Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider Reviews

A modern gameboy game with just as much charm.

TLDR: another case of "don't let the art mislead you into buying this full price". if you truly must get this game like your life depends on it, get it during a sale game starts off pretty basic; tutorial is handy but not required, you fight an okay wall boss, and you're off to the megaman x1 stage select screen. you can pick any stage you want at any time. most areas and bosses won't wall you, so pick whatever robot icon looks cool to you. most of the stages are pretty bland. i beat the game about 10 hours ago and i can't remember anything special about them, just me going through the motions of a platformer. i enjoyed the one in the woods where you gotta run away from a mech, then run away from rising lava, but that's the only one where i had some sort of dopamine spike. the bike sequences were unoriginal and, often times, a slog to get through. luckily there were only two. there are upgrades, but not what you'd expect. just your basic "recover hp per kill, double jump, reduce damage". you want to explore and find chips? too bad, they're right next to you, don't even bother checking that dead end. you want to break a wall? okay, there's exactly two breakable walls in this platformer. they're right in your face, too, so you can't miss them. the MINI bosses are actually harder than any boss in moonride, including the two phases of the final boss. the final boss has a massive weakness against one of your ranged magic attacks, where it spawns 4(or 5?) stars around your character. each star does about 4 or 5 bars per star, so the boss just instantly melts. i did a run where i used stars and no stars. point still stands: the mini bosses gave me more trouble than gold boy bad guy with two unhealable phases despite all this, the soundtrack and artstyle were pretty neat. it's an "alright" game to beat once, maybe even twice, but the asking price is too high for what the game offers. maybe get it on sale if you like arcade games like strider/shinobi.

Awesome game from the creators of Odallus, tho it is much easier than the previous