I suppose a cute and cozy indie platformer nowadays just can't go without some woke deep dark fantasies backstory. The developers don't seem to hide the nature of the game much, but it's still not entirely obvious at first glance. Wanted a cute and simple Paper Mario-like platformer, recieved a furry boy-kisser runaway "tragedy" in a form of one. Definitely not what i was looking for. Technically it's okay, i guess.

Basically "What if Animal Crossing was a platformer". No real challenge. Pretty laid back, but that's what it's going for. Not totally my cup of tea, but I'm having a good time with it.

vibes

A very fun and cozy game! I bought this quite sometime ago, but decided to do a playthrough only recently. The game itself is quite simple, it's a 3D platformer where you do tasks to win coins, coins take you to new stages, then finally, the last stage. There are cassettes lying around stages where you can also exchange to coins later on.

The game does get a little repetitive on the sorts of objectives you have to do. It commonly asks to do similar things on other stages. The layout of the stages change, so some of those objectives change a little due to that. It's kinda like a fetch-quest 3D platformer. I had fun with the game, however, but it does felt a little that.

Objectives can range from helping an NPC getting fish, making art on the ground, a game of volleyball, parkour-ing on stages without touching the ground (which I thought it was really cool, I love doing that in games), some "arena-esque" areas where you have to collect bones, getting bugs to give to someone and so on. But, those objectives do repeat on stages, so it gets a little stale.

You can't do everything at once in a stage. You will eventually get some "phone numbers" that let you do more things on previous stages. I think this was a cool touch, but often times, it just added repeated things from other stages. For instance, two stages didn't had the NPC who asks for bugs, but after I got those phone numbers, it asked for me the same thing as the other stages.

It's not mandatory to collect every single coin to beat this game, so I guess it's up to you if you wish to really do everything, even if it means doing same things over and over.

You also are also able to get fruit pickups that doesn't seem to do anything for you. They are not mandatory to 100%, but are only useful for something that you only get to learn on the last stage.

There is a backstory behind this game that I won't spoil, but it really gave me the feels. You get to know slowly by each stage you go to, as well collecting bottles that have messages written by others or from Niko (the character you control as).

I will give it a Yes recommendation, but I'd go more into the Mixed side if you could put that on Steam. I think for what this is, the price is a little high ($25 or R$73,99 on Brazil). There is a lot of love and polish here, but still, it's a simple game and a lil' short. I'd recommend getting on a sale.

7/10

Cute little game for people wanting to get into gaming or want something laid back.

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