{"id":19275,"date":"2019-08-05T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19275"},"modified":"2019-08-02T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:59:49","slug":"pawarumi-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/05\/pawarumi-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawarumi (Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Pawarumi is a 2-D vertically scrolling shooter that uses themes from Mayan and South American culture, although if I didn\u2019t read that in the press release, I probably wouldn\u2019t have known.\u00a0 Use three different kinds of weapons to fire at colored enemies to boost your shields, power up your special weapon, and take out enemies quickly in this downloadable game for Switch, Xbox One, and PC (reviewed on Switch here).<\/p>\n

Pilot your craft through stages set in areas like the Alaskan pipeline, futuristic pyramids in the jungle, etc.\u00a0 The enemies you face will come in three different colors: red, blue, and green.\u00a0 You can also fire weapons of those colors, too.\u00a0 There is the straightforward always on laser called the Blue Serpent, the rapid fire Green Condor, and the homing Red Jaguar.\u00a0 Depending on which weapon you use against each colored enemy, different things will happen.\u00a0 If you shoot enemies of the same color, that powers up your shield, which lets you take extra hits.\u00a0 That\u2019s easy to remember.\u00a0 But what isn\u2019t easy to remember is what colors are strong against certain enemies, and which other color combination will fill your screen clearing special attack meter.\u00a0 And it\u2019s also hard to remember which button fires what weapon at first.\u00a0 At least you know to always avoid pink bullets.<\/p>\n

Aside from the main Arcade Mode, there is a tutorial mode that explains all this, as well as a Training Mode that lets you tackle individual stages you\u2019ve unlocked.\u00a0 The only problems that I had with this one is that it\u2019s very hard, and if you lose in Arcade Mode, you must start over at the beginning.\u00a0 The game does tell you which colors will fill up which meter, but it was still hard for me to keep up with and remember.\u00a0 The color gameplay mechanic kind of reminds me of a more complicated version of Ikaruga.\u00a0 Also the game could\u2019ve used a two player co-op mode and vertically scrolling on a rectangular TV can make the pink bullets kind of hard to avoid sometimes. \u00a0But if you want a 2-D shooter with a somewhat unique theme and gimmick, then you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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

Pawarumi is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You shoot all sorts of futuristic craft that explode when defeated, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pawarumi is a 2-D vertically scrolling shooter that uses themes from Mayan and South American culture, although if I didn\u2019t read that in the press release, I probably wouldn\u2019t have known.\u00a0 Use three different kinds of weapons to fire at colored enemies to boost your shields, power up your special weapon, and take out enemies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19275","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\/19275","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=19275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19317,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions\/19317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}