

Then I got trapped in a little cubby with two shielders outside, no portal strikes left, and got killed. Had a surprising Rogue run and managed to get to IDPD HQ despite some questionable mutations and I had an energy sword and EVERYTHING WAS LINED UP, I WAS GONNA GET THE ROGUE-B SKIN. I absolutely recommend it though.Īh hell. Sometimes you can make it work, sometimes you can’t.

You can get awful weapon drops and get screwed that way. It’s not something that will take away hours and hours trying to grind unlocks (Although I have been chewing on some achievements) and it’s not always fair. Nuclear Throne works well if you’re just playing it as a game to have fun. A reasonably successful game of Nuclear Throne (Getting a loop or two) is somewhere around 30-50 minutes though, so it’s not like a horrific amount of time is lost. Addiction without payoff is technically true, in the sense that it takes relatively little time to unlock all the additional gameplay pieces (There’s a ridiculous amount of time to unlock all thrones/b skins on all characters, but by and large those aren’t that vital), and needlessly frustrating might be true if you throw your arms up after losing a promising run to a really bad spawn/level layout.

To hazard a guess as to the people with 200+ hours and giving it negative reviews, the reasons you listed are both plausible. I’ve got 45 hours so far on Nuclear Throne and it was my second favorite game of the year last year, so I would say it’s worth playing.
