{"id":24076,"date":"2023-12-13T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24076"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:01:13","slug":"head-bangers-rhythm-royale-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/13\/head-bangers-rhythm-royale-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Bangers: Rhythm Royale (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Battle Royale games, where you compete online against a bunch of others for the number one spot, are becoming very popular lately.\u00a0 Most of these are shooters, but some are a bit more creative, like Tetris 99 or the more recent racer F-Zero 99<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 And now there\u2019s a music\/rhythm battle royale game with Head Bangers: Rhythm Royale!\u00a0 Play as your very own head bobbing silly pigeon as you play music mini games (kind of reminds me of Rhythm Heaven), as you compete for the highest score.\u00a0 And on a personal record, it\u2019s the first Battle Royale style game I\u2019ve gotten first place on!\u00a0 Head Bangers is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

So I want to warn everyone right up front that if you are playing this game on a console, you HAVE to have an online account in order to play.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have Nintendo Switch Online or PlayStation Plus or whatever, you won\u2019t make it past the start screen.\u00a0 That gets us to one of the problems I have with this game, but I\u2019ll go over that later.\u00a0 Anyway, from the menu screen you have several options. Home lets you play with random online strangers or friends.\u00a0 Progress lets you see what you can unlock next.\u00a0 Challenges give you specific activities that when done lets you unlock special outfits for your bird.\u00a0 Customization lets you dress up your pigeon in outfits you\u2019ve unlocked, as well as voice clips and more.\u00a0 The Shop lets you buy more outfits and things with the bread you earn by playing.\u00a0 And finally you can toggle options.<\/p>\n

To play, you\u2019ll do four mini games where you must time your button presses to the beat of the music, or you might have to memorize sounds.\u00a0 In each game, the players with the lowest scores will be eliminated.\u00a0 These music games remind me a lot of the ones you\u2019d find in Rhythm Heaven.\u00a0 During the game, you might see a power-up fly by, and if you press the L or R trigger buttons quick enough, you can nab it.\u00a0 But as it\u2019s an online game, I never got a chance to do that.\u00a0 You can also spin the L or R controller stick around to move your pigeon\u2019s neck all over the place.\u00a0 At first this seems to serve no purpose other than to be silly.\u00a0 But if you spin your head around during the game, you might fill up a meter that when full, lets you go to a bonus stage where you earn more bread.\u00a0 But considering you must do this while also listening carefully to the music, it\u2019s harder than it sounds!<\/p>\n

So that brings me back to my major problem with this game.\u00a0 You can only play it online, and while 20 bucks isn\u2019t too bad of a price, it\u2019s still a bit much for that small amount of content.\u00a0 I wish they at least would\u2019ve put in a single player option where you could practice the mini-games or something.\u00a0 But what is here is pretty fun.\u00a0 And like I said earlier, it\u2019s the first Battle Royale style game where I got first place!\u00a0 I have never done that before, not even with Pac-Man 99!\u00a0 So I was pretty proud of that.\u00a0 Maybe I just got lucky or maybe it\u2019s easy to do here, but I\u2019m still taking my victory!<\/p>\n

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

Head Bangers: Rhythm Royale is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol Reference, Mild Blood, Fantasy Violence, and Comic Mischief.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t see any alcohol or blood, but your pigeons can get zapped with lightning or smacked into a wall.\u00a0 It\u2019s all just silly stuff.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Battle Royale games, where you compete online against a bunch of others for the number one spot, are becoming very popular lately.\u00a0 Most of these are shooters, but some are a bit more creative, like Tetris 99 or the more recent racer F-Zero 99.\u00a0 And now there\u2019s a music\/rhythm battle royale game with Head Bangers: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24076","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\/24076","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=24076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24078,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24076\/revisions\/24078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}