Of course, you wont always get the mutations you want, but you will always become stronger with each new mutation you get. When you level up you get a random selection of Four of the 29 Mutations which can be stuff like More Max Health, Higher Ammo Capacity, Slower Enemy Bullets, a Damaging AoE around you at all times, and even more. Than there are Mutations, which you obtain by collecting Rads from killing enemies and leveling up. Even if you don’t get favorable Mutations or Weapons you can always rely on the skills of your character. Because each character is consistent and never changes, you can always rely on the tools that your characters give you. Than you have their actives which can be a Dodge Roll, A Shield, a Snare Trap, Blowing up Corpses etc. Each character has a passive such as More Ammo from Ammo Drops, More Max Health, Faster Walking Speed, Dual Wielding Weapons and more.

Nuclear Throne’s balance is held up by the three pillars of Characters, Weapons and Mutations. That doesn’t even go into how each playable character has Two Special Ultra Mutations that turn them into absolute powerhouses of destruction once you reach end-game. In total there are 12 Playable Characters each with their own passives abilities and active abilities that change how you play, 29 Base Mutations that can give you stat buffs, synergies with certain weapon types, change the way you interact with enemies and much more, and so many goddamn weapons that I wouldn’t even be able to count them all. This game rewards you for playing a balancing act between careful planning and positioning and running into perilous situations guns blazing without a care in the world.Īnd that’s only scratching the surface: Nuclear Throne is a game not only built around frantic 2D-Rougelike Shooter action, but also giving the player a buffet of options that open up as the game goes on.

It’s game-play has been compared to games like Enter the Gungeon and Hotline Miami (and funnily enough there are Easter Eggs in those games that reference Nuclear Throne.) but i’d liken it to a 2D Version of DOOM.

If you’re a fan of fast-paced, in your face, unrelenting gunplay that forces you to not only strategically understand the circumstances of your surroundings, the weapons you have, the enemies you’re fighting, and the character you’re playing than you will enjoy Nuclear Throne. Now that Nuclear Throne was announced for the Switch today, and released for the Switch ON THE SAME DAY AS IT’S ANNOUNCEMENT, I think that it’s time that I speak to this game’s strengths and tell you why you should get this game. A few years ago I wrote about Online Functionality for Video Games and used Nuclear Throne as an example, I used to Roleplay as Fish on Tumblr when I first got into the game, I wrote a bit for the askblog and to this day still follow the community this game has spawned. Now if you know anything about me, and I mean anything at all, than you probably know that Nuclear Throne is one of my favorite video games of all time.

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