The developers waste none of their time (and consequently, your time) on anything that doesn't feel just awesome. The game is so easy to pick up, and yet the way you develop your character is incredibly deep. Such character and atmosphere I found myself immersed in! There's a power-up based leveling system (further referred to as they are in game, 'mutations'), a charming and variant cast of playable characters, tons of weapons (about 73 as of this writing, but I was just in on a stream where they rather liked my suggestion of adding nunchuks), crazy enemies, b-skins, rule-altering pickups and even local 2-player! And the art and music- Ohhh, the art and music! The beautiful and detailed pixel art, the energizing (sometimes haunting) tracks and impeccable sound design frankly shocked me. If I were to call it anything, it would probably be 'Randomly-Generated Action Crunch with Permadeath', which I am predicting will be a cereal by 2019 (sans permadeath, unless we don't have randomly-generated cereals by then, in which case I WANT to die).Įverything about this game is crunchy. It's referred to as an 'action roguelike-like(-like)' because it is difficult to put into a genre.

This is Nuclear Throne, and it's appeal cannot be simply summed up in a few words. Okay, you're back! How was it- Ohhh, I know that look! Your eyes have the enlightened glint of one who has tried the good stuff, the real deal, the prime reserve.

It'll be like kicking good vibes across a punch bowl (I'm also hit-and-miss with simile). Being inanimate text that a person typed and then abandoned, I have no sense of time.

Do you know crunch? I mean, do you truly know the incredibly visceral, powerful and satisfying feedback that is crunch? Now go into Nuclear Throne and smack a maggots nest with a sledgehammer.

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