Each denizen has their own theory on why the sun seems so enraged, but they all hang on one central element: Atomiks, the primary resource in the entire system.
With most of the planets already devoured, the remaining worlds have descended into madness and superstition. The game takes place in the Extax System, a solar system where the Sun has begun to swell and devour planets. There is only running, gunning, jumping, and gunning, in a mad dash to survive long enough to die again. Players will have to constantly alternate between the two firing modes to maneuver through meticulously crafted levels where death is a promise not a possibility. But there is no stopping in this beautifully surreal world littered with deadly traps and soul-crushing obstacles around every corner. The other shoots forward, destroying anything that’s in your path. One button shoots your massive gun downwards, propelling you through the air. The two-button setup is treacherously simple. With a cast of crazed characters, simple but beautifully difficult gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, Atomik is a loud, trippy mess of twitchy platforming goodness. Bravo.Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails 2D Action Platformer that puts a teeth-rattling, gravity-defying weapon in your hands. Mainly, though, it's special because it gives me just too much to think about, so when I play it I am at war not just with the game, but with myself. It's suitably brutal, too, punishing me ceaselessly because it knows it can also offer me a near-instant restart. It's suitably lurid with migrainey colour schemes and a bizarre comic sci fi plot. The endless runner has never gone away, of course - Nintendo's just announced its own - and there are many I've loved since Canabalt, but RunGunJumpGun is special. (I have, of course, forgotten what these doodads are called.)Īll of which, thrown together, makes RunGunJumpGun an absolute delight to play: endless drama, frustration and self-hatred that I haven't really known since the glory days of Canabalt. To really thrive in RunGunJumpGun, you need to collect the little doodads scattered around each level, often in hard-to-reach places. It's not enough to simply survive - to eke out a kind of life by leaping over spikes, but not so high that you leap up into different spikes, and by blasting away at barrels that would otherwise leave you squished on geometry. Ulp! And it's bad news for me again, because to play RunGunJumpGun well, you really need to be able to remember three things. That said, it's also good news for me, because it means I can just about play RunGunJumpGun, a 2D autorunner game in which you have two controls: you can shoot your gun downwards to give you some lift, and you can shoot it forwards to blow up things that are ahead of you. I say it's something like that, because I've forgotten. This is bad news for me, because the actual number of things you're meant to be able to remember is something like seven (+/-two). I can remember two things at the same time, and I can just about switch between them if I absolutely have to. How many things can you remember at once? I know the answer when it comes to me! It's two.
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