{"id":24325,"date":"2024-03-20T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24325"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:13:38","slug":"wira-taksa-against-the-master-of-gravity-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/20\/wira-taksa-against-the-master-of-gravity-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Wira & Taksa: Against the Master of Gravity (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The universe needs saving, and it\u2019s up to intergalactic heroes Wira and Taksa to save the day.\u00a0 This is a 2-D puzzle platformer where you switch between the two characters to solve puzzles, avoid obstacles, and defeat enemies.\u00a0 Wira is fast and can avoid dangers easier, and while Taksa is slower, he has a hammer for defeating enemies.\u00a0 The game is available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The first thing you\u2019ll notice about the game is how they jump.\u00a0 Instead of just coming back down to the ground, they\u2019ll switch to the ceiling and walk on that until you jump again.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of an old NES rarity called Metal Storm.\u00a0 You can look up and down to see what\u2019s above and below you, which is wise since many times you\u2019ll have to jump to the ceiling or floor beyond the screen.\u00a0 Wira moves much quicker and makes it easier to avoid obstacles.\u00a0 Taksa is slower and bigger, but you can press a button to make him swing a hammer to defeat enemies blocking your way.\u00a0 There are hidden items to collect for an extra challenge, and if you lose all your energy, you\u2019ll start at the last checkpoint you reached.<\/p>\n

My main problem with this game are the controls.\u00a0 Jumping from floor to ceiling is hard enough to get used to, but sometimes you\u2019ll switch and have to jump from one wall to another.\u00a0 When this happens, you still press left and right to move up and down the wall, which makes no sense.\u00a0 Why not switch it so you press up and down to walk up and down walls?\u00a0 And the button placement for jumping, switching characters, and using the hammer felt odd to me.\u00a0 And even though you have an energy bar, most of the time you get killed in one hit by an unseen danger anyway.\u00a0 Because of all this, I lost interest in this one pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

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

Wira & Taksa: Against the Master of Gravity is rated T for Teen with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Violence.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know why this got a Teen rating.\u00a0 When you lose all your energy, you explode and say \u201cArgh\u201d or \u201cOh no\u201d and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may find this one too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The universe needs saving, and it\u2019s up to intergalactic heroes Wira and Taksa to save the day.\u00a0 This is a 2-D puzzle platformer where you switch between the two characters to solve puzzles, avoid obstacles, and defeat enemies.\u00a0 Wira is fast and can avoid dangers easier, and while Taksa is slower, he has a hammer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24325","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\/24325","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=24325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24327,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24325\/revisions\/24327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}