Rabbids Go Home

[miffy495]

Remember when everyone thought Rayman Raving Rabbids was going to be an incredibly offbeat and awesome platforming game, instead of the incredibly offbeat and awesome minigame collection it ended up being? Then a bunch of people got pissed off at the minigame collection, even though it was one of the best things on the Wii at the time? Well, Rabbids Go Home is the platformer that they were screaming for, albeit without any actual Rayman in it.

I don't really know what I can say about this game aside from that I've played through 3/5 of it now and anyone with a Wii and a sense of fun needs to buy it. Badly. The control is hard to describe, not in a "this button does this" sort of way, but in a feel sort of way. All the inputs are really simple, but everything just constantly feels seconds away from being completely out of your control. I don't want to say it feels as though you're fighting the controls, because that's often used as a negative way to describe things. It does feel like you're wrangling them however. As if you have a very spastic dog on a too-long leash and you're trying to keep it from flipping out. For the game and the Rabbids, it's perfect.

The game is a bit over the top in it's anti-consumerism message, made all the more odd by the Capri Sun product placement, but the sheer goofiness of it all makes up for it. What otherwise could have gotten old quite quickly is easily redeemed by the personality exploding from every pixel of this game. It's so goddamned charming. I really want to try out Dead Space Extraction, but I can't bring myself to take this game out of my Wii until I've finished it. Wii-owning Thumbs, get this game ASAP and rejoice.

[Patters]

Remember when everyone thought Rayman Raving Rabbids was going to be an incredibly offbeat and awesome platforming game, instead of the incredibly offbeat and awesome minigame collection it ended up being? Then a bunch of people got pissed off at the minigame collection, even though it was one of the best things on the Wii at the time? Well, Rabbids Go Home is the platformer that they were screaming for, albeit without any actual Rayman in it.

I don't really know what I can say about this game aside from that I've played through 3/5 of it now and anyone with a Wii and a sense of fun needs to buy it. Badly. The control is hard to describe, not in a "this button does this" sort of way, but in a feel sort of way. All the inputs are really simple, but everything just constantly feels seconds away from being completely out of your control. I don't want to say it feels as though you're fighting the controls, because that's often used as a negative way to describe things. It does feel like you're wrangling them however. As if you have a very spastic dog on a too-long leash and you're trying to keep it from flipping out. For the game and the Rabbids, it's perfect.

The game is a bit over the top in it's anti-consumerism message, made all the more odd by the Capri Sun product placement, but the sheer goofiness of it all makes up for it. What otherwise could have gotten old quite quickly is easily redeemed by the personality exploding from every pixel of this game. It's so goddamned charming. I really want to try out Dead Space Extraction, but I can't bring myself to take this game out of my Wii until I've finished it. Wii-owning Thumbs, get this game ASAP and rejoice.

You son of a bitch, now I want some Capri Sun,

[miffy495]

Sorry, I guess? I've actually never had it, which I guess speaks to a junk food-deprived childhood. I just found it weird that in a game where they're constantly harping on how stupid the "buy more crap" culture is, to the point of it being overbearing, if you "BWAAAH" (your primary attack, having a rabbid scream and blast your enemies with a sound wave) a vending machine, it will spit out generic green-labeled cola and pouches of Capri Sun.

Really though, it's the only thing that I don't love about this game, so don't think too much on it.

[syntheticgerbil]

This weirdly reminds me of all of the Sobe Energy Drink ads in Oddworld Munch's Oddysee. Those made me really upset.

Glad to hear this is good. I'm a big Rayman fan, but I haven't gotten around to playing the Rabbids series beyond the GBA and DS version of the first. I can't tell which Rayman games are good anymore because I only hear about them at this Rayman forum I joined that seems to be comprised of only underage kids that hate the Rabbids.

I think the biggest disappointment about the Rabbids was not getting to play the originally made platform game you mentioned that Ancel was going to design before allegedly getting angry and leaving the project when it was ordered to become a party game. Weirdly enough, the GBA version seems modeled after the early concepts as a platformer and has a few parts on the game map that don't do anything but seem like they should.

So yeah, Rabbids Go Home. I liked the trailer! I need to play the other 3 first... no time.

[miffy495]

You really don't need to play the other three at all. The first one was really good at what it did, the second drove it into the ground, and then the third was interesting for its use of the balance board but not much beyond that. I wouldn't worry about it.

[syntheticgerbil]

It's really more of an OCD problem. I get off on playing things in chronological order. Seriously. I have this list of Mario games I need to finish for instance, that is in order of release dates. I can't bring myself to play them out of order.

[buemba]

I'm having a lot of fun with it. As a proud member of the People Who Got Pissed Off At The Rabbids Minigame Collection® I'm glad to see Ubisoft finally put the Rabbids where they belong: Inside my Wiimote, where I can torture the little buggers to my heart's content.

Also, it's always a treat to find a genuinely funny game outside of the adventure genre.

[miffy495]

Just finished it. I'd intended to complete a game before going back to school for the winter semester, but I didn't expect it would be Rabbids. Very glad I did though. Anyone who starts playing this game, you owe it to yourself to finish it. The final cutscene had me laughing way too hard.

It has some surprisingly dark moments for an E game as well. During a hospital level, I went off the beaten path a bit and stumbled into a morgue. Dead bodies and all. Shocked the hell out of me given how happy everything in this game was. Also, occasionally when you pick up a dog, one of your Rabbids will start spinning its head around like a noisemaker, something there is no way it could survive. Weird.

[Fuzzy Lobster]

It's really more of an OCD problem. I get off on playing things in chronological order. Seriously. I have this list of Mario games I need to finish for instance, that is in order of release dates. I can't bring myself to play them out of order.

I have the same issue. Even if there's really no continuous storyline.

[miffy495]

I don't know if there's any kind of storyline whatsoever. Rayman is completely out of the picture now, at any rate. Now it's just bunnies yelling and wrecking shit up. I'm a total sucker for that though, so it's all good.

[Fuzzy Lobster]

The Rabbid's TV party mini game collection for Wii was unexpectedly hilarious and entertaining. I haven't played any of the Rayman-containing games, however. I take it they aren't mini games.

[syntheticgerbil]

I think all of the Rabbids games are minigame collections besides the DS and GBA versions of the first game. Those seem to have been based off the platform version of the game that never came to fruition.

[miffy495]

Yeah, TV party was Rabbids 3. Rabbids 2 was a minigame collection, and Rabbids 1 was a game in which the rabbids kidnapped Rayman and forced him to play minigames in some kind of gladitorial competition. Still minigames, but you were Rayman for them.