CODE Bunny

Recomendo demais. Esse game é essencial pra quem curte plataforma 2d. frenético. trilha sonora eletrizante. boa curva de aprendizado. história complexa. tudo que a gente ama em um jogo de vido game. parabens aos envolvidos

Jogo bem feito, que você consegue terminar em uma sentada, e com certeza vale a pena. (PS.: Pra mim, a melhor opção do jogo é "Bate Papo")

A Mega Man–like with pretty nice pixel art and 8-bit-style music, the game stands out mainly for its two characters, whose gameplay are fairly unconventional: - Axel is more or less a living spinning top who uses his speed to bounce sideways off enemies. Repeated bounces fill the EX gauge, granting a shield (very—perhaps too—useful) as well as a boost to his already excellent mobility. - Hazel is more methodical: her kit revolves around throwing a kunai to mark targets and teleporting to move and attack. She also has a Karma gauge that rises with each normal attack and increases both the damage dealt and receive, but it can be reset by using that same teleport. Overall, each character’s gameplay benefits from some interesting ideas, but the low budget and/or first-project feel is still noticeable: Axel gets a huge amount of survivability out of his shield, which recharges with every bounce, to the point where you can literally brute-force your way without worrying. It also overshadows his movement options, which lack a bit of control : it is very easy to overshoot and miss your target. By contrast, Hazel is much more punishing to play. Her parry does not fully cover her character’s hitbox and only works on the ground, while the Karma mechanic means you can lose all your HP in a single hit (Hazel has a “second wind” that lets her remain at 1 HP). She would have benefited from a few more options in the air…and from a little more leniency in how Karma works (recovering HP by consuming it, for example?). The bosses use some fairly interesting tactics without being especially innovative, and they avoid feeling like damage sponges (except for the final boss). The story…exists. It is not uninteresting, but you can feel the rush on the end. In the end, I would say it is an interesting draft (especially at €8), despite a few frustrations and balance issues, and I would be curious to see a sequel.

It's... it's on the razor's edge of a positive review. So, the actual gameplay is not that great. It's decent, but it's trying to compete in a fast-paced 2D technical action platformer sub-genre that's just... really hard to get right. The characters' combat mechanics try to be interesting, but are kinda clunky and lopsided in a way that really just ends up incentivizing you to double-down on some reliable but low-skill spam. Again, this is just a hard sub-genre to get right. Also, the level design is just kinda mediocre, not for lack of trying, but the clunky combat mechanics defeat what seems like an earnest attempt at level / enemy layout. So... why a positive review? The art, narrative, writing, sound, music, characters, it's all clearly had a lot of effort put into it, and they REALLY seemed to have tried quite hard to make a phenomenal game. It's only about 2-3 hours long, it's very bite-sized, and so while the actual gameplay is weak, it's not a huge slog. I genuinely had a pleasant time with it overall, despite the mediocre gameplay. The characters, writing, and music do a LOT of the lifting here. Also, it's like dirt-cheap. I think for what it is, it's well beyond worth the price.

Overall it's a decent game, the movement is fun, takes a bit to get used to each moveset but I could see myself working on better gradings on the few levels there are. Balance is a bit off but ultimately I don't think it's an issue, going from doing Hazel's campaign first to then Axel's was a little underwhelming, given how much easier Axel is, but it was still fun and both characters have a decent degree of skill expression to work on. The story flows a little weirdly, doesn't really feel quite right on either campaign because a lot of information ends up missing, the other main character effectively just disappears halfway through right after a moment of connection between the two, but it's cute for what it is. Bunny

Absolute CINEMA