After years as a punchline, it appears Bubsy has once more change into an energetic sequence. And we’re supposed to just accept that. We’re supposed to inform our youngsters that’s the world we’ve created for them. Our youngsters, who’ll develop up realizing Bubsy not from the astonishing Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits The James Turrell Retrospective however from collectathon platformers with terrible puns. Our youngsters. You inform my youngster, you inform them that one 12 months after the discharge of Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back, publishers Accolade have introduced Bubsy: Paws On Fire! This time, the builders stepping up are Choice Provisions, the makers of the BIT.TRIP games.
As a lot as I blame you all for what my youngsters will know, Choice Provisions (previously Gaijin Games) being behind this does pique my curiosity. They’ve made some sound rhythm games and autorunner platformers, and this right here Paws On Fire! will likely be an autorunner too.
Yesterday’s announcement boasts of “over 100 levels”, boss battles, 4 playable characters together with people from the Bubsy Extended Universe, leaderboards, and… it appears to be like slightly one thing like this:
The Woolies Strike Back was plain ol’ bland, a straight-up continuation of a rubbo sequence. You did that, you and your years of ironic jokes about Bubsy. You made them suppose that was referred to as for. My youngsters deserve a world the place a Bubsy both leans into the rubbo nature or does one thing good and completely different. Why it could be Bubsy quite than something or anybody else, I don’t know. But Paws On Fire! is not less than completely different?
Bubsy: Paws On Fire! is slated to launch in early 2019, by the tip of March. Accolade aren’t the publishers of yore, thoughts; Billionsoft purchased the model identify and are utilizing to unfold Bubsy. You clarify that to my youngsters.