{"id":25173,"date":"2025-01-06T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25173"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:03:35","slug":"rescue-the-beagles-switch-ps5-xbox-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/rescue-the-beagles-switch-ps5-xbox-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue: The Beagles (Switch, PS5, Xbox X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Beagles have escaped from a makeup testing lab and it\u2019s up to two kids to rescue them in the wild.\u00a0 Rescue: The Beagles is a classic arcade-like, continuous runner kind of game where you must avoid enemies, collect power ups, and save the beagles before they go off screen.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

You can choose to play as one of two kids, and there are co-op and competitive modes, too.\u00a0 But the basic gameplay is that you are on an auto scrolling 2D platform screen and can jump up or down to platforms if they aren\u2019t too high.\u00a0 You must collect the beagles as they go past while avoiding enemies and collecting power-ups.\u00a0 You lose a life if you fall too far, get hit by an enemy, or if a beagle gets to the edge of the screen before you collect it.\u00a0 When all lives are lost, it’s Game Over.<\/p>\n

The power-ups include owls that you can throw at enemies to defeat them.\u00a0 Parachutes and ropes let you fall down or climb up ledges that are too high.\u00a0 When you complete a level, you can upgrade one of your stats if you have enough points.\u00a0 These include running speed, letting you hold more items, etc.\u00a0 But I didn\u2019t really notice much difference in the upgrades.<\/p>\n

Two of the problems I have with the game you can kind of fix in the options screen.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t like how objects can be hidden behind trees, but you can turn on an X-ray mode to see them.\u00a0 I also didn\u2019t like how you can die if you fall to far, but you can also turn on a mode that lets you see which areas are safe and which are not, which helped a little bit.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t know if the game had bad controls or the JoyCons are just sucky, but I would always fall left or right instead of straight down which messed me up.\u00a0 But as it stands, the game is just way too hard.\u00a0 If they eliminated the fall damage gameplay mechanic, I think it would\u2019ve been more fun.<\/p>\n

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

Rescue: The Beagles is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 If you hit an enemy or fall too far, you just kind of fall over and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Plus the pixel graphics negate a lot of the violence.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 But younger gamers may find this one too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beagles have escaped from a makeup testing lab and it\u2019s up to two kids to rescue them in the wild.\u00a0 Rescue: The Beagles is a classic arcade-like, continuous runner kind of game where you must avoid enemies, collect power ups, and save the beagles before they go off screen.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for most current consoles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25173","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\/25173","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=25173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25175,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173\/revisions\/25175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}