Welcome to our review of Fury Unleashed, a twin-stick shooter and platform hybrid that is pretty much an ode to both genres.
Fury Unleashed is a combo-driven rougelite action platformer – each kill you make increases your combo. Hit certain thresholds and your damage resistance and healing powers will kick in! It’s a game you can even beat in one ultimate combo. Are you up to the task?
Ever-changing comic book – Explore the pages of a living comic book where ink is your most valuable resource and each room is a comic panel. Find out why John Kowalsky, creator of acclaimed Fury Unleashed series, is having a creativity crisis and see if you can help him deal with it.
Gameplay-impacting combo system – Kill enemies quickly enough to unleash your fury and rip through everything in your way without getting injured. Learn to play flawlessly and beat the entire game in one epic combo!
Discover worlds created by a mix of hand-designed levels and procedural generation algorithms. Choose the best items to assist you in your playthrough and unlock permanent upgrades when you die for your subsequent runs.
Fury Unleashed is a game that reminded me of many platformer-shooters and the twin-stick action is really out there straight from the start. While the roguelite mechanic is something I truly have grown to dislike, Fury Unleashed at least does not do it injustice as a genre. I still dislike it, but I can live with it in this game specifically.
Everything about this game is about either maximizing damage or efficiency and the combo system is there to let you do the speed thing in more than one way. My advice is not to underestimate this game as there are a lot of mechanics that you can use and should use.
In my personal opinion, the most useful is actually the rush option, it allows you to rush from one side to the other and it will be your biggest friend in the battle of Fury Unleashed. It even allows you to cross small gaps or do a long jump in between those deadly motor blades that are literally all over the place.
Next to really get a hang of, the modus operandi of attack. Either the gun or the melee option. This is where the game switches from a more remote approach all the way to the most hands-on that you can experience. Add in that rushing speed and you can move like a fricking ninja in between taking out enemies.
Graphically, this game looks like it escaped out of an 80s action hero movie and the entire comic book atmosphere is really fun. Enemies look playful and deadly enough to be credible threats and if they weren’t enough, there are the big boss fights as well. This game is quite impressive and I really had a lot of fun on EASY mode. That hard mode is not for me.
In conclusion, Fury Unleashed is a fun game in easy mode, visually appealing, and really just something I loved playing so far. I dislike the roguelite elements and would love to see this game with a basic continue, it might be a full-blown 10 at that point for me, but yeah, what appeals to some, does not appeal to all.
