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Are they dead yet?

  • Kylaila
  • 09/27/2014 05:23 PM
  • 847 views
Bunny Bashin' is an action shooter of the mindboggling kind.

Shoot stuff, buy new weapon, shoot more stuff - rinse and repeat.
This is usually fun for two reasons:
One - the heck of it. Shooting stuff.
Two - unlocking new stuff. Perhaps unknown things and changes may happen!

Unfortunately, neither is too much fun.
It's also a little bit annoying that it takes a bit to choose your mode, since you need to wait for your menu.

You shoot or hit by clicking (since mousesupport is there I advise to do so, it works much better), you gain points for hitting stuff and need a certain number of points or you'll get a game over once the time runs out. The gameplay styles make clubs and guns play almost identically. You need to reload guns, though.

To the left are three dog symbols. Or that's what they're supposed to depict, I assume. They refresh once shot after a while, and when you do so a dog runs over that row eating every rabit in its way. Sounds good, but doesn't earn you as much points as shooting them yourself. And should you hit them you will lose points.

This point cap increases every time by the same amount, which is lower than the one you needed to get initially! That means the first round with the worst weapon is the "hardest" to complete.
You can also only ever unlock the next weapon slot .. why do you have 5x-10x the amount of money you need for the next weapon when you can't use it?
And why then is the shotgun you get so much later much much much inferior to the 9-shot pistols? You one-hit everything and hitting multiple bunnies at once isn't any more possible than with your gun. Which killed me off.


There are four modes -

Bunny Bash
is the obvious main mode giving the game its name. You have a nice green field, happy music, bunnies run around back and forth, some come out of earth mounds and a club to beat them to a pulp. You still have nice "shots", but let's ignore that.
Bunnies spawn frequently and you beat them with your cursor. Sometimes they turn green and need to be shot again.

Hold the Fort doesn't work. Simple as that. Bunnys rush from the top to bottom, but you can't hit them. There's no fort anywhere to be seen, either.

Shooting Them puts you on a field of grass with bunnies flocking and respawning. You get rifles and there is no music.
Rabbits spawn around the place (and stay still for a few seconds in which case you can shoot them already). Once you killed the initial lot, 3 will spawn shortly after you shot the last ones dead. That makes aiming a lot less fun, especially when it won't be crowded anyhow.

Infection should've been called "Hold the Fort", for there is a defense game here. Green, infected bunnies rushing down, attacking some fort with its own healthbar.
It regenrates a lot after each "wave", but killing them is .. too easy and iffy at once. You miss them far too often when aiming for their head. Yet aiming at their stomaches or necks gives you instant headshots. There is a point cap needed as well, but it's low and really not worth mentioning.
Some rush faster than others, but since your fort can take quite something, it's not a big deal. Enemies don't get stronger and you keep shooting 'em.


You also have three rows of the exact same rifles after your clubs.. one for each game mode. It'd be nice if you could just use one rifle line.

The club cursor is not on the club, but left to it. It's no big deal once you're used to it, but it's very weird to not being able to hit them when the club is right above them.

There are a few glitches such as sometimes lacking shooting sound when you fire rapidly and reloading taking different amounts of time (unless intentional?)

All in all, it's a very simplistic shooting game. It gets easier as time goes on, instead of harder, and has some other odd design choices in here which make it less fun that it could be.
Different bunnies (aside from color) would be very neat. Some that would need multiple shots, for example, to make later weapons viable.

But you can still shoot stuff. Bunnies, to be precise.


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nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
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So, mindless violence then? With glitches and balance issues.

Thanks for taking one for the team, I was looking at this just because of the name. Glad I can skip it.
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