{"id":25132,"date":"2024-12-11T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25132"},"modified":"2024-11-17T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T13:11:48","slug":"care-bears-to-the-rescue-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/care-bears-to-the-rescue-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Care Bears: To the Rescue (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There are many toy lines that came out in the 80s when I was a kid that are still popular today.\u00a0 Some examples would be Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, etc.\u00a0 Another example that I didn\u2019t know about until now was Care Bears.\u00a0 That was huge when I was a kid, and they had lots of toys, plush, several cartoons, and even some movies!\u00a0 I think even I saw the first Care Bears movie when I was a kid (I remember it being surprisingly dark), and that movie even made more money than the Disney cartoon film it was competing against (granted that Disney movie was The Black Cauldron, but still).\u00a0 And now you can play a video game starring those colorful bears!\u00a0 Some bad guys have planted a Bad Seed in the forest where the Care Bears live, and it\u2019s up to them to get rid of the evil purple plants that have taken over.\u00a0 Care Bears: To the Rescue is a four player simultaneous 2D platformer, and it\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

When you start, you\u2019ll first pick which Care Bear to play as, and four can play at the same time!\u00a0 Some of the ones you can pick from include Funshine Bear, Good Luck Bear, Cheer Bear, Grumpy Bear, etc. (Grumpy\u2019s the best)\u00a0 Later on you can even unlock some surprise secret characters, too!\u00a0 Each Care Bear has a special passive skill.\u00a0 One might move faster, one has a more powerful attack, one can find secrets better, etc.\u00a0 But they can all beat the levels just fine by running and jumping.<\/p>\n

The Care Bears \u2018attack\u2019 enemies and activate icons by using what the game calls \u201cCare Energy.\u201d\u00a0 But I remember it as a kid being called the \u201cCare Bear Stare.\u201d\u00a0 Hold down the button and your character will fire a beam from their belly and after a while it\u2019ll defeat an enemy or activate an icon switch.\u00a0 You can only use this beam for so long, but usually it\u2019s enough to do what you need to do.\u00a0 In the stages you\u2019ll see icons of the different symbols on the bears\u2019 bellies.\u00a0 You\u2019ll need that particular bear to activate it, but don\u2019t worry if you\u2019re not playing as them because they\u2019ll be standing right there ready to help you.\u00a0 You can collect stars in the stages, but I don\u2019t know what they do.\u00a0 Hidden in each area are also three stickers for you to find, and if you get them, you can view them later in an album on the main menu.<\/p>\n

I had a few minor problems with the game.\u00a0 One being that I didn\u2019t like how you had to press a button to grab ahold of vines.\u00a0 Just seemed like an unnecessary extra step.\u00a0 Also, the \u2018boss\u2019 battles in each world are just a 2D shooter stage where you fire at a giant flower, and they\u2019re all the same and get a little repetitive.\u00a0 At least the bonus mini-games you play afterward are different.\u00a0 But all in all, this really isn\u2019t a bad game, especially for a licensed kids\u2019 title.\u00a0 If you have young Care Bear fans around the house, they may enjoy this.<\/p>\n

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

Care Bears: To the Rescue is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can get hit three times and when you do, you just flash for a bit and get knocked back and say something like \u201cOh,\u201d or \u201cOh no!\u201d\u00a0 If you lose all your hearts, you\u2019ll disappear in a puff of smoke and start back at the last checkpoint.\u00a0 You can fire a beam at enemies but they just either wither away or turn back into something good when defeated.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Very young gamers may need help with some of the trickier jumps, but for the most part, kids of any age should be able to enjoy this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many toy lines that came out in the 80s when I was a kid that are still popular today.\u00a0 Some examples would be Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, etc.\u00a0 Another example that I didn\u2019t know about until now was Care Bears.\u00a0 That was huge when I was a kid, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132","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=25132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25134,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions\/25134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}