Crappy hitboxes and very little character control – Yeah Bunny! Review

First off, I get why you have little control of your character in this game. For iphone users, one or two touch controls are pretty much a must have. The issue here is that the methods necessary to make a constant runner platformer game with direction changes, attacks, and swipe down smashes have already been made. In a similar game, rayman legends, you have control of the heigh of your jumps, and can change direction by swiping. Even if this game wanted to use just single tap controls, they should have at least used the tap and hold mechanic for height control. The mechanics are just super lazy. Speaking of lazy, the art for the game has some potential, but all the levels look exactly the same: same background color, same blocky platforms-there’s just no variety here! and the devs didn’t even make the enemies a contrasting color from the backgrounds so you could actually see them without straining your eyes. These enemies also are poorly designed in terms of gameplay. I’ve come across two. Enemies, the spikey ones and the ones with the big noses. Very simplistic, but they could be halfway decent. Except... the hitboxes for these guys are just atrocious. The spikey enemies (when retracted) are dome shaped, so you’d think their hitboxes would allow you to jump a little bit away from center mass, right? Wrong. Jumping anywhere but the the middle gets you killed. The big nosed ones are even worse. Their huge noses make them look like they have giant heads to stomp on (the nose is part of the head isn’t it?) but once again, you have to hit them right in the top of the noggin, or you get killed. This, coupled with the fact that the game is a constant movement platformer, means that you have little control over whether you actually hit the enemy. Also, as far as glitches go, there’s one where you die on a dead enemy, and there are multiple glitches that keep you from double jumping or wall jumping. In conclusion, just because this is a free game, doesn’t mean it isn’t crappy. Make your games good please.
Review by RegGuheert on Yeah Bunny!.