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Rise & Shine

The game mixes pure shooting arcade with the use of different bullets to solve all the situations Rise will find on his path. Think of a more arcadey Another World, also with a very tight relationship between…

60 13 January 2017

Rise & Shine is an adventure developed by Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team, released 13 January 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. The main story takes about 5.8 hrs to finish.

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What Rise & Shine is

Rise & Shine is an adventure game developed by Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team and released in 2017. It was published by Adult Swim Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Rise is a small kid of Gamearth, the world where the classic videogame characters live. He finds himself lost in the middle of a war against the Space Grunts, the bald muscular soldiers with big guns that just invaded his world. Only with the help of the legendary gun, Shine, he’ll be able to stay alive and just maybe, incredibly, save his planet from the invaders.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 14 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Rise & Shine holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 11 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 5.8 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.4 GHz Dual core, 2 GB RAM and 512MB of Video Memory. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.

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What it launched against

Rise & Shine launched on 13 January 2017, within three weeks of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and Gravity Rush 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Gravity Rush 2.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Rise & Shine — frequently asked questions

When did Rise & Shine come out?
Rise & Shine was released on 13 January 2017 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Rise & Shine?
At minimum, Rise & Shine needs 2.4 GHz Dual core, 2 GB RAM, 512MB of Video Memory graphics, 4 GB available space of storage.
How long does it take to beat Rise & Shine?
The main story of Rise & Shine takes around 5.8 hrs, or 5.8 hrs for 100% completion.
How many GB is Rise & Shine?
The PC version needs about 4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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