{"id":24867,"date":"2024-09-04T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24867"},"modified":"2024-08-07T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:46:54","slug":"tiny-pixels-vol-1-ninpo-blast-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/04\/tiny-pixels-vol-1-ninpo-blast-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Pixels vol. 1: Ninpo Blast (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You are a ninja riding a hoverbike shooting stars and knives at bugs and other weird critters in Ninpo Blast.\u00a0 It\u2019s a super simple vertically scrolling shooter and is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Controls are simple.\u00a0 Move around with the L stick and hold down the X button to fire ninja stars, that go in a three way pattern.\u00a0 If you press the square button, you\u2019ll shoot out knives that go straight forward.\u00a0 A little circle will appear around your ninja and when it\u2019s full, you can press the triangle button to use a screen clearing bomb.\u00a0 Sometimes when enemies are defeated, they\u2019ll drop gears.\u00a0 Collect these and use them to buy upgrades in the shop after you run out of energy and die.<\/p>\n

In the shop, you can buy upgrades for your shots, like power, speed, and rate of fire.\u00a0 Although I didn\u2019t notice much difference after I upgraded a few times.\u00a0 You can also upgrade your ninja to have more health and make the bomb circle recover faster.\u00a0 Some upgrades are purely cosmetic and include different stage backgrounds and rides for your ninja.\u00a0 Only problem is it takes a very long time to get the upgrades, which makes playing the game a bit repetitive.\u00a0 And there\u2019s not much variety in the gameplay anyway. This is the first in a series of Tiny Pixel games, so hopefully I\u2019ll get to review more of them and they\u2019ll have more games I like.\u00a0 Such as maybe a game where you run around a maze eating dots or something.<\/p>\n

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

Ninpo Blast is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You shoot knives and throwing stars at bugs and other cartoony aliens and everyone just explodes when defeated.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed, but younger gamers may have trouble with the difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are a ninja riding a hoverbike shooting stars and knives at bugs and other weird critters in Ninpo Blast.\u00a0 It\u2019s a super simple vertically scrolling shooter and is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here. Controls are simple.\u00a0 Move around with the L stick and hold down the X […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24867","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\/24867","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=24867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24869,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions\/24869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}