Line #3 VideoGame/ExitTheGungeon


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3	->''"Throughout the galaxy, a legend was told. On a distant planet, a grim fortress stood. [[VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon The Gungeon]]. It was said to have held an artifact of impossible power: [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong a gun that could kill the past]]. Most who sought the Gun perished, and others languished for eternity in the Gungeon's halls. Precious few, however, achieved their aims, and took their shot, but in doing so, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero wounded]] [[TimeCrash time]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom itself]]. As the Gungeon becomes paradox, and begins to [[CollapsingLair shatter]], the last of the gungeoneers must... ''(cue TitleDrop)''"''
4	-->-- '''Opening narration'''
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6	'''''Exit the Gungeon''''' is a sequel/spin-off to ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'', released on iOS via Platform/AppleArcade on September 19th, 2019, with Platform/{{Steam}} and Platform/NintendoSwitch versions released on March 17th, 2020. Taking place after the events of the first game, Exit the Gungeon follows the gungeoneers from the first game as they try to escape the collapsing Gungeon. While it's still a BulletHell shooter, it takes place from a side-view perspective, unlike the original, which was a top-down dungeon crawler.
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8	!!This game contains examples of:
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10	* ActionizedSequel: Granted, there was ''plenty'' of action in the original game, but it was primarily based around positioning and careful strategy. ''Exit the Gungeon'' still has those elements, but shifts towards a more breakneck side scroller rather than a top-down experience.
11	* AmbiguousSituation: Did the Gungeoneers intentionally [[spoiler:leave the Cultist behind]], or did they do it accidentally in their haste to leave?
12	* ArtEvolution: The overall sprite work is much more detailed, and the Gungeoneers' portraits make them look younger compared to their ''Enter'' portraits, especially The Convict.
13	%%* AscendedMeme: The Glocktopus was added in the "Hello To Arms" Update.
14	* BackFromTheDead: The Fallmonger, aka the Deathvator, is the Wallmonger’s dead body trying to fight back against you.
15	* BlatantLies: Winchester's Original Game is pretty transparently an ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' clone.
16	* BulletTime: One of the two control schemes, in which time slows to a crawl so you can properly aim your jumps and dodge rolls.
17	* ButtMonkey:
18	** The Gunsling King has had his position usurped by Manservantes, who forces him to participate in games of golf... as the ball.
19	** The Cultist is this even more than before. In their ending, [[spoiler:their parachute fails to open, causing them to fall on their face, and they're left behind by the other Gungeoneers' ship just as they're about to enter.]]
20	* {{Callback}}: Bello no longer attacks you for shooting in his shop, but he reminds you that it happened.
21	* CollapsingLair: The Gungeon is falling apart, and now the Gungeoneers must escape starting from The Forge.
22	* DartboardOfHate:
23	** The Convict sets up one using Black Stache's photo.
24	** The way Trorc tosses beer cans at the dummy of the Ledge Goblin is also in the spirit of the trope.
25	* TheDogBitesBack: [[BeleagueredAssistant Manservantes]], having been stuck as the Gunsling King's lackey throughout the previous game, has since managed to usurp and reduce him to a glorified golf ball in his "Just Desserts Golf" mini-game.
26	* {{Dracolich}}: [[spoiler:The High Dragun has now become this, having been StrippedToTheBone and is now hell-bent on destroying the escaping Gungeoneers.]]
27	* DragonAscendant: The Chancellor is a boss fight this time around, having taken the Bullet King's place after you killed him.
28	* ElevatorActionSequence: 90% of the game.
29	* EscapeSequence: The Convict's version of the Mines has her chased by a giant worm.
30	* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: With the Pilot's ship.
31	* FusionDance: A few bosses are fusions of bosses from the first game.
32	** The Eyebalrog is the Beholster wearing the shell of the Cannonballrog.
33	** The Medusalier is the Gorgun riding atop a Fuselier shell.
34	** [[spoiler: The Last Dragun is the High Dragun's remains after taking on The Lich's power.]]
35	* TheGhost: Blockner and the Ledge Goblin are mentioned by Manuel and Trorc, respectively, but never appear.
36	* HappyEndingOverride: The gungeoneers killing their past caused a localized TimeCrash, causing the Gungeon to collapse and forcing them to escape it in order to get any worth out of it.
37	* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:The Bullet, unsurprisingly.]]
38	* LivingStatue: The Sepulchergeist is the Challenge Shrine, possessed by the spirits formerly inhabiting the Kill Pillars.
39	* LocomotiveLevel: Some versions of the Mines take this form.
40	* LuckManipulationMechanic: The combo system is a form of this.
41	* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Gungamesh, a four-armed gunslinger who acts as a boss.
42	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: [[spoiler: The Last Dragun is the only enemy rendered using polygonal 3D assets.]]
43	* RobotMe: As if the Ammoconda wasn’t bad enough, after feeling he lost his skills, he went and got mechanical enhancements and became the Bolt Python.
44	* ShowsDamage: The Mutread Head and the Low Priest display varying forms of decay when reduced to half health:
45	** The former has various cybernetic components exposed on its body, and its face-screen below the body of the boss turns from green to red.
46	** The latter's texture is stretched out into a rectangle, as if he had become a painting moving across the screen.
47	* ShoutOut: Alongside the ''[[ShoutOut/EnterTheGungeon many]]'' from ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'', we have:
48	** His Majesty's Chancellor is named [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Toadstool.]]
49	** Meduselier is a combination of Medusa and Carmilla from the ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' series.
50	** Meowitzer is based on [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Eggman]].
51	** Gungamesh, with his red cloak, multi-armed appearance and dimension-hopping, resembles not the Mesopotamian king of myth, but [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV the haughty sword-stealer that shares his name.]]
52	** The subtitle for the Sepulchergeist is "[[Film/TheShining The Shrining]]".
53	** Achievements called [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Smash Brother]] and VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive.
54	* StrippedToTheBone: [[spoiler:The High Dragun returns as the FinalBoss of this game, now only a skeleton with purple, spectral wings who is now known as the Last Dragun.]]
55	* TakeYourTime: While the Gungeon is falling apart around you, both in a traditional sense and an ''existential'' sense, it will never collapse until you've gotten all the Gungeoneers and their allies out of there.
56	* TimeCrash: Turns out killing your own past wasn't such a good idea after all...
57	** Among other effects, one of the bosses is the younger, human version of the High Priest, before he joined the Gundead.
58	* TookALevelInKindness: The Sorceress no longer charges you for her blessing. Which is good, because that's the only way you can get other guns in this game without Arsenal mode.
59	** When you first meet him, the [[HateSink Resourceful Rat]] apologizes for his behavior, and gives you a gnawed key with no strings attached. [[spoiler:Subverted in that he's the one who kidnapped all the other [=NPCs=], and is holding them ransom by charging you for further keys.]]
60	* VitriolicBestBuds: The Buffammo is mentioned to be one of these with the Gatling Gull. He even bears a similar image on the splash screen prior to his fight.
61	* WritingAroundTrademarks: [[spoiler: The Gloctopus is named that way because "Glock" is a registered trademark that is very rigidly defended. Thus, the name has the "K" left out, and for good measure it's said to get its name from its proficiency with the ''glock''enspiel.]]

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