History VideoGame / BombRushCyberfunk

* VictoryFakeOut: [[spoiler:After defeating Faux in a police mecha in Mataan, it appears as though the game is over and the story is finished. Then Faux reappears as a MechanicalAbomination, beheads red, and kidnaps Solace with the intent of stealing his body, leading to the FinalBoss battle.]]

* ShoutOut:
** The Franks are, of course, an allusion to the monster from ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', being a bunch of massive, strong dudes patched together from multiple different body parts.
** The Franks' leader, the Flesh Prince, is a reference to ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' in name.
** A few references exist towards ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', from DJ Cyber's spider tank looking incredibly similar to the Tachikoma to Chief Inspector Berlage's cybernetic eyes being similar to Batou's.

* DisproportionateRetribution: ''And how!'' The more gangs you beat, the harder the cops will go down on you, sending in officers in riot armor, attack helicopters, and even a ''giant armed mech'' to take down a bunch of street punks with lethal force, specifically because they sprayed some graffiti around. Even the common street cops you first encounter upgrade their arsenals from police batons to ''handguns'' halfway into the game. This is because [[spoiler:Faux, as Project Algo, is feeding them misinformation, so they genuinely believe BRC to be armed and dangerous.]]

* {{Sidequest}}: Each of the boroughs has a bunch of statues depicting some mailman-looking mascot. High-fiving enough of them in a single combo will unlock some extra goodie in a room marked with the mascot's face -- usually a collectible goodie, but sometimes it enables a shortcut to rapidly reach the top of the vertical levels.

* GameMod: Modders worked stupid-fast within ''a week'' on launch. Hi-lights include custom player models ,custom music , [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=593rc62F-Fo movestyle swapper]] and a barebone ''[[https://thunderstore.io/c/bomb-rush-cyberfunk/p/NotNet/SlopCrew/ multiplayer]]'' mod.

** Eclipse predicts the BRC's fortunes after getting bested. [[CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer Their extremely vague advice]] is "You are taking a big risk. You trust him. But the selector does not speak the truth. Nevertheless! What your headless friend is looking for... and All City. They are connected. One will lead to the other." All of this is foreshadowing for lategame events: [[spoiler:the BRC are indeed risking their lives by going All City, as the FinalBoss threatens to kill them. The second and third sentences could refer to Faux being a traitor, or Red -- still pursuing Faux's identity as if it were his own -- falsely thinking that he's someone else. Also, going All City really is connected to what Red's looking for, ie. either Faux's head, his original identity, or both, as claiming all five boroughs gives him his final flashback and returns his memories as Felix, shortly before Faux's head -- in control of a mecha -- shows up to antagonize them]].

** One of the biggest hurdles to overcome in ''Jet Set Radio'' was avoiding the police while trying to finish complex tags. ''Bomb Rush'' lets you leave an area temporarily or enter a port-a-potty to shake the cops.

* FragileSpeedster: Snipers are incredibly nimble and situate themselves in hard to reach spots, but they go down in even less hits than the average police grunts.

* ChainedByFashion: The police like to fire lengths of chains with manacles at the end to capture your player character. Thankfully, breaking these chains is trivially easy, and earns you a set of manacles for your character's wrists and ankles until you hit a loading screen.

* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: The storage crate maze on Pyramid Island is a [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Lost Woods]]-style maze where going the incorrect way will take you back to the start, but even going the *correct* way will have you revisiting rooms that shouldn't be connected to each other. Though the Oldhead guarding the entrance warns you not to think that everything you see in there is reality...

** The song "Light Switch" has the lyrics [[Music/SmashMouth "Can make a smash from the mouth, I'm an all star."]]

* ThouShaltNotKill: In accordance with the Code of the Street, gangs are not allowed to actually kill each other for dominance. DJ Cyber violates it at the start of the game by decapitating Faux.

* {{Hypocrite}}: DJ Cyber enforces the Code of the Street with an iron fist but has no problems breaking it himself in pursuit of his own goals, [[spoiler:even if he did have a very good reason for murdering Faux.]]

* GuideDangIt: Several notable features and techniques you'll regularly use ends up not told properly in game:
** Doing on-foot grounded tricks into jump will result in high jump. This is also how you quickly defeat in-game cops instead of mashing tricks over and over.
** The existence of sliding carpet for prolonging your on-foot combos. The game did have one ante-piece in the form of red Postman trial in Millennium Mall, but good luck figuring that one out on your own.

** Certain doors with a bicycle symbol on them can only be unlocked by bringing a bike to them and waiting on the pressure plate. Extendable fire hydrants similarly require a skateboarder to activate via Natas spin, and glass floor panels can only be broken by cess sliding on rollerblades.

** Certain doors with a bicycle symbol on them can only be unlocked by bringing a bike to them and waiting on the pressure plate. Extendable fire hydrants similarly require a skateboarder to activate via Natas spin.

** Felix, the [[spoiler:original All-City King and New Amsterdam's #1 Most Wanted]], is identifiable by the wing tattoo on his left cheek.