{"id":13721,"date":"2018-02-26T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/kirby_studio_hal_laboratorys_smartphone_game_part_time_ufo_is_now_available_worldwide"},"modified":"2018-02-26T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T11:15:00","slug":"kirby-studio-hal-laboratorys-smartphone-game-part-time-ufo-is-now-available-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/kirby-studio-hal-laboratorys-smartphone-game-part-time-ufo-is-now-available-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby Studio HAL Laboratory&#8217;s Smartphone Game &#8216;Part Time UFO&#8217; Is Now Available Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/kirby_studio_hal_laboratorys_smartphone_game_part_time_ufo_is_now_available_worldwide\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You may remember that towards the end of last year, HAL Labaratory &#8211; the studio behind such franchises as Kirby, Earthbound, and Super Smash Bros. &#8211; released <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/kirby_studio_hal_laboratory_releases_new_smartphone_game_in_japan\">its first smartphone game<\/a> in Japan. Now, and with a slight name change, the game has finally been released worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Now titled <strong>Part Time UFO<\/strong> for western audiences, the game sees you using a claw &#8211; not too dissimilar from the ones that\u00a0<em>never\u00a0<\/em>give you prizes at arcades &#8211; to help people with their daily tasks. The idea is used quite extensively, too, with the same mechanic being used in a variety of different ways such as stacking things on top of one another, moving furniture around, and plonking cheerleaders on each other&#8217;s shoulders to create formations.<\/p>\n<p>The game is available from iOS, Google Play, and Amazon stores for $3.99 \/ \u00a33.99 and has no in-app purchases. This means, of course, that you&#8217;ll be paying that one-off cost to play the game without having to worry about spending too much on microtransactions or having to wait for certain things to unlock later down the line.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be giving this one a try?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] You may remember that towards the end of last year, HAL Labaratory &#8211; the studio behind such franchises as Kirby, Earthbound, and Super Smash Bros. &#8211; released its first smartphone game in Japan. Now, and with a slight name change, the game has finally been released worldwide. Now titled Part Time UFO for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}