Bad Bunny
April 20, 2014 4 Comments
Approximately nine hours ago, I started watching the new Hobbit movie with Brian. Weirdly enough, the counter on the television indicates that we only began watching it one and a half hours ago. I tried to alert scientists of the world of the bizarre vortex in space and time emanating from our living room, but they showed little interest. Probably because checking it out would require them to watch the Hobbit as well.
Thankfully, I was also playing an Easter-themed XBLIG called Bad Bunny. It was a bit disappointing in one regard: the cover art made it look like it would have a lot more personality than it did. Take a look.
Not bad-looking. I figured it would be like an XBLIG version of Naughty Bear. Which, granted, was one of the worst games of the last generation, but at least it had an interesting concept. So I ponied up a dollar and fired it up. Needless to say, it was not Naughty Bear.
Yeah. So instead it’s another fixed-position wave shooter, only this time the enemies are rabbits firing Easter eggs at you. Honestly though, Bad Bunny not bad at all. It’s not good or memorable either, but it didn’t feel like a complete waste of a dollar. There’s not a whole lot for me to comment on. The projectiles fired at your stationary turret could stand out a little more, so that you could better defend yourself. And they could have really used more power-ups to keep things interesting. And online leaderboards as opposed to just a local one. And it could have used more than one ordinary play mode. Bad Bunny isn’t remotely ambitious and you’ve played a million games like this before.
BUT, it is fun for an hour, and fun is all that has ever mattered in my books. Bad Bunny is a totally harmless, borderline charming arcadey throwback and yes, I do like it a little bit. Let people moan that I enjoyed this half-assed shooter and didn’t like something ambitious and thoughtful, like Deadlight. Am I saying Bad Bunny is better than Deadlight? I guess technically I am, though that seems somehow wrong. How about “I personally enjoyed the overall experience of one hour with Bad Bunny more than I did several hours with Deadlight.” Besides, it’s just one person’s opinion. It’s not like it’s notarized by the Pope or anything. I actually did try to get it notarized but he stopped taking my calls when I wouldn’t stop calling him “Super Mario.”
Bad Bunny was developed by Game Play You
$1 Has no clue how we got from Jesus being beaten, executed by crucifixion, then returning from the dead to bunnies and colored eggs in the making of this review.
Bad Bunny is Chick-Approved and ranked on the Indie Gamer Chick Leaderboard.
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The “box art” is a direct reference to the Batman: Arkham City GOTY box art, which makes me even sadder that the game itself is yet another stationary wave shooter.
Thanks for the review! I had more plans for this game and life swallowed me whole. This review makes me want to dust it off and at least finish a few more jokes I had intended to troll the gamer and clean up the sound bites a bit. I originally planned to have some dialog between Bad Bunny and the good bunnies and some reason to admire the pile of coins that fall from the sky.
Anyhow, thanks for playing and glad it was an enjoyable hour!
You’re welcome. What happened to you, anyway? No Twitter activity for two years. Hope everything is okay, especially since you displayed talent here.
Kids happened! I haven’t had much time outside of my day job, family, and a little bit of unwind gaming. I do want to get back into it and I’ve been fiddling around with Unity as well as dusting off old XNA games I had in progress.