The game does a good job at giving the player lots of options and opportunities to make trades/purchases of guns and abilities. While the guns don’t get too crazy, the buffs and abilities that one can get during a run are fun to discover and use.
The plus side to all of this is that it adds to the tension and difficulty of the game which is key in a roguelike.Īmmo for guns is limited, and is an important resource because the pistol is so bland and ineffective.
It took me a while to learn to stay still when entering a room because I’d frequently get damaged by a spike trap or an enemy standing there. The small rooms that make up the procedurally generated levels are dense with enemies and traps, which really compel the player to slow down. Enemies and the main character explode in mists of blood there are blue and red key cards that look exactly like the ones in DOOM and the demons look similar as well.
Again, we don’t need a heap of lore, but we need something.ĭOOM – I’m guessing – is the main inspiration for the games look and tone. No reasoning for shooting at this army of several different types of creatures. No name of the faction that the pandas belong to. No text crawl in the beginning to establish things. I don’t need to know much, especially when it’s a smaller game (made by only two people) and possibly going for a retro feel, but the absence of any info of the world is something I’ve never seen in a game before. Their enemies include big bugs, demons, ghosts, robots and other monsters – all of which are on the same side. From the 15 second intro, it would appear that a faction of panda space marines is invading a planet. What’s exactly happening throughout the game’s plot is unclear. The player comes across several different (mostly) conventional weapons like the assault rifle, handcannon, and SMG, but only two weapons can be held at a time and one of those is always the default pistol.
Like many other roguelikes, XP that’s accrued during a run can be spent after the character dies, allowing players to upgrade them.
Feral Fury is a twin-stick roguelike, that has the player controlling a space marine, who is also a panda.