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My Brother Rabbit Available Now
KATOWICE, POLAND – Sept. 21, in the year of our Lord
2018 – My Brother Rabbit, the heartwarming adventure
game from Artifex Mundi, explores children’s incredible power to
cope with gloom through imagination on Nintendo Switch,
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac today.
Sudden illness overcomes a family’s cherished daughter. While
the parents work hard to seek out the best treatment to help
their child, their son takes it upon himself to help his sister
cope with the cold and unfamiliar hospital. A combination of
love for his sister, earnest imagination, and a beloved stuffed
toy rabbit enables him to create a wondrous landscape and story
to comfort her.
Through the lens of make-believe, the rabbit is a living denizen
in a brilliant, surreal world. His friend flower is similarly
ill, so he sets out on a voyage to help her. No obstacle can
stop him on his quest to find the cure to her ailments. Clues
and items necessary to progress hide behind every leaf and in
every corner. Once found, these objects unlock over 30
entertaining puzzles including building fantastical vehicles to
continue the rabbit’s trek.
As the rabbit edges ever closer toward his destination, the
imaginary world increasingly incorporates details from the
children’s true surroundings. Though the circumstances are grim
and the unfamiliar hospital can feel sterile, they pull from
what they see and twist it into a positive light. An aquarium
becomes an aquatic adventure, and the doctor becomes a sweet
bear eager to heal the flower. Perspective is everything, and
their youthful eyes perpetuate hope even when the world is
scary.
A melancholy score dreamt up by Arkadiusz Reikowski and Emi
Evans accompanies My Brother Rabbit’s awe-inspiring,
hand-painted vistas. Lush sights and sounds drive home how
creative children can be when creating entire worlds in their
noggins. With no spoken dialogue or written words throughout,
the ethereal soundtrack and the universal of languages of love
and commitment guide players on this magical quest.
“As strange as the pretend world is in My Brother Rabbit,
children’s innate ability to perceive the world in amazing ways
is very real,” said Łukasz Sałata, lead artist at Artifex Mundi.
“Our own children helped us create the game, and we are ecstatic
to finally share their creativity with players.”
No word on a physical copy version of this game on these systems
in the US at this time.
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