![]() Unlike Megaman though, while Gunvolt is tough there’s a reassuring ease to it thanks to generous checkpointing that doesn’t drop you too far from where you died and with full health and all the food items gathered up to that point at the end of the day you may be slamming your head into a brick wall on some sections, but you’ll be secure in the knowledge that when you pass them that you’ll not have to go through them again. Bosses are borrowed from Mighty Number 9 as well, with many of the ‘Mighty’ units featuring. Gunvolt itself is basically Megaman reborn, as if to hammer this home the game features Beck from Mighty Number 9 as a playable character as well as a boss approximately two thirds of the way through. It’s not like this matters a jot as the majority of games from yesteryear had completely hokey stories that you could safely ignore, and this is no exception. There’s some sort of storyline involving our hero ending up in some bizarre alternate world he doesn’t recognise with some nonsensical reason that he has to fight to get out. Our stupidly named protagonist on this occasion is Gunvolt, and he runs, he jumps and he’s got a gun. The 80s and 90s were home to a stream of action games featuring protagonists with dumb names running, jumping and shooting their way through collections of dangerously shaped pixels the year is now 2017, and we’re getting them again en masse. ![]()
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