{"id":23149,"date":"2023-03-27T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23149"},"modified":"2023-02-06T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:49:35","slug":"trophy-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/trophy-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Trophy (Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Originally a homebrew 8-bit NES game, you can now download Trophy on Switch, current Xbox consoles, and PC (reviewed on Switch here).\u00a0 In the game, two scientists travel to another planet and befriend sentient robots there.\u00a0 One of the scientists returns to Earth to report the findings, while the other one stays on the other planet and turns evil and takes it over.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s up to the other scientist to return to the planet, fuse with his robot friend to become Trophy, and save the day!\u00a0 Trophy is a 2-D sidescrolling run and gun platformer clearly inspired by classic Mega Man titles.<\/p>\n

As Trophy, you can run, jump, and shoot.\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much it.\u00a0 Blast anything that moves and avoid enemies.\u00a0 If you get hit too many times, your energy meter will drain and you\u2019ll have to start back at the last checkpoint.\u00a0 Run out of lives and you must start the level over again.\u00a0 Also similar to Mega Man, you can choose from eight stages to start from. These range from factories, trains, carnivals, forests, tundra, and more.\u00a0 Defeated enemies will sometimes drop power-ups to refill your energy or give you an extra life.\u00a0 At the end of each stage is a giant screen filling boss to defeat.<\/p>\n

This game will really make you appreciate the great and well thought out level design of a Mega Man title.\u00a0 Trophy stages look decent, but a bit uninspired.\u00a0 Enemy placement makes it hard to avoid getting hit.\u00a0 And the bosses are damage sponges and take way too many shots to defeat, and spray hard to avoid bullets all over the place.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if you get any skills from defeating one, because I sure couldn\u2019t, but I don\u2019t think you do.\u00a0 I also wish you could change the controls.\u00a0 A to jump and B to shoot is a bit awkward.\u00a0 It still looks like something I might\u2019ve rented as a kid back in the NES days, but I think now I\u2019d rather just play Mega Man.<\/p>\n

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

Trophy is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You shoot robots that explode when defeated, and the 8-bit graphics negate the violence in the visuals.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may find it too difficult, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally a homebrew 8-bit NES game, you can now download Trophy on Switch, current Xbox consoles, and PC (reviewed on Switch here).\u00a0 In the game, two scientists travel to another planet and befriend sentient robots there.\u00a0 One of the scientists returns to Earth to report the findings, while the other one stays on the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23149","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\/23149","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=23149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23151,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149\/revisions\/23151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}