{"id":20879,"date":"2021-02-15T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20879"},"modified":"2021-01-27T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:15:09","slug":"yestermorrow-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/yestermorrow-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"YesterMorrow (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yui is a young girl who lives in a fantasy village with her family.\u00a0 One day, during a festival celebrating the light that protects their village and the people who harness it, evil shadow beings come to invade.\u00a0 They capture a bunch of the villagers, including most of Yui\u2019s family.\u00a0 Many years later, Yui is older and lives in the crumbling remnants of her town.\u00a0 One day she stumbles upon living ruins with the power to send her back in time.\u00a0 Now Yui must travel from the future to the past to stop the shadows and save her family in YesterMorrow.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 2-D side scrolling action adventure platformer game, and it\u2019s available on most current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

At the start of the game, Yui can only jump and climb ropes.\u00a0 At certain altars, she can travel from the past to the future and back again.\u00a0 Crumbling ruins in the future may be completely intact in the past, so she must use this skill to bypass obstacles and areas effectively.\u00a0 As you play, Yui will also learn new skills that\u2019ll help her travel the land.\u00a0 She\u2019ll be able to jump from walls, dash, do a double jump, and throw light bombs to destroy shadow enemies and things blocking her path.\u00a0 Both younger Yui in the past and older Yui in the future have the same skills and abilities.\u00a0 You\u2019ll travel through four islands on your adventures, and the game kind of has a \u201cMetroidvania\u201d feel to it, although you don\u2019t do as much backtracking and the game feels more linear.<\/p>\n

I do like the pixel graphics that kind of remind me of an older indie game called Fez.\u00a0 But YesterMorrow has some problems, too.\u00a0 One, the controls feel a bit squirrely in places.\u00a0 Performing actions like climbing ropes and wall jumping don\u2019t feel as responsive as they should be.\u00a0 You do get a map but it\u2019s also not very useful, you\u2019ll mostly just be following your nose most of the time.\u00a0 And the bosses are significantly harder than the rest of the game, so some players may come across a roadblock at some point.\u00a0 If they could\u2019ve fixed the controls and difficulty spikes, this could\u2019ve been a really great game.<\/p>\n

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YesterMorrow is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol Reference and Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can throw light bombs at shadowy monsters that explode when defeated, and when you lose all your energy you just immediately start right back at the last save point.\u00a0 Some of the people mention drinking plum wine in the town as well.\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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