{"id":23387,"date":"2023-07-05T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23387"},"modified":"2023-05-03T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T12:32:56","slug":"xiaomei-and-the-flame-dragons-fist-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/05\/xiaomei-and-the-flame-dragons-fist-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaomei and the Flame Dragon’s Fist (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kung-Fu Master was a super popular arcade game in the early 80s and is one of the first examples of a side-scrolling beat \u2018em up.\u00a0 I remember seeing it everywhere in arcades back then, and the port on the NES was also fairly big.\u00a0 If you like that style of game, you may want to check out Xiaomei and the Flame Dragon\u2019s Fist on Switch and PC (reviewed on Switch here).\u00a0 It\u2019s like a 16-bit upgrade to Kung-Fu Master.\u00a0 Two marital artists, Xiaomei and her sister Xiaoyin are training to master two techniques.\u00a0 Xiaoyin is mastering the Dark Dragon Fist while Xiaomei learns the Flame Dragon\u2019s Fist.\u00a0 Xiaoyin becomes jealous of Xiaomei\u2019s mastery of the art.\u00a0 So when Xiaoyin goes missing and trouble starts brewing from the mountain where the Dark Dragon resides, Xiaomei sets off to find her sister and defeat whatever evils come her way.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve every played Kung-Fu Master, you\u2019ll know what to expect here as gameplay is exactly the same.\u00a0 Even the placement of your energy bar and stage markers are in the same place!\u00a0 Xiaomei can punch with one button and kick with the other.\u00a0 Press up to jump and you can also use a limited special attack.\u00a0 Fend off waves of enemies that are also just like the ones in Kung-Fu Master, including the guys that run up to you in packs of three, spear throwers (instead of knife tossers), and tiny dudes.\u00a0 At the end of each stage is a boss and you must defeat them to move onto the next stage.\u00a0 The levels are at least a little varied in the backgrounds, as the first is a bamboo forest although the second stage looks exactly like the temple from Kung-Fu-Master.<\/p>\n

The main problem I had with this one is that it\u2019s just too darn hard!\u00a0 Even on the Easy setting, I could barely get to stage 2. Hit detection felt a little off and there was too many flying enemies. Granted I was never good at Kung-Fu Master either, but I remember it being better than this.\u00a0 You can unlock a mode where you can play as her sister Xiaoyin but you have to beat the game first with Xiaomei so that\u2019ll never happen with me!\u00a0 But if you miss games like Kung-Fu Master you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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

Xiaomei and the Flame Dragon\u2019s Fist is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can punch and kick bad guys who just fall off the screen with an \u201cargh\u201d as do you when you lose all your energy.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kung-Fu Master was a super popular arcade game in the early 80s and is one of the first examples of a side-scrolling beat \u2018em up.\u00a0 I remember seeing it everywhere in arcades back then, and the port on the NES was also fairly big.\u00a0 If you like that style of game, you may want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23387","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\/23387","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=23387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23389,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions\/23389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}