This is my favorite game that I've played by Siactro so far. His style lends itself much better to a slower paced and relaxed collectathon platformer instead of incentivizing speediness like Toree (which was not for me). I greatly enjoyed exploring this game's eight levels, though I will say that I would've liked for some more unique secrets to be scattered through the levels. Exploring was fun, but the rewards for doing so were predictable after the first level. I don't mind the shortness of Siactro's games, but it would definitely be awesome to see a longer exploration of his concepts.

I would easily play through something 5 times the length of this with an actual plot, a short ass Rareware-like collectathon that pays homage to the good ol’ days when cheery all-ages platformers would suddenly have these out of nowhere weird sections that just didn’t seem right. Nothing outright scary, just… off. Textures are different, colors are strange, things have… faces.

Loved the little kiwi dude and zipping around the stages. Please make sure to seek out the hidden secret level too, you’ll know it when you see it

bro this is something special

dont be fooled by the fact that i gave this one and toree the same score because really this is something of an entire different league if you ask me

if you had come up to me one day while i was probably drawing some gay furry stuff and told me hey pal check this abandonware they dug up from the n64 repertoire i wouldve believed you

i cannot overstate enough how this is such a great modern adaptation of what the n64 collectathon games used to be into such a fun and quirky platformer

you play as titular character kiwi armed with just a jetpack a beak and a suspicious yearning for jewels and yet this is some of the most solid movement in a 3d platformer ive ever seen

now now now hold on boys this is not super mario odyssey but what i meant is the usage of its unique moveset lets you explore the entirety of the levels to such an extent that you can get to a point of the map either jumping or gliding or climbing literally you can do whatever the fuck you want and the game will let you do it

theres 8 levels and some special content but i swear theyre so mindfully put together every single one is crafted to put the full moveset of the bird into motion while also making you look for collectibles and stuff to destroy along the way

the ost and the environments really do give a weird vibe that i cannot actually put into word its like this is a forbidden land and you should not trespass but you already did so whatever plus the hub world is a stinky sewer so

that being said this was such a great time and i dont remember 3d collectathons ever being so fun but i guess i should check more stuff out because this one UGHHHHHHHHH this one was such an elite time i cant wait for the developer to put more juicy stuff out in the wild for me to consume and revere

For $3 (or $2 as I paid in the Steam Summer Sale), I think it's a fun little romp. Being made by the same creators of the Toree games, you can definitely find a lot of that 'style' here - where you get to play as a small bird in a cutesy but somewhat creepypasta-ish aesthetic that also has the 5th gen early 3D look to it, albeit this time mimicking the N64 style rather than the PS1 style in the Toree games.

And what's there I think is solid. The controls and movement overall feel good with some different abilities such as a glide, corkscrew-attacks and the ability to stick to walls to climb, and the levels are well designed. It's very comparable to something like Banjo-Kazooie or Glover but with the game design and presentation style of the Toree games. If you liked those, you'll probably enjoy this.

Though I will say this is more of a 'comfort food' type game. The game's rather short and can be beaten in less than an hour once you know what you're doing. For the price you're paying, it does do a fine job, especially if you're looking for a platformer or game in general to play through real fast while you think about what title you want to play through next, but I wouldn't go into it expecting anything amazing or full replay value. Even completing the game doesn't take much more than an hour at most and once you've done that I don't really feel like there's much for me to go back to aside for maybe potentially speedrunning the game.

To nitpick a bit too the game's pretty much completely lacking graphical settings of any sort, even on PC, and on that note... well, I do have some issues with the game's visuals. The game is kinda blurry, which I get is to pay homage to the N64 look but it kinda just comes off as if someone just used a bilinear filter to scale up a retro game, and on top of that I noticed some Steam reviews mentioning the lack of VSync resulting in screen tearing - which I didn't notice myself (playing on Linux Mint via Proton) but worth mentioning. It's not too game breaking, but I kinda wish there were some graphical settings at least available. To add to that too there isn't a "Return to Desktop"/Exit option in-game so you have to either ALT+F4 or Alt+Tab and close the game from your OS which, again, not game breaking but an odd move.

Overall though it's a good experience for what you're paying. Nothing spectacular or oozing in replay value, but it's definitely worth checking out if you just want a nice little platformer to play through, especially if you enjoyed Toree or just PS1/N64-esque indie games in general.

What a charming little game! Super Kiwi, like all of Siactro's games, is very short, but I think it's easily the best one that I've played. A great way to have a chill hour just exploring some nicely made levels, with some honestly pretty smooth controls and basic platforming mechanics. Visually it's a little janky round the edges and the sound design could definitely use some work, but Super Kiwi 64 comes off as a sweet and earnest little title that deserves an hour of your time.

Kiwi does has a bit of weirdness in it; every now and again there will be some arcane symbols or a spooky skeleton sprite or a switch that looks like a fetus, generally just a sprinkling of weird slightly unsettling features that don't seem like they fit here. Siactro's other games do this too, but Kiwi cranks it up a notch by even letting it apply to the some of the level themes (e.g. a post-industrial hellscape, or an eldritch temple full of creepy faces and the aforementioned fetus-switches). I think going more all-in on the weird features made them stick out a little less than in Toree and Toree 2, but yeah, I still don't really understand why they're here. It doesn't detract from the game being relaxed and fun though, so whatever; I kinda consider this sort of thing to be Siactro's signature at this point.