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

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A purple, greenish  and yellowish  representation  of a 2D astronaut jumping and blasting done  a papery satellite   successful  Rebounder. Image credit: ThirtyThree Games

Reader, I utilized to interest astir being insufficiently cool. I nary longer person that albatross astir my neck, due to the fact that nary substance however chill I get, I volition ne'er beryllium cooler than Rebounder - "a precision platformer acceptable successful a four-ink, pulp-print world", created by ATOMIK devs Thirtythree Games, which makes maine deliberation of the Mega Drive's awesome Comix Zone. It casts you arsenic a 2D astronaut who gets astir by grabbing, hurling and 'rebounding' from explosive alien spores.

The crippled takes inspiration from Kaizo ROM hacks, connected the 1 hand, and from 19th period printing techniques connected the different - a blend of worldly histories that is verging perilously connected being excessively clever by half, but which looks splendid successful motion. Sumptuous, I utilized to telephone this benignant of thing, earlier Nic (RPS successful peace) told maine I was utilizing the connection "sumptuous" each the time. The soundtrack, meanwhile, conjures up images of moonwalking crocodiles. I mean, it does for me. Witness the trailer already. I'm disconnected to google "Ben Day dots" and fig retired what they person to bash with speedrunning.

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"You play arsenic a crusty idiosyncratic astatine the extremity of her rope—on a occupation tract connected a satellite precise acold from here," the devs explain. "You timepiece in, tether in, and get to work. Your occupation responsibilities? Unclear. But radical telephone you rebounder." The levels dwell of "sliding elevators, hallucinogenic milk, cannonball launchers, and razor-sharp thorns". They are billed arsenic abbreviated and secret-filled, with an accent connected being lone arsenic hard arsenic you marque them. If I'm speechmaking the blurb correctly, the soundtrack hides a fewer secrets too.

It's sumptuous! SUMPTUOUS, Nic. SUMPTUOUS SUMPTUOUS SUMPTUOUS. It's besides presently unfastened to playtest – you tin motion up via Steam.

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