Power Rangers Battle For The Grid

A few days ago, NWay announced they would be releasing a multi-platform game that will be available for PS4, XBOX One, Nintendo Switch and Steam for PC. It will be available in April and is now available for pre-order. Many fans first thought it was a 'port' for Legacy Wars. It is a brand new game that just looks like Legacy Wars. There is no cards, there is a story mode and it is player against player online as well. 

So far the characters announced have been Red MM Ranger (Jason), Green MM Ranger (Tommy), Yellow Super Megaforce (Gia), and Lord Drakkon. Skins will be available to go over the character but aren't new characters. Skins announced have been Pink MM Ranger, Lord Drakkon final form and Evil Green Ranger. It is believed Ranger Slayer will be a playable character as well. Fans are weary if this game will be 'good' or not. I think its all subjective. So far I'm excited. I like Legacy Wars and hoped for a console game. 

http://battleforthegrid.com/

Power Rangers Legacy Wars Game Review (June 2017)

Power Rangers Legacy Wars app game was released March 23, 2017, along with the movie and was number one download for a while. I have been playing the game since then and it never occurred to me to review this game. They have constantly updated this game and it is now at version 1.3.5 as released June 21st. 

There are Rangers and Villains from the show and movie, each character gets two types. You have to pick three, one is the Leader and two are assists. The Leader gets different attacks and the assists only one attack. There are three types: balanced (yellow), attack (red) and defense (blue). But the assists, if they are labeled as one type, maybe the attack isn't of that type. They can be defense, but have a balanced attack. You have to fill in the spots where your leader is weakest. It is like Paper-Rock-Scissors, Defense beats Balance, Balance beats Attack and Attack beats Defense.

There is also different levels to the characters. There is common warriors, then Rare, Epic and Legendary. Some that are on level one is like a higher level of a common. I forget the numbers. Stages are leagues. The thunder bolt on the top left corner and it goes up by points, you change leagues by how many points. Depending on the points you get a Morph Box and they unlock shards to get a warrior or a warrior themselves. You can buy power coins, zeo crystals and shards but I don't ever pay money. I hear even if you buy a Morph Box, chances are nill to get the Ranger they promise. Also, you can join an alliance, with 1,000 power coins you can make your own alliance. You get more shards and level up if you donate shards to others. 

The Pit

League #0, you can get common warriors like:

Leader - Movie Red

Assists - Movie Black, Movie Yellow, MMPR Red, MMPR Pink and Wild Force Black

For me, the Movie Rangers aren't that great, they have no weapons and they often lose. Movie Red has been good for me, but you have to get him to a higher level to get good. He is better at close combat but not far away. MMPR Red as an assist shoots from his Blade Blaster which is strong but easily dodged. 

Angel Grove (Movie)

League #1, you can get warriors like:

Leader - Movie Black, Movie Pink, Movie Blue (Epic), Zeo Pink, MMPR Blue, Wild force Black (rare)

Assist: Movie Pink, Super Megaforce Yellow (rare), MMPR Yellow, Movie Rita (Epic)

For me, Zeo Pink and Wild Force Black work great. Black's attacks only work if you are closeby. The weakness of Zeo Pink as a leader is that people can avoid her red ball attack. Movie Rita is great as an assist with her soul steal but I didn't get her until well into league 7.

Zedd's Throne Room

League #2, you can get warriors like:

Leader: Movie Yellow, Dino Charge Blue (Epic), Goldar (epic), Lord Zedd (added-rare)

Assist: MMPR Black, Samurai Red Lauren (rare), Xandred, Dino Charge Blue (rare)

Lord Zedd as a leader is great, he is better at close attacks but he can't stay close for too long. He does one far attack. Dino Charge Blue works good for others but for me not so well. Xandred is great as an assist, he blows people away as a defense. You have to get more orbs of Eltar to make his attack stronger. 

Dino Lab

League #3, you can get:

Leader - MMPR Pink (epic), Snide (Epic), Dino Charge Purple, Super Megaforce Yellow (Legendary), Trakeena (added-Rare)

Assist - Movie Red, MMPR Blue, Trakeena (added-Epic), Goldar (rare)

Dino Charge Purple and Super Megaforce Yellow are great as leader, super strong. Trakeena not so much as both Leader and Assist because her attacks take too long. Goldar as assist is great but he can easily be blocked if you are too far from your opponent. 

Shiba Grove

League Four, you can get:

Leader: MMPR Red, Red Samurai Lauren, Rita (Legendary), Xandred (rare)

Assist: Movie Blue (epic), Psycho Red (Legendary), Dino Charge Purple (rare), Zeo Pink

MMPR Red is great if you remain close to your opponent. I haven't gotten Rita yet but she beats me every time. Zeo Pink as an assist is great because no matter where you are, she will hit. I haven't got Psycho Red as assist yet, but he seems strong.

 Rooftops

League Five, you can get:

Leader: MMPR Black (rare), MMPR Yellow, Psycho Red (Legendary), Space Silver (added-epic) 

Assist: Snide, Robo Knight (Epic), Space Silver (rare)

I don't have Psycho Red as a leader yet but he beats me bad. MMPR Yellow is good as a leader, she's quick but her attack is like a laser and can be countered quickly but packs a punch. Silver is good as a leader and assist, with lethal attacks. As an assist, he blasts from far away but goes close up.

Harwood County

New stage added after the release of the game, along with Robo Knight and Lord Zedd. Trakeena was later added. 

League 6, you can get:

Leader: MMPR Green (rare) and Robo Knight (Epic)

Assist: MMPR Green (rare) and Lord Zedd (epic)

MMPR Green as a leader is great because he has an earthquake attack that is a balanced attack. MMPR Green as an assist will jump anywhere and attack the opponent, no matter where you are. 

Island Fortress

New stage added later, along with Mesogog and White Dino Thunder Ranger.

League 7, you can get:

Leader: Mesogog (epic), White Dino Thunder (Legendary)

Assist: Mesogog (Legendary), White Dino Thunder (epic) and Rito (rare)

White Dino Thunder does an attack attack as an assist but has to be close to the opponent. Rito does an defense attack which is great. I don't have Mesogog nor White as Leaders but they beat me everytime. 

Angel Grove Juice Bar

New stage added last month, along with MMPR White, Space Silver as leader and Rito Revolto. 2017 Alpha 5 was later added.

 Leader: White MMPR (epic)

Assist: White MMPR (epic)

White MMPR as an assist is a defender which is great. 

Review:

I like the game. It is addictive. People have complained. They would had rather had this game on console without the Attack-Defense-Balance gimmick with cards. And others don't like you have to pay for stuff. I haven't paid for anything. The thing I hate is that lately I have been losing so I have been pushed back by two leagues. I wished if you were in on league you stay in that league. There is also challenges they give you every so often to get Morph Boxes, some are to get new characters (like Zhane or Rito), some you need an Attacker, Defense or Balanced leader and others have themes (like villains, Movie characters or MMPR characters). I hope this goes on so they can add other Rangers from other seasons. 

IF you have Loot Crate, you can get this 2nd version of Green Ranger has been revealed, based on cosplayer's design. 

Related: http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-app-game-power-rangers-unite.html | http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2013/11/power-rangers-megaforce-nintendo-3ds.html | http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2013/02/power-rangers-megaforce-never-surrender.html

New App Game: Power Rangers: Unite

 

Power Rangers: Unite! is a game created by the games company Funtacix and Saban Brands. It will combine characters and content from every season of the Power Rangers franchise. Funtactix has given us an exclusive first look at the game, which is set to hit mobile devices in early 2015. Power Rangers: Unite will offer a brand new storyline to players, which will see Rangers from all 22 seasons of the television show team up to fight a new enemy named Nerodark. Players will collect and trade Rangers, villains, Zords and weapons in a card battle experience, which aims to provide entertainment for the franchise’s multiple generations of fans.

 



Super Megaforce 3DS game thanks to RangerCrew Blog EXCLUSIVE

Above picture from Ranger Crew Blog

 

My buddy Fury Diamond at RangerCrew Blog has another great exclusive. Power Rangers Super Megaforce was announced by Bandai Namco recently for the Nintendo 3DS. At the E3 expo this week, they had an exclusive secret preview of the game. RangerCrew was able to get some pics and info and even play the game! There is 30 playable characters (including the six Super Megaforce Rangers), you can play as silver ranger, apparently you can fight two rangers at once and you can scan the Ranger Keys (perhaps just Red Rangers)! More information soon. Stay tuned.

 

Check his blog for more info:

http://blog.samuraicast.com/power-rangers-super-megaforce-3ds-e3/

 

Any Questions? Member of Rangercrew.com? Ask away:

http://www.rangercrew.com/forum/showthread.php?29542-Power-Rangers-Super-Megaforce-3DS-Game

 

My guess at the 30 playable Rangers:

1. Red Super Megaforce
2. Blue Super Megaforce
3. Yellow Super Megaforce
4. Green Super Megaforce
5. Pink Super Megaforce
6. Silver Super Megaforce
7. Red Aquitar Ranger
8. Red Zeo Ranger
9. Red Turbo Ranger
10. Red Space Ranger
11. Red Lost Galaxy Ranger
12. Red Lightspeed Ranger
13. Red Time Force Ranger
14. Red Wild Force Ranger
15. Red Ninja Storm Ranger
16. Red Dino Thunder Ranger
17. Red SPD Ranger
18. Red Mystic Force Ranger
19. Red Operation Overdrive Ranger
20. Red Jungle Fury Ranger
21. Red RPM Ranger
22. Red Samurai Ranger
23. Red Megaforce Ranger
24. Red Mighty Morphin Ranger
25. Blue Mighty Morphin Ranger
26. Black Mighty Morphin Ranger
27. Pink Mighty Morphin Ranger
28. Yellow Mighty Morphin Ranger
29. Green Mighty Morphin Ranger
30. White Mighty Morphin Ranger



Power Rangers Super Megaforce at Monkey Quest

Ever since Power Rangers Samurai, the monkeys at Monkey Quest have been able to go to an arena and don the costumes (usually split by pants, shirt and mask). Those who play Monkey Quest, know these costumes don't protect much and are no substitute for armor. I want to commend the MQ people for doing a great job on the arena, it is bigger than any other arena for Power Rangers. Also it has 'Monkey Keys' (you can't use them but still nice to see them) with Red, Blue and Green Samurai and all 5 Megaforce represented. The lengths you have to go (fight X-Borgs and other monsters) are a bit long just for one item and getting repeats. Most items are for Level 10 and the Super Mega Saber are for Level 15. And you have to be a member to don them. This didn't happen before. I don't like that but it is clever. It ends June 24th so hurry and get your suits!

 

 

Super Megaforce 3DS game and Ranger Keys Series 4 Pics

http://nintendoeverything.com/bandai-namco-working-on-power-rangers-super-megaforce-for-3ds/

Just like Power Rangers Megaforce, Power Rangers Super Megaforce will have a Nintendo 3DS side-scrolling game coming out in the Winter. They say that they can become all the Legendary Red Rangers and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, no word on the other colors.

 

 

Here are Ranger Keys Series 4 pics, pictures were taken by Razzle Dazzle

http://razzle1337.tumblr.com/post/83463007390/wave-4-ranger-key-images-from-toys-r-us-more

 

As reported below, only females we are getting this time are Jungle Fury and RPM Yellow. And as for MMPR, We are not getting Pink and Yellow but Green, White and Armored Red. And we are getting all the Tommy Keys with Black Dino Thunder. And people are upset that Delphine/White Aquitar Ranger is omitted as Cestro, Aurico and Delphine were the only ones that got focus. 



Power Rangers Megaforce Nintendo 3DS Game Review

 I got this game for my four year old grand nephew who loves his 3DS. We got it last week. I am not much of a gamer so I will not into too much detail or every little nook and crany. This review is for random gamers and those who just play casually. So basically the story to the Power Rangers Megaforce game is that the Rangers must fight together (hence when you play one, the others talk and encourage you) the forces of Vrak. Basically all the villains still exist and all work together like Creepox, Metal Alice and Bluefur. You can play as any of the Rangers and change back and forth.

 

There are different stages you have to go through. There is like for example 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, and 1-5. The last one is the Megazord battle. And the one before is the boss battle. You have to pass the five stages and complete the game, not with bonus stages to get the Mighty Morphin skins. I say skins because they still show that they are the Megaforce rangers and when you play as MM Blue Ranger, his Power Lance blasts lasers like Noah's Shark Bowgun. You can scan cards for extra power but it doesn't help you unlock Ultra Mode, Robo Knight or MMPR skins. It is extremely hard to scan the cards. They need the barcode on the sides that activate on the Gosei Morpher.

  

 The story modes are just cliparts of the characters and they talk with captions and have Anime like emotions like little smoke puffs and anger lighting. You have to fight a bunch of Loogies or find some stuff to unlock secret bonus levels, most are Robo Knight levels that you fight only as him. Later on when you unlock Ultra Mode or MMPR, you can't fight as Green Ranger. When you hit the button for Ultra Mode, the five Megaforce Rangers go to Ultra mode for a short time. Robo Kngith and the Mighty Morphin Rangers just 'power up' with a yellow-white flame around them, giving them extra strength. So no, no golden shield for Mighty Morphin Red.

 Megazord battles, you fight Gosei Great Megazord, later when you get Robo Knight, you can fight as Gosei Grand Megazord and later on as Gosei Great Grand Megazord. When you go Mighty Morphin, this DOES NOT effect the zords. To fight, you can hit the green to block, red for shooting fire (which takes time to load so you got to back up a bit) and blue is for sword slashing.

 After passing all the stages except for the bonus ones, you can unlock the Mighty Morphin skins. You have to press X + A before entering a stage. The bottom with the Megaforce faces doesn't change, the Megaforce face on the top doesn't change. Only the playing mode. They have their Blade Blasters and Power Weapons. Pink says "Morphinomical" and Yellow says something like "You're Finished!" and Black says "Hey." Blue and Red just grunt.

 Megaforce takes the code or whatever (I don't get it) from the current Super Sentai series game Kyoryuger. It looks EXACTLY the same, uses the same sets and fighting styles, the clipart story pics, the other rangers talking and even the MUSIC. Yes, the only song the Megaforce game uses from the show is the THEME SONG. There is Samba music from Kyoryuger in this game. Some sound great, some don't.

 As you can see it uses the same clipart like story. In the Megaforce game, none of the voices are the same. Robo Knight and Gosei aren't even their voices. Most of them similar. To me, Jake sounds like Noah and Noah sounds like Jake. For me, Gia is the one that sounds farthest like her. Vrak sounds pretty close but Gosei and Robo Knight are clearly generic voices. There is no Tensou in the game.

 Your kid or you can morph yourself into a Ranger just like the Kyoryuger game. You can change which Ranger you change into at 'Morphin Time' after starting the game. So finally, I think the voices during the game is annoying and too repeatative, the music is okay, the gameplay... I hate how the directions aren't responsive, the Nick.com games are more responsive. For example, when I want to change the direction they go, I have to wait until the attack sequence ends. Red Ranger and Yellow Ranger have best handle for fighting, Blue is only good from far away and Pink is the best for jumping. My nephew likes it, it is kind of entertaining.

Power Rangers Megaforce: Never Surrender Game Review

Never Surrender is the new Nick.com game. I am not much of a gamer but I got really into the Super Samurai game, I am not so crazy about the previous Samurai game. So I decided to try this one out.

http://www.nick.com/games/power-rangers-megaforce-never-surrender.html

Unlike the Super Samurai game, you can have two Rangers at once but you only get to play one. You select your Ranger and then you have to select your partner. Once you accumulate cards and pass a level, you get more cards for your Ranger. So far there is 3 cards per Ranger.

 I forget how many levels there are, I think it is 5. Unlike Super Samurai game, you don't get to pick the level. Also you can't pick Easy or Hard. Each level just gets harder. This is a detergent for my grand-nephew Jaiden as he is only 3 and looses a lot on the harder levels. And when you lose, it doesn't say "Game Over"---it says "Continue."

 Up arrow makes you go up the screen. There is no things you have to jump except for in level one where you jump boulders. To jump press the Letter "Z." The green bar represents your life level. The Blue level represents the use of the "X" key. In Super Samurai, it was "Z" that had to be filled and it called your zords. So using X makes a dual attack between the two rangers. If you lose your partner, the X key is useless.

Your enemies are Green Loogies with axes, White Loogies with lasers and big giant Red Loogies with big axes. One bad thing is that you press "Spacebar" to attack but it alternates from your weapon to the Mega Blaster. Even when having the card of your weapon, you still have the Mega Blaster. There is no real way to keep one weapon. When you get close to an object or villain, your personal weapon appears. From far away shots and pressing Spacebar makes use of the Mega Blaster.  

 Pressing down on the Space Bar does call for the Mega Blaster. When you get a zord card, it just provides a strong blast from your Mega Blaster with an animal symbol. So the first card you can get is the weapon card, then the zord card and the final is dyanamic card, which costs the most points. When a villain goes down, you collect Gosei Morphers that provides points. Also you can pick up a "Health Box" to increase your green bar. Your partner can disappear after being beaten but there is no status bar to your partner and there is no way you can save them other than having your life bar up.

You can also smash things around like trash can, hot dog stand, newspaper bin and etc. to gain points.

It is hard to smash things when you use your zord card because it mostly calls your Mega Blaster. You don't call zords and the monsters don't become big, which my nephew does not like. He liked that part in the Super Samurai game. There is three main villains, one level doesn't have a main villain. There is Sacarba, the Monster of the Day of the first episode, Creepox and Vrax. Vrax appears on the last two levels. Vrax is hard to beat. You get a life bar of the villain to see but he doesn't really react and interact with you like the Loogies do. They just keep attacking.

Like Super Samurai, playing the Blue Ranger is hard for short range attacks because he has a bow. The Blue Samurai Ranger had a bow that was only good to shoot at villains for far away. Playing this Blue Ranger, the Bowgun up close to a villain doesn't pack much of a punch. Same goes for Pink's Phoenix Shot.

When you pass a level, you can enter the shop. Most of the time, you get around less than 2000 points and only can afford the cheaper cards. I do not know what happens yet if you get all the cards. When you get one card, it later says "Sold Out." If you don't have enough coins, it says that.

1000 points gets you a weapon card, a zord card is 1200 points and a Dynamic card is 2000 points. It is easier to get cards and things in this game than in Monkey Quest. I got an overload of the same color helmet or shirt but still haven't been able to get certain colors. Anyway, I digress. The dynamic card deals with an attack having to do with your weapon in some way.

 All in all, it is a good effort game, but I don't like how your weapon alternates from where you are and some times its hard to gauge. I also don't like how you can't help your Partner ranger out. My nephew doesn't like that the monsters do not grow and you can't play the Megazords. He currently has a thing for Megazords. I do like that the duo attack called upon the "X" key has feathers in it, inspired by Goseiger---they were Gosei Angels.

UPDATED 2/25/13

Now they put a choice of Easy, Medium and Hard. Also, you can choose a new game. Plus, when you get the dynamic card, any Ranger you picked would have an Earth dust effect before. But now with Red and Pink, you get fire and Blue you get water. Black and Yellow Rangers gets black puffs of smoke now.

Editoral: Super Sentai Battle Ranger Cross as basis for a Power Rangers 20 Game?

The following is also hypothetical.

 For the 35th anniversary of Super Sentai, there was a game called Super Sentai Battle Ranger Cross that went along with the series Pirate Sentai Gokaiger. It is for the Wii. The main team was the Gokaiger but eventually you could gain the teams of Goseiger, Shinkenger, Go-Onger and Goranger---the first Super Sentai ever. I wonder if Saban Brands plans to do a game like this for the 20th Anniversary of Power Rangers.

 

The Super Sentai Battle Ranger Cross had graphics similar to the Dice-O game. For those not familiar with Super Sentai and Dice-O, the same graphics are used for the clips seen an Action Card Game card is scanned on your phone using the card scanner app.



 

Sixth Rangers like Go-On Gold, Go-On Silver, Shinken Gold and Gosei Knight also appear.



Disney attempted a game called Power Rangers Super Legends in 2007 that was multiplatform and had a handful of past teams. It pitted Rangers against Lord Zedd from the past who time traveled. In most games, there was Mighty Morphin, Lost Galaxy, Time Force, Wild Force, Ninja Storm, SPD and Operation Overdrive Rangers. But the down side was that in some versions, you couldn't play all the colors of the team. For example, Yellow and Blue Mighty Morphin Rangers could only be played on PS2 and PC and the Green Ranger in DS.

It was clear that Disney didn't want to spend a lot of money if on the Wii, you could only play 10 rangers, 26 on Playstation 2, 20 on PC, and 29 on DS. They did have past grunts like Stingwingers, Putties and such but sometimes the had generic villains exclusive to the game. I hope if Saban Brands make a game like this, it would be at least one of each team....

or at least follow the platform of the Gokaiger game and do five teams: Super Megaforce, Megaforce, Samurai, RPM, and MMPR or if Gokaiger suits are not used, Jungle Fury.

If they can't get all the villains or Megazords, at least every team's main five. If they can't do the sixth rangers, I'd be fine with that. It is interesting how Toei and Bandai did an arcade game with the Dice-O cards but Bandai and Saban Brands chose not to with the ACG cards. My dream game would include every team, every Ranger and hero and every main Megazord and at least every footsolider possible. Anyway, that is just a dream. I had one dream long ago of a game including every zord possible, just a Megazord vs Megazord game.