The Teams

“Team Rainbow is locked in a cosmic battle with Team Inferno” –Robot Unicorn Attack  2

“Who can control the most star-force in the Universe?” –RUA2

The battle between Inferno and Rainbow

About Team Rainbow and Inferno

Team Inferno and Team Rainbow are the two groups you may join once you reach the first few levels in RUA2.  You must choose one of these two, and there is no middle ground.  Team Rainbow appears to be the unicorns of harmony, rainbows, and beauty.  Team Inferno unicorns are dark, fiery, chaotic, and look much more fearsome.  The two seem to represent “light” and “dark” respectively, and yet because such little information is given on the two, it is impossible to truly  discern whether either fit into the typical categories of “good” and “bad”.  It is very possible there is a gray area between the two, that while Team Rainbow appears to be typically “good” and Inferno “bad”, there is a lot more to this battle than meets the eye.  Because of the lack of information, you are free to fill in the missing lore for yourself!  For my part I like to think of Team Inferno as a kind of rebel force rising up against Team Rainbow for some reason.  You can imagine whatever you like!  If anyone has further info or theories I’d love to hear them in the comments!

 

Gameplay Differences Between Teams

daily global competition between the teams

There aren’t many changes to the game based on which team you pick.  If you choose Inferno, the score multiplying rings you jump through in the levels will become a fiery orange color.  Your dash attack will leave a blaze of fire behind you.  If you choose Team Rainbow your dash will leave rainbows streaming behind, and the rings you jump through will be lit with brilliant rainbows.

A few words of encouragement

However, aside from these cosmetic differences there are deeper, more important changes.  There is a battle held each day between the teams, where the team that dashes the most stars wins.  Each member of the winning team is awarded with Unicorn Tears for their victory.  Even if you do not participate in the battle yourself, if you sign on to the game as the battle ends you will be rewarded if your team won.  Once you join a team, every star that you dash will go  towards the global efforts of your team.  You can choose to be a traitor, and betray your team, for a price of Unicorn Tears.  However, then you have to live with the knowledge that you  are a traitor forever.

 

The Seven Worlds

The Current 3 Worlds

There are hints that there will be seven worlds total in Robot Unicorn Attack 2. So far, 3 have been released; Sky World, Ice World, and Lava World. Sky World is the beginning world that every player starts out with. RUA2 is a free to play game, and this world is free. Ice World has to be unlocked by gaining levels and by spending Unicorn Tears, the collectible in-game currency that is found throughout every level. Ice World can therefore be unlocked without any real money spend whatsoever. Lava World, which was released in April, 2014, is the first world that requires an in-app purchase, and a fairly costly one too, at $4.99. However, for fans of the series, giving Adult Swim 5 bucks for their amazing free game doesn’t feel like a bad thing at all. Each of the world in RUA2 are unique, and have their own patterns and style, though each have the same enemies, collectibles, and land masses.

 

Sky World

Sky World

This is the starting world. Modeled after the original Robot Unicorn Attack, it is a world of rainbows, sunshine, and harmony, with bright happy colors and warm, desert-like pink rock. The giants here are golems of the red rock with huge white crystals jutting out of their backs. The fairies are pink, and glow with a warm brightness. In the background, you can see below a strange, alien landscape dotted with strange stony, egg-like formations and maze-like stones. The sky is a warm pink color, a kind of sunrise. The clouds are pale and fluffy above. If you survive long enough in your run, you will see huge battle whales drift by in the background, swimming through the sky, with huge horns on their heads. If you survive even longer, you will get to see a gigantic battle seahorse also bearing a horn, and carrying on its back a huge castle that it flies with easily. Surrounding it are many small baby seahorses that fly through the sky around it. Far in the distance you can occasionally see a distant floating castle unveiled through the clouds, with water pouring freely from the floating mountains in the sky.

 

Ice World

Ice World

In many ways, the opposite of Sky World, this land is a frozen, barren place that is nevertheless full of brilliance and beauty. Everything is covered in snow and ice, the ground a gigantic frozen tundra. Unlike Sky World, Ice World is in a perpetual night, and the stars shine brightly. In the sky above glows a sinister, cracked, lava-ridden planet, looming as though it is about to crash into the ice below. This may be an outside view of the nearby Lava World. In the background there is either two huge ice wolves howling together, or else a giant barn owl staring at the unicorn as you run. There are also the snowy versions of the battle whale and seahorse in this world that will drift by as a reward to you for surviving long enough.

 

Lava World

Lava World

Whereas the first two worlds clearly seem to belong to Team Rainbow, Lava World is definitely a world controlled by Team Inferno. Fire rains down from the heavens and lava spews from every rock surface. Lightning

flashes through a sky full of war whales covered in spikes and skeletons of whales who died. The battle seahorses of this world are draconic creatures oozing molten rock, carrying cocoon-like boulders on their backs. Of all the worlds, this one has the most laser geysers in it, and all the Solar Beams of the Giants are bright red. The fairies also emit a bloody color in their light, and only the crystals containing star force, that most powerful and precious commodity in the Robot Unicorn universe, remains in its pure form.