Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back is a game developed by Black Forest Games released on October 31, 2017 for PC and PlayStation 4. The game is the fifth entry in the Bubsy series, and the first new entry in 21 years.
Overview[]
Our favorite Bobcat is making a triumphant return 21 years after virtually disappearing from the world stage (N64/PS1). Yes, that’s right, Bubsy is back and starring in an all new adventure, Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back! Yep, those no-good, yarn stealing always annoying intergalactic trolls, the Woolies, are up to their no-good ways once again! They’ve stolen Bubsy’s most prized possession, the Golden Fleece. Now Bubsy is on a one Bobcat mission taking on Woolies, Bumble Bees, Sharks, and UFO's to collect an insane amount of yarnballs and bring his Holy Grail of Wool home.
2D, or not 2D? Bubsy thinks 3D is so 1998 that he’s going back to the 2D well with a huge assist with his good friends at Black Forest for 14 rip roaring levels of side scrolling action. Watch Bubsy glide like a bat, jump like a jack rabbit, bounce like a red rubber ball and run…run Bubsy run. This is the Bubsy adventure you were born to play.
Features:
- 2.5D Platformer with beautiful 3D models and stunning levels and backgrounds
- Multitude of character animations and expressions that brings the iconic Bubsy to life as never before
- Jump, glide, and pounce through 14 levels of thrill, excitement and yarn!
- Local and global leaderboards - compete for high scores with your friends and the world!
- Unlock treasures, powers, and extra lives to create all time high scores
Gameplay[]
The gameplay is similar to that of Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind and Bubsy II, and will be a side-scroller. Bubsy will collect yarn, glide, wall jump and fight bosses similar to that of Claws Encounters. It will be unlike Bubsy 3D, which was a third person platformer game.
Development[]
The game was first announced on June 8, 2017, as a brand-new game in the Bubsy series of video games. The entry is the first one in the series in 21 years, following 1996's Bubsy 3D.The game was announced as the first of many game franchise revivals of Accolade games (which, along with Bubsy, is a brand name now operated by Hong Kong company Billionsoft), including potential revivals of HardBall!, Slave Zero, Deadlock: Planetary Conquest, Eradicator, and Redline. The game was published by Tommo's subsidiary UFO Interactive Games, and developed by Black Forest Games, who previously worked on reviving the dormant Giana Sisters series with Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. Like Twisted Dreams, the game was developed using the Havok physics engine. To make Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back an improvement over previous games in the series, Black Forest Games reduced Bubsy's acceleration time, and applied better traction, thus giving the player better control of the character.
In August 2017, a limited edition, called the Purrfect Edition, was announced for the PlayStation 4 release, which contains a physical copy of the game, a soundtrack CD, a copy of Bubsy's official "business card", and a "Mystery Bubsy Movie Poster postcard".
The game announcement was generally not well-received by video game journalists, whose reactions ranged from indifference to irritation. Accolade seemed to expect this, taking an approach similar to Sega with promoting Sonic the Hedgehog on social media; a dedicated Twitter account for the character that makes self-deprecating and aware comments about the franchise's negative reception of some past titles was created.
Quotes[]
An extensive list of commentary was recorded and uttered by Bubsy all throughout the game.
Referential Remarks[]
"More like 'A Bridge Too Short'."
"Did I mention I don't like heights?"
"Whatever blows your hair back."
"Is there a veterinarian in the house?"
"I'm outta here, ya can't make me..!"
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"Woa. Are you still playing this thing?"
"What, and give up show business?"
"Remember, I am a trained purrfessional!.. See what I did there?"
"Is the writers strike over yet?!"
"I miss New Coke."
"How is water STILL my kryptonite?!"
"Pounce pounce, baby. Too cold.."
"Remember when falling too far used to kill me? That was silly. Heh!"
"Hunting really makes me hungry. Is it Taco Tuesday yet? I wonder if they take yarn balls."
"M-M-M-M-MONSTER-POOOOUUUUUNCE!"
"You know, I had a wonderful idea for a game back in my active days! A game about collecting tiny monsters! You'll catch them in high-tech gadgets, formed just like yarn balls, and make them FIGHT each other for glory and prestige and-...Whaaat... You tell me somebody already DID IT?! SCANDALOUS! Where's my lawyer..?! "
"When you play the game of yarns, you win or you lose. There is no middle ground."
"Space. Is dark. And full of Woolies."
General Remarks[]
"Guess who's back.. What could possibly go wrong?"
"Hey, I think I saw Beeps (?) back there."
"Hey, I didn't write this stuff."
"Ah..! Can I get a stunt cat?"
"Add THAT to my demo reel!"
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"Really..?! I made it!"
"Told ya I was dead!"
"I regret.. I only have 9 lives to give.."
"Oh yeah! I win! I'm unstoppable!"
"So, you read me up on the internet, huh? I just hope you had your filters on."
"The prodigal bobcat returns."
"Global warming? Nuclear annihilation? The reason the world will end is ALIEN-INDUCED YARN BALL DEPRIVATION, MARK MY WORDS!"
"..Doeeees this shirt come in cat sizes?"
"The underrated, more FASHIONABLE counterpart to the chain-mail bikini."
"T-SHIRTS! The perfect countermeasure to yarn ball-stealing scum!"
"I'm gonna knit THE BIGGEST SWEATER EVER!"
"No really, thank you for playing my game!"
"I could really use a nice, cold bee-AAH I MEAN 'BEARD', yes, um, a beard to hid my indentity from the Woolies, yes, hehehe..! Beard."
"Take that, you cotton-gobbling monster!"
"You're 24 years too late to catch me."
"One Woolie down.. uh.. and a lot more to go! YAY!"
"I just love the smell of lanolin in the morning."
"I just love the smell of wool in the morning."
"You live freely if you don't have a reputation to lose. I.. speak from experience, of course."
"Bobcat in our face!"
"Ahh, this is AMAZING! I LOVE this new ability!"
"Pouncing makes so much sense. How did I not think of this before?"
"Bubsy's on a pouncing spree!"
"MC Bubster, the pounce master, in the game, yeah!"
"How am I gliding, heheh..? ..I have no idea.."
"How am I gliding? I have no idea."
"No idea how I'm doing this, but I like it!"
"Air control to the maximum!"
"Not flying.. Wait. Oh yes, I am..!"
"Ah, my old enemy.. gravity..!"
"Bobcats and gravity, a story of misunderstandings."
"Hey! Are ya still there..?"
"You know, those yarn balls won't liberate themselves."
"Come on, we both know it, you wanna pounce, right?"
"I've been thinking.. Standing around is REALLY not my thing."
"I think I'm way less annoying than I used to be. I'd really hate to, you know, fall back into old habits."
"JUST SO YOU KNOW!"
"I'd like to keep going!"
"You know, I COULD pounce over and hit the screen, right? But I won't. Dead pixels make me even sadder than just standing around!"
"I heard the golden fleece comes in a variety of colors.. as long as you choose 'gold'."
"Did I even tell you about my movie career? I'm a pretty big deal in Iceland."
"I demand to continue this game! I want my golden yarn ball back!"
"You know, this 2-and-a-half-D style of graphics is not bad. Yeah, I really like it. But you know what I would like even more? All of that IN MOTION! Like, moving me..! With my legs! Hint, hint!"
"Hey buddy, you ok there? You're looking a little too D to me."
"Here's a pro tip: SUCK. LESS."
"Here's a pro tip: TRY HARDER!"
"Ya think this has a happy ending? Then.. you're right!"
"The bobcat does not concern himself with the opinions of Woolies!"
"Ok, how do I blow it up? There's always a way to do that."
"I've got a bad feeling about having a bad feeling about this."
"Can I fly one of these things?"
"I can fly anything."
"I didn't know there was this much yarn in the whole galaxy."
"If I start singing, you're gonna throw up."
"Really? Laser to my butt cheek?"
"I am so SHINY!"
"If I start singing, you're gonna throw up."
"Who sent me? Your furdresser!"
"You know, it's not easy being your in-game avatar."
"I promised myself.. I'm gonna die for something that counts: Cotton yarn.. Catnip..! AND BEING AWESOME!"
"What's wrong with this picture? ..EVERYTHING."
"It was a good plan, up until now."
"If you were waiting for the opportune moment.. that was it."
"You will always remember this as the day that you almost caught.. BUBSY BOBCAT!"
"I have a ball of yarn, I have a ball of yarn, I HAVE A BALL OF YARN! ..Yay.."
"We need a plan of attack. My plan: ATTACK!"
"You have unfinished business with the Woolies? Yeah? Get in line, pal! I've been waiting to settle this score since 1993.."
One to Three Word Exclamations[]
"Bubsy dies..?!"
"REWRITE PLEASE!"
"THAT'S IT!"
"Somebody sound 911!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOooooooooooouch...!"
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"Aw, cashews!"
"This isn't over!"
"I LIKE IT!"
"*sighs* New shirt.."
"Hey!"
"He-hey, buddy!"
"Aww, thanks."
"Woolies! HA!"
"POUNCE!"
"Command: pounce."
"Command 'POUNCE'!"
"Aaaaaaand pounce!"
"Striiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike one!"
"MULTI-pounce!"
"Glide!"
"Gliding down."
"Come ooooon!"
"Bubsy is coming..!"
"Alright. Bubsy out."
"OW!"
"OWAAA!"
"OUCH!"
"Yeah!"
"Yeeeees!"
"YIPPEE!"
"WOO-HOO!"
"WOOOOOO!"
"YOO-HOOOOO!"
"Yaaaay!"
"HA!"
"HA-HAAA!"
Trivia[]
- Bubsy's dialogue mostly consists out of throwbacks to the other games; and many lines are the same.
- The end level codes feature the names of the video game characters, Mario and Sonic.
- At the end of the level "Star Claws: The Fur Awakens", the next code is "BRLYN", which refers to Bubsy's creator, Michael Berlyn.
- The title, "The Woolies Strike Back", is a parody of The Empire Strikes Back.
Gallery[]
Trailers[]
See also[]
External links[]
| Bubsy Games | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Consoles/PC | Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind - Yamaneko Bubsy no Daibouken - Bubsy II - Bubsy in: Fractured Furry Tales - Bubsy 3D - Bubsy Two-Fur - Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back - Bubsy: Paws on Fire! | ||
| Handheld | Bubsy II | ||
| Cancelled | Bubsy 3 | ||
| Miscellaneous | Prototypes | ||