{"id":124,"date":"2004-01-01T23:49:55","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T22:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-09-11T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T06:10:23","slug":"panzer-dragoon-orta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/01\/panzer-dragoon-orta\/","title":{"rendered":"Panzer Dragoon &#8211; Orta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">XBox<\/font>,<font color=\"orange\">Flight shoot-em-up<\/font>,<font color=\"green\">4\/10<\/font> &#8211; <u>December 2003<\/u><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/GameReviewImages\/panzerDragoonOrta.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nThis game reminded me of &#8220;star fox&#8221; on the N64 but with considerably more complex controls and hugely stunning visuals. The graphics are why I got this game, I wanted to see what an XBox was capable of and the weird alien landscapes provide a good jaw dropping demonstration.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The game is a typical battle-your-way-to-the-boss-and then-find-the-bosses-weakness type of game but to avoid health reduction you need to understand a view things. Firstly you need to learn that you can boost backwards and forwards to circle around a boss so when his weapon faces you, you boost to a different side. Then your need to learn how to morph to the correct dragoon depending on whether you need speed, firepower or the lock-on ability. I can appreciate  the depth the game has on it&#8217;s gendre but I didn&#8217;t find it very engaging. I managed to get to level 10 and kill the final 3 bosses but I didn&#8217;t follow the trippy storyline and I won&#8217;t play it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XBox,Flight shoot-em-up,4\/10 &#8211; December 2003 This game reminded me of &#8220;star fox&#8221; on the N64 but with considerably more complex controls and hugely stunning visuals. The graphics are why I got this game, I wanted to see what an XBox was capable of and the weird alien landscapes provide a good jaw dropping demonstration. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}