![]() ![]() But Fury Unleashed keeps finding interesting ways to use its conceit to make interesting commentary on the escapist narratives that the game parodies, and the emotional honesty of the plot twists kept my opinion of the game high. The lack of variation between rooms was initially stifling to me, I wish that there would have been a greater emphasis on side characters or world-building, which SEGA’s cult classic Comix Zone did much better. Solving problems with violence is all that he’s good for. From the comics the player guides Fury through, we can see that the character initially doesn’t have much value. The art is gorgeous to match the comic-style source material, with bold colours and familiar yet memorable designs which evoke the sensation of reading a Modern Age graphic novel.īut here’s the ingenious conceit there’s an overarching story of Fury’s artist, John Kowalsky, struggling with expressing his creativity and losing faith in the value of Fury as a concept. ![]() The game’s levels are structured like chapters of a comic book, with each panel being a procedurally generated room of enemies that Fury needs to shoot dead. Fury is a stoic hero who solves problems by shooting them and has his bearings around every form of weapon imaginable, and so his prowess takes him to all sorts of universes, namely a vaguely Amazonian jungle, a fortress ruled by future-robot-Nazis and an alien mothership. The premise is that players take control of Fury, a generic comic book action hero in the vein of Flash Gordon or Turok. Let’s talk about Fury Unleashed’s story first. But it’s one of those games which is all-around competent, and then one little thing tips it over into greatness. And Fury Unleashed isn’t an exciting, original concept either, despite its long period of Early Access and the developer’s close communication with fans. I’d noted that its developer, the rather ordinarily-named Awesome Games Studio, previously made Yet Another Zombie Defense, a game which while competent also recognises its lack of originality in its title. though predictable rouge-lite mechanics and fantastic gameplay momentum. In my notes I’d written that it plays a little like Metal Slug and a lot like Comix Zone, I’d written that it has interesting. This isn’t how I anticipated starting this review. Fury Unleashed is a far more heartfelt game than I expected it to be. ![]()
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