http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-BMDC7D/bunny-must-die-chelsea-and-the-7-devilsYeah, another indie Metroidvania: The English version of Bunny Must Die is available now, it showed up in a pay-what-you-want indie bundle in mid-September but the official launch was some time after that (no idea when exactly but it's out now). It's from the guy that made the Gundemonium games and it's VERY much a Metroidvania, in fact it parodies both Metroid and Castlevania pretty directly.
You're Bunny, a bunny girl that was caught in the fallout of a Thermomewclear explosion and got cursed with cat ears. Your only chance to get rid of them and end the confusion over whether you're a cat or a rabbit is to go into the Devils' Maze and beat all the big bosses there. As a rabbit you can (obviously!) manipulate time, mostly by stopping or rewinding it.
If you feel like you've seen it before, the game was originally released around 2007 in Japanese but only got translated now. Its map is much smaller than something like Super Metroid but it packs a lot of stuff in there, many secrets that need to be found and many tricky puzzles and dexterity challenges (and a second playable character that almost doubles the length of the game by playing VERY differently). Overall I'd say it's difficult, not insanely hard but you'll die a lot. Frequent checkpoints make that more bearable though, it's not as crazy as La Mulana in that respect. You'll need to know the full range of abilities of your character to succeed, especially the different ways of jumping and dashing and such. I really like what the game requires you to do to win and how awesome you feel when you pull it off (and get even better than what's expected of you).
The final boss is a severe difficulty spike if you try to face it normally, make sure to collect and save the bunny dolls (basically 1ups) for that fight. You won't need them for the rest of the game due to the very frequent save points but the final boss has seven phases and using a doll makes you start at the beginning of the phase you died on with full health so it's a LOT more manageable (actually not much of a difficulty spike if you've got plenty of the dolls left). Don't waste the bunny dolls since they don't respawn. Absolutely DO try to win that fight, the second character is worth all that hardship and then some.
Topic: Bunny Must Die: Chelsea And The Seven Devils (Indie Metroidvania) (Read 1449 times)
