Help a chicken gobble up all the ears of corn by bouncing it around the barnyard.  Bouncy Chicken is a single screen action game that kind of makes me think of pool, and it’s available on all current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here.

To make your chicken move, simply hold down the button and pick a direction with the control stick, and then release the button to send the chicken flying.  When your chicken hits a wall, it’ll bounce back.  After a while your chicken will slow down and stop, and you can do this again if you have enough moves.  Moving obstacles and bumpers will get in your way, and in later levels you’ll have fewer and fewer moves, making this one more challenging.  Finish a level by collecting all the corncobs, and if you run out of moves, you’ll have to start the level over.  There are at least 90 levels in all.

I really like the idea of this game, but I think it could’ve had a little more to it.  I wish they had a little guideline that would show you how the chicken would bounce, for instance.  Also, the moving obstacles and extremely limited moves make the game super hard early on, and it feels like you pass them out of luck rather than skill.  If they would’ve made the corrals different shapes and ditched the moving blocks, it would’ve felt more like Lunar Pool, a surprisingly good early NES title.  And a multiplayer mode would’ve been nice, too.

Kid Factor:

Nothing violent or objectionable here, although younger gamers may find it too difficult.  Bouncy Chicken is rated E for Everyone.

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