Since the release of the 2010 original, Adult Swim’s unicorn runner has been delighting players with fanciful flights over fantastic dreamscapes to the turn of Erasure’s “Always.” Robot Unicorn Attack Forever takes that base and builds a collectible robot gacha game on top.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, Robot Unicorn Attack 2 adds Stan Bush's "The Touch" and "Dare" from the 1986 Transformers: The Movie soundtrack to its list of purchasable unicorn traveling tunes.
There was a time when rainbows and unicorns were the stuff of legend, relegated to the highest of high fantasy and the cheapest of female-targeted school supplies. Those were despair-filled days — days when the mere semblance of a smile was slapped from the lips of man, woman and child alike. Would we ever feel hope…
The Erasure-powered glory of Robot Unicorn Attack has seen many different iterations, from the original Adult Swim flash game to the mobile app, heavy metal to Christmas to a Facebook evolution. Now PixelJam takes us back to the very beginning with Retro Unicorn Attack.
I adore Robot Unicorn Attack. I also adore its sequel, Robot Unicorn Evolution.
It's amazing what a single, surprisingly-fitting piece of music can do for a game. Take Robot Unicorn Attack, for instance. The original was wonderful. The remakes? All that really changes is the art and that single song.
