Dougs Nightmare Review (PlayStation 5)

Dougs Nightmare Review, What is a banana to do when he’s haunted by anxiety and inner demons? Doug’s Nightmare is a cartoony, hand-drawn bullet hell where your job is to help Doug the banana overcome his worst fears by pounding them into oblivion! Part top-down twin-stick shooter and part beat ’em up, Doug’s Nightmare pits you against swarms of bugs, mushrooms, floating brains, and more!

Dougs Nightmare Review Pros:

• Decent hand-drawn graphics.
• 295.2MB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
• Two difficulties – Easy or default.
• Controls option – auto attack on/off.
• Twin stick shooter-style gameplay.
• Comic book-style cutscenes.
• Anxiety plays a huge part, as enemies surround you your anxiety bar drains, and slows your attacks. Once the bar empties the anxiety form shows up and you have to defeat them.
• Opening tutorial.
• Food can be picked up which heals you.
• Teddy bears can be found and collected to replenish your anxiety.
• The game is played across houses and dungeons, and each room is an arena and you have to clear a room in order to move into another room.
• You get to choose the route you take.
• Fast-paced combat.
• Gifts can be opened up for weapons and clothing drops like hats, tops glasses, shoes, and costumes. You can equip them from the gift menu.
• 2D perspective.
• You can equip two weapons at once and swap between them with a button press.
• Interactive elements in locations.
• The map fills in as you explore.
• You can find and fight hidden enemies in areas that are clear.
• Big boss battles.
• Dying has you respawn at the last checkpoint.

Dougs Nightmare Review Cons:

• Slow-paced shooter.
• The enemies move so fast all the time that you cannot help but take damage.
• Boss battles are very one-note and just a huge bullet sponge.
• Pickups like Health and Bears disappear despawn too quickly.
• You cannot remap controls.
• Little replay value.

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Dougs Nightmare:

Official website.

Developer: Undev Games

Publisher: Eastasiasoft

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