{"id":21787,"date":"2021-11-16T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21787"},"modified":"2021-11-11T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T11:50:53","slug":"gynoug-ps4-switch-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/16\/gynoug-ps4-switch-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Gynoug (PS4, Switch, Xbox One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve been reviewing a lot of Japan-only classic 16-bit shooters lately that have been re-released on newer consoles.\u00a0 But here\u2019s one that was actually released in the US on the SEGA Genesis, under a new name.\u00a0 In Japan it was called Gynoug, but they changed it to Wings of Wor in the US.\u00a0 Despite how you may feel about the change, I can understand why they did that since \u2018Gynoug\u201d looks like the phonetical pronunciation of holding back a sneeze.\u00a0 Anyway, in this one you play as a winged warrior as you mow down enemies in 2-D side scrolling fashion.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on most current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

You move your winged dude in all directions and hold down the button to fire.\u00a0 Collect orbs to power up your shots, and wings to speed you up.\u00a0 There are also scrolls with letters on them that you can grab that\u2019ll give you a secondary weapon but with limited ammo, so use those wisely.\u00a0 You\u2019ll travel through about half a dozen stages battling a mid boss and a final enemy in each area.\u00a0 The highlight of this game are the bosses, as they are very detailed and unique looking.\u00a0 Most of the game kind of has a Greek mythology feel to it, but the bosses are more biomechanical.\u00a0 The first main boss looks like a steam locomotive machine with a human face on it, for example.\u00a0 The same people who made this game would later go on to make the Cho Anki series, so if you know what those are, you\u2019ll know kind of what to expect here.<\/p>\n

I had a few problems with this game, though.\u00a0 Activating your special weapons was a bit fiddly as you have to select them with one button before you can fire them with another.\u00a0 And the stages go on for far too long.\u00a0 It gets pretty hard, too, almost borderlining on \u2018bullet hell\u2019 before that was even a thing.\u00a0 The rewind feature helps out a lot, though. \u00a0Otherwise, it\u2019s not a bad Genesis shooter, just kind of generic.\u00a0 I really wish they\u2019d re-release Gaiares.\u00a0 That\u2019s my favorite Genesis shooter!<\/p>\n

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Gynoug is rated T for Teen with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You shoot down enemies that explode when defeated, but that\u2019s about it.\u00a0 One thing to note is that the biomechanical bosses sometimes have pixel blood coming out of orifices, so keep that in mind.\u00a0 And that aforementioned train boss with a human head looks like Thomas the Tank Engine went through Hell.\u00a0 Plus younger gamers may find the game too difficult anyway, even on the \u2018easy\u2019 setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been reviewing a lot of Japan-only classic 16-bit shooters lately that have been re-released on newer consoles.\u00a0 But here\u2019s one that was actually released in the US on the SEGA Genesis, under a new name.\u00a0 In Japan it was called Gynoug, but they changed it to Wings of Wor in the US.\u00a0 Despite how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21787","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\/21787","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=21787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21789,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions\/21789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}