Chipmonk! is a 2018 Beat 'em Up video game developed and released by Niemi Bros Entertainment, and a Genre Throwback to old-school arcade action games, but with all it's characters as rodents.
In a medieval-inspired world populated by andromorphic rodents, a powerful Grey Squirrel King and his army of cutthroats have stolen the entire land's food supplies and hoarded it for himself, and it's up to the game's heroes, a trio of chipmunks, to retrieve them by beating up legions after legions of rodent-based enemies, including rats, gophers, beavers, squirrels and the like.
Players can choose between three chipmunk warriors, the sword-wielding Grey, powerhouse Cheeks, or the mage Red, in several levels spread across multiple seasons, before confronting the Grey Squirrel King at the end of winter.
Yeah, the game's pretty nuts, all things considered. note
Chipmonk! contain examples of:
- Airborne Mook: Buzzing flies, which hovers all over the place. They're weak and goes down between one or two hits, but they can be pretty hard to hit because of their speed. You know, like real-life flies...
- Authority Equals Asskicking: The Grey Squirrel Lord and the Final Boss, who rules over all the lesser rodent enemies. Confronted at the end of the final stage, he's absolutely no pushover.
- Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: The three playable chipmunk heroes, Grey the chipmunk swordsman, Cheeks the chipmunk soldier and Red the chimpmunk sorceror, in that order.
- Battle in the Rain: A few levels in "Spring" is set during heavy rain.
- Carry a Big Stick: Cheeks, the powerhouse of the chipmunks, uses a spiked mace in battle, as does the porcupine mooks and the Grey Squirrel King.
- Die, Chair, Die!: Levels set indoors, such as in taverns, will have chairs, tables, barrels and various objects which can be destroyed for obtaining power-ups.
- Dual Boss: The game throws quite a few, notably the two squirrel knights and two giant hedgehogs, that the player must battle simultaneously. It's slightly easier on two-player mode.
- Elite Mook: Squirrels, which are faster and can absorb plenty more hits, and starts showing up more than halfway into the game.
- Excuse Plot: Much like every Beat 'em Up game, with the selling point being that the players are chipmunks who does battle against enemy rodents.
- Flunky Boss: Most of the bosses will have lesser rodent enemies (like rats or gophers) backing them up.
- Fragile Flyer: The flies that serve the grey squirrel king are weaker than other mooks, getting killed in one or two slashes.
- Giant Mook: Giant Porcupines are a recurring enemy the chipmunks will battle.
- Heavily Armored Mook: The squirrel knights are clad in armour from head to toe. Naturally they have a ton of health compared to other enemies.
- Macro Zone: Basically every level, given the setting that you're playing as chipmunks battling rodent-themed opponents.
- Mole Monster: Literal moles are enemies which shows up later in the game, and they attack by ambushing from beneath the ground.
- Poison Mushroom: Tends to show up during gameplay, for instance poisoned plants that drains your health after being collected.
- Primitive Clubs: Beaver mooks uses giant clubs as their main weapon.
- Rat Men: Rat bandits are the most recurring enemies, serving as The Goomba.
- Shield-Bearing Mook: Gophers armed with shields are another enemy type, having slightly better defense than the regular rat men enemies.
- Snowlems: For some inexplicable reason, the "Winter" levels will have living, anthromorphic snowmen as enemies, despite the rest of the mooks being rodent-based.
- Underground Level: The last few stages are set in an underground tunnel, with the Grey Squirrel King at the end serving as Final Boss.
