{"id":23022,"date":"2023-02-20T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23022"},"modified":"2022-12-26T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:12:36","slug":"lil-gator-game-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/20\/lil-gator-game-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil’ Gator Game (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lil\u2019 Gator loved to play with his big sister at a park on an island.\u00a0 But when she went off to college, he didn\u2019t get to spend time with her as much anymore.\u00a0 Now she\u2019s back on fall break, but she\u2019s so busy with assignments that she can\u2019t play.\u00a0 So Lil\u2019 Gator devises a plan to get her to want to play again. \u00a0He recruits all his animal friends to play a pretend video game (lots of Zelda references here) and build a giant RPG town out of the playground with characters and quests to go on.\u00a0 Lil\u2019 Gator Game is a 3-D platformer adventure game available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

As Lil\u2019 Gator, you can run and jump in 3-D space around the island.\u00a0 As you play, you\u2019ll get items you can use to help you progress.\u00a0 You\u2019ll get a stick, er, I mean a sword that you can swing at cardboard cutouts of monsters scattered everywhere.\u00a0 You can also get a T-shirt you can use as a parachute to help you glide down after a jump.\u00a0 A bracelet lets you pretend that you have stamina enough to climb rock cliffs.\u00a0 A shield lets you slide down hills like a sled, and a foam dart blaster lets you shoot at faraway objects.\u00a0 When you defeat enemies, they\u2019ll turn into confetti that you can then recycle to craft new items like different hats, swords, and more, as well as the materials you\u2019ll need to complete your quests.<\/p>\n

Your goal in the game is to recruit your friends around the island park to come to the playground and help build your pretend RPG village.\u00a0 You\u2019ll do this by completing fetch quests for them, which range from defeating \u201cenemies\u201d to finding objects and more.\u00a0 When you do that, the friend will go to the playground and become a character in the RPG village you\u2019re building.\u00a0 When you complete main quests with your friends, you can build a new part of the town if you have enough friends and confetti to do so.\u00a0 Do that enough times to beat the game, but you can always come back afterwards to find more friends and explore the island.<\/p>\n

The only problem I had with the game is that sometimes the goals and objectives are a little unclear, and the maps and signs aren\u2019t as helpful as I\u2019d like for them to be.\u00a0 It was hard to tell where I should go next sometimes and the low draw distance didn\u2019t help matters.\u00a0 I know the game is about just messing around and having fun, but as an adult I don\u2019t have as much time for that, so being able to mark spots on a map or warping points or something would\u2019ve been helpful.\u00a0 The game is also a bit short, but long enough to feel fulfilling and not wearing out its welcome.\u00a0 But even with those issues, I still saw this game all the way through and thoroughly enjoyed it.\u00a0 I loved the Wind Waker style graphics and funny Zelda references.\u00a0 This game has a great work\/school\/life balance message.\u00a0 As a kid I loved to play \u2018pretend\u2019 video games outdoors and I also have younger siblings that I miss getting to spend as much time with now, so this game really hit home for me.\u00a0 This is a lovingly crafted game and I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 You can slice up monsters with a sword, but they\u2019re just cardboard cutouts that don\u2019t even move.\u00a0 You can\u2019t die or lose, and you don\u2019t even get a health meter.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must for the text, and younger games may need help with that.\u00a0 I think this game would be great for parents and kids, or younger and older siblings to play together.\u00a0 So it\u2019s a shame they couldn\u2019t implement some kind of two player mode, although I don\u2019t know how that would work.\u00a0 Lil\u2019 Gator Game is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lil\u2019 Gator loved to play with his big sister at a park on an island.\u00a0 But when she went off to college, he didn\u2019t get to spend time with her as much anymore.\u00a0 Now she\u2019s back on fall break, but she\u2019s so busy with assignments that she can\u2019t play.\u00a0 So Lil\u2019 Gator devises a plan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23022","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\/23022","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=23022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23024,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23022\/revisions\/23024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}