Robots, gross creatures, and enemy ships all have a bone to pick with our mechanical-looking protagonist, aiming to blast them on foot or in the air. Unless you shoot them all right back.
Gunlord X may have a story, but none of its store pages can be bothered with it. Are robots attacking humanity? Are they menacing their own mechanical kin? Are they aliens looking for a decent cheeseburger, but they can only speak through fired bullet patterns, their calls for peace falling on deaf ears as they can only speak by gunning folks down? I don’t know, and I’m not entirely sure it matters. Just start shooting stuff already.
Seeing that you are being attacked by an unknown force that is sick and tired of cute bird videos, you must fight back to save the sanctity of adorable online cockatoos. To do this, you’ll use an array of guns to hose the enemy down with even more bullets, strongly showing your dislike of their political ideology. Eleven levels of increasingly odd monsters and heavily-armed ships want to blast you to bits, and you’ll have to march through stages or fly through them in your own ship, always ensuring you’re shooting right back.
There were dragons, tanks with faces, cranky fetuses, and all kinds of other creepy machines and beings coming at you, making for some strange combat situations. Still, the more surreal the better in these run n’ run games, I say. Having grown up on Contra, I don’t need much reason to rush around shooting odd video game things.
Gunlord X is available now on the Nintendo Switch and PS4.
How can you not know about “Turrican”???
Very good question indeed! Is there a sonic the hedghehog cyborg wheel which cuts mowns down evverything in its path 😛