{"id":23662,"date":"2023-07-19T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23662"},"modified":"2023-07-15T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T11:04:30","slug":"boo-party-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/19\/boo-party-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Boo Party (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of my guilty pleasures is watching those ghost shows on TV where investigators try and find spirits in haunted places.\u00a0 So I usually jump at the chance to review games where you get to do that, especially if they\u2019re as cartoony as this one.\u00a0 In Boo Party, you are a paranormal photographer who has been commissioned to take pictures inside a haunted house.\u00a0 But when you enter, you find that ghosts from all over are having a giant house party!\u00a0 So now you must mingle with the ghost guests and talk with them, and maybe some will let you take pictures of them if you do some favors and requests.\u00a0 But this game isn\u2019t all what it seems.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find out why by reading this review.\u00a0 Boo Party is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

All you have to do in the game is walk around with the L stick and talk with ghosts and others with the button.\u00a0 Sometimes a ghost will want something from you, and you must talk with another ghost to get an item or find it in the sprawling haunted mansion.\u00a0 When you do, you\u2019ll usually get to take a picture of that ghost.\u00a0 Take the picture back to your boss and you\u2019ll get Spirit Points, which you can use as currency back at the haunted house party to buy other things from ghosts to help your progress.\u00a0 Even though you don\u2019t do any pointing and clicking, the game is really like a point and click adventure in disguise.\u00a0 It kind of has a Maniac Mansion vibe to it, and the cartoony 16-bit graphics make me think of other silly spooky games like Zombies Ate My Neighbors or Photography Boy.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing that surprised me the most about the game.\u00a0 The pictures that you take are all of female versions of monsters, and they\u2019re all nude pictures!\u00a0 You CAN turn that feature off and not be able to view the pictures, but it just doesn\u2019t fit the rest of the tone of the game.\u00a0 But I guess that\u2019s what this site is for, to let parents know about stuff like this.\u00a0 Other problems I had with the game is that I wish you could get a map that would show you the sprawling mansion, as many of the corridors look the same.\u00a0 It also would\u2019ve been nice to have indicators telling you which ghosts you need to talk to or who you\u2019ve already spoken to.\u00a0 I\u2019ve played a few modern RPGs that do this and it would\u2019ve been handy here (even Tears of the Kingdom does this to a certain extent).\u00a0 Because of those problems and the unexpected nudity, I lost interest in this game after a while.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame really, because there were so many other things about this one that interested me.<\/p>\n

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

Boo Party is rated M for Mature with ESRB descriptors of Nudity, Strong Language, and Sexual Content.\u00a0 Of course the nudity and content is in the pictures you can take, but even though you can turn that off, strong reading skill is still required so I\u2019d say this one is best for adults only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my guilty pleasures is watching those ghost shows on TV where investigators try and find spirits in haunted places.\u00a0 So I usually jump at the chance to review games where you get to do that, especially if they\u2019re as cartoony as this one.\u00a0 In Boo Party, you are a paranormal photographer who has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23662","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\/23662","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=23662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23668,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23662\/revisions\/23668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}