Upon starting up Rush Brothers I immediately noticed my legal waver was in gibberish, as you can see in the featured image. What you can’t read can hurt you but I hit it anyway. Things did not greatly improve from there.
Rush Brothers and the Safe Side of Platforming
Rush Brothers does everything better platformers did before it, but less. This rather poor port has double jumping, switches and everything someone else has done before. The use of music for stages is nice but that has also been done.
Rush Brothers and Windows 7
Upon attempting to navigate to my music folder, I found that access was denied. I can certainly circumvent such things with a few moments of fiddling, but this game isn’t worth that amount of time. If a developer cannot create a work around for this in the early release then that shows a lack of effort.
The Positives of Rush Bros
The controls worked well for me, which is something extremely useful for this sort of game. The art style is also quite nice. Many of the backgrounds are quite beautiful. The stage sprites are extremely well done as well. The platforming ideas, while done before, mesh well together. Each mechanic works well with the others.
The Music of Rush Bros
The music in the game is also fairly good. A lot of it sounds like techno which is acceptable. I’m no fan of dance music or dubstep so I was not overly thrilled with it. It is however quite competently done.
Final Verdict 3/5 Utterly Average: A lazy interface is coupled with derivative platforming. Not even the music generation system is original as other games have done it better before. This is of course offset by some very excellent 2D artwork for the game. So taking these factors together this is looking like a very average platformer. Hardcore fans of this genre should enjoy it. In fact that is the one thing Rush Brothers seems to be striving for: To be an average platformer. If you want to see your self check out the Rush Brothers Steam Page.
