Make full use of your advanced move-set to navigate hand-crafted retro worlds without a jump button in this vibrant love letter to the N64 era of collectathons!
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A caffeine overdose of a videogame. Bouncy, inventive, responsive, juiced to hell and back.
Genuinely, this is a dream game from my childhood that has come to life. A car platformer collectothon with awesome and in-depth movement mechanics. Finished the story and a lot of the side content, but I'm definitely going to go back and clean up everything I didn't finish.
Also it ran great on Steam Deck!
Also it ran great on Steam Deck!
very fun and quirky platformer. I wish finding gears was easier though - vertical exploration can get a bit confusing because of limited camera control.
Honestly, the most fun I have had with a game in AGES. A pure blast of silliness around every corner of every level, this game never fails to bewilder you with its absurd premise and equally absurd execution of said premise to perfection. The artstyle is charmingly low poly, and animations are bouncy and choppy, giving the game a unique vibe in conjunction with the flat out stupidity around every corner. Its a sensory overload in the best way possible.
100%ing this title was a constant joy, every level is packed with fun and challenging obstacles, which can be overcome with the very simple yet VERY deeply rewarding moveset you have access to - utilising slopes in the terrain of each level is key to gaining massive bursts of height and distance. Mastery of the simple moveset in conjunction with the level design truly unlocks the pure insane fun this game can offer.
The only drawbacks I had with the entire 100% process were limited to a small handful of levels; particularly ones with an overhead top down perspective (which removes the depth from the otherwise freeform movement system) and a couple with very tight time limits to contend with. Otherwise - everything is amazing! Go buy it and play it NOWWW!!! (you even get a super silly exclusive hat for buying within the first month of launch, so go do it!!!)
Incredible soundtrack, unique levels, silly story and characters, TONS of goofy hats to collect - everything about this game is just a joy to experience from start to end.
100%ing this title was a constant joy, every level is packed with fun and challenging obstacles, which can be overcome with the very simple yet VERY deeply rewarding moveset you have access to - utilising slopes in the terrain of each level is key to gaining massive bursts of height and distance. Mastery of the simple moveset in conjunction with the level design truly unlocks the pure insane fun this game can offer.
The only drawbacks I had with the entire 100% process were limited to a small handful of levels; particularly ones with an overhead top down perspective (which removes the depth from the otherwise freeform movement system) and a couple with very tight time limits to contend with. Otherwise - everything is amazing! Go buy it and play it NOWWW!!! (you even get a super silly exclusive hat for buying within the first month of launch, so go do it!!!)
Incredible soundtrack, unique levels, silly story and characters, TONS of goofy hats to collect - everything about this game is just a joy to experience from start to end.
Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom! is a well-oiled machine.
If I were to whittle down YTGV to a catch-all sentence, I’d call the game “Mario 64 Meets Crazy Taxi”. You explore open sandbox style worlds full of gears to collect, and in certain levels, you’re set to a timer and need to carry locals to their destination.
As the player of a 3D platformer, you're always placed in the driver position of your character. How you operate this vehicle is dictated by the toolkit the developers hand you. Typically, the most common place tool would be your jump.
Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom! does not have a dedicated jump button.
Of course, there is a way to jump. Like any car, the optimal way to gain height is to cancel your spin out and flip your vehicle over and into the air. This spin move normally allows you to dash forward, which helps with verticality when you're on an incline. You can cancel twice before a cooldown timer takes its effect, but if you land on a surface, you'll regain that charge.
You’d think that’d be all your tools but put a stop on your brakes: there’s more than meets the eye here.
Before you shoot up an incline, if you tap the A button at the right moment, you’ll soar even higher than before. Similar to Mario Odyssey’s diving onto Cappy tech, this move is a game changer for your traversal. Your tiny little taxi car mind as well become a full-blown plane with the amount air you gain.
You could casually drive through YTGV without this move, but the game calls for you to keep searching for more goodies to collect. Whether that collectible be the main gears, an assortment of cash, or the many silly hats, each have given me the drive to 100% complete this game. YTGV rewards veterans of 3D platformers with depth of skill to master, along with grit to tightly crafted end game levels.
There’s a specific tone cast upon YTGV. A vibe that reflects what I think was the mindset of the developers making this: silly, wacky, feel good, fun. You can tell the developers aren’t native English speakers, so dialogue often comes out in bizarre ways that’s comical within its own right. This also translates to the random insertion of memes and references throughout the game coming across as insane non-sequiturs. Normally this would be a problem for me, but the game is just so charming from just how much fun the developers are having that I can’t help myself from smiling too. Punchy synths reverberate out your car speakers, sunny beach side views with bright blue skies, the good times are here to stay with YTGV.
I think YTGV embodies what it means to be a video game. Fun, dumb, stupid, addicting, nonsense. I’m not sure I’d crown YTGV with the title of “Most Video Game Video Game To Ever Video Game”, as that title has hard competition, but it’s most certainly in the running.
If I were to whittle down YTGV to a catch-all sentence, I’d call the game “Mario 64 Meets Crazy Taxi”. You explore open sandbox style worlds full of gears to collect, and in certain levels, you’re set to a timer and need to carry locals to their destination.
As the player of a 3D platformer, you're always placed in the driver position of your character. How you operate this vehicle is dictated by the toolkit the developers hand you. Typically, the most common place tool would be your jump.
Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom! does not have a dedicated jump button.
Of course, there is a way to jump. Like any car, the optimal way to gain height is to cancel your spin out and flip your vehicle over and into the air. This spin move normally allows you to dash forward, which helps with verticality when you're on an incline. You can cancel twice before a cooldown timer takes its effect, but if you land on a surface, you'll regain that charge.
You’d think that’d be all your tools but put a stop on your brakes: there’s more than meets the eye here.
Before you shoot up an incline, if you tap the A button at the right moment, you’ll soar even higher than before. Similar to Mario Odyssey’s diving onto Cappy tech, this move is a game changer for your traversal. Your tiny little taxi car mind as well become a full-blown plane with the amount air you gain.
You could casually drive through YTGV without this move, but the game calls for you to keep searching for more goodies to collect. Whether that collectible be the main gears, an assortment of cash, or the many silly hats, each have given me the drive to 100% complete this game. YTGV rewards veterans of 3D platformers with depth of skill to master, along with grit to tightly crafted end game levels.
There’s a specific tone cast upon YTGV. A vibe that reflects what I think was the mindset of the developers making this: silly, wacky, feel good, fun. You can tell the developers aren’t native English speakers, so dialogue often comes out in bizarre ways that’s comical within its own right. This also translates to the random insertion of memes and references throughout the game coming across as insane non-sequiturs. Normally this would be a problem for me, but the game is just so charming from just how much fun the developers are having that I can’t help myself from smiling too. Punchy synths reverberate out your car speakers, sunny beach side views with bright blue skies, the good times are here to stay with YTGV.
I think YTGV embodies what it means to be a video game. Fun, dumb, stupid, addicting, nonsense. I’m not sure I’d crown YTGV with the title of “Most Video Game Video Game To Ever Video Game”, as that title has hard competition, but it’s most certainly in the running.
Yellow Taxi is a silly little collectathon that is a very pleasant and polished experience. The core gimmick of the game, other than you playing as a sentient wind up taxi, is that there is no jump button. this requires you to combo some of your actions in order to get some height, which ends up making for some very fun moments. While the control scheme is simple, a big part of this game is finding the optimal way to string together your moves in order to get the most height or distance possible to reach those difficult to reach collectables. If I had some minor complaints, I think the top down levels are pretty slow and frustrating compared to the rest of the game, and the morio's mind level has a frustrating hazard that gets in the way of traversing the level in any fun way. Otherwise this game was excellent and had me smiling all the way to the end.