I wish I had the capability to adjust the timelines and see this get the attention and success it deserves. It’s a huge bundle of fun, and just extraordinary for something made so quickly by so few. If you’re terrible at them like I am, you’ll have a great time laughing at your own ineptitude.
If you’re super-great at this sort of game, you can make it harder for yourself with the tougher hats. Or there’s one that makes all the enemies into chapter 3’s frogs. You can then go in with, say, a more powerful attack but far fewer lives. There are ways to mix things up, too, with different hats to unlock. Oh, and when you lose a campervan crashes through the ceiling. The art is great throughout, and it’s presented in the widest widescreen you’ve ever seen a game. The levels are randomly built each time, so you may have more fortunate runs where you encounter fewer of the spinny star bastards in the second chapter, and therefore stand a better chance if you’re me. It looks great, there’s a big variety of enemies, each with unique attacks and different tactics required for taking them out, and even more thought when different combinations of them are in any screen. Although they all might as well be infinitely long for my chances of finishing them. Gutwhale captures that Enter The Gungeon/Nuclear Throne vibe with finesse, despite putting it into a much shorter game. I’m OK with failing to reach it a lot more times for the foreseeable future. It seems vanishingly unlikely I’ll ever finish it, despite probably having been two screens from the end. I’ve reached the third chapter! I’ve reached the third room of the third chapter! That was once. I believe there are three chapters to it. The truth is I’m just so terrible at this that it’s inevitable. Which leads to what I could never straight-faced call “tactics” of “deliberately” dying to have more ammunition for the later trickier levels. You can still only hold one at a time, but now there’s a second (or third, or fourth) bullet on screen to pick up to fire. Respawn and your old bullet remains in the room, while you bring in a new one. You begin with three respawns, and every time your character is touched or hit by any enemy or their projectiles, it instantly dies. Catch the bullet you just fired before it hits the ground and you’ll string together combos for more points, clearly the room and the floor falls through and you land in the next.
Nuclear throne together widescreen series#
In big chunky graphics, you’re working your way down through a series of single-screen levels, trying to clear them of their manic collection of enemy types, all without ever getting hit yourself.
This is such a fantastic conceit on its own, but it’s made all the more fun by the requirement to pick up that bullet after you’ve fired it, so you can fire again. This is a three-chapter rogue-lite action-platformer, in which your character can only carry one bullet at a time. Quite how the dice are rolled on these things I shall never understand, but I’m certain that on Earth-458 three-person team Stuffed Wombat are rolling around in all that sudden fame and money.Ĭreated in about a month, this was built after developer Wombat (I’ve been unable to find his real name) was fired due to the C-word crisis, and good heavens he’s put together something incredible in such a short time. The completely arbitrary unfairness of the gaming business means that in any other timeline, Gutwhale would be THE game that everyone was talking about, while any other super-tough pixelly action game success story went completely unnoticed. I fail in the most ludicrous ways, over and over again, like a gnat with short-term memory loss. I like to imagine there’s a generation of psychology students writing their dissertations on what it is about twits like me that love playing games they’re utterly hopeless at.
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