{"id":15047,"date":"2016-06-06T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2016-04-28T05:14:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T05:14:42","slug":"the-sun-moon-ps4-vita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/the-sun-moon-ps4-vita\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun & Moon (PS4, Vita)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SUN_BOX\"<\/a>I\u2019m not really sure why this game is called The Sun & Moon, but it\u2019s a precision 2-D platformer downloadable on PS4 and PS Vita (Vita version reviewed here). In the game, you can phase shift by pressing a button, which will allow you to dive into the blocks you walk around on, allowing for some creative movement through the levels.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t really any story to this game. You\u2019re just a black dot and you must collect smaller black dots and then touch a portal-looking thing to complete the level.\u00a0 You can run left and right as well as jump.\u00a0 But by pressing another button, you can phase shift and you\u2019ll turn white and be able to go through the platforms you can walk across.<\/p>\n

The best way to describe it is that it\u2019s like you\u2019re diving into water. You can go down for a little bit, but you\u2019ll come right back up.\u00a0 If you fall and dive into the platform from a higher place, you\u2019ll go down further, and when you come back up, you\u2019ll fling even higher in the air.\u00a0 You can also phase shift into blocks above you, which is handy for climbing to higher spaces.\u00a0 You must avoid spikes, and chasing enemies.\u00a0 If they touch you or you fall, you\u2019ll have to start the level over again.<\/p>\n

This is one of those super hard precision platformers, and it can get pretty frustrating. Even after stage 10, things got rough, and there are around 100 stages in all, so I can\u2019t imagine how hard it gets later on.\u00a0 While the game tells you the controls, there aren\u2019t any instructions (even the in-game manual has nothing), so it can be a little hard to figure out at first.\u00a0 The graphics are uninspiring and the music is grating, but if you enjoy difficult platformers like Super Meat Boy; you might like this one anyway.<\/p>\n

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

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

While you do explode if you hit an obstacle, you\u2019re just a little black dot so violence is fairly non-existent. Reading skill isn\u2019t necessary to play, but younger gamers may get frustrated at the high difficulty.\u00a0 The Sun & Moon is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not really sure why this game is called The Sun & Moon, but it\u2019s a precision 2-D platformer downloadable on PS4 and PS Vita (Vita version reviewed here). In the game, you can phase shift by pressing a button, which will allow you to dive into the blocks you walk around on, allowing for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15047","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\/15047","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=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15049,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions\/15049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}