Enter the Gungeon

Enter the Gungeon

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How to unlock every secret character.
By admiral.
Are you tired of only playing one of the four standard characters in EtG? In this guide I will show you how to unlock every of the four secret characters.
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General Information
In this guide I will show you how to unlock each of the four secret characters and give you some informations about their abbilities.
The Bullet
Features:
The bullet is my favourite character in etg. I mean, it's a bullet kin. That's just hilarious. Its main weapon called "blasphemy" is a sword, which destroies all nearby bullets in front of you and fires a rainbowy bullet while being on full health. In addition the Bullet comes with the passive item "live ammo" which provides immunity to contact damage and increases your dodge roll damage.

How to unlock:
To unlock the Bullet you must beat the past of at least one of the standard characters. After that, bullet kins which won't attack you can spawn randomly in any room (but they're more likely to appear on lower floors). Just ignore them and they will disappear after a few seconds. After doing this five times (doesn't need to be done in one run), the Bullet will automaticly be unlocked.
The Robot
Features:
The robot comes with a pretty decent starter weapon, the passive item "battery bullets" which makes your bullets electric and the active item "water bottle" which splashes water on the ground. If yhou shoot over the water then, it will electrify, due to the electric bullets, and enemies stepping on it will be hurt. However, the real special thing about the Robot is, that he only as armor, no health. This means that you can't use heartcontainers and you'll just get one piece of armor when collecting a chamber.

How to unlock:
When jumping into the elevator pit of the first floor you'll get to a special room. There you find the active item "busted television" (Please notice: The item can only be found after the mechanic left, therefore the second elevator must already be repaired). Just bring it to the blacksmith and the robot will be unlocked. However, it's not that easy, because every time you dodge roll the busted televisin will get unequipped.
The Paradox
Features:
The paradox is a pretty unique character. Instead of having a special starting gun or an item he starts with one random gun, one starter weapon and one random passive or active item so you never know what to expect. Of course you could use a mod for this instead but with the paradox you have a sort of randomized round without the need of downloading mtg.

How to unlock:
To unlock the paradox you have to go on one of this spirally, universe looking things in the ground (pls note that it is not possible to use the ones next to the blacksmith). I don't know how to describe it but it's the same thing which you can find on the ground next to the blacksmith. Just interact with it and you will turn into this color as well. Then finish the run like you would normally do (However, it is necessary to beat the lich or the past!) an vouila! Paradox is unlocked.
The Gunslinger
Features:
In my opinion the Gunslinger is by far the strongest secret character because of his "OP" passive item. With the so called "Lich's Eye Bullets" you get every synergy available for a specific wapon. His main weapon isn't to bad as well, after shooting all bullets the gunslinger will through his gun on the enemy which deals some extra damgage.

How to unlock:
To unlock the Gunslinger you have to beat the Lich with the paradox. This will automaticly trigger a new run as the Gunslinger. Then you have to get to Gunslingers past, which will teleport you to the bullet hell. But instead of fighting against the normal Lich you'll have to beat two of them at the same time. Luckily you must only beat his first phase.


And that's it. I hope I could help you with this guide ;)
If you liked it I wouldn't mind if you rated 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!

thx ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)



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103 Comments
Solstar May 9 @ 11:45am 
wtf you mean by "beating THE PAST"? is it a level? a condition? a stage?
DAVE4 Jan 20 @ 6:48pm 
vh
admiral.  [author] Feb 12, 2024 @ 4:18pm 
I have never actually tried this before but you could be right. I feel like the rainbow runs are generally easier than normal runs as you often get access to very powerful equipment due to the many choices you have. Combined with the synergies you get through the gunslinger and if you have a bit of a feeling for which weapons offer good ones i can very well see how this would make things easier
Daddy_Hawaii Feb 11, 2024 @ 9:23pm 
I will say that unlocking the Gunslinger is one of the most challenging things I have done in this game aside from doing challenge run (I have accomplished both, I am very close to 100% on the achievements). It's really a matter of luck & endurance. And I dunno if this is a general thing, but I found getting the Gunslinger to be way easier by doing a Rainbow run. Not sure if that is just a preference thing or not though
Osakanator Feb 6, 2024 @ 6:20pm 
Thats a great idea! I think ill do that, thank you! :etgpilot:
admiral.  [author] Feb 6, 2024 @ 1:31pm 
feels bad but yeah... Happened to me a few times as well. If you struggle getting there in the first place defeating a boss whose attack patterns you have never experienced before is near impossible. Maybe try looking up the patterns beforehand and already make up a strategy. Obviously that will include spoilers for bosses you haven't seen yet so I don't know if that's soemthing for you...
Anyways, with enough practice you will do it eventually:flowey:
Osakanator Feb 5, 2024 @ 5:42pm 
finally made it to my first past... died immediately...
Sleepless™ Dec 11, 2023 @ 8:40pm 
Much appreciated!
admiral.  [author] Dec 11, 2023 @ 11:38am 
And yeah it's unfortunate that some of the characters are so hard to unlock. :sans:
I believe it took me around 80 hours until I unlocked all characters but you may be faster give or take.
admiral.  [author] Dec 11, 2023 @ 11:36am 
You can find the blacksmith on the fifth floor. I don't know if you already came that far in the game but once you are there you can't really miss it. She is essentially replacing the shopkeeper for the last floor, it's a big room where you can buy items and she's sitting at a forge in the far back.