Shotgun Cop Man is a weird-as-hell platformer about arresting Satan

Shotgun Cop Man is simply a unusual platformer. You play arsenic a quadrate antheral with a round, bald caput who's chasing Satan to apprehension him. At the opening of each of the game's 9 worlds, Satan gives you the mediate finger. And you don't conscionable usage guns for fighting, but for traversal arsenic well.

You commencement each satellite with 2 guns: a rapid-fire but anemic pistol and a much almighty shotgun that lone has 3 blasts. When you're connected the ground, your ammo perpetually refills, meaning you fundamentally person infinite ammo. But erstwhile you're successful the air, if you tally retired of bullets, you won't get a refill until you interaction the ground.

This each matters due to the fact that there's nary leap button. That means you get into the aerial by shooting your guns: the pistol lets you hover, portion the shotgun tin rocket you upward to scope precocious platforms. You tin purpose successful immoderate direction, truthful the shotgun tin blast you backward and forward, excessively - it's a speedy and amusive mode to get around. It's each a small spot similar Downwell, but sideways.

You'll request to get astir rapidly to dodge Satan's minions. Most often, you'll instrumentality connected small devils that spit bullets and are mostly a nuisance. But determination are a fewer much hard enemies, specified arsenic flying sent …

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