Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit Shown off at PAX East

 If you were able to attend PAX East this week, perhaps you saw a colorful, classic-style 2D platformer at the Sega booth. Perhaps it was a game you never heard of. Perhaps you were saying the name of said game while playing the demo. Hell Yeah! was developed by Arkedo and is set for release via Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network.

Hell Yeah! has a cartoonishly gruesome feel to it. In order to restore health to the character, you meet up with a tall monster who bathes the hero in a fountain of blood. The game has some interesting looking characters (the main character is a demonic skeletal rabbit) and a bright, animated world. At the beginning, players are armed with a simple doule-jump. Half way through the PAX demo level, a rotary drill was acquired which spins around the character and allows players to rip through monsters and obsticles while allowing access to new areas. A second power-up is the ability to fire missiles that are not easily defeated through direct contact at enemies.

In order to progress past levels, players must defeat a unique monster to that level. There are approximately 100 unique monsters and each only appears once. Defeating these special monsters, many require special tactics or using a special weapon, players will unlock a gate to progress to the next level.  Before finally defeating each unique monster, a WarioWare style minigame is the final step to defeat the monster. While there are only 35 different microgames, not nearly as many as there are unique monsters, they do offer enough variety to make each encounter different.  One minigame required the player to mash the A button to squeeze the monsters head in a vise-like grip, another required three perfect hits on a timed roulette wheel.

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