{"id":57695,"date":"2018-12-24T03:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T10:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-haunted-island-a-frog-detective-game-is-a-farcical-tale-of-ghosts-vacations-to-indonesia-and-overzealous-dental-care\/"},"modified":"2018-12-24T03:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T10:08:49","slug":"the-haunted-island-a-frog-detective-game-is-a-farcical-tale-of-ghosts-vacations-to-indonesia-and-overzealous-dental-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-haunted-island-a-frog-detective-game-is-a-farcical-tale-of-ghosts-vacations-to-indonesia-and-overzealous-dental-care\/","title":{"rendered":"The Haunted Island: a Frog Detective Game is a farcical tale of ghosts, vacations to Indonesia, and overzealous dental care"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column <\/em>Short Play<\/em><\/a> we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Haunted Island: a Frog Detective Game<\/em> is a first person adventure set in a strange world of penguin supervisors, ghost scientists, the importance of daily dental care, and improvised explosives made from pasta. Suffice it to say this game is completely ridiculous. It has an aesthetic and terse writing style that feel like a cross between Adventure Time<\/em> and the work of Keita Takahashi (creator of Katamari Damacy<\/em> and Noby Noby Boy<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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You play as the titular frog, named The Detective, who has been assigned a case by their…<\/p>\n

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It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. The Haunted Island: a Frog Detective Game is a first person adventure… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":57696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t