Gungrave G.O.R.E. has only one purpose and three words. It will flicker on the screen at the start of each level. If you die: Kick their Ass. A 12-15 hour campaign should be sufficient. You’ll shoot, cut, blow up and otherwise execute thousands of enemies and bosses in the quest to exterminate the Raven Clan and save the world from an evil drug called SEED.
You don’t have to play previous Gungrave games or watch the anime adaptations to understand G.O.R.E’s explanations, but it definitely helps. If you’re unfamiliar with the series, a short video explaining its history will help you out. The setup is a little silly. SEED, a drug with a knack for turning users into supposedly extinct monsters, actually survived. This time the Raven clan will be selling, so Mika, Beyond the Grave (a grave to his friends and your protagonist), Dr. Aso, newcomer Quartz and the rest of the forgotten El Al Canel are the SEED’s Stop production and head to Scumland to defeat Clan Raven and its four bosses. Of course, things escalate from there, but the storyline and characters in G.O.R.E. Grave is silent as his namesake (he’s less than 5 lines and no more than 4 words throughout the game), and the other characters are there mostly for exposition. The voice acting is also all over the place, and it doesn’t help if the translation is pretty good or bad.The written text has noticeable grammatical errors, and there are strange phrases that don’t sound natural in English. Almost the entire story of Gungrave G.O.R.E. Delivered in cutscenes. Most of the missions get old quickly, with quartz just leading you from point A to point B, “Grave. It’s coming from all directions!” or “Exit!”
Action is exactly what you’re here for, and Gungrave G.O.R.E pretty much delivers on that. Grave has multiple abilities: 2 pistols, charged shots, a large coffin that can be brandished for various 3-hit combos, DEMOLITION SHOTS (a special ability that deals damage and consumes accumulated charges), and reflexes. Ability to dodge certain projectiles and jump. Pretty standard, but what makes Grave interesting is its special abilities. Death, Grave’s coffin He grabs an enemy with his Howler and uses it as a human shield, or by firing continuously while standing he can switch to Burst-his mode, causing Glaive to deal massive damage very quickly. Grave movement got slow burst mode, but can rotate the camera to kill enemies around him. Grave can also execute enemies with low health. This allows the shield to regenerate much faster than recharging over time.
With high Beat Counts, Gungrave G.O.R.E feels Awesome.
The Gungrave G.O.R.E runs a high beat count and feels great. Of course, it’s not just about killing enemies. You also need to look stylish while doing it.The goal is to constantly hit enemies and get a high art score that you get from executions, melee combo finishers and demolition shots.Graves his Beat his count as high as possible. Maintaining a high rate is difficult. Unless you hit or shoot something, it will quickly disappear and continue attacking. Turning it on during an encounter and then shooting and maintaining objects in the environment such as cars, boxes, and neon signs is a fun challenge.
Once your hit count exceeds 50, you will have access to Storm Barrage. Storm Barrage is a rapid-fire attack that hits enemies in all directions and quickly increases the hit count when used against large groups. The trick is to keep everything under control. For example, a demolition shot restores health, but gives you art score, but doesn’t count toward your beat count, regardless of how many enemies you hit. Executions provide shield charges and increase art scores, but only increase beat counts.Managing all of this well, along with Graves’ health and shields feels great when it all comes together will be The gunshots are flashy and effective, the demolition shots are great, and the executions are appropriately stylish and brutal. Gungrave G.O.R.E feels great.
Unfortunately everything else is more complicated. The levels are beautiful, In Gungrave G.O.R.E each location looks, feels and plays a little differently, but Studio Iggymob did a great job of giving each location its own feel. The problem is that the levels themselves are perfectly linear problems. There are side rooms and small detours, but unless there are enemies there, there’s no reason to explore them. All you have to do is kill and this is good. The other problem is the enemies themselves. Most of the enemies Gungrave G.O.R.E. has to offer are seen by the time you reach level 10 (out of a total of 31), and many of the enemies you see after that are just variations . Instead of a man with a rocket launcher that fires 4 missiles, Instead of the normal SEED-infused Orgman Bruiser, you might see something with claws that move faster and hit harder. These variations in themselves aren’t a problem, but if you keep using the same few enemies of the same level over and over again, they can become stale and noticeable.
Combat feels great when you use some creative ideas, but few enemies stop that entirely.
Gungrave G.O.R.E. also likes to hurl enemies at you that need to be handled in a certain way, greatly limiting your combat options. Shields cannot be broken. You must attack with melee attacks, charged shots, deflected missiles, ambient blasts, or certain explosive shots. It may not sound bad, but melee attacks are slow and often miss the enemy they should hit. Charged shots require you to stop firing long enough to charge. This means that the number of shots can be lost, and explosive shots are a resource. Still, Demolition Shots and Charged Shots only destroy one shield, even if you hit multiple shielded enemies with these attacks. often And it should be dealt immediately. Grave may be powerful, but it’s also slow. A shielded enemy runs straight in the face to prevent it from attacking an enemy friend, knocks them down, and attacks them from or by attack. Worse, all this just eliminates the shield itself. Even after the deed is done, the man who has it must be killed. The same goes for enemies with powerful weapons and rocket launchers. Rockets are chasing you so basically you have to hide yourself and they really hit hard.
All of this leads to a fight that isn’t about using every option in the Gra
ve, but about using the “right option” to deal with that particular type of enemy. It’s great if you can find a reasonable solution, but enemies like this rule it out entirely. Boss encounters are much better. G.O.R.E can fight a wide variety of bosses, some of which have multiple phases. With a few exceptions later on, each one is quite unique and pretty much all of them are a lot of fun. Unfortunately, levels don’t regularly start boss fights until more than halfway through the campaign. The former is fine, but the latter is incredibly jarring and can really take you away from the experience. In general, Gungrave G.O.R.E gets better and better over time, but it still feels like an incomplete description.
However, the early levels are definitely not fun. Most of them lack boss fights. For example, in one level Grave must navigate on a moving train, avoiding passing signs and oncoming tunnels. That’s fine in theory, but Grave is a slow-moving character, and he’s at his best when he’s not moving. To effectively kill surrounding enemies, especially early on and with a limited moveset, you need to stop and use burst mode. This allows you to avoid hitting a passing shield or getting on a train before reaching a tunnel. Hitting a shield is bad (it consumes your entire shield and about half your health), but being on a train when entering a tunnel means instant death and you have to repeat the entire segment. Dodging shields and trying to move faster exposes enemies with rocket launchers.
Arising Difficulties can make the early game disappointing.
Difficulty spikes like this make the early game frustrating. In general, you don’t die because you make a mistake, you die because you don’t yet have the tools or skills to do damage fast enough. The worst example I came across was the 6th level where Grave had to fend off a large group of Raven Clan enemies who were very tough at the time.Although I spent over an hour trying this segment , I couldn’t do enough damage fast enough, no matter what I did. Too many enemies in too small an area and you had to deal with them in a certain way, usually leaving you vulnerable to something else. This encounter required me to drop the difficulty by one level, so I suddenly went on my first try. Gungrave G.O.R.E actually encourages you to switch difficulty levels when things get too hard, but you didn’t get enough points to buy upgrades, so the damage output falls to an arbitrary standard. I feel bad when I have to because I haven’t reached it. After that, when I skilled it up and came back to the same level, I beat it pretty easily on normal settings. You can buy and upgrade the tools at the end of each level or from the main menu. You earn points by completing levels, which G.O.R.E scores in his five categories: Time, Kill Rate, Life Remaining, Best Hits, and Art Score on a D-to-S scale. The results are then averaged into a final score and points are awarded based on your performance. It’s hard to get good results at first – you just don’t have the high beat counts (FYI: beats in the 300’s get a C on most levels) or the skills needed to maintain an art score, It gets easier as you get used to unlock skills.
If you have points to spend, you can head to The Lab. There’s a lot to buy: health, shield and damage upgrades, new melee combos and abilities, new demolition shots. When you purchase a new one, you can also refund the skill for the full purchase price at any time. One-on-one boss fights are mainly clouded by his control and Graves’ Aim his Range rather than his Storm his Fire which he uses to build up his count high hits against large groups and maximizing bullet damage is much easier. Unfortunately, all the upgrades can’t hide how limited Grave’s movesets are. He doesn’t get any new weapons – twin he’s a pistol and a coffin – so his playstyle doesn’t really change. New moves can only build on what you already have. Bunji and Quartz playstyle is a welcome change. Bunji is like a fast Grave that can dodge in his burst mode, and I liked playing him more than Grave. Quartz, on the other hand, is more complicated. She’s actually a melee character in games that weren’t designed for melee characters, and her movesets are a nice change, but nothing more than a novelty. It cannot be upgraded or purchased new. What you bring is what you get. Especially since Grave doesn’t get anything that really changes his playstyle, it feels like a huge missed opportunity. You can’t even rebind the controls if you don’t like the settings.
System Requirements
Minimum system requirements:
CPU: i5-4770k
RAM: 8 GB RAM
GPU: Geforce GTX 1060
OS: Windows 8, 64-bit
HDD/SSD: 30 GB available space
Recommended system requirements:
CPU: i7-6700
RAM: 16 GB RAM
GPU: GTX 1080
OS: Windows 11, 64-bit
HDD/SSD: 30 GB available space
Conclusion
In fact , Gungrave G.O.R.E feels like a missed opportunity most of the time. There’s a good combat system here, but the lack of variety and repetitive enemy designs often let it down. The stories told in these charming settings aren’t very interesting. The music and sound design are also mostly great, but the voice acting is a little inconsistent.It’s potential is easy to see, but a mishmash of missteps keeps G.O.R.E. from reaching it.
