| Developer: | Arkedo | | | Release Date: | 2012 | | | Systems: | Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 |
Today on Super Adventures I�m having a go of Hell Yeah!: Wrath of the Dead Rabbit, a game with an exclamation mark in its title.
Yeah yeah, I know I�ve been playing too many modern titles lately, games that have a thousand reviews floating around the internet already, but my Steam backlog won�t clear itself! Also modern 2D platformers are interesting to me, because it�s kind of an undead genre at this point. Time and technology left this style of platformer behind, they were pretty much done (well, barely kept alive on GBA life support). But they�ve since risen from the grave and they�ve been doing pretty well for themselves for a few years now.
Some of them are made to replicate the style of classic 8-bit or 16-bit titles, with pixel graphics and retro gameplay built on the principle that the old platformers are still actually pretty awesome (and cheaper to make). Games like Shovel Knight, La Mulana and Super House of Dead Ninjas definitely fit into this category as they're designed to give gamers a rose-tinted trip back to the early 90s.
And then there's the other type: 21st Century platformers straight out of a parallel universe where the genre never fell out of popularity and carried on evolving. Games like Little Big Planet and Rayman Legends that would rather show off flashy visuals and new ideas than take you back to the past. I'm thinking Hell Yeah! likely fits into category B.
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