Indie developer Dapper Dog Digital launched their “love letter to the Metroidvania style” this week with BioGun, a platforming action-adventure that takes place totally inside a whimsically microscopic world of viruses and vaccines. And whimsically satisfying it’s, with a hand-drawn world and characters which have a large, pleasant, and cartoonish selection of their design.
As you discover the chambers and setting of the cell-eat-cell world you end up in, your little vaccine upgrades their DNA and modifies their playstyle utilizing nanotech to get new powers, tweaking how they transfer and shoot, and incomes every kind of recent weapons for the side-scrolling 360-degree capturing—which I’ve gotta say feels fairly tight and controls nicely as of launch.