{"id":19889,"date":"2020-02-17T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19889"},"modified":"2020-01-26T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T14:23:20","slug":"willy-jetman-astromonkeys-revenge-switch-ps4-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/willy-jetman-astromonkeys-revenge-switch-ps4-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy Jetman: Astromonkey’s Revenge (Switch, PS4, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A starship with a careless space chimp pilot on board has exploded, leaving wreckage on a nearby planet.\u00a0 So now it\u2019s up to intergalactic garbage man Willy Jetman to clean up the mess.\u00a0 But as he\u2019s cleaning up, he ends up fighting some rogue robots and frees a space monkey from their prison.\u00a0 Could this be the same monkey from the crashed spaceship?\u00a0 And why is the monkey causing so much trouble?\u00a0 It\u2019s up to you to find out in this 2-D action platform shooter, available on most current consoles and PC (reviewed on Switch here).\u00a0 The game kind of reminds me of a cross between Cave Story and an obscure NES game I used to rent as a kid called Solar Jetman.<\/p>\n

As Willy, you can jump and shoot two different weapons with the face buttons.\u00a0 Hold down the R trigger button to use your jetpack, which lets you fly for a limited amount of time.\u00a0 The L trigger button will bring up a map with points of interest in the current area your in.\u00a0 Your main goal is to pick up trash and take it to warp portals that\u2019ll send it back to your talking garbage truck.\u00a0 Along the way, alien creatures will try to harm you and you must destroy them.\u00a0 When you do, they\u2019ll drop crystals that you can use to buy things, and you\u2019ll gain experience and level up, too.\u00a0 When you level up, you may get more energy or jet fuel, but it\u2019s a bit unclear as to when you level up and what you get when you do.<\/p>\n

There are caves scattered about each area that you can enter.\u00a0 Most of these caves house save points and shops.\u00a0 The shops let you switch out weapons, and if you find a poster of a new weapon in the wild, you can use it at the shop, as well as upgrade your weapons with the crystals you find.\u00a0 Other caves have challenging dungeon mazes and bosses to fight, with usually some kind of reward at the end.\u00a0\u00a0 The game could be described as a \u201cMetroidvania,\u201d meaning you explore mazes and come back with more powerful items so you can visit places you couldn\u2019t reach before.\u00a0 However, Willy Jetman seemed a bit more linear to me, especially at first.\u00a0 I did like the 16-bit style graphics and some of the chiptunes in the areas were pretty catchy.<\/p>\n

I did have a few problems with the game, though.\u00a0 First the graphics and text are so tiny, it makes it a little hard to play in handheld mode on the Switch.\u00a0 You lose a lot of graphic detail and the map is harder to read, too.\u00a0 Also the game is just too darn hard.\u00a0 I died a lot and while I was glad there were plenty of save points, there was one point where I got kind of stuck in a dungeon with a hard robot boss and I couldn\u2019t get out.\u00a0 Protip: if you see a cave with a bunch of downward stairs and fireballs, don\u2019t go in unless you are fully prepared, or else don\u2019t use the save point right before the boss. \u00a0But if you are up to the challenge, Willy Jetman is still a competent game.<\/p>\n

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Willy Jetman: Astromonkey\u2019s Revenge is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can shoot aliens and robots with lasers, missiles, and bombs, but they just explode and disappear when defeated.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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