Roarr! Jurassic Edition - released as 'Roarr! The Adventures of Rampage Rex' on Steam - arrives on Nintendo Switch today. Publisher Klabater and developer Born Lucky Games tell us that the game "will make Jurassic Park look like some fairytale for kids" thanks to its "deadly battles and vicious enemies".
The game is described as a fast and furious, old-fashioned approach to the brawler genre, with its gameplay aiming to act as a modern tribute to classic Nintendo-platform brawlers of days gone by. It's said to feature "terrifying" bosses, 25 types of enemies, and six different islands to explore, with up to four players being able to play together in local multiplayer.
If you'd like a little more info, check out this description and feature list straight from the game's PR:
"When the aliens arrived, they didn’t come in peace. The invasion was immediate and so overwhelming that humans didn’t stand a chance. One thing it wasn’t though, was quiet… A terrible rumble from upstairs woke Rex up from her slumber. For millennia she was hibernating in his Cozy Cave but the incessant crescendo of the alien invasion was too much to sleep through. It was time for Rex to go upstairs and give her new neighbours a piece of his mind!"
Features:
- Vicious modern take on a classic brawler gameplay
- Tongue-in-cheek story with serious gameplay that’s easy to pick up
- Countless combos, swarms of enemies, 6 towering bosses and one very angry dinosaur!
- 6 different isles to explore from the ruins of human civilization to hazy jungle and frosty Arctic
- The perfect party game with drop-in coop up to 4 players
- A slick retro style with polygons as sharp as Rex’s teeth
- Plenty of Rex variants, each with unique moves and animations. Become a Gentleman Rex than quickly change to Punk Dinosaur or even crazy Ballerina style
- Fully destructible environment that will let you unleash your jurassic power… Roarr!
As mentioned above, Roarr! Jurassic Edition launches today on Nintendo Switch, available for $7.99 / £7.19.
Will you be keeping this one out of the reach of your children? Are you thinking of giving it a cheeky download as we speak? Let us know down below.
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"Will make Jurassic Park look like some fairytale for kids" thanks to its "deadly battles and vicious enemies".
Okay then....
Edit: Also, has anyone ever heard of this thing before?
@ReaderRagfish It looks like some low budget mobile game. GENIUS!
wow those visuals are horrendous
In the fairy tale version of Jurassic Park, the raptor princess marries dashing triceratops knight and they live happily ever after.
@LordGalaximus Jurassic Park? Yeah, it's a movie series about dinosaurs.
This is a great example of why development teams should not market their own game.
Visually, it looks like a suped up Superman 64, but with dinosaurs.
@goggles789 Oh, I know that, but with those graphics, I'd love to see how they make this terrifying.
@NintendoFan4Lyf Perhaps the developers aren't native English speakers and aren't aware of gender-specific personal pronouns? I know in Spanish third-person personal pronouns are gender neutral, so this could simply be a case of poor translation.
Then again it could just be incredibly lazy writing.
We are at the point that games just release and nobody knows about it.
Needs more... graphics.
Wow are those Atari Jaguar graphics?
@NintendoFan4Lyf Seems to me like the developers are too hung up in Jurassic Park, where life found a way.
@NintendoFan4Lyf It's that frog DNA!
Could be because I'm looking at it on my phone, but I'm getting some Katamari Damacy vibes from the visuals.
...they had me at 'Kaiju Brawler'...
What. The. Hell?
I suppose there is a chance it is $8 worth of fun... but I'm skeptical.
This is either a mobile port... or a Steam shovelware game that the devs decided could be easily made to run on Switch also.
@Mando44646 "Woah, nice graphics!"
@ReaderRagfish "wow those visuals are horrendous"
It's always nice to be reminded that this is a subjective world.
I am reminded that sarcasm is not always detected.
@holygeez03 To what do you refer Holygeez03? Possibly
Mando44646's "Woah, nice graphics!" comment which I did suspect as sarcasm.
Pretty sure both people meant "those graphics are lame".
I'm all for pure, meaningless, outright destruction, but really, it's fare too blocky and no textures whatsoever, I mean even the Lego games from the DS Lite look better than, this is like out of the N64, I hope they don't plan on charging more than $20, because there are a buttload of better looking and playing games for $30
@Nemodius It says right on this page... $7.99
@holygeez03
ahh, didn't see under the pics, gotcha,
well, for $8 bucks, just may get it myself
Small chance of this looking/being more terrifying than a Jurassic Park movie, what with the whole Polybridge graphics and all...
Soooo I have a 7 yr old that is super into Dinosaurs right now so far $8 it might be worth a shot plus we can play co-op together. I'll see if there are any reviews out there first before jumping in.
Katamari Dino-see.
Ow! I’ve got nope in my eyes.
I'll stick to the dinosaur level in Super Mario Odyssey.
N64 graphics
@AstralOrange64
Is Your Glass Half Empty Astral ???
I don't see the ease of everybody and his/her brother able to make a game a bad thing flooding the eshop market to the point where it's difficult to find the good games, that's what reviews are for
yes there are an assload of med. and low quality games, but seriously, a lot of these people have never even done this, Nintendo opened a door, people's early creations are going to be bad, but hopefully they will learn and improve the games from there, that happens even in the big game producer world, even though I often comment on aesthetic preferences (mine) game wise, I also don't limit myself to them either, Roarr looks to be a very barren game content wise, one layered, and I'm not past that, I would've like to see some texturing at least, that's why I said it should be a less than $20 game, which it is apparently, but I also bought Axiom Verge, graphically a very retro 8-bit NES clone of the original Metroid, but it had so much more content and story and gameplay was fantastic, it was easily worth the $20 I paid
don't think that Indies/Nindies are a bad thing, think of them as opportunities for great things, I think that will make a little sifting seem less.........tedious or unworthwhile
@holygeez03
i saw framerate issues (or the video is bad) so even THESE graphics are too much for the little guy to run right.
Anyone else getting a Body Harvest vibe? Alien invasion - check. Dodgy graphics - check. N64 primary colours - check.
this looks horrible... I can live with no textures as a stylistic choice but then why are the levels so empty and devoid of things to destroy?
@ReaderRagfish Lol, good joke. You are joking, right?
Not even for 1€
Bah when I first started reading the write up I was expecting a 2D destruction brawler. What a letdown.
"Will you be keeping this one out of the reach of your children?"
With the amount of what sounds like 10 year old kids I've heard playing older teen/adult rated games.. I'd say not.
In fact I'm getting rather tired of hearing them screaming over the microphone, they only pick up on foul language by small minded trolls/morons half the time anyway.
Why parents let them play such games that's so inappropriate for them at their age i have no clue. Probably no brains.
@ReaderRagfish @ReaderRagfish Ok, gotcha bro.
"Make Jurassic Park Look Like Some Fairytale"
sees graphics
....What?
@NintendoFan4Lyf That and the trailer has their name as Sue. Are they named Rex or Sue? They can't even decide on a name, let alone a gender.
I may pick this game up eventually. Especially if it goes on sale. Does it look good? No. Do I think I can have fun in it? Yes.
I don't know why everyone is freaking out about the graphics in an 8 dollar game. For 8 bucks this game looks pretty solid to me!
This game actually looks pretty fun. I don't see the issue with the graphics but i'm an old fart with a 64-bit heart and simple games like this are great fun for me and my buddy. For $8 i'll definitely give it a try. Heck, 100-foot robot golf on PS4 is a constant go-to game for us and this hits a lot of the same chords.
One part Blast Corps.
One part Goat Simulator.
I won't play it even if it was free
8 bucks is a maybe for me. If I could choose from other dinosaurs to be, it'd be a definite buy. Don't get me wrong, The T-Rex is my favorite one, but variety is the spice of life. (Though that robo version is intriguing me at the very least.)
Another game that should stick to mobile devices
Looks like a Dinosaur version of Streets of Rage using Wind Waker's graphics.
I'd love it if I could personalise my eShop experience by labelling titles I have zero interest in so that they are removed from the shop except for an associated folder for the label. They could simply call it "Not For Me" so as not to offend any developers...
ROARR JURASSIC EDITION THAT WAS AWESOME!!!! spinoff Godzilla Game. I Love that Dinosaur my Favorite one. I give you 10/10 Goldblums.
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