Boss Rush in Umbrella City is an Umbrella Game made for the PC, and developed by a total of 10 collaborating companies. The game's foundation is the boss rush mode from many video games, but this time you can select from a variety of characters and bosses to pit against eachother.
The game is said to be released around 2019, but due to the sheer size of the game, it might not be met by then. Platforms it is confirmed to release on are Steam, but it's been hinted at a port for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox (Project Scorpio), and Playstation Neo at a later date.
Gameplay[]
BRIUC is a 2D game with Smash-like controls- however, instead of battling other players, you battle large bosses from a wide selection of them. You can choose characters with a large variety of skills, which are divided into Pokemon-like typings which might have special effects based on the boss that your fighting.
Characters, when using them, will level up and cause the character to become more powerul. However, this comes with a price, as bosses get tougher WITH the player, adding new attacks and forms for them to use.
The characters have health bars, like usual, but mostly retain traits and other features from other forms of media they appear in. If you beat the boss before they beat you, you win, obviously. Some bosses have different methods to beat them, like surviving long enough, reaching a certain object, or sometimes just beating them up.
Some bosses, such as the Eye of Chthulu and Bowser, will change forms based on the level of the character. For instance, Level 25 players, when playing against the Eye of Chthulu, will instead face off against the tougher opponent, the Twins.
Bosses drop Weapons, which can be universal or specific to a character, which boost stats and add a special ability to characters. They also can drop Badges and Assist Badges, which will do different things when added to a character.
Modes[]
Like most games, BRIUC comes with a wide variety of modes, including singleplayer and online modes. In Online Mode, due to balancing, the highest your character can be is Lv. 50, while everything over will be set to it.
Free Battle | The Versus mode of the game, Free Battle lets you choose whichever character you want and who you want to go against. You can also add CPU heroes to battle with, though the game gets tougher the more teammates are added.
Boss Rush! | Boss Rush throws you through 5-20 (based on your difficulty level) bosses in a row. The amount of health you have continues throughout the battles, however there are a total of 4 healing items you can use once each between bosses. There are a sub-category of this called "Themed Rush", where you can control which bosses show up, and how they show up.
Face-Off! | In this online mode, each player faces off against the same boss. They each compete to beat the boss the quickest, and without dying. You win if you either kill the enemy first, or be the last man standing against it.
Online Co-Op | The Online Co-Op allows four players to help eachother beat the same one on the same stage, but the bosses are much harder than usual.
Boss vs. Players | This online mode allows one player to take control of the boss chosen- while the other 3 players have to try to survive. If the boss is succesfully beaten, the players team wins. If every player dies, the boss wins.
Characters[]
Playable[]
The playable characters in this section list the characters you play as in Single Player and when playing as heroes in Online modes. This does not include the Bosses you can play as in Boss vs. Players.
Bosses[]
These bosses are fought against in the many modes, and are the title subject of the game. A planned total of 50+ bosses, not including Level Forms, will be added to the game, and more and more will come in over time.
Each boss is ranked by their difficulty.
- Easy
- Medium
- Hard
- Ultra
Most Hard and Ultra bosses are unlockable, obviously due to their difficulty. However, Hard and Ultra bosses also tend to have the best item rewards, which will help you in later battles, and give you much more XP.
Starting[]
| Boss | Description | Effects | Drops |
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 Bowser
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Bowser, as always, is in the boss battling game. Surprise, surprise. Bowser is the standard boss of the game, as a simple boss who any person can beat. He, however, can get pretty tough as in the higher levels, along with his normal fireball and shell-spinning tactics, will call on his Koopa Clown Car and drop Mechakoopas from above. If you play as a stronger character, when you beat him normally, he'll be reformed as Dry Bowser, a healed, stronger version of Bowser. | If playing as a character over Lv. 15, Bowser will reform after killing him once as the stronger Dry Bowser. | TBA |
The EOC is from the popular sandbox game Terraria, and is possibly the easiest (not including King Slime) bosses in its original game. The same could be said here, but it can get tough as you level up. The Eye of Chtulu can truly pack a punch, as it is fast. He summons servants to do his bidding, which is likely killing you. As his health lowers, the angry pupil turns into a large, gaping mouth and the eye starts to ram (and even zigzag) into the player, all the while summoning more servants. When battling at over level 25, battling the Eye of Chthulu will instead give you the twins, two EoC-like eyeballs attached to a tendril. They usually try to surround you and charge at you, as well as shooting projectiles, but as their health lowers their true forms reveal. One of them, Retanizer, replaces its pupil with a turret which will shoot lasers at a more rapid rate. Spazmatasm, however, will gain a mechanically mouthed form like the original Eye, which will charge faster and even burp up fireballs! |
If playing as a character over Level 25, EoC becomes the Twins. | TBA | |
 Quote
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Quote is the lovable robot protagonist of Cave Story - who has somehow gone rogue. This boss scales it's difficulty depending on your level, with it earning new weapons and new abilities. In fact, every two levels, one of his weapons randomly levels up! Quote usually jumps to a platform, chooses a weapon, and attacks five times. After this, you have to get your hits in. The arena will also rarely spawn Gaudi's (hinting that this takes place in the Labyrinth) which will drop health for you and for Quote. Starting at level 5, they also drop missiles that Quote will pick up. | Defeating Quote will unlock him as a playable character. |
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Unlockable[]
| Boss | Description | Effects | Unlocking Criteria | Drops |
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 Zygarde
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Zygarde's life is dedicated to protecting the Earth. However, sometimes it isn't that cautious with its power and will get angry. Zygarde can use his many signature moves. Land's Wrath, which shakes the ground and causes damage to everyone that is ground-bound, Thousand Arrows, which can, if it hits, not only do tremendous amounts of damage, but also ground flying opponents. Its move, Thousand Waves, is similar, however instead it slows down victims at the price of not being as precise as the arrows equivelant. However, when under 50% health, Zygarde collects surrounding cells and cores and makes them into his 100% form, which is large and powerful. | At 50% health, Zygarde changes forms. Beating it unlocks _____ as a boss. | Defeat 10 bosses. |
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 GLaDOS
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GLaDOS is the robotic, sassy main antagonist of Portal and its sequel. Her boss is interesting, in that you cannot kill her directly. However, if you manage to knock out 4 of her cores, and throw them in the incinerator without getting mauled by turrets, rockets or other dangerous equiptment around the field. If you succesfully defeat her in under 2 minutes, you win, however the neurotoxin she places will take action in 2 minutes, too. | Unkillable without destroying the cores. | Defeat 50 Bosses |
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 Curly Brace
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Curly Brace is the... robotic sister of Quote, who of course ended up with amnesia and forgot who you are. For some reason, you can only fight Curly Brace playing as Quote. Unlike Quote, all of her weapons are automatically level 3 when you begin fighting her. Curly Brace also has more HP than Quote, and has one weapon he doesn't - the Nemesis. Curly Brace's arena has moving platforms, and the arena is also slowly filling up with lava which is a 1HKO. It's a fast paced race to defeat your sister Curly Brace, before she defeats you. | Defeating Curly Brace unlocks her as a skin for Quote, as well as unlocking the _______ badge. | Defeat Quote 10 times total & have Curly's Panties drop. |
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Customization[]
One feature BRIUC specializes in is customization. Characters you play as can be fully decked out with Vanity (which is completely cosmetic), Weapons (which work in boss fights and do different things), and different kinds of Badges (3 can be applied- do different functions).
Shop[]
The in-game shop uses Coins dropped by bosses defeated to buy new characters, weapons and armor. However, in the shop you cannot buy every single unlockable thing in the game, but a wide variety of them can be bought here if you're lazy to do the boss yourself, however the boss weapons are slightly less powerful than their authentic, drop counterparts.
Weapons[]
Characters can hold a wide variety of boosters and weapons to enhance their abilities. A full list is found right here.
| Weapon | Description | Unlocking Criteria |
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 Spiny Shell
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In single player and co-op, this is a normal homing, exploding object. However, in Face-Off mode, using it will somehow go over and attack the person doing the best, and do damage to them. | Beat Bowser with a Level 25-40 Character/ |
Vanity[]
Badges[]
Badges will do special effects based on what you have on. They can be unlocked through many means, and are a sort of powerup that's permanent. Most are based on characters or items from many different forms of media.
| Badge | Description | Unlocking Criteria |
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 Super Mushroom
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This badge increases Defense by 5% and gives a small regeneration buff to the player. | Beat Bowser with a Lv. 1-5 character. |
 1-Up Mushroom
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This badge, once per battle, will heal the player to 50% health at a usual death. | Beat Bowser with a Lv. 40-50 character. |
 Nebby
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This badge allows you to teleport a short distance thrice per battle. Also gives you a little Cosmog that follows you around, as well as boosted speed around bagged characters. | ??? |
Trivia[]
- BRIUC, strangely enough, is based off of Terraria.