![]() ![]() The numerous power-ups and guns you can pick up as you traverse the dungeon show off the games humour, from pillows that have a chance of stunning enemies at close range, to guns that shoot other guns that fire bullets simultaneously. The rooms are full of destructible objects that fly apart as you shoot or crash into them, adding to the chaos but never really cluttering the view. Each of the four characters you can choose from play relatively similar to each other but have distinctive abilities such as the Marine’s extra armour and the Convict’s ability to inflict extra damage after being hit. Gungeon has a charming pixel art style and sense of humour that belies its difficulty. You have a limited number of hearts representing your life and once you lose these (and you will) you’re all the way back to the start of the first level no matter how many floors or bosses you’ve cleared. Doing this involves elaborate and often intense shoot-outs as the screen fills with bullets coming from all directions and you run around like a maniac, tipping over tables for cover or diving behind walls looking for time to reload. The gungeon takes the form of a series of rooms, each filled with an assortment of baddies that you must clear out before you can move onto the next one. Already out on PC, Xbox One and PS4, Enter the Gungeon has just been released on the Nintendo Switch and the console’s portability coupled with Gungeon’s shoot, die and repeat gameplay loop makes it a natural fit for Nintendo’s console.Ī bullet hell shooter with rogue-like elements, Enter the Gungeon sees you choosing from four character classes and entering a procedurally generated dungeon (or gungeon, if you prefer), looking for the ultimate weapon – a gun that can destroy the past. Every time I died, I’d just hit that quick restart button and I’d be straight back into it, onwards again to certain death. ![]() It’s a weird, wacky and punishingly difficult game that I could not stop playing, even though I wanted to time and time again. Even fewer have given me the opportunity to use the word ‘gungeon’. Very few games have made me swear as much as Enter the Gungeon has. ![]()
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