Me (Tim Rogers) and Stephen Totilo played Inti Creates’s new Mega Man-like retro shooting platform action game Mighty Gunvolt Burst yesterday on a live-stream.
We delved into the game’s core system: bullet customisation. Unlike in, say, an Actual Mega Man Game, in Mighty Gunvolt Burst you pick up various little trinkets and items which contribute to a database of modifications and enhancements you can attribute to your gun-ammo.
The system is rich with thorough economics: each enhancement or modification costs a set number of points, and you can increase your total allowance of points by, of course, picking up more items. This is a game for riffing and replaying. Or, if we’re being cynical, we can say this is a Mega Man game whose designers built a lavish menu system for the players so we could finish the game for them.
We played the game on a Nintendo Switch. We played in TV mode, because that’s the only way to stream gameplay from a Nintendo Switch, though I can see myself preferring to play this game in portable mode. It’s just so full of what I like to call “trick or treat game design” that it’d be perfect for grinding and experimentation during a commute.
What exactly is “trick or treat game design?” Well, you could watch this handy video digest of our stream to find out.
At any rate, I like this game, and Stephen Totilo also likes this game. So there you have it: on a scale of “I don’t like this game” to “I like this game,” Mighty Gunvolt Burst gets two “I like this game”s. It’s $US10 ($13) and it’s on the Nintendo Switch right now. I haven’t bought it yet, though late one night (maybe tonight), I accidentally will, and then I’ll have to live with it.
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5 responses to “Mighty Gunvolt Burst Is A Mega Man-like That Lets You Make Your Own Bullets”
Grabbed this on Monday, been playing it during my commute to work all week. Pretty damn awesome
So something good came out of Mighty No 9?
I just don’t know of I want to give them money after Mighty Number 9.
Inti Creates are a separate company to Inafune’s Comcept though? And they’ve made plenty of other kickass games.
Oh ok. Cool. I’m sold.