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Wakey wakey, Rise & Shine will brighten your arcade-shooting day

by: Randy -
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Rise is the one with a mean mug in shorts and a hoodie. Shine is the one with a mean mug that literally shoots off at the mouth. Together this newly formed duo is Rise & Shine

Moving around 2D levels with bullets flying and bad guys dying, Rise & Shine's charm, beyond the hand-drawn visuals, is the vocabulary that makes up the game world. "Vulnerability stacks, debuffs, and death rates are multiplying. Ever since the awful space grunts of Nexgen attacked Gamearth, the video game world took a turn for the worse. But Rise and his talking gun Shine have it on their minds to restore Gamearth to its prior-save-state glory?no matter how many respawns it takes."

See? Charm! Before you even start shooting anything, Rise & Shine shoots down the fourth wall. Sort of. Not exactly, but it takes the language of gameplay and turns it into world building. See? Charm, I say. But there are also utterly wrecked environments. Insano-huge bad guys rolling around in the background. 

The game is put together by Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team who "gained EXP" working on Worms and Plants vs. Zombies.

Rise & Shine is coming January 13 to PC and Xbox One.