{"id":24565,"date":"2024-06-03T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24565"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T12:24:38","slug":"cyber-citizen-shockman-3-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/03\/cyber-citizen-shockman-3-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Citizen Shockman 3 (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cyber Citizen Shockman was a series of 2D action platformers back in the 16-bit days.\u00a0 They starred a pair of superhero cyborg teens (a guy and a gal) who were created by a crazy professor.\u00a0 They would fight intergalactic baddies with their swords and beam attacks.\u00a0 The first two were on the PC Engine, which was the Japanese version of the TurboGrafix-16.\u00a0 The second game was even brought out to the US.\u00a0 The third game in the series was on the CD add on in Japan.\u00a0 And now you can play it on modern consoles (reviewed on PS4 here).<\/p>\n

You can choose to play as either the boy or the girl, but they both play the same.\u00a0 You can also do two players as well.\u00a0 Jump with one button, and swing your sword with the other.\u00a0 You can also charge up the attack button and release it for a long range beam attack and you can even control it a little bit.\u00a0 Defeated enemies drop batteries you can collect that I think give you life and continues.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not sure since the game doesn\u2019t have any instructions.\u00a0 As a Turbo CD game, there are fully voiced anime cutscenes and enhanced graphics.\u00a0 You can also view artwork in a gallery.<\/p>\n

My main problem with this game is that there aren\u2019t any instructions.\u00a0 There is a scanned manual you can look at in the gallery, but it\u2019s all in Japanese.\u00a0 Luckily the game is pretty easy to figure out.\u00a0 The game also gets hard quickly, but if you have trouble, you can always activate an assortment of cheats via the menu.\u00a0 The game is pretty basic and doesn\u2019t do anything groundbreaking, but I still had fun playing a game I otherwise wouldn\u2019t have even heard of.\u00a0 I never had a TG-16, so it\u2019s nice to play some retro games I haven\u2019t played to death already.<\/p>\n

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

Cyber Citizen Shockman 3 is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Mild Blood.\u00a0 You swing your sword at robots that explode when defeated, but that\u2019s pretty much it.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice any blood, but for some reason the closing credits have some pretty gruesome monsters in the background.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the menu text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may find it too difficult but you can activate cheats to make it easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cyber Citizen Shockman was a series of 2D action platformers back in the 16-bit days.\u00a0 They starred a pair of superhero cyborg teens (a guy and a gal) who were created by a crazy professor.\u00a0 They would fight intergalactic baddies with their swords and beam attacks.\u00a0 The first two were on the PC Engine, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24565","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\/24565","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=24565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24567,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565\/revisions\/24567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}