Indie devs Team Reptile has announced their next game, Hyperfunk, with a new trailer. This looks to be a follow-up to slick-styling Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, but some new tricks up their sleeves.
And that’s both literally (you can see the player character pull off new tricks) and more. Hyperfunk is aiming to go faster—the description on the Steam page mentions how you can go faster the more tricks you pull off. The trailer shows that in motion with a familiar effect to fans of Team Reptile’s Lethal League series. Colours get inverted and the smear effect gets stronger as you enter a different state of mind and moving at incomprehensible speeds.
Speaking of incomprehensive, Hyperfunk has a title logo that to the uninitiated will come off as alien writing. This is an expression of wildstyle graffiti, an artform that pushes the shapes of the Latin alphabet to wild shapes and forms to appear near-ineligible to the eyes of a normal person not tapped into the culture. Funnily enough, Team Reptile has teased the image before on socials, with no reply or response that got it correct before they had to just post the title out without context last month. And now we got context from the new trailer. That hasn’t stopped folks trying their best to figure out how to read this modern urban calligraphy, with humourous results.
for marketing reasons, a legible normal font spelling out “Hyperfunk” has to be pasted on top of the abstract art, similar to how Blazblue Cross Tag Battle’s title.
In addition, Hypefunk will also include online multiplayer, allowing players to chill and trick around in the same lobby.
Hyperfunk’s predecessor, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, is in many ways a spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio. Cyberfunk has you own the streets, “go All City” as it is termed, by challenging rival crews in trick battles where you pull off cool moves on skateboard, rollerblades or a bike. There’s also an anti-establishment plotline that is at the heart of any urban culture, pushed much further than its inspo had.
Hyperfunk has no release date yet but it’s coming to PC (Steam). Previously, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is offered as a PlayStation Plus monthly game.