Wild Guns: Reloaded (#) /PS4

A Super Nintendo exclusive, Wild Guns was one of those titles that took an existing formula and polished it to brilliant levels.

Inspired by side-scrolling arcade, arena shooters like Cabal, Natusme's console release had it all;

Wild Guns was a cooperative Western Steampunk gallery shooter with slick controls, stunning aesthetics, and a rewarding challenge.

Players control their character through arena-style stages, where movement is limited to left and right only; vertical movement comes from nimble jumps - absolutely essential when dodging an onslaught of enemy fire.



Characteristics:

- There is an on-screen cursor that acts as a reticle, and this can be controlled to take down enemies or even lasso them for a moment of respite.
- It's interesting to point out that Wild Guns had probably the most destructible environment of any SNES game, and behind the bottles and neon signs, there are plenty of secrets to be found.
- At the end of each stage, players will encounter massive bosses for a twitch-based grand finale of frantic shooting, rolling and jumping.
- Being a re-release, the changes include new stages with their own bosses, a wider variety of weapons, online leaderboards and the addition of 4-player single-screen gameplay.
- And just to be thorough, Natsume introduced 2 new characters, a daschund who controls an attack drone, and a woman with a real ladybug baby face who might actually just be a real ladybug baby.
- To see that after 22 years, and completely out of the blue, this cult title gets a revival in Wild Guns: Reloaded is a wonderful thing for gamers.



- In the landscape of overly cinematic and unfulfilling, quasi-narrative fetch quests that seem to be popular right now, it's games like this that remind us of what games used to be: pure fun.
- Two new characters, each with their own weapons and tactics.
- 1-4 player mode, where each player can take on one of the four characters.
- Classic stages and NEW stages.
- NEW boss enemies and special weapons.
- Online leaderboard.