I had played Toree 3D a couple years ago, and I thought it was alright. A bit too linear for my taste, but an otherwise fun platformer. The same developer made Kiwi 64, and it definitely hit more into my taste buds. It's a collectathon with really good game feel, atmosphere, and level design.
The sense of movement you get and the little animations to perform your movement tech look and feel really nice. It's constant forward momentum if you can time your buttons just right, and it feels really fun to blast through levels like that. You can even glide and traverse up walls with your beak like one of those enemies from Mario Odyssey, albeit without the physics to fling yourself. This gives the game an even larger sense of movement and freedom. It feels really fun to just control this little fella.
One of the things I liked about Toree 3D was that it had glimpses of something stranger in the background. Sadly, it never really did anything with it, as far as I could tell. This game tends to lean into those aspects a lot more, and it's honestly really intriguing for a 60 minute game. The sense of atmosphere was really well done, the sky boxes have these vibrant colors, the music is a nice twist of David Wise-ian style songs. The level design is built with these little pieces of lore in mind, where you see this militaristic futuristic culture domineering multiple areas, with tinges of forgotten jungles, desert fortresses, unsettling metallic bone-filled dungeons, and a pirate's cove. For a game that's 3 dollars and only about an hour long, it really gave a nice sense of exploration and wonder.
My only real complaint with the game is that, because of it's length, it doesn't play enough around with the mechanics it has. After a certain point, the core loop begins to stop being as engaging, given that there's no real progression to what you're doing. It would have also been nice to get a bit of variety with each world's music, since they tend to double up on a single track for the areas with the same theming.
For what the game is though, it's a very fun time! I wish it got expanded upon more, but it utilizes it's ideas, mechanics, and sense of atmosphere very well!
The sense of movement you get and the little animations to perform your movement tech look and feel really nice. It's constant forward momentum if you can time your buttons just right, and it feels really fun to blast through levels like that. You can even glide and traverse up walls with your beak like one of those enemies from Mario Odyssey, albeit without the physics to fling yourself. This gives the game an even larger sense of movement and freedom. It feels really fun to just control this little fella.
One of the things I liked about Toree 3D was that it had glimpses of something stranger in the background. Sadly, it never really did anything with it, as far as I could tell. This game tends to lean into those aspects a lot more, and it's honestly really intriguing for a 60 minute game. The sense of atmosphere was really well done, the sky boxes have these vibrant colors, the music is a nice twist of David Wise-ian style songs. The level design is built with these little pieces of lore in mind, where you see this militaristic futuristic culture domineering multiple areas, with tinges of forgotten jungles, desert fortresses, unsettling metallic bone-filled dungeons, and a pirate's cove. For a game that's 3 dollars and only about an hour long, it really gave a nice sense of exploration and wonder.
My only real complaint with the game is that, because of it's length, it doesn't play enough around with the mechanics it has. After a certain point, the core loop begins to stop being as engaging, given that there's no real progression to what you're doing. It would have also been nice to get a bit of variety with each world's music, since they tend to double up on a single track for the areas with the same theming.
For what the game is though, it's a very fun time! I wish it got expanded upon more, but it utilizes it's ideas, mechanics, and sense of atmosphere very well!