{"id":19479,"date":"2019-10-14T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19479"},"modified":"2019-10-02T02:34:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T02:34:04","slug":"fightn-rage-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/14\/fightn-rage-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight’N Rage (Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>2-D side scrolling beat \u2018em ups were all the rage in the late 80s and early 90s.\u00a0 And if you want to relive those gaming days again, Fight\u2019N Rage plays a lot like those classics.\u00a0 It even looks like something you\u2019d see on a 16-bit console.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on Switch, Xbox One, and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

In the main story mode, choose from three different characters.\u00a0 A speedy female fighter named Gal, a strong but slow mutant bull man, and a regular fighter dude.\u00a0 Like Final Fight, you can jump with one button, attack with another, and use a special move that takes some of your life bar away.\u00a0 Using a combination of these buttons and joystick movements will activate special attacks and dodges, so it\u2019s a bit deeper than what lies on the surface.\u00a0 You\u2019ll mostly brawl with mutant beasts like cat people, rats, hogs, dogs, and more.\u00a0 The enemies kind of remind me of the ones you see in games like Battletoads.\u00a0 You can nab throwing weapons like knives and food pickups for health.\u00a0 Up to three can play at the same time, and there are branching pathways and different endings depending on what character you choose.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s neat about this game is that your score matters.\u00a0 When you get a Game Over screen, the game will tally up your score and give you coins in exchange.\u00a0 You can use these coins to buy unlockables like new costumes, game modes, enemy characters to play as in the Battle Mode, an easier difficulty selection, and much more!\u00a0 The game\u2019s graphics are pleasantly nostalgic and there\u2019s a pretty rockin\u2019 soundtrack in the background, too.\u00a0 You can even choose to make the display look like an old TV, but it was kind of annoying so I turned that option off.\u00a0 Really the only problems I had with the game is that hit detection is a little unforgiving, enemies can gang up on you so bad you can\u2019t even see your character, and the game gets way too hard toward the end, even on Easy Mode (those Doberman bouncers can kiss my hiney).\u00a0 But other than that this is a pretty fun little classic styled 2-D beat \u2018em up.<\/p>\n

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Fight\u2019N Rage is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Language, Sexual Themes, and Violence.\u00a0 The enemies are pretty cartoony but there are some red stains on floors and walls in some of the levels that look like blood.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice too much bad language in the text.\u00a0 But some of the female enemies wear skimpy outfits and Gal has some pretty bouncy breast animations.\u00a0 And of course the game is violent.\u00a0 But I grew up playing games like this and I think I turned out OK.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 But younger gamers may still get frustrated at the high difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2-D side scrolling beat \u2018em ups were all the rage in the late 80s and early 90s.\u00a0 And if you want to relive those gaming days again, Fight\u2019N Rage plays a lot like those classics.\u00a0 It even looks like something you\u2019d see on a 16-bit console.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on Switch, Xbox One, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19479","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\/19479","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=19479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19481,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479\/revisions\/19481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}