{"id":19186,"date":"2019-07-15T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19186"},"modified":"2019-07-05T22:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T22:43:13","slug":"blazing-chrome-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/blazing-chrome-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazing Chrome (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back when I was a kid and teen in the 8- and 16-bit days, Contra was huge.\u00a0 It was a run and gun 2-D action game from Konami, and I remember playing it with my friends many times, whether we rented the ones on the NES or later Contra 3 on the SNES.\u00a0 Now an indie developer has recreated the feel of a 16-bit Contra style game with Blazing Chrome, downloadable on nearly all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the future and alien robots have taken over, but a few straggling human resistance fighters remain.\u00a0 You can play as Mayra, a tough as nails female fighter, or Doyle, a hulking robot on the good side.\u00a0 There are secret characters to unlock and play as, too.\u00a0 You can play alone or go at it with another local player in co-op.\u00a0 Controls are easy to pick up for any run and gun veteran.\u00a0 You can run left and right, jump, fire in all directions, and do a dodge roll.\u00a0 Along the way you may find power-ups like new weapons you can switch to at any time, floating assistant robot shooters, shields, and extra lives.<\/p>\n

The game does a great job of keeping that 16-bit feel.\u00a0 The title screen even has \u201cMode 7\u201d like scaling effects and all voices are muffled like a Genesis game.\u00a0 Only thing that doesn\u2019t feel authentic is there is no slowdown.\u00a0 And if I didn\u2019t know, I\u2019d think this was a long lost Contra game, as even the first stage is very similar to the initial level in Super C.\u00a0 It really feels like something I would\u2019ve rented back in the day.<\/p>\n

After the first stage you can tackle most of the other levels in any order, and you\u2019ll fight all matter of alien bosses and robot soldiers.\u00a0 Really the only problem I had with this game is that it was way too hard, even on the Easy setting.\u00a0 I guess that\u2019s the nature of these kinds of games, but I do wish they\u2019d throw us folks with \u2018old man reflexes\u2019 a bone every once in a while.\u00a0 Especially since this is one of those \u2018one hit and you die\u2019 games.\u00a0 You do have unlimited continues, but you may start way early in the stage.\u00a0 But if you want a challenging game to scratch that Contra itch, this will definitely do the job.<\/p>\n

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Blazing Chrome is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Fantasy Violence, and Use of Tobacco.\u00a0 You\u2019ll shoot all manner of alien robots and monsters with futuristic lasers and weapons and even climb in robot suits.\u00a0 Some enemies explode into pixelly red and green goo when defeated.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really see any tobacco use, but there are a scant few curse words in the story text at the beginning of the game.\u00a0 I played games like this all the time when I was a kid and I turned out OK.\u00a0 Younger gamers may find it a bit too difficult, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back when I was a kid and teen in the 8- and 16-bit days, Contra was huge.\u00a0 It was a run and gun 2-D action game from Konami, and I remember playing it with my friends many times, whether we rented the ones on the NES or later Contra 3 on the SNES.\u00a0 Now an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19186","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\/19186","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=19186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19188,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186\/revisions\/19188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}