![]() Epic perks are far rarer, but they positively destroy every level you find them in. ![]() This is even before you encounter the epic perks, like the ability to teleport as much as you want without cooldown. Best of all, you don’t have to choose right away: if you get a level up while you’re in the middle of a firefight, the game waits until you check out the level screen to decide your perks, meaning you may end up activating three or four powerups at once. You know what counts as an item that can just spawn? A nuclear weapon that does disastrous damage to every monster around you. I was SWIMMING in weapons and health powerups, not to mention the secondary weapons that are limited but still helpful, like the spark gun or the giant X-Ray sword. I got four supply perks that made my chance of items appearing increase by 30%, which means I had 120% extra chance to find items. Telsa gets a new choice of perk at each level up a la Crimsonland, but you only get two to choose from BUT they all stack. ![]() You even get regenerative properties, so that you automatically refill your health over time. You summon clouds of lightning that just periodically zap monsters. Then you become radioactive and poison everyone around you. You can add extra chambers to your gun to spit out more bullets at a time, or give yourself ricochet shots (starting to get powerful, cool). There’s the ability to increase weapon damage and your maximum health (ok, simple enough). In fact, shy of The Binding of Isaac, this is some of the biggest variety of perks, upgrades and general game changers that you can find under one roof. Whereas Time Recoil demanded that you get your teleports down to a fluid art to maintain staying alive, Tesla’s movements can be frantic or singular and, later on, act as a weapon.īut teleportation is far from Tesla’s only trick. In a twin stick shooter with hordes of monsters, the chance to basically lure enemies to one end of the map and then just bamf away to a totally different area is a big game changer, and reminds me a bit of a Time Recoil mechanic, but much more controlled and methodic. Tesla has up to three charges at a time that allow him to move, in almost any direction, away from the fray, and those charges do come back over a short period of time. Almost immediately, Tesla unlocks this ability to teleport, which sounds dreadfully unfair to the monsters, and, for the first few levels, it is. Lovecraft is a twinstick shooter of the over the top variety, and it has every bell and whistle that you can imagine. Tesla, of course, couldn’t imagine that Lovecraft was referring to monsters far beyond our human perception and that Tesla’s experiments might punch a hole into different realms where unspeakable horrors exist and could bleed into our world, but c’mon, dude! Tesla was gonna make electricity free! I can run the air conditioner forever!Īs I already stated up top, Tesla Vs. Far from just letting insurance cover the whole thing and dedicating his life to making affordable, cool roadsters, Tesla grabs his gun and a whole backpack of science and goes to settle the score. Lovecraft later confirms this by setting fire to Tesla’s house through eldritch magics and monsters and this causes Tesla to be slightly miffed, especially since the monsters stole a bunch of his lab equipment. This PISSES off Lovecraft, who denounces Tesla and says that Tesla is dealing with stuff he doesn’t understand. ![]() Tesla is unveiling his new discovery of wireless electricity and promises that, soon, unlimited energy will be available for all. In this particular universe, Telsa and Lovecraft are both at their primes when they encounter, whereas, in real life, either Lovecraft would have been a baby, or Tesla would have been an incredibly old (but still inventing) man, and neither appears to be the case here. And I couldn’t think of a better company than 10Tons Ltd to bring us Tesla Vs Lovecraft. And when it’s helmed by the company that brought us some amazing twin stick shooters, it becomes a perfect storm of ludicrous and awesome. So when fanfiction spills into gaming and isn’t the creepy kind (please stop making cartoons bang each other), it becomes a pretty frigging fun ride. Actually giving Pansy Parkinson a character arc beyond “evil and kind of ugly?” That’s just impressive. There was a time when a fake version of the last Harry Potter book was being passed around, and, even though everyone knew it was fake, we all read it because it was fun and pretty damn good. There’s no better way to put it: when a good writer has an idea to take an existing property and either a.) make a new story for it or b.) mash it up with some other existing property in an insane adventure, it’s a goddamn good read. ![]()
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