Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a 2023 action-adventure platform video game developed and published by Team Reptile.
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk received positive reviews from critics, who praised its gameplay, visuals, and soundtrack.
However, they were divided on its similarity to Jet Set Radio, with some appreciating its faithfulness to its inspirations, and others calling it unoriginal, alongside criticism for its combat and simple tricking mechanics.
The gameplay of Bomb Rush Cyberfunk involves the player traversing the fictional city of New Amsterdam on either a skateboard, inline skates, or BMX bike, and performing tricks.
Players will grind around the fictional city while placing graffiti on buildings to increase their gang's reputation (denoted in the game as REP).
They make their way out, and while escaping see a man in a robed costume and full-head mask fighting several police officers, who pulls out a vinyl record and throws it at Faux's neck, decapitating him.
DJ Cyber also revealed that Faux has been using Project Algo to feed misinformation to the police (essentially mind controlling them) in order to systematically kill all writers and become "All City King".
Meanwhile, Faux, using Project Algo, kills Berlage, detains Rietveld for standing up to him, and brainwashes the entire police department to hunt down all writers in New Amsterdam.
[29][27][30][31] Lucas White of Shacknews praised the variety of the skating trick system, calling it "tons of fun", but also criticized it as he felt its simplicity encouraged button mashing.
White additionally criticized the "awkward" combat, but praised the story, saying it "goes to some strange places" and helped to distinguish the game from Jet Set Radio with its themes.
[27] By contrast, Blake Hester of Game Informer, while also saying the gameplay was fun, considered Bomb Rush Cyberfunk overly derivative and repetitive, calling it a "blatant copycat" and criticizing its similarity to Jet Set Radio, as well as its perceived lack of originality.