{"id":12680,"date":"2014-11-12T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12680"},"modified":"2014-11-02T23:37:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T23:37:51","slug":"power-rangers-super-megaforce-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/power-rangers-super-megaforce-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Rangers: Super Megaforce (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"POWER_BOX\"<\/a>Power Rangers have been delighting kids and fans of campy action on television and movies ever since the 90\u2019s! And the basis for the show has been around much longer, as it originated in Japan in the 70\u2019s!\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe Power Rangers is still on TV, but apparently it is.\u00a0 And now you can join the adventures with Power Rangers: Super Megaforce, a simple arcade action brawler for Nintendo 3DS.<\/p>\n

First you choose your Ranger and a helper teammate and delve into short, yet perfect for handheld beat \u2018em up stages. You can jump, punch, shoot, and use special skills particular to each Ranger.\u00a0 Your helper Ranger isn\u2019t quite as useful, but you can choose how they attack (close up, from a distance, etc.).\u00a0 Each area has several stages where you must beat up grunts and maybe do a little light platform jumping to reach hidden coins.\u00a0 Then you fight a boss.\u00a0 On the last stage in an area, the boss will grow big and you must hop into your giant robot Megazord and do battle: Godzilla-style.\u00a0 It\u2019s all very formulaic, just like the TV show.<\/p>\n

Collect coins in levels and earn them afterwards by performing well. You can spend the coins in the shop between levels to buy things like healing items to use during stages, or other goodies to help boost your stats and level up.\u00a0 You can also earn in-game achievements, and when you do, you can get special gifts like items or even unlock new Rangers!\u00a0 This is especially cool because you can unlock characters from nearly every one of the Power Rangers series aired in the US: even the originals!\u00a0 Might be a good trip down memory lane for some of you older Power Rangers fans.\u00a0 You can also scan codes on the back of certain toys to unlock items and characters, but I couldn\u2019t get it to work.\u00a0 But then, I just tried to cheat and scan pictures online, so maybe that\u2019s the reason.\u00a0 At any rate, while this game isn\u2019t too terribly original, I think young Power Ranger fans would still enjoy it somewhat anyway.<\/p>\n

\"POWER_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Power Rangers: Super Megaforce is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence. Rangers can punch, kick, wield weapons, and fire lasers at bad guys, but they just fall over and disappear when defeated.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the TV show, they\u2019ll be OK with this game.\u00a0 Reading skill is required for the text dialog and menus.\u00a0 With multiple levels of selectable difficulty, players of all ages should be able to enjoy this without too much frustration, although it does get progressively more challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Power Rangers have been delighting kids and fans of campy action on television and movies ever since the 90\u2019s! And the basis for the show has been around much longer, as it originated in Japan in the 70\u2019s!\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe Power Rangers is still on TV, but apparently it is.\u00a0 And now you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12683,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680\/revisions\/12683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}