{"id":22932,"date":"2023-01-23T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22932"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:56:28","slug":"chalk-gardens-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/23\/chalk-gardens-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalk Gardens (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kids love playing with chalk outside on the sidewalk, and there have even been cartoons based on that idea, like Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings from the 70s and Nickelodeon\u2019s Chalk Zone.\u00a0 And now you can play a game about that, too, with Chalk Gardens on Switch and PC (reviewed on Switch here).\u00a0 A child\u2019s favorite stuffed toy has lost its leg, and now you must help them find it.\u00a0 Explore a world of chalk drawings and provide solutions to problems to open up paths to reach new areas.<\/p>\n

Honestly there isn\u2019t really much too this game.\u00a0 You walk around in an overhead perspective and sometimes you meet up with a character or other picture that you can interact with.\u00a0 But before you do that, you must collect a hat.\u00a0 When you find one, you can use that hat to provide one of three possible outcomes, and the hats are represented by three different animals.\u00a0 Once you solve that problem you\u2019ll wear a hat based on that animal and can open up new paths with pictures of that animal on it.\u00a0 Do this enough times and you can talk to the stuffed animal to end the game.<\/p>\n

I would put a spoiler alert here, but really the game is only about ten to fifteen minutes long, so I don\u2019t feel too bad about it.\u00a0 Before you talk to the stuffed toy that lost its leg, you\u2019ll walk past some chalk drawing that tell a story about a kid and a taller person who is rubbed out.\u00a0 It could be a parent or sibling or friend dying or just going away, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 And then it shows a picture of the kid getting mad and throwing the stuffed toy\u2019s leg in the water.\u00a0 So when you meet up with the toy, you have to give them an explanation to why you didn\u2019t find the leg.\u00a0 Depending on how many hats you used during the game, you\u2019ll have a different explanation for them.\u00a0 And that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

So basically this game reminds me of walking through an RPG town for about 15 minutes, talking with people and gathering items.\u00a0 But instead of moving on to the next area, that\u2019s the end of the game.\u00a0 I guess you could replay it to get all the endings, but you\u2019ll probably still be able to do it all in under an hour.\u00a0 The game is so short you can\u2019t even save it during play.\u00a0 I understand that the developers were trying to tell a touching story and the game is only two bucks.\u00a0 But it\u2019s hard for me to back these kind of indie games when there isn\u2019t much substance to them.\u00a0 I guess I just didn\u2019t \u2018get it.\u2019<\/p>\n

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

Nothing real violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must for the text and it may cause parents to have to have a conversation with kids about early parental death.\u00a0 Chalk Gardens is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kids love playing with chalk outside on the sidewalk, and there have even been cartoons based on that idea, like Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings from the 70s and Nickelodeon\u2019s Chalk Zone.\u00a0 And now you can play a game about that, too, with Chalk Gardens on Switch and PC (reviewed on Switch here).\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22932","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\/22932","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=22932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23095,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932\/revisions\/23095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}