Best indie games of 2023 for me.
I have no nostalgia for jet set radio, i tried the first one 2 different times and in both i lost interest in the very first level. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk however, has surpassed those games that inspired them.
The OST is fucking amazing, from the moment i booted the game i knew i'd love it after loosing at least 5 min messing with the menu just so i could listen to the music.
Not only that, i was surprised how the game hooked me with the story from the very beginning with the prologue and kept me invested until the very end with all the plot twists.
Gameplay wise, it just feels so good to go around the city trying out combos when you figure out how the system works. This type of score game usually ends up having a really lame way to break the game and go for the best score by repeating the same boring moves. Bomb rush howevers, they make it so you get higher and higher score multipliers by going through areas and tricks you hadn't done in your combo yet, so for higher scores you can expect to have to navigate through the entire area trying to stitch in your combo every grind cornor you can find.
Overall, i'm really impressed with how good this game was and how little i expected from it before buying it. There are some issues like how the cop system is really annoying and there is no way of turning it of completely as a option in the post game, and the game also becomes very easy after you learn how to infinitly combo. But with all that said, i think i'd put Bomb Rush Cyberfunk on my Top 3 indie games of all time, loosing only to Monster Sanctuary.
I have no nostalgia for jet set radio, i tried the first one 2 different times and in both i lost interest in the very first level. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk however, has surpassed those games that inspired them.
The OST is fucking amazing, from the moment i booted the game i knew i'd love it after loosing at least 5 min messing with the menu just so i could listen to the music.
Not only that, i was surprised how the game hooked me with the story from the very beginning with the prologue and kept me invested until the very end with all the plot twists.
Gameplay wise, it just feels so good to go around the city trying out combos when you figure out how the system works. This type of score game usually ends up having a really lame way to break the game and go for the best score by repeating the same boring moves. Bomb rush howevers, they make it so you get higher and higher score multipliers by going through areas and tricks you hadn't done in your combo yet, so for higher scores you can expect to have to navigate through the entire area trying to stitch in your combo every grind cornor you can find.
Overall, i'm really impressed with how good this game was and how little i expected from it before buying it. There are some issues like how the cop system is really annoying and there is no way of turning it of completely as a option in the post game, and the game also becomes very easy after you learn how to infinitly combo. But with all that said, i think i'd put Bomb Rush Cyberfunk on my Top 3 indie games of all time, loosing only to Monster Sanctuary.