{"id":24822,"date":"2024-09-11T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24822"},"modified":"2024-08-07T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:43:43","slug":"the-new-denpa-men-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/11\/the-new-denpa-men-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Denpa Men (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the things I liked about the Nintendo 3DS handheld is how much the games used the innovative features of the console.\u00a0 A lot of games would read WiFi signals and pings from other nearby 3DS owners (they called that StreetPass) and would do things with them.\u00a0 One of the games that did stuff like this was The Denpa Men.\u00a0 In that game, you could catch these little guys that looked like a cross between a Mii and a Pikmin, and then you\u2019d send them off on dungeon crawling turn based RPG adventures.\u00a0 They made like, three of these games on the 3DS!\u00a0 I vaguely remember playing one, although I think I just played a demo of it and decided I didn\u2019t like it enough to invest more time in it.\u00a0 But now there\u2019s a new one on the Switch called The New Denpa Men.\u00a0 It\u2019s free to play, so I decided I\u2019d at least check it out and write a review of it.<\/p>\n

The first thing you must do is catch some Denpa Men.\u00a0 You do this by going to a certain mode and you\u2019ll see them flying around in a void.\u00a0 Use the motion controls on your Switch to aim and shoot a net at them.\u00a0 If you capture one, you can keep it and add it to your party of adventurers.\u00a0 When you have enough, you can go to the harbor and visit an island with a dungeon in it.<\/p>\n

On these islands is usually a town and maybe a little overworld.\u00a0 And also a dungeon.\u00a0 In the dungeons, you\u2019ll move your little men around a cave and fight monsters in turn based RPG fashion.\u00a0 You can level up your men and they can even learn new spells and attacks.\u00a0 If you see an antenna on a Denpa Men you caught, you\u2019ll know they can use a special skill.\u00a0 If you lose your guys or decide to leave the dungeon, you\u2019ll lose all the items you got, but you\u2019ll at least get to keep your experience levels.\u00a0 Beat the dungeon\u2019s boss to move the story along.\u00a0 You can also buy and find items to help you in battle as well as decorate a little house for your men.<\/p>\n

My main problem with this game is the lack of control in the battles.\u00a0 You can tell your Denpa Men to attack normally and they may or may not use spells.\u00a0 Or you can tell them to do an all out physical attack, defend, or run away.\u00a0 And that\u2019s it.\u00a0 So if you want them to defeat a certain enemy first (like one who can heal) or use a certain spell, they may or may not do that.\u00a0 I just prefer to have more control in my battles.\u00a0 And the script text translation is horrible.\u00a0 The game is not really bad per se, but it\u2019s not good enough to me to feel like I need to spend more time with it.\u00a0 The screenshot below has my friend code if anyone wants it, but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be playing this game anymore after this article posts.<\/p>\n

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

The New Denpa Men is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of In Game Purchases.\u00a0 Violence is minimal.\u00a0 You can attack cartoony monsters with blows and spells, and defeated characters just fall over and disappear.\u00a0 The game is free to play and uses in-game purchases to make the battles easier, so parental supervision is recommended.\u00a0 Reading skill is also a must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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