Not shooting means jumping, shooting means dodge rolling, and both are the same button. You do have the ability to dodge and jump, but these actions depend entirely on what you’re doing at the time. You can’t aim your gun to the left and jump to the right, causing some frustration when trying to not get shot and keep shooting at the same time. On the one hand, the concept is straightforward: you have one joystick to move the cursor of your weapon as well as move your character. Wild Guns Reloaded is a shooting gallery style arcade game, and this works out in a few different ways that both succeed and kind of fail.
Being able to anticipate the slowdown meant strategizing good shots during the lag, but, with that removed, the game smoothly and accurately blows you straight to hell. If you ever get a chance to see video of it (or have played it yourself), you’ll see the original Wild Guns had plenty of slowdown after things on-screen got a bit too frantic, which was both a blessing and a curse. This Reloaded edition has some new levels, two new characters, and some new modes, on top of actually running significantly better than the SNES counterpart.
This is a game that’s full of steampunk influence and sci-fi themes before steampunk really got insane in the West, so the framing and style of the game were really unique when it came out, not to mention fun overall. You shoot your way through multiple stages to eventually catch up with the bad guys what done you wrong, and, yea, shoot them too. In this game, you play either Annie or Clint, two gunslingers in an alternate world Wild West where Annie’s family got murdered and now you’re gonna make everyone pay. Wild Guns Reloaded is an updated remaster of the classic 1994 title, Wild Guns. It really helps give you a great view of what made an SNES experience wonderful, what also made it frustrating, and why things aren’t still in the 16 bit era. Which is why a game like Wild Guns Reloaded is so important. This was the heyday of adventure games, platformers, JRPGS…man, it had everything! But we do tend to paint nostalgia with a more forgiving brush, so we forget some of the shortcomings that have since been ironed out with time and better technology. For gamers who just wanted to score awesome titles, the SNES was the place to be. Sure, looking at it from a broader business perspective, it was a bad move that Nintendo made and was further down the road to sour relationships with 3rd party developers, but that’s water under the bridge.
The Super Nintendo era, for fans, was one of the golden ages of video games.