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Alas, you and I will never look and sound as good as Rebounder

Rock Paper Shotgun·Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·about 1 month ago
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But we can at least join the playtest Image credit: ThirtyThree Games Reader, I used to worry about being insufficiently cool. I no longer have that albatross around my neck, because no matter how cool I get, I will never be cooler than Rebounder - "a precision platformer set in a four-ink, pulp-print world", created by ATOMIK devs Thirtythree Games, which makes me think of the Mega Drive's awesome Comix Zone . It casts you as a 2D astronaut who gets around by grabbing, hurling and 'rebounding' from explosive alien spores. The game takes inspiration from Kaizo ROM hacks, on the one hand, and from 19th century printing techniques on the other - a blend of material histories that is verging perilously on being too clever by half, but which looks splendid in motion. Sumptuous, I used to call this kind of thing, before Nic (RPS in peace) told me I was using the word "sumptuous" all the time. The soundtrack, meanwhile, conjures up images of moonwalking crocodiles. I mean, it does for me.…

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