Ghost Pop!
By Paul Semel,
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Fun, clever arcade game frustratingly pushes a lot of ads.
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What’s It About?
In GHOST POP!, a young girl wearing a reddish hood is walking through the haunted forest with only her flashlight to protect her from the local monsters and ghosts. Good thing they all suffer from an allergy to light, and pop whenever you shine your flashlight on them. Players have to try to get as far as they possibly can without becoming overwhelmed by enemies when their batteries run out of power. Eliminating ghosts earns you coins to purchase better flashlights, letting you get farther each time.
Is It Any Good?
While this clever arcade game can be fun, the gameplay and heightened focus on squeezing cash from you can be very frustrating when you first start playing. In Ghost Pop!, you're a red hood-wearing young woman who's out for a stroll through a scary forest when you come upon a bunch of scary monsters and super creeps. Good thing you have a flashlight and they have an allergy to light. By sliding your finger left and right, you shine your flashlight on your enemies, making them, well, pop. The problem is that you clearly bought a cheap flashlight, and you're using the batteries that came with it, which is why, when you first start this game, you die rather quickly and often. It's only after you play a while (and, let's be honest, watch a bunch of ads to triple your take-home pay) that you'll actually last long enough to start enjoying this clever arcade game. Which is why, though it's initially annoying, you'll soon realize that once you Ghost Pop!, you just can't stop.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about violence in video games. Do the pixelated visuals in Ghost Pop! make you feel better about killing all those enemies? How about the fact that they're not people?
Ghost Pop! has a lot of ads, and really encourages you to watch them, but how does this make you feel about the game? Does it seem like it's only made to push products?
Some of the characters you can play as are blatant rip-offs of ones from cartoons and other games. Do you think this is fair to the creators of those other franchises?
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPad , Android
- Pricing structure: Free
- Release date: June 26, 2018
- Category: Arcade Games
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy , Adventures , Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires
- Publisher: PlaySide Studios
- Version: 1.08
- Minimum software requirements: Requires iOS 10.0 or later; Android 5.0 and up
- Last updated: October 20, 2020
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