In the future, robots have taken over and imprisoned all the humans in a maze-like fortress.  You are a rogue sentry robot who abandons your post to rescue all the humans and escape the stronghold.  Rogue Sentry is a twin stick shooter featuring black and white retro graphics that remind me of old arcade games from the 1970s.  For some reason, the game also makes me think of the early 80s arcade classic Berserk, too.  Rogue Sentry is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.

Like most twin stick shooters, you move with the L stick and aim and fire with the R stick.  Each room is a single screen in a maze you must navigate.  If you find a room with a picture of a floppy disk in it, you can shoot it or run over it to save your game and start there if you die.

Unfortunately, the game was just way too hard for me to get very far, so I don’t know if you get any upgrades or what happens when you rescue humans.  Also, a map would’ve been nice and the lack of detail in the graphics made it hard to tell what things were.  So because of all that I lost interest in this one pretty quickly.

Kid Factor:

Rogue Sentry is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.  You shoot pixelly robots that explode when defeated and that’s it.  Reading skill isn’t needed to play but younger gamers may find this one too difficult.

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