{"id":25135,"date":"2024-12-09T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25135"},"modified":"2024-12-04T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:11:11","slug":"o-w-l-projekt-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/09\/o-w-l-projekt-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"O.W.L Projekt (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You\u2019d think with a title like that, this game would have some kind of rich, involving story, but it really doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 At least not in the game anyway.\u00a0 The character you play as holds a walking stick and looks like a cross between that thing you play as in Bit.Trip Runner and BMO from Adventure Time.\u00a0 You view the playfield in an isometric perspective and each level is like a little diorama.\u00a0 Kind of reminds me of Captain Toad or those isometric adventure games you would see a lot on British computers in the 80s (or like Solstice on the NES).\u00a0 Your goal is to get your little dude to the exit block in each area, and the game is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

To make your guy move, you\u2019ll point a cursor at the screen and if you click on a spot he can reach, he\u2019ll walk there.\u00a0 There are also sliding blocks and if you highlight those and hold down a button, you can slide them around, usually making a path for your character to ride on or across.\u00a0 The challenge comes from figuring out how to get to the exit using visual and spatial skills, as many paths take you from one side of the level to another and you might not always see exactly where to go.\u00a0 You\u2019ll finish the level when you make your character stand on the exit block.<\/p>\n

I had a few problems with this game.\u00a0 One is that I wish you could control the character directly, as the point and click nature makes it feel more slow and plodding.\u00a0 But I guess that would make it hard to control when you can\u2019t always see the path you take.\u00a0 You can rotate the levels in four directions, but I also wish you could move the camera up and see what the level looks like from a higher angle.\u00a0 And the game doesn\u2019t give you any instructions on how to play, I just had to stumble upon the controls by pressing buttons randomly.\u00a0 Because of all this, I lost interest in this one pretty quickly.\u00a0 I\u2019d rather just play Captain Toad.<\/p>\n

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

O.W.L Projekt is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Although I didn\u2019t notice anything violent when I played.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed to play, but younger gamers may need help figuring out the controls and puzzles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019d think with a title like that, this game would have some kind of rich, involving story, but it really doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 At least not in the game anyway.\u00a0 The character you play as holds a walking stick and looks like a cross between that thing you play as in Bit.Trip Runner and BMO from Adventure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25135","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\/25135","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=25135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25176,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135\/revisions\/25176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}