{"id":2569,"date":"2009-06-18T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2009-06-18T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T19:47:13","slug":"munchables-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/18\/munchables-wii\/","title":{"rendered":"Munchables Wii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2611\" title=\"the-munchables\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/the-munchables-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"the-munchables\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/the-munchables-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/the-munchables-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/the-munchables.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Lunchables?\u00a0 No thanks. Forbidden in the GD house. Yet, in a world filled with virtual violence and mayhem comes a game that asks youngsters to cruelly eat the enemy. Good thing the enemy are evil possessed vegetables. Munchables is for the Wii and it&#8217;s from NAMCO\/BANDAI which means the game is bound to be clever and quirky, and it is. Starting with the pun-filled intro (alien pirates are empowering veggies to take over the planet Star-Ving) and then the soft-serveseque &#8220;plops&#8221; that come from the back of your character which the game calls &#8220;orbs.&#8221; In fact, I&#8217;m betting the translation to English has softened a lot of the gastro-humor &#8211; would the ESRB give an E-10 because of poop jokes? Maybe.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyway the poop jokes are hidden (I know because six-year old GamerBoy didn&#8217;t notice a single one.\u00a0 Just me.\u00a0 Well, enough about poop.<\/p>\n<p>This game is great. It&#8217;s sort of a 3D Pac-Man, only it encourages kids to eat their veggies. Chomper, or one other character, and some kind of Onion guru teaches you to, gluttonously eat veggies. But don&#8217;t worry, they&#8217;re all bad!\u00a0 Chomper eats small veggies, grows in size, and then can take on a Bass creature. My favorite of these is a Chocolate puddle and a\u00a0cluster of grapes. The music is catchy,\u00a0the gameplay is easy &#8211; yet challenging for\u00a0pre-teens and kids &#8211; and maybe your kids will eat their veggies from now on. After all, you never know when they&#8217;re going to &#8220;go bad&#8221; and launch evil plots against us all!<\/p>\n<p>GamerBoy just finished the game &#8211; it&#8217;s the first one to hold his interest that long &#8211; and he (I) couldn&#8217;t be prouder.\u00a0 Muchables from NAMCO is good for you. It&#8217;s a game that lives up\u00a0to its awesome premise!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2612\" title=\"munchables_profilelarge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/munchables_profilelarge-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"munchables_profilelarge\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/munchables_profilelarge-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/munchables_profilelarge-428x300.jpg 428w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/munchables_profilelarge.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunchables?\u00a0 No thanks. Forbidden in the GD house. Yet, in a world filled with virtual violence and mayhem comes a game that asks youngsters to cruelly eat the enemy. Good thing the enemy are evil possessed vegetables. Munchables is for the Wii and it&#8217;s from NAMCO\/BANDAI which means the game is bound to be clever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}