{"id":22196,"date":"2022-04-13T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22196"},"modified":"2022-04-01T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:57:08","slug":"time-loader-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/13\/time-loader-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Loader (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the mid 90s, a boy named Alex slips on a toy car in his tree house and falls to the ground, causing him to be paralyzed and bound to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.\u00a0 He grows up to be a scientist and invents a time machine so he can send a robot back in time to destroy the car that he slipped on so none of that would happen.\u00a0 In Time Loader, you control the robot he sent back in time as you explore a giant house and surroundings.\u00a0 The robot has wheels and a claw arm, but you can gather upgrades as you progress.\u00a0 But when you destroy the car in the past, the present is still the same, but a cat causes Alex to fall from the tree house instead.\u00a0 So when you get rid of the cat, you make the timeline worse because a house fire happens later because rats chew through wires because the cat wasn\u2019t there to chase them away.\u00a0 So you\u2019ll travel back and forth from the mid to late 90s as you try and set the timeline right again.\u00a0 Time Loader is a 2-D physics based puzzle platformer available for nearly all current game consoles, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

You control the robot and can move left and right, and the wheels allow you to climb steep surfaces, too. \u00a0You can use the claw arm on the robot to pick up and grab onto certain objects.\u00a0 Luckily the game makes it clear what you can interact with.\u00a0 You can also throw objects, too.\u00a0 As you play, you\u2019ll find parts that you can use for upgrades.\u00a0 Springs let you jump higher, and later on you\u2019ll find a grappling hook for grabbing onto objects farther away.\u00a0 Depending on your actions as you play, you may view multiple endings.\u00a0 When you beat the game, you can select chapters to try and see the other outcomes.\u00a0 The game touts that it has a nostalgic 90s feel, but aside from seeing a Super Nintendo in the mid 90s era and a PlayStation in the late 90s era, I didn\u2019t see much of that.\u00a0 But the game does have a PIXAR vibe it, as the larger than life house you explore reminded me of Toy Story, and the robot you control made me kind of think of Wall-E.\u00a0 Plus the slightly melancholy story made me think of a lot of PIXAR film plots as well.<\/p>\n

The game had a couple of problems.\u00a0 One minor one is that it gets a bit repetitive, as you mostly just slide out objects back and forth so you can jump on them.\u00a0 And the play control could\u2019ve used some work.\u00a0 You can\u2019t jump at your full height unless both wheels are on the ground, and later on when you get the grappling hook, it\u2019s very difficult to use.\u00a0 But even with all this, the game still kept me interested to the very end.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit short at less than five hours, but you can go back and try to find all the secrets and endings, so that\u2019s OK.\u00a0 But when I beat it, I managed to get the best ending (I think) anyway, so I rather enjoyed this one.<\/p>\n

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Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Since you control a robot, even when it gets damaged there\u2019s really no violence.\u00a0 There are some deaths and peril that are implied, but are never shown in the game.\u00a0 But that may still cause concern and discussions for parents and sensitive kids.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may have trouble with the difficult controls.\u00a0 Time Loader is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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