Rabbit is a 2D fighting game, with cartoonish colorful graphics. The game has 8 playable characters - Wu Ling (Rabbit), Tien-Ren (hawk), Eight (ox), Hou-En (wolf), Ja-Koh (snake), Yu-Lan (fox), Rex (tiger) and Eddy (wild boar). The player chooses one from these heroes, and must defeat all opponents, plus the final boss. Each character has a special animal spirit that helps with the battle and they have a spirit' bar to use these specials. The game uses the joystick plus 4 buttons - for light punch, heavy punch, light kick, and heavy kick.
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Crunchatize me Captain.
Surprising a solid 2D fighting game! Chinese zodiac spirit animals are summoned for additional attacks and super moves. Features running, two jumps, knock-down attacks, and even high and low parries that once performed can follow up with an counter combo. Final boss has SNK boss syndrome that is nearly impossible to defeat, taking several attempts.
For us who have been involved with the fighting genre and (unfortunately) pay attention to some of the personalities involved with it online, we tend to have our random obscure picks we found from either watching Super Best Friends Scrublords or randomly booting them up in a hail mary of boredom in FinalBurn Neo. You know the ones, the legitimate yet virtually unknown stuff outside of the special circle, from Asura Buster to Zero Divide. "W-who is Breaker? Why are they having their revenge?!"
Rabbit is another one of them, albeit possibly even more obscure. Beyond it's four-button control scheme and Jojo Stand system that predates Heritage for the Future; it's yet another example of why some nice colorful sprites will always be my favored form of visuals. Rabbit is cartoonish and full of expression, from the standard normal attacks to the funny reactions to being walloped in the face and eating shit. A colorful cast featuring such concepts like a cute blue-haired girl with an umbrella, a little round singing fella who finger snaps during his idle pose as he wields his mic, and a theater guy who got so into his jiangshi character that it became real to him. All of these hooligans are also equipped with demented looking animal spirits that resemble the old style of MGM and Warner Brothers, checking off yet another box that makes this game the apple of my eye. The characters even have their own footstep sounds, for goodness sake.
It's got parries, it's got dash cancels, it's got all the nice stuff you would want in a fluid fighter; as well as a neat gimmick where you can use other fighters' beast supers as you acquire orbs through the arcade mode (both players just have them in a versus match). If you're looking for a Survival Arts or Battle Monsters-esque kusoge fighter this won't be it I'm afraid, sorry to disappoint.
Charming, pretty, never gets old seeing it in action. If you're looking for something new to play with the group over a weekend, absolutely check it out on fightcade. Even if the gameplay might not click with you, it's time worth spent regardless just watching it. It is it's year after all!
Rabbit is another one of them, albeit possibly even more obscure. Beyond it's four-button control scheme and Jojo Stand system that predates Heritage for the Future; it's yet another example of why some nice colorful sprites will always be my favored form of visuals. Rabbit is cartoonish and full of expression, from the standard normal attacks to the funny reactions to being walloped in the face and eating shit. A colorful cast featuring such concepts like a cute blue-haired girl with an umbrella, a little round singing fella who finger snaps during his idle pose as he wields his mic, and a theater guy who got so into his jiangshi character that it became real to him. All of these hooligans are also equipped with demented looking animal spirits that resemble the old style of MGM and Warner Brothers, checking off yet another box that makes this game the apple of my eye. The characters even have their own footstep sounds, for goodness sake.
It's got parries, it's got dash cancels, it's got all the nice stuff you would want in a fluid fighter; as well as a neat gimmick where you can use other fighters' beast supers as you acquire orbs through the arcade mode (both players just have them in a versus match). If you're looking for a Survival Arts or Battle Monsters-esque kusoge fighter this won't be it I'm afraid, sorry to disappoint.
Charming, pretty, never gets old seeing it in action. If you're looking for something new to play with the group over a weekend, absolutely check it out on fightcade. Even if the gameplay might not click with you, it's time worth spent regardless just watching it. It is it's year after all!