Boo Bunny Plague is one of those games that sounds more random the more you describe it. You play as a robotic rabbit, called Bunny, who gets infected with a virus that grants him intelligence. So what would any robot in possession of artificial intelligence do? Grab a guitar and go around beating various enemies with it, in between singing. Simple.
So at this point you are a robot bunny with artificial inelegance wielding a guitar as a weapon which you may say was weird enough. But then he breaks out into song. And I mean in proper musical style. The topic of the song is how much he loves his creator, or “mother”, and how you’ll never hurt him. Shortly after the song our protagonist beats him thoroughly with his guitar.
Gameplay takes on a simple, retro, hack ‘n’ slash style the likes of which I have no doubt most of you have seen before. Rather than different weapons there are different flavours for your guitar that, from what I saw, essentially serve as elements. Boo Bunny’s focus definitely seems to be to entertain through music and comedy rather than gameplay. The gameplay is fun and holds some retro value but without the music and humour wouldn’t be enough to carry the game alone.
From the small amount of gameplay I got my hands on there where certainly enough pop culture references to hold the attention of any Family Guy fan. There’s nothing particularly clever about the humour but it did manage to get a couple of good laughs out of me.
So really Boo Bunny Plague should just be good fun. The few minutes I got to play where certainly entertaining enough and hopefully the full game can keep the music and comedy fresh until the end. It was a very early build I got my hands on so there’s still quite a way to go for Boo Bunny Plague. Hopefully after quite a bit of polish Boo Bunny can be a fun hack ‘n’ slash adventure with humour that rarely gets seen in video games. Boo Bunny Plague is due out Spring 2014 for PC, Mac and Linux and is currently on Steam Greenlight here. The team is also planning on a Wii U version at some point in the future.
