{"id":22223,"date":"2022-04-25T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22223"},"modified":"2022-04-09T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T13:06:18","slug":"z-warp-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/25\/z-warp-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Z-Warp (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Z-Warp is a fast paced vertically scrolling shooter with classic styled graphics and sensibilities.\u00a0 In the future, a spaceship with a new warp drive goes missing, and it\u2019s up to you to pilot a special craft to recover the black box and find out what happened.\u00a0 But story doesn\u2019t really matter, just shoot everything that moves and avoid all the bullets!\u00a0 Z-Warp is available on most current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

The game plays like any other shooter but there are a couple of unique things about it.\u00a0 You can press the fire button repeatedly for shots, but you can hold it down for a powerful continuous blast.\u00a0 But doing so slows your ship down.\u00a0 Hammering on the fire button can get tiresome, though.\u00a0 You also have a screen clearing bomb but unlike other games, you have an unlimited amount you can use.\u00a0 But you have to wait for it to recharge for you to use it again.\u00a0 You can see when it\u2019s recharged by a circle around your ship, and when it overlaps you can fire a bomb again.\u00a0 The circle shows the blast radius, too, and you can use it to defeat clusters of enemies, activate switches, and even collect power-ups!\u00a0 This is also one of those \u2018bullet hell\u2019 type shooters where you must avoid streams of projectiles that fly around in flowery patterns.<\/p>\n

The Story Mode is the main mode and you can choose three difficulty selections, but they\u2019re all pretty hard.\u00a0 You don\u2019t get very many continues so that\u2019s frustrating, too.\u00a0 Depending on how many credits you use, you\u2019ll get a different ending.\u00a0 If you can beat the game without using a credit, you\u2019ll get something special.\u00a0 There\u2019s also an Endless Mode and you can view the leaderboards, toggle settings, and view instructions on how to play.\u00a0 The pixel graphics are chunky and the constant flashing makes things hard to see, but the main problem I had was just the high difficulty.<\/p>\n

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Z-Warp is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood and Violence.\u00a0 You shoot all kinds of aliens and the game has an \u2018inside a giant organism\u2019 look to it (think Life Force) so I guess that\u2019s where the blood comes from. But the blocky retro visuals negate a lot of the graphic violence.\u00a0 Really the best reason why this is better for older players is the high difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Z-Warp is a fast paced vertically scrolling shooter with classic styled graphics and sensibilities.\u00a0 In the future, a spaceship with a new warp drive goes missing, and it\u2019s up to you to pilot a special craft to recover the black box and find out what happened.\u00a0 But story doesn\u2019t really matter, just shoot everything that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22223","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\/22223","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=22223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22225,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223\/revisions\/22225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}