Power fantasy this is not however, as you also cannot tank much, you have 8 health, 10 if you pick Crystal, and there is one perk that gives you +4 max health, which means at most you have 14 hit points. The bullets do enough damage for the audio visual feedback to match gameplay. There’s even a perk to make corpses fly back more and do MORE damage. Enemies have a great death sound and the corpses fly back a little and damage other enemies on collision. The basic revolver sounds more powerful than a lot of games shotguns. Many games have sound effects where the guns sound pathetically weak and boring, Nuclear Throne is not afraid to make the guns sound powerful even when they’re weak.
Shooting is everything it needs to be, the audio effects are crunchy and satisfying. The skins themselves are fun and none of them are lazy recolours, there is always a fun twist, such as eyes wearing 3D glasses in his B skin. Each character does also have a B-skin you can unlock through gameplay challenges, which is a nice reminder that skins used to be a reward for a challenge, rather than a debit card swipe. Every character is visually interesting and distinct from one another, with my favourites being rogue, horror and fish. This is enough to distinguish characters from each other gameplay wise without changing the gameplay of any one character much. Each character has their own unique passives and actives that make them play differently. The next reason is the 12 characters you can unlock. For some this will reduce re-playability as there is less to work towards, however I find working to get more wins and unlock character skins is enough to bring me back. As an example of this Nuclear throne has next to none of the meta progression games Like ‘Rogue Legacy’, ‘Hades’ and ‘Dead Cells’ have, meaning there is very little guff attached to main gameplay loop. The gameplay is all meat, no skin, fat or bone to be seen. Of that, about 95% of it involves shooting and dodging enemy projectiles. You click 4 buttons from the main menu to get into a game, and assuming you don’t care about the looping mechanic the game can be beat in 10–15 minutes, with newer players taking 20.
Nuclear throne is a lean mean shooting machine. This of course goes down if you get better items but on average id say it very rarely drops below thirty. Reason number one is pacing, most rogue-likes have runs that can be lasting up to an hour if you get to the later floors with lackluster items. Especially other top down ones such as ‘Enter the Gungeon’ and ‘Binding of Isaac’.
Despite this it has held my attention for longer than most other rogue-likes out there. Nuclear Throne’s Switch Launch Trailer Nuclear throne is about 8 years old at the time of typing this out.
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