Enter the Gungeon

The only people who don't like this game are the people who are bad at it. Those other reviewers REEEEing about the game being too difficult for them aren't who this game is made for. If you are a fan of shmup/bullet-hell and are itching for something a little different than your usual Touhou Danmaku clone, play this; you'll get hundreds of hours of enjoyment. BUT if you have the reflexes of a sleeping geriatric quadriplegic, you might want to find something a little slower and more your pace.

Good game.

So you want a rogue like dungeon delving game with tons of weird things that alter gameplay?? This isn't it. Apparently if you play 50+ hours and get the right items and stumble into secrets that may or may not spawn when you've had a chance to get these items you can unlock interesting perks and shops. I'd rather just play a game that was interesting while being hard from the the start. The guns are basically all the same and most of the time you're better off with your basic gun becaues at least you get the hang of it's fire rate. Most others are the same thing but with dif fire rates. The really interesting ones like the boat gun! It's wacky! It's fun! It's also not a valid option if you want to beat the tough enemies. You're shooting yourself in the foot with (pun intended) if you try to play with these guns. This is punishing in an unfun way and feels like you're ramming your head against a brick wall instead of making progress. Maybe get it at 75% off. Or really just get Binding of Isaac Rebirth.

I watched the trailer and was seduced by the bullet-hell explosions-everywhere aspects. I was expecting a fast shooter with tons of firepower, dangers everywhere on screen and a high difficulty like in a good-old arcade shmup and was really disapointed. You start with as much firepower as a slinger and shoot a lot of time at little enemies to slowly kill them one by one (when not reloading). The dodging, table flipping, collecting guns, items and blanks (clear the room of bullets) can be fun, but it stacks too much features, making the game hard to handle. I was a lot of time shot down because of not knowing instinctively which key I had to press. Along with the continuous need to reload (which is not automatic when you hold the fire button), the game pace become pretty slow and the controls messy. Above all the side buttons of my mouse and the non ascii characters of my keyboard (I don't use azerty nor qwerty) where not recognized and had some performance issues on the linux version. So play on PS4 if you can, which I feel was the platform mainly targeted and ported after. Once you get through the third level, things become interesting. You should have a strong weapon, bullets are coming from everywhere but the too-much-of-features make it still hard to play. And when you die, you can restart all the boring farm, find the shop, buy a real gun and kill the boss of the first level. If the game had more intuitive controls and a faster pace in early game I may have sticked to it a bit (like starting directly to level 3 with a good weapon). I like the ambiance, it's hard as I like and I appreciate the one-shot style (you always start from zero from a game to an other). I forced myself to play after the first negative feeling because hey, I paid for it and I'd like some entertainment but it didn't worked. Now I just leave it as a brainless time-waster, but I have books to read instead.

Well the main song is great, very catchy, but my computer couldn't get through the menu so I can't rate it on that. I saw footage of this, and it certainly looks fun, so if they update it to run a lot better I would come back, but I have to return it.