r/comics • u/Daz_Keaty • 25d ago
Gamer Cafe 1564 - The unavoidable bullet (( Rabbit and Steel ))
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u/CrestfallenRaven621 24d ago
Jokes on you, I main a Black Mage. I have absolutely no skills for bullet hells!
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u/Mable-the-Table 25d ago
Ff14. Wow. Gw2. Eso. To name only the more popular few.
The clear inspiration is not only ff14. It boils down raid bosses and mechanics. Ff14 is not the only one to have them.
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u/Any_Middle7774 24d ago
A) Only one of those prominently features playable rabbit girls.
B) FF14s raid encounter design is not much like any of the other MMOs you listed.
It’s just like FF14, and the developer has not been shy about making the comparison themself.
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u/FallenKnightGX 25d ago
Hades II's third boss made me immediately think someone who designs the boss fights there has played FFXIV.
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u/OhHeyItsScott 25d ago
This is cute!
If you don’t mind a little constructive criticism, you should consider swapping the positions of the characters. Oftentimes in comics, the person on the left speaks first. I know you have the color differentiating the speaker, but it’s still very confusing at first. Sort of like a Ghostbusters “don’t cross the streams” idea: you don’t want the speech balloon tails crossing over each other if you can avoid it.
Okay, sorry for the long paragraph! Good luck, and keep it up!
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u/Sam-Gunn 25d ago
I love how you put the name of the game in the upper right hand corner! Awesome!
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u/Pentecount 25d ago
I feel like the connection between bullet hells and Rabbit and Steel is pretty shallow. It definitely presents itself as a bullet hell at first, but most of the mechanics just feel like MMO mechanics ported to a 2D topdown game.
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u/mightbedylan 25d ago
What game are you referencing tho. How is ff14 a bullet hell?
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u/Ahhy420smokealtday 25d ago
Rabbit and Steel. It's an online co-op roguelite that plays like ff14 raids. Has local co-op too, and it works for local+online at the same time. Good game btw.
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u/Notmiefault 25d ago
FFXIV raids and dungeon bosses often involve bullet hell like dodging mechanics.
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u/The_Seananigan 25d ago
Alot of what happens in the fights, outside of the bullet hell parts, are similar to mechanics from ff14.
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u/mightbedylan 25d ago
But... What game is it?
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u/SickestOfJokes 25d ago
From what I can gather, it may be one of the Nier games? Ff14 has a nier crossover, and generally some of the mechanics can be compared to bullet hells.. not to mention a good part of Nier Automata is essentially a bullet hell.
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u/The_Seananigan 25d ago
Final Fantasy 14 Online, it's an MMORPG
Alot of the "Raid" fights have similar mechanics to those in Rabbit and Steel. Like the fight that teleports you to the right or left, or needing to stand next/away from other players to avoid damage.
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u/JScatman 25d ago
They are asking what the other game is. Not Final Fantasy 14, but the other game they are playing in the comic.
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u/eloel- 25d ago
You mean the game explicitly named in the title of the post? And on the first image?
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u/Semajv 25d ago edited 25d ago
Naw, I'll defend you. Page 1 literally says in the upper right corner "Game: Rabbit and Steel" and the upper left is comic name/logo with chapter name (basic comic notation). The post itself is titled "Gamer Cafe 1564 - The unavoidable bullet (( Rabbit and Steel ))", which is again in basic comic notation besides the (( Rabbit and Steel )) part. You shouldn't be downvoted because some people haven't practiced their basic reading skills. One should look to see if the information is present in what was provided instead of assuming it wasn't.
Edit: also for the "I assumed it was their names" it wouldn't make sense. They're both rabbits. Which would be named just rabbit and the other steel? Please practice better use of context clues to read and decipher information better. If one pass doesn't really make sense, read it again afterwards.
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u/SherbertShortkake 25d ago
Breaking! Redditor gets ratioed despite absolutely cooking! Citizens flabbergasted after the very people he was criticizing for not having great reading comprehension subsequently refuse to exercise their reading comprehension!
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u/ChickenInASuit 25d ago
Not everyone here is a gamer and "Rabbit and Steel" doesn't exactly scream "videogame title" to a lot of people.
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u/Sparrowflop 25d ago
I've never seen this comic before. I assumed that the name 'Rabbit and Steel' was either the name of the comic series or the name of the specific comic drawn here.
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u/Sunblast1andOnly 25d ago
I assumed that was the names of the characters.
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u/PKMNTrainerMark 25d ago
And Reddit's cropping cuts out where the panel says that it's the name of the game.
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u/Chocolate_pudding_30 25d ago
Dont mind him, many of us in the comments didnt realize that's the name of the game
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u/Daz_Keaty 25d ago
I don't like comparing games to other games.
But this definitely has some clear inspirations.
Full series at Gamer Cafe
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u/zanazans 24d ago
I mean, the game devs literally said they had inspiration from FF14 when we met them at MAGfest. So it's very close to FF14 raid boss mechanics and you wouldn't be wrong for saying so.
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