{"id":22544,"date":"2022-09-07T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22544"},"modified":"2022-08-14T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:23:53","slug":"smash-boats-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/smash-boats-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Smash Boats (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Relive the fun of playing with your tub toys as a kid with Smash Boats on the Switch.\u00a0 Charge into other toy boats to sink them in water filled arenas like bathtubs, kiddie pools, sinks, toilets, and more!\u00a0 The game has actually been out for more than a year, but it finally got an update with a co-op and competitive party mode, which it sorely needed.<\/p>\n

In the single player mode, which is mostly what I played, you\u2019ll start out each stage by sinking all the boats in five waves.\u00a0 To do this, you\u2019ll ram into them to whittle down their hit points, all the while avoiding their attacks.\u00a0 If you lose all your hit points, you\u2019ll sink and must start the stage over again.\u00a0 You can ram into boats with one button, and ram backwards with another.\u00a0 You can also hold down the shoulder button for a quick turn and press another button to submerge for avoiding attacks.\u00a0 Another button activates a special attack, which is different for each boat.\u00a0 One may use a long range ramming attack, another a short range chomping attack, a spin move, and more.\u00a0 When you use a move, you must endure a short cooldown period, so make each charge count!<\/p>\n

During the waves, boats with stars above them may appear.\u00a0 Make sure to ram into those and collect the stars because that\u2019s how you unlock new stages and boats.\u00a0 Other boats have toy blocks on them, and if you ram into them to spell out SMASH you can get a special weapon.\u00a0 Sometimes you can enter bonus stages where you must collect as many stars as you can while avoiding chattering teeth in the bathroom vanity sink or floating turds in a toilet.\u00a0 Yeah you read that right.\u00a0 And again, they finally added a co-op and competitive party modes (they\u2019re pretty self explanatory), which this game should\u2019ve had in the first place.\u00a0 Overall the game is fun but it gets repetitive and too hard pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

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

Smash Boats is rated T for Teen with an ESRB descriptor of Crude Humor.\u00a0 They probably could\u2019ve gotten away with an E rating if it wasn\u2019t for the fact that one of the bonus stages has you floating around in a toilet trying to avoid turds.\u00a0 They even have bits of corn in them and the water is yellow and everything!\u00a0 Oh gross!\u00a0 But you know kids will laugh so hard at that.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may have trouble with the harder single player mode, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Relive the fun of playing with your tub toys as a kid with Smash Boats on the Switch.\u00a0 Charge into other toy boats to sink them in water filled arenas like bathtubs, kiddie pools, sinks, toilets, and more!\u00a0 The game has actually been out for more than a year, but it finally got an update […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22544","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=22544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22546,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22544\/revisions\/22546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}