Beating a boss flawlessly doesn’t just feel good, it’s recognized with an additional heart, and extra Hegemony Credits. But after several rounds, you’ll begin to recognize that what first seemed to be an impenetrable wall of bullets can be an easy-to-dodge attack. The Saturday-morning-cartoon art style belies just how badly they’re likely to kick your ass the first few times you face them. Play At the end of each of Exit the Gungeon’s five levels you’ll encounter one of 13 goofily designed bosses. That’s still a lot better than getting hit, which reduces your health and drops your meter back to 1. If you know you’re about to get hit, you can still use one of your limited “blanks” to clear all the bullets on the screen at the cost of reducing your combo meter. There’s also an NPC that you’ll occasionally run into who gifts you great loot if your combo meter is high enough. The higher the score, the more in-game Credits you’ll receive when you die (though it’s not much, no matter how well you played). That said, it’s a little comforting to know that even in a bad run you still have a chance at a comeback.Combo is definitely useful either way, because it adds to your score at the end of a run. Great guns, like the Predator appear at low levels and bad ones, like the nail gun, show up at high levels. Supposedly, the higher this combo meter goes, the more likely you are to receive high-quality guns while you’re playing, but it never seemed to make much of a difference to me. The more you hit enemies without getting hit, the more your combo meter increases.

But with good enough timing and attack recognition, it’s possible to go the entire game without getting touched. This is especially true during boss battles, where all the lucky jumps in the world are still a poor substitution for memorizing attack patterns. Still, Jump around with no strategy and you’re still bound to get hit, no matter how good your timing. There were times where it looked like I landed directly on an incoming bullet, but by jumping immediately, was left unscathed. This can feel a bit unfair, like reality is flubbing in your favor – which it probably is. But if you time your next jump just as you hit the ground, it begins to feel like you’re totally invulnerable. With a combination of jump and dodge, you can quickly traverse the level safely – provided you don’t land squarely on a bullet. As long as you’re airborne, you’re invulnerable. That’s because Exit the Gungeon pairs your dodge roll with an enormous jump. In Exit the Gungeon, it’s more like a frequent back-up plan. And waiting for a new gun is pointless because it could leave you stuck with something even worse.Ģ6 Images In Enter the Gungeon, your dodge was your last resort. With a delay like that the final boss can literally kill you before you get more than a couple of shots off, ending a 35-minute run in disappointment. These guns require you to hold the trigger for around a second before shooting - and that’s a lifetime in Exit the Gungeon (sometimes literally). The charged shot weapons, like the blunderbuss, really don’t gel with the fast-paced combat. The problem is that there’s a number of guns that aren’t just bad, they’re nearly unusable. And the next, you’ve got a nail gun that exists just to make sure you know how good you had it with the frog.It’s great to have a lot of guns. One second you’re wreaking havoc with a frog blowing bubbles the next, it’s a tentacle that squeezes enemies to death. Thanks to a “blessing” you receive at the beginning of a run, your gun transforms several times every minute while fighting your way out of the now collapsing Gungeon.

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