{"id":18297,"date":"2018-10-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18297"},"modified":"2018-09-24T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:24:09","slug":"lightfield-hyper-edition-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/lightfield-hyper-edition-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightfield: Hyper Edition (PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lightfield is a futuristic racer but it\u2019s unique in that you can fly anywhere you like in your spaceship.\u00a0 But you can press a button to hug onto nearby walls, floors, ceilings, and other surfaces, and when you do this, you go much faster.\u00a0 So you\u2019ll want to do this as much as you can on the crazy tracks where you can go pretty much anywhere.\u00a0 The game is available to download on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Play control is decent, but it does have a bit of a learning curve.\u00a0 To accelerate, hold down the R2 button.\u00a0 Tilt the analog stick to fly anywhere.\u00a0 To latch onto a wall like a magnet, hold down the X button.\u00a0 You can do jumps, tricks, and drifts by releasing the X button and the R2 button at the right times.\u00a0 By doing tricks, winning races, completing objectives, and even collecting little triangles on the track, you\u2019ll gain experience and when you level up, you can unlock new planets and other goodies.<\/p>\n

Because the planets you race on are like open worlds, and you can pretty much go wherever you want, sometimes it can be hard to know where to go on the track if you\u2019re racing.\u00a0 The game does try its best to keep you informed on where to go with wisps of wind, long light trails from other racers, and even the triangles you collect are arranged in arrows showing you where to go, but it can still be confusing at times.<\/p>\n

Adding to the confusion is the menu, which I found rather cumbersome to navigate.\u00a0 You immediately start the game playing, and then must press start to open a menu.\u00a0 Here you can choose to compete in a race with four difficulty selections (but even \u2018easy\u2019 is very hard).\u00a0 There\u2019s also time trials and online multiplayer.\u00a0 You can take photos in Photo Mode as you race, and change the speed of the game from sluggishly slow (but makes it easier to do tricks), to blindingly fast!<\/p>\n

There is also a campaign mode where you complete missions.\u00a0 These are helpful to familiarize yourself with the controls.\u00a0 You\u2019ll do missions like race, find hidden objects, do tricks, and much more.\u00a0 Complete enough and you\u2019ll unlock goodies.\u00a0 Other things you can do in the menu are change planets and the colors of your ship, as well as the music that plays (didn\u2019t really like most of the music, though).\u00a0 You can also view how many tricks you\u2019ve done, as well as controls, achievements, and other options.<\/p>\n

One thing I didn\u2019t find was a local multiplayer mode.\u00a0 I know this game is blindingly fast, but I\u2019m sure the PS4 could handle at least a split screen.\u00a0 And if there is a local two player mode, I couldn\u2019t find it on the menu, which is a testament to how confusing it is.\u00a0 Lightfield isn\u2019t a bad game, but the high learning curve, confusing menus and gameplay, and lack modes kept me from being interested very long.<\/p>\n

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

If you drive head on into a wall, your spaceship will explode, but that\u2019s as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text and menus, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may get frustrated at the high challenge and learning curve, though.\u00a0 Lightfield Hyper Edition is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lightfield is a futuristic racer but it\u2019s unique in that you can fly anywhere you like in your spaceship.\u00a0 But you can press a button to hug onto nearby walls, floors, ceilings, and other surfaces, and when you do this, you go much faster.\u00a0 So you\u2019ll want to do this as much as you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18297","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\/18297","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=18297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18299,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18297\/revisions\/18299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}