{"id":19539,"date":"2019-10-25T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T00:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19539"},"modified":"2019-10-18T01:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T01:22:51","slug":"gunvolt-chronicles-luminous-avenger-ix-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/25\/gunvolt-chronicles-luminous-avenger-ix-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Gunvolt game series is made by Inti Creates, who specializes in mostly 2-D action games.\u00a0 In fact, they helped make some of Capcom\u2019s Mega Man titles and spinoffs, including the Mega Man Zero series.\u00a0 Gameplay-wise, the Gunvolt games play a lot like Mega Man X, just a bit more anime-ish.\u00a0 And now the newest in the Gunvolt saga is out, and stars a side character named Copen and his adorable android helper Lola.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still the same kind of 2-D action that Gunvolt and Mega Man X fans love.\u00a0 Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avengers iX is available to download on all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve played a previous Gunvolt title or Mega Man X game, you\u2019ll know what to expect here.\u00a0 Copen can run, jump, dash, jump up sides of walls, and shoot out rapid fire bullets in a straight line.\u00a0 But while Gunvolt has to shoot out a tracer bullet to be able to fire homing shots at enemies, Copen just has to dash into them and then he can fire homing bullets for a while.\u00a0 After dashing into a baddie, he\u2019ll also slowly descend, which can allow you to perform combos.\u00a0 Copen must complete missions in the form of stages, and at the end of each one is a tough boss.\u00a0 By beating these bosses, you\u2019ll usually get a sub weapon assigned to the circle button, and some of these sub weapons are more effective against other bosses.\u00a0 So it\u2019s a bit like Mega Man in that regard, too.\u00a0 Although while you can choose the order you play some missions, this game is a bit more linear.\u00a0 Between stage missions you can talk to the other characters and buy upgrades with money collected from defeating bad guys in the stages.<\/p>\n

The stages themselves are pretty easy as there were only a couple of tricky jumps that slowed me down a bit.\u00a0 But it\u2019s the bosses that are super hard.\u00a0 Luckily if you are defeated, Lola can randomly transform into a cute anime girl and bring you back to life with a bit more power for a second chance at the boss.\u00a0 And that was my saving grace most of the time.\u00a0 Although at the end of the game, you have to fight all the bosses in a row, and that\u2019s when the difficulty spikes way out of control.\u00a0 But other than that, this is a fun 2-D action game for fans of Gunvolt and Mega Man X.<\/p>\n

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Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Fantasy Violence, Language, Suggestive Themes, and Use of Tobacco.\u00a0 You do shoot all manner of 16-bit styled robots and enemies, but I didn\u2019t really notice any blood at all.\u00a0 There is some bad language in the text, and some of the anime female characters wear skimpy outfits.\u00a0 But the best reason why this game is best enjoyed by older gamers is the high difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gunvolt game series is made by Inti Creates, who specializes in mostly 2-D action games.\u00a0 In fact, they helped make some of Capcom\u2019s Mega Man titles and spinoffs, including the Mega Man Zero series.\u00a0 Gameplay-wise, the Gunvolt games play a lot like Mega Man X, just a bit more anime-ish.\u00a0 And now the newest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19539","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\/19539","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=19539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19541,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19539\/revisions\/19541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}