{"id":16753,"date":"2017-08-16T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16753"},"modified":"2017-07-29T18:11:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T18:11:54","slug":"collar-x-malice-vita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/16\/collar-x-malice-vita\/","title":{"rendered":"Collar X Malice (Vita)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Outside of the Phoenix Wright games (which I consider to be more of a point and click adventure), I have never tried a game in the \u2018visual novel\u2019 genre.\u00a0 So when Aksys sent me a code for Collar X Malice on the Vita for review, I decided I\u2019d finally give this type of game a try.\u00a0 In the game, a terrorist organization has already killed several police officers in a Japanese city, and now the government has quarantined the area and given all citizens over a certain age a gun so they can defend themselves.\u00a0 This has put the whole city in disarray.\u00a0 You read the story from the point of view of a female Japanese police officer.\u00a0 Shortly into the story, she gets kidnapped by the organization and is forced to wear a special collar so they can monitor her actions.\u00a0 If she speaks of the incident to the police, the bad guys could remotely inject a lethal poison from the collar into her.\u00a0 She also finds a secret detective group who wants to help her, but with her life on the line, who can she really trust?\u00a0 That\u2019s what you\u2019ll have to find out!<\/p>\n

Most of what you\u2019ll do in the game is read text.\u00a0 There may be some pictures, limited animations, and Japanese voice acting to go along with it, but again, most of it is text.\u00a0 You can view a glossary of important terms and characters, as well as check out case files, too.\u00a0 Why would you want to do that?\u00a0 Well, sometimes in the game you can investigate areas and make choices.\u00a0 These choices may end the game abruptly or strengthen your relationship with one or more characters.\u00a0 So you may want to save often and have multiple save files in case you mess up.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of like those \u2018choose your own adventure\u2019 books I hated as a kid.\u00a0 Sometimes you may even have to shoot your gun in a timed mini-game event.\u00a0 But again, most of what you\u2019ll do in this game is just read a lot of words.<\/p>\n

I think I would\u2019ve enjoyed this game more if there was a bit more gameplay elements spread out more evenly in the story.\u00a0 Plus the subject matter didn\u2019t keep me interested.\u00a0 Too serious and heavy handed.\u00a0 People who enjoy reading all types of mature Japanese manga comic books may still like this, though.\u00a0 As for me, I\u2019ll probably just stick with Phoenix Wright.<\/p>\n

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

Collar X Malice is rated M for Mature with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Drug Reference, Mild Sexual Themes, Strong Language, and Violence.\u00a0 Most of these descriptors are presented in still pictures and in the text only.\u00a0 I really can\u2019t imagine a kid being interested in this type of game at all.\u00a0 Even so, it\u2019s best for mature teens and adults only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outside of the Phoenix Wright games (which I consider to be more of a point and click adventure), I have never tried a game in the \u2018visual novel\u2019 genre.\u00a0 So when Aksys sent me a code for Collar X Malice on the Vita for review, I decided I\u2019d finally give this type of game a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16753","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\/16753","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=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16755,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions\/16755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}