{"id":20755,"date":"2021-01-11T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20755"},"modified":"2020-11-29T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T13:43:58","slug":"destropolis-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/destropolis-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Destropolis (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Destropolis is a minimalist twin stick shooter where you\u2019re a square shooting other squares.\u00a0 Zap the cubes to collect power-ups and weapons to level up and select skills to reach as high of a score as you can.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

You control a glowing diamond and can move around with the L stick.\u00a0 Aim with the R stick and fire with the R shoulder button.\u00a0 You\u2019ll blast stationary cubes that look like buildings, as well as red squares that can attack and damage you.\u00a0 You can take multiple hits, thankfully, but once you run out of energy, you\u2019ll explode and it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 When you shoot enough red squares, you\u2019ll level up and can pick a skill. These skills can raise your rate of fire, defense, power, and more.\u00a0 Try to get as high of a score as you can.\u00a0 Up to three can play co-op, and you can upload your high scores to a leaderboard if you\u2019re connected to the internet.<\/p>\n

As you play, other power-ups will appear as yellow or blue pillars.\u00a0 Yellow ones are temporary power-ups, and include things like bullet time which slows things down, air raids from above, double points, and more.\u00a0 Blue power-ups are weapons, and you must press a button to pick them up.\u00a0 These include things like spread shots, laser beams, and others.\u00a0 These last for a short while before reverting back to your original weapon.<\/p>\n

Really the only problem I had with this game is the controls.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t bad, but I don\u2019t like that you have to press a separate button to fire.\u00a0 Just aiming with the control stick should automatically make you shoot.\u00a0 Plus I didn\u2019t like having to press a button to pick up weapons.\u00a0 I know they did this so you could choose to keep your current one, but usually they appear around when you run out of ammo for your current weapon.\u00a0 It just would\u2019ve streamlined things a bit to do it my way, I think.\u00a0 So while Destropolis is no Geometry Wars, it\u2019s still fun if you like those kinds of games.<\/p>\n

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

Destropolis is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You\u2019re a square that zaps blasts of light at other squares, so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s really that violent at all. Reading skill is helpful for the text, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Destropolis is a minimalist twin stick shooter where you\u2019re a square shooting other squares.\u00a0 Zap the cubes to collect power-ups and weapons to level up and select skills to reach as high of a score as you can.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here. You control a glowing diamond and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20755","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\/20755","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=20755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20757,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755\/revisions\/20757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}