{"id":23114,"date":"2023-03-15T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23114"},"modified":"2023-01-27T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T13:45:21","slug":"venegeful-guardian-moonrider-ps4-ps5-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/15\/venegeful-guardian-moonrider-ps4-ps5-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider (PS4, PS5, Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/moonrider_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-23091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOONRIDER_BOX-150x82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOONRIDER_BOX-150x82.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOONRIDER_BOX.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Battle oppression in a bleak dystopian future as a robotic samurai in Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider.\u00a0 The game is designed to look and play like a 16-bit 2-D action game, like what you might\u2019ve seen on the SEGA Genesis or Super Nintendo.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on PlayStation consoles, Switch, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n<p>As the cyborg samurai, you can run and jump, as well as swing a laser sword to defeat enemies, wall jump, dash, and use a special attack.\u00a0 Special attacks drain a meter, but you can refill it and your energy meter with items in the levels.\u00a0 You start out at an intro stage, but after that you can select your stage like Mega Man.\u00a0 When you defeat a boss, you\u2019ll get another special attack, like a super dash move.\u00a0 You can also equip chips you find that gives you perks.\u00a0 Like one that lets you take more damage, but you won\u2019t get a stage rank higher than a B when you use it. \u00a0The stages have a lot of variety.\u00a0 There\u2019s even one stage where you view the action behind you riding a motorcycle and it\u2019s like a cross between a racing game and shooting stage as you zip through a futuristic city.<\/p>\n<p>I love the 16-bit style of the game and how it looks like something I would\u2019ve rented back in the SNES days.\u00a0 But the game is just too darn hard.\u00a0 And a lot of the difficulty comes from how slow your character moves, and the fact that enemies move three times as fast as you and can attack from any part of the screen with projectiles while you only have a little sword.\u00a0 Too bad there wasn\u2019t any Easy mode.\u00a0 If there was, I think I would\u2019ve liked this one a lot more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/moonrider_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23092\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOONRIDER_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOONRIDER_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOONRIDER_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOONRIDER_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood and Gore, Language, and Violence.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice any bad language, but you can slash enemies that explode into parts and red pixel blood when defeated.\u00a0 Because of that and the high difficulty level, I\u2019d say this one\u2019s best for teens and older gamers only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle oppression in a bleak dystopian future as a robotic samurai in Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider.\u00a0 The game is designed to look and play like a 16-bit 2-D action game, like what you might\u2019ve seen on the SEGA Genesis or Super Nintendo.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on PlayStation consoles, Switch, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here. 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