#DOWNWELL YOUTUBE UPGRADE#
Knife and Fork is my favorite upgrade in the game because it lets you consume the bodies of fallen enemies. I’ll simply say that Safety Jetpack and Gem Powered are some of the best ones to keep an eye out for.
#DOWNWELL YOUTUBE PLUS#
Plus discovering them and learning what each of them do was one of the best things about playing Downwell. You’ll have to play for yourself to find which are the best for your personal skill-level, style and reflexes. You can only choose one so make a good choice. The shopkeeper sells items, yes, but there are also randomized upgrades you can choose from upon the completion of every level. These aren’t the only power up items in the game. Triple Gun fires three bullets, Shotgun fires short-range powerful bursts, Burst fires in quick shots and has no auto-fire, Noppy is fast with small bullets that angle in the direction your character is moving, Machine Gun is a faster version of the default gunboot with more ammunition, Puncher is a super-strong shooter with wide projectiles, and my personal favorite is Laser, terrible at slowing your descent but by far the strongest gun in the game, able to blow through multiple targets in one shot.
They change your mode of attack and vary on how well firing them suspends you in the air to slow your descent. Also found in side rooms are gunboot power ups. Entering the bubbles and the following room pauses the action and freezes enemies and objects in place. Shops and gem hoards are both found in side rooms, which are protected by time bubbles. Who would open up a shop down in a well? What a creeper. Gems are dropped by enemies upon death or found in some side rooms, and they can be spent on items in the shop. “Gem high” will run out if you don’t pick up more gems quickly enough. If you collect enough gems then you’ll reach “gem high”, which makes a shadow image behind your character and ramps up your offensive capabilities. Gems are basically the points/currency of the game. You do get to keep all of the gems you earn, though, and they add up toward rewards in the form of new color palettes. If you lose all your hit points, you get a game over and return to the start of the game. That means no amount of replaying Downwell will let you memorize the level layout. All of that techno-talk means you fall, the levels are vertical, you jump, you shoot, and the stages are procedurally generated, aka random.
It is a down-scrolling, vertical platforming shooter with roguelike elements. Indie-developed Downwell has both the look and feel of vintage gaming at its finest, and the difficulty of points-based arcade games to boot. Undeterred from the noises of monsters and spurred on by his insatiable inquisitiveness, the young man straps his gunboots to his feet and dives in… Horrible story, I know, but it frames Downwell nicely. They even found human bones near the well. There was evidently weird stuff that went on in that town. She and her friends were playing as children and they stumbled across an abandoned well and one of her companions almost fell into it. It was somewhere out in one of those “ghost towns” of the Mojave desert. My wife told me a creepy story about where she grew up. Perhaps he can hear the echoes of growling monsters down inside.
Why is he there for a leisurely stroll in the dark? To inspect a well nearby his bench. Downwell had me at “Release date May 24”.ĭownwell begins idly enough with a curious young man in what appears to be a park at night. Judging by the looks of this blog, you can easily surmise that I’m a fan of the classics. When I bought Downwell a few days ago, upon its release for PS4, I had only encountered a single image of it previously: a tri-color 8-bit portrait of a white figure falling down a vertical shaft, monsters and creatures flittering about the lone human figure. “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”Įver see a new release and you know you just have to get it? It’s the only time that judging a book by its cover is acceptable.
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