{"id":13490,"date":"2015-05-18T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13490"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:01:46","slug":"galaga-tekken-20th-anniversary-edition-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/galaga-tekken-20th-anniversary-edition-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaga: Tekken 20th Anniversary Edition (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GALAGA_BOX\"<\/a>So apparently, it\u2019s the hit fighting game Tekken\u2019s 20th<\/sup> Anniversary.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t really seem that long, does it?\u00a0 I still remember when I first saw it in arcades, and thought it was just a fancier, prettier Virtua Fighter.\u00a0 Anyway, so how do you suppose Bandai Namco Games is celebrating this momentous event?\u00a0 Are they going to release a new Tekken game, or maybe a collection of old classic ones?\u00a0 Nope, they\u2019re just combining Tekken characters with\u2026Galaga?!?\u00a0 Galaga: Tekken 20th<\/sup> Anniversary Edition is a downloadable game for iOS, Android, and Google Play, and best of all, it\u2019s free!\u00a0 So how exactly does this game work?\u00a0 Oh, you\u2019ll definitely want to read on to find out!<\/p>\n

So basically, this is just Galaga, but they replaced the spaceships and alien bugs with blocky, 8-bit representations of Tekken characters!\u00a0 Otherwise it plays just like the arcade classic you know and love.\u00a0 Move your character left and right on the bottom of the screen, and shoot at flying enemies in formation, avoiding their shots and attacks.\u00a0 You can even allow your ship to be captured, and then shoot the flagship on the next dive down to get your ship back for double the firepower.<\/p>\n

They did add a few new things to this Tekken version of Galaga, though.\u00a0 First, before you even start you choose which characters to use.\u00a0 These three characters will act as your three \u2018lives.\u2019\u00a0 Each character has different rates of fire.\u00a0 Some can shoot multiple shots super-fast, and one character shoots a missile that cuts through all enemies in its path!\u00a0 You\u2019ll unlock more characters as you reach certain rounds.\u00a0 Also, when you first do the trick where you double up to increase your firepower, you\u2019ll do a screen clearing move involving a random classic Namco arcade character, like Mappy, Rally-X, or Dig Dug.\u00a0 I hear Pac-Man is an attack, too, but I haven\u2019t seen him yet.\u00a0 If you own this game and have seen other characters, please let me know as I\u2019m a classic Namco arcade junkie.\u00a0 And finally, if you are on your last life, don\u2019t fret, as you can still double your firepower in this game.\u00a0 Every so often, the flagships will carry a captured fighter in their formation, and you can nab it then, just be careful not to shoot it before they dive down at you.<\/p>\n

The problems with this Galaga\/Tekken mashup are few and far between, and are hardly worth mentioning, but I\u2019ll bring them up anyway for the Galaga purists out there.\u00a0 One tiny problem is that thanks to the blocky graphics, it\u2019s hard to tell who some of the characters are in this game.\u00a0 And would it have hurt them to spell out the playable characters\u2019 names in the select screen?\u00a0 Granted, I\u2019m not as familiar with all the Tekken characters, so it may just be me.\u00a0 Also, with the different firing rates of the characters and the fact that you can double up ships more often, this version of Galaga is a lot easier.\u00a0 Of course, I don\u2019t mind that either since I\u2019m not too terribly good at the original game. \u00a0Some persnickety Galaga players may not like the controls either.\u00a0 You have two options on the bottom of the screen: slide your finger to move or shoot and move at the same time.\u00a0 Since the game records your shot accuracy percentage at the end of the game, some may not like the lack of control of when you shoot here.\u00a0 Maybe an optional virtual fire button would\u2019ve worked.\u00a0 Also, you can\u2019t enter your initials when you get a high score; it just has the name of whatever character you used.<\/p>\n

Luckily, this game doesn\u2019t have most of the problems other free to play games have.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to buy anything to enjoy playing, and you can play as much as you like.\u00a0 There are pop-up ads, but they don\u2019t appear as frequent and they\u2019re all related to other Tekken games anyway.\u00a0 Otherwise, you\u2019re just getting a free version of Galaga, and that\u2019s always a good thing.\u00a0 As long as you don\u2019t mind the minor changes, I think this little freebie is great!<\/p>\n

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

The only violent thing you do is shoot at blocky Tekken characters who pop into fireworks when destroyed.\u00a0 But it\u2019s basically just Galaga, a game we all grew up on and turned out OK, so I\u2019d say it\u2019s perfectly safe for kids.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed, as the game is pretty easy to figure out how to play.\u00a0 But parental supervision is recommended for the pop-up ads, although even those aren\u2019t too terribly bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So apparently, it\u2019s the hit fighting game Tekken\u2019s 20th Anniversary.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t really seem that long, does it?\u00a0 I still remember when I first saw it in arcades, and thought it was just a fancier, prettier Virtua Fighter.\u00a0 Anyway, so how do you suppose Bandai Namco Games is celebrating this momentous event?\u00a0 Are they going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490","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=13490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13493,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions\/13493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}