It’s 1988. It’s been 1988 for longer than anybody can keep in mind, and also you’ve solely acquired minutes to make it to the highest of a tower earlier than your coronary heart explodes. Rubbish, that. So begins Black Future ’88, a side-scrolling cyberpunk shooter from builders SuperScarySnakes, launched right this moment. You know the drill – there’s a giant dangerous needing a bullet within the cranium, backed by nefarious bosses and a military of killer robots. With 18 minutes till catastrophic cardiac failure, taking it sluggish isn’t actually an possibility.
Cards on the desk, I’m bored stiff with 80s cyberpunk nonsense. Fortunately, I like me a superb shooter, and Black Future is promoting some nice chunky gunning n’ operating right here.
Cor, take a look at the scale of these bullets. So thick, so brilliant. Vlambeer could be proud.
Beyond bullets the scale of a small truck, there’s fairly a bit extra of Nuclear Throne‘s irradiated blood flowing through this. Picking from one of 5 punked-up kids, you’ll homicide your means by way of a sequence of increasingly-irradiated zones, bashing bosses and ruining your bod with everlasting upgrades every time you stage up. Hell, even the inexperienced money sticks you hoover out of baddies seem like Throne’s radiation tubes.
Not that Black Future doesn’t have any concepts of its personal. Those skills supplied up every stage? Some are good, certain, however Black Future additionally needs to you think about cursing your self with debuffs each once in a while. Synergy’s the title of the game, and also you by no means know. What appears painful early on may find yourself enjoying rather well with one among your weapons.
Those weapons are the star of the present, I reckon. Each comes with a bonkers twist – a sniper rifle that spends your money to fireplace devastating rounds; a railgun that swaps you and your goal’s place with teleport shenanigans; a large laser that shortens your life expectancy when fired.
You may even slap two weapons collectively to create one monstrous multi-gun. In the trailer, we see a flammable fuel launcher mix with a nail smelter to create a model new long-range flamethrower.
Even if the theming’s not my cuppa, Black Future appears like a proper lark. It’s out now on Steam and GOG for £14/€18/$18.
