Bunny Zoo – Animal Battle Royale

Genre: Action

Players: 1

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Review:

Bunny Zoo, released on Nintendo Switch in 2024, is an Action game where players control one of a handful of cute, furry animals as they gather power-ups and weapons, track each other down, and eliminate the competition until they’re the last one standing.

The presentation in this game seems okay at first. The character models are nice and have good animations in the character select screen. But once you get into the actual gameplay, you find yourself looking down on them from an overhead view that is far enough so you can’t easily make out their details, but close enough that you can’t really tell where other opponents are, and you can see how repetitive and ugly the game’s 3D environments are.

This is backed by a lighthearted soundtrack that does not match the gameplay at all and sounds juvenile and amateurish. However, even worse than this is the terrible sound, which doesn’t indicate when you hit an enemy or when they hit you. You just find out when one of you drops dead… and if that’s you, you’ll be instantly booted to the “sorry, you lost” screen before you can even process what happened.

There is just so much going wrong here. The controls are horrible, the game does a poor job indicating weapons being used and connecting, the game doesn’t indicate where opponents are so you may be wandering for a while before you stumble upon them, combat is simple and lacks any sort of nuance, and AI opponents are extremely dumb, often not noticing you walking up to them, and usually able to be ranged to death.

Oh, and in a game that seems designed to be a multiplayer competition, there’s no multiplayer.

Bunny Zoo is broken and poorly-made in so many different ways, and it just does not feel like a complete, finished product. You’ll find yourself confused what to do, unsure how to do it, frustrated that you don’t know if you’re actually doing it, and then when you win or lose, you’ll just get this empty feeling that nothing you did felt like it had any measurable impact. Do not play this game, it is a furry disaster.

tl;dr – Bunny Zoo is an Action game where players control a furry animal, gather power-ups and weapons, and eliminate the competition. Unfortunately, this game is an incomplete mess, with control issues, game design issues, lacking features, graphical and sound issues. It’s unsatisfying to play and absolutely needed more polish to make it work, not to mention the complete lack of multiplayer. Do not buy this game.

Grade: F

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