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Takes everything about the first one and just improve on it. Graphics are better, gameplay is a lot smoother, and I even think it's a bit more balanced. Great game. Love the soundtrack. Devolver and Roll7 nailed it again.

It just works on so many levels. Awesome graphics, crazy fast paced action, and gratuitous violence. Favorite gun is definitely that Super Shotgun. I wanna FEEL it when I take a softball-sized divot out of my enemies. Beat on Normal so you can feel good about your wussy life, then immediately ramp it up and quickly be reminded that this is DOOM, and you're not locked up with them...they're locked up with YOU.

10/10. Go to Hell.

SIX MONTH UPDATE (5/13/2016):

Six months later, and I am still thoroughly enjoying Shadow Warrior 2. Like a fine aged whiskey, it's only gotten better with time, and I'm convinced that Flying Wild Hog somehow figured out EXACTLY what type of gamer I am and what I enjoy, because this game hits the mark for me on so many levels...hence the 71+ hours I've put into it.

Since my review back in November of last year, the developers have released 4 DLCs, including a hilarious Xmas event, a trials area, a PayDay crossover add-on that includes two weapons and a multiplayer skin, and a new bounty mission board, all at no extra cost to the player. I don't really think I've ever seen that done before. These free DLCs award players with even more weapons and ways to make your Wang stronger...and there are more DLCs to come!

The crafting system in the game is interesting, but you'll need to finish the Way of the Wang DLC in order to take full advantage of it. Depending on the difficulty you're playing on, the level of your character, and the weapons you have equipped, completing those trials will either be a piece of cake or the bane of your existence. Either way, there will be blood. Once completed, you'll be able craft gems, embed additional gem slots to your weapons, purify your upgrades by removing negative attributes, and even infuse them with greater damage, lower reload times, and higher rates of fire. I love this because essentially, you can turn a sub par weapon into a weapon that does very high damage.

At level 67 with a myriad of skills and weapons equipped, I've been farming Insanity I difficulty for experience and Orbs of Masamune. A lot of people despise that endless, Diablo III-esce grind, but personally, I love making my character stronger and stronger and putting basketball-sized holes in demons or slicing them into shreds. I use invisibility to increase my damage when I stealth kill, and I use the Arm Of Orochi because it can't be blocked. This is conjunction with Cerberus, Grip of Darkness, and Fury has made me pretty unstoppable at this difficulty.

In short, this game is still my favorite, and the longer I play it, the more I love it. Power to the Wang!


ORIGINAL REVIEW (11/2/2016):

Nobody likes long reviews or short wangs, so I'm gonna make this quick and sexual.

PROS:

- 70+ WEAPONS (MELEE, AUTOMATIC, PROJECTILE, AND INCENDIARY)
- LOTS OF SKILLS TO UPGRADE
- LOOT LOOT LOOT
- KILLER SOUNDTRACK
- PROCEDURAL GORE SYSTEM (Just keep slashing, bruh)
- PROCEDURAL LEVELS
- SAME OUTSTANDING SWORDPLAY
- ZERO PERCENT FALL DAMAGE
- INFINITE DOUBLE JUMP, DASH, AND AIR DASH
- UP TO 4 PLAYER CO-OP

CONS:

- Repetitive
- Gem Management is a chore
- Enemies tend to be rather bullet spongey
- Short campaign
- Dialogue is hit or miss

Become one with the Wang...become a SHADOW WARRIOR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUsRG7aC-LI

As I mention in the video below, I've been playing Beat 'Em Ups since elementary school. They've always been one of my favorite genres of games. From Bad Dudes and River City Ransom to Final Fight and Streets of Rage, I've played them all.

Mother Russia Bleeds is a more than welcome addition to the Beat 'Em Up family. The pixel art is excellent, the story is generic (that's a good thing), the main characters all have strengths and weaknesses to fit your specific style of play, and (and this is the most important part) it's explicitly violent.

Tips:

- Go ahead and do the tutorial. It'll get you used to the controls. Not all Beat 'Em Ups are created equal.

- USE THAT DASH. Defeating many of the bad guys depends on your dashing out of their way. Some will give tells to let you know they're about to dash towards YOU. You can also hold Dash button (R1) and either Punch (X) or Kick (Y) to do a dashing attach. This will save your butt in many situations, but especially when there are too many enemies on the screen and you need to break away.

- Manage Your Health and Nekro. I kept forgetting that my health bar and Nekro syringe were both in the upper right hand corner and to keep and eye out on them, so I died a lot more than I wanted to. Clear the area, watch for twitching victims, and extract Nekro from them while you can. You can even Dash Attack out to attack enemies sneaking up behind you, then go back and get more.

10/10. Would punch the s*it out of a full sized adult pig again.

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Not gonna waste too much of your time. All you need to know is this game HAS been DRASTICALLY improved, and it shows that Andrew Gilmour actually cares about his game and the people playing it. The offensive animation lag has been removed, the balance has been fixed, even the soundtrack is better. Much love to Andrew. I'm slicing demons, gettin SLAIN, and I love every second of it.

PROS

- Beautiful hand-drawn artstyle
- Fast paced, intuitive, counter/attack gameplay
- An engaging storybook-style tale with an interesting time-travel aspect
- Interesting weapons and skill tree
- Light-hearted, humorous, and very addicting

CONS

- Fixed camera
- Repetitive
- Easy. Probably won't take long to finish

FINAL SCORE

8/10

Just beat this game for the first time among MULTIPLE deaths. Was worth every damn second.

Tower of Guns is LITERALLY Bullet Hell, and it pays you to check this game out. All the enemies are different types of cannons. Some shoot huge, slow-moving bullets, some very fast blades that do hella damage, and some fly around, shooting and bashing into you. You'll clear out a like 4 or 5 rooms, then there'll be a boss that you have to fight before heading to the next level of the tower.

It's a rogue-like, so you're gonna start at a low level, but progress quickly, and when you die, you'll lose your power-ups and cash, and start over. Your gun and your health are what you level up. When you destroy a cannon, it'll usually explode and spit out large and small health gems, large and small gun upgrades gems, coins, yellow gems for your special, and items that will do various things like give you an extra jump, raise and lower the difficult, speed, or raise your max health and/or gun upgrade meter.

The levels are randomized, though familiar looking, and as you play you'll unlock different perks and guns that you can choose as your loadout. With the right combination of gun and perk, you can give youself a nice headstart to the game, and then as you progress and get more power-ups and items, you'll have no trouble dispatching the HORDES of cannons firing at you. This game wouldn't be nearly as much fun if it wasn't built on the Unreal Engine. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ war when all those guns are firing on you from all sides.

Awesome game. It's worth the $15 they're asking, but you should look for sales for it...can probably find it even cheaper.

When I first got this game, I kinda knew what to expect. I'd played House of the Dead in the arcades, and I liked the idea of incorporating typing into the popular rail shooter. I played it for a while, had fun, laughed at the stupid jokes and extreme over-acting of it all, and then pretty much shelved it for awhile.

A few days ago, I got my first mechanical keyboard (Corsair K65 RGB, Cherry MX Reds). Then I remembered I owned this game, so I redownloaded it and I can honestly say that this game went from kinda fun to EXTREMELY fun.

With mechanical keys, my average score in the game is around 91%. Definitely a different experience. I almost wanna say you won't have any real fun in this unless 1) You love typing, and 2) You have a badass mechanical keyboard to play it.

As for the game itself, if you've ever played a rail shooter before, it's pretty standard. Game moves on its own, zombies come at you and instead of using a light gun, you use your keyboard and type the words, terms, or sentences below the zombies. Type it out correctly, and you kill the zombie. Do it quick enough and you'll get a headshot.

If there are multiple zombies on screen, it'll use red arrows and a flashing border around the word to let you know you should dispatch THIS zombie first, or you'll get slapped.

The game mixes it up a lot. Some zombies will throw stuff at you, and rather than concentrate on the word below them, you wanna shoot the single letter attached to the object flying at your face, and THEN take the zombie out.

Some words, terms, and sentences are longer than others, especially if you have some of the dictionary DLCs installed. Also, get in the habit of hitting TAB periodically, as there are various green health packs, slow-mo power ups, game music tracks, and game artwork that can be collected.

The jokes are over-the-top, the monsters are disgustingly awesome, and my typing score is getting better and better. Grab it up.

You really can't go wrong when the User Review Rating is Overwhelmingly Positive.

You also can't go wrong with a Devolver title.

Like everyone else has said here, Downwell is a very solid, easy to pick up, hard to put down, impossible to survive 8bit action platform shooter.

Easiest way to describe it is your little 8 bit dude is falling down a well filled with enemies. You only have two controls: jump and shoot, all controlled with the same button, so you'll either be using the directional pad of your controller, jumping, or shooting. When you shoot, your fall is slowed down until you run out of ammo, but your dude will reload after you either land on a rock or platform or stomp an enemy. You'll also collect gems as you destroy rocks and kill enemies, and you can use these gems in shops on the way down to get better gun upgrades or refill your HP. Each level concludes with you reaching the water at the bottom of the well. The wells get deeper and take longer to complete the higher levels you reach.

It's a rogue-like, so you'll keep playing and progressing until you die, then it's back to level 1. It will take your gems and give you a progress bar. Once it's filled, you'll unlock different colors for your screen as well as styles of play.

You'll die a lot when you first start because you'll think you have the game figured out and you so don't. You're not just falling and shooting stuff. There IS strategy involved, it's not just dumb luck.

My suggestions are these: TAKE YOUR TIME. It's not a race to the bottom. You want to stay alive as much as possible. Also, know your enemies. Some of them you HAVE to shoot in order to kill and others can be stomped on the head. Those little dudes scaling the sides of the walls with the spikey backs..SHOOT THEM. Those birds can be a nuisance too, so blow them away when you get the chance and don't linger because they will chase you and take a nice bite out of your HP.

Know your guns. Not every gun is as effective. While some are really powerful, they have a very short "magazine", so if you're spamming it all the way down, you'll be empty more times than not. My personal favorites so far are Burst (B), Shotgun (S), Fist (F), and Machine Gun (M). Laser (L) is my least favorite.

Pick your post-level upgrades wisely. You can drastically change your survivability by choosing the right one. Giving yourself extra HP is fine, but not if you're not doing as much damage as you could. You'll just take slightly longer to die. The Droid is a great upgrade for clearing rocks and enemies as you fall. I usually grab that and couple it with Triple (T). I also like the upgrade that reloads your gun as you collect gems. The less I have to think about reloading the better. I'm trying to get to the bottom of the well with as much HP left as possible. The right combo of gun and upgrade can make all the difference.

Don't try to kill every enemy. Remember, your goal is to stay alive, collect gems, and reach the end of the level, not clear the well of all enemies. Some enemies you will seriously need to ignore and keep moving down. If they get persistent, THEN dispatch them, but you're gonna gain gems regardless, so don't waste time trying to kill everything, lest you put yourself at risk of dying early. You can fall faster than they can chase you, so destroy what's in your way and bypass what is not.

Have fun! This is another great game from Devolver!

9/10

WOW. Excellent job, Neocore! This is NOT the same title I stressed over a few years ago. No way. They completely cleaned this up. Everything about it really shines, but I think the biggest improvement has got to be how balanced it is now. I know I can be a completely NOOB in certain games, but there's no reason why at Level 5 you should be getting a mudhole stomped dry in your ass by mobs. Not that early in the game, and certainly not on lower difficulty levels. That and the constant crashing and save file corrupting forced me to legit stop playing the first one, and I LOVE Isometric action RPGs. Everything I read about the second and third titles made me steer clear of them, but Neocore really did listen to the fans of this series and release a truly incredible game. And I think it's really awesome that they gave it away to people who purchased all three. This company really gives a damn about us, and that's sadly a rare thing nowadays. So happy to be playing this. Thanks guys!