History VideoGame / BombRushCyberfunk

* ArcWords: "Roots" and the remembrance thereof. In this context, "roots" is used to refer to where one comes from and the circumstances that make one who they are. Red wants to [[QuestForIdentity remember his roots]] by recovering his old head and therefore his old memories. Other characters bring it up from time to time, like one of the Franks boasting that he knows one of his legs came from a top athlete, or Escher stating that one's origins aren't important, it's what they make of them. The final boss [[spoiler:was consumed by his roots, resorting to underhanded methods to achieve his goals because he thought having a corrupt cop for a father would delegitimize him. [[AnAesop The ending affirms that your roots matter less than what you decide to make of yourself.]]]]

* AnAesop: You are not defined by your roots; how you choose to lead your life is what really matters in the end.

** To demonstrate the character selection mechanic of the Bomb Rush Crew, Eclipse refuses to talk to Red because he's a dude; you'll need to bring Bel along by dancing at the nearby checkerboard.

* SickeningCrunch: When Faux [[spoiler:Re-emerges as his true robotic form as Project Algo in Mataan, he takes hold of Red and twists his cyberhead off, complete with a bone-chilling crunch]]

The game released on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on the 18th of August 2023, with Playstation and Xbox receiving the game on the 1st of September.

* CassetteFuturism: Late 90's tech such as clamshell flip-phones and boomboxes hardly look out of place with the equally-chunky robotic head replacements and jetpacks. DOT EXE in particular are equipped with cybernetic heads whose monitor faces strongly resemble [=CRTs=].

The game released on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on the 18th of August, with Playstation and Xbox receiving the game on the 1st of September.

* AmazonBrigade: Eclipse consists entirely of women due to their shared dislike of men. [=FUTURISM=] notably has exclusively female members as well but is led by the male DJ Cyber.
* AnAesop: You are not defined by your roots; how you choose to lead your life is what really matters in the end.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: While fighting the FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Faux disposes of his old body by throwing it out from a tall height; Red Felix's Cyberhead gets placed on his original body, and the final blow shatters the Cyberhead shell to entirely reveal his original head. Despite this, Felix becomes playable in addition to Red in the postgame, so not only can you have Red still alive and kicking despite the destruction of his Cyberhead and the body it was stuck on, you can set it up such that Red interacts with Felix, which would be impossible by the story's standards]].

** Even before that, the scene showing [[spoiler:a wasted 8-Ball]]. The police has been upping its arms even before this incident, and [[spoiler:death]] was established as early as the prologue, but the lackadaisical attitude towards it made it come off as unimportant. [[spoiler:Now, not only is a Writer killed, but it's the leader of a major crew and they ''stay'' dead--showing that the police, and by extension, Project Algo--are done screwing around.]]

* WhamShot: The ending of Chapter 3 throws a major curveball regarding Red's true nature: [[spoiler:After Red is shot in the back of the head by Escher, blood drips from a crack in his Cyberhead...which turns out to have been holding the [[UnRoboticReveal very much human]] head of the man from Red's memories.]]

* AnAesop: You are not defined by your roots; what ultimately matters is how you choose to lead your life.

The game released on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on the 18th of August, with a Playstation and Xbox release planned for 1st of September.

** [[spoiler:Rietveld's "I"]] is dotted with a Heat star.