{"id":23562,"date":"2023-07-26T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23562"},"modified":"2023-05-25T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T12:33:37","slug":"spooky-spirit-shooting-gallery-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/26\/spooky-spirit-shooting-gallery-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Spirit Shooting Gallery (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a shooting gallery game where you use your Switch Joycon to aim and fire at goodies and ghosts to earn coins to keep playing or cash in for virtual prizes.\u00a0 Three can play at the same time, and the game has a Japanese summer festival theme.\u00a0 Just watch out for those pesky Yokai ghosts!<\/p>\n

You can play this game in one or two ways.\u00a0 In TV mode, you can use the JoyCons to aim at the TV and fire bullets.\u00a0 In handheld mode, you can move a cursor around to aim with the L stick.\u00a0 Even though physically aiming works better, both ways are fine.\u00a0 The two main modes are Carnival Mode and Party Mode.<\/p>\n

In Carnival Mode, you pick one of three arcade games to play, but they\u2019re all the same.\u00a0 It makes me wonder if this was originally an arcade game.\u00a0 I tried to look up information on that, but I couldn\u2019t find anything.\u00a0 Anyway, in Carnival Mode you shoot at prizes on tables.\u00a0 When you knock them down, you get coins.\u00a0 The goodies can be things that are simple to knock down, like boxes of snacks, or harder things like statues or trophies.\u00a0 Each time you knock something down, you get coins.\u00a0 These coins let you fire bullets, so the game can be neverending if you are good enough.\u00a0 You can switch between three bullet types.\u00a0 Corks are the cheapest and weakest, iron balls are stronger but cost a little more, and bottle rockets cost the most but can zero in on targets.\u00a0 The only way this mode ends is if you run about of bullets.\u00a0 But even then you have to physically stop the game.\u00a0 So when that happens or if you want to stop in the middle of shooting, you can.\u00a0 Sometimes in Carnival Mode, you might shoot a goodie that is possessed by a ghost.\u00a0 When that happens, shoot the ghost that comes out.\u00a0 When you shoot enough ghosts, you can enter a haunted house where you must shoot at lots of ghosts for tons of bonus coins.<\/p>\n

The other main mode is Party Mode.\u00a0 Here you can play mini-games based on what you do in Carnival Mode.\u00a0 There are over a dozen of these games, and they are usually timed and require you to reach a certain score to pass.\u00a0 Even though this mode feels more like a game, oddly enough you don\u2019t earn coins in this mode.\u00a0 I wish you did.<\/p>\n

You can earn coins by playing Carnival Mode, doing a lottery that happens every so often, or completing missions. So what do these coins do outside the modes?\u00a0 Well you can use them in Auntie\u2019s Shop to buy more mini-games, figures and goodies to collect, and even all the ghosts you encounter.\u00a0 When you buy all the mini-games, you can even unlock a mode where you play a bunch of them in a row.\u00a0 You can also view the things you\u2019ve unlocked in your Figure Collection.<\/p>\n

I wish there was a little more to this game, but otherwise I kind of liked it.\u00a0 The Japanese festival theme was neat, as it reminds me of Taiko Drum Master\/Taiko no Tatsujin.\u00a0 And I just like arcade style shooting gallery games like Point Blank.\u00a0 If you do, too, you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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

Spooky Spirit Shooting Gallery is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You use carnival rifles to shoot at trinkets to knock them off shelves, and fire at cartoony ghosts, but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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