
It’s a very touching story that I truly hadn’t expected to come out of a gun-blasting contra-type shooter. I found these bread crumbs to align perfectly with the final encounter and it was rather impressive about how it all went down. He will interject at the end of each level, showing you bits of pieces of emails or conversations between your creator and other contributing factors to his burnout and self-doubt, such as an email demanding the deadlines for the new book be honored, despite the creator’s wishes for a break. Doodle, a mysterious being that presses you on, hoping you find the resolve to keep going, to aid in finding out what is going on with your creator. The game starts with your introduction to Mr. Fury Unleashed expertly nails this feeling and does a great job at finding its solution, even if the title could have done more with how it affected the game we were actually playing. This story is all too relatable to someone who’s actively tried to be creative for years, whether it’s redoing a review for the 5th time because I wasn’t exactly happy with it, restructuring their website over and over again, or the number of times I’ve tried to get back into drawing and just couldn’t. The game is largely about the relevance of Fury, their place in the world, and how the series, to many of its fans, has seen better days, all due to in part to the creative burnout of the comic’s own creator.
#FURY UNLEASHED GOLDEN AHNK SERIES#
You’ll play through a series of three comic books, all centered around Fury, the protagonist of a popular comic book series that takes place in that world. Fury Unleashed, an indie game by Awesome Games Studio, brings that aesthetic of jumping from page to page, blasting aliens and monsters alike, as it mimics the feel of a real comic book, all while telling a very engaging story about creative burnout and self-doubt.įury Unleashed is two parts Comic Zone, and equal parts Contra and Binding of Isaac, letting you run, dash, and blast your way through procedurally generated environments.

While other games have long since adapted the feel of jumping from panel to panel inside a virtual comic book, few of them were ever as memorable. Of all the games released during the Sega Genesis era, Comic Zone is one I constantly think about to this very day.
