Do you want to play a game that does a fantastic job at filling the role of a mere “shooter”…a game that after your first glance, you’ll see that the game-play is deceptively strategic…a game that is filled with pixelated art and lots of guns in a kind of bullet hell? Nuclear Throne is YOUR game. Vlambeer games has just released ‘The Beginning Of The End Part II’ – Update 92 http://nuclearthrone.com/ . We caught up with Rami Ismail (Co-founder of Vlambeer) at Pax Prime 2015 and got to chat with him about all things Throne. Here is the link:
https://soundcloud.com/poppundits/vlambeer-interview
Nuclear Throne is a great fast-paced action isometric/twinstick shooter featuring twelve(?) unique characters to choose from. Each character offers a different and fun play style so you can play the game to what suits you best, if you wish to have a insane rate of fire, or blow everything up on the screen with one click of a button, it’s all up to you. It features randomly generated levels spanning over seven areas, most of which feature a boss, with the final goal of reaching the fabled Nuclear Throne. The game is a mix of rouge-like, action, and bullet hell, providing an exciting journey for all players. Featuring hundreds of different guns of all different types, these are also randomly generated making every run different from the last. The game also features dozens of mutations for your characters, these work as permanent power-ups granted upon collecting enough radiation to level up. You will need mutations on your quest as the game gets progressively more difficult.
It is pure, unadulterated chaos on top of a set of evolving and tight controls. Things will try to kill you, and you need to learn exactly how many hits each enemy takes, how each of the multitudinous weapons deals damage, how the mutations work alongside weapons and character traits, what particular types of terrain and obstacles do, etc. – otherwise, you’ll fall apart. It’s brutal! ‘Nuclear Throne’ offers you hundreds maybe even thousands of hours of fun and anger, Vlambeer is good at getting massive bug fixes, tweaks, and content patches EVERY week. Well, at least until the ‘End’ End.
-Dagobot
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