{"id":25119,"date":"2024-12-04T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25119"},"modified":"2024-11-08T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T12:49:25","slug":"blazing-strike-switch-ps4-ps5-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/04\/blazing-strike-switch-ps4-ps5-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazing Strike (Switch, PS4, PS5, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Blazing Strike is a 2D fighting game featuring pixel graphics like what you might\u2019ve seen in fighters from the mid to late 90s such as Street Fighter Alpha or King of Fighters.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Switch, PlayStation platforms, and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

Like any other 2D fighter, you have various buttons for kicks and punches and grabs, and can combine button presses with joystick movements to whittle down your opponent\u2019s health and whoever does that first, wins.\u00a0 There are around 15 fighters to choose from.\u00a0 Modes include Story Mode, where you view comic book slides and maybe have a fight or two with characters in between.\u00a0 Arcade mode just has you fight the others all in a row.\u00a0 Vs. Mode lets you play against a friend locally and you can challenge others in Online Mode as well.\u00a0 Training Mode lets you practice moves and you can toggle settings in Options.<\/p>\n

I had a few problems with this game.\u00a0 One is that Story Mode didn\u2019t let me save my progress, and that\u2019s a lot to ask for you to beat it in one setting.\u00a0 Plus I found the story presentation boring and ended up skipping it anyway.\u00a0 Also every time I would turn on the game, it would automatically set my JoyCons up where you have to hold them on the side for two players, which got annoying.\u00a0 And while some of the characters are kind of interesting, nothing really stands out the way things do in fighters like BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, or the new KOF titles.\u00a0 Blazing Strike is just decidedly average.<\/p>\n

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

Blazing Strike is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Mild Blood, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, and Violence.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really notice any blood or language.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fighting game so of course there\u2019s violence and some of the female characters wear skimpy outfits.\u00a0 I\u2019d say it\u2019s best for older kids and above.\u00a0 I grew up playing these types of games and turned out OK anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blazing Strike is a 2D fighting game featuring pixel graphics like what you might\u2019ve seen in fighters from the mid to late 90s such as Street Fighter Alpha or King of Fighters.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Switch, PlayStation platforms, and PC, but reviewed on Switch here. Like any other 2D fighter, you have various buttons for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25119","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\/25119","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=25119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25121,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25119\/revisions\/25121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}