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Review: Yars Rising (PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, Switch & Steam) – Defunct Games

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Defunct Games reviews Yars Rising, available now on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Switch and PC.

If you’re looking for the inventive shoot ‘em up action seen in games like Yars’ Revenge and Yars Recharged, then you’re going to want to look elsewhere. Yars Rising turns the shooter series into a side-scrolling action/platformer reminiscent of games like Metroid and Axiom Verge. The result is both jarring and baffling, giving us a story that feels like it has been shoehorned into a completely different game at the last second. The gameplay is fine and there are a few good boss battles, but this is a short, simple and uneventful game that you’ll quickly forget about in a week or two. I expected more from both Yars and WayForward. This is a big disappointment.

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23 comments

@therealfodder October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I've really been enjoying this - but totally agree it's the wrong license attached to the game. I've just written similar in an Amazon review - but this feels more like a reinvention of Impossible Mission.
@CyberFoxy87 October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I have played Yars Revenge on the Atari 2600 back then and have Yars Recharged (Which my score in there is "ImaFnTrex")
But seeing we are now playing as a human like character really threw me off on the feeling of Yars (Only in the mini-games/hacking PC areas feels like Yars)
@HerrFinsternis October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
1:40 the internet being what it is I think you started a cult just by coining that exaggerating 😂
@LHSMeleeClub October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
> "I'm mad that this game is so different from original Yars Revenge gameplay!!!"
> "There are WAY TOO many Yars Revenge style gameplay mini games!!!"

uhhhh pick one? your complaints in this review seem contradicting.
@joshuawebb4966 October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I am playing it and am having a lot of fun and I love the hacking mini games.
@HybridAngelZero October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
The thing about this is... why Yar's Revenge if you're gonna make up a new story? Wasn't one YR's biggest innovations that it had fleshed-out lore?
If they were gonna go this route, they should have made it look like a new IP, then had the Yar tie-in be a twist ending that's slowly hinted at across the story.
And for the QotD, for games I've played anyway, probably Yu-Gi-Oh Decade Duels for PS3/360. Most YGO games before this point were RPG-lite or had some adventure/progression elements as you unlocked better cards and tougher opponents as you played, but Decade Duels has one dinky little tournament mode with opponents way too tough to take on with your starting cards... but you can better card packs or decks with real money. It was gross, and was the first time I really felt cheated by a game I bought
@Barbaryotaku October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
Game is fun. Not sure why the reviewer bashes this spinoff for not being like Yars whilst also finding the Yars faithful hacking to be repetitive.
@metronome8471 October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
It doesn't look bad. It just like the reviewer is jarred by the genre shift. Second, why no mention of yars remake from like 2009?
@goranisacson2502 October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I wonder if they took some inspiration premise-wise from the Yars Revenge reboot from 2011, which was only on PC and Xbox360 in which you played a lady from the alien Yars-race breaking out of her brainwashing by the Quotiles and fighting them.

The hacking mini-games seems to be a way to include and pay homage to the old game-play style, which they probably felt was too small for a full game-release these days. A shame that it doesn't seem to merge well with the general premise of the rest of the game, and that most of it seems pretty middle of the road. From the looks of things, the Asteroids reboot looks like a way more interesting take on bringing back their old games with a more modern concept. Shame, bug-girl Metroidvania sounded like a cool concept.
@kinryuten October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I had fun with this game! About to start a Pro Mode playthrough, and makes me interested in trying the 82 game if its available at my arcade.
I will say the story is the biggest letdown as it was super predictable, and the actions were kinda stiff, but I enjoyed it nonetheless
@lazarus30001 October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
You might have to raise your voice over the overwhelmingly positive reviews for this game; if you want a pixelated shooter retro style, there are plenty low quality titles out there.
@JenMistress October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
Making Yars Revenge as a Platformer is like if they took the WWE wrestlers and put them in a Demolition Derby game. Who would do such a thing?! 😉😂🤣 If you know, you know. But anyways, yeah, maybe instead they could have called it Atari Rising, and then along with Missile Command and Centipedes, they could have one involving Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Breakout, etc etc etc. Then would be no reason to have to repeat mini games. As for the question, think I'll go with Zelda 2. To be fair to it, the first game seems like it must have been ground breaking at it's time, would have been hard to follow up on, but I'm sure there was a reason Link to the Past went back to the same formula as the first.
@Cyberpunknut October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
Well adding a hip main character doesn't help this. Doesn't look like yars at all. Really wonder how this was pitched.

QOTD, Duke Nukem Forever.
@cyxceven October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
Yeah, I've wishlisted it, but I probably will wait for a sale. I'm sure it's a competent metroidvania game, but it seems to be the only kind of game Wayforward wants to make. It's like a re-skinned Shantae game every single time.

I would have preferred Inti-Creates got their hands on Yar's. At least they do something different for their search/action games. Blaster Master Zero is nothing like Yohane the Parhelion, or Gunvolt, or Curse of the Moon, etc.
@powpuckmobile9226 October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
Atari tried the high fantasy anime reinvention before back in 2011. Although that one was still an arcade shooter, whatever misgivings it had. I like that one's art direction a bit more as well.

QOTD, first thing that spang to mind was Yoshi's Island DS. FWTW.
@noneofyourbusiness4616 October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I thought from the title that it was going to be about Ray Kassar rising from the grave.
@Openreality October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I think people just want to 'bomb' anything that 'ruins their childhood' this game is really good. I know this is probably why centipede died, because they reinvented it, however I've played the new games and loved them too. People just need to stop complaining.
@RandoOnSteam October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I feel like C- is way too generous given the description, especially considering the price. The animations are just soo stiff and awkward too. I've downvoted several 20$ metroidvanias on steam that are likely far better than this, and this is 30$...
@JB.zero.zero.1 October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
It looks amateurish in terms of execution and is conceptually "way off" - I just don't see the appeal of this at all. Some of the recent games pushed through the latest incarnation of Atari have been middling to piss poor, with odd exceptions. Without the Atari label attached to these games, they would barely register if simply released on Steam. If there were any justice in this world and I had a magic wand, I would have placed Jeff Minter as CEO of Atari in the hope that he would fully understand and respect the heritage of the name and not use it as what could be viewed as merely a symbol to copy & paste onto promotional material when grubbing for nostalgia dollars.
@juststatedtheobvious9633 October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
As a long time fan of Yar's, Metroid, and rainbow lasers, I feel both insulted and seen at the exact same time.

Is this how NBA 2K fans feel all the time?
@PenguinDT October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
This sort reminds me of the Arcade World of Lego Dimensions. If you never played it, its basically a history tour of Midway arcade titles. The main section is what you'd expect from a 'Lego Game', and plays nothing like the arcade titles, BUT to progress you rebuild the cabinets to play some of the arcade classics. Only you here you only play just one game - and Dimensions had the whole games fully emulated and playable.

QOTD; I mean, "Alone in the Dark: Illumination" is a thing that exists, no matter how hard I want to pretend it doesn't. I have a soft spot for the Xbox 360 one (aka "Inferno") for being quite risky and daring in its gameplay, but "Illumination" is basically antithesis of AITD. Heck, I'd rather have 'AITD The Cute'emUp' instead. The new one seems amazing, thanfully.
@theoldestvideogamer October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I like how we're all kinda flummoxed by this thing.
@Selatomyr October 4, 2024 - 10:33 am
I can commend WAY FORWARD for actually making this silly mash-up of YAR’s REVENGE.

Perhaps,
You are being toooo harsh on this title. Since YARS RECHARGED already exists, why do you think WAY FORWARD should replicate the same retro concept in a different way?


After all the original 2600 game was a variant on STAR CASTLE by Cinematronics.

FUN FACT,
ATARI was working on a port of STAR CASTLE but the deal fell through, so YARS REVENGE was made instead.

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