This game was pointed out to me through some positive reviews as a sweet little platform game, and yeah, that's what you get.
The game is a fantasy cartoon platformer concerning a society of ancient heroes and guardians. Lucky is the youngest in a fox family among these guardians and ends up taking the guardian role after his siblings are out of commission, and ventures across the worlds to collect magic book pages to stop the cat sorcerer Jinx and his children.
The game is a pretty simple and effective platformer. Each world has a theme and several linear stages within it, a formula like Mario or Spyro. Lucky has a jump, double jump, tail whip, and diving attack that also lets him burrow in the earth to pass under objects, prime attacks, or escape notice. The controls are smooth and work well.
The game's creative identity harkens back to older platformers, but with its own sincere simplicity. The game's not really snarky or naughty, but it provides creative concepts to be quirky and sweet, like a country town of worm NPCs or a ghostly carnival. The characters and writing remind me a lot of what you'd find in Mario RPGs. Visually, it works with simple textures and fairly light-toned palette that gives it an edge of its own identity among 3D cartoon games.
The levels are pretty fun. Collecting coins and items is super satisfying due to the visuals and sound design, and there's some nice variance. Each world has a burrowing corridor stage that works like a side-scroller and tests reaction timing, but other levels are platform-based and exploratory. My favorite levels are a couple of extended stages where you explore linear chunks of larger environments in the service of giving the level a sense of narrative. There are a few gameplay diversions that I didn't enjoy, like the marble-rolling minigame challenges, and some of the bosses can be suprisingly tricky given the rest of the game, but it's a fairly-designed and overall comfortable experience. Each level's completion goals are also satisfying to fill out.
New Super Lucky's Tale didn't strike me as all that special at first, and perhaps it's not, but it achieves what it sets out to do with an endearing belief in itself while providing a charming and replayable platforming experience.
A cute, sincere platformer.
This game was pointed out to me through some positive reviews as a sweet little platform game, and yeah, that's what you get.
The game is a fantasy cartoon platformer concerning a society of ancient heroes and guardians. Lucky is the youngest in a fox family among these guardians and ends up taking the guardian role after his siblings are out of commission, and ventures across the worlds to collect magic book pages to stop the cat sorcerer Jinx and his children.
The game is a pretty simple and effective platformer. Each world has a theme and several linear stages within it, a formula like Mario or Spyro. Lucky has a jump, double jump, tail whip, and diving attack that also lets him burrow in the earth to pass under objects, prime attacks, or escape notice. The controls are smooth and work well.
The game's creative identity harkens back to older platformers, but with its own sincere simplicity. The game's not really snarky or naughty, but it provides creative concepts to be quirky and sweet, like a country town of worm NPCs or a ghostly carnival. The characters and writing remind me a lot of what you'd find in Mario RPGs. Visually, it works with simple textures and fairly light-toned palette that gives it an edge of its own identity among 3D cartoon games.
The levels are pretty fun. Collecting coins and items is super satisfying due to the visuals and sound design, and there's some nice variance. Each world has a burrowing corridor stage that works like a side-scroller and tests reaction timing, but other levels are platform-based and exploratory. My favorite levels are a couple of extended stages where you explore linear chunks of larger environments in the service of giving the level a sense of narrative. There are a few gameplay diversions that I didn't enjoy, like the marble-rolling minigame challenges, and some of the bosses can be suprisingly tricky given the rest of the game, but it's a fairly-designed and overall comfortable experience. Each level's completion goals are also satisfying to fill out.
New Super Lucky's Tale didn't strike me as all that special at first, and perhaps it's not, but it achieves what it sets out to do with an endearing belief in itself while providing a charming and replayable platforming experience.