{"id":23592,"date":"2023-09-04T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23592"},"modified":"2023-07-29T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T11:48:37","slug":"battle-kid-fortress-of-peril-switch-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/04\/battle-kid-fortress-of-peril-switch-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril (Switch, Xbox One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the future, two young dudes, Chester and Timmy, are training at an intense battle school.\u00a0 But when Chester is caught cheating (possibly wrongly) and kicked out, he turns toward the forces of evil.\u00a0 He then steals an important item from the school that can grant him great power, and now Timmy must don a special battle suit and face his former friend in the Fortress of Peril.\u00a0 Battle Kid is a 8-bit homebrew NES game, but now you can play it on Switch and Xbox One.\u00a0 It heavily borrows elements from games like Mega Man and \u201cMetroidvania\u201d titles.<\/p>\n

Timmy can run, jump, and shoot as he runs through a maze of single screen obstacles and enemies.\u00a0 There are branching pathways and areas you might not be able to reach right away, but as you explore you\u2019ll find items like keycards to unlock doors, a map that shows your coordinates, and other helpful goodies like boots that let you jump higher.\u00a0 Every so often you\u2019ll come across rooms that\u2019ll act as a checkpoint if you die, and will give you a password so you can start at that point later on.\u00a0 Other rooms house huge bosses for you to defeat, too.\u00a0 You can choose from five different difficulty levels as well.<\/p>\n

Play control is very good, but there were some problems that kept me from staying interested.\u00a0 I really wish you got a more useful in-game map.\u00a0 And later on, the game relies too much on instant death spikes for my liking.\u00a0 And while the bosses are kind of cool, the rest of the graphics are a bit uninspired, even for 8-bit.\u00a0 I also don\u2019t like how the save system works.\u00a0 I know this was originally a NES homebrew and probably didn\u2019t come with a battery backup.\u00a0 But it would\u2019ve been nice to have been able to save your game here instead of having to use a password.\u00a0 Surely they could\u2019ve modified it to do that.\u00a0 At its current state, you\u2019d better record your passwords if you want to come back to this one later.<\/p>\n

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

Defeated enemies just poof out of existence after shooting them, and you just dissolve when defeated, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 I grew up with games like this and I turned out OK anyway.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find this one too difficult later on.\u00a0 Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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