{"id":18500,"date":"2018-12-07T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18500"},"modified":"2018-11-29T03:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T03:49:25","slug":"starlink-battle-for-atlas-switch-ps4-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/starlink-battle-for-atlas-switch-ps4-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Switch, PS4, Xbox One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Skylanders, amiibo, and LEGO Dimensions pioneered the whole \u2018toys to life\u2019 game genre, but Ubisoft is taking it out of this world with Starlink: Battle for Atlas.\u00a0 Customize different spaceships with pilots, wings, and weapons, and then play as them in this sci-fi space battle action adventure game.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for Switch, PS4, and Xbox One, but reviewed on Switch here.\u00a0 And I think the game is best optimized on the Switch, as you\u2019ll see why if you keep reading!<\/p>\n

In the game, a group of space explorers discovers a new galaxy, but their captain gets captured by aliens so the crew must work together to save him and stop the evil aliens\u2019 plans.\u00a0 On the Switch version, while this is going on, Fox McCloud and the rest of the Star Fox crew are chasing down the nefarious Star Wolf.\u00a0 They run into the other heroes and decide to help each other out.\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s right, in the Switch version you can play as Fox McCloud from the Star Fox series and pilot the Arwing as well.\u00a0 You can\u2019t do that in the other versions, but the addition of Fox doesn\u2019t feel shoehorned in.\u00a0 He actually fits with the rest of the story in both the main campaign and side Star Fox missions.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a bigger picture of the front of the Switch version\u2019s box.<\/p>\n

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The game is optimized for the Switch in other ways, too.\u00a0 The game comes with a mount for you to put the controllers into, kind of like the plastic holder for your controllers when you have the Switch in TV mode.\u00a0 Then you can put the pilot on the mount as well, and then put a spaceship over it and weapons on it if you so desire.\u00a0 You can switch out pilots, ships, and weapons at any time.\u00a0 It\u2019s just kind of cool to hold the controller and the spaceship at the same time.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a picture of everything you get in the box.\u00a0 There\u2019s the game, a poster, two pilots, the Arwing, and two weapons (flamethrower and ice missiles).\u00a0 I do wish the pilot figures were a bit bigger, but for Nintendo fans, having a model of the Arwing is almost worth the price of the game alone.<\/p>\n

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Gameplay is like an open world space adventure.\u00a0 There are two types of gameplay modes.\u00a0 While in space, you can fly in any direction and explore wreckages and defend yourselves from outlaws in flight combat battles.\u00a0 Controls are a little different and take a bit of getting used to, but they work.\u00a0 You\u2019ll steer and go forward with the L stick and change direction with the R stick.\u00a0 Use the trigger buttons to fire your lasers, boost, and other abilities.\u00a0 You\u2019ll discover the second type of gameplay mode when you land on a planet.\u00a0 While exploring a planet, you can cut your engines and just hover above the ground, still in your spaceship.\u00a0 You can even press a button to jump.\u00a0 Otherwise the controls are similar to when you\u2019re in space.\u00a0 While there are missions for you to complete to progress the story, since this is an open world game, you can also go off the beaten path to find goodies and do favors for the locals to earn money and parts to modify your spaceships with.<\/p>\n

I only really had a few problems with this game.\u00a0 You can select your difficulty, but it can still get pretty hard sometimes if you\u2019re not accustomed to flight combat games.\u00a0 Managing your spaceship modifications in the menus can be a bit fiddly, and the game doesn\u2019t really give you good instructions on how to do certain things.\u00a0 Goals are usually pretty clear but sometimes it takes a while for them to give you your next objective.\u00a0 But other than that, this is still a pretty good little game.\u00a0 And for Star Fox fans, while this isn\u2019t really a TRUE Star Fox game, it\u2019s a heck of a lot better than Star Fox Zero, one of Nintendo\u2019s worst games in my personal opinion.<\/p>\n

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

Starlink: Battle for Atlas is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You mostly just shoot spaceships that blow up, and that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching stuff like Star Wars, they\u2019ll be OK with this game.\u00a0 But because of the reading skill required and more complicated controls and higher difficulty, this is one \u2018toys to life\u2019 game that\u2019s best for older players.\u00a0 Not only that, but kids who play this need to make sure they are responsible enough to keep up with and take care of these toys, as the game is useless without them.\u00a0 Although I heard that if you download the game digitally, you can download the toy information, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skylanders, amiibo, and LEGO Dimensions pioneered the whole \u2018toys to life\u2019 game genre, but Ubisoft is taking it out of this world with Starlink: Battle for Atlas.\u00a0 Customize different spaceships with pilots, wings, and weapons, and then play as them in this sci-fi space battle action adventure game.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for Switch, PS4, and Xbox […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18500","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\/18500","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=18500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18502,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500\/revisions\/18502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}