{"id":24365,"date":"2024-04-01T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24365"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:04:37","slug":"violet-wisteria-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/01\/violet-wisteria-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet Wisteria (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/violet_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-24347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VIOLET_BOX-150x70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VIOLET_BOX-150x70.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VIOLET_BOX.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Help a lady in an elegant dress wielding a sword fight off demons in this 2-D platformer hack and slash.\u00a0 It reminds me of 16-bit titles like the Valis series.\u00a0 Violet Wisteria is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n<p>Your character can run, jump, and slide.\u00a0 The gameplay gimmick is there are three different types of slash attacks assigned to three different buttons.\u00a0 And each of those attacks is assigned a color. The enemies you defeat are weak against one of those attacks, so you must use the right one.\u00a0 It sounds confusing, and it kind of is.\u00a0 But lucky there is an option for you to have an icon above their head to tell you which color slash to use against them.\u00a0 If you hit them with the wrong attack, you\u2019ll be bounced backwards.\u00a0 Which is actually part of the gameplay because sometimes it&#8217;s the only way to cross larger pits.\u00a0 There are also magic spells you can use and item boxes that can give you health, time, or the ability to destroy enemies with any attack temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an acronym called K.I.S.S. which stands for \u201cKeep It Simple, Stupid.\u201d\u00a0 And that\u2019s the problem I have with this game.\u00a0 The three color slash mechanic is too complicated.\u00a0 Maybe if they reduced it to two, or honestly, not have it at all.\u00a0 Sure that wouldn\u2019t make the game very original, but it would\u2019ve been a lot more fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/violet_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24348\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VIOLET_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VIOLET_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VIOLET_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VIOLET_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Violet Wisteria is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You hit enemies with a sword and they disappear when defeated, and when you lose all your energy, you just fall down.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find this one too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help a lady in an elegant dress wielding a sword fight off demons in this 2-D platformer hack and slash.\u00a0 It reminds me of 16-bit titles like the Valis series.\u00a0 Violet Wisteria is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here. Your character can run, jump, and slide.\u00a0 The gameplay gimmick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24365","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\/24365","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=24365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24367,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365\/revisions\/24367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}