{"id":25471,"date":"2025-03-12T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25471"},"modified":"2025-03-05T02:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T02:37:13","slug":"o-w-l-projekt-2-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/12\/o-w-l-projekt-2-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"O.W.L Projekt 2 (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This has gotta be some kind of record!\u00a0 I only reviewed the first game a few short months ago<\/strong><\/a>, and now there\u2019s already a sequel?\u00a0 But it\u2019s pretty much more of the same.\u00a0 This time you play as a thing that looks more like the eggplant men in Wrecking Crew with a walking stick, and your job is to guide him around isometric diorama mazes to reach an exit block.\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 It\u2019s 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, but I did see button cues and knowing what to do in the first game helped.\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 2 is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really notice anything violent when I played, so it must be very mild.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed, but younger gamers may need help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has gotta be some kind of record!\u00a0 I only reviewed the first game a few short months ago, and now there\u2019s already a sequel?\u00a0 But it\u2019s pretty much more of the same.\u00a0 This time you play as a thing that looks more like the eggplant men in Wrecking Crew with a walking stick, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25471","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\/25471","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=25471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25473,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions\/25473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}