YMMV / Kaze and the Wild Masks

• Awesome Music: The soundtrack is regarded by many to be one of the best parts of the game:
  • Main theme is absolutely blood pumping and hypes you up for the adventure ahead of you. It starts off with a xylophone leitmotif reminsicent of Crash Bandicoot, only to build up into an awesome, bombastic synth and rock composition with background chanting!
  • "Sky Rails" is an incredibly catchy tune that first plays during the Forgotten Mask level, and makes an otherwise frustrating level for beginners at least somewhat more tolerable.
  • And then there's the epicness that is "Burning Pumpkins".
• Goddamned Bats: The cannon-wielding Tomatoes can be particularly annoying (especially on a No-Damage Run) due to their placement— usually around climbing/sliding ropes or tricky jumps — and how they shoot fast, long-ranged Carrot missiles that more often than not send you falling. The horrible, watery gurgling noise when you kill them doesn't help much, either.
• Spiritual Adaptation: It's less obvious thanks to the different art style, but this game is to Donkey Kong Country what Freedom Planet is to classic Sonic the Hedgehog. Almost every level is directly analogous to one from the Donkey Kong Country games. For example, Lights On Lights Off is Stop & Go Station, Vine Climb is Krevice Kreepers and Arctic Blizzard combines Gusty Glade and the Squawks sequence of Animal Antics. Luckily, the level design is strong enough that Kaze stands on its own despite the mimicry.
• That One Level: Extra level of Area 1, "Watch Your Steps!", can be incredibly frustrating with it's trial-and-error mechanic, as the platforms disappear shortly after you begin said level. Only way to tell where the platforms are is to pay attention to the placement of the crates and gems...but even then you have to be careful as there's no way to tell just how much of a platform there is. You'll be using your helicopter ears a lot in this level.
  • Level 7 of Area 2, "Forgotten Mask". It introduces players to the titular mask (better known as Lizard Mask) and it's mechanic: It makes Kaze go berserk, with player losing control of her movement except for jumping and dive attack. For a level supposed to get the players acquainted with Lizard Mask, it throws quite a lot of frustrating curveballs at them with the enemy and item placement.

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