{"id":22568,"date":"2022-09-19T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22568"},"modified":"2022-08-26T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T12:16:06","slug":"robo-revenge-squad-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/19\/robo-revenge-squad-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Robo Revenge Squad (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Build and customize robots out of everyday parts like boxing gloves and disco balls, and then pit them against each other in top down action stages in Robot Revenge Squad.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

After a brief interactive tutorial, you\u2019ll enter a main hub where you can upgrade your parts via a skill tree.\u00a0 So for instance, you start out with a pirate sword as a melee weapon, but you can upgrade it to a boxing glove if you have enough points.\u00a0 Then you must equip your upgrades at another section of the hub.\u00a0 And when you are ready to start a mission, just go over to the rocket and pick one.<\/p>\n

Gameplay in the levels kind of reminds me of a mix of Pok\u00e9mon Rumble Blast and Gauntlet.\u00a0 You view the action in a top down perspective, and can move in any direction with the control stick.\u00a0 You use your main attack with the R shoulder button, and secondary attacks with the L shoulder button and X button.\u00a0 Usually your main attack is a melee weapon, like the sword, and your other weapon is a long distance attack.\u00a0 The X button activates your head weapon, like a disco ball which makes the enemies freeze for a bit so you can attack them.\u00a0 You can also dash out of the way.\u00a0 Special weapons take energy, but you can get that energy back by using your main weapon.<\/p>\n

The game has a whole bunch of problems that kept me from enjoying it, though.\u00a0 Your main attack is downright useless, especially since other enemies can just wail on you as you miss.\u00a0 It\u2019s not fun to defeat enemies this way, but if you bypass them, they\u2019ll eventually gang up on you and make it impossible to progress.\u00a0 Especially when you have to pause to play an annoying mini game to activate a switch or gate or something.\u00a0 You get three lives and after that you must start the level over again.\u00a0 The text in the levels is also too small.\u00a0 Up to four can play local or online, and I imagine it might be more fun to play that way, like a beat \u2018em up in the arcade.\u00a0 But otherwise, I didn\u2019t find this one that much fun.<\/p>\n

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

Robo Revenge Squad is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You hit other robots with silly weapons and they explode when defeated, but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Build and customize robots out of everyday parts like boxing gloves and disco balls, and then pit them against each other in top down action stages in Robot Revenge Squad.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here. After a brief interactive tutorial, you\u2019ll enter a main hub where you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22568","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\/22568","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=22568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22570,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions\/22570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}