Sweezy Gunner is a game I bought during the Steam summer sale for exactly £0 thanks to DotA providing me with large amounts of Steam credit and this game being really goddamn cheap. I didn't really know what to expect when I first started playing other than that the game was sort of a shmup but not really.
So what is Sweezy Gunner? Well, it's like of a mix between a shmup game and Metroid. You have a big world to explore and as you go around you collect power ups like life containers, huge coins, badges and other things to make yourself more bad ass. After some exploring you'll eventually come to a dungeon and when you get to the end of a dungeon you'll fight a boss. Upon victory you'll get a power that will let you cross water/lava, smash gates or break boulders which in turn opens up more of the world for you.
As you explore you have plenty of things to shoot at which are also shooting at you. At first it's not too bad but after a while it starts to get really hectic so you better make sure to grab those life-ups because catching a stray bullet to the face is extremely easy. There are also other temporary power ups to make dying less of an issue or special guns that make murdering hordes of enemies just a little bit easier.
The game also has a few side quests to do which give decent rewards and don't feel merely like busywork. The first side quest is monster cards which is a system where every monster has a card that it has a low percentage chance to drop. When the card drops and you kill a certain amount of that monster then you can use your money to buy a badge to upgrade your ship. This sounds like it would be mindless grinding but there is so many enemies in a given area that you can play normally and get the card AND the required number of kills for the badge. The other are these fetch quest type deals where it tasks you to collect X of a certain item from a certain enemy. Once again this sounds like it would be complete bullshit but you don't actually have to hand them in. Once you get the items the quest is done and the reward is just dumped into your inventory which saves you the hassle of going back and forth so I have to give them props for that design choice.
The game can get a little monotonous if you play it for long stretches of time but it's the kind of game where you can save absolutely anywhere so if you do suddenly end up getting bored you can quit without having to worry about save points or any of that crap. My biggest complaint is with the final dungeon where I kept taking damage from bullets that I couldn't fucking see. The bullets are either red or bright blue and while the bright blue ones were easy to avoid the red ones would sometimes blend into the background and you couldn't see them properly, it's bullshit.
But apart from that Sweezy Gunner is actually a pretty good game. It's cheap on Steam and takes up barely any disc space so if you like shmups or Metroid clones then I suggest that you give this one a go.
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