Enter The Gungeon & God’s Trigger Free On Epic

Well, that was a week and a bit, wasn’t it? Though it was an editorial, on Friday I covered Epic and Apple’s catfight. Monday, I spoke about The Inner World being added to the newly rebranded Prime Gaming, and Zoë covered The Sims 4 finally getting darker skin tones to represent players better. Tuesday, David covered Animal Farm‘s announcement, Mike spoke about a band’s albums being delisted (then promptly returned), and I spoke about something else Orwellian. Finally, Wednesday Alexx covered everything shown off during the Indie World Showcase thing Nintendo did, and I covered what Rocksteady didn’t do about harassment in the two years since receiving a letter on the matter in 2018.

So, let’s get to the free games on the Epic Games Store this week, though one of them is a repeat from last year. Enter the Gungeon is a rogue-like akin to Binding of Isaac or Nuclear Throne. Unlike either of those, it features enough guns to make an NRA member squirt with glee. It is similar to a bullet-hell in some cases, as bullets will fire guns filled with projectiles in an aim to kill you. Of course, with the usual rogue-like aspects of rinse, repeat, random generation, you never know what will be next, and you play for quite some time flipping tables for cover. I honestly can’t recommend Enter The Gungeon anymore than I did before, it is fun, light, and enjoyable.

The second game this week is what would happen if Quentin Tarantino took bath salts and started playing with blood packs. I swear I’ve cleaned up less blood in Serial Cleaner, and they weren’t even laying down tarpaulin to make my job easier when decapitating that snitch. God’s Trigger is your typical top-down twin-stick shooter about an angel and a demon trying to kill the horsemen of the apocalypse. Essentially, the writing is stuck in a PS2-era of gaming and isn’t the selling point. Neither is the gameplay, as I’m still as terrible with it as I am with most top-down shooters. The only thing I’d say that sells it well enough is the stark art style that sticks out even when covered in blood.

Both Enter the Gungeon and God’s Trigger is available all this week until the morning of the 27th of August. We’ll be doing another double-bill next week, but don’t worry, I’ve played both so once again it will be brief overviews of the games. 2016’s awful episodic reboot of Hitman, which I still can’t stand for a multitude of reasons, least of which is the episodic nature at the time of release. The second is a story-driven turn-based isometric RPG I enjoyed in a dystopian sci-fi fantasy world verging on the edge of the cyberpunk theming everyone’s suddenly into. The Shadowrun Collection includes three of the Shadowrun games: Return, Dragonfall (director cut), and Hong Kong (extended edition).