Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise

Naughty Bear is a 2010 action-adventure video game developed by Canadian studio Artificial Mind and Movement and released by Italian publisher 505 Games for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and iOS. The game is set on the fictional Perfection Island in the 1980s, where sentient teddy bears live in harmony. Naughty Bear is a shabby teddy bear who is rude, which earns him disdain from other bears, and starts a vengeful rampage against them when he is shunned from a birthday party. The game received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

Set in the 1980s, Naughty Bear is the only bear on Perfection Island who is not invited to Daddles' birthday party. Naughty tries to be nice anyway and even crafts a gift for the occasion, hoping he and Daddles can become friends. When Chubby and Giggles see that Naughty has a present, they laugh at him. This makes Naughty sulk back to his house. He then decides to get revenge on the bears, going on a killing spree and punishing the various other inhabitants of Perfection Island and any outside help that comes to their aid. His actions are influenced and commented on by an unseen British narrator with a demeanor reminiscent of a children's television show host.

The episodes that follow have Naughty deal with a variety of unusual events, such as fighting ninja bears to take out Mayor Chubby whose re-electoral promise is to kill Naughty, battling the military to punish Cozy for using birds to spy on Naughty, killing Nibbles for raising the Un-Ted, fighting his way through the Bear Emergency Action Response (BEAR) unit to kill oil baron Trembles for intending to kill Naughty and build an oil rig over his hut, and executing Fluffy and destroying his robot bear army for unknowingly threatening all existence.

In the seventh episode, a bear named Sunbeam makes contact with aliens, resulting in the aliens enslaving the bears and taking over the island. After killing the aliens and Sunbeam, Naughty is congratulated by the other bears for his effort, and is even offered a cake. However, it is actually a prank, and Daddles smashes the cake in Naughty's face, humiliating him. Heartbroken, Naughty kills all the bears by blowing up the hut they are in with an RPG before going back to his hut.

Three additional episodes were released as DLC. In the first, Naughty is invited to a cake tasting party to be the guest of honor. It is discovered to be a trap by Cop Gordon, who calls in the superhero Danger Bear and his X-Bear team to kill Naughty. In the second, Naughty punishes the crew of Captain Bear Beard and Giggles when they intend to dig up Naughty Bear's house for buried treasure. In the last one, Naughty learns the bears enlisted the vampire bear Vampiricorn to do their dirty work. Due to Vampiricorn and his minions draining the stuffing of Unibear, the vampire bears are almost unstoppable as Naughty punishes both them and Stardust, who came up with the plan in the first place.

Gameplay

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Gameplay requires the player to lead the single-minded and sociopathic Naughty Bear on his personal quest to bring about violent revenge against his elitist teddy neighbors.

Naughty Bear starts each level with a handful of weapons, a time limit and the goal of racking up as many "naughty points" as possible through the massacring of the local teddy populous. Points can be gained for both volume and creativity of the kills. Larger amounts of points can be gained through the fear-based multiplier system. Multipliers are earned through any act of "naughtiness", such as vandalism, having others witness executions, or engaging in episodes of extended physical or psychological torture.

Naughty Bear features an online multiplayer that supports up to 4 players. The multiplayer offers traditional gamemodes such as King of the Hill, Capture the Flag, and Search and Destroy. Within a match, a player's actions can allow for the recruitment of NPC bears or drive them to tamper with the objective.