Nightmare Reaper

Nightmare Reaper is pretty much everything I would want out of a modernized pixelated fps shooter; - Weapon usage feedback feels great in terms of audio, how enemies react to it, visuals, etc. - There is permanent progress in the form of a super mario 2 inspired 2d map where you can enter levels. Upon completion you unlock permanent upgrades like faster weapon swap time, faster run speed, reload time, dash unlock, more hp, etc. This is a great way to break up the shooting and you can do this whenever you'd like to. Furthermore, you can keep holding on to one weapon when you've completed a level. - Weapons have valuable stats and are categorized in rareness. - Randomized levels to a certain extend... yes, it genuinely works and does what it's intended for, it really shines when you have to rerun a level 2-3 times. - An -in my opinion interesting non intrusive story that you can skip all together if you're not interested. The things that needs work is are jumping puzzles, which often give you a good amount of air but positioning your character is rather clunky in air, it doesn't feel right yet. That's it, I'm really looking forward to more updates since I've completed all chapters so far. For what it's worth; a game really has to compel me to play to completion let alone let me hunger for more and give a "perfect" score, I don't throw these 5/5's around.

I'm addicted to this game. The combat is frenetic, fast, bloody and satisfying. The feeling when you headshot an enemy or set them on fire is perfect. The random generation makes the game replayable. The upgrades are all good and worth investing. I love it.

Gunplay is excellent, music is awesome, the aesthetic is beautiful in motion, buy it.

Whenever I have an hour or two for this game, I always end up sinking much longer. The action, pacing, and violence is just what I need for hours of therapy. Glad I gave it a try, because I don't have time to enjoy every doom-like.

Don't get me wrong, this is not a bad game at all, but it did not live up to a lot of the hype I was hearing about it. The main thing I disliked was the level and enemy design, especialyy for the first half of the game. Levels reminded me a lot of Minecraft and the enemies in the first half were pretty bland imo. It's a pretty long game, so after a while because of my previous copmplaint, I just felt burnt out and was ready to be done with it. I also didn't like the leveling up mini games and found them boring and montonous after a while. Imo pick it up on sale.