{"id":26052,"date":"2025-09-15T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26052"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:10:19","slug":"hop-n-marty-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/15\/hop-n-marty-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hop N Marty (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A while ago I reviewed a game called Regina & Mac<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It was a 3D platformer trying to imitate Banjo-Kazooie, but it was really awful.\u00a0 \u00a0And now we have another one with Hop N Marty.\u00a0 In this one, Marty is a marmoset and Hop is his poison dart frog friend.\u00a0 When an evil pirate kidnaps their pygmy marmoset friends, the two hop into action to save them in this Banjo-Kazooie imitator. But is it any better than Regina & Mac?\u00a0 You\u2019ll just have to read on to find out!\u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

Most of the time you\u2019ll play as Marty.\u00a0 He can double jump, slam down to the ground to activate switches, and throw oranges when you collect them.\u00a0 When you come across small doors, you can then enter them as Hop.\u00a0 Hop can jump higher than Marty, and instead of throwing objects you can aim his tongue at things like a grappling hook.\u00a0 You\u2019ll travel through 3D areas collecting things like bananas and pygmy marmosets which help you open portals to new levels in the hub world which is a laboratory owned by your scientist cat friend.\u00a0 Other collectables include peanuts and flies for health.<\/p>\n

So is the game better than Regina & Mac<\/strong><\/a>?\u00a0 Well, a little, but not by much.\u00a0 Play control is a bit floaty, and the worst offender is the camera angles.\u00a0 You can adjust them, but the controls for that are touchy as well.\u00a0 This carries over into aiming.\u00a0 Most of the game is pretty generic and amateurish, but there are some high points.\u00a0 For instance, even though the first level is a generic rain forest level, the second world is a giant living room which gave me some Chibi Robo and Katamari Damacy vibes.\u00a0 I especially liked the part where you climb inside a game console and play a little mini 3D 8 bit Zelda style dungeon.\u00a0 But overall you\u2019re probably better off just playing Banjo-Kazooie, the game it\u2019s trying to imitate instead.<\/p>\n

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

Hop N Marty is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Defeated enemies just disappear, and when you get hit, you just flash and say, \u201cOh.\u201d\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may need help with some of the tougher jumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago I reviewed a game called Regina & Mac.\u00a0 It was a 3D platformer trying to imitate Banjo-Kazooie, but it was really awful.\u00a0 \u00a0And now we have another one with Hop N Marty.\u00a0 In this one, Marty is a marmoset and Hop is his poison dart frog friend.\u00a0 When an evil pirate kidnaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26052","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\/26052","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=26052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26054,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions\/26054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}