FOX n FORESTS Review

Really great 2D platformer with a good pixel artstyle and very lovely soundtrack that just oozes SNES era. There are some varied gameplay styles like shoot-m-up stages but most importantly platforming stages with their own unique season changing mechanics. This is used to freeze lakes for or extinquish fires for example. Each stage also has three to four different collectables which all have their own benefits like upgrades to your skills, or secret stages. Most of these cannot be gathered on your first playthrough due to not meeting the requirements yet, but stages are fun to revisit and it also extends gameplay a bit because overall it is not that long. Usually I wouldn't mind but I wanted more of this game, and hopefully we'll see more of this great team of developers. There is one slight negative that I have to mention and that's with how the main protagonist controls during combat. It doesn't hinder gameplay too much, but I felt Rick to be clunky with how he is unable to use arrows while in the sky, or cannot do a ground stomp with just a regular jump and instead needs to double jump. I think that if Rick was even more agile, we would have an even better game here. But if that's the worst negative critisism I can have about a game like this, you know it's definitely worth your time

8/10