Corn Kidz 64 is a love letter to classic 3D platformers, and is made with nothing but love.
The game oozes with the 90's kids cartoon style with the main characters Seve and Alexis looking like they were ripped straight out of some particularly grunge-y one, and the worlds feel ripped straight out of N64 game that says "COOL" somewhere on the back of the box.
The game plays pretty great, the platforming is pretty tight, the worlds although there's only 3 of them are filled with detail to make sure they last, and there's enough secrets to look for to make it just not laser focused on your main objective, in-fact the game's "Level" system forces you to find some of them to progress forwards, kind of like a badly telegraphed Mario 64 Star Door, though it could have been done better by designing it more like that, instead of having like 200 cubes, have about 50-70 and the doors require that specific amount, the level thing makes it feel like it's used for extra abilities, or just as a bonus, so it kind of tripped me up when I found out they were required.
There are some issues with the gameplay, for one there's only one real major world, with the first one being kind of a tutorial level with some things to do in it, and the other being exclusively a final level gauntlet, and the camera angles can screw over your platforming a lot, there probably should have been an extra reach to a lot of the platforms to make up for the fact that you'll probably be a bit imprecise due to the weird camera angles.
There was only a single boss-fight, but that's not much of a complaint because it fits in pretty well for a 3D platformer, revolving around dodging attacks then platforming to win, but having to aim stuff without a reticle and with a very awkward aiming system sucks almost as much as it did in OoT.
Sometimes finding out where to go in the level the game revolves around, the Hollow, gets a bit confusing because of how obtuse some things can be, It's not too bad and it does serve the old-school style very well so it's only a minor complaint.
There's not much else to say about the game though, It's so old school that the music is just alright and the story is almost non-existent, but that's not a problem.
I ended up liking this ever so slightly more than Pseudoregalia, so if you liked that, or even just like any 3D platformers at all, you'll probably like this.
The game oozes with the 90's kids cartoon style with the main characters Seve and Alexis looking like they were ripped straight out of some particularly grunge-y one, and the worlds feel ripped straight out of N64 game that says "COOL" somewhere on the back of the box.
The game plays pretty great, the platforming is pretty tight, the worlds although there's only 3 of them are filled with detail to make sure they last, and there's enough secrets to look for to make it just not laser focused on your main objective, in-fact the game's "Level" system forces you to find some of them to progress forwards, kind of like a badly telegraphed Mario 64 Star Door, though it could have been done better by designing it more like that, instead of having like 200 cubes, have about 50-70 and the doors require that specific amount, the level thing makes it feel like it's used for extra abilities, or just as a bonus, so it kind of tripped me up when I found out they were required.
There are some issues with the gameplay, for one there's only one real major world, with the first one being kind of a tutorial level with some things to do in it, and the other being exclusively a final level gauntlet, and the camera angles can screw over your platforming a lot, there probably should have been an extra reach to a lot of the platforms to make up for the fact that you'll probably be a bit imprecise due to the weird camera angles.
There was only a single boss-fight, but that's not much of a complaint because it fits in pretty well for a 3D platformer, revolving around dodging attacks then platforming to win, but having to aim stuff without a reticle and with a very awkward aiming system sucks almost as much as it did in OoT.
Sometimes finding out where to go in the level the game revolves around, the Hollow, gets a bit confusing because of how obtuse some things can be, It's not too bad and it does serve the old-school style very well so it's only a minor complaint.
There's not much else to say about the game though, It's so old school that the music is just alright and the story is almost non-existent, but that's not a problem.
I ended up liking this ever so slightly more than Pseudoregalia, so if you liked that, or even just like any 3D platformers at all, you'll probably like this.