{"id":23193,"date":"2023-03-13T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23193"},"modified":"2023-03-12T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T12:29:41","slug":"pocket-witch-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/13\/pocket-witch-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket Witch (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/witch_box-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-23191 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WITCH_BOX-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WITCH_BOX-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WITCH_BOX.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Help a little witch and her bat friend make it to the exit of a spooky castle in this single screen 2-D precision platformer.\u00a0 Pocket Witch is available for all current consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n<p>Your little witch can run and double jump, and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 You must make it to the door in single screen obstacle filled areas.\u00a0 If you touch a dangerous object such as spikes or bad guys, you\u2019ll disappear in a puff of smoke and must start the stage over again.\u00a0 There are 30 stages in total, but this is one of those precision platformers that get really hard.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t even get a third of a way through it.\u00a0 Aside from the high difficulty, my other problem with this game was the controls were a little bit slippery, which is a big no-no with this type of game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/witch_screen-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WITCH_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WITCH_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WITCH_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WITCH_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pocket Witch is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 If you touch spikes or enemies you just disappear in a puff of smoke and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may get frustrated at the high difficulty, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help a little witch and her bat friend make it to the exit of a spooky castle in this single screen 2-D precision platformer.\u00a0 Pocket Witch is available for all current consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here. Your little witch can run and double jump, and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 You must make it to the door [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23193","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\/23193","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=23193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23270,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23193\/revisions\/23270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}