{"id":22263,"date":"2022-05-09T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22263"},"modified":"2022-05-02T01:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T01:56:53","slug":"ayo-the-clown-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/09\/ayo-the-clown-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayo the Clown (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I was a kid, clowns were not considered scary like they are now.\u00a0 Granted that was a long time ago.\u00a0 But back then, clowns like Ronald McDonald frequently graced TV commercials, and even video games featured clowns as main characters, like Mr. Do!, Circus Charlie, and Kid Klown.\u00a0 And now comes another not-so-scary video game clown with Ayo the Clown.\u00a0 One day Ayo\u2019s puppy pal gets dognapped, and it\u2019s up to Ayo to go on a 2-D platforming romp to find him.\u00a0 Ayo the Clown is available on most current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Ayo can do all the things a typical 2-D platforming hero can do, but you won\u2019t be able to do them all at once.\u00a0 After every couple of levels, you\u2019ll learn a new move.\u00a0 This can get a little annoying, since most of the moves are pretty basic stuff and you won\u2019t even be able to jump in the very first level!\u00a0 But eventually you\u2019ll be able to jump, use a balloon to sort of double jump to gain height, headbutt, slide, wall jump, and more.\u00a0 Scattered in each level are gems to collect, and when you collect enough, you can buy upgrades like an extra heart for your health meter, or make your balloon bigger.\u00a0 You can also find extra lives, but I don\u2019t see how that matters since you can start over at the last checkpoint you passed endlessly as far as I could tell.\u00a0 You usually dispatch enemies by stomping on them, but you can also pick up weapons like a balloon sword, water balloons, or squeaky hammer for an extra attack.\u00a0 But once you get hit, you\u2019ll lose that weapon.\u00a0 Hidden in each level are three teddy bears and three lollipops to find, too.\u00a0 The game has a world map with about 28 or so levels, plus a couple of fishing mini-games and a town you can visit to buy upgrades and do extra quests.<\/p>\n

I do like the toy plastic clay style graphics and the game kept me interested to the end.\u00a0 But it does have some problems.\u00a0 The game is pretty derivative and doesn\u2019t do anything new.\u00a0 I do wish the play control was a bit snappier, but most of the time it\u2019s fine.\u00a0 Except for one thing.\u00a0 Later on in the game you learn how to wall jump, and it is very hard to pull off for whatever reason.\u00a0 Luckily you don\u2019t have to do it very much, but when you do, it\u2019s such a pain.\u00a0 But other than that, this is still a surprisingly decent platformer, and if you enjoy 2-D romps like Yoshi adventures, you might want to check this one out, too.<\/p>\n

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

Ayo the Clown is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Comic Mischief and Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You stomp on cartoony enemies and hit them with balloon swords, water balloons, and squeaky hammers.\u00a0 And when you lose a life, you just disappear in a puff of purple smoke.\u00a0 And that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may need help with the tougher obstacles and controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, clowns were not considered scary like they are now.\u00a0 Granted that was a long time ago.\u00a0 But back then, clowns like Ronald McDonald frequently graced TV commercials, and even video games featured clowns as main characters, like Mr. Do!, Circus Charlie, and Kid Klown.\u00a0 And now comes another not-so-scary video […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22263","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\/22263","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=22263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22265,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22263\/revisions\/22265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}