Boo Bunny Plague is a hard game to describe, so here's the best I can do. It's a beat em up musical comedy where you play as a children's toy given life.
Story:
You play as Bunny. He and his best friend Gunny, alongside two of their other friends a taxi driver God Ganny and a demonic waitress Faye you're out on a quest to earn money to buy yourself a good auto repair system so you can take more damage, all while taking down a larger conspiracy.
The writing is not the best, however there's this weird charm to it that I can't really put my finger on it. It often feels like an early 2000's american comedy movie classic about buddies on a road trip or something and the writing seems to be just on par with those films as well. If you will like it, it all depends on the person, so if you liked those movies you might enjoy it, but if you didn't then there's no point in playing this game.
Graphics:
Although I feel like the main character designs are great, everything else is just incredibly bland. The best way I can describe how I feel about the game is imagine having an insanely detail painting of an environment like a field and then painting stick figures on top of it. Everything just looks off, with character animations being stiff, looking more like puppets being pulled by strings and it just felt overall cheap.
Audio:
I'm mixed on the audio design of the game because there's tons I like and there's quite a few things I don't, so first with the good. The voice acting is surprisingly strong, it's definitely cheesy with Bunny being a really annoying character, but the actor doing really good work with the lines he's provided with and I really enjoyed every performance for the entire cast.
The music is also surprisingly strong and there's quite a few catchy tracks that do add for some great background noise. However everything else sucks, especially the combat noises , like hits, walking animation and other stuff. It just all sounds cheap and I had problems where audio would cut out mid combat and then just cut back in for no reason.
Gameplay:
Boo Bunny Plague is basically a beat'em'up where your only goal is to beat your enemies into a pulp in each level. The best way to summarize the game is mash button to win. The combat starts off janky, but fun and quickly derails soon after. The game is pretty easy, however as soon as you encounter a difficulty spike, trust me that difficulty spike will mess your stuff up and that's usually in the final levels where they throw enemies in massive waves.
The hit boxes in combat are often also really not all that great, your hits will often just not connect with enemies and when you get swarmed by a group of bad guys and your hits don't connect it does become incredibly annoying considering they often have no trouble beating you up.
Boss fights are also not that good, they are often a much longer fight and since the combat is pretty bad, I don't really want to go through a longer and harder fight considering everything I go through in the so called "simpler" fights. These bosses are often really easy, but the bosses soak up hits like you hitting a sponge, not to mention sometimes there's other worries for you to keep your attention to.
Verdict:
Even though it's clearly not a very good game, I did enjoy my time with Boo Bunny Plague because it has this sort of weird charm to it, that I haven't seen in a game ever. My previous statement about if you enjoyed road trip comedies from the early 2000's and a tolerance for mediocre games you will most likely like the game, if you don't, well then stay away.
Final Rating:
6/10
Pros:
+ Charming story
+ Some really good voice acting
Cons:
- Combat is terrible
- Difficulty spikes get annoying to deal with
- Visually pretty ugly
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