Overview
- Number of Players
- Single Player
- Genre
- Action, Adventure, Platformer
- Release Date
Switch eShop
- 29th Jun 2017 (UK/EU/AU), £8.99
- 29th Jun 2017 (US/Canada), $9.99
- Official Site
- gonnergame.com
Screenshots (6)
Reviews
Dead. Dead. Oh, dead again.
Having been released on PC and Mac in October last year GoNNER now sees its console debut on Nintendo Switch, brought to us by publisher Raw Fury Games and developer Art in Heart. Generally loved by players and critics alike in its original guise GoNNER is a roguelike platformer, consisting of ever-changing,...
About The Game
GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world—a giant landbound whale named Sally—by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.
With Death as his mentor, supplying both a multitude of abilities and arsenal for Ikk to use, Ikk traverses an ever-changing land full of unwieldy creatures who don't appreciate his trespassing or his friend Sally. Several different environments, arduous bosses, hidden secrets, multiple endings, and more await Ikk on his journey to make one person happy even if it kills him—which it certainly will.
GoNNER features:
- UNLOCKS! You'll be able to choose from a variety of passive and active abilities at the beginning of each run so be sure to experiment with all of them and find the play style that best suits you.
- SECRETS! Secret areas exist in the world of GoNNER, and these areas will get you different items that you can then always use from the beginning of each run. We're not going to tell you how you get to these areas or what the criteria is for even finding them because secrets, duh.
- SOUNDS! It has them!
- LEADERBOARDS! Kill creatures, get combos, score points, and brag to your friends how much better you are than them.
- MUSIC! It's really freaking good.
Comments (2)
This game looks awesome. ACG has a great interview with the publisher. NSFW https://youtu.be/pTt0NqdsfU0
I was really looking forward to this game - for quite a while since I couldn't wait to see what my first platformer experience on Switch would be like. But GoNNER has been a surprising letdown. You're not told anything about the controls - you're not really given any reasoning behind your own actions (save for a few pictures and very limited explanatory text), what you're facing or even why Death is your supposed ally. The narrative as a result is incredibly weak and barebones, when something like, "help the whale sail the cosmos again" would have been a couple notches up. The combat and controls are... okay. You're mostly just holding the shoot button while playing a game of "keep away" with the monsters. Though the controls are pretty solid, so I can't find any fault there.
TBH, while the game is cheap, I think its current asking price is pushing it - especially after trying it myself. I have no idea of how long the game will take me to finish and it doesn't really communicate to you in any way whether you're making progress or not. So it honestly plays like a shot in the dark. Some might get some fun out of it, but I expect most just won't. The game is actually worth half it's original asking price in my opinion and I really wish I could get my money back because of how lackluster it turned out to be.
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