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.

Reviewed on Jul 11, 2023


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