

You can also start finding golden weapons after you loop, but the mansion is the easiest way to nab 'em, especially since things get hectic after looping and you don’t always want to be lugging around a golden weapon to unlock it.

YV’s mansion always has a weapon chest with a golden weapon in it. Golden weapons are easiest to get by visiting YV’s mansion, which you reach by finding a screwdriver and hitting the gold-rimmed car in 2-1 once with it, then pressing E to warp to the secret. So if you stash Rogue’s IDPD rifle in to it, then next time you’re playing as Melting if you access the proto chest it’ll have Rogue’s IDPD rifle in it until you pick it up and put something else in.

It starts off with a revolver in it, and whatever weapon you put in to it is what it will have in the future. That’s the “Proto chest”, it shows up in a crown vault if you’re already wearing a crown. I saw a chest looking thing with a gun on it in the second crown area once, am I to assume that is somehow related to the golden stuff? I was portal’d away before I could check…

I just got my first golden weapons, a shotgun for Melting and a grenade launcher (!!!) for Plant. Melting teaches you caution and to play methodically, and Rogue forces you to deal with chaos. Actually, it’s kind of neat because they do so in opposite ways. One thing I really like about Rogue is that I feel she and Melting are the best characters for forcing me to improve. I just had the game crash upon reaching the Throne with YV. Probably the stupidest death I’ve had in ages, made me laugh when it happened. Then I had a brainfart about what direction one of the flame traps in 2-2 was going to go next and also took a burst from a crow at the same time. Rabbit paw, laser brain, trigger fingers, this was going to be an excellent run. ONE DAY I WILL HAVE A HELMET.Īnd then after going reasonably far with bad mutations, my next random game was with Rebel and I was getting the good stuff. Then I got trapped in a little cubby with two shielders outside, no portal strikes left, and got killed. Had a surprising Rogue run and managed to get to IDPD HQ despite some questionable mutations and I had an energy sword and EVERYTHING WAS LINED UP, I WAS GONNA GET THE ROGUE-B SKIN. I absolutely recommend it though.Īh hell. Sometimes you can make it work, sometimes you can’t. You can get awful weapon drops and get screwed that way. It’s not something that will take away hours and hours trying to grind unlocks (Although I have been chewing on some achievements) and it’s not always fair. Nuclear Throne works well if you’re just playing it as a game to have fun. A reasonably successful game of Nuclear Throne (Getting a loop or two) is somewhere around 30-50 minutes though, so it’s not like a horrific amount of time is lost. Addiction without payoff is technically true, in the sense that it takes relatively little time to unlock all the additional gameplay pieces (There’s a ridiculous amount of time to unlock all thrones/b skins on all characters, but by and large those aren’t that vital), and needlessly frustrating might be true if you throw your arms up after losing a promising run to a really bad spawn/level layout. To hazard a guess as to the people with 200+ hours and giving it negative reviews, the reasons you listed are both plausible. I’ve got 45 hours so far on Nuclear Throne and it was my second favorite game of the year last year, so I would say it’s worth playing.
