WOAH. This was great! This was about to be a 5-star review until I played the sequel and realised the series had more to give.
But yeah, game design wise this is a near-perfect exercise in Living Your Truth. It wears every influence on its sleeve and explores so many opportunities in the kinds of 3D platforming you can do given the constraints. For a game with no combat it does a really great job of making you forget that you're really just running and jumping. Level themes are varied and the structure of each level fits its respective theme, it joyfully expresses itself at every moment you're playing it. The music slaps too, it all feels ripped right from the era, it's all perfectly placed and incredibly varied.
There's also a really appealing and playfully sinister edge that immediately undermines itself with additional whimst upon the conclusion of the game. I don't want to spoil anything, the game takes around 30 minutes to beat so just check it out for yourself and see what I mean.
Also, yeah it only takes 30 minutes to beat, but that doesn't include getting A (or the elusive S) rank in every level and collecting every star, which is well worth doing. There's a couple of great bonus unlockables that I'm really glad I got.
Toree rocks! I would gladly play one or two of these games every month for the rest of my life and never get sick of it.
But yeah, game design wise this is a near-perfect exercise in Living Your Truth. It wears every influence on its sleeve and explores so many opportunities in the kinds of 3D platforming you can do given the constraints. For a game with no combat it does a really great job of making you forget that you're really just running and jumping. Level themes are varied and the structure of each level fits its respective theme, it joyfully expresses itself at every moment you're playing it. The music slaps too, it all feels ripped right from the era, it's all perfectly placed and incredibly varied.
There's also a really appealing and playfully sinister edge that immediately undermines itself with additional whimst upon the conclusion of the game. I don't want to spoil anything, the game takes around 30 minutes to beat so just check it out for yourself and see what I mean.
Also, yeah it only takes 30 minutes to beat, but that doesn't include getting A (or the elusive S) rank in every level and collecting every star, which is well worth doing. There's a couple of great bonus unlockables that I'm really glad I got.
Toree rocks! I would gladly play one or two of these games every month for the rest of my life and never get sick of it.