While most of us whiled away the many days of pandemic-induced lockdown in 2020 binge-watching Netflix and baking our own bread for some reason, acclaimed anime screenwriter Gen Urobochi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Psycho-Pass) went ahead and built his own video game. That game, a rough demo that featured a rabbit in a mechanical suit blasting his way through piles of junk in a post-apocalyptic world, would eventually serve as the jumping off point for Rusty Rabbit, the new 2.5D Metroidvania from developer Nitro Plus announced this week at Tokyo Game Show.
This Metroidvania with roguelike elements takes place thousands of years after humanity has abandoned the Earth, and rabbits have taken over. Stamp, the long-eared main character, spends his days piloting his mech suit ‘Junkster’ through the giant ruins of a giant space elevator in search of valuable scrap. When one day he stumbles upon clues to the whereabouts of his missing daughter on an abandoned ‘D-Tam’ computer terminal, it sends Stamp on a search for more of these computer terminals buried throughout Rusty Rabbit’s Metroidvania-style maze. All the while battling enemies and hunting for treasures, then subsequently making return trips to his base camp at the surface in order to upgrade his suit.
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