{"id":25946,"date":"2025-08-06T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25946"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:17:26","slug":"regina-mac-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/regina-mac-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Regina &#038; Mac (Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/regina_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-25942\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/REGINA_BOX-150x96.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/REGINA_BOX-150x96.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/REGINA_BOX.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This game is obviously trying to imitate Banjo-Kazooie.\u00a0 Your characters are a lizard who doesn\u2019t talk (Mac), and a wisecracking parrot who rides on him (Regina).\u00a0 You travel across 3D platforming worlds collecting stuff, but instead of notes and jigsaw piece \u201cJiggies,\u201d you are collecting cubes and golden \u201cFloppies\u201d (disks).\u00a0 Even the music uses the same kinds of instruments (meaning lots of bari saxophone and xylophone).\u00a0 Regina &amp; Mac is available on some consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n<p>Like many 3D platformers, you have a hub world and can unlock new worlds by collecting enough cubes and floppies.\u00a0 You can run and jump, as well as do a triple jump.\u00a0 Along the way you\u2019ll learn new moves from a koala like a stomp for hitting switches.\u00a0 The levels have platforming challenges and puzzles to solve, with usually a floppy to collect as a reward.\u00a0 One thing I thought was kind of clever is that the cubes you collect are used to solve nanogram \u201cPicross\u201d style puzzles instead of jigsaw pieces to open up worlds.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s about the only good thing I can say about this game.\u00a0 Play control feels way off and makes platforming overly challenging.\u00a0 They somehow made the graphics WORSE than the N64 and PlayStation.\u00a0 Even the music is grating.\u00a0 Good level design is nowhere to be found and it\u2019s just not very much fun.\u00a0 If you want to play a game like Banjo-Kazooie, you might as well try Yooka-Laylee instead.\u00a0 Or better yet, just play Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/regina_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25943\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/REGINA_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/REGINA_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/REGINA_SCREEN-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/REGINA_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing too violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated with the controls and challenges.\u00a0 Regina and Mac is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This game is obviously trying to imitate Banjo-Kazooie.\u00a0 Your characters are a lizard who doesn\u2019t talk (Mac), and a wisecracking parrot who rides on him (Regina).\u00a0 You travel across 3D platforming worlds collecting stuff, but instead of notes and jigsaw piece \u201cJiggies,\u201d you are collecting cubes and golden \u201cFloppies\u201d (disks).\u00a0 Even the music uses the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25946","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\/25946","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=25946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25948,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions\/25948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}