![]() ![]() Some levels we could clear in less than thirty seconds while others took more than fifteen minutes. Instead, each player is dropped one by one to the starting location for another attempt. With no lifeline, everyone plummets offscreen and their monochromatic guts are sprayed all over the board. More often than not, the player holding onto the cliff and supporting everyone else will accidentally let go. Heave Ho sounds easy but the challenge is in team work and not mixing up which hand is holding onto something or someone. Hey, wouldn’t you want someone to hold you by the hair as you dangle precariously over a cliff rather than be dropped to your doom? Each bumper corresponds with your character’s hand and you use it to hold objects, hands or even your friends by the head. Using the circle pad to help shift your weight and the right and left bumper to hold, the controls are deceptively simple. The only similarity is in linking arms to create as long a chain as possible and to try and throw your pal to a nearby object so they can grab hold. Admittedly it’s not the same objective shared in red rover. ![]() During co-op play, two to four players have a common goal to make it to the finish line. Though Heave Ho can be played solo, the true joy is in its cooperation mode. Take a look at the review to see if you should call out: Red rover, red rover, send Heave Ho on over. That’s how I felt when playing Heave Ho with my children and a group of their friends. Only to get clotheslined and knocked on your butt. The tips of your toes dig into the ground and you run with all your might to break the human chain, bound by linked arms, on the other side. The excitement almost too much when your own name is called out. Red rover, red rover, send Thomas on over.
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