5/29/2023 0 Comments Huntdown review switchA throwback that doesn’t reinvent the wheel but works out some of the finer kinks of the genre. I am glad the amazing trailer was for a fantastic game. If classic run and gun games are something that piques the interest, Huntdown is a must buy. Luckily, the Steam copy has a screen-sharingfeature that means there is a workaround for the lack of online multiplayer, but I am on console unfortunately. I understand that setting up online multiplayer can be costly for indie developers, but I can’t tell you how the co-op is because we are currently in a pandemic and this game feels like something I would play with a friend over the course of a day. The only real place this game stumbles is the lack of online multiplayer. This game is challenging, but it feels so good being able to work through sections that were giving me some trouble. It’s a fair way to reward skilled players while not punishing less skilled players by locking off later levels. There isn’t a lives counter, but instead a medal for not dying in levels. Huntdown is challenging, but not punishing. Sure, the music is not chiptune but instead modern electronic music and the characters all speak without being lowered in quality to the point of sounding like Altered Beast, but the main modern aspects come from the gameplay. I think this game really excels with the modern design choices the developer implemented. There’s also an abundance of various weapons, which all work and look very differently. I picked up a sawed off shotgun expecting it to basically just be another shotgun but with maybe more damage, but it actually had a different spread and couldn’t fire as far, which was also true for the enemies that used it as well. The design of this game is extremely strong in every aspect. In one level, a movie theatre was torched and falling apart and in the background was a movie poster for John Carpenter’s The Thing. Levels also reflect this with how much detail is in them. It’s impressive how much is done with so little. PLATFORMS: PS4, XB1, SWITCH, PC, MAC, LINUXĮach level ends with a fight against one of the gang higher ups and each boss fight feels uniquely different despite gameplay being reduced to a jump, a dash, shooting, and throwing a secondary weapon. Like the classic movie The Warriors each gang has their own aesthetic with plenty of variation in the enemy designs within each gang. The plot revolves around the Huntdown, which is where one of the three playable characters (all with their own attitude, weapon, and sub-weapon) is tasked to go in and take down the gangs overrunning the city. ![]() *chef’s kiss* What a wonderful throwback. Some of the best pixel art I’ve seen in a long time, solid side scrolling run and gun gameplay, and a 80s cyberpunk aesthetic. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Huntdown feels like a game I would have played growing on my Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. ![]() ![]() Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. ![]() Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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