{"id":23578,"date":"2023-06-28T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23578"},"modified":"2023-06-23T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:30:53","slug":"laserpitium-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/28\/laserpitium-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Laserpitium (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Laserpitium is a standard 2-D side scrolling shooter.\u00a0 Choose from three ships with different kinds of firepower and battle though various stages shooting all the bad guys.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to play.\u00a0 \u201cClassic\u201d mode has you choosing a path from two stages after you beat a boss.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of like how they do it in Darius. In \u201cFull\u201d mode, you choose five stages to play all at once, and then you go through them.\u00a0 Before you start each mode, you can choose one of three ships with different types of firepower.\u00a0 The first one lets you shoot front and back, which is most handy since in most stages, enemies come from both sides.\u00a0 Another ship shoots straight forward but you can switch to a spread shot for defeating baddies at an angle.\u00a0 The last ship just shoots a homing lightning bolt, which is handy until you realize how weak it is.\u00a0 You can pick up power-ups that increase the size of your shots, or just gives you bonus points.\u00a0 If you hit an enemy you\u2019ll explode, but if a bullet hits you, you can take a couple more hits before dying.\u00a0 When all your lives are lost, it\u2019s Game Over.<\/p>\n

The game has tons of difficulty settings, but it\u2019s still pretty hard.\u00a0 The easiest mode gives you TONS of lives, but you still may run out after a few stages if you\u2019re as bad at shooters as I am.\u00a0 Some of the set pieces are pretty neat, like an Egyptian style level.\u00a0 But some areas have objects that block your view in the foreground, which is a bit annoying.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s also hard to tell what\u2019s a wall and what\u2019s a background object.\u00a0 That and the difficulty is what annoyed me the most.\u00a0 But otherwise it\u2019s just a generic 2-D shooter.\u00a0 Not very original, but it\u2019s serviceable and does what it sets out to do.<\/p>\n

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

Laserpitium is rated T for Teen with an ESRB descriptor of Partial Nudity.\u00a0 Wait, what?\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice any of that in the game.\u00a0 I figured it would just get a ESRB descriptor of Violence since you shoot enemy spaceships that explode when defeated.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the menu text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laserpitium is a standard 2-D side scrolling shooter.\u00a0 Choose from three ships with different kinds of firepower and battle though various stages shooting all the bad guys.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here. There are two ways to play.\u00a0 \u201cClassic\u201d mode has you choosing a path from two stages after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23578","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\/23578","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=23578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23579,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions\/23579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}