{"id":24243,"date":"2024-02-19T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24243"},"modified":"2024-02-17T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T13:45:20","slug":"saga-of-the-moon-priestess-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/19\/saga-of-the-moon-priestess-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Saga of the Moon Priestess (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My number one favorite Zelda game is Link\u2019s Awakening, so when I got the opportunity to review a game that mimics that Game Boy classic, I was pretty excited.\u00a0 In Saga of the Moon Priestess, a prince has been kidnapped and you play as a girl who can talk to the moon goddess and must rescue him.\u00a0 You\u2019ll travel through an overworld and tromp through five different dungeon mazes in top down 2D fashion to get him back.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

As the moon priestess girl, you\u2019ll walk around single screen areas like an overworld and dungeons.\u00a0 Your weapon of choice is a spear, which you\u2019ll thrust in front of you to defeat enemies.\u00a0 You can also find items and tools in dungeons that\u2019ll help you progress.\u00a0 You first equip them in the start screen and press another button to use them.\u00a0 These include Zelda style staples like gloves that let you pick up rocks, a bow and arrow, magic fire rod, bombs, and a special hookshot like the one in either the Oracle of Ages\/Seasons games (can\u2019t remember which one).\u00a0 The overworld is probably about half the size of the one in Link\u2019s Awakening, and there are only five main dungeons, so some may say it\u2019s a bit short.\u00a0 But it could also be considered a nice bite-sized adventure.<\/p>\n

Or it WOULD be if it weren\u2019t for the problems with the game.\u00a0 Play control is just slightly slow and clunky.\u00a0 And when you get hit, there is no knockback or temporary invincibility, so your health can whittle down quick if you\u2019re not careful.\u00a0 I also wish there were more save points.\u00a0 Worst of all is that the game froze up on me several times.\u00a0 Either I\u2019d get stuck in a wall or the game would crash outright.\u00a0 And honestly these problems didn\u2019t bother me much until I got to the last dungeon, where they all reared their ugly heads at once and made playing that area a slog.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame, too, because with a bit more quality control, this would\u2019ve been a nice little experience.<\/p>\n

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

Saga of the Moon Priestess is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Suggestive Themes.\u00a0 You hit enemies with a spear or magic and they just disappear with a little explosion when defeated.\u00a0 It\u2019s no worse than an old school Zelda game.\u00a0 The suggestive themes are pretty mild and in the text only.\u00a0 A woman jokes with the main character about making babies after rescuing the prince and that\u2019s all I could find.\u00a0 Honestly I\u2019d be ok with kids younger than teens playing this, but good reading skill is still a must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My number one favorite Zelda game is Link\u2019s Awakening, so when I got the opportunity to review a game that mimics that Game Boy classic, I was pretty excited.\u00a0 In Saga of the Moon Priestess, a prince has been kidnapped and you play as a girl who can talk to the moon goddess and must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24243","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\/24243","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=24243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24311,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243\/revisions\/24311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}