Fury Unleashed

How did this game not get more attention? It's an absolute blast to play, especially in co-op. Intense run and gun action, beautiful art, interesting weapons and enemies, and a fair roguelite progession system. It even has just the right amount of story, which is oddly compelling for this type of game.

Fun game in co-op but gets boring quickly.

A hidden gem for those that want to play something really good, the game is super polished, amazing graphics, and really fun to play.

Great Game.
Negative:
-Takes far to long to level up. You will probably beat the game before you level up fully.
You will also have to grind the 1st level for the first 5 hours before you can unlock (starting at) the 2nd/3rd one.
-Only 3 levels.
-Not worth full price. Buy it on sale for $5.00 like I did.
Positive:
-Fun level design and controls
-Cool Enemies
-Nostalgia for those that played a lot of arcades or side scrolling games.
-Very difficult and requiring a lot of skill if you want it to be
or very easy if you want that too (tweak it in the options menu)

I'd say this game is like if Dead Cells and Metal Slug had a baby where that child is raised properly but doesn't necessarily succeed its own parents and just exists as a good and fun product.
While I've played plenty of games of this genre by now, I think this game is pretty unique with how you are playing a comic book character, named Fury, who explores different pages and panels of a comic book that gets filled out as you progress through it. It's a cool idea for level design and storytelling where you see Fury's journey as they experience the typical lifestyle of a comic book hero as they slay villains and save the world, but Fury is in distress because he gets contacted by a mysterious entity who warns him that his creator is moving on. This sparks Fury to go on a quest to prove himself worthy of more material. It becomes the character's desperate fight to stay relevant.
As is pretty standard for comic books, the character being named "Fury" is very identical to the naming convention for these hero-like characters. This is not at all a bad thing, however; as I think it makes it all the more natural to the idea of the game being played out in the style of a comic book, and even the enemies he fights are sort of typical and what you could expect. The game spans across three books (or levels) where each level has three chapters to it. Each chapter has a miniboss or two and the book's final boss is located within the third chapter. There is a fourth comic book as well that you reach once you have beaten the boss of each level, and this fourth comic book is what concludes the story and reveals an interesting twist.
The first comic book focuses on bugs and ancient creatures, the third comic book focuses on an alien invasion . . . all typical stuff for a comic book. The second book, which is also kind of typical? It features Neo-Nazi's who apparently developed a time traveling machine. I'm pointing this out more specifically because I always thought it was interesting that in storytelling the Nazi's are always of a genius intellect and technologically advanced. Just look at Captain America or the Nazi's in Call of Duty's zombie mode where they developed laser guns and stuff.
With this being a roguelike, you start over from the beginning of the level if you die but the game has an XP and level-up system where you can empower your character after each run. Killing enemies drops ink that you collect to spend in the skill tree and part of the gameplay here is to build up and maintain your 'combo' to increase the multiplier so that ink drops in larger quantities. Even better is that it is completely free to respec your build in case you want to try something new, which I took advantage of if a build I opted for didn't seem to work very well. Something else that I liked was that you can skip ahead to the next level from the character screen once you've beaten the boss of the previous level, preventing you from having to replay entirely from the first comic book. This can allow for speedier or less tedious progression but you may find yourself underpowered since you skipped previous levels and therefore would not have collected as many weapons and gear.
Speaking of weapons and gear, I feel like this is where the game was truly lacking. What makes games like this so great, where there is the RNG factor to the drops you can get, is the game having hundreds of drops to collect and pray upon should you come across something really good in previous runs. It's what made a game like The Binding of Isaac so fun, you never knew how your run would go. This game has a good variety of weaponry but I didn't like that you had to 'unlock' the blueprints by locating a specific NPC somewhere in the level, where they didn't always spawn, and then you'd have to take the blueprint to a separate NPC, who was guaranteed to spawn somewhere in the level after you collected a blueprint, but there's always that chance of dying and losing your new gun before you can unlock it for future runs. A lot of the guns seemed very situational, weak, or just overall worthless where you quickly learn that the winning combination is really just a standard rocket launcher and grenade launcher. Your starting weaponry is between pistols, an SMG, and shotgun, so you'll have to find any other weapon you like through chance as you play the game.
The armor as well is lacking and there seems to be even less of it to find or look forward to. It adds protection to you, where you can take a few free hits without losing your combo, but a lot of the passive bonuses or effects to the armor also seemed rather pointless most of the time.
While the game was fun, it was pretty easy at least for me. It wasn't really until the fourth comic book level that I was met with some challenge, as this level mixes it up and plays differently to the previous three levels you will have conquered. It's very important to learn how to stomp the heads of the more basic enemies as this will be an instant death for them unless they are shielded, and the rest of it is generally just dodging around the map as it becomes somewhat of a bullet hell, especially with the bosses, but as is the case with games of this design, you'll get better the more you play and familiarize yourself with the patterns of the enemies you come across.
Of course, I died a few times before reaching the final level due to taking too much damage and not finding methods to recovering my health, but it's not too hard of a roguelike and I did still have a lot of fun with it.
The developer here doesn't seem to have very many games in their portfolio but I think they have a winning recipe if they focus on games of this nature. I'd be interested in playing more games like this coming from them as they improve and become more experienced.

Just simply fun. Get guns, shoot monsters. Real old-school feel to it, from an era when games were just trying to be fun and not cinematic experiences.
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Fury Unleashed grips you from the start. The combo system is the heart of the game, and keeping your combo going as you tear through enemies feels amazing. Boss fights are tough but super satisfying when you figure them out. Each run is different with new loot, enemy setups, and boss patterns, keeping it fresh. It’s fast, intense, and keeps pulling you back in. Co-op makes it even better, adding to the chaos and fun.​