{"id":19819,"date":"2020-02-05T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19819"},"modified":"2020-01-22T00:15:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:15:21","slug":"the-adventures-of-elena-temple-definitive-edition-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/05\/the-adventures-of-elena-temple-definitive-edition-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition (Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m such a staunch console gamer now that it\u2019s hard to believe that I started out as a PC gamer in the home.\u00a0 Well, I started in arcades, but you know what I mean!\u00a0 But yeah, our first gaming \u2018console\u2019 was actually an Apple ][+ computer.\u00a0 Aside from playing far better arcade conversions than what was on the Atari 2600 (Pac-Man, I\u2019m looking at you), I also enjoyed playing games on our family\u2019s Apple like Spare Change, Aquatron, and Lode Runner.\u00a0 Speaking of which, another popular type of game on computer back then were single screen 2-D platformers, sometimes with multiple maze like areas that made it feel like an adventure.\u00a0 Some of these kinds of games I remember were Montezuma\u2019s Revenge and Miner 2049er.\u00a0 The Adventures of Elena Temple pays tribute to those kinds of games.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for download on a couple of consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

Elena Temple is kind of a fictional proto-Lara Croft.\u00a0 She explores single screen temple rooms that are connected like a maze that you can view on a map subscreen.\u00a0 You can run and jump, and your goal in each maze is to collect all the treasures, like coins and gems.\u00a0 Avoid spikes and arrows and other obstacles.\u00a0 Elena has a gun that she can use to shoot dangerous enemies like bats and snakes, but you can also shoot pots, switches, and weak walls, too.\u00a0 But you have to use your gun sparingly because it only holds two bullets, and you must collect more to refill it.<\/p>\n

There are three mazes that you can choose from to tackle.\u00a0 Each maze adds a new challenge.\u00a0 For instance, the second maze adds gems that you must place in pedestals, like keys, which will open paths.\u00a0 In the first two mazes, you get unlimited lives and start near where you got hit.\u00a0 But in the third maze, you get five hearts, and if they all run out by being hit too much, you\u2019ll start over at a campfire checkpoint!<\/p>\n

You can choose which platform you play the game on, and they\u2019re all mock computers and handhelds from back in the day.\u00a0 But really it\u2019s just different screen colors.\u00a0 You can play on a green and black screen like my old Apple computer before we got a color monitor.\u00a0 Or there\u2019s a green Game Boy type screen, too.\u00a0 You can switch between the colors on the fly, and luckily you can zoom in on the action because some of those screens, like the \u201cSome Toy Advance,\u201d are pretty small.\u00a0 The initial select screen also has funny fake histories of the failed consoles that Elena Temple was released for!<\/p>\n

I only had two main problems with the game.\u00a0 First was the infuriating challenge.\u00a0 But that\u2019s just how games were back then.\u00a0 Luckily you have unlimited lives and can save anywhere, which is nice.\u00a0 I also hear there are secret codes for making the game easier, but I haven\u2019t found any yet.\u00a0 The other problem I had with the game is how it saves.\u00a0 Like I said, it saves at any time, but you have to be careful where you save.\u00a0 One time I shot two scorpions in a corridor to get a coin, and then saved it.\u00a0 When I returned, I was in the same place, but the two scorpions were back and I had no bullets and no way to jump over them, so I had to restart the game.\u00a0 Boo!\u00a0 But otherwise, if you like really old computer games, you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 If you get hit, you just fall off the screen and reappear nearby.\u00a0 You can shoot critters with a gun, but they just fall over and disappear when shot.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may get frustrated at the higher difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m such a staunch console gamer now that it\u2019s hard to believe that I started out as a PC gamer in the home.\u00a0 Well, I started in arcades, but you know what I mean!\u00a0 But yeah, our first gaming \u2018console\u2019 was actually an Apple ][+ computer.\u00a0 Aside from playing far better arcade conversions than what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19819","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\/19819","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=19819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19820,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19819\/revisions\/19820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}