Tables for example, can be kicked over and used as makeshift cover, allowing a precious few seconds of respite before they crumble under fire. Chiefly, because you have to time the roll to ensure that your character is invulnerable at just the right time, you often find yourself going against the norm by tumbling towards enemy fire rather than away from it, which as you might well expect takes some getting used to.Įlsewhere, Enter the Gungeon seeks to further educate the player in the defensive arts in other ways beyond the athletic. Due to these subtle catches that the developer has built into this mechanic, its use must be approached in an unconventional way in order to maximise your effectiveness during the heat of battle.
Of course, it’s not quite as simple as spamming this command ad infinitum to grant yourself some sort of cheap invincibility, because when your character hits the floor during the roll animation, they become vulnerable to damage again and worse still, cannot evade for another split second. Thankfully the brilliantly named developer, Dodge Roll, has put in a counter in the form of its namesake an evasive dive that much akin to the Souls games has invulnerability frames built into it that allow you to pass through enemy fire unscathed. Right from the very first level the game makes its murderous intentions clear, as shambling bullet-people fill the screen with their gunfire in the sort of spectacle reminiscent of an LSD-fuelled NRA fever dream. In the absence of a super detailed plot and cast of characters, Enter the Gungeon soars in the areas that count it has lots of enemies to blast and lots of guns to do it with.
A top down, roguelike twin-stick shooter where the goal is to obtain a mythical gun capable of killing your past, Enter the Gungeon’s flirtation with anything resembling a narrative is fleeting. Whether it’s the avalanche of firearm puns, the almost immeasurably daft bullet-themed enemies that you tangle with or the superbly well-judged shooter gameplay, Enter the Gungeon invariably seeks to entertain and it does so in spades. It is impossible not to have fun when playing Enter the Gungeon.
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