{"id":24988,"date":"2024-10-11T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24988"},"modified":"2024-10-02T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:48:29","slug":"yars-rising-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/11\/yars-rising-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Yars Rising (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As you all may know, I love retro gaming.\u00a0 Heck, I grew up during the Atari and NES days, so it\u2019s part of my childhood.\u00a0 But I do have one retro game that\u2019s on my \u2018wall of shame\u2019 because up until now, I never figured out how to play it.\u00a0 And that game is Yars\u2019 Revenge.\u00a0 Oh sure I\u2019ve tried many times to figure it out, especially when I would get a new Atari collection that it was on.\u00a0 And I understand the significance of the game, as it was the best selling game on the Atari 2600 that WASN\u2019T an arcade game first.\u00a0 And the reason why it is called \u201cYars\u201d is because that\u2019s the name of Atari\u2019s CEO at the time spelled backwards (way to butter up your boss, Howard Scott Warshaw)! But yeah, I\u2019ve never figured out how to really play the game.\u00a0 That is until now, thanks to a new game in the series called Yars Rising.\u00a0 Strangely enough, Yars Rising is actually a \u201cMetroidvania\u201d title mixed with blocky, Atari 2600 style mini-games based on the original Yars.\u00a0 And it was made by WayForward, which really tells you all you need to know about the quality (yeah it\u2019s good).\u00a0 Yars Rising is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

In the game you play as Emi.\u00a0 She\u2019s a coder who works for a large business called QoTech.\u00a0 But on the side she secretly hacks into the QoTech servers for extra cash.\u00a0 One day while hacking, she discovers a plot involving QoTech and an evil alien race.\u00a0 And now Emi must explore the large QoTech office building and surrounding areas so she can save Earth and the good race of Yars insect like aliens.\u00a0 In the game, Emi will explore the maze like offices in 2D fashion.\u00a0 It\u2019s a \u201cMetroidvania\u201d title, meaning you\u2019ll discover new moves and abilities for Emi so you can backtrack to reach new areas in the game.\u00a0 Some of these moves let you shoot bullets from your hands, jump extra high, wall jump, and much more.\u00a0 When you see a terminal, you can press a button to hack into it, and that\u2019s when you\u2019ll play a Yars Revenge style mini-game.\u00a0 If you win, you\u2019ll earn extra moves, unlock doors, and even gain other special abilities for Emi.<\/p>\n

The hacking mini-games are mostly based on things you do in Yars\u2019 Revenge, and they do a good job of easing you into how things work.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of a mix of Yars\u2019 Revenge and WarioWare.\u00a0 You\u2019ll move your blocky little bug guy around, shooting enemies and avoiding bullets and baddies mostly.\u00a0 If you lose, you\u2019ll get shocked and lose a little bit of energy, but can always try again.\u00a0 I love how the mini-games and bosses even make reference to other Atari classics, like Centipede, Missile Command, Black Widow, and Pong.\u00a0 Heck, even the save points are shaped like the old Computer Space arcade cabinets!\u00a0 You can also play the mini-games separately on the main menu under an option titled \u201cEmi\u2019s Hacklist.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the things you can earn by hacking into computers are little blocks that you can arrange on a subscreen, and these blocks will give you special perks.\u00a0 They can give you more energy, make your shots more powerful, let you jump higher, and more.\u00a0 Some even help you out in the hacking mini-games.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of the skill system in some of the Mega Man Battle Network titles.<\/p>\n

So Yars Rising is really fun, but it does have some problems, too.\u00a0 While the retro hacking mini-games are neat, they kind of interrupt the flow of the game sometimes, and they can be pretty hard, too.\u00a0 I think the developers realized this, because after a few failed attempts you can get an option to make yourself invincible in the hacking game.\u00a0 I hardly ever needed to do this, though, but I did start to use that more often at the end of the adventure because the mini-games got to be a bit annoying.\u00a0 The game was a bit buggy, too, and would reset on me a couple of times, but I\u2019m sure that\u2019s been patched up by now.\u00a0 Also I wish you could\u2019ve created \u201cdecks\u201d for the block arranging skill system.\u00a0 That way you could\u2019ve switched easier if you wanted skills good for defeating bosses, hacking, etc.\u00a0 But otherwise, Yars Rising is still a really fun game, and the music is really good, too.<\/p>\n

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

Yars Rising is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, and Mild Suggestive Themes.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice any human blood, but there are plenty of giant bug guts splattered around.\u00a0 You shoot mostly robots and bug aliens, but they just explode and disappear when defeated.\u00a0 Bad language is used sparingly, and some of Emi\u2019s outfits are a bit tight.\u00a0 But I\u2019d say this is best for older kid gamers and above because of the reading skill required and difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you all may know, I love retro gaming.\u00a0 Heck, I grew up during the Atari and NES days, so it\u2019s part of my childhood.\u00a0 But I do have one retro game that\u2019s on my \u2018wall of shame\u2019 because up until now, I never figured out how to play it.\u00a0 And that game is Yars\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24988","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\/24988","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=24988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24990,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24988\/revisions\/24990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}