{"id":24731,"date":"2024-07-29T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24731"},"modified":"2024-07-14T12:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T12:24:17","slug":"cyber-citizen-shockman-zero-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/29\/cyber-citizen-shockman-zero-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Citizen Shockman Zero (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"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 third game was on the Turbo CD, and I reviewed it a couple of months ago<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The last game in the series was on the Super Famicom, which is the SNES in Japan.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if the characters are the same, but they might as well be.\u00a0 Gameplay is kind of a mix of Power Rangers and Mega Man X.\u00a0 And now you can play it on modern consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

The game is one or two player simultaneous, which is cool.\u00a0 One small problem I had was that in past games, you could choose to play as the guy or gal, but here it doesn\u2019t seem like you can.\u00a0 Unless I just haven\u2019t figured out how to do it.\u00a0 I\u2019d much rather play as the pink haired sword wielding lady over the guy with oversized boxing gloves, but oh well.\u00a0 You can move with the control pad or stick and jump with one button and attack with the other.\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much it.\u00a0 You\u2019ll run through stages, fighting a boss at the end of each one.\u00a0 Defeated enemies leave behind items that you can get for points.\u00a0 Which are important here because when you get a high enough score, you\u2019ll level up and get another notch on your energy meter.\u00a0 Collect a battery to refill one notch.<\/p>\n

My only main problem with the game is it gets way too hard too quickly.\u00a0 But luckily you can activate cheats if you are having trouble.\u00a0 You can also switch between the Japanese version of the game or a newly translated version, which is nice.\u00a0 I still liked this game because the SNES is my number one favorite game console and I enjoy playing games on it I never had a chance to before.\u00a0 This definitely would\u2019ve been something I might\u2019ve rented back in the day.<\/p>\n

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

Cyber Citizen Shockman Zero is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Mild Blood.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice any blood, and you punch and slice cartoony robot enemies that just fly off and explode when defeated.\u00a0 Some of the text has some slightly crude humor, though.\u00a0 But I grew up playing games like this and I turned out OK.\u00a0 The cheats and two player option make this one good for all ages.<\/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":24718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24731","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\/24731","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=24731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24735,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731\/revisions\/24735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}