{"id":15106,"date":"2016-06-22T00:07:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15106"},"modified":"2016-06-22T00:06:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:06:35","slug":"paranautical-activity-ps4-vita-wii-u-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/paranautical-activity-ps4-vita-wii-u-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Paranautical Activity (PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PARA_BOX\"<\/a>Paranautical Activity is a classic styled FPS game that also mixes elements of \u2018roguelike\u2019 dungeons, as the mazes, rooms, and enemy placements are randomly generated each time you play.\u00a0 You\u2019ll shoot down all manner of spooky enemies including devils, flying shadowy sea turtle things, giant spiders, and much more.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on most current gen game systems, but reviewed on PS Vita here.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you start the game, you have a choice to begin with a main weapon, or have one randomly selected for you.\u00a0 Then you try to progress through as many floors as you can with one life.\u00a0 Once you run out of hearts, you have to start over again from the beginning.\u00a0 This is difficult since everything is randomly generated.\u00a0 Defeated enemies will sometimes drop coins that you can use to buy items in shops sometimes, but these are randomly generated, too, so you never know when you\u2019ll come across one.<\/span><\/p>\n

It plays like a classic FPS and the controls are pretty simple enough.\u00a0 Move and aim with the left and right analog sticks, and shoot and jump with the shoulder buttons.\u00a0 You can lob bombs and activate other power-ups with the face bottoms.\u00a0 The graphics have a pixelated look to them, so they kind of resemble other first person games like Minecraft or other classic FPS titles.\u00a0 You can earn in-game accolades and even unlock hardcore and endless modes, but the game is so hard that I wasn\u2019t able to get those.\u00a0 That\u2019s really the only problem with this game is the high difficulty level.\u00a0 FPS veterans and pros only for this one!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"PARA_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Paranautical Activity is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Violence, Blood, Language, and Use of Alcohol.\u00a0 While you do shoot and stab all manner of enemies with guns and melee weapons like bloody meat hooks, since everything is pretty blocky, the violence isn\u2019t that graphic.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really notice too much bad language or alcohol usage.\u00a0 But because of the high difficulty level, it\u2019s best for teens and older gamers anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paranautical Activity is a classic styled FPS game that also mixes elements of \u2018roguelike\u2019 dungeons, as the mazes, rooms, and enemy placements are randomly generated each time you play.\u00a0 You\u2019ll shoot down all manner of spooky enemies including devils, flying shadowy sea turtle things, giant spiders, and much more.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15106","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\/15106","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=15106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15107,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions\/15107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}