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Welcome everyone to The Night of the Rabbit AG Community playthrough!!!

The Night of the Rabbit is one of the most charming games ever, trully a classic Daedelic, with excellent reviews. It was a candidate for a community playthrough here for quite some time a few years ago and it is finally its time to shine!!

It was created in 2013 (wow!! Is it trully 10 years since then???) by Daedelic entertainment. It is a point n click 3rd person adventure game with both traditional and unique elements.

The story: We follow the adventures of Jerry (that’s you, the protagonist) within various worlds/universes on his way to become a great magician. He will meet various friends and make many enemies, and most important of all, he will meet Marquis de Hoto, a magician rabbit that will help him all the way and accept him as his apprentice. Jerry will travel many worlds, both gorgeous and horrific!! Will he succeed in learning true magic and defeat the evil that lurks?

The graphics: One of the most, if not THE most, gorgeous game Daedelic has ever made. The company was well-known for its amazing 2D aesthetics and this game is no exception. The backgrounds are full of life and colors, the character models are very detailed and likeable, form the protagonists to the animorphic NPCs.

The sound: The game is accompanied by a great soundtrack that I often find listening to. Sometimes with great orchestral plays, sometimes with specific instruments, it is an area the game excells. The voice acting is also very good. The protagonist’s voice is likeable and easy on the ear and this also goes for most of the cast.

The gameplay: Night of the Rabbit is a traditional point n click adventure. Contrary to other Daedelic games, it does not use some kind of “coin” mechanic, but the cursor automatically selects the action needed when you move it in an area of interest. There are many riddles, both classic inventory ones (combining inventory items is also present), but also various ones related to the environment around you. There are also various spells that you will learn along the way that will help you!! Oh, and there is also a (imho) kinda cool card game that you will play from time to time (one that you will collect the cards yourself). The game has a very cute introductory chapter when you learn the basics, I reccommend you to do it. Finally, a piece of advice. Double clicking on an area’s exit, makes Jerry move to the other screen immediately, this is very useful for saving time.

The puzzles: I would rate the Night of the Rabbit as a middle-of-the-road in terms of riddles difficulty. Nothing extremely difficult or illogical (ofc we are in this together and we will help whoever gets stuck). Perhaps some few cases of pixel hunting will appear. In general though, the puzzles are well integrated within the storyline and do not take anything away from the atmosphere. Quite the contrary, they help with the immersion even more.

The Night of the Rabbit is available both on GOG and Steam. In fact, it was FREE in GOG until just a few days ago. I hope whoever voted for the playthrough has taken advantage of that great deal.

We will officially start the playthrough in 03/10, giving time to everyone obtain the game and solve any possible technical issues.

Finally, as always, the usual and necessary request to everyone to stay on topic, use spoiler tags whenever needed and generally join in a good-heart spirit.

Whoever has the game installed and ready to go, please confirm it below. Also, please inform if this is your first time of the game or not. Whoever wants to, can start the game and play UNTIL YOU REACH MOUSEWOOD. Stop there until our official start.

EDIT: I am overjoyed to come back to this great community, leading a playthrough of such an amazing game!

EDIT 2: Pin the thread please.

zobraks - 29 September 2023 05:10 PM

As far as I remember, there were a couple of wicked ones for me.

No worries. We are all in this together.

Oh nice. I dont know that ill have time to join (still trekking through bg3) but i really liked this game. So much so that the marquis de hoto theme has been my ringtone for years. The atmosphere and feeling are just pure bullseyes for me.

I have been stuck after getting the starmap thing for years. I started the game again and now stuck again in about the same place. Hopefully by watching this play through I can finally finish this game.

I got this game years ago as part of a bundle, i might play with yall if thats ok. It will probably take me longer to play, cuz the wife and I still need to finish vampyre story, but we’ve had very little time to play anything. In fact the last time I played a game at all whether it be on the computer or my PS4 was about a month ago.

In fact this is the most unfinished games i have had in a long time. On the adventure game side. vampyre story, gray matter, lamplight city, deponia 2, still life, secret file: tunguska, and nine noir lives. I plan to beat vampyre story, deponia 2 (eventually) and maybe gray matter. The rest i have lost complete interest in.

On the ps4 side of things i have not finished…. trails of cold steel 4, persona 5 strikers, and last judgement. I plan to beat all these but who knows when lol. It took me about 3 yrs to finish the witcher 3.

Well I did download the game and played it and at first I wasn’t sold but then it Charmed the crap out of me. Let me put it this way I am way ahead in the game,  I won’t say too much because I don’t want to ruin anybody’s playthrough. But the puzzles overall are pretty balanced. My only issue is the amount of backtracking back and forth across multiple screens. Also I had to turn the music way down even though it is lovely, because I couldn’t hear the speech audio

diego - 01 October 2023 06:34 PM

It’s a minor issue, but I would really like right-click for hotspots in the gameworld for additional info or a joke here and there, because that way it would be the same as “smart cursor + right click” system used in Toonstruck. Then again, I’m no a game designer. Oh yes, I would also like a right-click to bring up Inventory, instead of hitting “I”.

I won’t advance too much ahead of the tempo, but I couldn’t help and delved into the forest, and the sight of a modern city really surprised me, because all screenshots I’ve seen in the reviews and on the forum suggested it’s a fantasy tale, “medieval” type of setting. Can’t wait to see more.

yeah I think the opening actually does the game a little bit of a dis-service. It’s not the worst Opening ever, by any means but, there’s not a huge hook at the beginning and you’re just kind of wondering around a forrest. chapter 1 takes a long time to get going too because there’s a lot of fetchquest to do and that’s all I’ll say, but I found the character and setting so Charming that I didn’t care.

My partner and I played this a few years back. I hope you all enjoy it! One thing I will say that greatly increased our enjoyment was turning off the English voice acting. My god, it was awful. Mostly the main character .