This is a shame as the style of Exit the Gungeon is superb. The interesting gun mechanics don’t shake up the gameplay fundamentally enough to really offer that much and end up feeling far more like an aesthetic change than a gameplay one. Taking away the sense that your run is actually yours and replacing it with a system that feels stale quickly just reminds me of what worked so well about Enter the Gungeon.
While the focus on combos and randomly assigned guns are initially intriguing, it ends up being rather tiresome. It has a challenging but not frustrating sense of difficulty, just like the previous title, but its gameplay loop doesn’t work nearly as well. It is a game you can turn off your brain and just make your way through. Both titles are fundamentally about the gameplay. The story has some beats to it as characters changed to accommodate the story or maybe don’t change as much as you think, but the story isn’t really what is important. You are placed directly at the end of Enter The Gungeon and are now tasked with exiting said Gungeon. Although E3 is canceled this year, there is no doubt in my mind Devolver is planning something wild, meta, and filled with blood. This philosophy is something Innate in both Dodge Roll and Devolver Digital’s philosophy. Mostly, the crazier your capture footage, the better. Consecutive kills and hits hold this combo. In this you, you are rewarded by upholding a combo.
C-C-C-ComboĮxit The Gungeon is made even more hectic by its combo system. Although every run was random, you figure out what guns and items work for you, often ending in a similar place. Never feeling sure of your weapon, area, or enemies is a shocking change from the more structured feel of Enter The Gungeon offered. Instead of allowing you to loot and shoot your way through floors, you are given new guns from an ethereal being in the form of a “blessing” This often embodies the form of a new gun every twenty to thirty seconds. This doesn’t work quite as well as Enter but provides short bursts of close engaging combat. For the most part, it foregoes Enter’s cover mechanic entirely and opts for much smaller areas. Instead of trying to dodge bullets, it’s often better to roll through them to get to a better position. The roll can be used to ignore bullets entirely. Enter the Gungeon’s classic roll mechanic still exists but now has a verticality to it. Did I mention it had guns? What is Exit The Gungeon?Įxit The Gungeon, on the other hand, is a 2d sidescroller bullet hell with even fewer roguelike elements. It was packed with plenty of unique guns, gun themed enemies, and gun arenas. It had tight gameplay that allowed you to: hide behind cover you assemble, dodged through bullets, and pick up a variety of upgrades to make each run feel unique. Its world was weird, unique, and charming. What made Enter the Gungeon work so well was a combination of design choices. It felt instantly playable but had a decent skill gap. Some of the same tricks worked on certain levels, and you often had an innate understanding of each room even though they had tricks up their sleeve. This was a good way of world-building as it made random runs that had some sense of level consistency. It featured random runs by linking premade rooms together, achieving a procedural generation style. The original was a roguelike top-down bullet hell game. It takes place in the same storyline, has the same aesthetic, and shares some of the same controls, but it is obviously very different. Mechanically, Exit the Gungeon is fundamentally different to Enter. Can it hold a candle to the original, or should it be the left in the Gungeon? How are they related? Saying this, one can’t help but compare it as they have some defined and intentional similarities. Exit the Gungeon is an entirely different beast, and calling it a sequel might have been misleading.
Where to Buy: Apple Arcade, Nintendo Switch, SteamĮxit the Gungeon was initially touted as a spin-off to Enter the Gungeon with different mechanics, despite the fact it chronologically takes place directly after the first. Available On: Apple Arcade, Steam, Nintendo Switch
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