Battle Theme Music: Whenever the player is attacked, the music changes abruptly into a Japanese inspired combat theme.The only exception to this is after Turner gets King Hickory's sword, which is an 11th-Hour Superpower against the wolves. Bag of Spilling: An unusual and minor intra-game example: Turner begins most levels with a single knife, regardless of any other weapons he picked up during the previous level.Their faces are somewhat cute-looking, and they will absolutely take you apart. Badass Adorable: The rabbits in general.Back Stab: This is one of the game's stealthy One-Hit Kill moves.The Bo Staff kicks major ass when used on enemies (can kill a rabbit in 1-2 hits, 3-5 on Wolves), but breaks after 3 or 4 hits (excluding hitting ragdolls).However, it's also very damaging if it connects. It requires a long run-up, therefore it can be seen from a mile away and easily countered. Awesome, but Impractical: the Leg Cannon.The rabbit eye picture in the background was also replaced. The original game's title screen features the word "Lugaru" written in blood, while the update features the title in capital letters and changes the blood to an orange Garamond font. While the new in-game textures were deliberately chosen to be similar to the originals while still having a higher resolution, the title screen was substantially changed. Art Evolution: A very minor example occurred between the original game and the graphical update.Turner: ( Looking at rabbit) You even stole my armor! Turner: You killed my family! And my friends! Armor-Piercing Question: Turner has one for King Hickory.Audible Sharpness: Every weapon that does cutting damage sounds like this, including claws.The antagonists of the game are evolved, humanoid wolves. ![]() Antagonist Title: Here's a bit of Bilingual Bonus: "Lugaru" is French for " werewolf" - literally "Wolf Man".Durban of, and one was composed by a person named Rudy Vessup. The tracks are freeware: three of them were composed by Justin R. It has been compared to David Julyan's score for the 2000 film, Memento. Ambient: With the exception of the battle music, Lugaru's soundtrack is entirely made of ambient background music, making a beautiful, yet haunting and foreboding atmosphere.Weapons are spectacularly lethal, regardless of whose hands are holding them. Almost Lethal Weapons: Totally averted.Perhaps Lugaru actually was under a republican government before whatever war Turner participated in? Alliterative Name: Even though Lugaru island is clearly ruled under a feudal kingdom, Wolfire's own page describing the game refers to a "Rabbit Republic", which is never mentioned or even merely hinted in the game at all.Considering that, and the the filename of this related concept art ◊, "nanoarch", the ruins may be under constant reconstruction by some sort of nanomachines. According to this development video the structures grow over time like "crystal or a coral reef".The various ◊ concept ◊ artworks ◊ reveal the structures to be made of concrete and rebar. ![]() The ruins of other man-made structures are strongly integrated into the level design. The stone pillar in the starting village is referred to as "lookout ruins", and if you walk around the Old Camp in debug mode, you'll see the ruins of modern-looking concrete buildings. ![]() After the End: Though it's never explicitly stated in-game, it is very clear that the events of Lugaru are set after the fall of Humankind.The society is loosely modeled on the Low Middle Ages. Adventure-Friendly World: Lugaru is a Low Fantasy world where sapient animals have replaced humanity and everyone knows kung fu. ![]() The result is a remarkably fluid and responsive combat system, as this video demonstrates. Unlike most other fighting games, it relies less on button mashing and much more on timing your moves right : the position and range of the enemy and the direction you're moving all influences what Turner will do with each attack, and all of the possible attacks are linked to a single button. Lugaru is a little bit like Usagi Yojimbo (with some nods to Watership Down and Redwall) in computer game form Although there isn't much to the story note Or so it seems, what really makes this game shine is the combat. Along the way, he finds a conspiracy that goes much farther than he expected. The story follows a retired warrior rabbit named Turner, who, after finding his village destroyed by raiders and his family among the dead, swears to avenge his loved ones. Lugaru: The Rabbit's Foot is a shareware action game developed by David Rosen when he was in high school, becoming the launching game for Wolfire Games.
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