The best way to spend $5 this weekend might be this hit bunny girl Metroidvania, and I'm not kidding

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꧂The deceptively cute,ꦐ quietly massive bullet hell Metroidvania is on sale for $5 on Steam until August 14, and regardless of your views on anime bunny girls, you owe it to yourself to give it a shot. The action is air-tight and some of the bosses are still all but peerless.

This 2016 classic went on to shape th🍰e likes of 2019's and th🃏e 2023 Early Access hit . I do not have time to explain the Touhou rabbit hole today, so we're going to swiftly move on. 

Just know that this one of those easy-to-miss precursors that's in some way had a hand in many cult hits within this particular g🌼enre. It wasn't the first of its kind, but it's one of the old GOATs. Well, I say cult hit, but Rabi-Ribi has almost 10,000 reviews on Steam and 96% of them are positive. Still, I'm willing to bet that a lot of people don't know about it or why it's so good. 

Rabi-Ribi is a non-linear 2D side-scroller about collecting power-ups and hammering the daylights out of bosses in a surprisingly large and varied world. It'💞s also chock-full of cute, pixelated, and pastel anime girls, which I realize might be a deal-breaker for some people and an absolute can't-miss selling point for others. And I'm sorry, but the soundtrack is quantifiably a bop. It's also way less sexed-up than its trailer and character deꦛsigns may suggest. It's pretty tame even for a T-rated game. 

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You can't argue with the spectacle of it all or the sheer wealth of content that's currently available for just $5. There are multiple, frankly absurd difficulty settings that dramatically change up the experience of Rabi-Ribi's 40+ bosses. Seriously, this is some Cuphead shit, or at least it can be if you want it to. And it's got some of the cleverest sequence-breaking you'll find in a Metroid💧vania. There are dozens of items and upgrades as well as speedrun and bꦜoss rush modes to test you after the main story. There's a reason some people have put upwards of 300 hours into what's normally a mercifully short game. 

You can get Rabi-Ribi on Switch and PlayStation, but it's only on sale on Steam right now. This is also a good time to learn the waཧys of Rabi-Ribi because developer CreSpirit has a new game coming out this year that looks like a spiritual successor. It's called , it's got much sharper art, and it, too, has bunny girls. Some people just know what they want. 

Nowadays, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the hottest Metroidvania on Steam is a $6 blast from the 3D past, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but it also stars a bunny girl. 

Austin Wood
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been 🐻with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.