{"id":24462,"date":"2024-05-01T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24462"},"modified":"2024-04-14T01:17:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T01:17:42","slug":"flightpath-adventures-in-venaris-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/01\/flightpath-adventures-in-venaris-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What happens when you combine a 2-D vertically scrolling shooter with a choose your own adventure book?\u00a0 You get Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris, that\u2019s what.\u00a0 Choose from three different characters, a detective, a mechanic, and a racer (who also happens to be a rabbit) each with their own spaceship and shooting styles.\u00a0 Each character has his or her own story, and depending on which choices you make in the levels, you can alter the story\u2019s outcome.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

The shooting stages are pretty straightforward, controls-wise.\u00a0 Move with the L stick, and shoot with the fire button.\u00a0 Another button sends out a screen clearing attack.\u00a0 In most stages are branching paths that you can take to change the story.\u00a0 Each path has different missions to fill, like destroying certain targets, protecting others, fighting a boss, etc.\u00a0 Even when you lose all your energy, you don\u2019t really \u2018die.\u2019 You just go back to the repair shop and can do a side mission with a loaner ship while yours is being repaired.\u00a0 With three main characters, each with their own story and branching paths, there is a lot of replay value here.<\/p>\n

Aside from choosing your own path, the other big wrinkle in this game is the shop system.\u00a0 Halfway through a level you can land at a shop to buy upgrades for your ship with coins you\u2019ve collected in the levels.\u00a0 You can buy different weapons but make sure you have a generator strong enough to handle them (if not, you\u2019ll have to wait until you can fire them again).\u00a0 You can also repair your ship, buy armor, shields, bombs, and more.<\/p>\n

My main problem with the game is there is some major slowdown, especially when there\u2019s text blocking the action.\u00a0 Also, since the stages are somewhat randomly generated, they can get a bit bland and tedious.\u00a0 But even so, I did like the fact that your ship can take multiple hits before going down, and the ambitious additions keep things somewhat interesting.<\/p>\n

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

Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Mild Language.\u00a0 You just shoot vehicles that explode when defeated, and some words like \u2018damn\u2019 are in the text only.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful and the difficulty is high enough that it\u2019s best for older kid gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happens when you combine a 2-D vertically scrolling shooter with a choose your own adventure book?\u00a0 You get Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris, that\u2019s what.\u00a0 Choose from three different characters, a detective, a mechanic, and a racer (who also happens to be a rabbit) each with their own spaceship and shooting styles.\u00a0 Each character has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24462","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\/24462","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=24462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24464,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions\/24464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}