Nightmare Reaper

This game is just awesome. It has a ton of weapons, a progression system, a scary story and very addictive gameplay. The graphics are nothing to write home about but it was purposely made in this style. That's a bit of a shame because this would have been even better with nicer graphics. The levels also seem either randomly generated or created with AI. You can easily spot it in scenes that.. just make no sense at all. But that doesn't stop you from having fun in this game. The game also gets more and more challenging the further you get but not to the point where its not fun anymore. It has been a while since I enjoyed playing a shooting game this much. I definitely recommend it!

After trying this game out last year for about an hour, I dropped it and didn't give it another thought for many months. A few weeks ago I saw a reddit comment glazing this game and figured I would give it another shot. I'm really glad I did, because while this game has flaws, it has really surprised me and I've thoroughly enjoyed my playtime. While its gameplay is very fun. I think NIGHTMARE REAPER's greatest strength is its PROGRESSION. There are numerous "skill trees" where you upgrade your character's power and abilities in very significant ways, but these skill trees are actually various mini games that your character plays on a little handheld gaming device that totally isn't a Gameboy Advance. This system has kept me glued to the game with the desire to max them all out, which will probably take you a pretty long time. This is a double edged sword however. I would say, in general, this game does struggle with a bit of BLOAT. I think there are too many levels to beat the main campaign, there are a lot of different enemies that don't challenge the player in terms of mixing up approaches or strategies. And because this game is a rogue-like with random weapon drops and level layouts, I found the level design to be inferior to other boomer shooters with hand-crafted levels. There are some level sets I don't enjoy moving through very much, but in spite of the random layouts, I think these levels are as good as they could get within a ROGUE-LIEK FRAMEWORK, and I do end up enjoying many of them. The weapons are all incredibly fun to use and are rolled with random modifiers, which makes picking up and trying out new weapons a total treat. One thing I'm kind mixed on is the art style. At first it was not attractive to me, but it has grown on me significantly during my playtime. It can struggle with visual clutter and it still isn't my favorite looking retro shooter, but I simultaneously find it to be very charming. Overall, this game is super fun and addicting to make progress in. I haven't even tried the recently added multiplayer! I recommend NIGHTMARE REAPER!