At the fast start of the roll, you can dodge right through any projectile, but the slower end of the roll sees you entirely vulnerable not to mention stuck rolling in whatever direction you started in. In order that you’re not totally overwhelmed, the key survival mechanic - beyond pumping endless rounds of lead into your enemies - is a roll move with very specific immunity frames in play. That’s because Enter The Gungeon sells itself as essentially a bullet hell type shooter within the confines of a dungeon setting. As the title suggests, the quirk here is that you’re equipped only with guns, which means it’s more like playing, say, Gauntlet or more specifically, Smash TV. Usually, that’s not when you’re about to be shot in the face, although that will happen quite a lot.Īt its heart, Enter The Gungeon is yet another rogue-like randomly generated dungeon crawler with a large cartoonish boss at the end of each dungeon, sorry, gungeon, level. Yes, you start with Enter The Gungeon’s equivalent of a pea shooter, but play well enough and you’ll soon have more guns than you know what to do with, along with the issues of keeping them stocked with ammo and reloaded at the right time. That means that I’m shooting sentient bullets with other bullets that are presumably traitors to their own kind.Īnyway, enemies are ludicrous, as are the guns that you’re given to fight with. I mentioned the terrible gun puns, right?ĭid I mention that Enter The Gungeon doesn’t take itself all that seriously? You’ll soon pick up on this, whether it’s the enemies, which start out as simple sentient bullets… wait. How about a group of mysterious cliche-ridden figures,all trying to erase a mistake from their past? Again, you’re good to go. Want a cliched grizzled shopkeeper hidden within your dungeon? Enter The Gungeon has you sorted. What’s more, Enter The Gungeon actively knows and revels in its use not only of puns, but also weary tropes. Terrible puns are undeniably what drew me to Enter The Gungeon in the first place, because as pun-titles-for-a-dungeon-crawler-featuring-guns goes, it’s eminently groanworthy. ( I’m not fond of the descriptor “Dad Jokes” to describe them, but that’s an argument for another time, methinks.) Some people kind of like them, begrudgingly, while others find them only groanworthy, but I’m always up for a terrible pun, as anyone who has ever conversed with me at any length will be only too well aware. What, that’s not a valid genre? It very much should be. Enter The Gungeon is what happens when truly groanworthy puns get in bed with an old school bullet hell dungeon crawler.
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