{"id":80,"date":"2021-02-02T19:03:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T19:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2021-02-02T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T19:03:47","slug":"savior-of-false-shephard-enter-the-gungeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/savior-of-false-shephard-enter-the-gungeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Savior of False Shephard: Enter the Gungeon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This article originally ran under a different banner\/website in August of 2018 and is now being here re-uploaded for purposes of convenience and consolidation. Please enjoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pssst!\u00a0 Over here.\u00a0 Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been in hiding ever since I obtained the Infinity Gauntlet and decided to protect it from greedy publishers.\u00a0 That is not why I am in this dark dingy alleyway.\u00a0 I am lurking in the shadows because I think Devolver Digital is following me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe they are after the gauntlet.\u00a0 They would probably only use it to make everyone\u2019s E3 presentation as ridiculous as their own.\u00a0 No, I think Devolver Digital is watching me.\u00a0 Listening to me as I play games.\u00a0 They might have bugged the cardboard box that I live in.\u00a0 I have been onto them ever since they announced an expansion to Enter the Gungeon<\/em> after I wrote about how I wasn\u2019t enjoying I Hate Running Backwards<\/em>.\u00a0 This could be their way of saying \u201cOh you didn\u2019t like one of our games, please let\u2019s give you a reason to try another…another roguelite in fact.\u201d\u00a0 I shudder at the thought.\u00a0 With that in mind, I burnt down my cardboard and been moving from Starbucks to Starbucks, hoping to lose Devolver Digital.\u00a0 I usually spend about half an hour at a Starbucks before moving onto the next one, which gave me plenty of time to get a few rounds of Enter the Gungeon <\/em>in.\u00a0 I guess stalking me seems to be an effective strategy to get me to play your games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0With a ridiculous opening depicting a story of a temple built around a gun that can kill the past, we see what Enter the Gungeon <\/em>is about: leaning hard into the initial pun.\u00a0 Enter the Gungeon <\/em>has an obsession with guns that would put the NRA to shame.\u00a0 Everything Enter the Gungeon <\/em>has to offer is baked in gun-related puns.\u00a0 From the basic enemies being a bullet to a boss being a minigun wielding bird; Enter the Gungeon<\/em> fully commits to the joke.\u00a0 By sticking the landing and going all in, they don\u2019t let the joke get stale.\u00a0 From the start of the game, you have your choice of characters to play as including the Marine, the Pilot, the Convict, and the Hunter.\u00a0 While I tried all the different gungeoneers, I preferred the Hunter because she is accompanied by a small little corgi who will sniff out treasure for you including ammo packs, chests with new guns, and of course hearts shaped like bullets representing health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keeping with the theme, Enter the Gungeon<\/em> is a bullet hell game.\u00a0 When you enter a room and enemies will start shooting at you.\u00a0 The shots will appear as red orbs as they fly across the screen.\u00a0 Along with sidestepping the shots, you can over turntables to create cover and create environmental kills with objects like explosive barrels, lit braziers, and hanging chandeliers.\u00a0 You can also dodge roll to avoid getting hit as you are invulnerable in the first few frames of the roll.\u00a0 If cover and dodge rolls aren\u2019t an option, you are equipped with a blank that when fired, will destroy all bullets on screen.\u00a0 All these elements combine to create the firefight feel you could only receive from being John Wick.\u00a0 While one might think that constant firefights would get old, especially with Enter the Gungeon<\/em> being one of those roguelites I dread, Enter the Gungeon<\/em> is able to shake off the shackles that tie down most other roguelikes by making the varied runs unique and exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now I always railed against roguelites for constantly killing their players over and over again.\u00a0 While Enter the Gungeon <\/em>doesn\u2019t remove that, it softens the blow by making the combat enjoyable and having a ludicrous amount of guns and items.\u00a0 I cannot recall two runs where I received the exact same items and guns.\u00a0 Every run turns out to be different.\u00a0 One run I\u2019ll have a gamma-ray gun, another a gun that shoots fish, another a gun is a frog that shoots bubbles, and another that fires ships that bounce off the walls.\u00a0 The wide variety the combat allowed me to forget that each level was randomly generated, but not enough to distract me from the fact that each room on the levels looks like they belong next to the other rooms.\u00a0 The first level usually resembles parlors and libraries, but venture into deeper levels and they will start to resemble dungeons.\u00a0 My personal favorite thing Enter the Gungeon<\/em> does that sets itself ahead of other roguelites is when you die, you are given the option to jump right back into the action or head back to the entrance of the gungeon to choose a different gungeoneer or spend the currency you gain from defeating bosses.\u00a0 I truly wish more roguelites would do this cause it allows me to keep the pace up when smashing my head into the wall keeping me from the next level.\u00a0 At this point you may have noticed, I did not mention how the difficulty curves yet.\u00a0 While I did not play Enter the Gungeon <\/em>on release, I was informed the game was pretty brutal.\u00a0 Luckily with the Gungeon and Draguns<\/em> update, I can say the difficulty curve has been smoothed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the whispers that I have heard from the other hobos, not gaining a new gun on the first level was pretty common when Enter the Gungeon<\/em> first released.\u00a0 As someone who has experienced a couple of runs without receiving a new gun, I can concur that combating bosses with peashooters can be a chore.\u00a0 Luckily, the Gungeons and Draguns<\/em> update not only adds more bosses, minions, and weapons but the chance of receiving a new gun earlier has also been increased.\u00a0 A change that I welcome, as I believe the starting guns aren\u2019t that enjoyable.\u00a0 The sooner the game can give you a gun that fires t-shirts, the more enjoyable game becomes, the more times I am willing to slam that restart level button upon death.\u00a0 While I wish the update made it so your co-op partner was more than just a sidekick and the controller controls were better, I am still thankful the difficulty curve has been smoothed out.\u00a0 Enter the Gungeon<\/em> and the Gungeon and Draguns<\/em> update showed me that roguelites are a balancing act.\u00a0 A bit too easy or too difficult and players won\u2019t return to your game.\u00a0 Thankfully, Enter the Gungeons <\/em>hits the sweet spot, and I am finding the bite-size nature of it quite enjoyable when I am constantly on the run.\u00a0 Speaking of which, look at the time, I need to move positions.\u00a0 If you see me at the Starbucks, know that I\u2019ll be trying to get that gun kill that kills the past.\u00a0 Hmm, that does sound pretty useful right now.\u00a0 Maybe, just maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article originally ran under a different banner\/website in August of 2018 and is now being here re-uploaded for purposes of convenience and consolidation. Please enjoy.\u00a0 Pssst!\u00a0 Over here.\u00a0 Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been in hiding ever since I obtained the Infinity Gauntlet and decided to protect it from greedy publishers.\u00a0 That is not… Continue reading Savior of False Shephard: Enter the Gungeon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}