{"id":22098,"date":"2022-03-09T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22098"},"modified":"2022-02-24T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:10:02","slug":"beat-souls-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/09\/beat-souls-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Souls (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/beat_box-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BEAT_BOX-150x76.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BEAT_BOX-150x76.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BEAT_BOX.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Dodge obstacles to the beat of the music in Beat Souls, an action game for nearly all current consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here.\u00a0 First choose an anime girl to play (you can unlock three more, but they all play the same).\u00a0 Then choose from 60 unlockable songs as you avoid obstacles and line up soul icons.<\/p>\n<p>In each song, you can move left and right on a 5&#215;5 grid.\u00a0 Barriers and bumps will come at you, and you must move out of the way of the barriers and jump over the bumps with the X button.\u00a0 On each side of your character are \u201cBeat Souls\u201d that you must also line up with icons of the same shape coming at you as well.\u00a0 You can press the L and R buttons to make both beat souls appear on each side of you and press the Square button to change the colors of the soul icons if need be.<\/p>\n<p>The more you can line up these souls and avoid obstacles, the higher your combo score will be.\u00a0 You can also enter Fever Mode to boost your score even more!\u00a0 If you miss too many souls or hit too many obstacles, your energy will go down.\u00a0 If your energy meter is empty, you\u2019ll have to start the song over again.<\/p>\n<p>When you complete a song in Normal Mode, you can unlock it in Hard Mode.\u00a0 You can also unlock new characters to play as if you pass enough songs.\u00a0 Gameplay isn\u2019t bad, but it\u2019s not remarkable either, and the songs really don\u2019t do anything for me.\u00a0 Overall, Beat Souls is fine, but not great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/beat_screen-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BEAT_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BEAT_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BEAT_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BEAT_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beat Souls is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can run into neon colored walls and bumps on the floor, but I don\u2019t know how that can be violent.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may find the harder songs too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dodge obstacles to the beat of the music in Beat Souls, an action game for nearly all current consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here.\u00a0 First choose an anime girl to play (you can unlock three more, but they all play the same).\u00a0 Then choose from 60 unlockable songs as you avoid obstacles and line up 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