Nightmare Reaper 1.0 review: Reaping through the nightmare with random weapons

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Nightmare Reaper is an interesting case of being a retro-shooter amidst tons of others in the current year. While there has been a tremendous boom of “boomershooters”, as the community likes to call them, in recent times, tons of games have come out that dip their toes in the genre with their take on it.

Blazing Bit Games, the developers took a different approach, going the rogue-lite, procedural generation route by making the most essential thing in a first-person shooter randomized: guns.

Surprisingly enough, as soon as I started getting bored of playing enough boomershooters, Nightmare Reaper reinvigorated my interest in the sub-genre altogether, and what an experience it has been.

Now, if you come up to me asking about the story in detail, I would struggle to explain it since the story has been presented in a non-linear way, and if one does not want to follow it, well, you do not have to.

For those interested, Nightmare Reaper follows the unnamed female protagonist, who is institutionalized in an asylum after various circumstances in her life, living through nightmares while she sleeps.

Most of the story is presented through patient reports written by the doctor taking care of the protagonist, voiced by the ever-talented Gianni Matragrano. If anyone has been playing tons of modern retro games in recent times, they will recognize that name immediately.

However, as per the patient's report, it is explained that the patient had a rough childhood. This led her to start hating humans and committing a string of homicides, leading to her arrest and eventual institutionalization at the asylum.

One might find the storyline edgy for their taste, but I liked it, and it makes sense for the carnage that the player causes throughout the