Retro-inspired action platformer Guns of Fury coming to Switch
Gelato Games, the team behind Goblin Sword, passed along word that its upcoming project Guns of Fury will be made for Switch. It’s targeting a release in 2024.
Guns of Fury is a retro-style pixel art action platformer. It features a mix of Metroidvania action and run-and-gun elements, which you can think of as Contra/Metal Slug meets Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Dominic Ninmark (Blazing Chrome, Gravity Circuit, Mighty Goose) has been brought on for the soundtrack.
We’ve got more on the game in the following overview:
Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!
In the near future, the world is in an energy crisis. When all hope has been lost, world famous scientist Dr. Klaus makes a surprise announcement: the discovery of the “Tetra Cell”. It’s incredible energy-producing properties could be used for the good of mankind. However, 24 hours later, he mysteriously disappears and his lab is destroyed in an explosion. The industrialist A. Easton, President of Easton Industries is suspected to have kidnapped Dr. Klaus and that he intends to use the Tetra Cell to create a new type of super weapon.
You assume the role of Vincent Fury, a special operative on a mission to infiltrate the top secret research facility of Easton Industries, rescue Dr. Klaus and recover the missing Tetra Cell before it’s too late!
Explore a huge world as you face the private army of evil industrialist A. Easton and his gang of top executives. As you advance through the game, you will discover new items and abilities, as well as gain money to purchase new equipment from merchants, which will help you access new areas and battle more powerful enemies, including fearsome bosses.
Key Features
- Explore a vast interconnected world and uncover new areas using newly acquired skills and
equipment- Exhilarating run and gun action
- Beautiful hand-crafted 16-bit pixel art
- Hundreds of unique items to discover, including pistols, weapons, knives and accessories
- 10+ bosses and tons of enemy types
- Acquire new abilities in an authentic Metroidvania experience
- Take control of a variety of different mechs, each with its own array of attacks and abilities
- Discover secrets in breakable walls and acquire loot and powerful new equipment
- Destructible environments
- Alternate endings
- Incredible soundtrack by Dominic Ninmark
Have a look at a trailer for the game below.
