Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell rogue-like made by Devolver studios. It has you go through a 5 floor gauntlet, later 6, and your main way of fighting is through the power of guns. This is probably one of the best rogue-likes I have ever played. There are 243 guns and almost 300 items to collect in the entire game! A lot of guns have unique properties and gimmicks as well, such as the tetris gun where you can stick a bunch of pieces on an enemy and they all explode once you land a line piece on them. There are also synergies, where if you have a certain combo of two guns and/or items, they get a boost in power or they can just change entirely! The amount of pop culture references in the game is also amazing, one of my favorites is with the item Nanomachines, and right underneath it when is a quip that says "son", an obvious reference to Metal Gear Rising. Another reference actually involves with a synergy called "Pulp Gungeon" where you need an orange and M1911, the name referencing Pulp Fiction, but the M1911 is also the gun that the two guys also used in the movie! Then there are the enemies and bosses in the game, and man there are a lot. There really isn't much to say about the enemies, but the bosses are super fun to fight! There's the Gatling Gull, a ripped bird that wields a huge minigun, the Beholster, a 6 armed cyclops with laser vision, and even an insane cultist known as the High Priest, who is literally just a gun with arms but damn is he hard. There are 8 characters to play as, not counting the co-op character, 4 of which you have to unlock. They all start off with different weapons and items, so it all comes down to play style for who you want to play as. One last thing to mention, there are also secret floors to go to, that way you can obtain extra guns and items! So it's actually possible to go through 10 whole floors in a single playthrough! 100%ing this game took me about 200 hr. but it was well worth it.

Reviewed on Dec 11, 2021


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