{"id":25914,"date":"2025-07-28T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25914"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:03:28","slug":"flora-and-fang-guardians-of-the-vampire-garden-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/28\/flora-and-fang-guardians-of-the-vampire-garden-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Flora and Fang: Guardians of the Vampire Garden (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When game makers want to imitate a classic from the arcade, they\u2019ll usually go with something popular and familiar, like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Tetris, etc.\u00a0 But I think this is the first time I\u2019ve ever seen a game try and imitate Donkey Kong 3.\u00a0 Probably because that game wasn\u2019t as popular, since it was more of a shooter than a platformer.\u00a0 It was also the one and only appearance of Stanley the Bugman.\u00a0 But here comes Flora and Fang, which is very much like Donkey Kong 3.\u00a0 Dracula has to go away on a trip, and leaves two young vampire siblings Flora and Fang in charge of protecting his pumpkin patches from bugs.\u00a0 Flora and Fang: Guardians of the Vampire Garden is available on Switch and PC but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

As Flora or Fang, you can run and jump as well as fire bug spray upwards to shoot bugs.\u00a0 You have to hit a bug three times usually until it is completely clouded in spray.\u00a0 When you do this, you can then kick the bug off the screen, and coins will come out for you to collect.\u00a0 This part of the game also made me think of the original Mario Bros. as well.\u00a0 If you get hit three times, you\u2019ll have to start the level over again.\u00a0 Also make sure the bugs don\u2019t take away your pumpkins.\u00a0 You can actually pick up the pumpkins and carry them around in case they are in too much danger from bugs and nibbling worms and other pests.<\/p>\n

Sometimes ghosts will come out and if you shoot them they\u2019ll drop a coin or power-up.\u00a0 I got one that freezes time and another that gave me a flamethrower to immediately irradicate the bugs.\u00a0 You can also collect colored balloons but I don\u2019t know what they do.\u00a0 Two players can also go at the same time as well.\u00a0 My only big problem with this game is that it gets too hard, too quickly with a huge difficulty spike around the seventh level or so.\u00a0 But if you liked Donkey Kong 3, you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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Flora and Fang: Guardians of the Vampire Garden is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You spray bugs and kick then off the screen, and when you lose you just turn into a bunch of bats.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may find it too difficult, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When game makers want to imitate a classic from the arcade, they\u2019ll usually go with something popular and familiar, like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Tetris, etc.\u00a0 But I think this is the first time I\u2019ve ever seen a game try and imitate Donkey Kong 3.\u00a0 Probably because that game wasn\u2019t as popular, since it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25914","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\/25914","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=25914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25916,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25914\/revisions\/25916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}