{"id":21784,"date":"2021-12-06T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21784"},"modified":"2021-11-11T02:42:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T02:42:21","slug":"pretty-girls-panic-plus-ps4-ps5-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/06\/pretty-girls-panic-plus-ps4-ps5-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Girls Panic! PLUS (PS4, PS5, Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Play a classic styled arcade game to reveal pictures of anime ladies in Pretty Gals Panic! PLUS.\u00a0 It\u2019s very similar to Pretty Girls Panic, which I reviewed recently<\/strong><\/a>, but adds new graphics, characters, and gameplay mechanics.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on PlayStation consoles, Switch, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

So basically, this game plays just like Qix, a classic Taito arcade game from the early 80s.\u00a0 In that game you had to draw lines to form squares, and when you did it would fill in the square and would give you a percentage of territory you covered.\u00a0 But you had to avoid enemies that would destroy you if they touched you or your line before finishing a square.\u00a0 In Pretty Girls Panic, if you get 75 percent or more of your squares on the screen, you\u2019ll finish the level and reveal a picture of an anime lady in a swimsuit or other outfit.\u00a0 Oddly enough, there was a Qix-like arcade game with the same idea called Gals Panic that gained some notoriety because of that.<\/p>\n

While the first game had an underwater theme, this one has characters from myths and legends.\u00a0 You control a monkey on a cloud similar to the Journey to the West story, for instance.\u00a0 You\u2019ll avoid enemies that bounce around, hone in on you, ones that follow your line, and others that fire projectiles at you.\u00a0 If you touch a power-up or wrap a square around one, you can temporarily stop time, or get extra speed or invincibility.\u00a0 You get bonus points for bigger squares or if you make a square with an enemy inside.\u00a0 New to PLUS are fields that can slow you down, speed you up, keep you from moving, or kill you outright.<\/p>\n

You can start back from any stage you\u2019ve finished, as well as view the ladies and outfits you\u2019ve unlocked in the gallery.\u00a0 You can change settings in the options screen, like the difficulty, which either gives you four or six lives per level.\u00a0 And you can read how to play in Help.\u00a0 If you look at just the core gameplay itself, I actually liked it because it\u2019s Qix but not quite as hard and less nerve-wracking.\u00a0 It would\u2019ve been nice if there was an option to turn off the anime ladies in the background if that bothers people, but otherwise that\u2019s the only problem I had with it, aside from the annoying polka dot backgrounds.\u00a0 It was also pretty easy to get all the trophies, as I \u2018platinumed\u2019 it in one sitting!<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong>
\nPretty Girls Panic! PLUS is rated M for Mature with ESRB descriptors of Partial Nudity and Sexual Themes.\u00a0 The busty anime ladies are seen in bikinis and other outfits, but that\u2019s about it.\u00a0 As mentioned before, if there were an option to turn that off, this game would be safe for kids then.\u00a0 But as it stands now, it\u2019s best for older players only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Play a classic styled arcade game to reveal pictures of anime ladies in Pretty Gals Panic! PLUS.\u00a0 It\u2019s very similar to Pretty Girls Panic, which I reviewed recently, but adds new graphics, characters, and gameplay mechanics.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on PlayStation consoles, Switch, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here. So basically, this game plays just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21784","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\/21784","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=21784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21786,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784\/revisions\/21786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}