{"id":21571,"date":"2021-10-06T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21571"},"modified":"2021-09-06T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:21:05","slug":"ravva-and-the-cyclops-curse-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/06\/ravva-and-the-cyclops-curse-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravva and the Cyclops Curse (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There once was a powerful owl sorceress who could summon monsters at will.\u00a0 But an evil cyclops turned her to stone.\u00a0 Now the sorceress\u2019 daughter Ravva must use her weaker summoning powers to save her.\u00a0 Ravva and the Cyclops Curse is an 8-bit styled 2-D puzzle platformer.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Ravva can jump and has a basic shot, but if you press the L and R buttons she can cycle through her summoned monsters that have different abilities.\u00a0 The blue ghost monster can freeze enemies and certain spikes, which you can then shoot to destroy.\u00a0 The green glob fires powerful shots downward like bombs.\u00a0 The red thing with horns fires two diagonal fireballs upwards.\u00a0 And the one-eyed bat can detect secrets.\u00a0 You\u2019ll use all these monsters to defeat baddies and solve puzzles.<\/p>\n

Scattered about the levels are orbs that you can shoot for power-ups and goodies.\u00a0 Most give you coins for points, but some can give you a more powerful basic shot, a shield, or an extra life.\u00a0 There are all sorts of enemies, and most come out of these portals that if you destroy, there won\u2019t be any more monsters.\u00a0 You\u2019ll complete the level when you touch the diamond at the end.\u00a0 If you get hit, you\u2019ll get knocked back and lose a life, but at least you start back exactly where you left off and can continue from the last level if you get a Game Over.<\/p>\n

Since this is one of those \u2018one hit and you die\u2019 kind of games, it\u2019s nigh impossible in the later levels.\u00a0 Luckily you can change the difficulty to Kids Mode if you like, which basically makes you invincible.\u00a0 At the very least you can easily get all the trophies this way, although I found a bug that kept me from getting them unless I started over.\u00a0 At only ten levels, this game is kind of short, but it\u2019ll take you a while to get through them all on Normal settings.\u00a0 While the game is a bit broken at being impossible on Normal and no challenge on Kids Mode, it certainly feels like a game I would\u2019ve at least rented back in the 8-bit NES days as a kid.<\/p>\n

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

Ravva and the Cyclops Curse is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can shoot monsters with magic that disappear when defeated.\u00a0 When you get hit, you just get knocked back and hide under your hat.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but at least most everyone can play on Kids Mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There once was a powerful owl sorceress who could summon monsters at will.\u00a0 But an evil cyclops turned her to stone.\u00a0 Now the sorceress\u2019 daughter Ravva must use her weaker summoning powers to save her.\u00a0 Ravva and the Cyclops Curse is an 8-bit styled 2-D puzzle platformer.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for most current consoles and PC, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21571","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\/21571","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=21571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21573,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571\/revisions\/21573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}