{"id":24945,"date":"2024-10-04T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24945"},"modified":"2024-09-10T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:54:59","slug":"aero-the-acro-bat-2-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/04\/aero-the-acro-bat-2-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Aero the Acro-Bat 2 (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X\/S)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>About a month or so ago I reviewed a re-release of Aero the Acro-Bat<\/strong><\/a>, a 16-bit 2D mascot platformer.\u00a0 I rented the game back in the day and honestly didn\u2019t like it very much.\u00a0 But I was glad to be able to review it again because I\u2019m always willing to give a game a second chance.\u00a0 Unfortunately, since I didn\u2019t like the game when I first played it, I never bothered with the sequels and spinoffs so I never got a chance to see how they may have improved.\u00a0 So I\u2019m glad I got a chance to try Aero the Acro-Bat 2.\u00a0 In the game, Aero finds a magician\u2019s box that transports him to all sorts of different worlds and it\u2019s up to him to save the day again in new environments.\u00a0 I believe this re-release is still the SNES version, and it\u2019s available on all current consoles but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m happy to say that Aero 2 does improve on a few things.\u00a0 Gone are the unclear goals of the first game, now each level is just a point A to point B affair.\u00a0 Unfortunately that does have the side effect of making it a bit more of a generic 16-bit mascot platformer.\u00a0 Luckily the play control is a bit improved, too.\u00a0 Your drill move is now more of a double jump and easier to perform.\u00a0 Another button is designated to drill straight down.\u00a0 You still collect items in the levels like food for points, stars for throwing, letters to open a bonus stage, as well as power-ups like temporary flight and invincibility, etc.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the big problem I had with this sequel is it\u2019s way too hard!\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how anyone back in the day could get past the second world.\u00a0 Luckily this port fixes a lot of that with save states, a gallery where you can view the instructions and see passwords to skip levels, and cheats where you can give yourself infinite lives and health, among other things.\u00a0 So if the game gets too hard for you, you can do that.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping I get to review the spinoff game: Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel, as well as the GBA re-release of the first game later this year!<\/p>\n

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

Aero the Acro-Bat 2 is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can spin into enemies and they just fly away when hit, and Aero has all sorts of Looney Tunes style animations when he gets hurt.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may find this one too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a month or so ago I reviewed a re-release of Aero the Acro-Bat, a 16-bit 2D mascot platformer.\u00a0 I rented the game back in the day and honestly didn\u2019t like it very much.\u00a0 But I was glad to be able to review it again because I\u2019m always willing to give a game a second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24945","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\/24945","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=24945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24947,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24945\/revisions\/24947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}