{"id":23216,"date":"2023-04-10T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23216"},"modified":"2023-04-05T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:47:54","slug":"go-go-pogogirl-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/10\/go-go-pogogirl-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Go! Go! Pogogirl (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A shadowy figure sneaks into a girl\u2019s house and steals her prize-winning pogo stick!\u00a0 So the girl goes after her on another pogo stick!\u00a0 Go! Go! Pogogirl is a 2-D platformer where you\u2019re constantly bouncing up and down on a pogo stick.\u00a0 It reminds me of stuff I would\u2019ve rented back in the SNES days, or even something you\u2019d see on the Game Boy Color.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

You can stomp on enemies by jumping on them, but since you\u2019re constantly bouncing, timing can be a little different here.\u00a0 Luckily you have a few moves at your disposal to help with that.\u00a0 One button makes you do a spin attack, which can add a small distance to your jump as well as hit enemies from the side.\u00a0 If you hold down for a while and then jump, you\u2019ll leap super high.\u00a0 It\u2019s also the only time you can stand still!\u00a0 Finally, another button lets you do a slam move, handy for hitting switches on the ground.<\/p>\n

There are 20 stages, each split into four regular levels plus a boss fight.\u00a0 The stages are themed after the four seasons.\u00a0 Most levels introduce some new enemy or gimmick, but the moment to moment gameplay is still pretty much the same.\u00a0 You can earn coins by beating a level without dying, collecting all the green gems, or getting all three of the hidden red gems.\u00a0 Not sure what those coins, do, though, besides adding a bit of replay value.<\/p>\n

Aside from the constant bouncing that makes some platforming annoying, my only other problem with this game is that it\u2019s one of those one-hit-and-you-die kind of games.\u00a0 You can pick up a power-up shield to let you have an extra hit, but they\u2019re really scarce.\u00a0 It\u2019s especially annoying since there are times when enemies are hard to see, or you have to make a blind jump and won\u2019t know if you\u2019ll hit spikes from below or anything.\u00a0 But I still enjoyed this one about \u00be of the way through.<\/p>\n

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

Go! Go Pogogirl is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Mild Blood.\u00a0 I really didn\u2019t notice any blood at all, and when you or enemies get hit, they just fly off the screen.\u00a0 Younger gamers may get frustrated at the difficulty, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A shadowy figure sneaks into a girl\u2019s house and steals her prize-winning pogo stick!\u00a0 So the girl goes after her on another pogo stick!\u00a0 Go! Go! Pogogirl is a 2-D platformer where you\u2019re constantly bouncing up and down on a pogo stick.\u00a0 It reminds me of stuff I would\u2019ve rented back in the SNES days, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23216","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\/23216","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=23216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23332,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23216\/revisions\/23332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}