and once you do, it can feel fluid at times and stiff at other times.\u00a0 Plus I didn\u2019t like how you had to start over at the beginning if you died.\u00a0 It kept me from enjoying the game more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/gancho_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GANCHO_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GANCHO_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GANCHO_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GANCHO_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Gancho is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Mild Fantasy Violence and Mild Blood. If you lose all your HP you just explode into pixels, but I didn\u2019t see any blood.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may have trouble with the difficult controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In El Gancho, you play as a yellow dinosaur with a bow tie who must explore randomly generated cave mazes as he rescues lost dinosaurs (called Cocos for some reason).\u00a0 And how do you do this?\u00a0 By swinging around with a grappling hook!\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22077","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\/22077","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=22077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22079,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions\/22079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}