Story:

A young fox named Lucky is separated form his sister after he and an evil wizard named Jinx  gets sucked into a magical book and now Lucky must find the pages of the book and reunite with his sister.

I’ll be honest, I don’t like the opening. It think it’s the tone of it with it sounding epic and how the evil wizard betrayed them and doom and gloom. But the main game is a light-hearted adventure with lovable characters, a bunch of goofballs as villains and a protagonist who barely talks. So yeah, that the opening and ending fall flat to me.

As for whats going on in the main game. Not much but what’s there is pretty enjoyable. Like this little mail golem who just wants to be you friend. Or the worms who are excited about their harvest festival. And a resort owner worried a diva would run him out of business with her demands to name a little bit of the small adventures you get up to.

And the villainous Kitty Litter are an enjoyable pack of baddies. I do have a bit of an issue of them as bosses in terms of bad guys, they are a fun bunch. You got an arrogant martial artist, a crazy inventor, A military general and his dumb but strong twin brother, and a diva. And of course, there’s their dad, Jinx who’s a generic evil wizard with illusion powers but you can find him hidden in every hub world and he’ll just talk how amazing and wonderful his kids are. It’s like this Prozd skit:

And honestly, it’s more characterization than what Lucky or his sister receive. And who the hell is Lucas? Besides a brother we never see.

Gameplay:

First of, this game controls really well.You just move around, have a double jump,spin attack and a dive/dig move. Pretty simple moveset and the game takes full advantage of that.  They are several sections where you to dig around to get coins get under some fences, and you can use you’re tail attack to not only hit enemies but  can use it like a hover during a jump. So yeah, I like the moves we got.

As for what you do, you simply have to get to the end of the level. 2 things

1: While this is a standard 3D platformer, they do try to mix things up so evey level in a hub would be different. Like the first level is a sort of open level where you have two paths to take. You could have simple 2D style level or an auto run level. Maybe a level where you go though a maze while looking for bunnies.  Or one of the final levels being a carnival filled with challenges for you to do.

2: There are 4 pages per level. Of course there’s the one for getting to the exit but there’s one for getting 300coins in a level, one for getting all letters to spell “LUCKY”, and one more for finding a hidden challenge room or just hidden somewhere in the level. And in the hub there are puzzle rooms that can also give you a page if you beat them. And you don’t really need that many pages to move forward and fight the boss.

Of course this game can be very easy, maybe too easy to those who don’t appreciate difficulty options and want everything to be very hard. But the final boss was tense and if you really want a challenge, the postgame has you covered.

But there is something I didn’t like about the and that is the bosses. Or rather 3 of the bosses. Sure, there is some challenge to them but my issue is that they seem very uninvolved. The first boss is the worst as I don’t think he even attacks you. Sure they might have one unique attack but these fights are more about dodging turrets than fighting the boss, as in all these boss have a section like that. The only two bosses who don’t do this are Jinx and Lady M(who was DLC that was added into this versions story), mainly cause I felt like I was fighting them instead of some random hazards and backup(which they also do but at least they were fighting back).

Presentation:

Music is okay. It’s nice to listen to while playing. Think some stand outs were the first level, the farm music and the carival. Not much else stood out to me.

As for how this game looks. IT’S SO CUTE!!! The NPC looks so huggable like plush toys and the enemies look like marshmallows! And the bosses being adorable cats are also precious. And look at Lucky. Sure him consistently looking at you if’s facing the camera can be unsettling but you can but him in some outfits if you want to be more adorable.

Verdict:

Sure it’s easy and the bosses feel uninvolved,but doesn’t stop it from being a good platformer for newcomers.