to articulate what i get out of playing games like this is really fucking hard. 2D action platformers are like my favorite type of games; a good one goes a really long way with me. gunvolt 2 is one of those games. everything is so meticulously well crafted to create an experience that consistently fills me with dopamine whether it be stringing together long score chains with copen’s sexy air dash or gunvolt’s ball busting electrical flashfield. inti knows what the fuck they’re doing when making games of this nature to fully engross its audience. jaw dropping visuals mixed with superb sound design make every attack, every dash executed feel confidently defiant. in any situation there’s an overpowering amount of potential to maximize your success.
the genius behind gunvolt 2’s design is having two unique yet still familiar characters to choose from. copen and gv fight the same bosses but the methodology behind fighting them as each character changes if you know what you’re doing. gunvolt is more reliant on keeping a good distance between bosses while dishing out damage constantly. copen on the other hand plays more strategically where you have to remain defensive most of the time until you can get that sweet opening to bonk into your foe and then dish out some hard hitting damage. i probably explained that in a less effective way than i could’ve but mfs who’ve played the game know what i mean. to have such gripping playstyles coherently like this despite fighting these bosses fourish times over really says something i feel.
iont think this game surpasses any of the zero games for me yet, but the keyword there being yet. i only have 5 hours under my belt for this one while 100 or so more for the zero games. this could be a 10/10 but inafune’s name appears in the credits so the game’s lucky i didn’t end up giving it a 1/10